Re: Ramon Allones Supply Alert

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:25:01 -0000, Justin C wrote:

In article <6l2ucdbw3468.1xi7mzkamozwp.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>, Alex W. wrote:

Like my step-father who became a RAF pilot in the 50's and
was so keen he lied through his teeth to get in, to the
point of hiding his utter colour-blindness?

How do you hide colour-blindness? I'd like to know because there's
something I'd like to pursue but am unable to because of, you guessed
it.

Mind you, however he hid it, I'm sure they use better tests now.

I'm not sure about the particulars, but it did involve
memorising which lights are supposed to be which colour when
they start blinking. You don't need to be able to see that
the top light on a traffic light is red as long as you can
see it is lit ...

Opticians, btw, use a standardised sett of pictures where
you are supposed to recognise numbers picked out in dots of
one colour set in a field of dots of the other colour (red
or green). If you memorise the numbers, you can rattle them
off and no-one is any the wiser ...
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