Helpful British website for weight conversions

Being a resident of an international forum has its challenges occasionally, especially when trying to get my head around pounds as a unit of weight. We got rid of pounds and stones in the 1970s and now I'm fully conversant with kilograms.

For what it's worth, I weight a hefty 116 kilograms which is a little over 18 stone or 252 pounds.

This website is extremeley handy for those of you needing to know such nonsense:

http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/body_weight/weight_converter.htm

Hi David, you may find this one more comprehensive, it covers just about every conversion possible, weight, mass, area, liquid measures, currency conversions, pressure, volume, velocity, time, and also includes loan/mortgage calculations, compound interest, Body mass index and roman numerals.

http://www.thecalculatorsite.com/

Even copes with English and US gallons.

I still think in feet and inches. It makes more sense to me. Mind you I may start thinking of my weight in kilos. It is a smaller number.

teddy

You can also simply type in the units you want to convert in google.

For example: type in 2 metres in inches, then press search and you get 2 metres=78.74 inches. Or knots in yards, Celcius in Fahrenheit and so on.

I have no idea how tall I am in metres, still refer to myself as six foot one.