I measured up our downstairs for parquet flooring earlier this year, added 10% for wastage and was pretty pleased with my work. Guy we had fitting it came round, measured up with HIS LAZER FREAKING MEASURE, and came up with a much larger estimate. Of course, as he was actually fitting it we had to go with his measurements. On the day he finished he rather sheepishly announced that we had quite a lot of flooring left. He was right - we had around £400 worth of spare flooring which we couldn’t return. It’s now in our loft unlikely to ever see the light of day again. Fuck the planet…
When we moved house we had some units that fit really well together for books, CDs and shit like that. There’s a kind of wide alcove in our new place and measurements told us these units might just fit in the alcove, but there was like 1 or 2mm in it. We moved in and they only bloody well fit didn’t they!
Great story that, you’re welcome.
Apologies that I can’t remember who it was but someone was talking about these the other day so I stuck it on my wishlist and no fucker got it for my b’day which may or may not have been quite recently:
And I’m not sure if I read it here but was it Miyamoto or Miyazaki (sorry pretty racist forgetting) whose hobby was estimating measurements.
What a time to be alive
No way is a Henry only 25 cm
If it’s size can’t be calculated in number of football pitches or in relation to Wales, I’m not interested.
@anon26275971 @harru
Lot of humble pie needs to be consumed here.
I currently have a tape measure in my pants drawer
Damn, I thought Henry was bigger than that, surprised he’s so small
It is the compact 160 model, basically a James in disguise
Sometimes in kids books about dinosaurs they have a size comparison with a dinosaur and usually a London bus
great carpet
It’s a rug from India really like it
Any AR measurement requests?
Normal size Henry please
the sun
I really want one of these. I have absolutely no practical use for one.
Using your tongue, have a guess how tall (or long) the exposed part of your front teeth are.
Then ask a co-worked to measure them with a ruler or their poxy phone app (not their own tongue, that’s not helpful).
And report back with your findings.
I always push the limits on post sizes, particularly if printing postage myself, and never had an issue
