21 stone?! I swear you guys will use anything instead of metric
Actually stone is used by the brits instead of americans
21 stone is approximately 1.54 Americans, by my calculations. Another weird unit of measure but who am I to judge?
I do believe that's the joke.
I was already wondering that. Whether they're Americans or British, they seem to have the same fear of using logical measuring systems like metric
Haha I don't think it's about fear. It's probably about having hundreds of years of using those measurements, and it being very baked in to the language used between people to communicate.
Nobody wants to have to translate between kg and stone all the time. It's tedious. If you live in a country where all your interactions are going to be in one measurement then you're probably just going to go along with everyone else.
Even down to 'goin down the pub for a pint' being a commonly used phrase which doesn't have the same ring when it's ''goin down the pub for a half litre'.
Yes. The Brits still use a few non-metric measurements at times. In fact, it was America’s British heritage that got us Americans into the bad habit of using imperial over metric in the first place.
Stone only makes sense for people used to pounds, shillings and pence. For instance, "This costs 3 pound, 4 shilling and 8", and, "I weight 12 stone, 6 pounds and 3 ounces".
I'm glad it worked for him, but if someone did that to me, I'd probably get fatter just out of spite.
Healthy fuck.
Fine! Fine! I'll go jogging, you bastard!
For the US users, that's 0.79 Danny DeVitos
According to the questionable celebrity health statistics website I found... Danny DeVito is 70kg, which is 11 stone... So it's more like the chef lost almost 1.9 Danny DeVitos. We Americans may have weird measuring systems, but we take them seriously!
My apologies, I accidentally divided by Dutch cask per stadion
294 lbs for other confused Americans, 133.4 Kg for everyone else that's not British.
Are you sure? 133 kilo is two of me...
That's why this is a news article, it's really quite impressive in terms of both weight gained and weight lost.
Had no idea kidney stones were that big
This brings me memories of fathate or whatever that fatfobic subreddit was called.
r/fatpeoplehate
They were so toxic that the site got noticeably better within 24 hours of them being banned.
They all migrated to Voat. Later, people from r/The_Donald also tried to join voat, but the fat hate people were too toxic even for them!
Yeah, they were awful, awful people.
Who the fuck measures anythin in stones?
How many pebbles in a stone, and stone in a boulder? It's a convenient measurement, I'm sure.
All I know is that a large boulder can be the size of a small boulder.
Oh yeah 😎👉👉
1 stone is 14lbs, the uk still like to use imperial for measuring weight and height
He lost a lot of weight and all it took was daily malicious bullying?! How inspirational.
It's not necessarily malicious -- given general humour in this country, it's likely he wanted to lose weight and asked his friend to text him that daily as a form of motivation.
Edit: however, I'd like to point out that consensually being sent that by a friend is fundamentally different to having abuse thrown at you by a stranger on the internet for your body shape.
So were those stones ugly? Or just too much for his furniture? Why is this so anti-stones?
He ate them, that's why he was so big. He lost (passed?) them and is now skinny
Anyone else a bit suspicious of a skinny chef?
Nah, most good chefs are cigarette addicted and depressed, that keeps them skinny
Most chefs I've known are addicted to a lot more than just cigarettes
And as an ex smoker I can tell you, cigarettes aren't very good at keeping you skinny.
Quitting is pretty good at making you fat tho lmao (speaking from experience)
Well it's UK so I'm guessing now the friend goes: "skinny fuck" every day?
Fatpeoplehate still going strong
That's absolutely what these stupid ass type of posts are about.
People just can't help themselves but being assholes about it.
If I was that obese I'd hope to have a friend who cared about me enough to bully me into a healthier lifestyle. there's a difference between being overweight and morbidly obese.
Feedback is a gift when properly wrapped.
So did he lose stones or grow a pair? This is so confusing.
To me, I read it as though he decided to lose weight after 6 weeks of his friend texting him. He then decided after 6 weeks, that he will start losing the weight. Yea? Yea I'll go with that
Did he pay for 1½ month gym membership?
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