Stupid Guest question that had me questioning reality.

[Near Philly]

Hi Draidum !

[font="Palatino Linotype"]welcome aboard! and don't get too confused if this topic takes a sudden turn...could be for the better...but then again... [/font]

Please keep your hands and legs inside the ride vehicle at all times.
Your ride vehicle (thread) may suddenly change direction without warning.
If your ride vehicle does change direction it is quite possibly never coming back to its original course.
This is normal and is no cause for alarm.

Thank you for riding SGT and have a stupidity free day.


felinefan: I know people who can not tell time on an analog clock with just hands and no numbers.

[felinefan]

And I'm one of them. I grew up telling time on analog clocks, but I prefer digital. For some odd reason, I mess up telling time with an analog watch and not with a digital--though my watch of late has refused to go back to 12 hour time and insists on being on 24 hour (military ) time. Frankly, I think there might be some kind of speech/reading disability in my family, because some of us struggle to spell and pronounce words correctly, and my mom is the worst. And my brother has the worst time following directions. I must've missed most of it, because I'm the best speller and reader in my family, and can do some things better than they can.

[Shorty82]

Seriously, it's shocking what some people don't know nowadays. Some folks have been brought up reading only digital time, and can't read an analog clock or watch.

I'll admit that while I knew how to read an analog clock I sucked at it because I always wore digital watches up until a few months ago when I got a Goofy watch. It took me a while to be able to read it at a glance and I depend on the numbers. I have the 80th Anniversary Mickey watch and have a hard time with it has it only has a few numbers.

[Draidum]

Did you check for hidden cameras? :D:

Its funny you say that because when she asked me that question, I looked around wondering if it was really happening, or if it was some kind of joke.

[Main Streeter]

[font="Palatino Linotype"]could be for the better [/font]

Or the Bubble. :) Sorry Elena, I just had to. ;)

[GaTechGal]

I'll admit that while I knew how to read an analog clock I sucked at it because I always wore digital watches up until a few months ago when I got a Goofy watch. It took me a while to be able to read it at a glance and I depend on the numbers. I have the 80th Anniversary Mickey watch and have a hard time with it has it only has a few numbers.

If it's like my Goofy watch, it's a challange anyway because it runs BACKWARDS. My only problem with analog watches these days is seeing them without my glasses.

[Shorty82]

If it's like my Goofy watch, it's a challange anyway because it runs BACKWARDS. My only problem with analog watches these days is seeing them without my glasses.

They quit making those a while back, mine runs in the normal direction.

[Mayonnaise]

At the Playhouse where I do a lot of my theater work they have an analog clock in the box office, which runs BACKWARDS. It's also numbered backwards, for your convenience, but it leads to a of of incorrect readings of time, even by people who know it's running backwards. They think it's 3:35 at 2:25 because even with the counterclockwise clock, your brain still reads the number that the hand would have just passed if it were a clockwise clock.

8^P

[BRWombat]

Sorry, but I couldn't read this discussion without thinking of Douglas Adams' lines from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

[INDENT]Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.[/INDENT]

[hhsrat]

Please keep your hands and legs inside the ride vehicle at all times.
Your ride vehicle (thread) may suddenly change direction without warning.
If your ride vehicle does change direction it is quite possibly never coming back to its original course.
This is normal and is no cause for alarm.

Also, please tuck any loose articles in those net bags in front of you, that will keep them from bouncing around when we hit rough roads, and we will hit rough roads. Please watch your hands and feet on the right, as the doors ... (doors close) are already closed, so you're stuck with me for the next 2 weeks.