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by AltF4me 1012 days ago
No, we like to use imperial and metric in the UK.
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lewispollard 1012 days ago
But it's very rare for us to use lbs as a measurement of weight (at least directly)
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badcppdev 1012 days ago
No you use "stones" for peoples weight. Which I consider to be the least useful unit of measurement in common use today.
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nsteel 1010 days ago
I live in the UK and I use the metric system for pretty much everything, including weighing humans.

Everything except driving speed, for obvious reasons.

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nsteel 1010 days ago
And if you did for some reason, you'd almost certainly write it as lbs rather than pounds to avoid this entire thing.
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