If you weigh yourself in stone . . .

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Do people who reckon their weight in stone have scales that report in stone? Or do they do the kind of strange arithmetic to convert to stone from pounds or kilograms?

I shouldn't be bothered by stone because I'm stuck with pounds, which is almost as ridiculous. I mean, everybody uses pounds here except when they don't, so I have to go out of my way to think about things in metric. I do, actually, play a sort of game with myself where I convert things when I don't need to, but it's not enough to make it easy when the world around me is stuck in a pre-revolutionary (French) mode.