Do you wear glasses?

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i think my glasses must make me look much older, too, because before i started wearing them all the time my age was always estimated about 3-4 years younger than my real age.. now it's estimated at 5-7 years OLDER. I LOOK MATURE.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

SNARF! I used to have the Snarf toy. It might still be in a box in storage.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I keep forgetting to take mine off.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

What about silent dumb girls with glasses?

Stupid people never stop talking. Dumb girls with glasses is FALSE ADVERTISING.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Sexual Air Supply"! Great.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i do like guys in glasses.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

there seem to be fewer dumb guys in glasses than dumb girls in glasses

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

though i'm bucking the trend

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

the last time i got an eye exam, i had 20/15 vision. my night vision has been getting weird lately, but i don't know if that's something that can be helped.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i've worn them since kindergarten, age 5, and i definitely sort of think there is something to the theory that glasses can make your eyesight worsen. I'm nearsighted but with really bad astigmatism. i don't know what I would do if they didn't offer the thin lenses, because even those are pretty thick on me, enough to make the nosepads dig in. i let a friend try them on once and they were thereafter dubbed "time goggles" (my friend was stoned and apparently could "see through time" with my glasses).

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i thought it was obligatory to wear glasses while posting on message boards, n'est pas?

i needed glasses since ten, got them about sixteen, got a decent pair (finally) age 23, which cost half a month's pay.

but damn they are smooooth..

― Darraghmac, Friday, 17 September 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

oh man I want some time goggles

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

get back aaron, gucci don't do time goggles in this sseason's colour.

you know it ain't worth it...

― Darraghmac, Friday, 17 September 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck fashion, i want time goggles...and those drunk glasses from the Simpsons.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

if you're familiar with that Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough At Last", that was a situation I could relate to. i misplaced them once and felt totally helpless.
http://www.lostandfrowned.com/burgesshands.gif

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

these are sweet, but i feel like my whole identity has changed.

Heh, I've been thinking that about my new pair that I got last week! They REALLY look good and others have said that as well. Hope to get a photo up here soonish.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i need new specs

― gem (trisk), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link

me too.
prolly emo glasses cuz wireframes irritate my skin.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i already have emo glasses, but i think i would get another updated emo pair too. although mine are red so maybe they are only try-hard emo, if emo has to be black.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't worn glasses for a few months now (was too lazy to try to get used to contacts, but apparently wasn't too lazy to go through a procedure in which my eyes got cut up), and at times I actually kinda forget how unnatural the act of not wearing glasses is. On occasion, such as this one, when I think about the act of wearing glasses, I am reminded of how wrong it still feels to walk around without wearing glasses.

I still have my last pair with me. I still think they're beautiful. But maybe it's best that I had that procedure done. It is kinda nice not having to deal with glasses all the time. This is an improvement from the time immediately following the procedure, when I was sick with sepia-toned nostalgia over the thought of not wearing glasses anymore.

(I am kinda praying I get presbyopia when I'm 50, though, so I can get to wear glasses again. *sighs* No hope. ;) )

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 17 September 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link

(Measured vision the day before my LASIK: 20/400 in both eyes, uncorrected.)
(Measured vision today: 20/20 in both eyes, uncorrected. Or 20/25. Still damn good, and enough to not have to drive with corrective lenses anymore.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 17 September 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I'd feel nekkid without my glasses on.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 September 2004 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i got my first pair when i was 13, and never wore 'em. got a new set when i was 19, and wore them intermittedly until i was 21 or so, when i wore them about half the time since.

however, yeah, i do need to wear them at night.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 17 September 2004 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I'd feel nekkid without my glasses on.

That's EXACTLY how I felt the first month after undergoing the LASIK, Trayce! I felt completely naked and indecent not wearing glasses and didn't exactly know how to handle that. Now, I still on occasion feel weirdly incomplete, as if I forgot to put on a vital article of clothing, but a lot of the time I manage to forget about that sort of thing.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 17 September 2004 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(I did get sentimental a couple of weeks ago, though. I had to take my mom to get her some new eyeglasses and I gazed semi-longingly at the selection of frames, trying some of them on and feeling nostalgic as I tried on frames the same way I did about two and a half years ago, when I got that last pair of glasses I was talking about previously. But yeah, still good not having to rely on them anymore.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 17 September 2004 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel completely naked without my glasses, and I can't see shit. When I was in my late teens, I lost them in the mosh at a Pantera concert and had to make it all the way across London sorounded by ill-defined blurs. I'd lost my friends too, and my ears were still ringing. It was possibly the most stressful hour of my life.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 17 September 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I've worn something since I've been 9, and now I keep having to get my contact prescription changed in my left eye about every 6 months.I'm worried I'll be blind in that eye by the time I'm 40 or something. I wear my glasses quite frequently, even though the frames are all crooked from falling asleep on them. Hott! I had these god-awful purple plastic framed glasses when I was 12. They were huge and dwarfed my small face. My best friend had the same ones, but with a unicorn etched in the corner. We are still teased to this day.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 September 2004 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I started wearing glasses in second or third grade, started wearing contacts in sixth grade. I have pretty typical indie glasses. I would wear them more except I can't really see as well with them as I can with my contacts.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

over the past six months my vision has gone from perfect to shit. I'm not sure why. usually I assume stuff like this is a brain tumor but I'm hoping it's just age. I absolutely need to get my vision checked, but will glasses make me look like an idiot? I think so. I don't have a glasses face.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I just got some after a few years without. I'm now wondering how I managed without. Luckily I think I suit glasses, plus looking at people over the bridge of them U&K

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm fairly near-sighted and I alternate between contacts and glasses. I get wickedly bad headaches if I try to without corrective vision. My current glasses are the first pair that I actually like the look of on me, so I tend to save my contact lenses for clubbing or pubbing.

I'm suprised that the old no-passes-glasses rule still applies - some of the HOTTEST women I've ever been involved with have worn glasses.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, girls look sexy in glasses.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I've worn glasses since age 8. I have a bad astigmatism in my right eye. I've never have contacts and actually really like wearing glasses. I need a new pair in a big way. I have black indie fuxor glasses right now, not plastic but thick black metal and square.

I think I'm going to go rimless. Boy, that sounds dirty.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

That whole "girls-glasses-passes" thing was a scam cooked up by the contact industry. It seems like most guys like girls with glasses. I sure do.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Worn glasses since I was 8. My eyes got progressively worse for years, but have now stablized. My parents both used to be near-sighted until they were older. Then they started getting far-sighted and it balanced out their vision so neither of them needs glasses anymore. I have very bad eyes. I get high index lenses so I don't have coke bottles.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

It's all about the high index lenses. Mine would be about two inches thick otherwise.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

got glasses in grade three, then contacts in grade nine.

in between i played sports with RECSPECS

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.theyedoctor.com/recspecs/helmet_specs2.gif

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

oh dear. they look like a recipe for merciless bullying.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

yet if you wear them to a trendy club people'll probably think you're way cool.

people are weird

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I've always thought women look sexier with glasses (well, depends on the glasses, but if they're at least okay ones). All this talk of feeling naked without them makes me also need to mention that a naked woman with glasses is even better. I'll resist going farther than that...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

oh dear. they look like a recipe for merciless bullying.

yeah, pretty much.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I want new glasses too.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.framesdirect.com/cdimages_lg/AUSTJzzQ.jpg

These are the ones I got a couple of months ago, except mine are black.
Kenneth Cole - Sacred Temple

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

For the last two weeks, I've been experiencing some eye strain -- it feels sore behind my eyes, and the muscles around my eyes have been periodically twitching. Last night, driving from Nashville into Illinois in the dark, I noticed that the road signs seemed blurry from faraway for longer than usual.

So I'm guessing that for the first time in my life I need glasses. (My dad was about my age when he first got glasses, too.) I'll probably make an optometrist appointment soon. I kind of like the idea of having glasses, but I can't picture myself wearing them. I think I need a haircut for it to work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

oh you'll look adorable!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, and for someone who hasn't had to deal with any of this stuff for 26 years, the idea of slipping some film onto my eyeball every day doesn't sound like much fun. So: glasses!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I've worn glasses since the age of four, nonstop. I really want to get eye surgery but I'm terrrrrrrified they'll fuck up.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd be worried about that, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Jaymc, next time you see him:

http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/anglistik/stud_pro/utopieseite/bnw/huxley.jpg

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

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