Go look at the moon

[General Baxter]

its started :thumb:

[BigStan]

Woohoo lol

Interesting stuff to see !

[flashbang]

lol i just looked it looks like somebody has eaten part of the moon

[Dar]

http://www.rmlm.dk/images/18-5-01/mooner.jpg

[Iain]

^lol About 3/4 covered now.

[rc]

haha full moon /\

[General Baxter]

for all the lasy people who can not be ****d to look out the window lol

http://news.sky.com/skynews/livenewsevents#

[jkhilton]

nice! i always forget to go out and look at these things when they happen.

Just been outside work now and it looks cool. Strange orangey glow

[Pillar]

yeah just looked again its glowing now

[Novadex]

crazy moon!

[Matt2107]

http://www.rmlm.dk/images/18-5-01/mooner.jpg

Is that Saddam on the telly?

[Lee]

Saddam and Soddemy all at the same time LOLOL

[Matt2107]

I'd hit it....




that was a joke by the way.

[wisewood]

I went outside to look and decided it was too cold so told the wife it had finished so we could go back in the house lol It'll be along again in 6 years anyway.

I dont see the fascination with it - sun passes behind the earth, casting a shadow over the moon. No different to any other shadow... it's just big, but appears only the size of a 50p coin in the sky anyway ... using your bedside lamp and your hand to make an ostrich shadow on the wall is way more entertaining.

[Rob77]

using your bedside lamp and your hand to make an ostrich shadow on the wall is way more entertaining.

lol

PMSL!

I didn't realise it was every 6 years, thought it came around sooner than that!

[wisewood]

http://www.20kweb.com/hand_shadows.html

http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/LEprimer.html

every six or seven years... the next one is supposed to be in 6 years i think.

[Jack]

I couldn't see sh!t but then I didn't have my lenses in at the time. I usually have touble seeing anything further than 8 inches from my nose without them, and I'd hazard a guess that the moon is further away than 8 inches.

Although, unwittingly exposing myself to everyone in the Travelodge car park on saturday evening trying to see the moon was somewhat amusing LOL

[Matt2107]

Glad I didn't stay over now. lol

[wisewood]

lollollol the moon might be far away, but surely you can see whether it is there or not there when you look at a part of the night sky. Its the fecking big white blurry thing, which during an eclipse goes away for a bit lol

[Matt2107]

If his eyesight is anything like mine he probably can't see how many fingers he's holding up at arms length without assistance from glasses or lenses.

[wisewood]

but surely you can see SOMETHING of the moon, even if it is just a big white splodge. You can tell me if you look at the moon in the sky its the same as looking at a black piece of paper. Surely not. SURELY NOT.

SAY IT AINT SO GOD DAMN IT.

[Jack]

With my specs on I could just about see a splodge, couldn't even make out if it was eclipsed or not (they're a >7 year old prescription though); without any aid I seriously couldn't see a damned thing. As Matt said, I'd have trouble seeing my fingers at arms length.

[Matt2107]

I have a -7 short sighted prescription with an Astigmatism (nothing to do with driving supercars round a track) in my right eye.

[wisewood]

do you get a disabled badge for that? or a blue peter badge every week that you make it to work and back without killing folk en route lol

[Matt2107]

do you get a disabled badge for that? or a blue peter badge every week that you make it to work and back without killing folk en route lol

lol I wish.

I've only just got myself a spare pair of glasses in the last 6 months.
Never had a spare and never broken my glasses thank god... otherwise I'd be ****ed. Wouldn't be able to drive, walk down the street, piss in the toilet.... omg if I wanted to play on my 360 I'd have to sit 2 inches from my 32" screen.

My gf took the piss last time I went to get my eyes tested so I asked my dad's boss (my dad is a dispensing optician) who was testing me, how bad it has to be before I'm clinically blind? Apparently he has had people in with -25 and they don't even get a badge so I'm a long way off yet.

Lazer surgery may be an option for the future but I'd like to wait a while longer as there are questions regarding your eyes later on in life after the op.

edit: I quite often park in the disabled bay at Tescos walk to the door with a limp... I even decided to fake a fit in a crowded tesco car park while sat behind the wheel of my car and no one bothered checking if I was dead or not.

[Jack]

I have an astigmatism in my right eye too. Makes round things look square and square things look round according to my optician lol

I can drive without my lenses in, as everything is moving so its easier to see stuff (not that I would actually drive on the road without them mind you), but I can't drive with my glasses on as they distort everything. Can't be doing with specs, they make me seasick :tard:

I'd never risk lazer surgery. Lazer + eye = pain

[Matt2107]

I have an astigmatism in my right eye too. Makes round things look square and square things look round according to my optician lol

I can drive without my lenses in, as everything is moving so its easier to see stuff (not that I would actually drive on the road without them mind you), but I can't drive with my glasses on as they distort everything. Can't be doing with specs, they make me seasick :tard:

I'd never risk lazer surgery. Lazer + eye = pain

Gf's mate has just had it done and had to go back in as the left eye was 20/20 vision but the right eye was out slightly making his vision really blurry.

Apparently it is pretty painless. The risk is later in life that the work done during the op can break down... resulting in worse eyesight than when you started.

edit: I tried plenty of lenses but my right eye lid catches the lense everytime I blink which eventually makes the ****er fall out.

[wisewood]

BUT if you dont have laser correction your eyesight will get worse throughout your life anyway, but at least you'll get several years of near 20/20 vision out of it before it starts to slip again.

PS. LMFAO @ faking a fit in tesco car park.

[Jack]

My astigmatism is on the wrong side of my eye so I can't have it done anyway. Its very handy being blind as a bat though, waking up in the morning and not being able to see anything; as then you don't have to see who you've slept next to lol

fit in tescos... lol should have recorded it for Youtube lol

[Matt2107]

fit in tescos... lol should have recorded it for Youtube lol

Damn... it'd look staged now if I go back and do it.

[draper]

im looking at the moon, whats so special about it ??

[General Baxter]

your 4 days to late fool lol

[Alex.]

My astigmatism is on the wrong side of my eye so I can't have it done anyway. Its very handy being blind as a bat though, waking up in the morning and not being able to see anything; as then you don't have to see who you've slept next to lol

Rude!