― Matt (Matt), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
The wife says that I look fine with them on, so I guess that's all that counts. I still don't wear them at work or when I play. It kinda helps the stage anxiety when I can't see the audience.
Not being able to read the mile markers was my first clue too, jaymc.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
i've been wearing reading glasses for about 15 yrs now. a few weeks ago i started getting headaches because my glasses felt too tight on my head, so i went to Lenscrafters to get them adjusted, and the dude broke my frames! he tried getting out of it by saying they weren't usually held responsible for broken glasses during readjustments, but they decided to replace them. so i get new frames and it's been almost 2-3 weeks since i stopped wearing my glasses so i could get my new ones. i used to go 30minutes at the computer without my glasses and i'd get killer headaches. now i go all day without wearing them and i'm pretty much fine. What the Fuck?!
― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― eman (eman), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I've heard of this happening in older people quite a bit, actually. And come to think of it, it's mostly been women. Maybe menopause sharpens the senses?
― Huk-L, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― eman (eman), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Sigh, not I.
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www-assets.eyeglasses.com/dyn/frame_large/1033133291.jpg
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_abc/_t/thrill013.jpg
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.rayban.com/catalogo/RB3193/img_zoom.jpg
― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
do you know how laser surgery works? apparently they scrape the flesh off your eyball to make the focal length correct. (i'm unclear how this works for farsightedness.) i'm nearsighted enough that i'd have to have a really thick eyeball membrane for them to consider it feasible. icky!
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bnad, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh bollocks. 12 years ago I lost my glasses at a Carter USM gig, and somehow I have repeated the experience tonight. I'm wearing contacts, but they suck. Oh somebody give me some glasses, please.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 3 November 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, how was Carter anyway? Did you take over Tom E's ticket?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 November 2007 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I did. It was great, until I lost my vision! All that matters is I was up the front when they played After The Watershed.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 3 November 2007 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i just got glasses! now i look like velma from scooby doo.
― lauren, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought I wanted new glasses of the rimless kind, but it turns out they look pretty dumb?
(I didn't actually get them, just tried on some frames)
― Jordan, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i look like velma from scooby doo.
see now this is hot.
i am a glasses-wearer, i guess. it's been a strange transition. having never worn them for my first 33 years, i now can't even look at a computer screen without them. i've even started to forget that i'm wearing them, at least until they fog up (supernerdy feeling)
― jergïns, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel helped me pick them out. she called the look "german architect," but no - i'm pure velma.
― lauren, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
But do you have orange sweaters?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i have one.
― lauren, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
cool, lauren!
i need laurel to help pick glasses out for me too i think i also need to go to eye doctor
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
picking out frames = awesome. wearing them, not so much. i keep tripping because it looks like the floor is slanting
― lauren, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i have some fun astigmatism going on here ow MY EYEYEYEYEYEYEYES
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Getting glasses for Lauren was so fun! Of course she already had a stack of ingeniously rad frames to choose from, I just told her which ones I liked best. Then *I* tried on a bunch of frames but didn't buy any. u_u
― Laurel, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
can you get glasses/contacts just for night time? My vision is great in the day but everything gets blurry at night , esp when driving.
― sunny successor, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
A full-time glasses wearer here, since age 10. I also wear contacts sometimes. My right eye is -6.50, and my left is -6.25. Without some kind of corrective lenses, anything farther than six inches away is a total blur. I like wearing my glasses, and it's a good thing I do being as blind as I am.
― Bart, Thursday, 29 November 2007 03:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I wore a broken pair today because my brother accidentally picked up my contact lens case and it was my last pair of lenses. they're 6 years old and extremely oily, bent, and turning green on the nose guards
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 29 November 2007 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
glasses all the time here.
― Maria :D, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm supposed to, but don't.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:40 (sixteen years ago) link
We'll have none of that. Get some frames that suit you and you'll be suaver than ever.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i just got new glasses, something like this
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/437146535_2a47207bc1_m.jpg
only the 3rd pair i've had. the first 2 each lasted about 7 years. when i went for the most recent eye exam the doc gave me a little pitch on lasik. which is appealing to some degree, except i really don't mind glasses, and they're such a part of my face at this point it would feel like having plastic surgery.
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link
since 4th grade - they used to call me "The Fly"
― Maria :D, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:48 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:40 PM (Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:40 PM) Bookmark Link
I actually have a nice-looking pair and, by my own estimation, look good in them, I just can't stand to wear them. I probably need a new prescription anyway.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 29 November 2007 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, I certainly need new glasses. One of the lenses is scratched.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 29 November 2007 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
See, there you go. Trade up.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 November 2007 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link