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Getting new glasses....

By Jafo on February 14, 2012 9:42:36 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

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It's been too many years.....should'a got 'em probably 5 years ago....but you know....you get slack/diverted/etc....

I've had them since I was about 15 .... I blame school/study for now having crap eyesight....used to be able to spot a Wedgie 2 miles up in the air currents [Aussies will know what that is]....but not anymore.

Needless to say things went downhill....getting the script....

First....the original optometrist has long-since moved on...so it's a new one....then they lost my history...all 40+ years of it.... then their computers went down... and their camera for photographing the back of the eye.....

Then they didn't have decent frames [as good as what I already had....] ...so I had to leave them with my 'clear' glasses....and I am now either stuck looking dimly through the prescription sunnies....[and turn up the brightness on the monitor]...or all fuzzy with the ancient glasses I never threw out...but really should....[they're NQR now]

So.... I got a week of 'making do' till the new ones are done [into the good frames] ...then go through much the same with the prescription sunnies....

And just the first lot cost me $440 so it'll be all that again for the dark lenses [polarised].

Actually....

I think I know why I waited so long....

 

 

Meanwhile....squinting at the screen typing this is an absolute pain....

It'll be quite politic if people 'tread softly' in my presence...as I am likely to strangle twits at the drop of a hat.....

 

....assuming I can see them....

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February 19, 2012 8:40:28 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting BoXXi,
reply 75
A rare shot of StarCandy in her pink glasses....... Not surprised you didn't like 'em Helen!!

Must... resist... urge... to... kill!

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February 19, 2012 8:45:33 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums

Quoting Fuzzy Logic,
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I didn't think a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2 needed glasses...

Your one liners never fail to amuse good sir!

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February 19, 2012 11:01:35 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

A rare shot of StarCandy in her pink glasses

Ah, one of the Buggles...

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February 26, 2012 9:56:37 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Yes, back again from the World Superbikes at Phillip Island [Round One].

Over the years this makes the 6th race meeting I've been at which has had a fatality.

It's a dangerous game.

It was in Race one of the Aussie Superbike and Superstock race on the Saturday.

The rider ran wide rider's left at turn one....and crossed infield re-entering the track at about 2.6 - just after 'southern loop' which coincided with the arrival of the entire field at race speed.

He was hit and died instantly. The field had next to no chance to avoid.... only the last quarter of the field had a chance to back-off.

Realistically it was youth and inexperience....probably had no idea he'd encounter the field as he did..... a matter of timing.

5 seconds later they would have been well past.

I was on Turn 2 [right] so saw the incident [fortunately for me from a distance].

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February 26, 2012 10:06:43 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Sad to hear, Jafo.

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February 26, 2012 10:18:53 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums

Ive always thought that there needs to be some obstruction in that grass area. Build a dirt wall or something...

My mates were at turn 2 as well, they said it was sickening, and to them, they saw it coming, yet he did not. Like you said youth and inexperience, a shame those two things have cost a young bloke his life.

Puts a damper on the main race, which was great.

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February 26, 2012 10:40:38 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

There's usually a barrier there....it was an FIM requirement that there wasn't.

Saturday night saw the reinstating of more barrier...but actually not long enough....had it been there he would have missed it anyway.

Re Race two of the Supers.... Mad Max came from stone mothering last to second.....

....He'd run wide at one likewise...but came on behind the field at 2.1

Kinda makes you wonder what all the other riders were doing....to get from last to second....

He got to 325kph .... the fastest for a Moto is 336....

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February 27, 2012 12:20:03 AM from JoeUser Forums JoeUser Forums

I was sad to see Max leave MGP, i think he had a championship in him, if he had been able to get on a decent bike in the later years. '04 '05 was not a great time for him.

Quoting Jafo,
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There's usually a barrier there....it was an FIM requirement that there wasn't.
Saturday night saw the reinstating of more barrier...but actually not long enough....had it been there he would have missed it anyway.

It's not enough though, and why did they want it removed?! there needs to be absolutely no thoroughfare across the grass. How many hairy moments in any race there have we seen.

If nothing else, perhaps a tragedy like this might spur FIA/FIM onto forcing LinFox to an upgrade. I know it's been said before that this is the reason F1 will not race at PI.

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February 27, 2012 12:53:25 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Not true.

Lindsay Fox/Fergus Cameron usually has a barrier there...the FORCE was on the part of FIM for it to be removed.

What you see at PI is purely the result of demands by FIM and Dorna as to how the track should be.

As for F1..... if a MotoGP bike can do 336 ....imagine what an F1 would do.  It's the fastest circuit on the MotoGP calendar....the fastest circuit in Australia....you will NEVER be able to run F1 on it....as it will be required just to be flattenned if nothing else....Lukey Heights would see an F1 launched....into Cowes.....  There's been several times 'mere' bikes have ended up 'in' with the spectators there...clearing the tyre barriers and fence....airborne...

When you stand on startline....with nothing between you and the track.... and Doohan passes on your side of the white line... less than 2 meters away.... and race control says "324" [that's 201.3mph] and you're almost sucked out of your shoes by the slipstream....you get to appreciate just how fast that track is....

...and how dangerous it can be.

3 of the 6 fatalities in my presence have been at PI,  one at Albert Park ...and 2 at Calder.

Believe me....this has nothing to do with LinFox.... nothing at all....

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February 27, 2012 12:56:40 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Biaggi took a while to 'mature'.

He was a wee bit hot-headed .... and inclined to 'throw it into the weeds'.  {i picked his bike up once...in the 250's] ...then there was the time he 'ignored' the black flag about 7  times...... the rule is 3...3 strikes and your arse is grass...

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February 28, 2012 11:36:45 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Ah....life is never simple....

OPSM can't even make my script.

I waited 2 weeks to learn it's actually beyond them.  Thanks for nothing.

I need to go through the whole thing again with a REAL Optometrist ...not these Franchise bullshit whatevers.

It's going to have to wait now till AFTER the GrandPrix.  I can't afford NOT to have something I can actually see through....

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February 29, 2012 12:15:29 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Just got my new glasses (and stardock account) today. Glasses are so expensive these days. $400 for Paul Smith Pirroni frames and $150 for the lenses. Free for me, thanks to good ol' parents' health insurance.

 

Also, I'm not fat...My birthday happens to be on 4/8

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February 29, 2012 5:44:07 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Biaggi is an arse...............

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February 29, 2012 7:05:41 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting BoXXi,
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Biaggi is an arse...............

Bryan....did you see that second race?

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February 29, 2012 8:02:55 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums

I don't knwo about being an arse, but he gave all but one a good look at his as he blew by!

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