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Goldfish-in-a-bowl syndrome

Goldfish-in-a-bowl syndrome

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@fmf said
The two Americans finally reached the remotest place in Indonesia, a tiny hamlet on the flanks of a volcano, on a small island in the eastern part of the archipelago, no electricity, water from a stream, no rice, just sweet potato and some groundnuts under a tree, and they met a gnarly old man, suntanned black, with two teeth. One of the Americans ventured, in slow English: "What did you think of Marjorie Taylor Greene being banned from Twitter?"
My wife-to-be as a 17-yr old spent a year as an exchange student in Kansas. She's from Hamburg. The Kansans asked her whether they have refrigerators in Germany. True story.

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@moonbus said
My wife-to-be as a 17-yr old spent a year as an exchange student in Kansas. She's from Hamburg. The Kansans asked her whether they have refrigerators in Germany. True story.
About 10 or more years ago, a poster called Scriabin [who, after crossing swords with me many a time eventually started a thread which essentially declared 'It's FMF or it's me' and people supported me, so he left] and he once got so bent out of shape in a discussion that he shelved the topic and instead suggested that my intellect had atrophied because I lived among Asians.

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Are they able to wear contact lenses?
Can laser eye surgery be performed underwater?
We should be told.



@the-gravedigger said
Can laser eye surgery be performed underwater?
This would have been covered in the 3rd series of Stingray but, alas, the show was cancelled.