We may never know
We may never know
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Wait a minute... Does the name of the currency come from payments that were not counted but weighed? Gotta check.
ETA: Oh my gosh yes, one pound sterling (currency) was originally one pound (weight) of sterling silver. I'm probably the last person to discover this, but still that's pretty cool.
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you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000
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If anyone is the last, it's me. Thank you.
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You are at worst second to last. You also thought about the possibility first, unlike me.
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Neither are you. There's always Ten Thousand on any topic.
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And then you ask their weight, and they start talking about rocks.
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Apparently the UK still uses stone as a step above pounds. Then again, the UK is a hot mess when it comes to units...
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Yep, I'm about 13 stone 1. Which I know is about 83kg. But I have no idea how many pounds in a stone. I do know that there's about 2 and a quarter lb to a kg. Therefore I must be about 186lb.
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I know they use mph. Do they use km for distance or miles? I think they use meters for shorter distances so I've no clue.
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You ask an American how much they weigh, and they tell you in money. Typical American capitalism.
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Four score and seven stone = 1218 pounds
EDIT: Whoopsie, forgot to include the 7 before multiplying, it's actually 1316.
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Google says 87 stones = 1218 pounds so I think you got it right the first time?
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Do Brits also tell their salary on annual instead of monthly basis? I thought that was just an American thing
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Where do they describe it on a monthly basis? I'm in Australia and I've never heard anyone describe their salary in anything other than annual. Take home pay we'd go fortnightly though.
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Over here in Belgium we do, I thought that's how it's done in most countries. It makes more sense to me too, you get your salary monthly (or maybe fortnightly like you) and you talk about your rent, debt payments, ... also on a monthly basis.
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Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary no one in these countries talks on annual basis. it's always monthly or hourly wage if it's not a salaried position, but most are salaried and paycheck is once a month.
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In Austria we usually also speak about monthly payments
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In Serbia as well. Whenever someone mentions an annual salary, I have to divide it by 12 to get some sense out of it, because we only talk about the monthly.
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Most of Europe uses monthly take home. Yearly brutto salary doesn't mean shit, you can't budget against it.
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Australia is also annual. We're taxed annually, so it makes sense to us
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Lived in London for twenty years and I've only heard it annual or if you're a contractor we talk daily rate.
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I can’t imagine a scenario where a British person actually says their salary as “pounds” rather than “grand” or just the number.
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Did they say they make about five thousand stone?
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How many pounds are those stones?
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With a few pebbles but yes
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You have to convert it to Newtons assuming gravity at mean sea level.
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