Why the fuck would you bring ounces into it? We were having a perfectly fine conversation here and now you've brought imperial unit conversion into the mix.
What's the ounce to pound thing again? 12? 16? 20, or 32 or something? Who am I kidding? I don't give a shit.
If you're not using metric at least have the decency to stick to pounds, kilopounds, millipounds, micropounds, or whatever the fuck you want to name your orders of 1,000. Just don't ever come here fucking about with short tons and long tons or I'll strap you to a board, drop you in a tub, and drown you in a metric ton of sewage.
It's probably just a british person complaining about units as they can't make up their mind what to use. Ounces is perfectly valid in the context of pounds...
A pound is roughly half a kg, we can work with that. But nobody outside the imperial using countries knows what an ounce is, and we don't regularly use any unit close to it.
Ok. Canada finished converting in 1985, there's bound to still be a lot of people who grew up with imperial. "Current or former imperial using countries" then.
You clearly don’t live in Canada. Imperial units are very common for measurements. You ask nearly anyone, old or young, their height or weight, you’re getting an answer in feet/inches or pounds respectively.
Tons of baking is done using cups, tsp, tbsp etc.
Golfers use yards.
I’m sure there are more examples I am forgetting, but you get the idea. It’s not just people who grew up before 1985. It’s everyone.
Pretty much everyone uses troy ounces for things like gold.
But if you're in the US, you also need to be more specific, since we also have fluid ounces.
