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'.
That's the thing, they do use kg. So it is not something they don't know about. Just that stone for people's weight specifically somehow is still in use.
For the pint, I do not think it is about the volume when someone says that. As of they are only going to drink one anyway?! Replace it with beer and it is a perfectly normal thing to say.
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.
Only for adult body weight.
I'm impressed that it only took a quarter of a dozen fortnights.
Wow I could travel so many furloughs in that time period.
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".
"12 stone, 6 pounds and 3 ounces", instead of saying "133.4 kilogram". Lol. :)
But the "being used to it" is always hard to overcome.
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!
I'd probably get fatter just out of spite.
-Gets fatter
-Has heart attack
-Dies
-Friend: there it goes the fat f*****t
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
Measuring in Smoots is a hill I will die on.
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...
1 stone = 14 pounds ≈ 6 kilo
What is this, Diagon Alley?
That's why this is a news article, it's really quite impressive in terms of both weight gained and weight lost.
That's what Google said
Had no idea kidney stones were that big
6 weeks?
I assume the texting was six weeks but the weight losing longer
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
Pounds isn’t already imperial?
Pounds is force and stone is mass I believe.
Lb-ft is force - the number of pounds per foot. Pounds is 1/14 of a stone, or a Stone is 14 pounds. 2.2 pounds per kilogramme.
Yeah but i only see the British using Stone, americans just use pounds from what I've seen.
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.
I too have been struggling with my weight for most of my life (the worst was 135 kilos at 189cm height, usually sitting around 95-100). I have been occasionally made fun of as a kid for it too, so I’m happy treating fat people like shit isn’t that acceptable any more.
However, I actually feel society has gone too far in accepting it, being overweight is very unhealthy and at a certain point even a burden on everyone around you and the healthcare system. It should not be normalized like this.
Fat people don’t deserve to be ostracized, but they sure as shit don’t need to hear that they are healthy and okay to remain as they are, because it’s a blatant and dangerous lie. For the vast majority of overweight people it is a symptom of their poor lifestyle and not an actual medical condition.
I personally don't struggle with my weight, but whether I do or not is enitrely irrelevant. Body shaming is a big problem, and such conversations need to be kept between a medical provider and the patient. Someone's weight should not be up for discussion on a public platform.
Also, I do think it is good for people to love and accept themselves, no matter what their weight. In fact, in most cases this is the first step toward resolving health problems and addictions, which is something I am experienced with. When I felt ashamed of my addiction, I was caught in a circle of guilt from which I would never have become sober. It wasn't until I learned to accept myself where I was at that made it possible for me to heal.
But I'm not applying my experience to everyone else. This may vary by individual, which is why it is paramount that these discussions happen on an individual basis between the patient and provider.
For the vast majority of overweight people it is a symptom of their poor lifestyle and not an actual medical condition.
It is? This sounds more like a moral judgment based on nothing but perception and the way fat people os portray in media and exactly wat the fat acceptance movement try to fight against.
Everyone can shut the f%# up about fatshaming, does someone have scientific evidence that shaming people for being fat does anything other than needlessly hurt people? I am betting that it makes it FAR more likely that the shamed person will spiral into more negative behaviors that result in their health worsening.
People need to stop pretending the glee they feel in judging others when fat shaming as also somehow a genuine concern for their health. Save your judgement for your own extremely flawed self.
I think you wanted to reply to other person, im wrong on that?
Sorry kind of, I was meaning to basically agree with you my bad if it came off confusing
Hi, fat guy here. I can't speak for others and I certainly don't know statistically whether or not I represent any kind of majority, but I do know that for me my excessive weight is entirely the result of poor lifestyle decisions.
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.
Well it's UK so I'm guessing now the friend goes: "skinny fuck" every day?
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
That makes sense, thank you!
Zeus tricked him into eating them.
Stones are made of high fructose corn syrup, maltodexotrin, skittles, and xanthan gum?
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)
Work 18 hours, spend it on blow, crash in the alley by the dumpsters, wake up, work another 18 hours.
How do they taste anything? Smoking dulls your tastebuds.
Well I was in catering the owner was the taster and he didn't smoke and drank only luke warm espresso in one gulp. I know because he explained it to me many times.
Yes very much so. There was this bakery I would go to when I was a teen who had the best chocolate chip cookies ever. The woman behind the counter stood taller than pretty much any woman I have ever seen and her obesity made me wonder how she could even stand.
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
So did he lose stones or grow a pair? This is so confusing.
Stones = feet but for weight not length
But Stone isn't used in the US
It seems to exclusively be used in countries that get on Americans' case for not using metric XD
We don't exclusively use metric in the UK. We use a hybrid of the two. Most of the comments that "get on Americans' case" about it are likely coming from continental Europeans and other countries which do use metric exclusively.
I didn't say the US did... I'm explaining it in a way Americans would understand, because they use feet but unusually don't use its weight equivalent, and ask in comment sections wtf a stone is (bit of a funny role reversal considering it's usually US units people are asking wtf they mean)
It's pretty much just the UK and Ireland that use it, and even then, it's only used for weighing people, boxing, and horse racing.
A lot of people just say their weight in kg, stone is used less and less as older people die out.
And they say words don't affect you physically.
Damn, I don't even weigh 21 stone, he lost more than I weigh! That's wild.
This is how the devil thinks that motivation works. He probably was a chef though.
And they say fat shaming doesn’t work…
Obviously it’s different for everybody, but it worked for me. I lost over a hundred pounds after watching a comedy special where the comic ripped into fat people. It made me feel gross, and gave me the motivation/willpower to start losing the weight.
That won’t work for everyone so obviously we shouldn’t go harassing all fat people, but clearly “fat shaming” isn’t entirely worthless.
Username checks out. Can I say congrats on your loss?
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Does anyone remember those stories about the really fat girl who went to Japan and the person who documented their antics?
It’s the Bill Burr method.
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.
Yeah what kind of friends are they even if they're not giving you an eating disorder?!?
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'.
That's the thing, they do use kg. So it is not something they don't know about. Just that stone for people's weight specifically somehow is still in use.
For the pint, I do not think it is about the volume when someone says that. As of they are only going to drink one anyway?! Replace it with beer and it is a perfectly normal thing to say.
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.
Only for adult body weight.
I'm impressed that it only took a quarter of a dozen fortnights.
Wow I could travel so many furloughs in that time period.
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".
"12 stone, 6 pounds and 3 ounces", instead of saying "133.4 kilogram". Lol. :)
But the "being used to it" is always hard to overcome.
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!
-Gets fatter
-Has heart attack
-Dies
-Friend: there it goes the fat f*****t
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
Measuring in Smoots is a hill I will die on.
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...
1 stone = 14 pounds ≈ 6 kilo
What is this, Diagon Alley?
That's why this is a news article, it's really quite impressive in terms of both weight gained and weight lost.
That's what Google said
Had no idea kidney stones were that big
6 weeks?
I assume the texting was six weeks but the weight losing longer
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
Pounds isn’t already imperial?
Pounds is force and stone is mass I believe.
Lb-ft is force - the number of pounds per foot. Pounds is 1/14 of a stone, or a Stone is 14 pounds. 2.2 pounds per kilogramme.
Yeah but i only see the British using Stone, americans just use pounds from what I've seen.
With peer pressure you can do anything!
Try to pay attention to your food intake.
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.
I too have been struggling with my weight for most of my life (the worst was 135 kilos at 189cm height, usually sitting around 95-100). I have been occasionally made fun of as a kid for it too, so I’m happy treating fat people like shit isn’t that acceptable any more.
However, I actually feel society has gone too far in accepting it, being overweight is very unhealthy and at a certain point even a burden on everyone around you and the healthcare system. It should not be normalized like this.
Fat people don’t deserve to be ostracized, but they sure as shit don’t need to hear that they are healthy and okay to remain as they are, because it’s a blatant and dangerous lie. For the vast majority of overweight people it is a symptom of their poor lifestyle and not an actual medical condition.
I personally don't struggle with my weight, but whether I do or not is enitrely irrelevant. Body shaming is a big problem, and such conversations need to be kept between a medical provider and the patient. Someone's weight should not be up for discussion on a public platform.
Also, I do think it is good for people to love and accept themselves, no matter what their weight. In fact, in most cases this is the first step toward resolving health problems and addictions, which is something I am experienced with. When I felt ashamed of my addiction, I was caught in a circle of guilt from which I would never have become sober. It wasn't until I learned to accept myself where I was at that made it possible for me to heal.
But I'm not applying my experience to everyone else. This may vary by individual, which is why it is paramount that these discussions happen on an individual basis between the patient and provider.
It is? This sounds more like a moral judgment based on nothing but perception and the way fat people os portray in media and exactly wat the fat acceptance movement try to fight against.
Everyone can shut the f%# up about fatshaming, does someone have scientific evidence that shaming people for being fat does anything other than needlessly hurt people? I am betting that it makes it FAR more likely that the shamed person will spiral into more negative behaviors that result in their health worsening.
People need to stop pretending the glee they feel in judging others when fat shaming as also somehow a genuine concern for their health. Save your judgement for your own extremely flawed self.
I think you wanted to reply to other person, im wrong on that?
Sorry kind of, I was meaning to basically agree with you my bad if it came off confusing
I've always felt it's a mental health issue.
It's really just a health issue.
Mental health issues are health issues.
That (especially including stress) and poor nutrition
Hi, fat guy here. I can't speak for others and I certainly don't know statistically whether or not I represent any kind of majority, but I do know that for me my excessive weight is entirely the result of poor lifestyle decisions.
Could you please translate that to freedom units so that people can understand it?
I can’t help with the metric, (2.2 lbs a kg?) But for the 21 stone thing, multiply by 14 to get the US standard way to describe weight.
I was just being silly... 😂
Very good. Please carry on! 🎄🎉🥂🍻🍾
Fuckin shitty people central
Who the fuck measures anythin in stones?
People from the UK.
We still like pints and miles too.
Obelix
Miners
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.
Well it's UK so I'm guessing now the friend goes: "skinny fuck" every day?
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
That makes sense, thank you!
Zeus tricked him into eating them.
Stones are made of high fructose corn syrup, maltodexotrin, skittles, and xanthan gum?
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)
Work 18 hours, spend it on blow, crash in the alley by the dumpsters, wake up, work another 18 hours.
How do they taste anything? Smoking dulls your tastebuds.
Well I was in catering the owner was the taster and he didn't smoke and drank only luke warm espresso in one gulp. I know because he explained it to me many times.
Yes very much so. There was this bakery I would go to when I was a teen who had the best chocolate chip cookies ever. The woman behind the counter stood taller than pretty much any woman I have ever seen and her obesity made me wonder how she could even stand.
Feedback is a gift when properly wrapped.
21 stone in six weeks?
Did he pay for 1½ month gym membership?
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
So did he lose stones or grow a pair? This is so confusing.
Stones = feet but for weight not length
But Stone isn't used in the US
It seems to exclusively be used in countries that get on Americans' case for not using metric XD
We don't exclusively use metric in the UK. We use a hybrid of the two. Most of the comments that "get on Americans' case" about it are likely coming from continental Europeans and other countries which do use metric exclusively.
I didn't say the US did... I'm explaining it in a way Americans would understand, because they use feet but unusually don't use its weight equivalent, and ask in comment sections wtf a stone is (bit of a funny role reversal considering it's usually US units people are asking wtf they mean)
It's pretty much just the UK and Ireland that use it, and even then, it's only used for weighing people, boxing, and horse racing.
A lot of people just say their weight in kg, stone is used less and less as older people die out.
And they say words don't affect you physically.
Damn, I don't even weigh 21 stone, he lost more than I weigh! That's wild.
This is how the devil thinks that motivation works. He probably was a chef though.
And they say fat shaming doesn’t work…
Obviously it’s different for everybody, but it worked for me. I lost over a hundred pounds after watching a comedy special where the comic ripped into fat people. It made me feel gross, and gave me the motivation/willpower to start losing the weight.
That won’t work for everyone so obviously we shouldn’t go harassing all fat people, but clearly “fat shaming” isn’t entirely worthless.
Username checks out. Can I say congrats on your loss?
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Does anyone remember those stories about the really fat girl who went to Japan and the person who documented their antics?
It’s the Bill Burr method.
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.
Yeah what kind of friends are they even if they're not giving you an eating disorder?!?
You're unintelligent