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💧🌏 Greg Cocks@techhub.social to xkcd@lemmy.world ·
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"Measure zero times, cut zero times."

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"Measure zero times, cut zero times."

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks@techhub.social to xkcd@lemmy.world ·
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“Measure zero times, cut zero times.”
~ Carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is
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https://xkcd.com/3149/ <– shared cartoon
#surveying #surveyor #mapping #spatial #XKCD
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    My barber would be all the way over on the bottom right. Makes literally like 300 cuts just while I’m there and I’ve never even seen a tape measure anywhere in the shop.

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    Serial killer should really be a spectrum.

    The dot as it is just means “serial killer with bad aim”.

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      or “serial killer who enjoys thoroughly slicing & dicing their victims”

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        hack, whack, choppin’ that meat

        coolest sax solo of all time ensues

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          Epic Sax Guy is a serial killer confirmed.

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        I’m reminded of “http-slash-slash-backslash-eacape” and the joke that it’s OJ’s home page URL.

        I think that’s Norm McDonald’s joke.

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      The guy from silence of the lambs was making a dress ffs. That requires measuring.

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      Do serial killers normally break out the tape measure before cutting into a victim?

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        I bet you this guy does

        And this dapper fellow wouldn't dare build a Christmas tree out of incorrectly sized limbs

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      “not all serial killers”

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    i measured once, cut twice, and its still too short.

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      Did you remember to use the board stretcher?

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    “Look for duplicates twice, post once”

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    A serial killing surveyor could totally fuck this whole thing up. Which would probably not be in the top three most objectionable traits of his 🤔

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      @Viking_Hippie I could say they are all that butt… 😁😉

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    Thus, the last thing we can be accused of is having been hasty in convening the Second Congress. We were, in fact, guided by the maxim: measure your cloth seven times before you cut it; and we had every moral right to expect that after the cloth had been cut our comrades would not start complaining and measuring it all over again.

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/a.htm

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    Don’t measure, cut yourself.

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