Saturday, August 29, 2020

OTHER THINGS I FIND AMUSING

I'm currently coping with a vision problem. I've had them since forever but only learned that I had a real problem when I was busted in Algebra class by the teacher convinced that I was mocking her. It was a different time and Alabama but I was sent to the principal's office and my mother was summoned to take me away. Duckface Davis was convinced I was making sport of her by using the tricks I'd learned to be able to actually see what was written on the chalkboard behind her. At any rate, I just saw this online and thought it was a marvelous bit of idiocy.


Who exactly would combine the use of inches and centimeters and not think it is stupid? Pick one or the other and be done with it.

3 comments:

FeralFerret said...

What image? Only shows the words above.

HMS Defiant said...

I'm not sure I believe any of the images. Sometimes the internet is nothing but a snake path of false and misleading information.

DOuglas2 said...

The text with the image are available here, amongst I suspect many places online:
https://www.nvisioncenters.com/astigmatism-lasik/astigmatism-testing/

I'm amused by the "approximately 74 centimeters" line.

I'm also amused that the Brits, where distance is measured in miles but fuel is dispensed in liters, always do a conversion when speaking of fuel economy, and will never mix units to speak of miles-per-liter. (MPG or L/100km, always, and with proper imperial gallons not the puny American ones).

A "17 inch screen" is usually either 13.6 or 14.4 inches wide depending upon whether it is 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio. A silly way to describe the size, but in common use worldwide, even where metric is more familiar.