Coming from a non-American, an inches-only tape measure is incredibly cursed
Halp.
Submitted 4 weeks ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Worx@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
xionzui@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
As an American, I was a bit flabbergasted when I looked through all the tape measures at the store, and none of them had a metric side
kn33@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I found one when I looked but it was a bit spendy cause it was fancy in other ways. Still went for it cause I want both units.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As a Canadian I hate it too.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, a good chunk of the ones available here only have inches, too. It was hard to find one with both when I bought my last tape measure.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s how I feel about Celsius being for everyone.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
even though I know it’s literally the best option, my pea sized brain goes “wait? 30° is hot??”
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As an American engineer I agree
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Those fractions are barely readable and I’m not even dyslexic
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s a tape for the new guy on the crew so he doesn’t look like a dum-dum. Until the crew sees his tape anyway.
don@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Well yeah, if you were raised learning imperial measurements, you’d probably find a metric-only tape to be an criminal abomination just as easily.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
37 year old American here. I was raised learning both and I can and have built things in both systems. Hell I’ve even mixed them on occasion. I own a metric tape measure and a metric/inch tape measure, and several inch tape measures.
Specifically for woodworking, I vastly prefer working in fractional inches, for a whole stack of reasons but mainly in the wood shop, you find yourself dividing by 2 or 3 way more often than 5 or 10. Working in a dozenal system in powers of 2 makes more sense for that than working in a decimal system in powers of ten. It’s just easier to buy rough lumber at 1 inch thick, use 1/4" of it to mill it flat and parallel so you have 3/4", and now if you need to do a half-lap joint it’ll be 3/8" or a tenon will be 1/4".
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
No, they’re fine. It’s the bilingual tapes that are a pain in the ass. You have to guess at half the measurements no matter your preferred scale.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, if you were also a illogical moron.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I have one that measures in feet and inches, so you can only see it’s 9’8", you have to do 9*12+8 in your head.
ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Toss it in the metal heap at your local recycling centre. With the archaic units, it’s unusable anyway.
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
How retarded do you have to be to have the fractions written out on the entire measure
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Retarded enough to not use the metric system.
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I still don’t get how they can live with such a retarded measurement system.
Then I see who they elected as a President and I understand everything.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I still don’t get how they can live with such a retarded measurement system.
We can’t.
Scientists do everything in metric, but that’s where it stops.
Food industry tries to label everything both ways, so we all get some minimal exposure; but this is like expecting to learn French in Canada just by hanging around. Machinists cope by using thousandths (of an inch), but still have to translate to work with standard screw dimensions. Bakers do everything at multiples of cups or pounds, so fractions don’t really come up. Housing framers use, maybe, down to the half or quarter inch and have easier to read tape measures for this; story-boards and tick-sticks are used to avoid measuring entirely.
If it wasn’t for raw materials (across the board) being sold in nominal empirical sizes, I would sooner just use the metric system.
Meanwhile, the home kitchen is at war. Recipe books have everyone else dicking around with all the crazy fractional volume and weight measures. Either you’re a virtuoso with these, or you’re terrible at it and burn every meal - there is no middle ground. This might explain our relationship with restaurant food.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Just cut the tape that the 4 inch mark and then add 4 to all the inches on the tape. Fixed.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
It’s not like erasing it’ll make your dick bigger 🤷🏻♂️
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Actually nipples
phx@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Found Elon’s Lemmy account…
ryan213@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Show off…
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This was on Reddit 2 weeks ago and I answered magic eraser.
People are desperate for upvotes here too.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Deodorant will get it off.
don@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yes, I do.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Magic eraser (melamine foam).
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You can remove sharpie by writing over it with a dry-erase marker and then removinging by rubbing it.
You call usually also use isopropyl alcohol, but you may remove more than you intended.
So dry-erase first and then go nuclear with iso if the marker didn’t work.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Tried the iso and now my dick is removed…
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe don’t buy your packer off of Temu?
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Drawing over it again with the same sharpie works too if you wipe it quick.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Found this out in achool wehn someone wrote some less than acceptable words on the board in permanent marker. The teacher scribbled over it with drywioez waited a few seconds and wiped it away.
They said it was because essentially drywipe marker is a permanent marker with solvents.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
In the same vein as isopropyl alcohol, hand sanitizer works too. And more people are carrying that now since covid.