Pet Peeves

[Carnage]

It was an old crest apparently. I can't stand soccer as it's not an actual sport, but my brother's a Newcastle fan so we had it on last night. They're commemorating something or other with the old crest, can't remember what he said it was.

[Thorn]

Ah, fair enough then, didn't know it was the old badge. Maybe if I turned the commentary up instead of having a record on I'd know these things!

[Ducky]

Not a peeve, more a "fucking forgot how much they can cost" moment, but had an eye test there, need to upgrade my goggles, sound. €120 for the high index lenses I want, most of the frames that tickle my fancy are around €190, and even though I get a second pair free, it'll be €45 to tint them as sunnies. I'm in the "stone blind and live in my glasses" camp, so it's one of those things that's ultimately worth the cash.

Ah well, there does the planned tattooist appointment 

Last time I needed specs I got the test here and then bought the frame/lenses off Zenni and saved a fair bit.

Would love to go that route, but wouldn't be able to settle on frames without trying them on. Was the guts of three hours picking two pairs out the other day

Related peeve - I've an appointment with an eye specialist in the hospital next week. Have to get the pupils dilated for it. Will be finishing that up around midday. Blind as a bat going home like that during the daytime with regular glasses. My swanky new prescription sunglasses will be ready for collection a few hours after that. Gah.

[astfgyl]

I wore glasses for years and then I broke two new pairs in the space of a week so I just stopped wearing them altogether.

The squinting was extreme for a few months but then it stopped and I haven't wore a pair in at least a decade now. Now I don't think I'd pass any sort of eye test but I just got used to not wearing them and it's like I never had them. Saying all that I do have to slow down coming towards road signs because I have to be fairly close to them to read them and I know it's coming down the line for me in the next couple of years but I've been sort of likening it to walking with a crutch and convincing myself that my eyes got stronger for not wearing them

[Ollkiller]

I wore glasses for years and then I broke two new pairs in the space of a week so I just stopped wearing them altogether.

The squinting was extreme for a few months but then it stopped and I haven't wore a pair in at least a decade now. Now I don't think I'd pass any sort of eye test but I just got used to not wearing them and it's like I never had them. Saying all that I do have to slow down coming towards road signs because I have to be fairly close to them to read them and I know it's coming down the line for me in the next couple of years but I've been sort of likening it to walking with a crutch and convincing myself that my eyes got stronger for not wearing them

If you have to slow down to read road signs you need glasses now, not in a few years. And not wearing glasses make your eyes work harder. They're not getting stronger. Get a pair for driving at least. I don't want you piling into me if I'm driving to the siege   

[astfgyl]

Honestly I'm inclined to agree but I have a certain fondness for lying to myself!

[open face surgery]

  

[Trev]

I only started wearing glasses about a year ago, and realised how fucked my sight had gotten as soon as I put them on, probably needed them at least five years earlier. Still only really use them for driving and gigs though

Went in for a checkup a few weeks back and tried contacts, couldn't manage to get them out at all, horrible yokes

[Thorn]

As a latecomer to glasses too the one thing I find is I'll never get over the irritation of looking for the damn things every time I need to see the simplest thing like a date on a load of bread.

[astfgyl]

I only started wearing glasses about a year ago, and realised how fucked my sight had gotten as soon as I put them on, probably needed them at least five years earlier. Still only really use them for driving and gigs though

Went in for a checkup a few weeks back and tried contacts, couldn't manage to get them out at all, horrible yokes

Had contacts for a while and one night I feel asleep with them in. Woke up in the morning and I was waking up the missus with cries of "oh no oh no oh no I'm gone blind!!!" and "help me help me".

She just says did I take the contacts out last night?

Was so fuckin relieved not to go blind that I went back to glasses

[Ducky]

I've a whopper prescription, -5.5 in both eyes. My focal point is less than 20cm before things turn to blurry shit. Don't think I'm capable of operating myself without them, nevermind motorised vehicles

[open face surgery]

Always get the 2 pairs and have one for work and one for home but there seems to be some degree of magnetism between my arse and the home pair. About 2 weeks after getting them fixed the last time I landed on them again.

[Carnage]

I've a whopper prescription, -5.5 in both eyes. My focal point is less than 20cm before things turn to blurry shit. Don't think I'm capable of operating myself without them, nevermind motorised vehicles

I'm -8.5 (contact prescription, glasses are slightly different) in each eye, blind as fuck. I got glasses again during the lockdown, hadn't worn them for years. Had to pay an extra €150 per pair for the thinner lenses and they're still like milk bottle bottoms. I only wear them around the house as the odd time I wore them out and about I was swaying like I was lamped.

Contacts are mighty once you get used to putting them in and taking them out, I'd be lost without them. Quute literally, in fact.

[Ducky]

I've a whopper prescription, -5.5 in both eyes. My focal point is less than 20cm before things turn to blurry shit. Don't think I'm capable of operating myself without them, nevermind motorised vehicles

I'm -8.5 (contact prescription, glasses are slightly different) in each eye, blind as fuck. I got glasses again during the lockdown, hadn't worn them for years. Had to pay an extra €150 per pair for the thinner lenses and they're still like milk bottle bottoms. I only wear them around the house as the odd time I wore them out and about I was swaying like I was lamped.

Contacts are mighty once you get used to putting them in and taking them out, I'd be lost without them. Quute literally, in fact.

Yeah stumped up the extra €120 for the high index lenses there (the middle tier) - at least they come with anti-glare (honest to god essential addition).

Would love to have contacts, but my gammy eye health dictates I can't. Actually attending a specialist in the hospital next week (diabetes related), and the optician has written him a letter due to the pressure in my eyes. Glaucoma here I come!     

I've avoided the anti-VEGF injections that were briefly on the table a few years back at least, so every silver lining. Those being eye injections. Eye. Injections. Fuck that 

[Carnage]

Fuck that indeed, I couldn't countenace that at all. I know a few people who've had eye surgery, from laser to cataracts. Awake while it happens? Fuck. That.