Halp.

You can remove sharpie by writing over it with a dry-erase marker and then removinging by rubbing it.

You call usually also use isopropyl alcohol, but you may remove more than you intended.

So dry-erase first and then go nuclear with iso if the marker didn't work.

Tried the iso and now my dick is removed...
- Maybe don't buy your packer off of Temu?
Drawing over it again with the same sharpie works too if you wipe it quick.
Found this out in school when someone wrote some less than acceptable words on the board in permanent marker. The teacher scribbled over it with drywipes, waited a few seconds and wiped it away.

They said it was because essentially drywipe marker is a permanent marker with solvents.
In the same vein as isopropyl alcohol, hand sanitizer works too. And more people are carrying that now since covid.

Coming from a non-American, an inches-only tape measure is incredibly cursed

As an American, I was a bit flabbergasted when I looked through all the tape measures at the store, and none of them had a metric side
- I found one when I looked but it was a bit spendy cause it was fancy in other ways. Still went for it cause I want both units.
As a Canadian I hate it too.
- Yeah, a good chunk of the ones available here only have inches, too. It was hard to find one with both when I bought my last tape measure.
As an American engineer I agree
That's how I feel about Celsius being for everyone.
- even though I know it's literally the best option, my pea sized brain goes "wait? 30° is hot??"
Those fractions are barely readable and I'm not even dyslexic
- That's a tape for the new guy on the crew so he doesn't look like a dum-dum. Until the crew sees his tape anyway.
Even more cursed if those same markings where on a CM calibrated scale.
- Fractional metric for the win
I have one that measures in feet and inches, so you can only see it's 9'8", you have to do 9*12+8 in your head.
Well yeah, if you were raised learning imperial measurements, you’d probably find a metric-only tape to be an criminal abomination just as easily.
- 37 year old American here. I was raised learning both and I can and have built things in both systems. Hell I've even mixed them on occasion. I own a metric tape measure and a metric/inch tape measure, and several inch tape measures.
  
  Specifically for woodworking, I vastly prefer working in fractional inches, for a whole stack of reasons but mainly in the wood shop, you find yourself dividing by 2 or 3 way more often than 5 or 10. Working in a dozenal system in powers of 2 makes more sense for that than working in a decimal system in powers of ten. It's just easier to buy rough lumber at 1 inch thick, use 1/4" of it to mill it flat and parallel so you have 3/4", and now if you need to do a half-lap joint it'll be 3/8" or a tenon will be 1/4".
- No, they're fine. It's the bilingual tapes that are a pain in the ass. You have to guess at half the measurements no matter your preferred scale.
- Yes, if you were also a illogical moron.

Toss it in the metal heap at your local recycling centre. With the archaic units, it's unusable anyway.

How retarded do you have to be to have the fractions written out on the entire measure

Retarded enough to not use the metric system.
I still don't get how they can live with such a retarded measurement system.

Then I see who they elected as a President and I understand everything.
- I still don’t get how they can live with such a retarded measurement system.
  
  We can't.
  
  Scientists do everything in metric, but that's where it stops.
  
  Food industry tries to label everything both ways, so we all get some minimal exposure; but this is like expecting to learn French in Canada just by hanging around. Machinists cope by using thousandths (of an inch), but still have to translate to work with standard screw dimensions. Bakers do everything at multiples of cups or pounds, so fractions don't really come up. Housing framers use, maybe, down to the half or quarter inch and have easier to read tape measures for this; story-boards and tick-sticks are used to avoid measuring entirely.
  
  If it wasn't for raw materials (across the board) being sold in nominal empirical sizes, I would sooner just use the metric system.
  
  Meanwhile, the home kitchen is at war. Recipe books have everyone else dicking around with all the crazy fractional volume and weight measures. Either you're a virtuoso with these, or you're terrible at it and burn every meal - there is no middle ground. This might explain our relationship with restaurant food.