On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:20, Brenton wrote:
> I was watching on our Australian television, the NBC TV show The Biggest
> Loser.  The program being US based is of course presented only in pounds.
>
> However, when the first episode went to air here a few weeks ago, there was
> no apparently no conversion to kilograms.  I have understood that the
> television station showing this series here received complaints from
> Australian viewers that they did not understand pounds.

As they were weighed to the nearest pound, presenting figures precise to the 
decagram is unwarranted precision, and someone's mass varies by much more 
than that when he takes a drink.

phma
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