Do you wear glasses?

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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

I am BUR-LIND without glasses. Cannae face the eye-jabbing/forgetting while drunk aspect of contacts. Am a bit worried that I will lose ALL my sight and with it my two fave activities (reading/movies).

What's all this glasses=hott shit? It's not they're unhott, but I don't think it's ever been a factor. Lurved a girl in contacts once.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

Guys dont make passes, at girls who wear glasses.

The preceding is one of the finalists in "least true statements ever"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

Ever tried taking your contacts out after lurrve? b..imposs

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

i have glasses but they're only for driving or cinema or other far-away things (like football, i discovered).

i discovered i needed glasses when i was learning to drive and kept crashing into things. turns out i've got one bad eye and little depth perception.

unfortunately, the other eye seems to be getting worse as well, so i should probably get in the habit of wearing them more...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

and on the glasses=cute thing, i so fancy boys with cool glasses. very good look.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

I only need my glasses for driving in the dark & the cinema. Oh & in the classroom for work on a white board, but I don't do that anymore. I only got them about 3 years ago, up until then I had perfect vision!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago) link

I should so get contacts for playing football in. I mighht be able to pass then.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

Trayce is cute!

I have a pair of dark red emo glasses (so dark that they look black except in direct light), I love them.

My girlfriend wears my old pair of Christie Brinkley glasses to increase the cuteness factor sometimes, which I'm a fan of (they're tantalizing it says so on the inside of one of the earpieces).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

I want to get that surgery done but I don't want my eyes pried open Clockwork Orange stylee while LAZERS shoot at them, it sounds horrifying.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago) link

Aw thanks Jordan *gets all embarrassed*

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah I wanted the lasik surgery once too, but I too am afeared of frickin' lasers in my eyeballs, and also Ive heard (see upthread if I recall) that it doesn't exactly have a great success rate. Maybe one day if the tecnology becomes such that it is pretty much guaranteed to work and never need re-doing, I'll think about it. But at several thousand an eye and a large chance yr eyes will go re-blind? No thanks.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago) link

my dad got the surgery, and was SO HAPPY to show folks the videotape from it.

"...and here's where they flipped the lid of my cornea back!"

― Huggy Dork (Kingfish), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

driving/show glasses. in brown-gun metal
http://www-assets.eyeglasses.com/visitor=9edd15d854c9e500/dyn/frame_small/1033143409.jpg

― kephm, Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

A friend of mine had her eyes lazered, she said the worst thing was you could SMELL the eye-scum being burnt away

This is the only successful thread I've ever started!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago) link

I went to school with a guy whose eyes were permanently fuxored by lasik.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

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