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[pne]

[Poll #806410]

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[asciident]

I don't smoke anymore, and since I wasn't sure if you wanted past tense for the brand/reason I didn't fill it out. But I used to smoke Marlboro Red because I preferred the taste and throatfeel over other brands I tried.

I haven't smoked since I was 18, and I haven't been a regular smoker since I was 16.

[asciident]

Oh and... my right hand is dominant, but I can eat and do many other things equally as well with my left hand, except writing (which I suspect is from lack of practice rather than poorer motor skills).

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

Anonymize the answers and share them!

Also, hehe at the HTML in the poll answers.. you cant use tags within tags :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

hehe at the HTML in the poll answers.. you cant use tags within tags :)

You can sometimes!

I was a bit chagrined to see that the drop-down had literal tags -- however, the results have the tags interpreted (e.g. <i> for italics). I think that had I used radio buttons rather than a drop-down, the tags might have worked as well.

However, <br> appears not to be allowed in polls.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Anonymize the answers and share them!

I might!

Any questions you're particularly interested in?

(Mostly the text ones, I presume, since the number ones you can already see aggregate stats.)

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure how to answer the question about eyeglasses, because I am nearsighted in one eye and far sighted in the other.

Also, because I am left handed, I have taught myself to be somewhat ambidextrous because life demands it. *shrug*

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm nosy and I want to see what people ate for breakfast, what they have in their pockets and their bags :)

[tbone.livejournal.com]

I have no idea on my answer to #2. I can't even remember if I'm nearsighted or farsighted half the time. I can't see distances, for whatever that's worth, and my vision is about 20/80 on average.

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

OMG data miner!!!1 ;)

[it0376.livejournal.com]

I selected -10 at the second question, however, the right option would have been -11 for me.

[kait-the-great.livejournal.com]

You don't have 37 as a number to pick... it's from Clerks and the other Kevin Smith movies. It's my new fav cult number.

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

I couldn't answer the one about vision, because while I'm just a bit near-sighted, I also have a relatively severe astigmastism. My vision is about 20/100 in my left eye, and 20/120 in my right. :\

[allegrox.livejournal.com]

My vision is very nearly 20/20, but I still don't know how to answer the second question, so I didn't.
And incase you didn't already know, HTML has escape codes for Greek letters intended for use in math, so you can type π for π.

[leora.livejournal.com]

My handedness is confusing. I have more practice with my right hand. I write right-handed, but I do so because I was told to. I can only shoot pool left-handed. I am more or less ambisinistrous.

My sightedness is also confusing. I believe, at last check before complications, I was near-sighted in one eye and far-sighted in the other. But the astigmatism was always the major corrector, not near/far sightedness. And now all of that is dwarfed by the retinal damage in both eyes.

I don't feel like calculating my height. But I'm 5 feet 2 inches and a fraction of an inch.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I picked the right end of the spectrum, but I'm terribly nearsighted.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I've always felt that diopters is an awful measure of sightedness and I don't get why the rest os the world persists in using it. I'm very nearsighted (-8 in the left eye, -10 in the right) and somewhat astigmatic (.75 in the left and 1.25 in the right) but that doesn't say anything about the fact that my left eye is actually uncorrectable—the amblyopia, hypertropia and ... something else I forget that means the vision in it rotates counter-clockwise as well ... mean the best vision I've ever been tested at [with all possible correction] was 20/70, and I've been told that the best that would be possible with intensive vision therapy (that I just don't have time for—half an hour, three times a day, minimum of six months) would be about 20/50.

I'm completely right-handed; my interpreting equipment has a mute button that needs to be pressed and held down (not even a switch or anything), and I have a lot of trouble doing so with my left hand.

I'm 170cm, which is 5'7". I think bra cup size is different, though. Unless I'm mistaken, UK bra sizes are one higher: US AA=UK A, US A = UK B, US B = UK C, US C = UK D, etc. (But the average size in both countries is C.)

Last meal here was lunch, though black bean burgers are in the works.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Your astigmatism isn't correctable? Mine's not too severe, but it is strong enough to require a toric contact lens in one eye.

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

I do wear glasses, but I don't wear contacts for several reasons (one, I haven't yet found contacts that correct both nearsightedness AND astigmatism; two, my family is notorious for getting eye infections when using contacts). The glasses fix both, so it's all good. :D

Besides, I look terrible without glasses.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Are you in the US? It's tough for me because I'm severely nearsighted (very few toric contacts come in my prescription, only 2 different brands, Acuvue Advance and Vortex), but I know of several brands of toric contact lenses. I've been wearing toric contacts (with nearsightedness correction) for years. Currently I wear these: http://www.acuvue.com/acuvue_astig.htm which are super-high-oxygen-rated because I'm also prone to eye infections (the problem with contacts and eye infections is insufficient oxygen=lack of healing). I haven't had one in the ten months I've been wearing them, either.

I guess I was just wondering whether the 20/100 and 20/120 was with or without glasses (and if with, if that was because your astigmatism wasn't correctable). 'Cause that's pretty close to my vision in the left eye with contacts/glasses.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Oh and to be more exact, I wear the toric (Acuvue Advance for Astigmatism) in the right eye; the astigmatism in the left eye is less and the vision in that eye is uncorrectable anyway, so I just have regular Acuvue Advance for that one.

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

It's without glasses. I didn't know about those contacts; I was told that it's hard to get ahold of contacts to correct my vision. Either way, I don't want to tempt fate, given my family history. :)

[bride.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of trouble with my bra cup size.

If I'm buying a bra in North America, I'm usually a B, occasionally a padded C.

If I'm buying a bra in Asia (Taiwan, HK or Mainland), it will depend on how heavily padded the bra is. I'm usually a C, occasionally a B, but once I had to go to a D(!).

pi vs π

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yes, I knew. AFAIK, they just produce the regular Greek letters, so I could have just used a Greek keyboard to make a pi.

I just didn't think of using the Greek letter, for some reason.

[pne.livejournal.com]

If you're nearsighted, then you'd need to pick a negative number.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I don't feel like calculating my height. But I'm 5 feet 2 inches and a fraction of an inch.

The closest on the scale would be 160 cm, then. (5'2" is 157.48 cm, so if you're a fraction of an inch taller than that, it'd be closer to 160 than to 155. 158 cm is 5'2.2" in, FWIW.)

bra cup sizes

[pne.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm mistaken, UK bra sizes are one higher

No idea. I suppose it's possible.

(But the average size in both countries is C.)

That's what I thought as well, so I was a bit surprised when at one point early on there were more 'D' answers than anything else. But the distribution has evened out a bit more now.

I suppose that means that the average US woman has larger breasts than the average UK woman?

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

How long ago were you told that? I was told that years ago, but as I said I've been wearing toric contacts for about three years.

In fact, both my optometrist and ophthamologist have told me that contacts are better at correcting astigmatism than glasses are, since astigmatism is caused by the shape of your eye and contact lenses sit directly on the eye and will actually fix an astigmatism over time (rigid gas-permeable lenses are best at this, but can leave you unable to wear glasses, which is why I have soft ones—not wearing my glasses at least part of the time is not an option!) . My vision is a bit better with the contacts than with the glasses, and it's only since the invention of those automatic refraction test machines that they can get an accurate reading of my glasses prescription at all, meaning that until then my vision with glasses was abominable—20/50 in the right eye and 20/120 in the left.

I'm jealous, btw ... my vision in both eyes without glasses is off the charts, literally. (Once you get worse than 20/400, or better than 20/10 for that matter, you need to get up and walk towards the chart and they do math based on how close you have to get before the 20/400 line comes into focus. My optometrist, however, decided that getting an actual number was pointless—"Once your vision gets that bad, it doesn't really matter what the actual number is"—and just decided I was 20/700 in the left eye and 20/800 in the right.) In any case, my point was that I'm far more used to 20/100 and 20/120 being measurements with correction than without.

Re: bra cup sizes

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Right. And the average US woman is also fatter than the average UK woman, which I suspect is at least tangentially related. I also wonder if part of it is genetic—i.e. a bigger, more diverse gene pool in America than in the UK, some of which is from areas where women have larger breasts—but that's just a guess. (And I suspect expanding on that hypothesis would get me accused of racism/ethnocentrism/something, so I'll stop.)

Possibly too much information, but G. was shocked to discover that my breasts here are considered smaller because he was sure they were average size (which in the UK, they would be)—and he was also rather confused to go shopping with me and find out I needed a B cup, because he was sure I was a C. That was when we looked this up.

Re: bra cup sizes

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Oops. I have the LJ Firefox extension on (which designates a random icon instead of the default), and usually I check to make sure my icon isn't weird/inappropriate. But, yeah, that's Gareth in the pic on that one. Heh.

Re: pi vs π

[allegrox.livejournal.com]

Indeed, they produce the same character. But some older browsers will recognize the escape code and display them with a symbol font, but won't be able to interpret the Unicode, so the first is probably better, at least for math.

[joyitude.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to answer most of these questions with the answers that you gave in the poll, or the answers don't completely fit, so I'll just answer them each individually.

I'm almost completely right handed, but I can use my left hand a little and I'm trying to train myself to be able to use it more.
I'm extremely near sighted in my right eye, so much that it's almost completely useless. My left eye is a little wonky too, but I odn't know in which way.
I'm between 5'3" and 5'4" tall.
I believe that my bra size is 32B or 34A, but I really can't remember which one.
I do not smoke ever.
My last meal was Cheetos. Healthy, I know.
I don't have any pockets in my pajamas.
I have a bunch of stuff in my backpack, but that's camp stuff that I haven't unpacked yet and it's too numerous to list.
& I pick pi.

sister sizes

[pne.livejournal.com]

I believe that my bra size is 32B or 34A, but I really can't remember which one.

Maybe both -- I've heard of the concept of "sister sizes" (or something like that), where going up one number and down one cup size can often result in a bra with a similar fit. I'm not sure which size is "your size" in such a case, so maybe both.