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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5010 on: September 15, 2013, 10:45:35 pm »

I have trouble reading them now, too. I used to have such ease with them, but now I have to stop everything I'm doing and take 15 seconds to figure it out now.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5011 on: September 15, 2013, 10:51:00 pm »

In all honesty, I do occasionally blank on reading analogue clocks because of how ubiquitous digital has become.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5012 on: September 15, 2013, 11:49:12 pm »

Who even uses analog clocks anymore, anyway? Those things are so obsolete.
Why not use analog clocks? They work. might be slightly less accurate but accuracy is usually not required 100% of your time all the time.

I have no problem reading analog clocks, myself. Then again, I wear an analog watch.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5013 on: September 16, 2013, 01:48:51 am »

Who even uses analog clocks anymore, anyway? Those things are so obsolete.
Why not use analog clocks?

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I mean, TBH, learning to analog has been very useful to me. Where I live, you can see at a glance where north is, as the hills to the north are aligned wonderfully well in the east-west direction. Due to this, telling time is as simple as looking at your shadow. I've still had people asking me what time it is, only for me to look at the ground and say "eh, about 5:20?" and the time ends up being something like 5:22 or similar.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5014 on: September 16, 2013, 02:34:17 am »

All the wall clocks in my place of employment are analogue, so I am constantly trained in this highly secret art.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5015 on: September 16, 2013, 12:43:11 pm »

Analogue clocks are pretty, that's why you use them.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5016 on: September 16, 2013, 01:28:13 pm »

All the wall clocks in my place of employment are analogue, so I am constantly trained in this highly secret art.
Yeeaaahh... I think I've been in only two or three schools (out of maybe a dozen or so, though several of those just visiting) so far that had digital clocks, and even some of those didn't have full coverage. Still mostly analog. Mostly analog in general, really, in my area, though it's not too uncommon to have both. North Florida is apparently still lagging behind in updating timekeeping methods. Honestly, it's sometimes not quite the same without that omnipresent tick tick tick.

... seriously though, it's not like it's amazingly difficult to read 'em or anything. Up is 12, down is 6, know your clockwise, the rest falls in place~
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5017 on: September 16, 2013, 01:30:00 pm »

Are there non-analogue wall clocks?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5018 on: September 16, 2013, 01:32:52 pm »

Yup. I've probably seen a good half dozen different styles, without even actively looking for 'em. Most ubiquitous I've seen is those... I think radio? Maybe wi-fi. Updated atomic ones. Usually grey border, black strips in it. Calculator-like screen thingy. Gives time, date, sometimes temperature. Kinda' nifty, really.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5019 on: September 16, 2013, 01:36:02 pm »

Oh we wait have one of those at home. But I never uses it to check the time. Just outside humidity and stuff.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5020 on: September 16, 2013, 01:39:40 pm »

I had a digital projected roof clock. Does that count?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5021 on: September 16, 2013, 11:31:11 pm »

After watching videos of a slow loris i was reminded of a certain animal. I looked it up in google images just to see if it still creeped me out.


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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5022 on: September 17, 2013, 12:29:41 am »

After watching videos of a slow loris i was reminded of a certain animal. I looked it up in google images just to see if it still creeped me out.


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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5023 on: September 17, 2013, 06:13:25 am »

I find digital clocks harder to read than analog, mainly because I store time in my head as a numberless concept that translates easier from an analog clock than a digital one.

\_ translates in my head easier to almost three than 2:50
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #5024 on: September 17, 2013, 06:39:14 am »

What're you talking about that clearly is 14:50. I mean it is obvious nobody looks at a clock at 3AM.
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