What's mildly irritating you today? - Page 272

footfootfoot · 01-11-2012, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I'm farsighted. I can see for miles and miles,

Are the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal are yours to see on clear days?

footfootfoot · 01-11-2012, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Wait a few years.

I'm 51, I can still see close up, just not really tiny typefaces and I need a lot more light than I used to. For everything else there's astigmatism.

any type of distance is pretty soft.

infinite monkey · 01-11-2012, 12:58 PM

Update: the arm that I tried to scratch off in my sleep has heeled to the 'long think scabby' point and in the webinar I was absentmindedly sort of scratching at them and next thing I knew I was bleeding all down my arm.

TMI, and gross? Why yes, yes it is.

I'm sure the the three Wigs O'Big who were in there were wondering what the heck happened to me. I wanted to tell them that on the weekends I rescue Polar Bears up in the Arctic.

Anyway, when my eyesight started to get bad it went quickly. I truly believe that you can exercise your eyes. My mom would tell me to turn on another light when I was reading and I would say "how do you know I'm not exercising my eyes, making them stronger?" She couldn't argue since the eye doctor would joke that I could read the writing around the doorknob when I got to the bottom of the chart.

But then things got blurry in my early 40s, and I started wearing reading glasses. And stronger reading glasses, and stronger. My friend says I'm running out of room on the magnification.

I'll have to break down and get real glasses someday.

infinite monkey · 01-11-2012, 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Are the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal are yours to see on clear days?

Yes, the Eiffel Tower at King's Island.

Taj Ma Hall died this past spring, so I don't see her anymore. (That was one of my kittehs.)

So n'yeah. Thought ya had me, eh?

Pete Zicato · 01-11-2012, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I'm 51

Whippersnapper.

I had excellent close vision until I turned 57. I one year, my close vision went to crap. Now I've got bifocal for the day and reading glasses by my bed.

Getting old is a bitch.

monster · 01-25-2012, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

No, I know floaters. I hate those too. It's like, when you see them, you can't NOT see them.

This was a zig-zaggy almost in a full circle thing. Like glatt said, some kind of eye migraine. I have a slight headache, but otherwise it seems to be going away.

Currently on my second of these today..... grrr.....

monster · 01-25-2012, 08:21 AM

...turned into a headache, had to take painkiller -which is something I rarely do.......

Seemed to do the trick though. Took ibuprofen for the first time -previously forbidden to me because of asthma, but two docs have now said it should be OK so I thought I'd give it a whirl....

infinite monkey · 01-25-2012, 08:27 AM

Makes you want to stick a fork in your eye, doesn't it?

Be careful driving...that's what scares me, when I lose half my vision.

monster · 01-25-2012, 08:36 AM

oh the eye thing is pretty much over, thanks. I'm going to attempt figure skating and see what fun that is......

plthijinx · 01-25-2012, 05:29 PM

on the phone as i type this with our beloved IRS at the moment. the woman helping me is the epiphany of political correctness and cover your mother fucking ass.

BigV · 01-25-2012, 05:34 PM

...
"epitome"

plthijinx · 01-25-2012, 05:40 PM

fuck the irs.

i feel like they're sending squad cars to my house now. over $293.84 from 2009 i owe and that i should have filed last year but didn't. then the fact that i didn't errrrr my accountant didn't file on a sssssmmmmmaaaaaalllll capital gain that i get every year. pffft. bitch. that woman i swear to god, REALLY?! politically correct torture is what that was. i had no idea what she was talking about for 2010 then it dawned on me and i said oh yeah! ok. then she said "ooooohhhhh so you DO know what i'm talking about. let me make a note of that in the file!" yeah like i'm trying to cheat you. whatever. fuck'em.

classicman · 01-25-2012, 08:41 PM

Make payments - send them a dime A REAL DIME every month.

footfootfoot · 01-28-2012, 11:29 AM

One of the things I have to deal with everyday is my intolerance of stupid and ignorant people. ("chyeah," you're thinking, "then why do you come here?")

A particularly vexing behavior of that group is their thinking that adding "and so much more... or much, much more... or even just, and much more..." to their advertisement of products or services that they offer is actually going to be read, much less sell anything. Especially when on a given month I am asked to add that line or variations of it to at least eight ads.

fuckwits.

Today, though one of the advertisers decided to tweak her shitty ad by removing a block of text half as long as "War and Peace." A dreadful litany in tedious detail of every speck and mote for sale in her shop, she reduced it to three species within a genus of crap she sells.

Everything comes at a price. She now wants me to include the phrase "The most unique and extensive..."

Here is the main argument for gun control. It is at times like this that I feel life is not really worth living. IT is too early to start drinking and I know that won't make it go away.

plthijinx · 01-28-2012, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

.....IT is too early to start drinking and I know that won't make it go away.

no it's not. cheers mate!

01-25-2012, 08:21 AM	#4072
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	...turned into a headache, had to take painkiller -which is something I rarely do....... Seemed to do the trick though. Took ibuprofen for the first time -previously forbidden to me because of asthma, but two docs have now said it should be OK so I thought I'd give it a whirl.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-25-2012, 08:36 AM	#4074
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	oh the eye thing is pretty much over, thanks. I'm going to attempt figure skating and see what fun that is...... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-25-2012, 05:29 PM	#4075
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	on the phone as i type this with our beloved IRS at the moment. the woman helping me is the epiphany of political correctness and cover your mother fucking ass. __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

01-25-2012, 05:34 PM	#4076
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	... "epitome" __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

01-25-2012, 05:40 PM	#4077
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	fuck the irs. i feel like they're sending squad cars to my house now. over $293.84 from 2009 i owe and that i should have filed last year but didn't. then the fact that i didn't errrrr my accountant didn't file on a sssssmmmmmaaaaaalllll capital gain that i get every year. pffft. bitch. that woman i swear to god, REALLY?! politically correct torture is what that was. i had no idea what she was talking about for 2010 then it dawned on me and i said oh yeah! ok. then she said "ooooohhhhh so you DO know what i'm talking about. let me make a note of that in the file!" yeah like i'm trying to cheat you. whatever. fuck'em. __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream. Last edited by plthijinx; 01-25-2012 at 06:06 PM.

01-11-2012, 12:58 PM	#4068
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Update: the arm that I tried to scratch off in my sleep has heeled to the 'long think scabby' point and in the webinar I was absentmindedly sort of scratching at them and next thing I knew I was bleeding all down my arm. TMI, and gross? Why yes, yes it is. I'm sure the the three Wigs O'Big who were in there were wondering what the heck happened to me. I wanted to tell them that on the weekends I rescue Polar Bears up in the Arctic. Anyway, when my eyesight started to get bad it went quickly. I truly believe that you can exercise your eyes. My mom would tell me to turn on another light when I was reading and I would say "how do you know I'm not exercising my eyes, making them stronger?" She couldn't argue since the eye doctor would joke that I could read the writing around the doorknob when I got to the bottom of the chart. But then things got blurry in my early 40s, and I started wearing reading glasses. And stronger reading glasses, and stronger. My friend says I'm running out of room on the magnification. I'll have to break down and get real glasses someday.

01-25-2012, 08:27 AM	#4073
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Makes you want to stick a fork in your eye, doesn't it? Be careful driving...that's what scares me, when I lose half my vision.

01-25-2012, 08:41 PM	#4078
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Make payments - send them a dime A REAL DIME every month. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-28-2012, 11:29 AM	#4079
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	One of the things I have to deal with everyday is my intolerance of stupid and ignorant people. ("chyeah," you're thinking, "then why do you come here?") A particularly vexing behavior of that group is their thinking that adding "and so much more... or much, much more... or even just, and much more..." to their advertisement of products or services that they offer is actually going to be read, much less sell anything. Especially when on a given month I am asked to add that line or variations of it to at least eight ads. fuckwits. Today, though one of the advertisers decided to tweak her shitty ad by removing a block of text half as long as "War and Peace." A dreadful litany in tedious detail of every speck and mote for sale in her shop, she reduced it to three species within a genus of crap she sells. Everything comes at a price. She now wants me to include the phrase "The most unique and extensive..." Here is the main argument for gun control. It is at times like this that I feel life is not really worth living. IT is too early to start drinking and I know that won't make it go away. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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