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Tag: measurement

  • I'm looking at a listing for a ΒΌ" to ⅝" screw adapter, for which the seller warns that I should "please allow 1-3cm error".

    A 3cm error would mean that a ⅝" screw could result in a screw thread anywhere between 1β…˜" and... minus half an inch, I guess? (I don't even know how to make the concept of negative lengths fit into my brain.)

    I suppose this seller could send me an empty envelope and declare that it contained an infinitesimally small adapter. At which point... I'd be the one that was screwed!

    Full image of Highlighted item description from an eBay listing. The highlighted section shows that the listing is for a quarter inch to a five-eighth of an inch adapter made of a premium aluminium alloy, and that the buyer should "please allow 1-3cm error due to manual measurement".
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    Highlighted item description from an eBay listing. The highlighted section shows that the listing is for a quarter inch to a five-eighth of an inch adapter made of a premium aluminium alloy, and that the buyer should "please allow 1-3cm error due to manual measurement".

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    • posted 1 October, 2025
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    Using every car parking space in a supermarket car park

    Dan shares Gareth Wild's achievement of using every bay in his local supermarket's car park.

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    • posted 28 April, 2021
  • JUST LEARNED THERE ARE 16 OUNCES IN A POUND

    by @innesmck  



    JUST LEARNED THERE ARE 16 OUNCES IN A POUND AND I AM FUCKING LIVID





    SIXTEEN???

    WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF NUMBER IS THAT



    i have had no reason to actually look into imperial measurements until now and frankly i …

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    • posted 27 November, 2018

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