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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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[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe I’m being daft (I probably am).

After wood is planed and dried, I thought it would have gotten smaller.

In the image, 9CM lumber measurement is smaller than 9CM metric. Meaning when 9CM lumber shrinks it’ll be even smaller than the 9CM metric.

Have I got this backwards?

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The joke is when you purchase a 2x4, it measures 1.5x3.5 and not the advertised 2x4.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

lol, learn something new every day!