What is your height and weight?

[1995hoo]

.... I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  ....

Tit is always a good matter for discussion. 

[agentsteel53]

Oh, OK, if you want it in something that you can understand more easily 67 inches and 8stone 13.

is "8stone 13" common in British English?  here in the US, we just use pounds.

I'm 6'3, about 195 btw.

[DaBigE]

.... I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  ....

Tit is always a good matter for discussion. 

 

Just as long as you're referring to the female human variety.

[kphoger]

Tall and skinny.  More than six feet, less than 125 lbs.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Look, I was just trying to make conversation.  I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  If you don't want to answer, don't say anything.  Mods: Might as well lock this one and delete it.

Right you are, Messer Stalin.

[english si]

is "8stone 13" common in British English?  here in the US, we just use pounds.

But you use feet and inches, rather than inches. Did you find my 67 inches a little funny to compute (though not that difficult)? That's how I feel with pounds (we use feet and inches here too).

I'm also not a fan of large numbers of feet, instead of in yards - especially silly on the roads when not part of a height or width restriction. 15 yards is easy to visualise if you know what a yard is (though 15 is at the top end of numbers you can actually visualize easily), 45 feet isn't as the number is too big to imagine that amount of something in a row easily (this is why you get lots of specific units to give the right scale for the task at hand - chains, furlongs, etc). Obviously you can get used to it, like most people in the world have got used to the deliberately-divorced-from-human-experience-other-than-how-many-digits-we-have and metric system that was designed for abstract calculations, so being able to picture 45 ft becomes not that difficult.

OK, heights are more condensed (as most adults fit in the 5'0-6'11 bracket) than weights, but the use of two numbers in heights gives some element of sorting - if the first number is 6, the person is tall. With weights the large scale-fine tuning way of doing things works out easier. When I give my weight, the 8 says I'm light and you can turn off, the 13 says I'm at the heavy end of it if you want to be precise - we often drop the latter, adding in 'and-a-half's or 'nearly's. So I would be 'nearly 9 stone', or 'not quite 9 stone'. Given that you aren't going for more than a rough visualization and a comparison with weight 99% of the time, stone works well as a unit - almost like it was designed for such a purpose!

[Road Hog]

6-1, 210, last time that mattered was in a decade starting with an 8.

[Scott5114]

890—900 AD? That's the last decade to start with 8...