Wearing glasses to look smart c/d?

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Inspired by my gameshow thread. It works for me, but it makes me sleepy.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

dud. what could be more stupid than affecting a disability? plus it's insulting to those of us that actually need our vision corrected and aren't necessarily that smart (obviously i don't include myself in that latter group)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

arf

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to wear glasses instead of contacts (thus not affecting a disability but instead drawing attention to one) in tutorials when I thought my essay was more shite than usual in an effort to convince my tutor that I was clever and my essay was full of remarkable insights. Bizarrely this worked. Once. Sort of.

― Emma, Friday, 24 January 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

You are all bastards and I hate you ALL for mocking my bad EYES!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

That's because you walked into the wrong classroom with your defective vision.

I like it when a girl takes off her glasses. It subliminally suggests to me that she might be getting stupid enough to fancy me.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Metaphorically speaking, taking off glasses = dropping pants, so you're in, Pete!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on Nick and Jism! As Emma says, the choice could be between glasses and contacts. We're not necessarily faking it if we chose to wear glasses for aesthetic reasons. The idea that anyone would be fooled into thinking someone intelligent because they wore glasses is quite funny.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

BUT what if you wear both at once?!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Then you are moronic and people will spot this.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-but you've got to remember Nick, people who think people with glass are a priori intelligent = people without glasses = thickies. (like me).

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm very impressed with Dastoor's name-calling otday (not the 'moronic' bit).

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Where am I name calling apart from there?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

if you say 'jism' you will get a smack in the chops

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, that. JISM

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

In grade school it was assumed that my glasses meant I was smart. In my youthful egomania (arguably little changed since), I did nothing to alter this impression.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 January 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of the time I wear contacts but when I wear my glasses I sometimes get told my glasses make me look intelligent. Anyway, my terrible terrible line in return is....wait for it....It's an optical illusion..boom boom.....

*heads for cloakroom*

― smee (smee), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never had anyone link "glasses" with "smart" in my case. It irritates me when people wear glasses frames with no lenses because their vision is so perfect. RUB IT IN why don't you.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I sometimes wear my glasses to hide behind. I think it's kind of a ostrich/sand affair, because for some reason I feel less visible. Oh, actually I'm pretty sure I know what the reason is. It's because I'm a mentalist.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Technically I wear glasses because I fear I am too dumb to cope with contacts.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean, Exhibit A: LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO MOMUS

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

He got that through wearing contacts?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, the eyepatch bit, anyway. The chlamydia and malnourishment are another issue entirely.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

What on earth happened? Did he clean them with wire wool or something? Or was it an infection?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I seem to remember that he scratched his cornea with a lens and got an amoebic infection.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Well that sucks. Poot old Momus. I wonder how this scratching thing happened. Maybe it was a gas-permeable one that cracked or something. I assure you this is not a common problem.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I have always thought about getting contacts because I have (ahem) big beautiful eyes with long wet-making eyelashes, but they do seem like a bit of a bother and I do like glasses themselves as physical objects. I could use some new ones, definitely, but still.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I know that first part is true because actual XX-chromosome GURLS tell me so, even ones who aren't trying to sleep with me / borrow money from me / get rides places / get me to stop whining about something or other.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

You can't point at people in an argument with contact lenses.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but you're allowed to hit them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

You can't point at people in an argument with contact lenses.

What kind of boring-ass arguments do you have?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 24 January 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

What about wearing glasses when you don't need them, say, as an accessory?

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What about tooling around in a wheelchair when you don't need it, say, as an accessory?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

People ask me all the time whether my glasses actually have real lenses in them - or if I wear them solely for fashion! The nerve!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

hearing aid?

sling?

wig?

two watches?

I am ready.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

You forgot gladioli.

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

aren't they expensive?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't have a sling.

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I am down for the sling, actually. That seems kind of hot.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"Look better with glasses".

― Marketing Man (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i wish i could be one of those guys who make passes at girls who wears glasses, except i don't/can't really make passes.

still, if i could, i would.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it a odd that people are putting glasses in the same category as hearing aids and wheelchairs. Glasses frame a face and good ones DO look great on a lot of people. So whys that not a fashion thing?

case in point: I'm often told I look better with my glasses ON. Though I'm not sure what this says for my looks :-/

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I only wear them when I want to look ugly. I end up looking like that doll Mrs. Beasley or Benjamin Franklin.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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