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Who Besides Me Has Trouble Reading The Greysheet Without Magnification?

foodudefoodude Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭
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As I get older, the print seems to get smaller and smaller (although I think it is a combination of age, and that the print actually is getting smaller to fit in the ever increasing number of coins issued each yearimage).
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I know what you mean....I get it online and then blow it up to 200% when I need it.
    I have a spreadsheet at work that I use to get out info and requirements to people around the world.
    Due to excel restrictions and "readability", it is very small print and unreadable (to most people) unless read as a softcopy and enlarged to ~300%.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭


    << <i>As I get older, the print seems to get smaller and smaller (although I think it is a combination of age, and that the print actually is getting smaller to fit in the ever increasing number of coins issued each yearimage). >>



    I have two sets of reading glasses. One for regular novels, doing the bills, etc. and a stronger pair for things like threading a needle, etc.

    Yes, it requires my stronger pair for the Greysheetimage

    I my regular life, I don't need nor wear glasses. I passed my driver's test again recently without any glasses.

    You aren't alone in your situation,
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • CoppernicusCoppernicus Posts: 1,764 ✭
    I find I either need 1.5X reading glasses or longer arms! That, and the font size has been getting smaller, I believe.

    Mike
    Coppernicus

    Lincoln Wheats (1909 - 1958) Basic Set - Always Interested in Upgrading!
  • jbstevenjbsteven Posts: 6,178 ✭
    you're just old

    image
  • darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    Yeah- your just getting oldimage. Must be getting into the mid-40's to have this problem? Next your car will need new shocks every few months and you'll be getting that AARP magazine in the mailimage.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Yea your old, Jason just gets his youngins' to read it too him...
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭
    you're just old

    You young whipper snapperimage
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  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
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  • MercMerc Posts: 1,646 ✭✭
    That is funny. Maybe they should sell the Greysheet along with a new 3X large print and call it the GreyHairsheet!
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  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭


    << <i>you're just old

    image >>



    Anybody ever see a grey haired mullet??

    I give Jason 10 years max and he'll be needing those reading glasses and using the Grecian Formula. image
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Ahhh yes, middle age!



    Tomimage

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  • MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭
    For those of US in that 45-55 bracket WE need to remember that we had a hero to our group, he came back with a vengence and a mini grille and kicked butt on desrving neophytes in his realm as one of the best. so for all us old farts we should UNITE and let the little mullet haired whipper snappers know - we are wiser, we are , we are, we are,

    We are wiser(an getting old) image

    Go George

    Denny Crane

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