http://www.france-property-and-information.com/cooking_converter.htm

Try here…I’m not sure about the tablespoons they use, but then the old “cup” for me is 250ml…My tablespoons are the big silver-plate ones of my childhood, but I’m told that now (thanks USA – NOT) tablespoon is another word for dessertspoon and it equals 10ml…

Life was so much easier with feet, yards, pounds shillings and pence…now the poor kids have to remember how many noughts there are…

Dinetta said:

http://www.france-property-and-information.com/cooking_converter.htm

Try here…I’m not sure about the tablespoons they use, but then the old “cup” for me is 250ml…My tablespoons are the big silver-plate ones of my childhood, but I’m told that now (thanks USA – NOT) tablespoon is another word for dessertspoon and it equals 10ml…

Life was so much easier with feet, yards, pounds shillings and pence…now the poor kids have to remember how many noughts there are…

Thanks for that too Dinetta. I use the same tablespoon measument my late mum used and it’s 40 ml. Numbers don’t mean much to me , I have Dyscalculia, numbers just jump around in front of my eyes anyway, so I just use what I grew up with. I looked at the site above and couldn’t work out what was what lol.

I looked at the site above and couldn’t work out what was what lol.
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Oh, sorry!

I chose it out of a couple that I looked at because it seemed to refer to a number of measures with which we pre-metric folk are familiar …

http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/kilograms-to-stones.htm
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I go here to check my weight, because frankly the kilograms mean nothing to me…it’s got to be stone and pounds…

Dinetta said:

I looked at the site above and couldn’t work out what was what lol.
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Oh, sorry!

I chose it out of a couple that I looked at because it seemed to refer to a number of measures with which we pre-metric folk are familiar …

Thats Ok D , you couldn’t possibly have known.
The worst thing was trying to dial a phone number.. but speed dials saved my sanity :)
I burned or undercooked a few dishes until I worked out oven temps , I have it down pat now.

Dinetta said:

http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/kilograms-to-stones.htm
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I go here to check my weight, because frankly the kilograms mean nothing to me…it’s got to be stone and pounds…

Oh I could do that one , just, (copy and paste) lol. I have lost 4 st and 10.13 lb.
I have emblazoned kilograms in my brain, but for I still use imperial measuments for height.

>I have lost 4 st and 10.13 lb.

All up it is 6st 4.18lb for me. That much again would be fantastic!

That truck today was 44879st 11.44lb !!!!

Life was so much easier with feet, yards, pounds shillings and pence…now the poor kids have to remember how many noughts there are…

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Gees D. Hope that was tongue in cheek.
Metric is all over the old methods for ease of use.
Whay on earth they came up with those old units of measure is beyond me.

I just wish they would do away with CM

I wonder what the point is with them

wish they would do away with CM
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Yes they are fairly pointless. However, you don’t have to use them. Just mm for me too Hopper.
If you ask for a sleeper at the timberyard, you ask for 2.4metres or 2400 mm. Never 240 cm.

Yes Longy but if you buy material—as in sewing it is always in CC—bloody silly

if you buy material—as in sewing it is always in CC
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Hmm. I thought it would be by the metre. That’s it. I’ll never sew clothes again. Thanks for enlightening me Hopper:-)

thanks – handy info.
my fit weight – when i was 17 – 30 y.o was 13 stone or 82.55kg.
i haven’t weighed myself lately but i should still be below 100kg.

you can also do most conversions and calculations right in the search box of google.
http://www.googleguide.com/calculator.html

This is one of the pieces of software I can’t live without. It does almost every imaginable conversion.

http://joshmadison.com/article/convert-for-windows

Longy said:

Life was so much easier with feet, yards, pounds shillings and pence…now the poor kids have to remember how many noughts there are…

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Gees D. Hope that was tongue in cheek.
Metric is all over the old methods for ease of use.
Whay on earth they came up with those old units of measure is beyond me.

No, it wasn’t toungue in cheek…I really find strings of numbers easier to remember than how many zeroes…only the fact that we had Roman numbers drilled into us saved me when the kids were at school, asking how many zeros in “kilo”, “cent” etc…

even now, I convert the kilometres on the road signs to miles…so does Mr D….

I suppose money, too, is easier…although I used to enjoy working out how much a large amount of change would convert to…

In your job (which I can only guess at), you probably do find the metric easier as it’s all divisible by 10 and less room for error…oi! watch that decimal point!

Grasshopper said:

I just wish they would do away with CM

I wonder what the point is with them

I would rather believe that my waist is 110 cm and not 1.1metre…it sounds better somehow…LOLOLOLOL!!!