#tape measure

[strawdoodle]

more glitchtape

[feloire]

[cheesyfan]

c2bc doodles

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[artemispt]

Yeah…

[rangepup]

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[brifdi-daily]

day 166: tape measure !

hope her day got better

[littlethingsmart]

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[gummi-stims]

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[yesterdays-xkcd]

This sequence was later reproduced in the International Tape-Extending Federation archives, retitled 'The Founding of the Sport'.

Tape Measure [Explained]

Transcript

[Cueball finds a tape measure.] Cueball: Hey, a tape measure.

[Cueball extends the tape measure.] extend extend

[The tape measure falls.] clatter

[Cueball tries again.] click schwoop

extend extend

extend

Cueball (thinking): Ooh, eight feet. I wonder if that's a record.

[Beat.]

[Cueball imagines an olympic stadium, with three people extending tape measures] Audience: Gooo! Goooo! Gooooooo!

[shiftythrifting]

🤨

😏

(it's a tape measure)

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

What is this? A normal tape measure?

No, a friend! His name is Stanley

*blep*

99 cents for a pack of glow-in-the-dark googly eyes is money well spent.

He is my watchful guardian. I love him.

[antiquesfreaks]

New episode up! How do you measure a tape? Once upon a time we had to drag a chain across a field uphill both ways. But now with the modern convenience of a vintage or antique tape measure, we know precisely how long all our tapes are.

[bundys-boys]

[oh-yes-i-did-not]

Hey, if you've even wondered why the end of a metallic builders measuring tape is loose and jiggly, it's because measurements from outside and inside are different. And the bent end of the tape IS supposed to move some millimeters, or actually the exact thickness of the actual end to make up for that.

I never thought to think about that, but I encountered someone who did and they ruined their tape measure to stop the jiggling. Like, they just hammered the end until it stopped moving to make it more accurate. And I really could not have said if that was a good or a bad idea bc the thought had literally never occurred to me so I had no idea. The ends of tape measures just jiggle!

The wood workshop teacher came in and explained it all to us, that it's supposed to move, to compensate for being either on the outside or inside of what you're measuring. So no one else ended up ruining their tape measures.

But I still think about it. Like, I had never even thought about. Why does the end of it jiggle??

And now I know!

[peterfields]