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xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

Title text:

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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[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

As a European, it took me a while to realize what's wrong with that. Even though I've been living in the US for almost 14 years now.