Glasses outrage
Life, Musings, World April 20th, 2007For those who wear glasses (especially if short-sighted): If you ever have your glasses off while typing, do you find you make more spelling/grammatical errors than with the glasses? I have that problem and it’s not like I’m typing blind or anything, my vision is okay when close to the monitor. But for some odd reason, what is in my head and want to be typed out has the higher chance of being completely incoherent as opposed to when I am wearing glasses. Weird. Oh well, sometimes I can’t be bothered putting my glasses on (like right now) when I blog so… that’s my excuse for having badly worded posts. :P
For those who don’t wear glasses: … LUCKY!!!!!!!
On a completely different note, this short news clip about “outrage” towards NBC for showing the Cho Seng-Hui video just strikes me as WTF. It’s just… the double standard is so staggering. Yes, the victim’s families and the VTU students/staff are in mourning and shock and it is a really tough time for them. But what RIGHT do they have to complain about the footage being shown on TV, and furthermore what rational reason do they have for not showing it, besides “wow the video really makes the whole thing real”? YES IT IS REAL. Yes, the guy was a psychopath and ended up doing terrible things. But the American media has always, ALWAYS honed onto getting their claws onto anything juicy and sensational.
If the incident, for example, happened here in Australia, would Americans complain about showing of the video to be “insensitive”? No, I bet they’d be jumping over each other to buy the rights to air it as much as possible. America (and many Western nations actually) has an incredible morbid curiousity to everything (just look at all the gossip columns and stuff), it just makes me angry how not just the victims, but the police and others more emotionally distant from the event would even start admonishing NBC for showing the video.
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I find it highly disturbing that you have the thing that I most want and that you don’t want them!
I wear glasses too and boy do I make many typing errors without them because I’m still looking at the keyboard.
Well, I wear contacts, so I’m not sure if this has ever happened to me. I have been on the computer sans contacts before. But, I can type pretty proficiently without looking at the monitor or keyboard, so I don’t think impaired vision should hinder my typing abilities. (P.S. I just typed the last few sentences with my eyes close to test this theory. No mistakes :P)
And, uh, I guess I’ll apologize for America. Sometimes I dream of living in Australia. It seems like a nice, peaceful place.
To Amber: :O You *want* glasses?! But why?! They’re terrible! They make ugly dents on the sides of your noses and it’s so inconvenient that you have to rely on the stupid things to see all the time. Cherish your vision! Or get groovy sunglasses. :P
To Josh: Wow, you can type without looking at the screen… that’s pretty awesome. I don’t think I can do that (unless I concentrate really hard). I type relatively fast but I make mistakes all the time.
And nah I’m not ranting out against all Americans, heaps of Americans are awesome people. I was just pissed off at the double standards relating to what happened. I would feel the same thing if it happened in any other Western nation that has the whole media phenomena going. Australia’s nice, but since I’ve never been to America, I don’t think I can do a fair comparison. :P