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Topic: Bullshit.
started by: CatKnight

Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 22 2001,18:31

how the fuck can the hinge screw on my glasses unscrew itself just by me putting my glasses in my pocket then taking them back out, 10 minutes later? how the fuck can the mechanical energy of me walking be transfered to the screw in such a precise way that the superglue (1000 ft-lbs strength) be broken, and the screw (tightly screwed on with a mini bolt) be undone?

bullshit.

Posted by fire_502 on Mar. 22 2001,18:34

contacts - they don't fog up, involve no screws, no superglue (though supergluing your glasses is another issue), and do not limit your range of vision. definately the way to go. but good luck.

Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 22 2001,18:36

i used to have contacts 2 years ago. i really liked them for those reasons, except when winter came the air was so dry my eyes were constantly itchy...it was torture! i think im gonna switch back tho asap these glasses are getting my nerves big time. plus then i could wear my oakleys and still be able to see.

Posted by askheaves on Mar. 22 2001,18:47

I agree, dude. Contacts are the only way to go.

Actually, I'm hearing about more people getting their eyes zapped. My dad did it, and he's happy. One of my coworkers is doing it in a few weeks.

I personally won't do it for another 5-10 years, probably, since my eyes most likely aren't done growing yet, and I like the idea of letting the technology mature just a little further.

Posted by Observer on Mar. 22 2001,19:26

You should have been using something like Threadlock instead of Superglue. Not too sure how good that glue is at holding metals together.

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Posted by fire_502 on Mar. 22 2001,19:29

yeah, i'm all about letting that technology mature before i let people take lasers to my eyes.

cat - keep drops handy during the winter

Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Mar. 22 2001,22:26

only bad thing about contacts is falling asleep with them on and waking up not being able to see cos they grease up with white shit from the lack of oxygen or something. also when you've had them in for a while its harder to clean them if they start to dry up a bit but otherwise they rule. i still cant figure out how there are these new ones that you put in BEFORE you go to bed and wake up with them already in so you dont have to bother with them in the morning

edit: laser treatment is damn expensive too so i aint gonna do it for a while yet

This message has been edited by Dark Knight Bob on March 23, 2001 at 05:30 PM

Posted by jrh1406 on Mar. 23 2001,14:51

I had lenses for a bit, but then my perscription changed

i'm thinking about getting LASIK when i have the money.

all you people who want to wait for it to mature a bit more, how long are you going to wait, it's already been around for like 10 years or so.

Posted by Rhydant on Mar. 24 2001,04:45

quote:
Originally posted by CatKnight:
how the fuck can the hinge screw on my glasses unscrew itself just by me putting my glasses in my pocket then taking them back out, 10 minutes later?

magic!

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Posted by j0eSmith on Mar. 24 2001,06:33

My uncle got that Laser eye sugery done a little while ago. Now he has better than 20/20 vision, but for about two weeks after the surgery he couldn't see shit all.

While I don't need glasses yet, I may in the not too distant future. I have one eye that is fairly bad, and my other eye is pretty good, so they used to cancel each other out, but I've been noticing a change latly to the worse, so I hope it fucking stops soon. Guess I'll find out during my next Medical in August. Yay.

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Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 24 2001,08:06

having 1 good eye and 1 bad eye do not cancel each other out! they make it worse! this is called astygmatism! which i have! my vision is terrible cuz of it!

Posted by Neophyre on Mar. 24 2001,10:56

eyes don't grow
they are the same size through out your whole life.

Posted by cr0bar on Mar. 24 2001,13:36

Maybe, but the deterioration which forces most people who need glasses to get new ones every few years usually levels off by the time they're 20, which is why you don't go straight to laser surgery when you get glasses @ 10 years old.

Posted by jrh1406 on Mar. 24 2001,13:40

Eyes may not grow, but they will change shape, thus causing near sightedness or farsightedness.

and also astygmatism isn't caused by one good eye/one bad eye, it's something in the way your eye is shaped.

Posted by Nene on Mar. 24 2001,13:57

quote:
Originally posted by jrh1406:
Eyes may not grow, but they will change shape, thus causing near sightedness or farsightedness.
and also astygmatism isn't caused by one good eye/one bad eye, it's something in the way your eye is shaped.

Yeah...tell me about it. Astigmatism is the ONLY reason I can't see! I'm going to get that eye surgery eventually. My eyes finally stopped growing (I'm 26) and I've had a consistent perscription now for three years.

As far as eyeglasses, I think my personal favorite rant is how eyeglasses always wind up on the floor precisely underfoot in the mornings when you get out of bed.

Contact Rant: Dunno if anyone has noticed, but when I take a shower (EEK! visual!!) and then try to take my contacts out, they are WELDED to my eyes. :P

Ah...it could be worse. When I was in high school, I had coke bottles.

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Posted by askheaves on Mar. 24 2001,16:30

quote:
Originally posted by Nene:
As far as eyeglasses, I think my personal favorite rant is how eyeglasses always wind up on the floor precisely underfoot in the mornings when you get out of bed.

One time, I came in from the outdoors in a Minnesota winter. I came inside, and my glasses fogged up, as per usual. So, I took them off and placed them on the stairs as I took off my boots and coat and stuff. Then, I proceeded to step on my glasses because I couldn't see well enough to avoid it.

My family still makes fun of me for that. Then, they move to making fun of me for having my watch run over by a car in 1st grade.

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Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 24 2001,17:47

actually eye surgery was first performed by russians in the 50's...they used scalpels!

Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 24 2001,20:39

hahaha my dad makes the same kind of stupid jokes all the time.

like once i was banging my head on the wall and he said "don't break the wall now".

yeah

Posted by fire_502 on Mar. 25 2001,14:54

my family teases me relentlessy about cows and horses. once when i was like 6 we were on a trip and i saw a horse...so i pointed it out, it happened to be in the middle of a field of cows so they thought i was retarded and didn't know the difference. sure i was the *only* one that saw the horse, but i knew the difference at 6. to this day we can't pass a cow or a horse without it coming up.

Posted by askheaves on Mar. 25 2001,15:26

We went to one of those Orlando attractions (Epcot, maybe) and I made a joke that it would be easy to find our car because we were in the last row... obviously seeing about 3000 feet more parking lot behind me and a 1000 foot long line of cars filing in behind us. To this day, they still don't believe I was joking and think I'm a retard.

Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Mar. 25 2001,20:41

fuck u

Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 25 2001,21:44

dont they itch and feel weird after a few days? do they cost more?

Posted by j0eSmith on Mar. 26 2001,01:09

quote:
Originally posted by fire_502:
i saw a horse...so i pointed it out, it happened to be in the middle of a field of cows

Sure, sure

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When my flying days are over, and my death has come to pass
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Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 26 2001,06:25

Accuvue, by Johnson & Johnson : the Magic Lens.

put 'em in, wear for two weeks straight, then throw them out. repeat with new pair. your eyes don't weld shut when you sleep, if they get scratched or just too dirty you can throw them out, and to top it all off they're UV BLOCKING!!! Heh... no cataracts for me...

Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 26 2001,18:03

quote:
Originally posted by CatKnight:
dont they itch and feel weird after a few days? do they cost more?

no, they don't (if they do you can take them out and clean them like ordinary lenses), and yes they do - I don't know how much more tho. I pay about 趚 for a year's supply.

Posted by Jynx on Mar. 27 2001,06:22

quote:
Originally posted by damien_s_lucifer:
Accuvue, by Johnson & Johnson : the Magic Lens.
put 'em in, wear for two weeks straight...

You only wear yours for two weeks? I wear mine until they start to itch (take 'em out every night and put 'em in the solution, tho')--I can make one pair of boxes (six pairs of lenses) last for about a year! I even told my eye doc, and he said that as long as my eyes weren't getting irritated, things were fine.

He also said that I was probably an excellent candidate for LASIK--now all I need is a couple thousand bucks....

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Posted by masher on Mar. 27 2001,11:42

quote:
Originally posted by jrh1406:
and also astygmatism isn't caused by one good eye/one bad eye, it's something in the way your eye is shaped.

An irregularly shaped lens, thats what causes it.

My dad has that. I'm just plain old blind without my glasses...

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Posted by melk0r on Mar. 28 2001,01:03

this is from the old SNL skit (actually like mid-ninties). on some black chick -queen shanikqua- skit she asked what is the condition called where you cant see black people?

ANIGGAMATYSM

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