Measurements

[Tony Taylor]

#17. Are you referring to short tons Tony a normal ton was or used to be 2240 lbs if memory I had hasnt gone yet.A short ton was 2000 lbs. A metric ton or tonne I leave you to work out how many kilos or whatever they are. I’ll also stick with my overweight figure of 14 stone 2 lbs hopefully. And height of used to be 5 feet 8.25 inches , now reduced by having to bend too many times to fasten my shoe laces and picking up pennies that fell out of that hole in my pocket. If I managed to get them before Cappy did. Will have to stop now as starting to veer off site. But think Robin will understand that ships among other things aren’t what they used to be. Cheers JS.

Just talking roughly John, I think they use pounds to try and make it sound bigger, bit like those plonkers on telly who make crazy comparisons like, "that is the same as 50,000 penguins laid end to end or some such ludicrous cpmparison.

[happy daze john in oz]

The good old USA is I think the only country still with Imperial measurements.

But the same with cars, at one time we talked in horse power now engine size in metric.
Petrol no longer in gallons, even in UK in metric.

Future generations will know no better and John 14 stone 2 pounds is 90kilo and 1.73 meters tall.
But of course 90 sounds a lot more than 14.2