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el Pero Microscopico 14 Feb 2014, 02:39

If all the men and women in the world were laid end to end, there would be no need for the pill.

Captain Anonymous 26 Dec 2013, 00:18

Merry Christmas to everyone except Gus/Ralph Tyko, who deserves to die of pancreatic cancer.

Alex 25 Dec 2013, 19:55

Merry Christmas!!!

Wish you to enjoy your passion as deep as U can)))

2 hooked: UR not alone))) it's obvious for your environment even if U hide it so carefully)).

IMHO It looks like a man who hide his fear: All of people knows it except himself.

Puffin 25 Dec 2013, 04:15

Merry Christmas :)

Holger Deutsch 25 Dec 2013, 01:31

Verpiß dich, Gus.

Holger 24 Dec 2013, 19:54

Have a great day, Gus.

Trent 24 Dec 2013, 19:00

Merry Christmas to everyone and all the best in 2014!

Crystal Veil 24 Dec 2013, 05:59

Merry Christmas everybody (-1.00) !

Astra 25 Jan 2013, 19:30

Re: hooked 25 Jan 2013, 13:51

maybe your wife has seen your postings on eyescene BBS.

hooked 25 Jan 2013, 13:51

Long time ago since I have posted.

Some days ago my wife and me talked about glasses. I can't remember why but surely this is a topic I prefer discussing. Probably it was because our younger daughter got stronger glasses ( +2.5 instead of +1.5). I made a small comment like that I don't think it is too dramatic a change.

Then she said to me:

"I know you prefer glasses which make eyes bigger like mine."

I was quite shocked. I never told her anything about my attraction to that but she was absolute true.

Can women really do thought-reading?

Melyssa 02 Jan 2013, 06:38

Happy New Year to all Eyesceners!

myopeinhere 31 Dec 2012, 18:45

Happy new year eyesceners,hope 2013 brings you high prescriptions and lots of sightings!

Crystal Veil 30 Dec 2012, 03:31

Soundmanpt,

the nurse saw me selecting the glasses just before the photo shoot with Lucy. She was very curious and as my brother was fast asleep we went through the Zennis and picked out her favorite pair (which can be seen in the final pictures of Lucy). The frame was only available in brown but she did not mind. Weeks later she sent me her full prescription (about -3) and I ordered the glasses. They arrived just in time for Christmas.

Soundmanpt 29 Dec 2012, 20:43

Crystal Veil

That was a very nice jesture on your part and I would think well received by that nurse. Did you use your trial set on her to determine what prescription she needed? Did she not have any glasses before?

Crystal Veil 29 Dec 2012, 15:54

Likelenses,

I gave a pair of glasses for Christmas to a lady who was the professional nurse for my late brother. I also ordered two pairs of glasses for my life partner Nel. Zenni frames and lenses by ciliaryblue.

29 Dec 2012, 08:29

did you give yet another pair of glasses to LauraC?

Likelenses 26 Dec 2012, 03:48

Did anyone give,or receive glasses for Christmas?

Puffin 24 Dec 2012, 18:46

Merry Christmas to all glasses wearers and lovers here.

ehpc 22 Dec 2012, 07:18

I recall telling a 'blonde' joke (personally I LOVE blonde GWGs:- blonde = fun, and glasses = brains so blonde GWG is the perfect package :))to a blonde woman who was a friend. After I got to the end of this glaringly obvious joke, she looked at me in puzzlement, and - without any humour or irony or anything - said.................. 'I don't get it.........'. True story.

22 Dec 2012, 06:34

dumb joke. guess they never heard of a monocle? welcome to 1820.

Melyssa 20 Dec 2012, 14:35

Very funny joke! At least I'm not one of those potential Bonnie Millers. :)

Soundmanpt 19 Dec 2012, 19:06

Likelenses

I think I dated that third girl once. lol

Likelenses 19 Dec 2012, 16:45

This blonde joke was sent to me in an email.

*Three blondes were all applying for the last available position on

the Saskatoon Police Force.*

*The detective conducting the interview looked at the three of them

and said, "So you all want to be cops, huh?"*

*The blondes all nodded.*

*The detective got up, opened a file drawer, and pulled out a folder.*

*Sitting back down, he opened it, pulled out a picture, and said,*

*"To be a detective, you have to be able to detect.*

*You must be able to notice things such as distinguishing features and

oddities like scars and so forth."*

*So saying this, he stuck the photo in the face of the first blonde and

withdrew it after about two seconds.*

*"Now," he said, "did you notice any distinguishing features about this man?"*

*The blonde immediately said, "Yes, I did, he has only one eye!"*

*The detective shook his head and said,*

*"Of course he has only one eye in this picture! *

*It's a profile of his face! *

*You're dismissed!"*

*The first blonde hung her head and walked out of the office.*

*The detective then turned to the second blonde, stuck the photo in

her face for two seconds, pulled it back, and said, "What about you?

Notice anything unusual or outstanding about this man?"*

*"Yes! He only has one ear!"*

*The detective put his head in his hands and exclaimed,*

*"Didn't you hear what I just told the other lady?*

*This is a profile of the man's face! Of course you can only see one

ear! *

*You're excused too!"*

*The second blonde sheepishly walked out of the office.*

*The detective turned his attention to the third and last blonde and

said,*

*"This is probably a waste of time, but...." *

*He flashed the photo in her face for a couple of seconds and withdrew

it, saying,*

*"All right, did you notice anything distinguishing or unusual about this

man?"*

*The blonde said,* *"I sure did. This man wears contact lenses.*

*" The detective frowned, took another look at the picture, and began

looking at some of the papers in the folder.*

*He looked up at the blonde with a puzzled expression and said,*

*"You're absolutely right! His bio says he wears contacts! How in the

world could you tell that by looking at his picture?"*

*The blonde rolled her eyes and said,* *"Well, Hellooooooooooooo!*

*With only one eye and one ear, ...he certainly can't wear glasses."*

GL 06 Dec 2012, 07:30

Astra,

The thicker the lenses, the better.

Astra 06 Dec 2012, 04:40

I remember there were some posts from GL regarding glasses licking.

Somehow, I find licking them, is really a turn on.

We may have similar obsession towards lenses:

"¡¡¡¡I won't forget the way you(lenses)'re kissing

¡¡¡¡The feeling's so strong were lasting for so long "

DC 05 Oct 2012, 03:41

There is an exhibition on on London showing the contemporary eyewear in Fashion, it's free and at The London College of fashion at Oxford Circus .

Enjoy , and maybe see you there check out fashionspacegallery.com

hooked 11 Jul 2012, 04:49

My thought of the day:

I didn't make much mistakes my life.

One of my biggest ones was when my wife (girl-friend at those times) told me she wants to try contacts and I didn't say a word. I just said it after she ordered some. And she said: "Couldn't you have said it before? Now I will try them."

It's not teh case that she never had glasses on afterwards.

Mostly she had them on while at home but not in public area.

I would have so much liked to marry a bride with glasses.

Meanwhile (more than 20 years later) she's completely back into glasses with some exceptions like swimming (which I can completely understand).

Yes, I'm kind of crazy.

Astra 29 Dec 2011, 04:17

ES will be closing to new post.

May I wish everyone a forever friendship, and happiness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSRTNo26rk

http://www.flickr.com/photos/czova/6593217091

shekhar 12 Aug 2011, 06:01

i think that owner of the website should add similar threads for devotees of girls with glasses and hearing aid.

nothing is better than Girl with Glasses + Hearing Aid.

what u guys say ????

Astra 22 Jun 2011, 23:13

Moreover, in 1980s Hong Kong

In a store that my family used to operate, we sold sunglasses or glasses.

We didn't offer any eye test device to the client.

Or required any valid prescription from doctors.

All we did was, glasses were sold over the counter, without any optometrist available in the store .

The store mostly sells souvenirs .

Astra 22 Jun 2011, 23:03

Crystal Veil,

yes.

Because of its culture and politics, China has all varieties of poisoning or exploitation.

The problem are mostly restricted to non-export products.

They can involve:

Food such as milk, table salt, candies, tofu, vegetables ;

Healthcare products such as syringe, glasses, eye drops, tablets ;

Pollution from PCB factories ... etc.

If similar incidents happened in US, EU or Japan, they would likely end up with severe lawsuits.

As shown in recent European e.coli incident.

Crystal Veil 22 Jun 2011, 16:45

Thought of the day indeed, Astra!

Astra 22 Jun 2011, 11:14

Saw a comment on baidu.com , which illustrate the Optical market in China , which is different from US or Europe.

"In China, high myopia is prevalent.

Developed nations consider optometrists as a medical practice.

Optometrists has to be certified.

Prescription lenses are only prescribed with optometrist's permission.

However, in China.

There's no such regulations.

In glasses stores, non-certified optometrist solely rely on the machine (i.e. auto refractor).

Almost acquired glaucoma by eye drops that treats cornea (?)

scared.

Since childhood, the education system ruined his/her life.

Now his/her eye got high myopia,

he/she became not confident in life,

no motivation to study.

find no meaning in life . "

Original message in Chinese:

Filthy McNasty 11 Mar 2011, 12:06

Spend a moment to think of our Japanese friends (i.e. all Japanese) caught in this disaster.

Original Tony 11 Feb 2011, 19:01

If the eyes are the window of the soul then bring on double glazing.

Original Tony 11 Feb 2011, 19:00

There's a few nice specky people out there

lentifan 11 Feb 2011, 16:15

May I send our best wishes to all our friends in Egypt and wish them success in their quest for freedom and a new democratic government.

Filthy McNasty 12 Nov 2009, 07:52

Hi Philosifer,

I have missed all the things of which you speak. I haven't turned on the television for ages, not have I picked up the Globe. I guess I am losing out!

still 11 Nov 2009, 18:05

Filthy, sorry 'bout that...8-)

still 11 Nov 2009, 18:04

Amen, Philthy!

Philosifer 11 Nov 2009, 17:21

Filthy

I can guess what you were doing around 11.00 this morning. It was a great show wasn't it ?

By the way, did you notice when one day last week our normally staid Globe & Mail had a large as life picture of this lady on one of its sections ?

http://www.rachelkramerbussel.com/

Also, I was wondering whether or not you have been watching CHEK6 News out of Victoria, where there have been consistent appearances of a great- looking anchor on the late afternoon news, Stacey Ross, I think ?

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 11 Nov 2009, 10:25

hear hear and of course those who still serve

Filthy McNasty 11 Nov 2009, 09:25

Thanks, veterans, for your service and sacrifice. Grateful always.

ehpc 28 Jun 2009, 08:46

Lots of men happy that there are GWGs :) Pete

Rachel 28 Jun 2009, 02:14

Melyssa. I suppose you could be right in some cases. Even so lots of kids over here seem quite happy about glasses wearers these days.

Melyssa 27 Jun 2009, 07:51

I know that, you know that, we all know that; but the outside world, especially those who don't wear glasses, they don't know that.

Rachel 27 Jun 2009, 02:46

It's not geekish to wear glasses I don't think.

Melyssa 26 Jun 2009, 12:41

All4Eyes,

I guess that makes 2 of us!

All4Eyes 26 Jun 2009, 09:57

Otto: Well, I'm happy to be a glasses geek, as well as a geek with glasses!

OttO 22 Jun 2009, 23:43

Somehow Geek or Nerd sounds nicer than fetishist! LOL!

All4Eyes 22 Jun 2009, 19:43

Don't know quite where to post this, but have ya'll seen the new Coke cans for summer? They have eyeglasses on them (I think they are actually meant to be sunglasses, they are aviator frames, but who knows, we may have Coke-bottles on our Coke cans now!).

All4Eyes 18 Jun 2009, 10:50

I was pondering my "geek/nerd fetish" the other day and had a stunning realization-WE'RE ALL GEEKS! By "we" I mean us OOs. According to Wikipedia (which I'll grant isn't necessarily the best information source on all subjects, especially considering what they say about glasses fetish) one definition of a geek is:

A person with a devotion to something in a way that places him or her outside the mainstream. This could be due to the intensity, depth, or subject of their interest. This definition is very broad but because many of these interests have mainstream endorsement and acceptance, the inclusion of some genres as "geeky" is heavily debated.

I daresay our devotion to glasses places us outside the mainstream. But I don't really mind being outside the mainstream, now that I know I'm not the only fish in this particular "sidestream". 8-)

I ALWAYS make passes at guys who wear glasses, Marie

P.S. Speaking of Wikipedia's glasses fetish "article", what do you all think about me maybe sending my text about it that's at Bobby's site into Wikipedia?

Clare 17 May 2009, 23:00

The use of webcams is an interesting way to spot people wearing their glasses. First occasion last week was someone I've known for a few years but never seen them with glasses till I caught him on the webcam. He kept them on for a bit, they were plus lenses, then took them off. Second occasion was a slightly nearsighted friend obviously now a fulltime wearer. I'll never sit at my PC without any makeup on again, I never know now whether I might be caught out too!

17 Mar 2009, 13:22

John Conlee would have us looking through rose colored ones.

Dieter 17 Mar 2009, 11:07

I trust everyone is viewing the day through green colored lenses?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

14 Mar 2009, 22:50

hic

14 Mar 2009, 16:28

I'll drink to that

14 Mar 2009, 14:07

If you want to get somewhere before sundown, you can't stop at every tavern.

All4Eyes 04 Feb 2009, 11:39

Dieter: Yes, Buddy certainly is one of my all-time favorites. How sweet of you to remember Roger Peterson (for those who don't know, he was the pilot who was flying the plane which crashed, killing all 4 onboard), people often forget that his life was a loss as well, just because he wasn't famous doesn't mean his family suffered any less.

Dieter 03 Feb 2009, 11:38

I cant think of a better place to pause and reflect on the 50th Anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest MIGs of all time, Buddy Holly. Feb. 3, 1959, The Day the Music Died�.

Rest in peace Charles Hardin Holley, Ritchie Valens, J. P. Richardson, and Roger Peterson.

Wurm 01 Jan 2009, 11:34

Wishing everyone a starry-eyed "International Year of Astronomy".

Melyssa 01 Jan 2009, 06:41

Happy New Year everybody, from the Glasses Girl!

Puffin 01 Jan 2009, 05:15

New year, new glasses and clear vision to all.

Filthy McNasty 01 Jan 2009, 01:44

Happy new year. First post of 2009.

Dieter 26 Dec 2008, 09:05

I wish a most pleasant "Boxing Day" to all of my friends in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. I'm working today here in the "new and improved" US of A.

25 Dec 2008, 17:34

i want -15 myopia for christmas

Puffin 24 Dec 2008, 15:10

Merry Christmas to all here.

I wonder if anyone has ever had glasses for christmas?

Clare 24 Dec 2008, 12:04

Merry Christmas to you all!

Good wishes for 2009 :)

Bobby 24 Dec 2008, 06:42

Merry Xmas everybody.

Filthy McNasty 24 Dec 2008, 06:12

Merry Christmas to all. Whether you celebrate it or not, it's a great time to have a little holiday.

Thanks to Wurm for the continued existence of this site. I mostly lurk now, but still find it interesting, and will always remember finding it way back when.

yaya 04 Dec 2008, 05:25

Aristotle would have been proud of you... not.

Philosifer 04 Dec 2008, 01:27

Hardly in the same serious vein as the previous posts, but my profound thought in the shower this morning was:

A high myope is a blind person who can see - thanks to recent (well , over the last couple of hundred years anyway) advances in optometric technology !

Galileo 21 Nov 2008, 18:23

Hi Minus 5, Yes I remember reading similar stories on the website of an organisation which distributed old glasses. A story which stuck in my mind was the woman who was a high myope and found it 'very difficult' cycling everywhere until the organisation provided her with a pair of glasses. Imagine being -8 and cycling round without correction!

minus 5 who luvs gwgs 21 Nov 2008, 08:19

time for a change from politics some years ago there was a feature about a charity that recycled old glasses to poor africans A lady of about 35 was found to be about minus 8 they found a pair of about minus 5 and she could not believe the wonderful sight even though she was still about minus 3 makes you feel very privileged would have loved to find her and give her the minus 8s she really needed

Wurm 17 Nov 2008, 12:25

Yes, the time has come to seek out another forum for political posts.

Topix and City-Data come to mind as being comparatively open to various points of view if hashing it out with the opposition is your thing. Both are "local" sites with areas for various US cities.

Julian 17 Nov 2008, 06:34

Yes, there are sites for that kind of debate, but this isn't one of them.

Galileo 17 Nov 2008, 05:05

Here here!

Bobby 17 Nov 2008, 03:44

My dear maniacs and psychos,

There are hundreds of discussion groups, forums and other websides where you can discuss your crazy theories whether the new american president is black or white, a genuine American or Kenyan, a secret moslim or a puppet of international Jewish-communist-freemaason conspiracy or whatever your insane minds might create, If you go mad because the new American president is not a WASP, if you go crazy because you can't bear he is "colored", if you believe he was elected because any kind of evil conspiracy, go the the websites where those idiot topics are being discussed. If you try really hard and lobby and promote your ideas, the next president might be a blue eyed, blond haired, 100% caucassian, biblical fundamentalist, creationist, pentecostal halleluya-er who will ban abortion, immigration of arabs, teaching Darwin's theory at schools and allow children to carry weapons since the age of 10. Although the whole world will laugh at you, you will have what you wanted so much.

But now, STOP the topic here and go fuck youself to the appropriate websides. !!!!!

AAAAAAAAAArgh!

Best regrads

Bobby Laurel - angry and furious !!!!!!!!!

17 Nov 2008, 01:27

Most of you have taken a WRONG turn > down the pretentiousness turnpike.....

Peter G 16 Nov 2008, 23:34

Help! Please can we have a separate thread called "Politics and Conspiracy Theories", so the rest of us can go back to discussing our OO interests.

Like Lenses 16 Nov 2008, 23:15

yoyo

You are wrong. The certificate that is being circulated by Obama's camp is not a birth certificate, but what is known as a COLB ( CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH ) which can be obtained by showing ANY birth certificate from any country. It does not contain a hospital, doctors signitature, or raised seal, and can not be used to prove citizenship.

If Obama was born in Kenya, he is not a citizen ,as the law states that if only one parent is a U.S. citizen , and that would be his mother, that she must have resided in the U.S. continously for five years after age nineteen , which she did not.

There is a second issue, in that it appears that Obama also has Indonesian citizenship, and a president can not have dual citizenship.

Yoyo 16 Nov 2008, 18:46

By the way, that is a state-certified copy of a birth certificate. If you go down to the government office of whatever state you were born in and ask for a copy, that's what you will get.

So unless you are claiming that the State of Hawaii is also in on the conspiracy, just let this one go.

Yoyo 16 Nov 2008, 18:44

"Wow, hate to feed any conspiracy theories, but at first glance, that thing looks bogus as a three dollar bill! Almost 50 years and it looks brand new. Also, the term "African" was not used until the 80s, in 1961 they would have said "Negro." Then there's the name... He changed it to Barack Obama in his teens, before then it was Barry Soetoro. No wonder there's so much talk out there! What the heck is going on with that thing?"

I LOL'd.

Mark 16 Nov 2008, 17:36

Yes our new government will do no wrong. All is better now. Well how will this be for change?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=6122417

Oh look liberals!!! It's from ABC news so you know it's un-biased!!!

SZ6 16 Nov 2008, 16:46

You do not need to provide the original hard copy when asked for your birth certificate. It is easy to get a certified original copy of your birth certificate from the state where you were born:

http://www.howtodothings.com/travel/a3812-how-to-get-a-copy-of-your-birth-certificate.html

Let's not fall victim to laughable conspiracy theories, now.

Likeglass 16 Nov 2008, 16:30

OMG! I just looked in the bottom left corner!!!! "Rev 11/01 LASER" They had laser printers in 1961 ????

LikeGlass 16 Nov 2008, 16:25

Wow, hate to feed any conspiracy theories, but at first glance, that thing looks bogus as a three dollar bill! Almost 50 years and it looks brand new. Also, the term "African" was not used until the 80s, in 1961 they would have said "Negro." Then there's the name... He changed it to Barack Obama in his teens, before then it was Barry Soetoro. No wonder there's so much talk out there! What the heck is going on with that thing?

Yoyo 16 Nov 2008, 09:31

"There are at present about a dozen lawsuits, including one at the Supreme Court, that require him to prove that he meets the Constitutional requirement of being a natural born American citizen."

I'm surprised that people still believe this story. I mean, I'm sure there are lawsuits, but none of them have any merit. Barack Obama has provided copies of his birth certificate many times:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html

The man was born in Hawaii in 1961. Last I checked, that is American soil. Heck, John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which is much shakier as American territory, but no one ever questions his citizenship. Why is that, I wonder?

Highmyope 16 Nov 2008, 07:20

ehpc - sure, freedom, sounds great -- the "freedom" to get screwed by unscrupulous, unregulated financiers, the "freedom" to suffer a catastrophic illness without medical care, the "freedom" of your employer to bust any effort at your workplace to form a union so that the "balance" of power between employers and employees remains entirely one sided, the "freedom" of some amoral corporation to dump its toxic waste in your water table to save a little cash....

You libertarians really should find a spot out in the woods to live where you can pave your own roads, put out your own fires, arrest your own burglars.... This is apparently the libertarian idea of heaven. Fortunately, to most of us, it sounds like hell. And the election results reflect that consensus.

http://www.governmentisgood.com

Melyssa 16 Nov 2008, 07:18

LikeGlass,

He can redistribute half of my prescription, as long as he's willing to have my "new" one installed free for me in all 32 pairs of my glasses. :)

Peter G 16 Nov 2008, 02:38

Moving away from the political discussion - German TV channel RTL posted a news item warning viewers about the dangers of laser treatment, specifically Lasik. They referred to an incidence of 20% of side effects, mainly glare at night. For this reason, both pilots and train drivers in Germany are not allowed to have lasik. Also, they showed a case of a young lady who has lasik, but was allergic, and should never have been allowed to take the treatment. After initial good results, she now has only 20% vision, and this is apparently irreversible. A professor warned that lasik is a major operation, and should not be undertaken lightly.

Of course, just the kind of news report an OO likes to see, hopefully the GWGs were watching too.

Like Lenses 15 Nov 2008, 22:21

Well before anyone gets too excited by Obama's election, let us remember that he still needs the votes of the electors, and then needs to be inaugurated.

There are at present about a dozen lawsuits, including one at the Supreme Court, that require him to prove that he meets the Constitutional requirement of being a natural born American citizen.

Instead of producing the required documentation, he has thus far tried to use legal loop holes, which are everyday making him look more and more Constitutionally unqualified.

LikeGlass 15 Nov 2008, 16:42

Oh Melyssa, I'm sure Lord Barry will redistribute all the Rx's so that everyone can have a nice boring prescription!

Original Tony 15 Nov 2008, 15:04

If the eyes are the windows to the soul,let them be double glazed

Melyssa 10 Nov 2008, 12:54

As SZ6 said, "Long live president-elect Barack Obama and may he usher in a new American era of peace, prosperity, and gorgeous women with thick glasses." Well, I qualify on the last count, and I sure hope the first two take place.

PATSY 10 Nov 2008, 12:36

Well,I am Irish American and a person of NON-COLOR,and frankly am very sick of the whole subject. PERIOD,and I hope a BLACK ONE.

Yoyo 10 Nov 2008, 09:46

Incidentally, it seems to me that most black Americans also consider Obama to be "black." At least the celebrations taking place in the African-American community would seem to suggest that they considered him as one of their own, despite the fact that he had one white parent. It is hardly a viewpoint singular to Caucasians, though I would agree that we should more often acknowledge people's mixed backgrounds rather than just labeling anyone with African heritage as "black" (see: Tiger Woods).

SZ6 10 Nov 2008, 05:22

I have nothing more to say to you. There is nothing that either of us can say to change the other's mind, and you've clearly shown you can't hold a constructive discussion about politics without your opinions contributing to ad-hominem attacks against the rest of the participants in the discussion. And I'll admit I let them get the better of me and responded in kind. But now I'm done, and I'm putting this to bed.

Long live president-elect Barack Obama and may he usher in a new American era of peace, prosperity, and gorgeous women with thick glasses.

09 Nov 2008, 23:51

Settle EHPC

Time for your medication

ehpc 09 Nov 2008, 20:13

In fact, SZ6, I would have thought that living and working in a country where less than 1 per cent of the population is white,going for long periods never seeing a white person, interacting daily and constantly with members of all races - yes I think that is pretty conclusive evidence of lack of racism.You'd never have the courage to do that. Racism to you is merely a theoretical matter and your liberal views make you 'feel good'.The racist is you, for being so arrogant as to think that the entire non-white community is begging for your assistance, and need you as some kind of self-appointed spokesperson. Actions count,but talk means nothing in such matters.

ehpc 09 Nov 2008, 19:37

Nor am I 'right-wing'. I am Libertarian. I love Freedom.It says a lot about the timidity of the left that they are so TERRIFIED of Freedom.

ehpc 09 Nov 2008, 19:32

meaning'

ehpc 09 Nov 2008, 19:30

Oh dear...........what self-righteousness does to people. SZ6 will never know the meanins of such words as Spirituality or Aspiration. No points worth taking up.

09 Nov 2008, 13:14

Acctually "Obama Fan" im an Australian.

And not a conservative one either (is that what republicans are?) I think that guy before had a good point - here there is little difference between the left and the right of old anymore. Th real problem is finding people (or creating a generation) that acctually care enough to put some(or any) thought in to it before voting (which is compulsory btw, unlike the pitiful (what) 63% that voted in the USA?) - knowone under 25 really cares here as long as they are geting what they want. Its only us older folk that that have our personal pedistals = public health / public education (which are falling apart) and are needed for a educated middle class to emerge - and this is the only way to create a climate that has political change.

Thats probably something that major parties - here and there dont really want because then its about something way more credible that a "brand war"

SZ6 09 Nov 2008, 12:38

"No-one can accuse me of racism. I live extremely happily in a country where less than one per cent of the population is white, and where I frequently go for a week or much longer without seeing a white person."

Sounds just like claiming that a friendship with a minority is evidence of lack of racism.

SZ6 09 Nov 2008, 12:36

It's okay, lentifan, he's just cornered and angry that his fearful, divisive, greed-driven worldview is now obsolete :).

lentifan 09 Nov 2008, 09:13

I think you are being unnecessarily offensive, ehpc, to those who don't share your right-wing views.

ehpc 09 Nov 2008, 07:37

should be.......''are' a matter of buying a brand'

ehpc 09 Nov 2008, 07:35

The superficiality of your world view, SZ6, is exemplified by your use of such banausic 'language' such as 'buying the Republican brand' and similar jargon. If you think, as you demonstrably do, that politics and philosophy and a matter of 'buying a brand',this simply shows you never think about anything.Just like a fossil, in fact.

r.o. 08 Nov 2008, 12:56

Scoreboard.

SZ6 08 Nov 2008, 10:36

No one's buying the Republican brand anymore. The last two election cycles have shown how out-of-touch and obsolete they are. The USA will return to the true values cherished by the Founding Fathers and the country will be far better off for it.

Sorry ehpc... you and your breed are turning into fossils!

Obama fan 08 Nov 2008, 08:18

just another angry republican....

08 Nov 2008, 00:07

Osama Obama (isnt he the guy weve been looking for?).....

King of the Scrap Heap? or King of the Wurld? or king of his own back yard.

Whatever he is he will have to be a very very good liar to survive as Pres$.

Lets face it - all politicians are and he is walking into the most challenging period of history globaly (and localy) that any Pres$ has ever faced.

Internationaly - as long as he knows where China and India are - and that they are countries he should be OK.

To be brutal and honest most Americans will be walking to the sound of a different drum (globaly) within the next generation - and it wont be an american one.

Misslies and Tanks will be no match for the wealth of comodity and mineral richness and manufacturing s m a r t countries (the old third world)...

But bring on tthe GWG's as someone smart once said - leave smart arse comments to other blogz.

ehpc 07 Nov 2008, 16:48

That really would be going off-topic:) At immense length:)

07 Nov 2008, 15:32

Which so bother you, I meant to say.

07 Nov 2008, 15:31

So what are these 'terrible' things, which ehpc?

ehpc 07 Nov 2008, 14:40

Spot on. Obama will end up being a huge disappointment to his hysterical admirers, because he simply won't be able to do (as he must know) the terrible things he keeps on about.

Bobby 07 Nov 2008, 03:53

Black or white (or yellow or pink or whatever color you may think of), Obama is a university graduate American. He thinks and feels like an American not like an African, (or a European, or a half-breed, or name-it-we-have-it). And politics has always been The Art Of The Possible. He can implement only those changes in the life (policy, economy, ...) of your country that your country and the people of your country can, want, and are able to undergo. Whether you like him or not, he is only a president. He does not rule the country by himself. There is the Congres, there are ministers, advisors, and millions of ordinary people. So anything that is going to happen will happen only if it is politically, economically and socially feasible. Those who exult of joy too much are wrong, only a part of what they hope for will happen. And those who lament are wrong as well, as only a small part of what they are afraid of will happen. The inertia of the development of society is very powerful. Stop dancing inthe streets and stop wearing black clothes. Those were only elections of 2008. The Earth keeps spinning. ...

And girls with glasses are as hot as they were last year.

ehpc 06 Nov 2008, 18:28

Jennifer's wrong though. She doesn't deal in facts. It is a fact (not my opnion) that Obama is as white as he is black. The'racism' belongs to people who think 'non-white'equals 'black'.That's plain ignorance, and a real 'WASP' bit of patronisation. No-one can accuse me of racism. I live extremely happily in a country where less than one per cent of the population is white, and where I frequently go for a week or much longer without seeing a white person.Pete

ehpc 06 Nov 2008, 18:19

Melyssa is right too. I wouldn't have voted in this Presidential election had I been eligible to.

ehpc 06 Nov 2008, 18:18

I don't think there is any abuse there Wurm. Please leave it on:)

Yoyo 06 Nov 2008, 16:47

>>The world is a VERY VERY VERY much more dangerous place today. Mark my words.

Very true -- now that Bush has nothing to lose, he might do something REALLY stupid!

Hansel 06 Nov 2008, 14:29

American Presidents Questions

Barack.....Do he or his wife Michelle wear glasses. Methinks Michelle wears CLs, less sure about him, but thought he might as well.

Has Bush had Lasik, there is a similar look I feel to his eyes as Branson and Melvyn Bragg after their surgery.

Wurm 06 Nov 2008, 14:13

I'm sure ehpc can take the abuse, but a quick reminder:

Please feel free to attack a person's ideas, but please also refrain from attacking the person.

I'll leave this discussion running here for now as a little pressure valve.

On a personal note, I'm always cheered by a peaceful transfer of power.

Melyssa 06 Nov 2008, 12:48

The main reason why so many people are happy about Obama winning is because of what the Republicans have done to this country in the past 8 years. That party is not even close to what I registered with 34 years ago. And as for Sarah Pain, she needs stronger glasses because she is blind to what the world thinks of her and her group. Enjoy the winter up there! :)

Tanya 06 Nov 2008, 11:13

Ah, it's more pathetic whining by ehpc, (is he actually American btw?)

You just don't get it do you?

The US people want something to be proud of, and happy to be an American citizen, that was why Obama was elected...it happened whether you like it or not!

The Republican's, their negative small mindedness are as anchronistic as you, ehpc!

If you want to spout off your bile online go do it someplace else!

How about routedrepblicans.com, for example? ;)

Jennifer 06 Nov 2008, 10:57

If we look back to pre-Civil War times in America. One eighth of black blood made you a black person, therefore a slave, unless your master freed you from bondage. Pete, it's your opinion that Barack Obama is more white than black. Before the Civil Rights accomplishments of America, he would have been subject to all discrimination any other black person faced. It didn't matter that his mother was white. And to show how much America has matured, on the year, his parents were married (1961) it was illegal for a black and a white to marry in 12 states of this union. I would suggest doing a little research of American history before speaking. Therefore, I am very proud of what happend on November 4th in America.

Dieter 06 Nov 2008, 10:55

Pete, you really seem hell-bent on discussing politics on a vision forum. Since you opened the floor, I have to say that your conservative and bigoted colors are showing brightly. As recently as the 1970s, some of the southern states of the US still classified people as negro� if they possessed as little as 1/10th black heritage. Its not as if those people were given the decision to identify with the race of their choice. It was done for them by their government.

As an American, one thing I have never been proud about is the fact that our beloved founding fathers faltered in their principles in order to create the union of all. What I mean by that is that all men are created equal� was meant strictly for white European men. Native Americans were disposed of and eventually forced to move by death marches� to Indian Territory in the west, blacks were allowed to be owned as property in order to benefit the economies of southern states, and women were not given the right to vote until the 20th century.

Lynching of uppity� blacks was still common as late as the 1950s. People were beaten and killed in the 1960s for doing as little as trying to assist black people in registering to vote. Many of us remember watching the news stories on TV in horror. Others have suffered those experiences first hand in their lifetimes. Excuse our excitement for celebrating a day in America where everyone can at least dream of hope and change.

SZ6 06 Nov 2008, 08:57

Race is purely a social construct. It is based on self-identity and how that identity is viewed by the population as a whole. Most "black" people have some degree of "white" ancestry somewhere down their family tree, but it is fair to say that most of them identify as "black".

Pete - why don't you say that to a half-black, half-white person who endured segregation in the US before the civil rights movement? I'm sure they will tell you just how white they felt back then.

ehpc 06 Nov 2008, 08:45

Also, can we stop this fiction that Obama is 'black' which is a total fiction dreamt up by some publicity agent or other? He is half-black, half-white. He could as accurately be described as 'white' rather than 'black'.

ehpc 06 Nov 2008, 08:42

The world is a VERY VERY VERY much more dangerous place today. Mark my words. Pete

Palin fan 06 Nov 2008, 08:06

Sarah is a totally hot moron. A moron to boot.

Lets hope she never get involved in politics again.

Phil 06 Nov 2008, 03:33

How can we be wholly happy for Mr Obama when his victory means a defeat for the lovely Sarah? I hope that we see lots more of her and that she doesn't retreat to Alaska. she'll be in bifocals by the next election!

Yoyo 05 Nov 2008, 20:57

I've never seen so many people dancing in the streets after a Presidential win in my lifetime. This was special -- America took an obvious and tangible step forward. Good job, everyone!

SZ6 05 Nov 2008, 20:03

I don't remember the last time I saw such a global outpouring of goodwill and hope that the world can be a better place.

ehpc 05 Nov 2008, 18:19

You're right Mark. Absolutely right. President Putin in Russia and many others in Iran and such countries who are anti-Freedom will be delighted at what has happened.'The price of Freedom is eternal vigilance' and vigilance has been replaced by complacency.

Mark 05 Nov 2008, 15:59

I for one have always been proud of this country. Yes we are not perfect all of the time but at least we have made a "change" in the world and before Nov, 4. Yes I know that slamming America makes people feel better about their own inadequacies or those of the country they live in.

I am concerned about where we are going and I do hope that now, we will focus on America first and start letting the rest of the world survive on it's own.

Sorry for the rant but I can't stand it when Americans take this country and all who fought for it for granted.

Melyssa 05 Nov 2008, 12:40

I'm proud of my county, too. As for the country, it's been, oh, about 8 years since I've been proud of it. But come 1/20/09, I can resume that feeling.

Jennifer 05 Nov 2008, 08:28

Ooops "country"

Jennifer 05 Nov 2008, 08:28

I am very proud of my county, the United States of America

Filthy McNasty 04 Nov 2008, 22:09

Thanks, congratulations and well done to all my American friends. I'm celebrating with you.

Cut-in UK 26 Aug 2008, 23:09

LikeGlass, a couple of thoughts to follow yours; I think the ECP will have a vested interest in displaying his product, and is probably happier to sport a pair of glasses. It will put the first-time customers at their ease. I agree wholeheartedly with your comments in the second paragraph.

I notice in the UK many of the girls who work in the high street opticians wear very stylish frames at work. Do you think they might choose the job applicant needing correction rather than a 20-20 girl ?

Alternatively, do any of the girls do GOC. I suspect it would be frowned on by the over-regulated optical profession here. Might be a fun prospect though, if the girl was already an GOCer at the time of her appointment ! Would she admit it, or wait till her employer found out, by which time, she probably was recognised as the best sales girl in the shop.

LikeGlass 26 Aug 2008, 12:15

One can be sure that there is a higher % of OO in ECPs as compared to the general population!

Another "Thought for the day" is that GWGs really are nicer people! It's the same principle; If a girl is vain, she is more likely to have lasik, wear contacts, or try to do without. By removing that segment of the population, the remaining ones (with glasses) are statistically more likely to be "real" down to earth people!

sourgrapes 21 Aug 2008, 05:42

Eye Care Practitioner

anonymous 21 Aug 2008, 05:37

And an ECP is?

sourgrapes 21 Aug 2008, 05:30

I wonder how common OO fetishism is among ECPs

LikeGlass 30 Jun 2008, 13:30

Well, look at the bright side:

"Wherever there is a girl with high rx contacts, there is a hidden pair of glasses just in case!"

30 Jun 2008, 12:31

i see girls with high rx wearing contact lenses all the time, it makes me hate contact lenses but maybe contact lenses makes those rare high rx glasses sightings all the more special

Nick 01 May 2008, 02:00

well i like behind the ear.. but my favourite is body worn hearing aid..

pls try to find some pictures of girls with glasses and HA

Charlie_0186 30 Apr 2008, 21:36

Agreed, Nick. Do you have any preference for behind-the-ear or in-the-ear hearing aids?

Picking up another thread, my all-time favourite combination is low-temple glasses and HAs, combined with a chain dangling across the jawline...

Nick 30 Apr 2008, 01:45

as the thread name saya...

i think that glasses fetish is now a days common fetish.. every 2 of 10 is having special attraction toward glasses..

what i m finding these days is that i m getting attracted towards girls who wear GLASSES as well HEARING AIDS..

what u guys say ? how u find girls with hearing aids and glasses..

if u find any of the pics of girls wearing glasses and hearing aids.. pls post it.. i want it for my collection..

thx

24 Apr 2008, 09:23

No matter how much I want it, I'll never be a young, highly nearsighted girl, because I'm an old, creepy man.

All4Eyes 16 Apr 2008, 16:48

I was thinking about Specs4Ever's story "Rebellion of the Myopes", where a group of myopes take control of the world's finances via computers. Uh, didn't that, like already happen, what with Bill Gates and all the other spexy computer nerds who now have more money than the kids who picked on them in high school can probably even count?

I ALWAYS make passes at guys who wear glasses (but I promise I'm shuting up for now), Marie

nick 14 Apr 2008, 01:55

hi guys.. i want to wear thick glasses.. i like biofocal and progressive glasses .. and i love to wear lenticular glasses , myodiscs..!!!

but my prob is i hv cylindrical no.s and that too with lower prescription..-2.5 in both eyes..

i m having two questions

1)how can i increase my eye numbers ?

2)can i wear biofocals or progressive glasses ( by some self modification in my prescription card )

3)can i go for thick glasses or myodiscs .. without doing GOC ? i mean to say that can mysodisc glasses be prepared with low prescription ?

hooked 12 Mar 2008, 00:31

Update:

She did a test some days ago. And then they did not only a test for distance and for near and then they found out that for near the old values are okay and not the new ones and the old values are okay for distance either.

The one diopter difference my wife accomodated away in the first test but the eyes get sore after half an hour.

Now she gets new lenses in the new glasses with the old values.

Some thoughts (as to topic):

I prefer my wife to have glasses with one diopter more (the stronger the better)

I normally thought for hyperopes they will get the maximum correction they can see well with (that means the strongest possible correction). Should an optician don't know this?

hooked 19 Feb 2008, 06:27

My wife has new glasses.

And before they were made she did a test at the optician.

And she was astonished that her prescription was going down after 15 years of no change. (By the way, me too.)

The old prescription was:

+5 (-0,75)

+5.25 (-0,75) (angle doesn't matter)

The new prescription is:

+4 (-1)

+4.5 (-1)

She complains a lot of "fuzzy" vision and she has to take the things far away to read and changed in the evening to the old glasses.

Now to thread topic.

Is it possible that hyperopia decreases after the age of 40? That seems strange to me. In my opinion the test went wrong by what reasons ever.

As an OO like me the outcome of this and the change of glasses is exciting.

Julian 24 Sep 2007, 04:04

Phil: not in your book, because like most of us here you don't have the conventional notion of gorgeousness

Phil 24 Sep 2007, 03:16

All4Eyes, Who says that "conventionally gorgeous" = not needing glasses? Not in my book. I think that only a gwg can really attract me. And I doubt I'm alone!

All4Eyes 23 Sep 2007, 11:41

I've decided to quit praying that I'll turn into a gorgeous, skinny, blue-eyed blonde. I'm afraid God will take me seriously and I'll come back in my next life as a conventionaly gorgeous (hence, not needing glasses), anorexic albino (actually, I've never known an albino who didn't need glasses (not that I've met many albinos, mind you), but then again I don't really believe in reincarnation, either).

I ALWAYS make passes at guys who wear glasses, Marie

Phil 17 Sep 2007, 01:38

I'm not sure that I believe that not wearing minus correction hastens myopia. In my view it's quite the contrary. When one takes one's specs off one feels helpless for a bit. But then one adjusts. I fear that wearing fulltime would make that adjustment harder. And eventually one would succumb. I'd hate to feel I could not survive without glasses.

Now that I'm -4 I certainly feel pretty blind when I take my glasses off. But if I haven't been wearing them for a while I can cope in most situations. I think that there is a difference between how I was when I was -3 and how I am now. I suspect that few people of -4 cope without their glaases but that it is much more common among those with -3 rx.

I already suspect that I could do with a small increase and that may well prove the straw that breaks the camel's back! I intend to get ultra thin lenses in trendier frames next time and may just go for it!

jesse 15 Sep 2007, 05:23

Phil, just out of interest, do you find it different to go without glasses with -4 than with -3? If you just can remember. Are some things harder to do now like recognizing people etc.? I'm trying to imagine at which point the feeling of "blindness" might set in. Probably not very early with your ability to cope.

Guest 14 Sep 2007, 12:03

I don't know if this is true but I heard that going without correction makes myopia progress more. Maybe that's why Phil.

Clare 13 Sep 2007, 13:53

Phil - who knows if you'll be right! I've recorded here my small increases in the last few years but seem to have settled. At my last exam, the optician said that he didn't need to see me again for 2 years, although of course I'll have to have the annual contacts check-up. At the moment I'm not too worried. Like most people I use a PC at work, and for a limited amount of time at home, so nothing excessive like they claim is making children more likely to develop myopia. On the progressives, someone at work has being doing mono vision for some years and reports very good vision. Hopefully that'll be me too, otherwise I'll just be taking my specs off to read - funny, now I remember that years ago that's what an optician told me I'd be doing! Of course I didn't know much about all this optical stuff then so it made no sense at all.

Phil 13 Sep 2007, 01:04

There's nothing "puny" about you Clare! An intelligent City girl with a perfect rx and lenses and (by the sound of it) a pretty exquisite taste in frames just can't be that!

When I was your age I hovered around -3. Over the last 10 or so years I've crept up, an extra .25 here and there. I wouldn't be surprised to see you do the same. Do you spend much time at the computer? Just like reading books at Oxford sent me shooting up from a tiny minus rx when I left school to over -2 3 years later, so I suspect that ever-increasing reliance on computers has caused my rx to pick up again after a fairly stable period in my 20s and early 30s.

I suspect that with the passage of time we'll both end up as fulltime wearers of progressives. What are you thinking of doing when presbyopia sets in? I've tried lined bifocals and weaker "reading" specs, and going bare-eyed, but the only real course (for me, at least) is progressives if I'm honest.

Salt n shake 12 Sep 2007, 16:04

Phil possibly if Claire where to see you in glasses she would have the same reaction.

Clare 12 Sep 2007, 11:34

Yes Phil, you win on that point, you're more out there than me with glasses. But then I'm a diopter less than you, so still a puny rx in the scheme of things!!

Phil 12 Sep 2007, 01:21

Hi Clare, Crazy Phil here! If I'm mad it's only your acceptance of contacts that saves you being just as bonkers. In fact I suspect that I emerge with glasses rather more than you do. The truth is that we both have this "thing" about being seen in specs. I think we are quite unusual, even in the OO world. Odd thing is that, if I saw you in specs, I'd think you looked marvellous in them. So why can't you wear them without a worry? I'm not sure whether you'd think my glasses ameliorated my many defects! But when we eventually have that coffee we'll find out. Hope you had a good summer too.

Clare 11 Sep 2007, 13:21

Spectator - don't get me wrong, I didn't mean I never wear glasses when I'm without contacts, I just don't automatically replace one with another. I usually take a day out from contacts when I'm just around the house, so just put on my glasses when I need to.

lol 10 Sep 2007, 15:05

good line :)

Therouteur 09 Sep 2007, 15:27

Very funny.

Melyssa 09 Sep 2007, 07:19

A guy I once dated took my glasses off m face and said, "Without your glasses, you look beautiful!" I replied, "Without my glasses, you look rather good yourself!"

Spectator 08 Sep 2007, 10:39

Clare

With your Rx it can't be so easy to go without correction but you say you rarely wear glasses so what do you do on the day without contacts.

Clare 07 Sep 2007, 14:11

Hi Phil � hope youve had a nice summer! You know I think youre crazy � how can you switch between seeing and not seeing like that? As for me, Im still with the -2.75 and -3 and dont expect a change.

Clare 07 Sep 2007, 14:11

Aubrac � silly I suppose, but I so rarely wear glasses now that it would be a major talking point. For many years I didnt feel confident in my choice of glasses and only wore them when absolutely necessary. Then, as my prescription went up, I switched to contacts. I think glasses can look great on others but have never felt the same about myself.

Phil 07 Sep 2007, 04:41

Hi Clare.

Haven't heard from you for ages. I've been away-first New York and then the Med-and wearing virtually fulltime. But now that I'm back at work I've lapsed into my bad old ways: I'm going bare-eyed at the computer and generally in the Office. So it really is an "embarrassment" thing, which seems worst with colleagues. Family, friends, neighbours etc have seen me in specs (if not fulltime) but they've really hardly ever been worn at work. So if you think you are "shy" you are nothing like as bad as me! I don't even wear contacts and have more than a dioptre more minus than you!

Are you due a test? Do you expect an increase in your rx?

Aubrac 07 Sep 2007, 00:45

Clare

Yes, there is sometimes a creepy side to this but I think that this is not the case for most of us.

Glasses should not become obsessive with us but for men an attraction that may be sexually linked can develop into an obsession, especially if the person is not finding fulfillment in some other way.

For me, glasses very much add to the attaction of a women but certainly don't make an unattractive (to me that is) person look good.

I am sure that any women who knows her partner gets the hots for any women wearing thick lenses may feel her partner is fantasising during love making, but this could just be the result of her partner not taking enough attention of her, and doing what she enjoys and what turns her on.

My I ask why you feel shy about wearing glasses? My wife isn't shy at all about wearing glasses but prefers not to wear full time mainly because she thinks she will become totally reliant on them.

Clare 06 Sep 2007, 12:57

Aubrac

There are many things in life that have a creepy side, but that's not being the case here we assume! For those of us who feel a little less confident with our glasses, it's good to know that there are guys who like them. Where it might become uncomfortable is where it becomes an obsession and the glasses totally dominate.

As a shy glasses wearer (though not shy in all other aspects), it's nice to know that what some people think of medical accessory are attractive as a decoration, like jewellery.

Perhaps this is an over-simplistic view.

ES-Visitor 06 Sep 2007, 00:54

Yesternight we had again the same discussion with her telling me that every time we make love she starts thinking that I'm fantasising about glasses, high myopic women... things she's not offering. I did try hard to explain that i do desire her as she is but that those things stay as fantasms in the background without affecting my relationship and feelings...towards her... She just can't believe this.

05 Sep 2007, 20:01

what ever you do, just do not make your kids sleep in the cellar

05 Sep 2007, 18:54

Who's normal, anyways?

ES-Visitor 05 Sep 2007, 00:45

Thank you all for your replies, very interesting indeed.

My wife actually hates the fact that I have a special attraction not only to gwgs but also to myopes and high myopes. She thinks that it's a wierd thing. eventhough i did explain that glasses are not THE only atraction and that theyr're in fact a plus...She still insists that being attracted just by ONE OBJECT is abnormal. I explain this by only one fact: that she doesn't have to wear glasses, at least for now, and she feels outcast...From my side, I can't resist long before feeling the real need to have a look around mainly on the web. It goes without saying that ES is a daily must.

cut-in UK 04 Sep 2007, 13:53

E-S Visitor, you don't need a psychiatrist to analyse a simple fetish. I believe that you should tell your wife that you simply think that glasses enhance an already attractive woman.You can compare this to a nice pair of ear-rings or a pair of shoes. What you MUSTN'T do is to suggest that it is the main or sole reason for attraction. That is the essence of a fetish, and as the fetishist is predominantly (but by no means exclusively) male, this has to remain your little secret. If your wife is not the sort to be turned on by a fetishistic attribute, you will get no benefit from admitting that you are. She will probably respond if you compliment her regularly in a general way, but make sure that the glasses are seen as a special feature; (the icing on the cake!)

Subtlety is the keynote here as she is aware of your leaning. Build on it slowly as an important feature in her arsenal of attractive features.

Let us know how you get on but remember that women are very intuitive and don't overdo it.

hooked 04 Sep 2007, 03:46

I never told my wife that I want to see her rather in glasses than without.

Sometimes she askes me if she should wear glasses or put in contacts.

Naturally, I answer she should wear glasses.

Sometimes I got a strange look then but not all the time.

I don't know how my wife would react.

Once I thought she had found out:

We've been walking in the evening on the crowdiest street of the city and a young couple came across and I couldnÄt do nothing as staring on the nice looking girl with her glasses at least half a minute.

She asked me. "What was so special with that couple?"

I can't remember what I answered.

Aubrac 04 Sep 2007, 00:29

ES-Visitor

It's a difficult one because most women are just not turned on by popular male fetishes. It is difficult for a women to understand how a man can be attracted by shoes, feet, amputees, glasses, etc, which are all very real for a lot of us.

I suppose only about 10%/15% of women have some sort of fetish as they usually tend to be attracted by the whole male 'look' rather than one body part or object.

After a few too many glasses of vino I told my wife how fantastic she looked and I felt when she wore her glasses. I got a sort of uncomprehending response. It did tend to have the reverse effect and sometimes when she is at the computer wearing glasses, she will take them off when I come into the room. However, when I asked she did wear her glasses all evening when we went out to dinner last week. Although we've been married five years, my knees did shake a little under the table when she gazed intently at me with her slightly magnified (+1.75)lovely grey blue eyes with their tiny streaks of amber.

My only advice for anyone is to tell their partner but always start the conversation by saying how sexy we find them as a person, how sexy they look doing certain things, how sexy they look wearing certain clothes/shoes and only then, how sexy they look wearing their glasses.

I hope you girls out there don't find this patronising as it certainly isn't meant to be and I would love to hear your comments. Us blokes rarely get it right!!!

Tulip 03 Sep 2007, 13:14

ES Visitor

My wife thinks the same of me. She knows about me liking minus glasses, but doesn't know about this eyescene thing. She has -3/-4 and I like this a lot. In the past we have had discussions about being (sexual) attracted to gwgs.

stefanstar2003 03 Sep 2007, 06:52

I'd say,it depends on "the power of your obsession"... Talking only for me : I could never suppress my passion - and for me it's a real BIG PASSION ! I would get physically ill by suppressing this passion! It's like being a child of the mountain wilderness and being forced by somebody to live in a gray city full of industry - I would feel deeply homesick everytime I see a mountain, river, green hills... I would get ill ! How the hell can there be somebody who calls herself "loving wife" who does such a harm to her husband... little bit romantically, I know, but it's the way I feel - my first wife found my glasses passion sort of "strange, funny, not worth to ask deeper to understand" so from this on I kept it for me - we started to go different ways - and got divorced. Sandra my girlfriend knows from very beginning that I am attracted by her myopia, but not only by her myopia, we got introduced when she wore contacts, and I was interested in her cause she was nice, pretty, a little bit shy...

Don't try to get rid of a worthy part of your "ego", don't let a psychiatrist try to suppress a part of YOU - just try to be You a little bit more - and we will see if your wife LOVES YOU or only a figurine...

Sorry, only my opinion

Stephan

ES-Visitor 03 Sep 2007, 01:26

I don't know where to post this, so i picked up this thread! I'd like to raise a problem I'm facing with my wife who is "accusing" me for being "sexually obsessed" and "perverted" because of my strong and recurring preference for women wearing glasses, especially high myopes. After I did promise to quit looking for this matter on the web, she got me back at it again, it's now hell because of that. Actually, she doesn't wear glasses, in fact she does have a pair for a very mild prescrption but she uses them very rarely. She thinks that I'd be attracted to a woman only because she wears glasses or she's a high myope. She can't understand that this is not a precontditio9n for being attracted but just a plus, a strong stimulus... I'm sure many of you people are facing more or less same issues. I've been suggested to seek advice with a psychiatrist as it's a kind of addiction!! What do you my friends think??

Tim 10 Jun 2007, 22:16

Fortunately (for us OOs) Lasik is no good for prescriptions over about -10, and not everyone is suitable anyway due to insufficient corneal thickness. What we really need to worry about is intraocular lens transplants! Inshallah, many girls will be put off by the prospect of invasive surgery.

Anyway, the +2.5 readers will surely always be with us, if that is any consolation.

Salt and vinegar 10 Jun 2007, 17:49

Surely as Lasik becomes safer and more effective in the future glasses will become surplus to requirement. Discuss?

20 May 2007, 10:13

Lending an ear to what is not beautiful is the root of compassion. What repels us, startles us, the Ugly, is what we are not used to, or cannot understand. A beauty-in-waiting, to find it requires lending an ear (an eye, a hand) to ugliness. Not being afraid of the ugly is the entrance to compassion toward others.

ehpc 20 May 2007, 08:16

Beauty is the reason we live - spiritual beauty, artistic beauty, philosophical beauty, physical beauty. Beauty is the reason for living. Pete

Jan 20 May 2007, 05:30

I found this male Android "Geminoid HI-1" from Japan on the net. It is a dublicate of its builder, who is everything but not handsome. And I was thinking: "Why does it wear those ugly old specs?". I am always strongly complaining about the misuse of glasses in movies, but why whould an android (with glasseyes) wear specs, especially those fugly ones from the decade of Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs? And what was its myopic parent thinking, when he ordered those - even in his presciption?

Maybe it is a kind of statement against all the need of beauty in the world, which i would highly support, or it has plain narcissistic reasons.

Any thoughts?

http://www.kuroneko-chan.com/echoes/?cat=6

Puffin 12 May 2007, 07:23

There are a few others, like for instance, you really notice when someone gets glasses, no matter how careful they are to avoid being noticed.

11 May 2007, 19:10

Does anyone know his true RX? I'm sure it's above -10

Tom 11 May 2007, 18:11

In his autobiography, Sytephen King writes that as a child he had to get thicker glasses every year.

Filthy McNasty 11 May 2007, 17:36

Stephen King is remarkably myopic. He's also terribly uncoordinated. I would venture to say that the previous poster was jealous of the former and not the latter.

Rainis 10 May 2007, 00:59

I did not realize about Stephen King. What did you mean?

Trent 28 Apr 2007, 16:46

That's great All4eyes!

All4Eyes 28 Apr 2007, 07:13

You might be an OO if...

1. When you see a girl and think "Are those REALLY HERS?" you aren't necessarily thinking of her boobs.

2. When you see a guy and think "Those are really strong!" you aren't necassarily thinking of his biceps.

3. Your favorite store in the mall is Lenscra**ers.

4. Your favorite Beatle is John Lennon.

5. Whenever you think about the guy who invented L@$!K, you get this weird urge to start throwing things (preferable towards his general vicinity).

6. You firmly believe Dorothy Parker should never have gotten published.

7. You over-hear someone talking and feel a surge of adrenaline when you catch the word "glasses"-only to be followed by a huge let-down when you realize they're refering to drink receptacles.

8. You sometimes find yourself feeling jealous of Stephen King, nevermind that the inside of his head is a nightmare factory.

9. The phrase "The power of the lens" has two different meanings for you.

10. You understand how a minus can be a plus!

Puffin 27 Jan 2007, 19:01

But they don't chuck wood.

WoodChuck 27 Jan 2007, 11:01

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if woodchucks could chuck wood.

gwgs 25 Jan 2007, 06:52

You are lucky your partner needs glasses, my doesn't :(

hooked 25 Jan 2007, 05:42

As you probably know I'm a fan of plus glasses.

My thought of this morning:

Why does my wife only wear glasses with a strength of ca. + 5 ?

I wish she would need at least two diopters more.

Am I normal or not?

Redtail 01 Jan 2007, 00:20

May all of you on Eyescene enjoy a healthy and happy new year!

Tod 26 Dec 2006, 18:39

very well put, gentlemen.

Milthy FcNasty 26 Dec 2006, 13:29

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

--Herbert Spencer

Wurm 26 Dec 2006, 12:21

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Julian 26 Dec 2006, 06:50

Filthy, my sweet [who, as old stagers will remember, was long ago elected an honorary queen::)] your greetings and good wishes are returned with interest.

Love and kisses, Jules.

Filthy McNasty 25 Dec 2006, 18:18

Merry Christmas to all of you. I specifically name Wurm, NJ and Julian, for whom I have undying affection and positive regard, but I include by implication all of you who are as screwed up. perverse, or deviant as I am. Thank you all for giving me a forum in which to feel normal (and next to some of you, I feel completely and utterly normal).

Long live ES.

Filthy McNasty 11 Nov 2006, 21:09

Oh, and Sara, now that you've split with your hubby, may I remind you that Vancouver is a great place to vacation. We may be "lib'ruls" but we have great scenery, as you yourself do. Please come for a visit.

Filthy McNasty 11 Nov 2006, 20:51

But I love even Republicans in glasses. Sara Evans, please reveal that you wear +/- 10. Thanks for your attention.

Filthy McNasty 11 Nov 2006, 20:50

I would also like to congratulate my sisters and brothers in the USA on recently casting an overwhelming number of votes for getting your administration back on track. We in Canada (at least the sane ones) love you as a people, but fear your president. I feel more optimistic about the future than I have for a long time.

Filthy McNasty 11 Nov 2006, 20:03

I hate war; I am grateful however to our vets. The rest of us have no conception of your bravery and sacrifice. Thank you again on this Rembrance Day.

Wurm 30 Aug 2006, 09:45

I recall a time when I said "if I knew then what I know now...", but if I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have said it.

Alex 20 Aug 2006, 15:39

Yeah I get what you mean. We all worry about making our perscriptions higher and higher but in actual fact it is the lower perscriptions and thinner glasses which really are "more".

Thought of the Day 20 Aug 2006, 15:29

If less is more, imagine how much more more will be

craig.uk 20 Aug 2006, 14:33

Just a profound thought;

If the people REALLY interested in wearing glasses knew of this site, we'd never have the time to read all the correspondence! The GOC industry has, (in my humble opinion) unlimited potential. However, I do believe that there is a specific psychological profile that has leanings towards as love of 'optics' and glasses.

NJ 14 Aug 2006, 23:49

Yeah, and I am still 'up' thinking about this afterlife...

Filthy McNasty 14 Aug 2006, 23:45

Don't give me that crap, NJ. She'd have no problem keeping you up and well we both know it.

NJ 14 Aug 2006, 20:03

I'd rather be reborn as the bridge of Eggplantine's glasses, just so I could slip and slide up and down her nose all day while feeling her cute finger try to keep me up.

Hot, Hot, Hot!!

Filthy McNasty 14 Aug 2006, 19:36

I'd like to come back as Eggplantine's bar of soap.

James T 14 Aug 2006, 17:27

I wished I believed in reincarnation, so that when I die, I can come back as Julie Wilson's optometrist.

Julie was a girl in my school, a year behind me. I've posted about her before. She always wore big plastic-frame magnifying glasses (it was the 80's) with a prescription of probably around +8 to +10.

I'd love to be the doc that had to keep saddling her with thicker, heavier glasses every year.

LD 11 Aug 2006, 06:10

I've thought about this too and would be interested to know how it came about that what we consider "normal" vision is agreed as being 20/20. Personally I think it would be more accurate to have a range of normal vision, say -0.75 to +0.75 maybe. My old glasses eave me with a rx of -.50 in both eyes but honestly it's a very fine difference and one with which I'd cope very happily with glasses if it was my "bare eyed" rx. I've no problem with people wearing glasses for this kind of rx (the more the merrier) but I find it pretty annoying when these people claim to "blind" without their glasses. I mean I am -6.50 and although I think my uncorrected vision is fairly bad, I would never say I was "blind". People may say this light heartedly but even so is it not kind of offensive to the genuinely blind?

Puffin 09 Aug 2006, 18:43

That sounds like a story idea I had once: imagine that there is a long-lost island or nation which for some reason has a different definition of what "normal" or "perfect" eyesight is. What we call 20/20 vision is to an extent arbitary. Yes, it's related to what might be considered useful, even vital.

I thought that maybe the inhabitants of this odd country might consider 20/100 to be normal vision. Then someone comes from the outside world and introduces them to our interpretation of "normal vision".

Sorry, never have half the time I want to write stories.

Thought of the Day 09 Aug 2006, 12:59

What if the real world is actually a blur and by putting glasses on we are obscuring are view of the world. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

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Puffin 29 Jul 2006, 08:15

Yes, there could be, but I've too many ideas and no time to write them (aargh!)

Julian 28 Jul 2006, 23:34

There could be a story in the idea...Puffin?

Puffin 28 Jul 2006, 15:45

Who knows, he could be right

Forest again 28 Jul 2006, 12:29

oh this was not logical

but you know what i mean ;)

Bobby 28 Jul 2006, 08:50

OMG!

Forest 27 Jul 2006, 13:18

i wonder if all + und - rx added

equal zero

maybe if someone hyperopic dies

someone else bekomes myopic

Puffin 12 Jul 2006, 16:24

Seen on a fridge magnet recently

"Men are like chocolates, if you wait too long only the weird nutty ones are left"

That sounds like me :-)

Original Tony 29 May 2006, 17:55

Forget expesive rings; chains, pendants and earings; if the eyes are the windows of the soul then trade up to double glazing.

LikeGlass 22 May 2006, 16:05

You might be a myope if...

"Finger Food" is a style of eating, rather then a type of food!

Clare 22 May 2006, 14:22

But then some people aren't aware it's a contradiction. They think the world actually looks like that ;)

All4Eyes 22 May 2006, 13:25

You might be a myope if...

You think the phrase "Clear across the room" is a contradiction.

Julian 13 Sep 2005, 14:02

I think we're all thinking and saying, and maybe praying, things about this tragedy. But maybe this isn't the forum where we say them.

Jennifer 13 Sep 2005, 12:00

I think the full impact of this tragedy hasn't hit us yet. The number of people affected is vague. The number of dead isn't coming out clearly. We keep hearing about "dead bodies" floating in the water. Yet, the number of dead estimates has been pushed down. I get the feeling our media is trying to sanitize this whole tradegy. Could it be that because 9-11 was caused by an "enemy" the media was quicker to give results. Katrina is a natural disaster and therefore no one to directly blame. Unless you want to blame the local, state, federal government for lack of response. The Katrina huricane is far worse than what happened on 9-11. A greater number of people and territory have been affected. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of the gulf coast.

LikeGlass 13 Sep 2005, 11:13

Hopefully it is less! Although, the scenes of Mississippi haunt me: Houses where only the concrete slabs are left from the storm surge. I wonder how many people have simply disappeared into the gulf. As for the lack of comments, it may just be hard to speak when ones mouth just hangs open in amazement at a level of devastation we have never witnessed before. Most blogs I have read are equally quiet on the subject leaving the news media the loan speakers. ---what can one say?--- Nothing feels sufficient.

Guido 13 Sep 2005, 09:47

Filthy states: "Contrast this to post 9-11, where far fewer people died......." What is the estimated death toll from Katrina? I am hearing and seeing (corrected, of course) that the number of dead is falling well below any early estimates.

Filthy McNasty 12 Sep 2005, 08:58

The New Orleans phenomenon is a rather sickening combination of horrifying and instructive.

As far as I can see, the only comment on the Katrina disaster anyone has made in this forum, besides my own post earlier in this thread, is the ignoramus 'Blog Commentator' in the "Glasses for Auction or Sale" thread, who, somewhat like the current administration, seems to think of the situation more as material for stand-up comedy than a tragedy of incredible proportions.

Contrast this to post 9-11, where far fewer people died - the board was full of expressions of horror and sympathy. I will not speculate here as to why there is such a difference in the level and type of response between the two tragedies. I'm sure everyone has his or her own idea.

Emily 06 Sep 2005, 10:36

Macaroni Grill keeps a bunch of reading glasses in different powers so people who forgot their glasses can read the menu. I think they're a national chain.

Filthy McNasty 05 Sep 2005, 16:03

I hope none of you have family in the vicinity of the Katrina disaster. We have been following the stories with horror in the Great White North.

Original Tony 31 Aug 2005, 10:44

A lot of large stores these days keep a stock of items for thier customers use; e.g. handy umbrellas when going outside to the garden department of a store.

Does anyone know of a store or other facility that keepps a stock of eyeglasses for the customers use?

Original Tony

/---((o))-((o))---\

08 Jul 2005, 10:08

hee hee

Steven Wright 08 Jul 2005, 04:21

"Yesterday I was walking down the street wearing my eyeglasses when all of a sudden my prescription ran out."

Mimi 08 Jun 2005, 16:59

There should be a thread on here where everyone can post a picture of themself. I'm sure I'm not the only one curious as to how everyone looks.

Puffin 08 Jun 2005, 02:31

This always seems to happen to me. Wherever I am at work, or was at school, the GWG's always seemed to leave, the others always seemed to stay and stay. :(

gwgs 08 Jun 2005, 01:41

My thought of the day is;

Are contact lenses as bad as lasik for us 0-0 fans?

I've just learnt that a girl who used to work for us has started wearing contacts.

This came from a girl who is still friends with her and said "it does make a considerable difference as she used to wear quite thick lenses before." :(

Now i remember when she got spex and she looked so cool butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. She had ginger hair - something i normally don't go for but her gold rimmed rectangular spex really set her features off well.

Over the months the lenses got slightly thicker up until the point at her leaving do where I remember sitting next to her and she started to cry when we gave her a present, she took of her glasses and put them on the table. I could see they were probably about -2.75/-3 and she had only been wearing them for a few months. The bit i enjoyed most was when after she'd opened her present & stopped crying she put her glasses back on and thanked everyone. I presume this was 'cos she couldn't see their faces that clearly!

I had always hoped of bumping into her in public and seeing if she'd got an increase in her lenses but now she's got lenses i guess we'll never know.

Puffin 06 Jun 2005, 17:09

I suddenly remember a girl at school who wore glasses for distance only. I happened to sit next to her in Geography for a few months. She smashed her glasses one time, and because I think she was scared to tell her parents, went without glasses for a while. I remember the teacher holding up a book and saying "open the book at this page" and she couldn't tell which page, so I had to help her. Aow, what a memory. :)

Puffin 14 Apr 2005, 02:33

Yesterday I was walking into town and idly thought of our school science class, in particular the textbook which had a bit about glasses and vision defects. It suggested checking your bespectacled classmate's glasses, getting them to let you feel the lenses and work out whether they were long or short sighted. Surely simply looking would be enough? Or was the writer an OO too and wanted to start us down the slippery slope?

BTW, I can't remember whether we actually did this - but I wish we had.

Deidre 16 Jan 2005, 04:28

Wurm

You should have deleted all of these 25 posts as non of them are glasses related. They belong on some political site somewhere.

Wurm 15 Jan 2005, 13:39

I deleted a group of posts purporting to be a conversation but apparently all from the same source. Unfortunately, a couple of legitimate posts were deleted along with it. Sorry about that. I don't think any glasses-related content was lost.

Dubya 05 Nov 2004, 04:15

My thought for the day: "Duh, I fooled 'em again!"

04 Nov 2004, 17:57

Our political system is a sham. These political parties and their campaign styles are loony. Especially the Democrat's. They need beter candidates. Stop picking Senators altogether and no more governors or senators from the northeast. Like Duh! Stop letting some dopey Iowa farmers pick your nominee in the middle of Feburary. Buy air time in half hour blocks on prime time TV and talk to the American people about what you will do if elected. in other words Democrat, stop being a jackass.

Ghengis Kahn 04 Nov 2004, 17:10

Why doesn't congress hold politicians to the same accountability businessmen are held to? The Sarbanes Oxley act of 2002 prescribes jail time, and million dollar fines for any officer of a publically traded company if there are any financial shananigans in the company.

I suggest we hold politicians accountable in a slightly different way. When the President, or one of his cabinet makes a public speech Congress should hook these characters up to a lie detector. If they lie, a quarter-of-an-inch gets whacked off the guys tongue. Ouch! Second lie, and another half inch hits the floor, and they get hit with a $200,000 fine. The way I figure it, one public speech and Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney are history.

If you're an ex-President, you only get fined. Old man Bush would be broke in no time flat.

I've thought of doing the same thing in the groin area, but it wouldn't do any good because these guys wouldn't miss it.

Hey, I'll bet the relegious right would really dig this. Let's take it to the people. A grass roots movement. What do you say?

How About 04 Nov 2004, 17:05

What about I voted for before I voted against.

Four months four medals and a dead family in a swift boat.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

Don't always trust the media. Any single source is biased one way or the other.

We picked the lesser of two evils. At least we have the freedom to chose!!!

Except 04 Nov 2004, 16:06

Except that nobody seems to be noticing they're being lied to.

hereWeGoAgain 04 Nov 2004, 13:38

Actually, this feels a LOT like Nixon ...

Ghengis Kahn (Madeline's bro) 04 Nov 2004, 12:26

When the "moral majority" came into power during the 90's with Newt Gingrich as it's leader, I was afraid. Look what happened to them. I'm hopeful the current administration will fall on it's own knife and end up on the sidelines the way Gingrich and his crew did.

I now have fears about the amount of debt being incurred and how it will be repaid with out run-away inflation; and, the fact that the Supreme Court may end up so conservative that our basic rights will be taken away. But, mostly I'm troubled that the ethics given to us by George Washington when he said, "Father, I can not lie. I chopped down the Cherry Tree" isn't even a faint memory in the minds of the current administration.

NYC O^O 04 Nov 2004, 11:35

Hilary is at least a GWG.

Bobby 04 Nov 2004, 11:27

Wel, well, it is your country, your elections, and your president. I mean it is your responsibility to choose the right wise man in the right time. If most of the people of the US think Bush is such a man, what can a European say? ... Definitely this was not a good choice.

ehpc 04 Nov 2004, 08:49

Actually I did know that Honolulu wasn't a State...............sorry that was not well expressed. I meant an offshore territory or whatever.

Bart 04 Nov 2004, 08:46

I'm happy for George Bush election...

cause this way he will have the opportunity to repair to all the misfacts he did up to now ;)

Filthy McNasty 04 Nov 2004, 08:31

Honolulu a state? Yer gettin' yer gerogaphy lessins from Dubya, ah reckon.

ehpc 04 Nov 2004, 07:02

I would like the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland to be offshore States of the USA, like Honolulu. However, whilst looking into the future is a hazardous business, if that ever did happen, it won't be for at least another 75 years!Pete

gwgs 04 Nov 2004, 05:53

Ditto that Puffin.

Puffin 04 Nov 2004, 05:29

I'm just really glad I don't live in America.

ehpc 04 Nov 2004, 05:05

Politics should be able to be discussed in a civilised manner. Personally, as a Republican, I am naturally delighted at yesterday's news, but a word for the Democrats................if you run Hillary Clinton next time, it will be a Republican LANDSLIDE:)Pete

04 Nov 2004, 00:21

Let them vent. Elections are once every 4 years and the talk won't go on forever. When you check the history of this thread you'll see the election talk is the first activity in this thread since September. So... they're not tying up a busy thread, nor do you have to read it. Lighten up.

03 Nov 2004, 23:50

Yeah, the Democrats should have run Hilary Clinton for President. Her campaign slogan could have been "Let's Lick Bush!"

Oh, well, why change horsemen in the middle of the Apocalypse?

Guest 03 Nov 2004, 20:42

Could we please dispense with the personal attacks? While I am bitterly disappointed in the outcome of the election and dismayed and apprehensive at the prospect of four more years of the current administration, perhaps the fault lies in the inability of the losing party to adequately make their case to the American public. Hopefully the anger and resentment being felt can be channeled in more constructive directions.

Guido 03 Nov 2004, 19:16

John K.:

I and my 58 million compatriots can only hope that you and your domestic partner are miserable for the next four!

SZ6 03 Nov 2004, 17:41

Filthy,

From the bottom of my heart, I wish I could tell you we didn't elect him this time, either.

so & reep 03 Nov 2004, 15:41

Just because one is the leader of a superpower doesn't make him superman.

He will have to one day be nothing but dust.

it may be the devil or it may be the lord, but you're going to have to serve somebody ____ Bob Dylan

lonny 03 Nov 2004, 14:47

I'm from The Netherlands,

We used to see the U.S.A as our friends, since 9-11 something has hapened to your land, you seem agressive, unable to laugh about yourselves.

And Bush, from a european view seems like a very dangerous man, a liar, a war maker and very stupid.

I am very afraid about your country now.

I can imagine that since Bush is in charge the number of potential terrorists has become a hundred times bigger.

I hope that every thing can still come right !

Greetings.

Friend 03 Nov 2004, 14:17

God Bless America! God Bless George W. Bush!

Lazysiow 03 Nov 2004, 13:06

I had a thought today since I prefer girls with -1 to -6 or strong hi index lenses.. a funny analogy to age

-1 is like a sweet 16 :) , -2 is going legal and anything above I consider "developing" or blossoming :D

John K. 03 Nov 2004, 12:40

Guido,

I guess there are at least 58 million complete idiots in the USA as of yesterday.

ehpc 03 Nov 2004, 11:06

I want Dubya for President! OH,great! He is already! Pete

Dubya 03 Nov 2004, 10:42

You're right, Guido, I won the selection in 2000 legitly!

Filthy McNasty 03 Nov 2004, 07:58

Julian: You are right, of course, as usual. Praise the Lord and pass the ammo...and the pretzels.

Julian 03 Nov 2004, 07:13

Filthy, my sweet: while of course I agree with every word you say, I'm not sure this is the place to agree and disagree about that sort of thing (and if that isn't having my cake and eating it...)

Love and kisses, Jules.

Guido 03 Nov 2004, 05:20

Filthy: And I am sure that you are among the dunderheads that are sure that the vote was hijacked in 2000.

Katy 03 Nov 2004, 01:30

Well said, Filthy.

Filthy McNasty 02 Nov 2004, 21:03

America: Last time, the world gave you the benefit of the doubt. After all, it wasn't like you elected him.

Please don't let the world down this time. The world may not be able to weather four more years.

Brian-16 02 Nov 2004, 13:13

LikeGlass-I am a member of the trifocal party and can see farther!

LikeGlass 02 Nov 2004, 12:11

The race is a statistical dead heat, with the "Bambie Party" (Large Eyes) and the "Come Hither Party" (Small Eyes) each claiming 50% of the vote. The Bambies claim that the views of their opponents are way too myopic, while their own view is very farsighted. The Come Hithers, on the other hand, feel that the Bambies, with their thick convex lenses, blow everything out of proportion and see everything as a larger issue then it is. It is believed that most voters will split their vote into a bifocal or even a trifocal arrangement, with many opting for a progressive stance instead.

;)

Puffin 13 Sep 2004, 16:57

I also used to find girls in glasses wearing those plastic goggles during science class nice to look at too. Kind of double glasses. Ooohh. And then there were some who didn't want to wear the goggles too. Mmmm.

Bobby 31 Aug 2004, 08:25

Puffin: Of course, always. 8-)

Puffin 31 Aug 2004, 08:16

Has anyone done any of these things:

I always choose the GWG at the supermarket checkout.

When I'm in the Post Office queue, and there is/are GWG's, I'm standing hoping to get served by her - and nearly always get the boring man instead. :(

When there's a GWG on a gameshow, I'm always ready to root for them. A little selfish, because I want to see them, but never mind.

Sambo 26 Jun 2004, 01:47

Angie, How can we direct you, when you can't see?

Puffin 26 Jun 2004, 01:03

To paraphrase Anne Robinson

"you have the strongest glasses, hello"

angie 03 Jun 2004, 20:59

i've recently been going bare-eyed...or at least seme bare-eyed...quite a lot lately. (i'm too cheap to buy prescription sunglasses, so i just buy a plain pair and take my spex off to wear them in the sunlight.) it's a very interesting experience, and i'm wondering whether there's a thread dedicated to this kind of experience. anyone want to direct me?

Alan 03 Dec 2003, 08:29

Pam - probably should go in "Vision" or "Acuity and Prescription II". I'll post a response there.

Pam 03 Dec 2003, 05:00

Having lunch with a friend today, the subject got around to eyesight and my friend mentioned that she did not know of, or had ever seen, any Aboriginal or Maori people wearing glasses, (we live in Australia),and I had to agree with her. I have quite a few Maori friends and they all seem to have perfect eyesight. Do any of you knowledgeable people out there have any reason to believe that this is true? I'm not sure whether this is the right thread for this post as I can remember the Asian myopia discussion a few weeks ago but couldn't remember where and wasn't game to go sifting right back. Very interesting though.

Tod 16 Oct 2003, 19:27

I know I don't know everything but THAT is more than some people know.

Leon 06 Oct 2003, 06:28

Whoops, I'm too late... Happy birthday next year, Puffin! ;-)

Puffin 06 Oct 2003, 06:17

Thank all very much :)

Bobby 05 Oct 2003, 14:44

Happy birthday, Puffin. And a lot of fish!

still 04 Oct 2003, 20:31

Happy birthday, Puffin! And many more to come.

Tod 04 Oct 2003, 20:02

With each new day I learn something new that I did not know yesterday. But only had I known it yesterday!

Julian 04 Oct 2003, 17:37

Yes, Puffin, MANY HAPPY RETURNS!

Love and kisses, Jules.

Aislinn 04 Oct 2003, 15:45

Happy Birthday!!

Hope ya have a gr8 day! :-) xx

Tammy 04 Oct 2003, 10:24

Puffin, Happy Birthday a day early!

Puffin 04 Oct 2003, 09:59

I didn't know where to put this, but it's my Birthday tommorow. Any 'Happy Birthdays' will be gratefully recieved.

Pinkspecs 01 Oct 2003, 00:54

WOW what a month my 3 web sites had the most visits since I started them.

8354 visits http://mysite.freeserve.com/SPECIAL_EYES_2/

6471 visits http://mysite.freeserve.com/SPECIAL_EYES_3/

5271 visits http://hearingaidprettygirl.mysite.freeserve.com/

*************************************************

SPECIAL_EYES_3 has been update for October.

Regards William

Bobby 29 Sep 2003, 02:23

Oh, Chino, I know what you mean, a few weeks ago I was watching a TV channel just to see a movie where there was a bespectacled female character. It was not dubbed, so I could listen to the english and read the subtitles. As the movie was really bad, you know something third class, just to broadcast once and never again, the subtitles where done reälly negligently. when it finished i said to mysëlf: "Was the 10 minutes of seeing the GWG with mild prescription worth suffering the bad translation for one and half hour?" And - I found out - it was not.

Chino 28 Sep 2003, 19:52

"Did they just...translate "thank you" into "arigato" in the english subtitles?"

I was watching a Japanese anime. I had the English subtitles on so I'd understand it. Well, one of the characters says "thank you" - in English (with a thick Japanese accent). While listening to this, the English subtitles say "arigato." It only makes sense right?

It's kinda like when you're watching Mad Max - the dubbed version. After all, us Americans don't understand Australian right? We don't understand English, so it only makes sense that they'd dub it in....English.....yeah, beats the hell outta me too.

Chino

Tammy 27 Sep 2003, 01:30

Likeglass, You are right! Atlantis is a Wonderful glasses movie!

Chino 26 Sep 2003, 18:49

I'm crossing that bridge, with lessons I've learned.

I'm playing with fire, and not getting burned.

I may not know, what you're going through.

But time is the space, between me and you.

Life carries on.

Great song by Seal.

Chino

Chino 26 Sep 2003, 18:29

Bling-bling (AKA shiny jewelry).

Glasses are a bit like jewelry. If you get the right pair and tune the lenses just right, they'll shine, sparkle, enhance your looks, and make OOs go GaGa.

So for those people who have seen this site and still don't like their glasses....hey, give it a chance. When you go out, please, wear your bling-bling 8P.

Chino PI

....Magnum PI doesn't have shit on me ;)

Bobby 20 Jul 2003, 14:39

Thought of today (while watching TV):

If your self-confidence surpasses your intellect, you can do any job - at least for some time.

LikeGlass 19 Jul 2003, 08:15

And the Oscar for "Best Glasses Sound Effects in a Motion Picture" goes to......

Disney's Atlantis ! Just saw it last night and the attention to detail almost had me laughing out loud through the whole movie! From rustling, to tapping, to folding, and everything else, the audio track was SO on the money it leads me to believe that there was an OO on the production staff! (Definitely something to ponder!)

Puffin 16 Jul 2003, 15:57

I whinge silently to myself that I have no sightings of GWG's... then I do something as simple as going across the road to local supermarket, or to the local post office, ten minutes away, and see all sorts on the way there and back, not to mention in the place.

Eddy 13 Jul 2003, 15:55

But you, sweetest Hearty are back and that suffices for your ever pining Eddy!!

13 Jul 2003, 14:05

I'll second that.

11 Jul 2003, 20:32

All the neat people have gone.

Driven off by the new wave of yuppies etc.

Hearty 09 Jul 2003, 01:37

I guess no one is having any thoughts these days....?? What happened to the witticisms that used to be on here?

That's my thought for the day....where did everybody go???

Remember Sandy Becker doing Hambone? He had some odd statements on that board of his.......he was hot, too!!

Hearty 25 May 2003, 11:08

YaY, Chino, I was just about ready to chew you out!!! I'm so happy for your news!! =D

Oops, that sexy sax n smokey blur post wuz mee, sippin' some good pinot noir. Hadn't even remembered that.....=o

I also am posting here, to express my thoughts of this day.....sending my Love, and that may God Bless all the departed souls and surviving loved ones, in Algeria. Somehow you can feel their loss, even over the miles...

Puffin 22 May 2003, 16:28

I thought I saw a puddy tat - I did, I did! :)

Chino 20 May 2003, 10:50

Hi Hearty!! Sorry I've been kinda nonexistent for the last year or so. Just trying to get myself together and deal with some personal issues.

Oh, I've got great news! They finally lifted the Marine Corps' stop-loss as Operation Iraqi Freedom is over. So I get to go back home to Florida on July 25th!!

WooHoo!! That means that as of writing this letter, I have 2 months, 4 days, 10 hours, 11 minutes, and 27 seconds before I get out. But who's counting anyways ;)? Shoot me an e-mail sometime (rodriguezl@lejeune.usmc.mil). Look forward to hearing from ya Hearty.

Chino

LikeGlass 18 May 2003, 19:02

Wow! Looks like a post from the old Penny & Specsgerl days!

Thee Corrections Officer 18 May 2003, 18:44

Brooding men with eyes so lax,

inject my pulse, my heart they tax...

Squinting through smoke 'n' golden sax

they rend my fingers poetic wax~

LOL!!!!!!

Hearty 13 May 2003, 01:16

My sister has a rodent named Foo, but you have to say it with a baby voice... Hi Chino!!

My thought for the day...."Can I get 2, maybe even 3 of these? Come from space to teach you of the Pliedes! Can't stop the spirits when they need you...this life is more than just a read-through!"

-RHCP

Chino 08 May 2003, 13:30

"I was trying to determine the social implications of being a Foo!"

My buddy Eric, after getting a strange phone call while simultaneously doing homework, drinking beer, and smoking weed (he's multi-talented). Anyways, a guy called asking for "Foo" - he had the wrong number. For some reason Eric thought the guy was calling him a "Foo."

Chino

08 May 2003, 13:22

Yes, Hearty!! 18 Apr 2003, 22:55

Hi leelee!! You're a plus wearer, yes? Happy Easter, and/or Happy Springtime*

(I'm wearing plus lens more now, but still minus for distance)

leelee 13 Apr 2003, 06:07

Hearty?

Cello-Phane Dreamer 12 Apr 2003, 21:44

Hi Guyz,

Guess who? Just want to say, may we all have a stylish, shiney new pair of glasses for the Spring season, and may PEACE and health and abundance come to us all, esp. for our family in Iraq. May all the world leaders overdose on Lithium.....and leave the people to live and love, and and.....and do whatever we need to do!

I missed you all.........judi*

MAN, my EYES are SOOO BAD!!!! 8))

FIND IT 22 Feb 2003, 14:38

TAKING GOOD ADVICE IS OPTIONAL.

SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES WHEN YOU DON'T IS MANDITORY.

22 Feb 2003, 14:35

Lord Mixtur 19 Feb 2003, 19:21

Robert Prise, the author of the Hokey Pokey died peacefully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.

They put his left leg in, and then the trouble started.

Tony 19 Feb 2003, 16:57

If eyes are the window of the soul then I would opt for double glazing!

LikeGlass 19 Feb 2003, 07:01

How about this one:

"Beauty is in the lens of the beholden."

Christy 18 Feb 2003, 22:57

There is a dark side to glasses wearing...

Prescription sunglasses!

Vidge 17 Feb 2003, 12:45

Links below provided by www.melaman2.com

PS: Hi laurie D. hope you are well. Long time no hear.

Tom

PennNP02 17 Feb 2003, 12:41

I hope anyone who lives in the Eastern US (like myself) is safe and able to dig out from under the huge blizzard that just came through 8-)

Laurie

TOTD 17 Feb 2003, 12:40

http://www.melaman2.com/tvshows/mp3/It%27s_A_Living.mp3

17 Feb 2003, 10:46

http://www.melaman2.com/tvshows/mp3/Doris_Day_Show.mp3

Tony 17 Feb 2003, 06:13

OO message to world leaders.

THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO DO NOT WISH TO SEE.

KING MIDAS 17 Feb 2003, 06:07

Supreme court appointment, president select george w. bush has the Midas touch.

Everything bush touches turns to shit!

KING MIDAS 17 Feb 2003, 06:06

Supreme court appointmed president select george w. bush has the Midas touch.

Everything bush touches turns to shit!

17 Feb 2003, 05:17

THANKS WURM!

specs4ever 30 Jan 2003, 19:10

Right on Chino - do it now, or you will always regret it. I had a Harley before I was married, but married life and children made it go away. 6 years ago I bought another one(wrecked it, but that's another story). Then I bought a new one, and I just love it. I now wish I had not given one up for so many years.

Chino 28 Jan 2003, 07:17

JR, good question...what was I doing driving at 4:00AM? I was on my way to the airport - I had a 5:45AM flight leaving from Raleigh-Durham. I was going to Puerto Rico to attend my father's wedding. I was going to wear my Dress Blue uniform and that got all muddy.

But just to show ya can't keep a good dog down - I made the very next flight. I got to Puerto Rico about 11:30pm that day. I took my uniform in to the cleaners the next day. Even though they had gotten wet, they did not shrink. So I wore that uniform on Saturday the 4th, strutting my stuff at my dad's wedding (I got some really great pics from that - it was a blast). They really appreciated the fact that I went anyways, despite the crash.

Oh yeah Nikki! Amazingly, the spex made it out OK, they were still on my face after the crash and after I crawled through the muddy water. A little cold rain and a dry t-shirt cleaned them up nice.

OK, now against my mom's better judgement, I'm going to use the insurance money and buy a Ducati Monster S-4. Fact is, I've had my motorcycle endorsement since May 2001. I've always wanted a motorcycle, but I had a car payment - buying another vehicle just wasn't practical. But when I think about it, I could've died in that crash, never knowing the thrill of riding a bike on the open road, cutting through twists and turns. Now I'm in a position where I can buy one. I'd be a fool not to take advantage of it.

Like Tony said "keep on trucking baby!"

LikeGlass 26 Jan 2003, 18:20

Wow! Chino, glad you're ok... man, that is a bad scene. Glad to see you posting again, although it is ashame that it came from this experiance.

New thought for the day......

Any day you wake up breathing, is a good day!

Nikki 25 Jan 2003, 22:01

But.....Did you spex make it through the ordeal ok ;), glad to hear you didn't slice yourself in half!...well....somebody was bound to ask!

JR 25 Jan 2003, 21:11

Chino

What were you doing driving at 4:00AM?

Tammy 25 Jan 2003, 20:01

Chino,

I'm glad that you are all right! Sorry to hear about the accident, and your car, though!

Tony 25 Jan 2003, 17:38

keep on trucking baby!

Chino 25 Jan 2003, 17:33

Just FYI, I was involved in a single car (mine) automobile accident at 4:00am new years day. End result, I totally trashed the car (insurance called it a "total loss"). Anyways, my friend Amy took me to the lot to get some things out of the trunk. She almost cried after seeing the car...she couldn't believe I walked away (literally) from the accident.

Basically, I hydroplaned at high speed on the freeway. For some reason the front end veered to the right (even though I kept the wheels straight). The car went into a spin as soon as I regained traction. The car went off the road, rolled a couple times, and ended up facing backwards, upside down, in a ditch full of water. My head was actually under water - had I been knocked unconscious, I would have drowned. Anyways, I was conscious and slipped myself out of the seat, right side up. Fortunately, there was air at the top...err bottom of my car. I grabbed a gulp of air, rolled my window - up (yeah) and crawled out through the muddy water.

OK, whoo - moving back to the scene at the lot. After I got my stuff out, Amy looked at my car, then at me.

She said, "Chino, you completely totalled your car....you don't do ANYTHING LITTLE do you?"

I thought about that and said "Well, I figured - Shit, if you're going to do something, you might as well do it right!" Her response was "You ass."

So yeah, Thought of the day,

"If you're going to do something, ANYTHING, no matter how f*%$#d up it is, ya might as well do it right!"

;)

Puffin 01 Jan 2003, 14:36

It is now nearly two years since I first found this site, and I'm so glad I did, because it allows me to wallow in my desires and think of things that may never be for me (or for anyone else for that matter, but never mind)

I think once someone who is an OO finds this site never leaves. I certainly hope I never will.

Bobby 01 Jan 2003, 09:06

Happy New Year 2003 to everybody on the Eye Scene from Bobby and April

Tammy 31 Dec 2002, 20:59

Happy New Year to one and all!

Wurm 31 Dec 2002, 18:00

Wishing everyone a pleasant rollover of the calendrical odometer...

The OGL 31 Dec 2002, 17:25

And to all of our sisters and brothers in the great Fraternity Of Optical Obsession around the world, both those who have already reached the year 2003 and those of us who are about to:

A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR, with lots and lots of diopters.

Christy 24 Dec 2002, 14:33

By the way - if you want to read my story from last year - A CHRISTMAS WISH - then go to http://orbdeluxe.com/bbs/threads/4.html and make sure you click "view all posts" at the bottom - then scroll way down to "Christy 30 Nov 2001, 05:25"

Mandy 24 Dec 2002, 09:45

Happy Hollidays & and a wish for a wonderful glasses filled new year to all of my eye scene friends. It's been a great year of converstaion/reading, and I wish us many more. Three cheers to Wurm - we wouldn't be here wihtout you.

Christy 24 Dec 2002, 09:38

Yea - Merry Christmas to all you four-eyed folk and admirers!

Julian 24 Dec 2002, 09:31

It isn't Christmas yet in the UK, but season's greeting to all my 'virtual friends' on Eye Scene - old and new, male and female, gay and straight, myopic, hyperopic and astigmatic, old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.

Love and kisses, Jules.

Tony 24 Dec 2002, 07:00

Seasons Greatings to you all.

Love,

Tony

Tina 24 Dec 2002, 06:54

Merry Christmas to all of my new ES friends

Galileo 24 Dec 2002, 06:34

Merry Christmas to everyone who posts at Eyescene, and especially to Chris for keeping this great site alive. I've been a reader here since 1998 and I'm going to make it a New Year resolution to actually post some messages. See you all in the New Year.

specs4ever 24 Dec 2002, 06:02

Well, Dec. 24th has arrived, and I still haven't found the time to send off single e mail greetings to all my old friends here on E.S. that I write to on a sporadic basis, so I will take the time to wish A.J., Nerd King, kathi mason, Spexman, Neuro Joe, Lenslover, DaveM,Andy, Alain, Wurm, Ramblin Rose, OGL, and anyone I might have forgotten to mention a very Merry Christmas. And, to all the participants that I haven't contacted with yet in a private sense, I feel that you too are like an extended family to me, and I wish you all the best for the hollidays(Have to be politically correct -can't say the other words, as I don't know the religeous background of everyone, but you all know what i mean I hope)

Nikki 24 Dec 2002, 03:00

12.01am Wed 25 December

MERRY XMAS FROM NEW ZEALAND!!!

Vidge 21 Dec 2002, 17:26

Yes! May you all have a Merry vision corrected ChristMas.

girnur 21 Dec 2002, 16:32

I´m sitting here in the chilly night (-18 degrees C or around 0 degrees F)and would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

God Jul och Gott Nytt År! (In swedish)

girnur

Musey 14 Dec 2002, 23:09

Happy Holidays Teah, and everyone here. May you have warm and loving times with friends and family, and overeat a little too! If anyone wants a pic of Montgomery Clift wearing glasses (look like plus readers) e-mail me and that will be my holiday card! ;) Moonmuse77@aol.com

07 Dec 2002, 21:08

teah 01 Dec 2002, 16:20

since this is the holiday season....

i just wanted to give a big virtual hug to everybody on this board for being who they are and for being so accepting and kind and wonderful people. happy holidays

love,

teah

Frank 27 Nov 2002, 18:46

Thought: - Is there such a thing as OOCA? (The Oucular Obsessives Convention of America?). From which would spring WOOC (World OO Convention).

At annual conventions they could sing, to the tune For He's A Jolly Goodfellow (Robin), the following....

Take every bit but'ya glasses off

AND

Jump into bed with me....

Musey 27 Nov 2002, 11:30

Where IZ everyone?? If in Connecticut, you're de-fogging those lenses to glimpse the crystal wonderland outside, today! I want to wish everyone a warm, safe & cozy Thanksgiving day.

Also a note to say that I lost my address book (still on ex-hubby's laptop) so I could not reply to a letter I received....I'm thinking of you all!

LikeGlass 11 Nov 2002, 18:19

Regarding the genetic elimination of specs-

Think we are safe with regards to genetic elimination of myopia. People won't even eat modified corn, let alone have someone play with the coding of the old family tree! Oh sure, there will be an adventurous lot, but there will always be a large segment of the populous who refuse this so call "progress" and maybe even a "Back to nature" group that stumble through the woods wearing eyewear Velma would be proud of! .... Future generations of OO's can only hope!

plaid grapefruit 11 Nov 2002, 16:25

quelqun sait s'il y a un site un peu comme celui-ci en francais?

does anyone know if there exists a similar site in french?

merci

ChrisB 11 Nov 2002, 15:22

Puffin - Good subject for a story?

"What would happen if developments in DNA were to give everyone 20/20 vision and remove the need for glasses?" I have been attempting to write that story for the last 18 months but keep stalling. It sort of picks up from my old "Train Journey" story posted on ES back in 1998. Do you want to have a go instead? - I could send you my plot outline, or should I have one more try?

There is another aspect to this question of how did myopic/hyperopic people in history function before the advent of corrective lenses?

We are asking the question from the standpoint of people with "Modern" attitude to ability and disability. By modern I mean from about mid 19thC onwards. Prior to that time, and the onward rise in the hegemony of the medical profession, someone for instance who was strongly hyperopic would have been regarded as being a damn good hunter. Similarly a myopic child could have been hired, if not apprenticed, to a goldsmith. Clearly these examples are on the margin; a whole lot of the population were agricultural labourers to whom the benefits/deficiencies mattered little either way.

Example 1, in a Museum I saw two intricately carged hollow globes made from solid Ivory, about 25 cm diameter. The detail was fantastic, but the museum write up claimed the artists were almost blind.

Example 2. There are well recorded cases of children and young adults with mild to moderate hearing loss, who learned to lip read at a young age. They functioned perfectly 'well' until someone told them that being able to lip read was not what everyone did!

It's ages since I posted but have been lurking - nice to be back.

chris B

11 Nov 2002, 15:09

there actually is some of that in the movie gattaca, if you're interested. it's actually a really good movie in general, with ethan hawke, uma therman, and jude law. it's also got a scene where the main character has to cross a street without glasses and deal without them for one night and how scary and hard that is. i recomend it to everybody

Puffin 11 Nov 2002, 13:58

Trouble is someone is going to work out how genes work, how DNA can be built from scratch, and then someone will decide that a big list of inherited human traits will be eliminated, including wearing glasses.

I suppose there might be some beleaguered band of brothers (and sisters!) who jealously guard the few remaining pairs of glasses, quietly passing them around and peeking through the lenses, trying to avoid getting caught by the spec-police or something.

Sounds like a good story to me.

LikeGlass 11 Nov 2002, 10:05

Hummm... Thus it would be possible to project some future date where everyone in the world would be born needing glasses..... :)

Musey 10 Nov 2002, 20:44

Just a thought...I wonder if, going wayy back, people with bad genetic vision were more or less weeded out through survival of the fittest, and that perhaps as agriculture and cities sprung up, and life wasn't all hunting, and as hard, those few persons left with bad vision genes lived to have children, and so on, until there got to be more of it going around. Could be, ya think?

Nikki 10 Nov 2002, 20:03

Thought of the day - for those of us getting a little older

God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the

good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the

difference.

LikeGlass 10 Nov 2002, 18:04

The great iorny is the answer, presbyopia! Plus lenses were first used in China. I am sure it did not take long for someone to figure out the minus lens thing tho, and give birth to the myopic GWG of the dark ages!

Kind of neet thought when you think of it! Kind of Goth !

Vidge 10 Nov 2002, 16:07

I understand a Roman emperor read all his text by looking at it through a gold fish bowl. Filled with water of course.

Portia 10 Nov 2002, 15:27

Before there were glasses, highly myopic people must have had very limited employment possibilities...goldsmith,jewelry maker, bookkeeper, and scribe come to mind. Medicine, dentistry, law, finance, academia, etc. seem to attract a large proportion of myopes today.

At the other end of the spectrum, the hyperopes were likely soldiers, farmers, peasants, etc.

By the time presbyopia kicked in, most people were probably dead.

Anyone know which general category of vision problem it was that correction was invented for first?

Julian 10 Nov 2002, 00:31

Yeah, it blows my mind too sometimes. BUT:

1. There was a time when vision didn't need to be so good (before modern traffic &c;)

2. It seems to be generally agreed that modern living and studying conditions induce or reveal defective vision. I'll bet Singapore wasn't the myopia capital of the world in 1802 or even 1902.

Love and kisses, Jules.

Musey 09 Nov 2002, 19:15

I'm crackin' up!! Think about the dark ages before lenses, too. Lots of archery school flunkies! Jousting into trees! I suppose the low vision folk were the scholars, bookkeepers, shoemakers, etc.

Wurm, some people really have goals!! LOL!

Vidge 09 Nov 2002, 16:23

At the shopping mall today it was really mind blowing to how many people need to see the world through artifical lenses. If glasses or contacts hadn't been invented how would they all function? would they travel about in the company of people with good eyesight while constantly squinting and asking questions like: who's that, what's that over there, what does that sign say? It would be a world filled with Magoo's

Wurm 09 Nov 2002, 14:43

overheard today: "We'll stop at Burger King on our way to McDonald's."

Musey 08 Nov 2002, 22:48

Previously HeartOfGlass...

PUFFIN!!! Ooh, I'd probably say, "Watch my curve pitch, as I throw this paper weight!" Heehee, I'm sure you'll be a bit more tactful...let us know how it goes!

My laptop's been broken....=(( but I'm on my former hubby's laptop now...which leads me to my thought for the day. No matter how horrid someone's been to you, let the bitterness go...for the theatre in which we play out our relationships is constructed by two, and we choose one another (good or bad) for a reason...to learn life's lessons perhaps?

Look how I just jump back in after a long absence...well, I missed you guys!!

Wurm 08 Nov 2002, 19:35

Nice article, LG! Describes the thoughts of this GWG lover on the subject quite nicely *grin*

1 small correction:

surly [should be] surely

LikeGlass 08 Nov 2002, 19:04

And on that thought, I just added this page-

http://www.geocities.com/likeglass55/mg.html

Curt 08 Nov 2002, 12:41

Yeah, I remember doing it to, and thinking something along the lines of "so that is how she sees things..."

Oscar 08 Nov 2002, 12:28

Oh yes - yes indeed - and not so long ago...

LikeGlass 08 Nov 2002, 10:41

Here's a thought for GWG lovers, remembering back to my youth- Did you ever enjoy putting your face next to your GF's face and peering into that little magic zone between her eye and the lens?

I always felt warm and special when I did that.

Portia 07 Nov 2002, 23:24

Puffin, sometimes it is hard to tell. Be nice on approach and tell her what you really like later on. Good Luck!

Puffin 07 Nov 2002, 01:05

I was joking, I think

Portia 06 Nov 2002, 19:23

Puffin, try approaching her like a human being.

I think if you say what you suggested in your previous post she might think ill of you. There is plenty of time when you get to know her better to tell her how turned on you are by her figure and glasses.

Puffin 06 Nov 2002, 13:05

There's a woman at work who happens to be quite well-off in the bust department and also wears nice plus lenses something like plus 5. If I said something like "can I feel your curves?"

I wonder what the chances are that

maybe she might get what I mean?

Or you think I might get a slap for it?

Puffin

The OGL 23 Oct 2002, 09:16

Guest: you won't find any men making negative comments about your glasses on this site! And, I'd be willing to bet that those you've met that do make such comments are flaming fetishists that are totally turned on by glasses but make such comments as a coverup. For better or worse, most us are in the closet about have a glasses fetish and sometimes act strangely because of it.

GUEST 23 Oct 2002, 05:28

Never mind you guys,there are also some great women out there who are fed up meeting men who make negative issue

of us wearing glasses!

3Ms 22 Oct 2002, 23:51

Definitely a wonderful idea to have a "personals" section, greatly fond of gwgs myself, I'd love to meet some who might be interested...

GwGs 22 Oct 2002, 05:33

Hi KKJ, a nice idea.

I don't wear spex either, but love this site - the main problem i can see here is that we all live in different countries.

If Wurm could do the scripting i think it'd would be great fun to have us gwg lovers meet girls with glasses.

KKJ 22 Oct 2002, 02:17

Has it ever been suggested to do a 'personals' section- ie for mwg & gwg to meet other mwg/gwg or admirers?

Love the site by the way, dont wear glasses myself but have always been attracted to gwg!

Johnnyb555 04 Aug 2002, 18:53

Hearty,

I fully agree with you, it IS wonderful to be alive. Judging by your posts I can tell that you truly loved, and love, your mother. I simply offer my condolences to you.

P.S. -- I'm calling my mom now. Perhaps I will make time to see her tomorrow.

Rimshot 03 Aug 2002, 23:40

Hearty. I am sorry to hear of your Moms passing.

Grieving is precious and beautiful.

Hearty 26 Jul 2002, 23:06

Just heard this on the film 'some girls'....don't remember who said this quote but it goes something like...If you must choose grief or nothing, choose grief. I know, I prob. murdered the saying, but....isn't it true? To be alive, truly alive, is to suffer pain, as well as delight, joy....it IS wonderful to be alive~

Hearty 26 Jul 2002, 22:59

Oh my gosh, just now have I come back online, and I am DEEPLY touched by ALL of your wise and compassionate words. Yes, she was a great woman, strong, beautiful and a lover of life to the max! I know she lives on in her family always.

To Puffin, I'm so sorry to hear you lost your Dad this year as well...if we can keep a part of our folks with us, that is a blessing I think.

My thought for the day, wow, I'm speechless! You guys make me smile ~

Hearty

Julian 15 Jul 2002, 15:19

Condolences...sympathy...everything.

Love and prayers, Jules.

Puffin 15 Jul 2002, 14:06

I am sorry I didn't notice this before and even more so to hear such sad news. There is no greater invention on Earth than ones mother and to lose her is well, there are no words, only sadness and loss: I should know I lost my father earlier this year. All I can offer is condolences and empathy.

specs4ever 15 Jul 2002, 02:53

I too offer my condolences Hearty. This will be anextremely trying period for you, but you will come through it.

Leon 14 Jul 2002, 08:00

Sorry to hear this, Hearty. I wish you and your family all the strength you need.

Clare 13 Jul 2002, 23:05

Be strong Hearty and remember that your memories of her will always be what you treasure most. My thoughts are with you.

Portia 13 Jul 2002, 22:21

Dearest Hearty, Whether you loved her and thought you were her clone or if you were always waiting for her to tell you that you were adopted, our thoughts are with you during this difficult time.

Portia

Don 13 Jul 2002, 21:23

Hearty,

Sincere and heartfelt sympathy...May God bless you and your family.

Nikki 13 Jul 2002, 21:15

Very sorry to hear that Hearty, it is very hard losing a parent, they are one of the few people who you have loved all your life...take care.

Kix 13 Jul 2002, 21:13

Hearty~

My thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathy go out to you. God Bless.

Hearty 13 Jul 2002, 20:27

"A person dies...and in our anguish we ask, "Where is God? God is found in the incredible resiliency of the human soul, in our willingness to love though we understand how vulnerable love makes us...." -Harold Kushner

I lost my Mum, my best friend, this Thursday night...she gave me my love, passion, understanding, ideals...I just wanted to share this with all of you here, who have been so funny and sweet and caring to me.

Judi ~

Bobby 13 Jul 2002, 02:23

There is no freedom, but in your own heart.

Chino 12 Jul 2002, 18:57

"Yo tengo un taco en los pantalones"

Translation - "I have a taco in my pants"

Chino, while thinking of something intelligent to say in a Mexican restaurant....didn't quite work out ;).

Hearty 10 Jul 2002, 23:42

Hi Portia, thanks for your concern, happy to say, the poison ivy has cleared up. I'm just one of those that can't stay out of the woods, I'm always pulling vines or chopping down bushes, Crikey, it mikes me feal loik the Croikodile Hunter! heehee....yet! I would LUV to have a second home in NYC! Thee best city!!

About compliments....I myself tend to compliment other women, because I guess I feel that a guy might think I was coming onto him.

Doctor Bob 02 Jul 2002, 12:06

Dear all cont.

Anyway, turns out the optician was wrong and my eyes are ok. Putting your chin on the rest and staring into a bright light, waiting to hear the verdict of the consultant, is not something I want to experience again. I certailny have a lot more regard for all you out there with really strong lenses and the fear of detached retinas etc hanging over you. I have had a desire for thick specs for a long as I can remember, one visit to a clinic has made me realise just how lucky I am not to reach across each morning to specs with -20 lenses. And not surprisingly, none of the elderly people in the waiting room looked remotely like Julia Roberts - or even a young Hilary Clinton.

Best wishes to all of you out there with the mega thick specs so many of us find attractive.

Doctor Bob 02 Jul 2002, 12:00

Dear all,

Last year in the Uk a documentary series looked at people going blind. One young diabetic had a series of operations to clear blood from his eyes but eventually they gave up on him. One of the final scenes showed him in mall flat opening a parcel containing a white folding cane - imagine the trauma of going blind and then receiving a white stick in the post!

Several months ago I was shocked when my optician said I had aneurisms in my eyes and refered me to the local eye clinic. I have had many sleepless nights since then - often being in a waiting room full of Julia Roberts look alikes wearing very thick specs asking for a lift home, or worrying how i would work and pay the bills - work in a call centre linked to a talking computer? It seemed like devine retribution for someone who had wanted thick specs since the age of 10, miss out the powerful lenses and go straight to the dark glasses and white stick - an odd thought for an atheist but it seemed logical.

Clare 28 Jun 2002, 11:06

Fathom - I think sensitive men would be more inclined comment & I think they would be better able to judge if it were appropriate. My boss is of the arty-intellectual type and I'm sure he would offer a positive comment - in fact I think he's a bit of an OO!

Fathom 27 Jun 2002, 23:52

Clare,

I'm generalizing here, but I think guys on the whole just tend to make far fewer comments than women do about most things aesthetic. If I wear a new jacket or show up with a new hairstyle that I know looks good, inevitably women will come up and say, "That jacket really suits you!" or "What did you do to your hair? Love it!"

Maybe the guys don't want women to think they're hitting on them with the compliments, maybe they think it's somehow wimpy if they show that they notice things like that...or maybe they're just plain shy. I mean, how many of the guys who post admiring thoughts about GWGs here - such as in the "Sightings" thread - actually go up to the women with a compliment? Most often it's admiration from afar. So c'mon everyone, speak up if you like someone's specs!

I think many guys do notice but are just less apt to say things out loud. So if I were you, Clare, I'd take the women's compliments as verbalizations of what some of the men are probably thinking. :)

ehpc 27 Jun 2002, 10:21

Clare.......I have complimented numerous women on their fashionable glasses.........women I already know quite well obviously!The reaction is invariably one of delight,I am happy to say:) Peter

Portia 26 Jun 2002, 21:39

Hearty, How are you doing? I have never heard of poison ivy of the eye, but you have many reasons more than the rest of us to be especially careful. Have you seen your doctor about this yet? I start to think country living is not safe!

From Portia, writing from a very high floor above a lot of concrete in Manhattan. No danger of nature here.

ruckus 26 Jun 2002, 18:01

Oh Contraire, Clare.

Nice glasses!� You look great in your glasses!� Finally, a girl who wears her glasses!�

Clare 26 Jun 2002, 13:17

Hmm Dr Bob, I've had "I really like your glasses" but only from female colleagues at work, so sadly that probably doesn't count. Although it made me feel *good*!! No male comments -are all guys afraid to make personal comments about specs??

Doctor Bob 26 Jun 2002, 12:15

Any feedback from Hillary yet with her new lenses? Have I missed it?

Has anybody tried telling someone with specs how good they look? If I try it people will think I'm just a dirty old man.

Hearty 22 Jun 2002, 21:31

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

That could be taken sexually OR politically, no?

I have poison ivy in my good eye (that's NOT a joke, that's real!) Life is kinda bad right now....=o

typo 22 Jun 2002, 13:06

or freudian slip?? THE not HE!!! =l

Hearty....ho hum..... 22 Jun 2002, 13:04

Well I got the inevitable news today from sis...Mr. Astigmatism is getting (or has?) married. She said it was strangely quick....oh well.....I have spent a strange day, sipping tea, watering my flowers, writing, philosophizing, man I don't want any more tears! Heart of Glass is dead!! I was thinking....out of destruction comes creation, didn't I hear that the only reason our human atoms came into being is because of the destruction of supernovas? Such is the way of the Universe and we....we have our glories, then the storm....and if we hang on long enuff, something good hopefully, birthed from he ashes.....

Hey Puffin, got any fish n chips, I feel a binge comin' on.....

Portia 14 Jun 2002, 21:39

Certainly our clever Puffin can arrange an appropriate surprise for a glasses lover...or at least a glasses-wearing appropriate surprise for someone requiring same!

Puffin 14 Jun 2002, 07:49

My friend is planning a stag night and thinking about getting a kissogram or something like that. I wonder if there is such a thing as a spec-o-gram? Some nice girl with high myopia and ready to kiss you on the night before your wedding?

Puffin

Puffin 10 Jun 2002, 01:34

Yeah, but....

I'm an OO and don't wear glasses. Just love them on women...

Puffin

Doctor Bob 09 Jun 2002, 13:36

Why don't we agree on a secret sign so that we can identify hypermyophiliacs should we ever meet???

How about person one pushes their glasses up using the middle finger of their right hand, person 2 responds by pushing their specs up using the middle finger of their left hand. To confirm this is not a coincidence, person 1 should say "have you worn glasses long?", to which person 2 replies "since I was a baby".

Hearty 09 Jun 2002, 00:11

Dr Bob, yes, but include astigmatism and other eye anomalies too....cold, clinical lenses, cutting metal on hot heaving flesh ~

Voltaire 08 Jun 2002, 07:33

Observe: our noses were made to carry spectacles, so we have spectacles.

Doctor Bob 06 Jun 2002, 13:55

Hearty - would you agree that Myopic men make great lovers? We like to get up close, are tactile, intelligent, sensitive - and what could be more arousing than the touch of cold steel and glass on a ladies neck as a warm tongue explores her ear lobes? But would you buy the T-shirt?

Why doesn't someone open up a myopic cafe? Full of trendy people drinking expensive coffee.

Nancy - are you still out there?

Hearty 06 Jun 2002, 10:40

Wow, all you smart guys!! I'm one of those, just jump in and do...I blush to say that JUST RECENTLY I realized I could copy n paste an url into my browser box...I used to hunt n peck each and every letter and number always....man, that's baaaad!!!

Leon 06 Jun 2002, 09:38

I'm a former technical writer as well :-)

Puffin 06 Jun 2002, 08:22

Not really. I like to keep the various parts of my reality separate.

I got bored with writing computer use manuals because they needed to explain everything down to the last keypress which was like aaaargh!!!!

Rimshot 06 Jun 2002, 08:10

Puffin,

Did you ever do any 'ideas for glasses' doodling while in the throws of technical verbiaging?

Puffin 06 Jun 2002, 01:07

It may interest you to know that before I started writing stories I wrote technical manuals and computer system user guides for my old company!

I think this is much more fun though!

Hearty 04 Jun 2002, 20:24

RTFM?? Ouch, my head hurts too much!! 8) Kinda cute, how we all have our own unique perspectives, hmm?

Hearty~

Wurm 04 Jun 2002, 12:50

Some of you might enjoy this article about cultural differences, as seen through the eyes of tech writers:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html

Hearty 03 Jun 2002, 20:51

First of all, Chino, am I naive, what is salt n peppa?? Would I like it??? hehe....be good!!

OK, and a few musings on what Lore wrote...I think most here would agree that our specs fetish doesn't equate to a sexual identity like being gay or straight, or carry with it the hardships you mentioned. But there IS that feeling, every now and then I think, I'd like to 'come out' as a glasses freaking, loving, all-out fetishist...and even my gay daughter has said, mom, you are 'coming out' by displaying your glasses collection openly. The thing of it is, sometimes I and I guess others, would like to be able to be identified so that in the rare event we might meet someone who is interested in that sort of thing, well they wouldnt just slip by, never knowing we might have had something very wonderful and intense in common. So there IS a coming out kind of feeling we get, heck, most of us do keep this a secret to most people.

I drive a Ford Focus and have a prism hanging from the mirror....I also want some kind of bumper sticker....perhaps...I dig guys with glasses....I LUV hefty lenses....spexy guys R sexy guys (where did I hear that??)...I want to FRAME you!....etc etc....Let us wave our OO flag proudly!!

Hearty~

Lore 03 Jun 2002, 17:39

I feel the need to comment on this "coming out" discussion, although I don't know why, being neither gay nor a fetishist.

But, I think perhaps it has to be remembered that a glasses fetish is just that: a fetish. The fetishist can be gay, straight, bi, transsexual, whatever. Homosexuality, on the other hand, is not a fetish. This is not the place to debate nature or nurture, but, no matter where you fall on that issue, homosexuality is definitely not a fetish. It's, for many people, both who feel they have "chosen their lifestyle" and those who feel they were "born that way," an identity, like being male or female, black or white. I don't know that any fetish comes to be an identity in that way.

Plus, of course, there is the fact that there is not institutionalized oppression of glasses fetishists. You may get funny looks from friends or confused head shakes from family members, but you are not going to be kept out of a job because you are into partners who wear glasses, laws will not be passed to make marrying a person with glasses illegal, and you will not be beaten up at a bar because someone finds out you are interested in people with glasses. "Coming out" is done for a reason, and that is to combat the oppression facing gays and lesbians. While people might not understand fetishes, they also do not discriminate against those with fetishes in the same way members of sexual or racial minorities are.

I would say the "plight" of the glasses fetishist (and I'm not demeaning the hardships of any fetish, but I'm also not convinced it's a total hardship, either) is more akin to the situation of other fetishists (shoe fetishists, fat fetishists, S/M practicioners, etc.) than to the situation of gays and lesbians. It just seems a bit wrong, IMHO, to align the situation of glasses fetishists, who are subject to, at best, ridicule from family and friends and rejection by sexual partners, to the situation of the GLBT community, who are subject to employment discrimination, legal discrimination, and violence.

Bobby 03 Jun 2002, 16:28

Dr. Bob,

nice name for us, I like it!

I do think we will make "coming out" like gays did. One day we will do that. The fact that this discussion group gathers so many people, the fact we are here for shuch a long time makes me believe, that sometime in the future, we will be able to tall the world about our feelings.

Nekva, who posted here twice a year ago, started a discussion club for fans of spexy girls in Czech at www.quick.cz. As the club exist for a short time and only 12 million people can speak the language, there are only 12 members. I hope there will be more people in the club in the future. I hope a nice and more open discussion will start soon.

"we shall overcome ..."

Chino 03 Jun 2002, 07:29

"I got no salt. I got no peppa.....I got no salt AND no peppa!!"

This is a NET SEND message I sent to a guy in my shop. It was sent, but he never received it. 15 minutes later, I get a phone call and found out what happened:

A Chief Warrant Officer (CWO3) received the message! To make matters worse, he's the EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) officer, and he wasn't very amused by it...oh, but things get even better. He was the Duty Officer that night while I was at colors detail practice - I show up, and there he is (if he only knew).

How I managed to get away with that without a problem...well, I gotta thank the networkers for that....they didn't NARC me out ;).

Chino.

Portia 02 Jun 2002, 21:39

To Dr. Bob and others: Acceptance for glasses wearers comes one at a time.

This means, of course, that anyone in your workplace who wears glasses is OK without saying.

Acceptance will come when you can urge a friend or colleague that someone in whom they might have had an interest (that except for the G-factor) is actually very beautiful with glasses.

We need to train ourselves and others tha looking at a person and thinking that they would look better without glasses is an unacceptable point of view.

In the time in between now and when glasses are right up there with jewelry (diamond necklaces come to mind, and who looks lousy in one of those?)we need to be proactive.

Tommorrow, tell someone you encounter on a random basis that their glasses look great on them.

Do it again to someone you love within the same week.

Report back here.

Dr Bob 01 Jun 2002, 10:02

Does anybody think we will ever "come out" like gays have done? Myopic rallies, spectacular discos and the like with complimentary drinks for the visually impaired? I think Hilary should explore the subject and write a book about it.

Doctor Bob 31 May 2002, 14:27

I would like to propose a new name for the condition many visitors to this sight seem to possess - hypermyophilia - - as in philia for love of, myo from myopic and hyper from high ie love of high myopes?

As a hypermyophiliac, am i the only person in the world who finds bespectacled woman with hearing aids hugely attractive? If no one responds I must assume I am on another planet to the rest of mankind.

Portia 25 May 2002, 21:44

Oscar, I am not essentially aware of the restrictions of progressive lenses, but I think you may have run up against them a smidge before I.

Maybe I will need progressives that are more than +3 soon...am I likely to be really disappointed?

Oscar 24 May 2002, 13:58

Portia, it is impossible to get varilux/progressive bifocal lenses for several types of complex prescriptions. I should know as I can't have them and therefore need to have the lined bifocals. I don't much care for them either, but I don't have the choice. So you're right in the case of most reasonably normal corrections, but as soon as it gets to complicated things, it's back to basic bifocals (and not even much choice of type there either).

Nancy 24 May 2002, 12:34

Doctor Bob:

The ushers continues to progress, HAs adjusted stronger each year plus less peripheral vision from the RP. Central vision is now about 50-60 degrees. Cataracts also growing in both eyes, coming out in a few weeks.

Yes there was a Nicole in Europe, have not heard from her in a while.

Portia 23 May 2002, 22:43

the last post was mine.

23 May 2002, 22:40

Curt, and others, lined bifocals may have their place, but there is no need, given recent technological improvements, to wear them.

I am in an "appearance oriented" line of work and just wearing glasses is terrible enough. Lined bifocals, particularly since I have needed bifocals long before my contemporaries, just will not do. As a result, Varilux lenses have been a godsend. I can cope with wearing glasses for work (and everything else) but having to wear the split-lense type is not practical on any level.

Hearty 23 May 2002, 20:41

me, I'm afraid I can't give you too much info on her girlfriend, I didn't ask my daughter. I do know that my daughter's around a -1. (started at -.5)I am hoping she won't get much worse, as she is 21, although her dad did get some worse later in life (with myopia) And no, she has had glasses since mid-high school, but doesn't wear them all the time. All she said was, it would no doubt bring back memories for me, because I spent an awesome day last year, choosing frames with my ex boyfriend. She merely enjoys the fashion aspect of buying glasses.

Hearty~

Doctor Bob 23 May 2002, 12:57

Nancy - I could never get you confused with someone else - you're my ideal! How are you doing with the ushers? Whats your prognosis? Best wishes. For years I hoped to meet someone like u. Wasn't there a Nicole from Europe with HAs and binocular glasses - she wrote about visits to the theatre?

me 22 May 2002, 15:24

HEARTY

Are your daughter & her girlfriend getting glasses for the first time?

When will they get their glasses?

Do you know their prescriptions?

Curt 22 May 2002, 10:28

Portia: This discussion would probably be better placed under the "Multifocals for presbyopia.." thread, but you said it here so: I am still suprised how much you bemoan lined bifocals. I had my new Rx made up in a pair of no-line bifocals and a pair of FT35s, and every morning I find myself reaching for the lined bifocals instead of the no-lines. I'm not sure the "they're a downer..." statement is true universally. As an adult friend of mine who is considering dental braces said -I guess it depends on how self-assured you are. I have no problems wearing my lined bifocals for business, socially or at home. I enjoy the fact that there is no distortion on the fringes of the lens, and since I hav e been wearing them for 15 years, I know how to deal with the image jump at the line. I know you are a firm believer in progressive lenses, and I know they are the latest technology, but some of us prefer lined bifocals...period!

Nancy 22 May 2002, 07:58

Doctor Bob:

I am probably the person you are referring to with Ushers Syndrome. I think I have been the only person on ES who has it.

I was also going to mention Jade, but I think she was a fake as well.

Portia 21 May 2002, 19:38

Doctor Bob, Bifocals with lines are a real downer, socially and in business. I have a wierd Rx and there was no way I would wear this in public(I always wore contacts), let alone wear it anywhere but home with a bifocal add.

I had to switch to glasses a few years ago and found that blended bifocals in the right frame, becoming a lady of a certain age and THIS WEBSITE were very helpful in accepting the fact that I had to wear them in public now.

I still can't wear glasses with a ball gown.

21 May 2002, 14:01

Doctor Bob:

one girl from the US seemed to hang around

with a leader of a street gang until she had hearing aids.

That particular "girl" called herself "Jade". She (?) turned out to be a fake.

Doctor Bob 21 May 2002, 13:53

Socially unnaccaptable was bad choice of words, put another way, how does it feel to be prescribed binocular specs for the first time, or really thick minus lenses?

Another GWG (formerly lrkrgrl) 21 May 2002, 12:21

"Can anyone describe the feeling when you put on specs for the first time that take you to the next level of social unnacceptability i.e. stronger lenses - how does it feel when you see yourself in the mirror in the opticians?"

I don't know what you mean by "social unacceptability". I mean, I've known a lot of people who've worn glasses. I wear strong glasses (-5.75). And, I've never considered anyone "socially unacceptable" because of the glasses they wore, and I've never seen anyone outside of maybe second graders who tease someone for the first two days they wear their glasses treat anyone as "socially unacceptable" either.

We do live in a very looks-conscious, ablist society. However, I can't imagine anyone being considered "socially unacceptable" by even the most judgmental person until they were actually visually handicapped. At that point, I imagine a lot of prejudice kicking in.

Most people don't wear contacts to make them more "socially acceptable" but because they simply think they look more attractive without glasses. But there's a big difference between a societal preference for people not wearing glasses and treating those who wear glasses as if they are unacceptable. While the first definitely exists, I've never seen the latter (outside of some stories here ;)).

Doctor Bob 21 May 2002, 11:28

I was merely trying to ascertain what has become of several notable individuals who used to write regularly to this site, unfortunately I cannot remember there names. One girl had Ushers Syndrome and was suffering loss of hearing and vision, one girl from the US seemed to hang around with a leader of a street gang until she had hearing aids, most memorable for me was the accountant who fell for a shop assistant - any ideas?

Can anyone describe the feeling when you put on specs for the first time that take you to the next level of social unnacceptability i.e. stronger lenses - how does it feel when you see yourself in the mirror in the opticians?

John 21 May 2002, 04:02

Portia,

I understood every single word that Doctor Bob said.

Do you have a reading disability or something.

Portia 20 May 2002, 20:47

Dr. Bob, join us and post often if you can be helpful, but your most recent post, even though intriguing, is almost unintelligible.

Doctor Bob 20 May 2002, 14:14

Been away for a while. What happened to the European girl with ushers? the American girl with HA and the American accountant who fell for the girl in the shop? And not gorgetting the American girl with braces who had high powered glasses made up - is she still around?

Wish i could remember names!

Hearty 19 May 2002, 20:07

'n' tea with Yak butter! Yak butter smudges lenses...

Portia 18 May 2002, 22:04

Fish in Garlic Batter? I'm there!

Julian 18 May 2002, 02:15

Been hunting for ages for the right thread to put in my two-pennyworth (oddly enough when I was a kid that was what we paid for a bag of chips - two old pence=0.08 ukp!).

Last night my usual chippy, which reckons to be open till 23.30, was locked, barred and bolted when I went round at 23.15 - it has, as they say round here, been going downbank for a while - so I went searching and in the next village of the urban sprawl found two open. The one I opted for turned out to be a real Rolls-Royce of a chippy; the menu even included fish done in a GARLIC BATTER which was superb!

Hearty 17 May 2002, 10:53

Oops, I wrote 'her', meaning my daughter, the page is for my daughter. Her girlfriend is Judy M., & She's a cook by night, and works with special children by day. They will be picking out glasses together (for both) soon!

Mmmm, sounds deelish...I always wondered if the English fish n chips were much different than ours, seeing as it's traditional over there..but then I guess every region has it's own specialty....we've heard about that before, hmm???! LOL!

Portia 16 May 2002, 22:43

Wurm, you come along also!

Portia 16 May 2002, 22:43

Guess I still don't know about Judy M., but the fish and chips sound just fine.

Hearty, how about our meeting Christy and Julian for fish and chips across the water some time soon?

Wurm 16 May 2002, 19:43

Strangely, I have been craving fish and chips for weeks and finally got around to ordering them today. Halibut in a microbrew beer batter and shoestring fries... they were quite delicious!

Hearty 16 May 2002, 13:34

Hi Puffin~

Here's a thought for the day...a dear friend told me that Europe wants to ban clotted cream, because of it's high bacteria count. My thought....how much should govt control these kinds of things for our safety?? Frankly, I think they should keep their finger out of the tastey cream!

Hearty~

Hearty 16 May 2002, 13:30

Oh my....that was my daughter! She came home last night, all excited from a date (she's gay, 21 yrs old) and she asked what forum I was on...I said, thought of the day, I'm tryin' to think of something, and she typed that about her girlfriend! If it doesn't offend anyone, I wrote a page for her, sort of in answer to lots of fwds I've been getting, and there is a great newspaper clipping of her playing Mayella in To Kill A Mockingbird. It's at http://hometown.aol.com/Moonmuse77/gay.html AOL is having it's troubles right now, so I have heard from some that they can't always access the page, I do hope it will work.

Puffin 16 May 2002, 03:33

Isn't it about time we had a little talk about fish and chips?

Portia 15 May 2002, 22:31

Skitch...who is Judy M and what are we all missing here?

SKITCH 15 May 2002, 22:28

I love Judy M.!

BTW... 13 May 2002, 00:17

That was a compliment, Myhope!!

Hearty~

Hearty 23 Apr 2002, 11:57

Reallee?? Maybe you need stronger lenses! 8) My thought for the day, I LUV Spring! The buds are poppin', the buds are poppin'!!!

Myhopeinhere 22 Apr 2002, 23:14

I've never seen you here Hearty. :O)

Hearty 22 Apr 2002, 22:57

Wurm, what thoughts you are spouting!! 8)) Uhh...Darwin says we come from monkeys but I say I come from Wales.

Wurm 21 Apr 2002, 10:38

Is there a seminal book on male sexuality?

HeartOfGlass 09 Apr 2002, 10:45

OK, duhh, Groucho said it <below> I had to give him credit!

Ohh Chinooo...."Ah need to feel you, I can't contol you..." I remember those Puddle o' Mudd passions....gone are they now, I don't dare think on them too hard....someday...maybe....when he is old and in his tri-focals, he will come staggering back, saying, 'no one else will put up with me!' Then I will slip his needful specys on and feel alive again~

HeartOfGlass 05 Apr 2002, 19:13

Where IZ everybody??

OK, umm........"Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I have others!"

Who said it??

(only my hero!!!) pant, pant.....

~HOG~

Reader 20 Mar 2002, 05:50

Chino:

LOL...an excellent reason to wear glasses instead of contact lenses!

/s/ Reader

Chino 20 Mar 2002, 05:30

"WHOOO-HOOO!!! HOT SHIT!!"

Chino last night, while helping a friend make some REALLY hot salsa. The fumes were so bad that we were both actually choking and tearing (we hadn't even tasted it yet).

By the end of the night, my lips and mouth were on fire, and I woke up this morning feeling like I had a hangover, even though I didn't drink....but it did clear up my stuffy nose ;).

Alissa 19 Mar 2002, 08:29

Thanks Chino.

Puffin, I can only imagine you on stage doing "Like a Virgin".

Actually the image is more disturbing than anything else, lol.

Kidding, natch.

Love

Alissa

http://www.texasdigital.com/alissa/cuteinglasses/

Puffin 19 Mar 2002, 04:58

Chino, if I can do Karoke, anyone can.

I did it at Open university summer school: some Elvis numbers and "like a virgin" (!) by Madonna.

Puffin

Chino 19 Mar 2002, 04:24

LOL! I like that one Alissa. OK, OK I know it's been a while, but I was on leave for three weeks and I'm just getting into the swing of things back on base.

Today's thought (true story)...

"You want me to sing what?! On that stage over there? Are you CRAZY!!!? What's it called again, karateoke or something?"

Chino's last words before friends got him to sing on stage at a karaoke bar - Next words out of my mouth were "I love the way you look at me. I love the way you smack my ass" - Puddle of Mudd, Chino-style (gotta love it).

Alissa 18 Mar 2002, 10:39

If eyes are the windows to the soul, wouldn't you think that more of those windows would contain frames and glass panes to enhance the beauty of the soul.

Alissa

Http://www.texasdigital.com/alissa/cuteinglasses/

Tammy 12 Mar 2002, 10:22

Christy, That's a good one!

Christy 10 Mar 2002, 12:33

These glasses have been in my family for many generations. They are 300 years old. And in that time they have had their lenses replaced 15 times. The frames have been replaced 15 times too!

Automatic Slim 08 Mar 2002, 11:01

THIS IS SOMEKIND OF WORLD WE LIVE IN, FOLKS ! SOME WORLD !

Bobby 24 Feb 2002, 13:25

Hearty,

wear them!

Hearty 24 Feb 2002, 07:49

I resolve, today and everyday, to wear my glasses in the shower....and sing Linkin Park while they fog!! 8)

SZ6 12 Feb 2002, 18:48

Seen on a bathroom wall:

1st handwriting: JESUS IS THE ANSWER

2nd handwriting: What is the question?

3rd handwriting: Who is Matty and Felipe's brother?

Wurm 12 Feb 2002, 15:26

FINANCIAL REPORT

assets: found a dime on the floor

debts: that horse looked a sure winner

outlook: chance of rain Monday

(paraphrased from LensChat, with a nod to Ring Lardner)

Julian 09 Feb 2002, 10:17

Seen in an old-style Gents' - the sort with a Great Wall of China:

LOOK UP (and, above it:)

LOOK UP (and, above that:)

LOOK UP (and, on the ceiling:)

YOU ARE PISSING ON YOUR FOOT.

Love and kisses, Jules.

Wurm 09 Feb 2002, 10:01

You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometime you just might find

You get what you need!

-Stones

Puffin 09 Feb 2002, 01:27

Seen written on the left hand wall of a toliet cubicle at work:

For toilet tennis look right.

And on the right hand wall:

For toilet tennis look left.

(Ahh, the simple things in life!)

Puffin

The guy 06 Feb 2002, 17:08

I ahree that strong lenses are it! I like seeing people with strong lenses, and I like wearing mine as well and getting comments on them.

Philosifer 26 Jan 2002, 10:01

Myofan

You are right, of course. The right frames and lenses can make even a plain face interesting. Certainly GWG always get a second look when passed on the street, but very seldom a third ! But for the good lookers, the right spex are like the frame on a fine watercolour; they just complete the picture.

myofan 25 Jan 2002, 16:47

Philosopher

I agree with most of what you say, but still feel that a good strong prescription in a well-chosen frame will usually make a face more attractive for me. I have seen many girls who looked a good deal less attractive wearing contact lenses than in their specs.

Glasses can help to disguise some facial imperfections such as large noses, or long or fat faces. Also, nice strong lenses are better than bare eyes which are bleary, bulging or piggy. If contacts give them better vision, then who am I to complain, but it would be a shame if they wore them in the belief that they are more attractive, IMHO. Am I in a minority of one here?

Philosifer 25 Jan 2002, 14:00

You know what, chaps ? Somebody said it extremely well just the other day. For most of us who visit Eyescene regularly and always enjoy - it is really the Girls not their Glasses that keep us coming back. There may be a few who are really turned on by -20's, but even the strongest prescription doesn't change an unattractive face. Instead, my bet is, that what most of us really like to see is a good-looking, intelligent, and self-assured girl whose glasses are just strong enough that she cannot get along without them. Then the good looks speak for themselves, and the intelligence is suggested by the glasses. (Not sure fire, but the correlation between a life-long love of reading and the need to wear spex is now established beyond question). Self-assuredness, and good general common sense, is signalled by the decision to wear glasses without concern for what anyone may think. The choice of 'seeing good' over 'looking good' has been a hallmark of sensible women for more than 50 years. Now, of course, Lenscrafters have come along, and that choice is no longer necessary !

Portia 06 Jan 2002, 21:50

Dear Myopeinhere, and anyone else waiting for their significant other to get with the program...everyone who lives much past the age of forty (40) will need glasses eventually, if only to read their shoe size or other such mundane things. And if your significant other wears glasses for another reason and is under the age of forty, you can look forward to bifocals. My point is that past a certain age, everyone needs glasses.

Cheers!

Wurm 02 Jan 2002, 17:59

Myhopeinhere,

I'm not sure your problem is anything we can help you with. Sounds like you feel your marriage isn't a good match for you (because of glasses and whatever other reasons).

Or do you really think glasses are a fetish that is ruling your life in negative ways? If so, you should see a psychotherapist about it.

Myhopeinhere 02 Jan 2002, 16:51

Well,took a lot of time(and wine) to get this far!

basicaly my fascination with girls in glasses goes back years,like mid 70's,always been - lenses,look like jewels cut out all the bevels,nice 70's thing,I'd follow a -GWG all over Yorkshire just to see her,verging on the stalking,but glasses and a girl........WOW!

Since then,I've tried my damdest to folow my fetish,but ended up marrying a 20/20 girl,well with slight + tendancies,but won't wear them,so since then I'm afraid to say I've hunted high and low everywhere trying to find a nice GWG,chatrooms,date sites and the rest,had a few successes but felt horribly guilty at the end of it all,even thougth I've never gone the full meet you routine it's seemed wrong/strange,but the glasses thing is so strong I can't lose it,what's my problem,help me someone!

Wurm 31 Dec 2001, 08:40

I think yesterday's thought is even better today!!!

anon 30 Dec 2001, 16:07

[cross-posted from chat]

(3:35pm) I RESOLVE to love my glasses and my LHE and to wear them proudly

(3:34pm) I RESOLVE to amass an entire wardrobe of

glasses, for every occasion

(3:33pm) I RESOLVE to wear a shiny pair of LHE with my glasses every day ( esp when LG is around!)

(3:32pm) I RESOLVE to destroy all of my contact lenses

(3:31pm) I RESOLVE to fill my rx with the thickest

heaviest lenses that are available

(3:30pm) I RESOLVE to post any and all GWG and GUWG pics to Eye Scene

(3:30pm) I RESOLVE to sensually slide my specs down my dainty little nose whenever i know someone is

looking

(3:28pm) I RESOLVE to carry a spare pair, and offer them to any 20/20's i may come across

(3:28pm) I RESOLVE to keep my glasses very clean

(3:27pm) I RESOLVE to be a very good little lenschatter, and post to lenschat every day

Owen 30 Dec 2001, 08:29

One of my favorite pieces of "Milliganism":

"You know, I don't see too well, my eyes aren't what they used to be."

"Oh?"

"No, they used to be my ears!"

LikeGlass 29 Dec 2001, 14:40

How often do we pay attention to the details in life? Most time we just click past on autopilot.

Example- Go to my page at http://www.geocities.com/likeglass55/

and check out the link on the bottom about the news article- "Room Full of Myopic Women Fight Over GWG Loving Man" ... you have been warned ;)

Puffin 29 Dec 2001, 04:29

Remi, I do eat birds. I love Turkey for Christmas and eat a lot of chicken.

And Fish? What, pray tell, are they?

Puffin

bob^2 28 Dec 2001, 08:46

Never mistake stupidity for optimism.

Note: bobcanfly has been reborn, and is now bob^2.

remi 27 Dec 2001, 18:51

puffiin hope you enjoyed your xmas turkey or do you not eat birds! but i'd best not mention the consumption of fish

Chino 27 Dec 2001, 10:33

Why are the best things in life so inconsistent? They're either ephemeral, fleeting, or they're seemingly endless, infinite.

The take-off and landing of an airplane, the best part of the entire flight, lasts only about 30 seconds. But then there's the passion of a warm kiss, the emotion felt while holding your love in your arms, that seems to last forever. Eternity in an instant...damn paradoxes.

Chino, while enjoying his flight back from Florida.

Wurm 26 Dec 2001, 21:09

A day without thought is a day wasted. (a gloss on Nietzsche)

Chino 26 Dec 2001, 07:20

"I don't know whether to be happy because we're friends, or to cry because that's ALL we'll ever be."

My buddy said this to a girl he was secretly in love with...he hasn't talked to her since.

Chino 25 Dec 2001, 07:03

Cool!! Thanks for the info Franken.

Today's thought:

"Your subconscious wants me"

Chino's inner monologue, whenever someone leans in to kiss, but hesitates and backs off...forcing me to finish what she started ;)

Val 25 Dec 2001, 05:23

Thank you Wurm,

and Merry Christmas to everybody!

Wurm 25 Dec 2001, 05:09

Merry Christmas!

FRANKEN 23 Dec 2001, 14:10

Chino: Not true re: 20/20 to fly in armed forces. Those who have already passed flying training and who have their wings, AND who slip a little into the myopic world are NOT grounded. I have often seen minus corrections on old (ish) timers in the cockpit....maybe up to a -6ish. So there is a forgiveness factor...this is also true with airline pilots, their smugness, notwithdtanding.

marine 23 Dec 2001, 12:50

Chino, you are based at Camp Lejeune? I preformed oral surgery on Maj. Gen. Sattler at the Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune earlier this year.

Chino 22 Dec 2001, 08:47

My eyesight wasn't a problem at all. In fact, I know a Master Sergeant who has a real high RX...from the minimization and concentric rings, he's gotta be at least -8 or -9. Honestly, eyesight in the armed forces is not an issue, unless you plan on piloting an airplane...they're the only folks I know of who need to see 20/20 without glasses.

Clare 22 Dec 2001, 08:33

Hi Chino - isn't your dodgy eyesight a problem in the marines - didn't you have trouble getting accepted?

Chino 22 Dec 2001, 08:24

I'm a Corporal (E4), and I'm currently stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC.

marine 21 Dec 2001, 21:32

Chino, What is your rank and you homebase in the U.S. Marines?

dominic 21 Dec 2001, 16:22

My thought of the day is a confession. Every since I've joined eyescene I've despised "fakers": peope who create patently false online personalities and then try to elicit our sympathy or turn us on or whatever. I can spot them easily and sometimes I take the piss out of them.

Well: there's no easy way of saying this, but I've been doing something equally sleazy. About 18 months ago I was so desperate to ask a particular

straight guy about his glasses that I emailed him under the name of Amy. He wrote back, friendly and encouraging, and because he was so obviously a good bloke I wanted to keep the conversation going. I did tell him some lies about my life, though I tried to scale those down as time went on because � to be frank - I just felt such a sleazeball. There was one moment when I thought he had worked out I was a guy, but it was a false alarm and we carried on having amicable spexy chat for months; he was even sweet enough to send me a pair of his glasses.

The other day I decided to email him as Dom, because I wanted to try to establish some sort of above-board contact with him, and maybe then Amy could be phased out. (Not sure how I thought I could do this.) Anyway, it's all academic, because I emailed him from Amy's account, and my cover was blown.

Realising my mistake, I immediately confessed to the guy and said I felt like a shit. He emailed back and said he was hurt, but he was really cool about it - far more than I would have been in his shoes. It's a cliche, but I'm relieved that I can stop lying (though of course if I'd had the courage I could have done that at *any* stage).

All this has got me thinking. I reckon we all have a basic sense of who is and isn't "real" in cyberspace. It's obvious that that, when I moved from Dom to Amy , I crossed a border into active deception. Ok, so there's a sense in which Dom isn't real, either, but his demographic details are accurate enough and I when I post under this name everything I say is true. Amy was a figment of my imagination (and I grew oddly fond of her, which is no excuse). Put it this way: the whole business of the construction and exchange of internet identities might be complex; but what I did was just wrong.

The only possible excuse I can offer is that I suffer from a degree of Optical Obsession that clouds my judgment; it's so fucking intense, this thing, that it drives me nuts. But I won't do it again, and I'll feel guilty for a long time about stringing along a nice guy who thought he was talking to a cute young English girl, and wasn't.

Bobby 19 Dec 2001, 13:59

Chino, I do agree 100% with you. What a nice text!

Chino 18 Dec 2001, 07:35

Today's thought addresses Chino's worst fear.

As a U.S. Marine, I've been through many things that should have scared me...done things that are dangerous. But physical danger doesn't freak me out...it's temporary. I've always thought that I had a psychological problem, maybe even a death wish for some of the stunts I've pulled or wanted to pull. It turns out that I have this really weird view on life. I'm not afraid of death, because if it happens, it happens...there's nothing I can do after that, so why worry about it.

That kinda explains why I'm the only person in my car with a cool head as some non-driving mofo in an SUV careens towards me because he doesn't know how to drive in the rain! I have to admit, that fearlessness has probably saved my life on more than one occasion. I know not everyone understands, but I don't see the point of freaking out...that just hinders my ability to think.

So on to my greatest fear: While I may not be afraid to die, I am afraid of not living...damn paradoxes. Being alive, but not actually living - that's my greatest fear...it's a fate worse than death. It's even worse than stage fright. Let me reflect on this thought a little more.

Being "undead" - what does that mean? I'm not talking about some vampyric affliction...it's a real-life problem that I see too often around me. It's when people go about their lives just "going through the motions," just "getting by." To me, it's living without passion...not embracing life in all its glory, not taking chances or missing out on enjoying the little things because we're too busy judging. Believe it or not, I know people who will talk themselves out of enjoying an ice cream cone. I remember hearing questions like "How many calories does this have?", "Will this make me fat?", or "Do I deserve to treat myself?" For shit sake, it's just an ice cream cone. Too much of anything is bad, but there's nothing with doing something in moderation...granted WHAT you do in moderation may not be good at all, but I digress.

Yet we all do this at one point or another. We'll make little judgements that really prevent us from knowing anything. We judge people off first impressions, and miss out on really getting to know them, because we've already got this image in our head.

I like learning, discovering, and experiencing things. But at times, I get into this mode where I just live, day by day, and it scares the hell outta me. I have to snap myself out of it. I imagine turning into some unfeeling robot, too busy just getting by to actually live.

My goal is to live each day as if it were my last. People can actually live an entire lifetime without actually living...I don't want to be like that. I mean, how can I take this wonderful gift (life) for granted?

Chino

Chino 14 Dec 2001, 09:48

"OK, bear with me alright? I've kinda...sorta...got this thing. I don't know if I'd call it an obsession, or a fetish - maybe just a preference. Anyways, I've got this thing...for girls in glasses right?...Yeah that's right, I like girls in glasses...yup, even more than girls without glasses...I know, I know, it's kinda weird, but I can't help it...it's just there...."

Chino opening lines, while trying to describe his fetish to friends and family.

Wurm 13 Dec 2001, 07:10

Rarely Asked Questions

http://www.carnatic.com/karmasaya/index.php?RAQ

Nikki 10 Dec 2001, 14:25

God created Adam first because he didn't want advice!

Chino 10 Dec 2001, 05:31

"When it comes to love, pride is the hardest thing to swallow."

Chino, after being surprised by a friend's unexpected insight.

Chino 07 Dec 2001, 10:24

LikeGlass, ya got any seltzer...in case you eat those Chili Peppers? I know they can be a knockout ;)

Webster 06 Dec 2001, 05:18

Spelling correction

Paprika

Chili Pepper

Chino 06 Dec 2001, 05:10

"Well, I thought it was so funny, that I got a bottle of Sunny D, stuck it on his ass, and took a picture of it."

One of my Marines did this while the other one was doing the splits - upside down (and quite drunk). The Sunny D did stay on there long enough for him to snap the picture (though it didn't come out very good).

LikeGlass 05 Dec 2001, 08:53

Spice Rack

-1 = Parsley

-2 = Oregano

-3 = Basil

-4 = Sage

-5 = Pepperica

-6 = Chilli Pepper

Chino 05 Dec 2001, 05:23

Thanks for the help you all. It's certainly helped me handle things better. And like LikeGlass said, it does add a little extra something to life...gotta love that spice.

Todays thoughts: nothing meaningful - just a bunch of insane gibberish (wrote them all yesterday), including some simean nincompoopery (love that word Filthy, thanks).

Why do monkeys speak insane babble?

Why do they spank their uncles for that matter?

And what about those spacemonkeys, cosmic cousins to seamonkeys? - They ramble on incessantly.

Chino, after figuring out his favorite word is monkey.

I'm a lean, mean, green, gun-toting killing maching.

Bald head like Mr. Clean.

And you say that old man is mean?

I'm eating spam, spiced ham?

While getting my finger crushed by a clam.....I choke a snake,

because the girl didn't have fries to go with that shake.

Those were my crazy thoughts that leaked out of my marbles. Too bad the engine's running, but no one's at the wheel.

Chino

Hearty 04 Dec 2001, 15:56

Wow Chino, you're so brave to come right out and express yourself honestly. I think perhaps if I had found 'the others' like me earlier in my life, maybe I could have been more open about it. I have eventually kinda 'seeped' it out to my sisters and mom, but not really a down-right honest talk. My guy knows the most, oh and my dear daughter too, but since she is gay, it gives her a better understanding of things off the beaten track. She thinks I'm stranger than her though....lol!

Anyway, one quick thing in agreement with LikeGlass, that might make you feel better too...I agree that when the chemistry is right, you will know it, and THAT will be more important than the glasses thing. Like last night with my guy, I FORGOT to enjoy his specs! That's the point, I was so overwhelmed with my love for him, I just offhandedly noticed his wearing them. I think it will all fall into place. 8)

PS...I'll just have to take over mad-dog role.....RRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!

Chino 04 Dec 2001, 04:37

What's this shit about my dad? Just kidding. No, my dad talk about personal stuff all the time. I kinda relate to him because 1. He's a guy, and 2. He's single (my parents divorced when I was 7), so I can really relate to him. He's gone through a lot of things that I'm just encountering, and he's always got good advice whenever I need it.

So he was pretty understanding about it. Initially, he gave me that OK (like, "gee, that's kinda weird"), but he was cool about it. He was actually pretty interested in it, and he asked me what the attraction was. I pretty much spilled the beans and told him everything. I also told him about my dillemma (to give it up, or just tone it down). He pretty much told me the same thing...It's fine to have preferences, but if it's too strong for my comfort, just lower the level a bit.

I won't leave Hearty (perish the thought). However, my days as the mad-dog, hard-core, drooling/weak-at-the-knees spexaholic/optiholic are over. It's just gonna be a preference.

LikeGlass 03 Dec 2001, 18:33

Stuff like GWG loving is what makes life neat! Ive been into it most of my life and yet I married a 20/20 go figure! I think its the old Lust vs Love thing. When you find the right girl, it hits you in such a big way, all this stuff doesnt matter! Sure, theres always the fantasy about some GWG lover, and I made that come true in my teens, but hey, Ive been married for 20 years now and am quite happy! The GWG thing will always be a part of me, and I enjoy talking about it, and I wouldnt want it to go away. Its the stuff that makes life worth living!

Christy 03 Dec 2001, 12:07

I think it's cool when people can talk to other people face to face about stuff like this - and I admire the way Americans just go ahead and do it when the need arises - like Chino just did with his dad and sister. Where I am in the UK it's probably a hanging offence to talk like that! Or at least - I wouldn't want to put it to the test!

As for how far to go with your feelings - I guess the rule must be "moderation in all things". If you like a drink - then go ahead and enjoy a drink - but don't drink until you puke yourself inside out. If you like a good mea - then enjoy a good meal - but don't have three or four good meals or they'll just leave you feeling wretched. And if you like girls with glasses - then enjoy having a couple of them around - but don't go chasing after everyone of them in the world or you'll go nuts!

And yeah - what did your dad say?

PS 03 Dec 2001, 11:52

How did Dad respond? (if you want to say...)

Hearty 03 Dec 2001, 11:47

Just a quickie in response to Chino, cause I'm getting crippled on here all day!! Anyway, it just amazed me that you said all that, as I've been going through a very similar stage the past two weeks. Not so much wanting to give up being an OO, it is too much the spice in my life, but...sigh...wishing my guy's narrow cylinders didn't HOLD me captive so...I wonder, even while loving him so deeply in other ways, if perhaps I would have been able to leave him when I realized he was not thee best for me in the long run. It was sucha compelling case....the first date when he sprung it on me that he wore them, the car ride when I turned around and there he was, glasses-clad, smiling that rakish smile at me...whew!

The deelish journey from his part-time to full-time use...it was all like a classic optiholic's dream, even now, him saying weakly, I need these more n more...and I wish sometimes I could 'see' our relationship sans the visual thing, and THEN evaluate it...

Some quickie, but you touched a chord, something I've been thinking on a lot.

My conclusion, gee, it just makes me so happy, I have to go with the flow.

Anyway...please dont leave us! But I do think it's a good idea not to rule out non-spexy girls..there IS so much more to souls, and you never know anyway, look how I dated the drummer, and then the hidden specs appeared! 8)

I reeeeally hafta get off this machine!!

Hearty~

Hearty 03 Dec 2001, 11:37

Whoa, what is a Darkstar? That sounds prophetic....

And Chino, =P !

Wurm 03 Dec 2001, 08:52

2,805 days since the last Darkstar.

Chino 03 Dec 2001, 05:12

LOL!! Oh, so it's like that, huh Hearty? So let me get this straight, it's OK for us to try to guess what you're thinking, but it's NOT OK for you guys to guess what we're thinking...I get it :)

Chino 03 Dec 2001, 05:08

Man, oh man! I had a strange weekend, and I just haveta talk about it. See, I watched that movie Shallow Hal on Friday, and then I went to a beach-party and got kinda drunk. Well, while in my inebriated state, I started thinking about things...and it was a little disturbing.

I thought about my fetish, how it's affected me, and when it REALLY started (with a very cute girl in Puerto Rico with the most gorgeous blue eyes, wearing glasses (RX unknown)-kindergarten - I was 5 or 6, max). I also thought about how strongly my fetish has affected me, and how much it has intensified since finding Eyescene.

While in my stupor, I became really uncomfortable with how strong my fetish was...I was sooo pissed off that I was really ready to say "fuck it" and give it up. I mean, I was gonna leave Eyescene today, and disappear from the optical scene period. I think my main gripe is that...I didn't want glasses to be the sole means of attraction...if that makes any sense. I don't know, *sigh*, I guess I realized that, by getting so wrapped up in the glasses, ya kinda miss out on the person wearing them. Also, I didn't want to cheat myself outta meeting the right person, just because she doesn't wear glasses. It's kinda funny, because I actually had to talk to somebody about it, so I revealed my fetish to my younger sister and to my father.

My sister was really the only reason I decided to keep it up...she told me that I don't have to give it up. It's just a preference, and it's OK as long as it stays that way. I think I can live with that. So, I'm no longer going to be the drooling, weak-at-the-knees Optiholic/Spexaholic that I used to be. From now on, I'm just an admirer.

I'll still hang around ES, but I'm gonna try to tone things down a bit. To all the GWGs out there, sorry...y'all look great in glasses, but I can't limit myself to GWGs anymore, I won't do that.

So, that was my strange epiphany during the weekend...I can't believe how close I came to giving it all up.

Chino

Wurm 02 Dec 2001, 20:09

Yes we were born born/Born to be alive

-Patrick Hernandez

Hearty 02 Dec 2001, 15:19

That's a novel idea, Christy! 8)

My thot for th day....If life is an ice cream sundae, then people with glasses are the hot fudge! B)

Christy 02 Dec 2001, 02:04

Well where I live we call a spade a spade and tell people straight to their faces what we're thinking!

Hearty 01 Dec 2001, 14:34

This, misquoted I'm sure, from the film Damaged, with good ole Jeremy Irons.'We are given to love because it is the closest thing to glimpsing the unknown we have...and so we love'

Chino!!! You guys are SUPPOSED to be able to read our minds, and 'It's not really important' is the only ploy we have to gain your attention!!! 8P

Julian 01 Dec 2001, 12:22

Filthy: ROFL

Love and kisses, Jules.

Filthy McNasty 01 Dec 2001, 11:19

Around here, where there have been a number of hikers et by bears over the years, someone has circulated this:

"Due to the rising frequency of human-bear encounters, the BC Fish and Wildlife Ministry is advising hikers, fishermen, and any perosns who use the outdoors in a recreational or work-related function to take extra precautions while in the field.

"We advise that such persons fix small bells to their clothing so as to provide advance warning to bears. This gives them a chance to move off before you surprise them; a cornered bear is a dangerous bear.

"We also advise persons using the outdoors to carry a canister of pepper spray for use in a bear encounter.

"Outdoorsmen should also be on the lookout for fresh bear activity, and learn to tell the difference between black bear dung and grizzly bear dung. Dung from black bears is smaller, and contains berries and squirrel fur. Grizzly bear dung is has bells in it, and smells like pepper."

Wurm 01 Dec 2001, 10:02

I'm a bear in the morning until I've had my first park ranger.

Filthy McNasty 30 Nov 2001, 10:08

Everyone, except those who are starving and have been for some time, is full of shit.

SZ6 30 Nov 2001, 09:11

Of all the people I've ever met, you're certainly one of them.

Wurm 30 Nov 2001, 08:46

If you think you know what's going on, you're probably full of shit.

Chino 30 Nov 2001, 08:30

Yup, I sure did Hearty (we did actually try to get it done - didn't work). Liked your post, and I thought the little concert in the store was cool.

Today's thought:

Look, despite occasional fits of mental telepathy, I'm not a psychic...I can't read your mind. So stop beating around the bush, and just TALK TO ME!! And I don't wanna hear any of that "oh, it's not important" crap...if it wasn't important, you wouldn't have brought it up.

Chino, whenever there's a breakdown in communication.

Hearty 29 Nov 2001, 12:39

Chino, you've missed Halloween....haha, perhaps it could be the Grynch's hideaway for Christmas! I want to make a specs tree this year!!!

My thought for the day...OK, so I heard it on Art Bell, from a man who supposedly encounters alien spirits, but the meaning is what I'm going for...

the, achem, alien said....You Earthlings are surrounded by this thing called LOVE, but you never use it!

Hug in malls, by all means, Ohhh, the other night I was in a store and a great rock tune came on....the checker was singing out loud in a beautiful voice and I walked up and started harmonizing...it was like a musical!!! Man, our voices rang! Just one of those little moments...(it was a small store, thank goodness) 8))

Chino 29 Nov 2001, 05:08

Realized the most disturbing thing yesterday. People are ashamed to show each other affection in public...and sometimes even in private. I'm talking about friends, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, cousins, husbands, wives...it's a damned epidemic. And these are the people who, supposedly, mean the most to you. These are the people I give a shit about.

Since when, is giving someone a hug in a mall a fucking embarrassment!? What kind of a sick-ass world are we helping create? - an unfeeling world where just holding hands or giving a peck on the cheek is taboo or not politically correct. It's just a damn kiss! Something that will make someone else feel better - I just don't see what's wrong with that!!

I'm not ashamed ta hug somebody in public. And if that embarrasses somebody, I feel sorry for 'em.

Chino, after seeing this shit all the time in the mall.

Chino 28 Nov 2001, 06:48

OK, check it dude. I got the scariest shit ta show ya man. There's this thing called a barracks room right...

...Hey, it could work. Honestly, have you ever looked at the inside of one of those things?

Chino, while debating turning the barracks into a Haunted House for Halloween.

Hearty 27 Nov 2001, 19:55

Thank you Chino, it just so happened I read that while strains of Auld Lang whatever were playing on TV, and, well, sniff sniff~~~

Humbling, so true....and sometimes we love like that and the other is not capable of accepting...yet we love still, cause we cannot help but do so...

HeartOfGlass

Bobby 27 Nov 2001, 14:05

Owen, if I lost 200lb I would have to wear a backpack with very big stones in it.

8-D

Chino 27 Nov 2001, 12:20

Stuffing feathers up your butt does NOT make you a chicken.

Tyler Durder: Fight Club

Owen 27 Nov 2001, 12:10

The best cure for myopia/hyperopia is an expensive diet treatment. Notice how all those glasses-wearing people in the "before" photos suddenly dont wear them anymore in the "after" photos? Miracle cure. Lose 200lbs and have your eyesight restored!

ehpc 27 Nov 2001, 08:18

Plato (Nichomachean Ethics).......The essence of love is more in loving,rather than being loved. Peter

Chino 27 Nov 2001, 06:28

OK, this ones a bit different from my usual, insane posts. This ones a human issue. This ones real. It has to do with a little something called unconditional love, something Id forgotten about a long time ago. It took an intimate, profound dream to jog my memory, and help me remember what it feels like � to give it and receive itremind me to thank my subconscious.

Well, I think most of us knew what unconditional love truly meant at some point. We just forgot the meaning somewhere along the way. Maybe our parents scolded us or spanked us as children, and forgot to mention that it was out of love, or that they loved us, despite our errors and imperfections. A typical, innocent child would simply assume that his parents would love him, as long as he behaved himself. Right then and there, a condition was put on when one would receive love. Unconditional love was no longer a reality. An easy way to prevent this is by letting the child know that hell be loved no matter what, especially after being disciplined (as the child is kinda upset at the time).

Sure, we probably tell people all the time that we love them, but are we taking those words or those people for granted. I know I did, and it took me some serious soul-searching to realize that. Unfortunately, its an easy thing to do. Especially when youre in my boat, single and living in the barracks with a bunch of strangers. All the people I truly love and care about are hundreds of miles away � its like having a long-distance relationship with everyone you know (and as we all know, long-distance relationships kinda suck). So in a situation like that, its really easy to forget about these people, to forget to give them a call. At one point, I didnt call anyone (not even my parents) for a month. That was wrong. I found out that my parents were frantically worried about me. Since then, Ive never done that again. But how many of us have done similar things, and how often? Its the little things that really count. The little everyday gestures of love and affection are the ones that go a long way. And its the little things we forget that hurt people the most.

Dreams are really symbolicthey dont make sense in and of themselves, but their meaning does. My dream basically told me that Ive been lacking in unconditional love, primarily in giving it. It kinda reminded me of an exercise I went through a while back while on a personal growth retreat. Basically, I was sitting down in a small circle of chairs. There was a circle of people standing behind the circle of chairs. Wed listen to some soothing music, and the people standing up had to think of the one phrase or statement that theyve wanted to hear their entire life. When the music was done, they had to whisper it to the people sitting down. Ill never forget what one woman whispered to me. She said, I love you, and I dont want to be without you. My life is blessed because youre a part of it.� Just listening to her whisper this to me in my ear was extremely exhilarating. I fantasized having a girlfriend or wife whisper that to me, and it meant everything to me. But as much as I loved hearing it, something else hit me. This is what this woman has wanted to hear all her lifesomething shes never heard from anyone yet, not even her husband. And as much as I wanted to hear it, I found myself wanting to say it to someone even more.

In my opinion, thats the greatest human experience, and the highest goal a person can achieve. To be able to so intimately and deeply touch another human soulthat is magical. That is special. That is real. And thats something I want now more than ever. I want to be able to unconditionally love a woman, to let her know that shes my jeweled queen no matter what. I mean, thats the biggest rush in the worldletting someone know that, despite there imperfections (which we all have), despite what may happen in life, youll always be there to love them, care for them, protect them, nourish them, and take care of themthats human, and I was in denial about this for a long time. To be so special, and important to someoneto mean so much to another human beingto absolutely rock someones world so much!! Thats what I want out of life. All the individual achievements and material things in life cant come close to that. Thats my goal. Thats something I want to experience before I die, more than anything else in the world. If I can just do this one thing, I can truly say I know what it is to be human. I can know what it truly means to love someone.

Sorry you guys, I know this was ridiculously long-winded, but this is what Ive been feeling, and I needed to just get it outI needed some sort of release, and this was it. Thank you.

Chino

Puffin 26 Nov 2001, 23:52

There are more interesting things going on inside a human brain than out there in the universe.

bobcanfly 26 Nov 2001, 15:27

Like the quote, Filthy.

- There is a saying that says if the secret of the universe is discovered, it will be replaced by something even more bizarre.

Or, this could have already happened.

hydrop 26 Nov 2001, 15:06

Even though we've always been taught not to judge others lest we have a hard look at ourselves, I came across a quote from one of the ancient philosophers (since lost the text).I keep this thought foremost in my mind:

'Judge others by how they treat people who can't do anything for them'

Chino 26 Nov 2001, 10:41

LOL!! and ROTFL (Roll On The Floor Laughing) Holy smokes, the guy said "technological nincompoopery" - I love that. Kick-Ass quote Filthy and, sadly, a true one so far.

The Spexaholic

Tammy 26 Nov 2001, 10:34

Filthy,

I like what you said below. I agree.

Filthy McNasty 26 Nov 2001, 10:17

Here is my favorite quote:

Is there nothing about the United States of my youth, aside from youth itself, that I miss sorely now? There is one thing that I miss so much that I can hardly stand it, which is freedom from the certain knowledge that human beings will very soon have made this moist, blue-green planet uninhabitable by human beings. There is no stopping us. We will continue to breed like rabbits. We will continue to engage in technological nincompoopery with hideous side effects unforeseen. We will make only token repairs on our cities now collapsing. We will not clean up much of the poisonous mess that we ourselves have made.

If flying saucer creatures or angels or whatever were to come here in a hundred years, say, and find us gone like the dinosaurs, what might be a good message for humanity to leave for them, maybe carved in great big letters on a Grand Canyon wall?

Here is this old poops suggestion:

WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES,

BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD.

We might well add this:

AND TOO DAMN CHEAP."

Kurt Vonnegut

_Fates Worse Than Death_

Chino 26 Nov 2001, 04:46

*Sigh* [sarcastic tone] "No, I don't like you...and...no, I'm not happy to see you. I just happen to get the biggest hard-on on the planet Earth whenever you're around me. That's all."

Chino's inner monologue, when the answer to this well-known question, is just that damn obvious.

Puffin 25 Nov 2001, 07:20

A Bird in the Bush is worth a KFC.

Bobby 24 Nov 2001, 13:14

The biggest problem with stupid people is, that tey are too fool to believe, that somebody might be clever.

Kurt Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan

(Translated from Czech back to English, if anybody knows the exact text, please send it here.)

Hearty 24 Nov 2001, 10:19

A stud under glass is worth a pheasant in the bush... -Hearty

Hearty 24 Nov 2001, 10:15

God help us and save us, cried old Mrs. Davis.... my Mum said that all th time...

Hearty 24 Nov 2001, 10:12

Cynicism is thinly veiled fear. -Hearty

Filthy McNasty 24 Nov 2001, 00:23

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

Filthy McNasty 24 Nov 2001, 00:22

I had no shoes, and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had lost his feet.

So I took his shoes.

Filthy McNasty 24 Nov 2001, 00:21

A fool and his money...

...are worth two in the bush.

Filthy McNasty 24 Nov 2001, 00:20

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Puffin 23 Nov 2001, 23:45

Pull the chain before you rise,

or you will get a wet surprise!

Hearty 23 Nov 2001, 18:54

Just call me Jorth! Hey, why does Odin have one eye out in the artwork....you mean we hafta do MORE homework??

Man, you guys are far and away THEE most learned, witty and articulate bunch of fetishists I've ever come across...

My words for the day? The longer I live, the more I believe in 'circumstance bubbles' (you can quote me...LOL) reoccuring dramas that contain different players n settings, but same ole themes....to break free we must find the meaning of these 'bubbles of angst' Achem....straightening my smudged lenses...we must step outside and examine the common thread in them all...

Bobby 21 Nov 2001, 14:08

if you have an umbrella in your ass, do not open it.

Bashmak proverb

Chino 21 Nov 2001, 04:49

Hold on a minute...OK, see, what had happened was.....

Chino's opening remarks, after the shit has already hit the fan.

ehpc 20 Nov 2001, 08:28

Certainly people tend to 'receive what they give' in life. Pompous people who see themselves as agenda-setters generally end up achieving very little,and are reduced to freaking out on their own self-importance.

Chino 20 Nov 2001, 05:59

If you want to live a long, healthy life stud, here's what ya gotta do: Make sure you're worth more alive than dead.

I know that sounds kinda ambiguous, so here's what I mean. Obviously, there's the financial aspect. Face it. If you have a ridiculously high life insurance policy, there's always going to be some sicko out there willing to cash in on your fortunate demise. However, the more important aspect has to do with people.

Basically, if you go around bullying, harrassing, abusing, and more or less torturing people, it won't be long before someone figures out that their life would be much happier without you in it. So you can go around treating people like shit if you want to, but sooner or later those poor tortured soul s you've been fucking with are gonna put you out of their misery.

So, be stupid if you want to, but don't be surprised if someone busts a cap in your ass.

Chino's inner monologue, while trying to determine whether to reason with an asshole, or just beat the shit outta him.

Chino 19 Nov 2001, 04:54

Ya see, a lot of people confuse being assertive with being aggressive. You can be assertive without being aggressive. You do this by using tact...treating people with dignity and respect.

Believe it or not, you can say things to people that would normally piss them off, but if you use tact, they won't get upset. For example: You can tell a guy to go fuck himself in the ass, right? But if you use tact, the motherfucker actually looks forward to doing it.

Chino, while discussing anger management with a buddy.

LikeGlass 15 Nov 2001, 12:10

Ah.. Therefore:

Perfection would be the imperfection!

Very heavy thought ;)

Chino 15 Nov 2001, 07:08

Ahh, refractive errors...who would've thought an imperfection would be seen as so deliciously perfect. And yet so many people have no clue how scrumptiously delish they look in those fabulous, sparkly, sexy specs.

Perfection in imperfection...It's a paradox, or a pair of ducks, err...a pair of something - along those lines hee-hee :).

Chino, while trying to answer the question "I drank what?!"

Wurm 13 Nov 2001, 11:46

Hi Lorenzo!

hehe

Chino 13 Nov 2001, 11:24

Hi everyone, my name's Lorenzo...and I'm an Optiholic.

Feels good to get that off my chest *grin*

Tammy 11 Nov 2001, 18:03

Every day in Glasses is a better day!

Christy 10 Nov 2001, 08:38

What do glasses say about a person?

An interesting question - and one I put to my own glasses.

Only they didn't say anything about me!

Wurm 10 Nov 2001, 07:48

In the land of the accomodatively insufficient, the trifocal wearer is king.

Wurm 09 Nov 2001, 09:20

lol - good one!

Christy 09 Nov 2001, 08:43

No problem - it's a piece of gobbledegook - looks like French - but read it out loud and it says - Paddle your own canoe!

Wurm 09 Nov 2001, 07:56

I'd like interpretation, Christy.

Wurm 08 Nov 2001, 20:04

http://www.pataphysics.com/daisy.html

Christy 08 Nov 2001, 10:02

Pas d'elle yeux Rhone que nous.

(Let me know if you need help on this one!)

Filthy McNasty 08 Nov 2001, 09:47

Ubu Stercus Dormit.

Wurm 08 Nov 2001, 08:55

Cogito Ergo Sum

Chino 07 Nov 2001, 09:54

"Atoms are mostly empty space. So, it's only safe to deduce that we're all airheads."

Chino, during a fit of insane babbling.

Tammy 06 Nov 2001, 16:53

Here's a thought to think about. I found this one on a plaque in my doctor's exam room.

I've learned to live with Arthritis. My dentures suit me just fine. I can see quite well with bifocals, but i really do miss my mind.

Puffin 05 Nov 2001, 16:11

Apparently Alexander the Great also died from the cumulative effects of a lot of wounds gained in the many battles he fought, some minor and some very serious.

Mind you the drink helped!

Chino 05 Nov 2001, 07:42

True Story:

"This is in honor of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, who died of ALCOHOL POISONING"

After saying that, I crushed an empty beer can on my forehead...knocking myself out in the process (don't ask why).

Tammy 04 Nov 2001, 15:41

What's on my bedside table? I've got an overdue library book called "The Crystal Clear Guide to Sight For Life. A complete Manuel of Eye Care for Those Over 40." by Johnny L. Gayton, M.D, and Jan Roadarmel Ledford. I've also got a book called "Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing" by Lillian Sholtis Brunner, and Doris Smith Suddarth. And finally, i have a copy of the New International Version of the Bible.

teachkids 03 Nov 2001, 22:08

What you don't have you don't need it right now.

" Beautiful Day" by U2

princess 03 Nov 2001, 04:21

Yeah, good Question about our reading Matters, as I just found a totally fascinating Book. It´s called "War against People" and it´s by Noam Chmosky. I can advice everybody with interest in Politics to have a little Look.

Rudeman 03 Nov 2001, 04:04

How about....

If it wasn't for nonsense

I wouldn't have no sense at all

Elmo 02 Nov 2001, 20:29

If it wasn't for my sense of humor, I'd have no sense at all.....

LikeGlass 02 Nov 2001, 18:42

"Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb"

- Rock band, Smash Mouth

Bobby 02 Nov 2001, 14:21

The more you know, the less you need.

Aboriginal proverb

Wurm 02 Nov 2001, 07:42

A most commendable thought, Chino.

What's on everyone's night table?

I'm reading Neal Stephenson's _Cryptonomicon_ (just for pleasure! hahaha), a collection of early Doonesbury comics called _Call Me When You Find America_ and Sidney Cox's lyrical and gently subversive _Indirections_.

I also dialed my New Yorker subscription back in yesterday. I have high hopes for the post-Brown era. Damned optimism.

And the Atlantic seems to know where I live, but they are so coy about sending anything. Generally excellent reading when it shows up though.

Chino 02 Nov 2001, 06:48

Thought for the day:

Read! Hey, it's cheaper than TV :)

Filthy McNasty 01 Nov 2001, 22:32

Wurm: Yes, Gayle was off to college, where I believe she had met a nice young man. Hope she prospers.

Filthy McNasty 01 Nov 2001, 22:30

Tammy: Please don't mention it.

Wurm 01 Nov 2001, 22:02

Filthy,

I haven't heard from Gayle at all. Wasn't she off to college at last report?

Tammy 01 Nov 2001, 21:38

I hereby apologize to all members of the EyeScene community. I have stuff going on in my life right now that have nothing to do with EyeScene or the internet. Filthy, I'm sorry for saying that you have no personality.

Filthy McNasty 01 Nov 2001, 21:29

Wurm: Gosh how I love that name Snorri. Sounds like we're talking about the *sound* of god's nose now.

In fact, why not the three "god's nose" dwarfs? Snorri, Runni, and Drippi.

Filthy McNasty 01 Nov 2001, 21:11

Wurm: I was partial to the Marvel Comics rendition of Thor as some kind of muscular Scandihoovian rock star, the dragon Fafnir as a fat version of Godzilla.

Say, your all-time greatest quip had to be that time on Lens Chat when Gayle (bless her no-longer-here heart) threatened to bash me over the head with her specs, and you told her never to hit a man with glasses. Ha!

Have you heard from her in any recent time?

Tammy: Mote, beam. How will we get it all resolved? All shades of opinion feed an open mind, as Gabriel says (Peter, not the angel). Whoever your god is, you believe (s)he loves me, too.

Wurm 01 Nov 2001, 19:26

Discussions about the awesomeness, existence, and/or beard lengths of higher powers are tolerable, but personal attacks are frowned upon.

PS - I'll get that Thor yet.

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~skegga/thorserp.htm

Tammy 01 Nov 2001, 18:42

Filthy McNasty, You just gave your true identity away. You think you are some hotshot since you are in the Mensa club. Well, honey, let me tell you that you might be a mensch, but you haven't got any personality whatsoever!!

Wurm 01 Nov 2001, 18:37

God nose, you may be right Filthy.

Tammy 01 Nov 2001, 18:22

Sticks and Stones may break my bones; but words will never harm me.

Filthy McNasty 01 Nov 2001, 18:16

Yeth, thor ith a condition in which I thpend a great deal of time. That'th a good god to pick. Either that or a nose.

Puffin 01 Nov 2001, 14:16

How about Jupiter?

God of food, fun, laughter, good times etc!

Just the sort of chap to have in charge of all those others!

Bobby 01 Nov 2001, 14:01

I am too cool to be bare-eyed.

Wurm 31 Oct 2001, 22:30

How about Thor? Thunder, lightning, Midgard Serpent... that's all pretty awesome stuff.

Filthy McNasty 31 Oct 2001, 20:47

Which "god"?

Tammy 31 Oct 2001, 20:36

Glasses are cool, but God is Awesome!!

Tammy 31 Oct 2001, 15:13

Wurm, I don't remember that episode. Oh well.

Wurm 31 Oct 2001, 14:25

I think "Fonzie" said that once.

Heeeeeyyyy... glasses are cool!

It was in an episode of "Happy Days" where he was having some vision trouble while reading and had to get glasses.

Pete2 31 Oct 2001, 12:31

Hey you're right Tammy. Es ist nicht schwierig !

Tammy 31 Oct 2001, 11:46

Glasses are cool!

Alain-ad2412 31 Oct 2001, 03:06

Hey LikeGlass,

Very Fun!

Tammy 30 Oct 2001, 15:01

LikeGlass, That's very cute! I like it alot.

LikeGlass 30 Oct 2001, 10:34

On the subject of humor, and old thought-

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

Scroll down to the bottom of this page and take a peek:

http://www.geocities.com/likeglass55/e5.html

Tammy 30 Oct 2001, 01:05

Hairballs are a pain!(cough,cough,choke,choke)

I couldn't resist adding that one! I thought you folks could use a little humor. *Grin*

Chino 28 Oct 2001, 15:48

Me to! :)

You cannot truly understand and love someone else, until you understand and love yourself first - (strong relationships require strong foundations).

Trent 28 Oct 2001, 13:23

I like that!

LikeGlass 28 Oct 2001, 11:10

A girl with glasses upon her face,

warms my heart in just the right place!

Ciprian 28 Oct 2001, 11:00

I wear glasses, therefore I am !

8-)))

Tammy 28 Oct 2001, 10:56

I think, therefore i am.

Tammy 27 Oct 2001, 12:48

I have gone in search of my mind. If i come back before i return, please keep me here.

Wurm 27 Oct 2001, 09:04

Wherever you go, there you are.

LikeGlass 26 Oct 2001, 19:50

A thread without a post? Well, well take care of that!

Thought:

If your glasses could talk, what story would they tell that would most embarrass you?

Tammy 26 Oct 2001, 19:45

Don't think twice about doing good to someone else. Who knows, someday they might return the favor.