It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Main point - online prescription glasses can be very cheap.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
To be honest I'm not sure if I legally need my glasses for driving or not.
Anyone over 40 ! Ireland is different to UK, we could have been fully metric decades ago but the various governments chickened out.
Metric was being used when I was in school, but the Imperial system survives. We get oddities that we buy fuel by the litre (marketing scam IMHO), but still measure consumption in MPG
Feedback
Football commentators and pundits.
I do wear glasses for the distance, but these days I could drive without (but don't). My bigger problem is the small print thing, so I carry a pair of those supermarket cheap reading glasses in case I need to change a fuse or check the manual for anything like that. Whenever I go away or drive any distance I take a second pair of driving glasses as a matter of course. Some things are just common sense, sadly it's not always that common.
I was taught the metric system at school, I guess they thought it was the modern way and everything would be metric by the time I was adult. But we still buy some alcohol in pints, our speed and distance road signs are in miles, Brits usually refer to their body weight in stones and pounds.
Strangely enough the USA was one of the first ( I think the first ) to use a decimal monetary system , the Coinage Act of 1792 ( I had to google that bit) - chosen as it was simple/ self apparent.
A good point in the original story is that many people passed their test years ago but haven't had to pass the number plate test since. Me included... I passed my bike test in 1989, car test shortly after and then nothing for years until I got all the other categories recently*.
Although I wear glasses, I'm getting on and my eyes have changed since I was a teenager. I'm all for it.
*except tanks and steamrollers.
Guess If Im tugged and not wearing them, tis already bad bad bad.
Such as catching idiots like this overtaking an unmarked police car
http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/16611893.police-release-footage-after-dangerous-driving-at-trawsfynydd/
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
It would be a productive stop for the policeman - they could fine the BMW driver up to £1000 for having a dirty number plate.
IIRC , and @Gassage may well be able to provide more info on this, 1 chain is the distance between wickets on a cricket pitch.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.