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Zorbs are rad as hell and I want to open up a year-round place in the US that is nothing but Zorb shenanigans, like soccer, bowling, downhill races, etc. All of the cool parks are in Australia. I don't know if any more exist in the US.
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Zorbs are indeed cool. I did one of the downhill-full-of-water ones in New Zealand and it was like being on an endless, bumpy waterslide. Pretty sure most of the places in the US were closed due to liability laws.
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Jul 14, 2015 18:58
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kedo posted:Zorbs are indeed cool. I did one of the downhill-full-of-water ones in New Zealand and it was like being on an endless, bumpy waterslide. Pretty sure most of the places in the US were closed due to liability laws. Yeah one of the dudes from Nitro Circus snapped his ankle in half in one of those, I think. hosed his leg up for a long time. They own but they can be pretty dangerous
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Jul 14, 2015 19:40
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Babe Magnet posted:Yeah one of the dudes from Nitro Circus snapped his ankle in half in one of those, I think. hosed his leg up for a long time. They own but they can be pretty dangerous There's also an horrible video of people going off a cliff in one of those on a Russian ski slope :/
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Jul 14, 2015 20:38
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Jul 14, 2015 21:08
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Haha that guy on the ATV smashing and just running off is great. He's lucky hes not paralyzed.
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Jul 14, 2015 23:29
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Dork baby.
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Jul 14, 2015 23:30
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Thanks Mr Internet
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Jul 15, 2015 00:52
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Oh good, they're starting to make nerds in a size better suited to shoving into a locker.
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Jul 15, 2015 01:00
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 Oh, Magoo, you've done it again!
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Jul 15, 2015 01:13
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How do you even know a kid that size needs glasses? And how do you figure out the right prescription? These questions keep me up at night.
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Jul 15, 2015 01:39
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Less Fat Luke posted:How do you even know a kid that size needs glasses? And how do you figure out the right prescription? These questions keep me up at night. Babies get lots of regular checkups, and eyes are one of the many things checked. If the pediatrician notices something wrong with the eyes, the child is refered to an optomitrist who specializes in children.
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Jul 15, 2015 01:48
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Kheldarn posted:Babies get lots of regular checkups, and eyes are one of the many things checked. If the pediatrician notices something wrong with the eyes, the child is refered to an optomitrist who specializes in children. Seeing as how your average eye checkup requires you to read off letters, and telling the optometrist which lenses are better, the question remains. My father was effectively blind till he was Six. My grandfather was trying to play catch with my father but he was pissed that my father wasn't even making the effort to catch the drat baseball. My father's reply that he "couldn't see the ball" won him a quick trip to the eye doctor courtesy of my newly terrified grandparents. Sentmassen has a new favorite as of 02:01 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 01:53
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Sentmassen posted:Seeing as how your average eye checkup requires you to read off letters, and telling the optometrist which lenses are better, the question remains. Maybe in the stone age but these days, you put your face up to the box and look at the blurry hot air balloon and then about two seconds later it goes crisp and now they know your prescription.
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Jul 15, 2015 01:56
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Less Fat Luke posted:How do you even know a kid that size needs glasses? And how do you figure out the right prescription? These questions keep me up at night. That first big smile is her seeing her mom for the first time, I think.
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Jul 15, 2015 03:56
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they are giving their child the gift ad uninhibited site and they choose to do it at.... Flipdaddy's.. burgers and craft beers... SMH
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Jul 15, 2015 04:01
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It's a fake, guys. Clearly viral advertising. SMH bunch a sheeple
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Jul 15, 2015 04:34
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Bad Munki posted:Maybe in the stone age but these days, you put your face up to the box and look at the blurry hot air balloon and then about two seconds later it goes crisp and now they know your prescription. This. The sit-down "Which is better? 1, or 2?" type checkup is basically to confirm what the machine already says, or to diagnose anything more complex than standard "bad eyesight".
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Sentmassen posted:My father was effectively blind till he was Six. My grandfather was trying to play catch with my father but he was pissed that my father wasn't even making the effort to catch the drat baseball. My father's reply that he "couldn't see the ball" won him a quick trip to the eye doctor courtesy of my newly terrified grandparents. This was me as a kid. I had no idea trees had leaves. I just thought the world was full of horrible blobs, until I got close enough. First pair of glasses was 
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Less Fat Luke posted:And how do you figure out the right prescription? They used a laser and measured the deviance of the reflection through the pupil somehow. I don't know. Science. Edit: Reddit posted:It's called retinoscopy. You shine a narrow beam through the pupil and focus it on the retina. Then you move the beam up and down. If the beam moves up or down on the retina too fast or too slow compared to your own movement then you know the lens/cornea is not focusing light directly on the retina and the baby is either myopic or hyperopic (nearsighted or farsighted). Then you simply do the same exercise but put different lenses in front of the baby's eye until you get the correct movement of the beam on the retina.
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Jul 15, 2015 10:27
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Less Fat Luke posted:How do you even know a kid that size needs glasses? And how do you figure out the right prescription? These questions keep me up at night. According to the news article that I'm too lazy to post, the kid was delayed in crawling, so the parents brought it up at her next checkup, whereupon it was discovered that the child is extremely farsighted. +7 on one eye and +9 in the other, which I don't know what that means.
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HBomb posted:According to the news article that I'm too lazy to post, the kid was delayed in crawling, so the parents brought it up at her next checkup, whereupon it was discovered that the child is extremely farsighted. +7 on one eye and +9 in the other, which I don't know what that means. That's pretty crazy bad for a baby. As a grown adult (as in my eyes were no longer growing) before getting lasered I was -9 and -12 which can be characterized as "incredibly loving bad." A baby's eyes are likely to only grow to be worse, not better, and that's a pretty terrible starting point.
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HBomb posted:According to the news article that I'm too lazy to post, the kid was delayed in crawling, so the parents brought it up at her next checkup, whereupon it was discovered that the child is extremely farsighted. +7 on one eye and +9 in the other, which I don't know what that means. Kid can ready candy wrappers dropped on the goddamn moon.
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Jul 15, 2015 17:19
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Kid's got B^U syndrome
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Trying to fake out the kid with a pop-tart?
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Jul 15, 2015 18:04
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The one with the blink and smile is really cute he's like a mini Bubbles who just saw a kitty.
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VendaGoat posted:This was me as a kid. I had no idea trees had leaves. I just thought the world was full of horrible blobs, until I got close enough. Same here. The first person to call me "four eyes" also wore glasses. Later as an adult, he got arrested (while in drag) for assaulting a police office who was working security at a gay nightclub.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Same here. The first person to call me "four eyes" also wore glasses. It's amazing how easily a story could be made less problematic. In the case it would have been even easier because it involved less typing.
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Jul 15, 2015 23:25
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Birb Katter posted:It's amazing how easily a story could be made less problematic. In the case it would have been even easier because it involved less typing. Um, what?
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Jul 15, 2015 23:28
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Mister Kingdom posted:Um, what? he thinks that 'gay' is like the n-word
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Hogge Wild posted:he thinks that 'gay' is like the n-word Ah, I see. Well, at the time (early 80s), that's what they (as in the owners) called it.
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