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xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

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A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Eh, not a problem at all. You can't make it look exactly like my other three and I make sure to use the same tape measure throughout a project, really after the first couple cuts I'm not even using it I'm using the cut pieces to measure against.

I don't care what the number actually is, just that I can mark in the same spot consistently.