this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

No matter how many times I measure, I get 300 dicks. I think there's something wrong with my wood.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That right there is quiet evidence of why trucks happen to small men.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I gopher’d a fair bit of construction and was always given “a blonde one” as a unit of measurement.

Never dicks, but construction workers in my experience make assumptions about dick measurements so I suppose that’s why I never heard it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What's* that amount to?