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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Is this not how lumber is measured in other countries?

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Is this not how lumber is measured in other countries?

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • geekworking@lemmy.world
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    It’s the measurement that you use when you need to account for shrinkage.

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPM
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      The house only has like 1/3 of its square footage during the winter months.

      • IonAddis@lemmy.world
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        What happens to houses with pools?

        • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPM
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          It gets complicated. That’s why pools are so expensive.

  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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    Finding the reference dick is the real problem.

    • credit crazy@lemmy.world
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      Eh it was probably the same king with a abnormally large foot but who knows maybe his feet are compensating for something

      • Rootiest@lemm.ee
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        You know what they say about guys with large feet…

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        They must be compensating for something.

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          It’s not so much the presence of large feet but rather the need to have everyone measure stuff with those said feet

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      Banana for scale?

  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
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    In a row?

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      And she still wasn’t done…

    • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works
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      Try not to suck any dick on your way through the parking lot.

    • DustyNipples@lemmy.world
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      Came here for the Clerk’s reference

  • guyrocket@kbin.social
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    Well…a foot is a measurement so it makes sense to use other body parts, right?

    Length is two feet, three dicks and a pussy. Anyone could measure that way and it would be a world standard.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      Old Slavic customary measurements had “foot”, but also “palm” and “elbow” (roughly forearm length), as well as some less obvious body part based measurements

      • Neon 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.world
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        https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_(Einheit)

        The Elle / Yard / Forearm is one of the oldest and most common ways of measurement

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      It always irks me when people think using foot as measurement was invented in England when they were used all over the world since the beginning of time. And different countries had different sized standard feet

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    What measurement did they use for one? The average or “the average”?

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPM
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      They measured from the stump

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        Make sure to get to the roots!

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    Problem is if a man drafted something dimensioned in dicks then handed it off to a woman to build it, you’d end up with a Spinal Tap Stonehenge situation.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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      Why are the women not using their OSHA approved strap-ons to measure?

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    Awful system, they’re always giving me much less than I expect.

    • shevchuk@lemm.ee
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      Hey, it was just cold in the warehouse.

  • Krachsterben@feddit.de
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    If the foot measurement is supposedly based on King Henry I, who’s dick is this? 👀

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    Is this a personalised measurement? Like do you have to slap your dick on the table and then go “300 dicks of wood please”

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPM
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      You have to if you don’t want to get shortchanged.

  • Fr❄stb☃️te@lemmy.world
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    So I’m guessing its 240000 dicks to build a house?

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    More like 121 amirite?

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    I just replace miles with dicks because mines the same size

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      That sounds… Inconvenient.

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        Not really, I always have a measuring stick on me!

        • ItsABarmcake@lemmy.world
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          A measuring dick*

    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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      My condolences for your too long schlong.

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    It was the style at the time

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    I had this shower thought lately, that imperial measurements is how the USA still is partly colonized by the British empire. It’s in the name.

    The British themselves are slowly phasing it out, but the Americans still sick to their guns.

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      USA uses US customary units

      • Fogle@lemmy.ca
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        Which were based on the imperial system

        • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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          Correct

          But OP’s point was that USA still used “Imperial” units and made a point based on that name.

          US tweeked a system to call it their own and stuck with it. That’s classic US.

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      We were going to switch to metric, but our 1kg weight got stolen by pirates.

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPM
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      the Americans still stick to their guns.

      As we like to do, partner.

      • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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        I read that in the voice of the engineer in tf2

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    If you’re measuring something in dicks and you’re in Europe, multiply by 0.75 to convert

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      Bro did they dirty 💀

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