Same with soldiers, they follow orders, the one’s responsible are at the top.

Where in Minnesota?

I have lots of those.

While I feel your question is entirely legitimate, my favorite occurrence of someone not knowing something about American culture is when someone mentioned something costing a quarter, and some guy tried to call them out for being stupid by pointing out, “a quarter of what? So dumb . . . ” That was great.

This comment is really for me.

You might have been trying to think of a man with the initials KK, but I don’t care anymore. I’m happily thinking of a hot piece of KK first thing in the morning.

The patient must be made to understand that he is to keep the eyes steadily fixed on the object, and the mind riveted on the idea of that one object. It will be observed, that owing to the consensual adjustment of the eyes, the pupils will be at first contracted: they will shortly begin to dilate, and after they have done so to a considerable extent, and have assumed a wavy motion, if the fore and middle fingers of the right hand, extended and a little separated, are carried from the object towards the eyes, most probably the eyelids will close involuntarily, with a vibratory motion. If this is not the case, or the patient allows the eyeballs to move, desire him to begin anew, giving him to understand that he is to allow the eyelids to close when the fingers are again carried towards the eyes, but that the eyeballs must be kept fixed, in the same position, and the mind riveted to the one idea of the object held above the eyes. It will generally be found, that the eyelids close with a vibratory motion, or become spasmodically closed.[9]