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AEMINAL posted:anyway, what I really posted this thread for is tips on keeping the lenses absolutely spotless and clean So I just use reading glasses, which means I never really get used to having some glass in front of my eyes. For me one thing that made a huge difference was getting some glasses with anti-reflective coating on them. When I started using them, I felt like I could never gets them perfectly clean and was constantly annoyed. I finally figured out the real problem was that small reflections from my eyes or skin were making a "haze" on the inside of the glasses that felt like dirty glasses. Buying a decent pair of non-prescription readers with anti-reflection made a huge difference. But also if you have a small microfiber cloth that came free with the glasses, throw that poo poo out and get a couple big ones. The microfiber will pick up skin oil from your fingers when you use it. So after using it a few times they're dirty and suck. Toxic Mental posted:My whole family wears glasses but I have 20/20 vision in my mid 30s because I'm a GENETIC FREAK and I'm NOT NORMAL Same, but hot tip when you're in the drugstore some time check out the rack of cheapo reading glasses. You might be like me and have 20/20 distance but then put on a pair of +1.50 and say "oh hey I can focus on things inside arm-length much easier". Probably followed by "oh those headaches were actually bad eyestrain".
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wonder if there’s any goons with spoons posters reading this thread; all thinking about that monthly “shoes for crews” draft on their paycheck; getting hot and bothered by this boujie-rear end benefits posting?
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Dick Fontaine posted:wonder if there’s any goons with spoons posters reading this thread; all thinking about that monthly “shoes for crews” draft on their paycheck; getting hot and bothered by this boujie-rear end benefits posting? I don't read the cooking forum, so once again I would like you to explain things to me. also you spelled bougie wrong
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I don't read the cooking forum, so once again I would like you to explain things to me. also you spelled bougie wrong kitchen jobs always require safety shoes. employees usually have to pay for those. there’s a company called shoes for crews that a lot of food service operations will offer their employees as a “benefit”, the benefit being that you can buy them on an installment plan that’s spread out across your future paychecks. it’s a common gripe
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Dick Fontaine posted:kitchen jobs always require safety shoes. employees usually have to pay for those. there’s a company called shoes for crews that a lot of food service operations will offer their employees as a “benefit”, the benefit being that you can buy them on an installment plan that’s spread out across your future paychecks. it’s a common gripe at the drug factory it was a straight voucher at approved places for shoes and glasses, something like $120 for shoes (you were told specifically to get capped sneakers, not boots), and full cost of frames +$20 on lenses or something for safety glasses.
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anyway—not trying to start a derail. that’s just one of my weird pedantic nerd things that i bring up whenever possible because of dumb life events. that post was simply an inescapable compulsion, nothing more
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Dick Fontaine posted:kitchen jobs always require safety shoes. employees usually have to pay for those. there’s a company called shoes for crews that a lot of food service operations will offer their employees as a “benefit”, the benefit being that you can buy them on an installment plan that’s spread out across your future paychecks. it’s a common gripe no one actually cared if we had non-slip shoes when I worked in a kitchen. Wore loving engineer boots for a while, slipped, then got yelled at for no cleaning up the mess I made when I fell.
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I always hated glasses, I remember the high school doing informal, low accuracy tests just to check when I was 14 or so and saying "looks like you're on the verge of needing glasses" and me replying "if you say so!" and them just going "you wouldn't wear them right?", I confirmed I would not, and they just laughed and told me to get on my way. I didn't get glasses until after I did my driving test (at 22, after I'd graduated Uni), as they were technically required for seeing the other cars. After passing the test I immediately got contact lenses, and only stopped wearing them when terribly depressed, because I stopped caring about my appearance at all during those times. When I moved countries the new optometrist told me "Oh, we have these 30 day continuous wear ones, second best only to LASIK" and I got those and resumed wearing contact lenses pretty much ever since, often forgetting to change them at the appropriate 30 day limit, but it's been a decade now and going strong with them. I do consider LASIK sometimes but even if I've mastered "touching my eyeball, even just for grossing non-eyeball-touchers out for a laugh" having someone actually cut my eyeballs with a laser still sounds pretty horrible. It's funny since my immediate family and most of my extended family all wear glasses, but I just inexplicably hate them, they're just the worst. My dad told me once when he was a wee boy he wanted glasses so much he kept trying to explain to his gran that he wanted some even if they were flat glass, just so he could have glasses to wear. Being able to see is pretty good, though. Contact lenses are great for the peripheral vision, too.
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i kind of want to do lasik, but I think i look better with glasses, so it's a real pickle
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Charles Ford posted:Being able to see is pretty good, though. Contact lenses are great for the peripheral vision, too. Yeah, I have freaky-good peripheral vision, and contacts correct my whole field of view. Wearing glasses, although I still do it a few hours every day, always makes me feel like I have blinders on since my field of view is larger than the coverage of the glasses. I'm diligent about taking my contacts out at night and cleaning them, and according to my eye doctor if I hadn't told them I wear contacts they wouldn't have been able to tell from how healthy my eyeballs are.
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Everyone I have ever dated has always said I look really cute with glasses and I have to disagree massively I look dumb asf with glasses
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Klyith posted:Same, but hot tip when you're in the drugstore some time check out the rack of cheapo reading glasses. You might be like me and have 20/20 distance but then put on a pair of +1.50 and say "oh hey I can focus on things inside arm-length much easier". I don't get headaches and I can see the individual cells on my hand and poo poo up close like 4 inches from my eye really easily. As I said, I'M A GENETIC FREAK, and I'm NOT NORMAL.
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I had insane vision even in the dark when I was a kid that rapidly went to poo poo as an adult and I almost cried when the eye doc briefly put on the lenses during the visit where I could see again lol 100% cotton shirts are safe to clean glasses. My advice is to find frames that look good on you in store then buy them online for a fraction of the price and have the Rx lenses put into them. Eye insurance is a scam
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Dick Fontaine posted:individual lens wipes are the way to go. everything else gets greasy or messes with your lens coating As a glasses wearer of some decades I've found the "everything else gets greasy" part to be absolutely true. Your local cut price pharmacy will sell glasses wipes.
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I found the only non-disposal solution that works are those alcohol sprays that are gel-like in consistency, seems to pick up dirt/etc far better. But you'll find that there's a point where you're just being precious about how dirty your glasses look, if you're sitting there shining your phone light at it to see if it's clean enough you're missing the point, as long as they look clear when u have them on ur face that's all that matters. Imo it's more important to keep the rest of the frame clean because people never clean that poo poo.
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MoonshineWilly posted:I too marveled at tree leaves when I got glasses in grad school. I remember walking across campus thinking, “Holy poo poo, I can see individual leaves!” Ahhh loving pro tip right here Gonna use this with the circular wipe tech on both sides at once some goon mentioned edit: Klyith posted:For me one thing that made a huge difference was getting some glasses with anti-reflective coating on them. When I started using them, I felt like I could never gets them perfectly clean and was constantly annoyed. I finally figured out the real problem was that small reflections from my eyes or skin were making a "haze" on the inside of the glasses that felt like dirty glasses. Buying a decent pair of non-prescription readers with anti-reflection made a huge difference. Yeah these have that coating and it rocks, looks cool in the right light too - like a purple sheen My rx is R -0,75 "sphere" and L -1,25, "Cyl" -1,00. No clue what this poo poo means lmao AEMINAL fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Aug 21, 2023 |
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My uncle had cataract removal surgery and they installed artificial lenses with good mid-range focus and now he only needs reading glasses.
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peanut posted:My uncle had cataract removal surgery and they installed artificial lenses with good mid-range focus and now he only needs reading glasses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpuRIZzJog
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my glasses need cleaning rn but i probs won't do it today
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I want to get lasik because I think glasses and contacts will be hard to come by after the collapse of civilization and I don't want to be easy pickins for the harriers
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Larry Cum Free posted:I want to get lasik because I think glasses and contacts will be hard to come by after the collapse of civilization and I don't want to be easy pickins for the harriers My wife has used this exact argument to try to get me to get lasik.
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Sentinel posted:When i got my first pair of glasses as a kid all i could do on the car ride home was stare out the window at the trees because i could actually see EVERY individual leaf for once. Seriously, when I was a kid, I thought kids just drew trees with green puffs on top because the leaves weren't visible to anybody. Boy howdy was I wrong. Wee posted:I like wearing glasses. 
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:My wife has used this exact argument to try to get me to get lasik. who do you think I got the idea from?
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I switched from glasses to contacts in college and you know that movie trope where the nerdy girl with glasses and a ponytail takes off the glasses and whips her hair around and suddenly she’s pretty well that didn’t happen partly because I’m a dude and partly because I went from average to, also average my field of vision widened a bunch that was nice
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I just moved from normal glasses to "progressive lenses" (fancy bifocals) and it was a similar "holy poo poo this is awesome" moment. I know a lot of people would, at this point in this post, say something like "getting old sucks", but these new glasses are freaking amazing and, with the white beard, I'm a sexy old man. So I'm gonna go with "glasses are awesome" instead.
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I'm juggling the idea that I might need readers to read my phone or play my Nintendo in a more comfortable position with the idea that I should still have a few years to go before presbyopia.
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zedprime posted:I'm juggling the idea that I might need readers to read my phone or play my Nintendo in a more comfortable position with the idea that I should still have a few years to go before presbyopia. Bifocals are really good, friend. Both those are things you tend to look down to see. On the computer monitor, I have to wear a special pair of computer glasses that are just normal glasses for a single distance. I wear those sometimes for books, too, because with the progressives I have to turn my head a little bit to unblur text on the left and right. But for everything else, it's the progressive lenses, and it's awesome to be able to see the ingredients on the item in the store or the voltage output of the power supply, without having to change glasses.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:My wife has used this exact argument to try to get me to get lasik. I wish I could get lasik, but no dice; and I loving hate contacts and have never even bothered to try them since I got prism corrected. Good thing that glasses make me look better lol
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just had my first smelly fart holy gently caress [ages 30+ only]
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congrats on getting your sense of smell back you suck off a djinn or something
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These Zeiss Lens Wipes are for professional cameras and they work wonders on glasses when I used to wear them: https://www.amazon.com/ZEISS-Lens-W...ps%2C214&sr=8-4
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I tried contacts in college, but my eyes produce so much crud it makes wearing them impossible. Specs 4 lyfe.
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just lol if youre not a candidate for lasik. loling at the thought of everyone in this thread crawling around on the floor like velma from scooby fuckin doo just because the lights are turned off and none you you paid the extra $$ for the infrared mods and the 2x monocle scope
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I got glasses when I was 7
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can you get laser surgery if you have astigmatism and require progressive lenses? Cus that harrier argument is sounding really convincing.
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Jelly posted:can you get laser surgery if you have astigmatism and require progressive lenses? It depends. Consultations are typically free. Originally, no, but the newer versions can correct so.e astigmatism depending on type and severity.
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has anybody had that type of lasik where you get one eye that sees into the past and one that sees into the future?
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cruft posted:I just moved from normal glasses to "progressive lenses" (fancy bifocals) and it was a similar "holy poo poo this is awesome" moment. Hell yeah. I was just at the liquor store and the clerk didn't even pause to think I was below 20 to ask for ID - something that usually always happens, unless they recognize me. This is Sweden and there is only one state-run monopoly liquor store where they are INSANELY strict with checking ID. Went from baby-face to kind of hot geek, thank you glasses.
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