Do you wear glasses?

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yeah, I do now. I had to get them after I accidentally drove to alabama cuz I couldn't read the highway signs without slowing down to like 40 (and fuck slowing down to like 40).

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

and I'd like to get contacts but can't cuz I'm antsy with the eyes on account of getting stabbed in my right eye in a fight in thrid grade (east point repruhzintt)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

dude, yr like the white georgian 50 cent

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

"shady babies"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

50 Blount is way OTM about glasses doubling as eye protection.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

i have glasses, i mostly need them for watching movies with subtitles and reading the overheads in class, though my vision is getting worse and i begin to need them for reading street signs. my glasses are of the foxy tortoiseshell librarian variety. i would not consider contacts, they seem like such a hassle. i mean, at least when you drop your glasses you can find them!

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

oh no, I don't really mean as eye protection a la Kurt Rambis. I'm just saying that anytime something gets near my eyes, life if a girl tries to put mascara on me or something, I just start flopping around real antsy, it's like trying to feed a dog a pill or something.

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

blount in electroclash shocker

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:08 (twenty years ago) link

I've had glasses since about 16, when my eyesight just suddenly "went" over about a 6 month period. My first pair looked extremely daggy but since that I've had reasonably cute glasses - thin framed ones. I like my current pair, they have burgundy metal frames that go with my hair and half my clothes.

I want a pair of really emo chunky black frames. I just need to save a bit of cash. Decent frames are so expensive!

Would love laser eye surgery but have heard too much negative stuff about it that I'm prepared to risk my eyesight for that much money.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:10 (twenty years ago) link

supposedly there's some kinda porn where it's just girls in glasses

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

...and nothing else.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

I found girls in glasses pr0n on my PC, not long after a make flatmate moved out last year. It was just... cute goth chicks in glasses mostly. Noone was nekkid or doing dodgy stuff.

Still, it was odd finding it and knowing he'd been sitting at my desk on my PC in MY ROOM and... *shudder*.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

Er make=male. I can't type this week for some reason.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

maybe your keyboard is too sticky

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

I also have 20/15 vision. I can also read in the light of a half-moon, and can see stars down to 8th-to-9th magnitude. I feel like a genetic freak.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link

Jason Giambi's got that freakish good eyesight also.

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

i have glasses. i'm bored of my frames. i never seem to like my frames for very long. girls in glasses (esp chunky frames) = just about the best thing ever

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

er, that's chunky frames on the glasses. but either applies.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

Don't. Should. Can't afford. Did. Left 'em in a rock pub in wigan which spelt of piss and desperate, desperate bands.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

I'd much rather go through life with all the sharp edges taken off everythign than wear glasses. & I'm too paranoid about anything getting near my eyes to wear contacts, so.

(major hassle = "seeing" a movie at the theatre)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

Like Ned, I've been a longtime eyeglasses wearer, except I started when I was four vs. starting at three. What started it all was complaining about straining to see things in the classroom when entering Pre-K class for the first time. Whoops, found out I'm almost blind and need glasses to see anything.

I'm sick of them. I feel like they make me look even uglier, I'm tired of the way they feel on my face, I want to wake up and look around at things and be able to see what the time is or similar. I wish to God I could have eye surgery, but my eyesight is so bad that they currently can't correct my eyesight via even the most current technological advances. As for contacts -- I thought they were a bad idea when it took me two hours just to put one of them on, and the taking off part took nearly forever as well.

*big massive sighs*

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

Glasses since I was 5 and has steadily Wear contacts mostly these days.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

That's right, you DO wear glasses from time to time! I had completely forgotten...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 02:23 (twenty years ago) link

Dee, they do suck at first, but by the end of the first week, you don't even notice them at all.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link

Dee, they do suck at first, but by the end of the first week, you don't even notice them at all.

How do you deal with putting them on when you've got tiny little eyes? What are your tips, suggestions, ideas, etc.? Also, my eyes are v. easily irritated. I have to wear sunglasses when the sun is out or my eyes get teary and I'm rendered blind for several minutes.

Help here would be much appreciated.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

My eyes are pretty sensitive to light too. Go to a good doctor. Ask him to give you contacts that are designed for sensitive eyes. Take a few trial pairs from different brands--I just got some loaned to me that were definitely not as comfortable as my usual, so there are noticeable differences. Get soft contacts of course.
It's just something you have to get used to. When I first tried putting them in, I couldn't help flinching, closing my eyes. I was in the doctor's office for like 3 hours just trying to get one in. Now, I can hold open my eyelid and poke around in there like it ain't no thing. You just have to override your reflexes, which takes time.
As far as getting them out, I started out holding my eyes open with two hands, and then, with one finger of the lower hand, pushing on the contact so it would lose its grip on my eyeball. That was kind of a bitch. Now, I make like a "C" with my thumb and forefinger (one-handed method), push open my eyelids w/them, and gently move them towards each other, so that they pop the contact out from the top and bottom. Can do it in less than a second.
If you really hate glasses, just stick w/contacts for a couple of weeks.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 02:53 (twenty years ago) link

oops, I will follow your suggestions 100%! Danke!

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

Dee - contacts also bring a lot more light into your eyes, so if you wear them a lot then getting sunglasses is urgent and key. Of course I have been meaning to do the same since I sat on my sunglasses and broke them like a year ago.

Like oops, I had a real bad time getting started with contacts because of course, you aren't used to sticking things in your eyes. In my case, my eyeballs are huge with respect to the size of my head, so my contacts are huge also. I literally have to wedge them into my eyes, but I'm used to it enough now that I can just pop them in and out with no reflex reaction.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link

I've worn glasses since I was 8, and tried contacts when I was 13 (hard lenses, supposed to keep my eyes from getting any worse) but never got used to them, so I went back to specs. I'd do the laser surgery thing if I knew it would be trouble-free, but I don't trust it yet.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 06:57 (twenty years ago) link

Heh, before I opened this thread up I was like, "which loony started this one then"?

Two years ago! Ouch.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 06:59 (twenty years ago) link

my optician said my eye sight is going to stay the same for the next 20 years, yay for me, I guess.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 07:00 (twenty years ago) link

i've worn glasses for 22 years. i've twice tried switching to contact lens for a change but given up on them within weeks as they're just too much hassle (all those potions and little bottles and all). when i put my glasses down i transform into velma from scooby doo and wander around patting surfaces trying to find them again. i have prescription sunglasses too, they rule, except that they keep sliding down my nose.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 07:17 (twenty years ago) link

nowadays, there's only one bottle

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

I do not wear glasses. When I first started working in publishing I was asked if I wore glasses or contacts. When I said no, I was told "You'll need them after you've been working here a few months!".

Six years on, this prediction has proved false.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 07:46 (twenty years ago) link

I am shortsighted and currently have some small, black-plastic frames by Diesel (what a label-whore I am). They are either 'emo' or 'geeky' or 'knowingly ironic club cool' depending on... something.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 07:50 (twenty years ago) link

I've never worn glasses. My left eye's a tad blurry, but aside from that I see perfectly. Like Melissa said upthread, can see every single leaf on a tree, don't need a magnifying glass to read itty-bitty writing, et al.

Since I spend like 50 trillion hours a month either reading or using a computer, this state of affairs is a total mystery to me. And I LIKE glasses too. Sigh.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

I'll swap eyes with yer if yer like.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:17 (twenty years ago) link

check yr respective eye colours, or else you'll end up looking like David Bowie or my Auntie Daphne.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:20 (twenty years ago) link

like miloauckerman, i've got one 'good' eye and one 'bad' eye. i have glasses that i use for driving (we figured out that depth perception wasn't my strong suit when i kept crashing into things when my dad was teaching me to drive) and movies, but just muddle along without them most of the time.

i really like boys in glasses. i met a guy that was ok looking a few weeks ago. then he turned up last weekend wearing glasses and i thought he was really really cute. it's like magic.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

my eyes are useless, useless, oh god they're fucking useless. can't do a thing in the mornings until i've put glasses on, which after 15 years is starting to get kind of extremely annoying. glasses since 7, contacts since 17. i will get the laser surgery as soon as a) it's cheap enough and b) it's guaranteed not to cause scary long-term damage to my brane. (actually i might not wait for both of these conditions to be met.)

(btw switching to contacts aged 17 was one of the major turning points in my life! they make a huge difference in so many ways!)

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

I had perfect eyesight up until about 2-3 years ago. I need my glasses very occasionally though. If I go to the cinema or if I'm driving tired or in the dark, then I'll use them. I use them so rarely that I'm not even sure where they are! My boy wears glasses & I don't even see them to be honest, to the point where I get told to be careful of them in case I break them.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 10:59 (twenty years ago) link

My eyes suck. My right eye is like 100 times worse then my left eye but they are both bad. I mainly wear contacts because I look hotttter and because I can see better, but I wear my glasses at night or in the morning sometimes if I'm too lazy to put in contacts.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

I got glasses when I was 8. My teacher made a point of taking the newly-bespectacled me to the front of the class and giving a talk about how some people look different, but everyone should be accepting etc. I was mortified, but mercifully was not teased that much.

I wore contacts for a while, but glasses are easier for now.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

Glasses since 6, switched to contacts at 14, and I'm still a contacts wearer at almost 37. My eyesight is just bad enough (something like -7.5 and -8.5) that surgery would not be able to restore my vision to 20/20, so I've always passed on it and accepted the minor hassles of having to not be able to see jackshit in the morning and the occasional eyelash/piece of grit stuck on the lens.

I did buy a backup pair of glasses a little while ago and ended up trying to wear these for a day while my lenses were irritating me. The near-vertigo loopiness of the lenses (and these were "specialized" lenses, too) had me grabbing walls and countertops while I negotiated around my apartment. Nuh uh. Contacts it is...

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

my glasses are calvin klein.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

Okay. I wear glasses sometimes. It took me 22 years to bother getting them (i.e. since I was a pretty small child), which involved lots of trouble reading the blackboard for some years in school. But I still seem to only wear them when I want to look slightly more smart...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

Like oops, I had a real bad time getting started with contacts because of course, you aren't used to sticking things in your eyes.

One of the main reasons I shy away from getting any: just plain fear, even though there are ones specially for astigmatism, these days.

In my case, my eyeballs are huge with respect to the size of my head, so my contacts are huge also.

At least, I'm not alone in that, then: I've always been told I've a big head.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

Yes, since today.

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

I've worn glasses since...*thinking*...1993. Holy shit that's ten years huh? I'm nearsighted in both eyes and have a whopping astigmatism on my right eye. When people try on my glasses they get mad dizzy. I've had some hella cool frames over the years, but the ones I own now are like some disaster grandma/cartoon-wizard hybrid style. I seriously need some new ones.

I like wearing contacts, but I haven't got around to updating my prescrip in two years. I'm just a lazy bastard.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, I resisted for a long time but the DMV changed their eye tests from the charts (easily memorized) to those computerized view finder thingys.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

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