Needed Rant.

"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe) 08/21/2017 at 10:00 • Filed to: None

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Since no one I know here and on the Book of Face overlap with the woman posting this picture, I need to rant and this is a safe place to do so.

Headline “Local woman who waits until last minute, surprised at amount of others who do same.”

This woman is a stay home mom with 4 kids, all in High School. You had time, you knew it was coming. Why is it worth complaining about on Facebook? Also of note, this is one of the wealthiest townships in NJ, and they line up for free glasses at their library like it’s a Depression-era breadline.

Ugh.

When told she could make an indirect box, she said, “We have three at home. Worried about the rays...”

I mean really? Why am I friends with this person, how does she tie her shoes without landing on her forehead?

McMike > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:09

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Why the fuck do you need one pair per person?

It’s going to last four hours, teach your kids to share. Take a look every 15 minutes and pass the pair around.

It’s 2017, you can say “facebook” now.

ttyymmnn > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:10

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I’m going to make a viewing box with my kids. Because if it’s good enough for NASA, it’s good enough for us. Besides, there’s a total eclipse happening in 7 years, and we’ll get totality here in Austin. So I’m not all that worried about this one.

But, to your point, yeah, this is pathetic.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:11

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I saw people asking if they could be outside at all without the special glasses... they act like the sun is going to melt everyone.

jariten1781 > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:11

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One of my employees is taking the day off to go to her son’s school (which has glasses for every kid, numerous pinhole boxes, and a livestream viewing) and ensure that he doesn’t actually look at the sun. I told her about how when I was in middle/elementary we’d have sun staring competitions on normal days (it gets a ring around it if you look long enough) so she’d better take every day off or her son might get a wild hair and look up.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > McMike 08/21/2017 at 10:13

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Having lived around where PotbellyJoe lives, that is a foreign concept... 

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:14

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Please tell me that isn’t anywhere in Bergen county...I’d hopefully guess it’s down south jersey

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:14

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Taught my wife how to use the auto dimming lense from my welding glasses last night, I should have taken pictures lol.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > McMike 08/21/2017 at 10:14

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Because modern convenience and wealth has left whole classes of humankind unable to grasp the concept of “others” in general. Whether that is sharing with, helping, being kind to, or even leave some for, “Others” are entirely wiped from their mind’s eye.

The eclipse is only one instance, snowfall also brings these creatures out from their castles and down into the marketplace.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 08/21/2017 at 10:19

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We made three boxes last night - one for each child and one for me!

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 08/21/2017 at 10:19

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Montgomery Twp. Somerset county, median family income was $167,889 in the 2010 census.

Future next gen S2000 owner > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:20

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When told she could make an indirect box, she said, “We have three at home. Worried about the rays...”

This doesn’t even make sense. Does she realize that she has been out in the sun her whole life? Staring at the sun is the worrisome part, hence the indirect box. Your eyes and all that. What is wrong with people?

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/21/2017 at 10:20

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We’re raiding the cereal cabinet here in about an hour. Looks like this should take about 10 minutes to make, and it starts at 11:41 CT. Plenty of time.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/21/2017 at 10:21

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Your wife, and I love her dearly, would be fun to watch learning anything new to her. I feel like having her and my wife in the same room trying to figure out welding glasses would be the best entertainment possible after 3-6 beers/drinks for all of us.

HammerheadFistpunch > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/21/2017 at 10:26

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Did you test it against the sun? I did the same thing last night but my helmet wouldn’t stay dim looking at the sun, I had the use a light over the solar panel to keep it dim.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > HammerheadFistpunch 08/21/2017 at 10:29

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I was able to get them to work for me, I have them set to #13 and fast and I left them in the light for a bit before hand though so to charge the batteries.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Future next gen S2000 owner 08/21/2017 at 10:29

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Hysteria and a complete lack of common sense bred from living without worry or care for survival for too long. Now minor inconveniences are catastrophic issues.

deekster_caddy > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/21/2017 at 10:29

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I brought my welding helmet to work today, but I’m finding that the sun isn’t strong enough to trigger the dimming. :(

deekster_caddy > HammerheadFistpunch 08/21/2017 at 10:30

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What did you do for an extra light? I’m trying to do the same in a parking lot outside my office but finding that I don’t have anything powerful enough to trigger the dimming.

Future next gen S2000 owner > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:30

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I’m beginning to think an apocalypse might be useful.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Future next gen S2000 owner 08/21/2017 at 10:32

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Some hardship would provide life-lessons and context. I’ll stop short of saying it would be “good” for people, but it would at least give them a dose of reality.

Chariotoflove > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 10:33

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“I mean really? Why am I friends with this person, how does she tie her shoes without landing on her forehead?”

Stealing this.

HammerheadFistpunch > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/21/2017 at 10:33

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Good deal, I just used a headlamp backwards to solve it but it would have been bad news had I not noticed

BigBlock440 > McMike 08/21/2017 at 10:34

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4 hours? I’m pretty sure they only last like a minute.

TheRealBicycleBuck > jariten1781 08/21/2017 at 10:35

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One of my coworkers bought glasses for all the kids in his daughter’s class (2nd grade, I think). The teacher said thanks, but the school isn’t letting any of the kids outside today.

He decided to send his daughter to a friend’s house for the day and plans to meet them there so they can watch the eclipse together.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > deekster_caddy 08/21/2017 at 10:41

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Probably just need to charge it, do you have it set to fast? Also I’m guessing it’s 12 or higher?

McMike > BigBlock440 08/21/2017 at 10:49

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The whole thing lasts about two hours (I overestimated that number) but the totality (or whatever % you get) is a minute or two.

People can take turns if they don’t get their very own, or cut them in half and use it like a monocle. 

deekster_caddy > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/21/2017 at 10:58

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It’s adjustable 9-13 on the outside of the helmet. Is that ‘how dark to make it’ or ‘how much light to activate it’? Now I need to find the manual for the thing... It has 3 knobs. A big one on the outside with numbers 9-13, two small ones on the inside - ‘Sensitivity min-max’ and ‘delay min-max’. I assumed the delay should be min, sensitivity should be max...

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > deekster_caddy 08/21/2017 at 11:08

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9-13 is how dark it gets, and the sensitivity is how little light is needed to activate it, I’m guessing you just need to sit it in the sun for a bit to charge.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/21/2017 at 11:13

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Everything I’ve seen says that welding glass needs to be at least #14 to be safe for the eclipse...

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 08/21/2017 at 11:18

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NASA says 12 is the minimum safe level however 13 is the goldilocks number.

The only ones that are safe for direct viewing of the Sun with your eyes are those of Shade 12 or higher. These are much darker than the filters used for most kinds of welding. If you have an old welder’s helmet around the house and are thinking of using it to view the Sun, make sure you know the filter’s shade number. If it’s less than 12 (and it probably is), don’t even think about using it to look at the Sun. Many people find the Sun too bright even in a Shade 12 filter, and some find the Sun too dim in a Shade 14 filter — but Shade 13 filters are uncommon and can be hard to find

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/21/2017 at 11:21

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I had just heard 14, since it seems people don’t like 12 and 13 is hard to find.

deekster_caddy > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/21/2017 at 11:24

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Got it. I found the manual too. So it will work with sensitivity set to Max, and delay set to Max, and ONLY if I keep waving my fingers back and forth in front of the light sensor. Something about the full direct sunlight isn’t quite enough to trigger it alone, but if I move my hand in front of the sensor it will trigger momentarily. With delay set to Max (it’s the delay before lightening), I can keep it dim by waving my hand in front of the light sensor. Weird, but it’s working.

fintail > PotbellyJoe and 42 others 08/21/2017 at 11:24

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What kind of immensely heavy SUV or blobby passive-aggressive CUV does she drive?

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > fintail 08/21/2017 at 11:29

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Suburban and a Honda Odyssey.

wafflesnfalafel > Future next gen S2000 owner 08/21/2017 at 15:51

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Everybody knows those eclipse rays are the worst...