It’s the measurement that you use when you need to account for shrinkage.
The house only has like 1/3 of its square footage during the winter months.
What happens to houses with pools?
It gets complicated. That’s why pools are so expensive.
Finding the reference dick is the real problem.
Eh it was probably the same king with a abnormally large foot but who knows maybe his feet are compensating for something
You know what they say about guys with large feet…
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They must be compensating for something.
It’s not so much the presence of large feet but rather the need to have everyone measure stuff with those said feet
Banana for scale?
In a row?
And she still wasn’t done…
Try not to suck any dick on your way through the parking lot.
Came here for the Clerk’s reference
Well…a foot is a measurement so it makes sense to use other body parts, right?
Length is two feet, three dicks and a pussy. Anyone could measure that way and it would be a world standard.
It always irks me when people think using foot as measurement was invented in England when they were used all over the world since the beginning of time. And different countries had different sized standard feet
Old Slavic customary measurements had “foot”, but also “palm” and “elbow” (roughly forearm length), as well as some less obvious body part based measurements
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_(Einheit)
The Elle / Yard / Forearm is one of the oldest and most common ways of measurement
What measurement did they use for one? The average or “the average”?
They measured from the stump
Make sure to get to the roots!
Problem is if a man drafted something dimensioned in dicks then handed it off to a woman to build it, you’d end up with a Spinal Tap Stonehenge situation.
Why are the women not using their OSHA approved strap-ons to measure?
Awful system, they’re always giving me much less than I expect.
Hey, it was just cold in the warehouse.
If the foot measurement is supposedly based on King Henry I, who’s dick is this? 👀
More like 121 amirite?
So I’m guessing its 240000 dicks to build a house?
I just replace miles with dicks because mines the same size
That sounds… Inconvenient.
Not really, I always have a measuring stick on me!
A measuring dick*
My condolences for your too long schlong.
Is this a personalised measurement? Like do you have to slap your dick on the table and then go “300 dicks of wood please”
You have to if you don’t want to get shortchanged.
It was the style at the time
I had this shower thought lately, that imperial measurements is how the USA still is partly colonized by the British empire. It’s in the name.
The British themselves are slowly phasing it out, but the Americans still sick to their guns.
USA uses US customary units
Which were based on the imperial system
Correct
But OP’s point was that USA still used “Imperial” units and made a point based on that name.
US tweeked a system to call it their own and stuck with it. That’s classic US.
We were going to switch to metric, but our 1kg weight got stolen by pirates.
the Americans still stick to their guns.
As we like to do, partner.
I read that in the voice of the engineer in tf2
If you want to really make a European’s head explode, ask them how big a 2x4 is
Is it not 2"X4"? Am I naïve?
It’s not. It’s 1.5" x 3.5". I don’t know the history and wasn’t able to find it in a quick search, but lumber sizes are usually a half inch less than the name would imply.
That only applies to the thickness and width, though. The length of a board should be as described (e.g. a “two by four by eight” would be eight feet long, but have a cross section of 1.5 by 3.5 inches)
It’s funny that you used 2x4-8 as your example for length, because a 2x4-8 stud is not actually 8 foot. If you’re looking for 8 foot 2x4, you need to be careful that you are buying true 8 foot boards, and not 8 foot studs.
That being said, that’s the only board I’m familiar with that has a length that’s not always true length
Oh, that is funny. Are the studs 7’9" so a board below and above them are 8’ total?
Hah, stud
The story is that the wood used to be roughly 2x4 and by “roughly” I mean that the woodworker would have to throw away almost half an inch to even have a straight surface.
But when the machines to do that became common the mills started doing that work, and they saved the extra volume of essentially garbage that was shipped with every piece of wood.
It is when it’s first cut. But then it gets dried and planed down.
It’s actually 1.5 by 3.5 because of reasons.
As a legal requirement we don’t specify materials in anything other than mm, cm and m. In the UK the imperial measurements are sometimes also shown in a store, to help old people know what they are buying, but I’ve never seen that anywhere in continental Europe. Architecture isn’t drawn using imperial measurements, this system is used ad hoc by UK builders only. I like to torment these luddites by specifying in mm but mostly I avoid interacting with them because I don’t want to have a Mars Climate Orbiter situation at my house.
Nominal sizing is not uniquely American any more (if it ever was? Idk honestly). Work with lots of Europeans who are used to it as much as we are.
