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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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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 14 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] railway692@piefed.zip 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Serial killer should really be a spectrum.

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

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

or "serial killer who enjoys thoroughly slicing & dicing their victims"

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hack, whack, choppin’ that meat

coolest sax solo of all time ensues

Epic Sax Guy is a serial killer confirmed.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] railway692@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I bet you this guy does

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

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"not all serial killers"

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Did you remember to use the board stretcher?

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 🤔

[–] GregCocks@techhub.social 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Don't measure, cut yourself.