Do you wear glasses?

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not if they're bent! then they look asymmetrical.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

My glasses are eternally lopsided (so are my ears) its a good look to work.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

I never had much luck with contacts, they never felt like they sat on my eyes right... I'd blink and they'd go out of focus by moving around on my eye. annoying.

And knowing contacts can cause serious eye infections has now put me right off them anyway.

Anyone ever considered lasik etc correction?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:06 (twenty years ago) link

You must've not had your eyes measured correctly and got ill-fitting contacts.
As far as I know, the only way you can get infections from contacts is if you're a moron and never clean them or otherwise handle them in an unsanitary manner.

My best friend and both his parnents had lasik surgery performed on them. Pretty happy with the results for the most part, but he says every once in a while there's a lil blurry spot, as if he is
wearing a dirty contact.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:35 (twenty years ago) link

My sister used to work in a laser eye surgery clinic. Don't do it. There is very little research into the long term effects of surgery. Your night vision will be fucked and its been mooted that people who have laser eye surgery should be banned from driving at night.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:53 (twenty years ago) link

i wear special glasses to protect other people from my harmful radiation

― forbidden or obsolete (24 hour troubleshooter), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:57 (twenty years ago) link

is it transparent?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 September 2003 06:00 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

okay, i need a new pair of glasses.

your opinions on these?

http://store1.yimg.com/I/eyeglasses_1776_10086788

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

every single nyc fap photo to thread!

― bent fabric (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

what shape is your head

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

serious answer: if they look good on you, get 'em.

― bent fabric (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

Sidenote: I forgot my glasses today and my eyes are killing me. Ow.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

my head is large, my cranium massive.

http://store1.yimg.com/I/eyeglasses_1776_36982300

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

I wouldn't go for anything with a thick black frame. Big round head = more oval/square lenses. Big tall head = more rounded lenses.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, but i hate thin metal frames.

http://userpic.livejournal.com/9770186/480800

this is me in my current ones.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

You should definitely get some squarer lenses.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

I'm actually starting to think I need them. I've always had what Melissa describes as 'weird alien vision' upthread, able to pick out bus numbers, street signs etc from a much further distance than anyone else I've been with.

Recently this is happening less, but I've also started to get tiny across-the-forehead-beind-the-eyes headaches in frnt of computers.

I am scared to have an eye test because I am broke and cannot afford glasses.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

I like the ones with the little bits of wire at the bottom. Those are the truly indie glasses now the emo geeks have monopolised the thick all back ones.

The thing that I'm a big fan of is getting standard issue NYC FAP indie glasses, but in different colours. I'm wearing pretty blue turquoise ones that match my eyes at the moment!

― the river fleet, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

This is me in my glasses; http://www.stylusmagazine.com/staff/nick_southall.jpg

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

You can't quite make it out there, but my quiff goes up like another two inches...

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

god I'm glad I don't have to bother with glasses cuz the only choices seem to be looking like a dork or looking like a hipster and I know I'd wind up looking like a hipster dork. (well, even more so)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

Apart from the cost and my habit of loosing/ breaking things I wouldn't mind wearng glasses. I have no idea if they'd suit me though.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

my glasses are my best feature

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

You'd look good in glasses, oops!

I need new ones. Mine are thin burgundy frames, and the frames are oval, and I dont think quite suit my face (which is quite wide and almost squarish). I think I'd suit a wider, narrower pair, sad to say I think I'd suit obvious emo glasses.

I'm a bit cross with the trendiness of glasses lately, as I was saying on LJ the other day either kids these days wank too much, or a hella lot of people are wearing 0 prescriton frames for the look. Which makes me mad, cuz I got teased for my glasses in school, and I have no choice - I have to wear them, I'm as short sighted as Mr Magoo :(

Old pic of me but one that shows the glasses/face ratio nicely:

http://people.connect.net.au/~trace/me.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

get some librarian glasses trayce! i think you should rock a more mod type of look!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

You mean like ones with a cats eye type frame maybe?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

yeah yeah

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

Hehehe... put yer fetish away mister, you're drooling ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

No, I am.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

yeah trayce is purty

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link

Oh you guys.... stop it!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link

oh alright then

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

*cries*

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

haha i am not a guy!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link

peeps rather than guys p'raps

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

I call everyone guys, s'all good ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link

Trayce, my best friend would go ga-ga for you. Totally his type.
I think those frames look good on you, but if you've worn them for awhile you're probably itchin for something new. You could pull off the librarian/retro-y look nicely methinks.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 07:44 (twenty years ago) link

I've been wearing glasses since I was eleven. I am near sighted and do not wear my glasses usually when I am reading a book or often times working on a computer, it is just easier.

I tried contacts once and they didn't work out. I was working in a restaurant at the time and the combination of the contacts and heat whacked my eyes. I looked like a Star Trek bad guy my eyes got so blood shot. I flushed them down the toliet and went back to the specs.

The inexplicable thing about my eyes is that they have lowered my perscription both of the last two times I went to get new glasses. Either someone screwed up my perscription making my glasses a couple of times back or quitting smoking dope has improved my eye sight. It is one or the other.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

My eye doctor claims that if you sit and stare at a computer all day your eyesight gets worse. Something with cramps in the eyeballs I think. He instructed me to "excercise the eyes" by looking at something very far away every now and then, so now I take eye stretching breaks when I look out the window at some trees.

This feels really silly. Has anyone else heard of this or was he pulling my leg?

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

Hanna, that's absolutely true. It's called eye strain. Like any other muscle, the muscles that focus the eyes can decay with lack of use. You're supposed to take a break of at least five minutes every hour to adjust and exercise your eyes. The British call this "making a cup of tea".

― the river fleet, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

That's better, that's tetley.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

if i started wearing glasses even though i don't need them would you guys all be offended?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

Yes! You could wear mine when I'm not wearing them if you like?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link

Anything that increaseth the hottness of Stevem = PROBABLY NOT A GOOD IDEA IF YOU WISH TO KEEP YOUR VIRTUE!!!

― the river fleet, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

*gasps*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, erm, MY virtue, I mean, erm... what the hell DO I mean?

::realises minefield of Freudian slips and Danbait and backs away slowly::

― the river fleet, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmm! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

glasses increase hottness of pretty much everybody as far as i am concerned, i see you agree and that this is what you meant by your outburst ;)

virtue...haha...

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago) link

You guys..!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

where is a serious girl who aims the opticians?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

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