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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, December 01, 2017 - 8:55 pm 
D. Binoculars.. Or more fondly, my dad would say "binocs".
Or, field glasses.
Per this link, they are pairs of telescopes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binoculars
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Brenda1966
Member
07-02-2002
| Friday, December 01, 2017 - 9:25 pm
B and D -- never heard of C!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, December 01, 2017 - 9:40 pm
That specific set of binoculars I would call exactly what Juju's new and old bird-watching binoculars look like.
I might call them set of binoculars, pair of binoculars, or simply binoculars. I would use singular verbs for pair and set, and plural verbs for just plain binoculars.
And, incidentally, since my cataract surgery of this summer, bird-watching is a whole different experience. Dang!!! I can SEE really well with those binoculars. And the repaired macular hole (which I now see as sort of wavy when using only that eye) completely disappears with the binoculars, even when only looking with the repaired-hole-eye. Huh!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 12:04 am
A
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 3:56 am
B. Or just binoculars.
And funny you asked this question now, Kitt. I've been looking at children's binoculars for my youngest niece for Christmas. I'm all about the educational/stem gifts for the younger ones this year and this particular niece and her family do a lot of outdoors type stuff. She also enjoys watching the wild life so binoculars are at the top of my idea list for her. Ok, I'm also considering a karaoke microphone cuz she loves to sing, but her parents have just recently forgiven me for buying my nephew a drum like 7 years ago, lol.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 6:55 am
Same D as Naja, binoculars.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 10:36 am
Binoculars
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 11:34 am
Binoculars
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 12:28 pm
Although if you asked me the question as posed, I would say "a pair of binoculars," in every day use I'd say "pass me the binoculars" like a lot of you.
I asked the question as someone on a birding site I was reading kept referring to them as binocular in the singular, which I've never heard before. Quite a few around here say field glasses, so maybe that is regional.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 1:52 pm
D. Binoculars
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Pippin04
Member
10-26-2007
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 5:39 pm
Binoculars
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 9:19 pm
Birdwatching folks are a bit of a different breed. We DO go on birdwatching trips, have a pretty large life bird list, and can identify a lot of birds. So field glasses could be a bit of a technical term, perhaps to distinguish them from opera glasses. You can tell serious birdwatchers by observing their funny hats.
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Littlebreeze
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, December 04, 2017 - 1:31 pm
D. binoculars
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Monday, December 04, 2017 - 1:58 pm
oi, no knocking the hats!! 
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, December 15, 2017 - 9:26 pm
New question....
Do you or have you ever suffered from "Restless Leg Syndrome"? aka RLS
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, December 15, 2017 - 9:31 pm
Oh yes. I have had it on and off since I was little, but recently it got severe, and now it's cured.
It was so severe that my feet would wear holes in my sheets from hours of kicking my legs. I went through a lot of sheets.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 12:11 am
A little. I started taking magnesium and it improved a lot, I rarely have it now. My mum has it very bad, and the magnesium helped her a bit but didn't stop it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 2:07 pm
Yes!
I try to stay hydrated and my doctor out me on extra magnesium oxide and that helps.
I went to a neurologist who tested my muscles with little electrodes an his computer. He said yes I have RLS and put me on Mirapex (now branded also as Requip).. But there are side effects that were not known at the time and in me it manifested as compulsive shopping.. Not good but better than some other compulsive behaviors. I stopped taking it since I still had that jumpy muscle thing going when sitting to watch tv or be online.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 2:15 pm
Oh I still take my meds for it. I finally get good sleep now. I take Ropinirole. It doesn't make me drowsy or make me feel any way except take away my restless legs. One pill before bed, no restless legs.
Extra Magnesium has been part of vitamin regimen for years, but it has never helped my restless legs.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-02-2002
| Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 4:56 pm
Some nights yes. I find that stretching my legs before bedtime seems to help. If I've been too lazy all day it seems that's when it's the worst.
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Pippin04
Member
10-26-2007
| Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 5:14 pm
nope
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 6:45 pm
No, I have never had RLS.
I have had the occasional Charlie Horse at night though.
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Monday, December 18, 2017 - 4:39 pm
same as Dogdoc
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, December 18, 2017 - 8:28 pm
Charlie Horses suck!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 2:50 am
No to restless leg syndrome.
But, a few times a month, at least, I have leg cramps bad enough to keep me awake.
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