OPO: Pseudo-sunglasses for people who wear glasses

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1. Those giant cheap black plastic things that mostly old people wear that just go over your glasses and make you look like a robot from the future.

2. The things that clip on to your glasses and then you flip them down when you go outside and they make you look like Dwayne Wayne from A Different World.

3. Future glasses with magic chemicals in them so that when you go out into the sun they automatically get darker and they make you look kind of creepy.

Which one wins?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

blue blockers or ambervision?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Third one, obv. Since that's the kind I use.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Perscription sunglasses

(I need to get some)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking about getting number 3. One of our clients is a big Opticians chain, so I'd get a discount and everything.

(At the moment I balance sunglasses precariously on top of regular glasses. Not very effective.)

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I had the clip-on shades thing, but some kids laughed at me.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

My mum wears robot-from-the-future things that go *under* her giant owl glasses. It's quite scary. She is the CHURCHinator.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ROBOvicar.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

But doesn't anyone else think #3 is creepy? NO ONE KNOWS HOW THEY WORK!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember wanting the clip-on things when I was a kid, but we couldn't find any that worked on my glasses.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

They work by SCIENCE!!! How else would they work?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I find #3 funny because sometimes somebody walks inside and looks like they're too stupid to take off their sunglasses for several minutes. But yeah, I have old prescription sunglasses, and cheapo regular ones for when I wear contacts.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

BLACK MAGIC? SORCERY? WITCHCRAFT?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

aaagh! using "their" as a singular pronoun doesn't work because of subject-verb agreement. how sad.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it sounds cool to look like a robot from the future, but in actuality, it doesn't look cool.

i'd say 3, if they work better than they used to. a coworker from a long time ago used to wear them and on him they just looked dorky, they took too long to change back to glasses-mode when he came inside.

there's a fourth kind too actually--custom clip on ones that correspond to your glasses shape, so they look much more normal-sunglassesey. they seem like they'd be annoying to deal with though.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

There are Lenscrafter surveillance systems all around the country monitoring your movements, and when you come outside and it's sunny out they press the remote control that darkens your glasses.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

A guy in my band got his glasses specifically because they came with the custom clip-ons that Julia mentions. They actually look pretty cool and normal, but then he has to worry about taking care of them when he goes inside.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't number 3 work in the same way that Cobra (GI Joe/Action Force figure) dude changed colour in the sun? Can't recall his name, he had a strange hood and a weird swamp bike.

In other words, WEIRD chemicals.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf this is obvious

"1. Those giant cheap black plastic things that mostly old people wear that just go over your glasses and make you look like a robot from the future."

fu.c.k.i.n.g a.w.e.so.m.e!!!!!!!!!

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm kind of leaning towards #1 at this point. OLD PEOPLE BE LOOKIN LIKE THEY'RE IN DAFT PUNK.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Or you look like an extra from Cocoon.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(anyway the Cobra dude was Zartan)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

#3 always reminds me of that woman in the elevator in the opening of the Mary Tyler Moore show.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The only time I worked for a company that had a vision plan, I immediately got prescription sunglasses. U&K.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the anti-dilation glasses they give you when they're doing eye surgery or whatever, that have little strips of cardboard that go over your ears and fold up into like 2mm? They're basically like X-ray plastic, I wouldn't be surprised if they're somehow recycled from that shit. Maybe this is the #1 referenced above? Whatever, they're awesome. When I was small my mom had to have something done on her eyes one time and I insisted she give me her roboshades and I wore them until the plastic tore.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Meanwhile, your mom went blind.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

5. use willpower to darken the sun

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(cz then i can clean my glasses on my pants)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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