Starlord Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/02/16/walking-dead-/80451714/ Surprised that doesn't happen more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted February 17, 2016 Report Share Posted February 17, 2016 The Journal reported that a man carjacked an Suv and then drove into a wall. CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 17, 2016 Report Share Posted February 17, 2016 http://diply.com/auntyacid/article/mother-in-law-inlaws-abuse-house-family-daughter-care-cancer/1 For those of you who've had horrible mother-in-laws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 17, 2016 Report Share Posted February 17, 2016 BRB, hugging my mother-in-law for being awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted February 17, 2016 Report Share Posted February 17, 2016 Dennis Hof To Run For Nevada Senate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2016 Don't light any fires here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 19, 2016 Report Share Posted February 19, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/18/the-lord-of-the-flies-bullying-case-thats-sending-three-chinese-parachute-kids-to-calif-prison/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/in-2050-half-the-world-will-be-nearsighted/ar-BBpHGYZ?li=BBnb4R7 Half the world will need reading glasses in 30 years. I wonder why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 That's... not what nearsightedness is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 The article doesn't seem to offer a definition for nearsightedness. What'd they get wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 Nearsightedness usually means that glasses are needed for distance vision. Distant images are focused in front of the retina, and are therefore blurred when it gets to the retina. Reading glasses, especially for folks over 40, are usually associated with presbyopia, which is characterized by an inability to focus on close-up objects, probably due to the lens and associated muscles changing over time. The two are not mutually exclusive; it's possible to have myopia and presbyopia at the same time (which may delay the need for reading glasses). I got reading glasses last year for presbyopia, mainly because I was having trouble with very tiny print, or in lower light levels*. They are single-vision, as my distance vision is actually very good (about 20/15), and does not need correction. *Page numbers in the D&D 5e PHB were almost invisible before the glasses, due to a combination of low contrast between the numbers and the background image, and generally lower light levels at the gaming table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 I got my reading glasses a few years ago, presbyopia too. Still not used to the dang things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 I got my reading glasses a few years ago, presbyopia too. Still not used to the dang things. That's because you're not using them correctly...they're not for reading, they're for looking down your nose in disgust at someone and then taking them off dramatically for effect. Pattern Ghost, Burrito Boy and Sociotard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 Been wearing glasses since I was 6. Guess I'm ahead of the curve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 Ben Franklin tried to resolve the issue nearly three hundred years ago. The system he invented in the 1750s -- making spectacles with two types of lens in each lens so that you can, with practice, swtch between distance vision and close-up work like the small type in most reading matter of his day, is still in use today. That's what bifocals are. But bifocals take time and practice to use, and many never really master them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 "The issue" lacks an antecedent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 Been wearing glasses since I was 6. Guess I'm ahead of the curve. Badly nearsighted from a very early age until I had my eyes lasered out fourteen years ago. Best four grand I ever spent. Now I'm getting farsighted but my distance vision is still 20/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 Been wearing glasses since I was 6. Guess I'm ahead of the curve. Ditto, same year started wearing glasses too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 My vision isn't bad, and I didn't need glasses until age 22 (first year of grad school, when I noticed I couldn't read the blackboard from the back of the room any more). Went to the optometrist and said, "I'm nearsighted in this eye and astigmatic in the other," knowing enough optics to be able to assess such things (albeit not quantitatively). Optometrist was quite surprised when it turned out I was right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 My optometrist threatened me with progressives the next time I get new glasses. And she seemed like such a nice lady ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 My optometrist threatened me with progressives the next time I get new glasses. And she seemed like such a nice lady ... Threatened with progressives? Is she related to Sean Hannity? BoloOfEarth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Six degrees of separation, and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 It just keeps getting worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question in a decade. Apparently this is very unusual. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-hasn-t-asked-question-decade-n520801 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 ...and now his puppeteer is dead. PS: He would not survive in the Game of Questions thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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