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Explaining nominal vs actual dimensions to an Amerikkkan: Now imagine you're cooking a borger...
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the internet says it's because it's 2x4 before it's dried and shit but like... okay, why not make it so that it's 2x4 after it's fucking dried?
imagine if someone sold you 100 pounds of wool then handed you like 20 and said he was counting the weight of the sheep.
imagine how long that bit of capital about the twenty yards of cloth would have been