Quit it with the small font, you bastard young'ns.

Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)
#1

Back in my thirties the eye doctor told me when I hit 40 (or it hit me) I’d probably need reading glasses. “Hah!” I said. “I’ll just focus harder. I’m no wimp.”

Well, that near-sightedness hit me pretty much exactly when the eye doctor said it would.

So quit it with the small font! I can’t see what the hell it is!

You know back in the old days when we used to walk ten miles in the snow barefoot to school, when we had something snarky to say under our breath we put it in parentheses. We didn’t say it in a teensy tiny font.

#2

If you insist…
We’ll type louder for you, OK?

#3

Brat.

Is this thread going to devolve into a “playing with the font size” fest?

#4

It was “playing with your font size” that got you into this. Didn’t you listen to your mother?

#5

Yeah, like we’re that childish. Of course not; we’ll play with the colors too!

#6

FYI, it’s not nearsightedness that’s making the type hard to see. It’s presbyopia, a.k.a. “old vision.” I’ve been nearsighted all my life and I can now see things that I couldn’t see 10 years ago. I’m actually LESS nearsighted than I used to be. Unfortunately, most things I still can’t see if they’re more than a few yards away. Goodbye, single-prescription lenses, hello, trifocals a.k.a. variable focus lenses.

#7

Hey, old guy - check out this thread and disable the Silenus’s of the world :wink: ( with sizing disabled his font looks the same as everyone else to me - I can still see the color on hawksgirl’s though ) :

  • Tamerlane
#8

You’re old and going blind and we’re not. neener neener neener.

:smiley:

#9

Whatever you do, don’t play Axis and Allied Miniatures game. As the name implies (moreso than other games termed “miniature”,) the smallest minis are on bases that are 5mm or less across. They represent historical WW2 units or soldiers, and the name of the unit is printed at the bottom of its base.

The smallest (< 1/2 cm) minis represent people, and one is of a German officer. His title? “SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer”. Printed on one line. :rolleyes:

#10

The only way to avoid presbyopia is to die young!

Congratulations on outliving the squishiness of your crystalline lenses.

#11

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[QUOTE=levdrakon]
Back in my thirties the eye doctor told me when I hit 40 (or it hit me) I’d probably need reading glasses. “Hah!” I said. “I’ll just focus harder. I’m no wimp.”

Well, that near-sightedness hit me pretty much exactly when the eye doctor said it would.

My lenses aren’t crystalline, ya non-quote tag knowin’ little ankle biter!

#12

[sub][sub][sub] Crystallin, not crystalline.[/sub][/sub][/sub]

#13

And ain’t this a real bitch? I’ve been nearsighted all my life, too, and now this damn presbyopia kicks in. I’ve spent most of my life having to bring things closer to my face to see them and now THAT makes it hard to read, too! I haven’t noticed an improvement in my nearsightedness such as you describe, though. Maybe it’s because of the degree of myopia? I dunno. Sucks, that much I know for sure!

I can’t imagine wearing variable focus lenses, though. I tend to get motion sick and just thinking about all the shifts in vision makes me feel queasy! :slight_smile: Guess I’ll just use reading glasses when I need to read small print, and I’ll whack you with my walking stick if you laugh at me! :smiley:

#14

At least they’re not printing it in a type that’s too high pitched to hear.

#15

You’ve been fonted by the fontist!

#16

What? WHAT? They’re tinting my pipe that’s two pitchers of beer??

Get off my lawn! waves cane :smiley:

#17

[sub]Off to MPSIMS…[/sub]

#18

Yeah! Have some pity for the old’uns!

It’s okay, grandpa. hands you your cane

Them buggers won’t be typing smaller…smaller…smaller…smaller…smaller…smaller…smaller anymore.
:smiley:

#19

Great. :rolleyes:

Now how is levdrakon gonna find his way home?

#20

This post has been Geezed by the Geezer!