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Trivial Pursuits => Science & Nature => Topic started by: smick on May 19, 2006, 11:45:53 pm
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Man designs his glasses constructed to his head. (http://piercedglasses.com/)
I think I would actually do this. At the same time, I have three nipple piercings. I've never thought about getting pierced where it is visible, but if it were constructive...
I think I would entertain this thought, should he move this project a bit farther.
Discuss.
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Obviously this man never spends anytime around small children. A kid between about 6 months and 5 years would eventually tear those things out of his head.
Also, if they got anything on them, he'd have to go to some lengths to remove them to clean them. Also inconvenient around metal detectors and in the emergency room.
On the other hand, the absence of temples means they won't interfere with safety glasses, diving masks, and other face covering gear.
As long as I have two ears and a nose, I won't be considering this. Also, dude needs to run spellcheck.
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I'm totally doing it!
except, no. eww.
too much chance for them to get ripped out. although I guess that solves the "glasses on or off?" conundrum during intimate times.
OK that reminds me. What do people with contacts do in this situation? call a time out to go take them out? keep them on, and have to get up afterwards to take them out? what if you fall asleep? This is probably a wierd question, but it bothers me.
as you can see, I am a teenage boy. this is the context I think of everything in. "hm. i should get contacts. but what if..."
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There's very little chance of them being "ripped out" because the glasses themselves attach to a post with magnets (one on each side) so if someone yanks on one of them it will pull that half of the glassses right off. No harm, no foul.
I like the idea, although I'm probably going to hold out for the Lasik. I mean, at this point it's getting so that glasses don't really help much anymore. So I need surgery to keep from losing my vision, not just as correction. I have no health insurance so I'm having to save up to buy myself new eyes. It's only like $8K or so. Per eye.
Piece of cake.
Anyway, these look interesting. If I didn't object to piercings I might consider this.
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This thread puts me in a terrible These Kids Today mood, and gives me the urge to answer theinev's question by saying, in some sort of stodgy advice-columnist voice, that if you aren't mature enough to be comfortable asking for a time out to remove your contacts, you aren't mature enough to be having sex.
But really, this has never seemed like a conundrum. If the following activity is likely to be sleeping, I take the contacts out. If it is likely to be awakeness, I leave them in. It doesn't really seem to be all that hard to predict. I think you can feel confident that it is safe to decide between glasses and contacts on some other basis.
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yeah, I know. It is a theoretical question, only. That just always struck me as an awkward situation.
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Dude, I don't care what wombat says, if you're in the middle of a romantic interlude you do NOT tell the girl you have to stop so you can take out your contact lenses.
Also: buy yourself a big box of condoms, take them out of the box and separate them into individual units, put them in the little drawer next to your bed where you keep your lube and other things (if you don't have a little drawer for condoms and lube next to your bed, get one) and then maybe practise if you don't think you're up to the challenge of taking one out of the drawer, opening it, and dressing Little Dan within about five seconds while laying on your stomach.
Or better yet - leave the lights on, and have your girl put the condom on you with her mouth while you take out your contact lenses. See, there's time for these things!
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This thread puts me in a terrible These Kids Today mood, and gives me the urge to answer theinev's question by saying, in some sort of stodgy advice-columnist voice, that if you aren't mature enough to be comfortable asking for a time out to remove your contacts, you aren't mature enough to be having sex.
But really, this has never seemed like a conundrum. If the following activity is likely to be sleeping, I take the contacts out. If it is likely to be awakeness, I leave them in. It doesn't really seem to be all that hard to predict. I think you can feel confident that it is safe to decide between glasses and contacts on some other basis.
Easy on the little guy! It all comes down to this: if your contacts are in and your at her place, and didn't expect to be there, and you do the thing, just sleep in them or if it's appropriate, head on home. If this is a regular thing, carry your case with you, do the thing, get up to use the bathroom, and take them out.
At your place? Take them out. Do the thing. Sleep soundly.
My biggest what the hell do I do with my contacts have happened when I'm called to the hospital for a friend or family emergency and it stretches on to an allnighter. If the hospital pharmacy is open, I could buy some stuff. If not, I've been known to take them out in separate paper cups, soaking in water from the water cooler.
Also, if those are held on with magnets, I would think you would have constant problems with them getting brushed off or falling off. Unless the magnets are really, really strong in which case pain at the piercing point every time they get brushed or struck. Narcoleptics maybe shouldn't wear these.
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This seems like another case of "something I can respect highly in theory but would never, ever, ever do, because ow."
Also, I love how this thread has turned into Sex Advice For The Young.
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OMG, sleep in your contacts? Surely there is no sex great enough to make up for the pain of waking up after you have slept in your contacts.
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I think anybody who would voluntarily poke themselves in the eye when perfectly servicable spectacles are available is downright mad.
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What would be the problem with having the sex first, and taking the contacts out afterword?
Is the cuddling too special to interrupt?
I don't know the "in's-and-out's" of contacts. It's glasses until the laser for me.
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What would be the problem with having the sex first, and taking the contacts out afterword?
Is the cuddling too special to interrupt?
I was also wondering this. Also, doesn't anyone get up to clean up anyway? Maybe I am just too married by this point, but a little drink of water is nice afterwards too.
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yeah wow. thanks for the advice? I normally wear my glasses... contacts are for when I feel like being fancy, or when I remember.
although, I've been told by many that my glasses hide my "cute eyes."
I am sorry if I made anyone feel Too Old, or Too Married, or whatever.
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I am sorry if I made anyone feel Too Old, or Too Married, or whatever.
Oh, come on. Being 'Too Married' is basically just a euphemism for 'I have sex very regularly and have for years', and who can complain about that? I mean, you can complain about anything, but you will make yourself look bad by complaining about something like that.
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[edit: creepy sincerity about basically being a girl: REMOVED]
[/possibly creepy sincerity]
this is what happens when I am sick and I stay up late anyway, people.
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Inev those are totally touching sentiments, but probably touching sentiments that should have stopped half a paragraph ago.
I have perfect vision as befits my super-human status but I have to say if I had contacts I wouldn't be stopping to take them out while i was getting fresh with hot ladies. Maybe it's different for you wombat, since you are a hot lady, but it just seems it would spoil the mood. When you're getting your romance on you don't want to be reminded of day to day things like contact fluid and such especially since (unless you guys are having much more exhausting sex than me) most people can handle a quick toddle to the bathroom for a glass of water or teeth cleaning or whatever your post-bone rituals may be.
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Yes, a nice, stable relationship with someone who doesn't fuss if you need to remove your contacts is a fine thing. Perhaps this is a lady's point of view - perhaps my age is showing if I recall being of the gender who was responsible for interrupting the festivities to go put a diaphragm in, and how a man who could deal with this without a fuss was a good thing to have. I suppose These Kids Today have new forms of birth control that just involve mind control and so on. We had to walk ten miles uphill both ways barefoot in the snow and chop our own wood before we could have sex in my day, I tell you.
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Don't get me wrong, if someone chucks a sook because you need to remove your contacts or whatever they are probably a tool of the highest order but if the choice was on my end it's probably not something I'd want to interrupt my coitus with. Of course maybe contacts are akin to having sandpaper up against one's eye but if this is the case glasses seem like a better idea anyway.
Especially since with glasses you can take them off and shake your hair down and then you're pretty much guarunteed some right there with whoever else is in the room which is convenient becuase, hey, you've already got your glasses off.
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I love the pierced glasses so hard. I love the idea of major body mods, but there aren't many that I'd like to get. I've been seriously considering the nipple piercing this year, though every time I think about making the appointment, I see the mastitis pictures on the BMezine encyclopedia, and have to lie down for awhile.
Intimacy and the problem of being too tired and drunk to function at night sometimes were two of the reasons I ditched contacts for glasses when I was a freshman in college. And just like Doc said, guys go wild for what my husband calls the "dishevelled librarian look".
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I don't get the whole body mod/piercing thing at all. it wierds me out.
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Check through BMEzine.com a bit. Their blog is great, too. For every kid out there who spells out Blink-182 on their back in surface piercings, you get stuff like this (http://modblog.bmezine.com/entries/200605170036.html), which is just HAWT.
Plus, endorphins are awesome. I loved getting tattooed. Even though I passed out for a minute and my tattoo guy had to give me his red bull.
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ok, see, that looks basically like Frankenstein to me. That is the kind of thing that if I met someone, I would say "oh, wow" and try not to say anything rude.
There are some piercings which I can get into... but most are too wierd for me.
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Man, I don't know. What does that even accomplish? Is it really just eight little piercings, in two rows, with a ribbon laced through shoelace-style? Am I missing something?
I want to like body-mods, but I guess I feel like they should be constructive in some way -- something that increases the overall value of your body to you, not just something that makes you look cool for prom. Tattoos should really mean something and represent a concept or image so dear to you, such a part of your identity, that the best way to reflect it was to make it a permanent part of your body. The pierced glasses say to me "this is a person who wants to integrate glasses into their physical self"; there's something qualitatively different there from regular glasses, contacts, or Lasik. (It's an idea I can respect. Honestly, glasses are an equally huge part of my self-identity, which is one of the reasons I'm sort of resistant to contacts and Lasik. That, and astigmatism.)
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I'm behind body-mods, but I'm not behind casual body-mods. The reason I have yet to get a tattoo is really just a combination of pain aversion and not having found anything that is such a part of me that it needs to be a part of my body forever. (Maybe a Purkinje cell (http://synapse.princeton.edu/images/purkinje-green.jpg) tattoo, but oh man would that hurt.)
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Man, I don't know. What does that even accomplish? Is it really just eight little piercings, in two rows, with a ribbon laced through shoelace-style? Am I missing something?
I want to like body-mods, but I guess I feel like they should be constructive in some way -- something that increases the overall value of your body to you, not just something that makes you look cool for prom. Tattoos should really mean something and represent a concept or image so dear to you, such a part of your identity, that the best way to reflect it was to make it a permanent part of your body. The pierced glasses say to me "this is a person who wants to integrate glasses into their physical self"; there's something qualitatively different there from regular glasses, contacts, or Lasik. (It's an idea I can respect. Honestly, glasses are an equally huge part of my self-identity, which is one of the reasons I'm sort of resistant to contacts and Lasik. That, and astigmatism.)
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I'm behind body-mods, but I'm not behind casual body-mods. The reason I have yet to get a tattoo is really just a combination of pain aversion and not having found anything that is such a part of me that it needs to be a part of my body forever. (Maybe a Purkinje cell (http://synapse.princeton.edu/images/purkinje-green.jpg) tattoo, but oh man would that hurt.)
1. The dress is cute, though.
2. A high-five for astigmatism, and for glasses-as-part-of-one's-identity! After my last pair of glasses -- which I had worn for about four years, and loved dearly -- broke in half over winter break, I got an eye exam in which it was determined I had mild astigmatism (also, that I have ridiculously poor vision for a nineteen-year-old). My new pair of glasses corrected for the astigmatism. It took me about two weeks to get used to (which made driving quite an adventure!), but when my eyes finally adjusted, I was amazed at how much clearer everything was. Even the lighting looked different. The world around me had texture, and was three-dimensional! I am still astounded when I see the bricks on buildings and the leaves on trees, but I try to keep this to myself, as my friends give me weird looks when I marvel aloud.
3. I am not into body mods, but if you got a tattoo of a Purkinje cell, you would be my personal hero.
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if you got a tattoo of that, people would think it was some kind of wierd skin disease.
yeah, glasses make me look more interesting. if that makes any sense? my current frames are almost indistinguishable from my prior pair. so. you know.
GLASSES RULE.
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if you got a tattoo of that, people would think it was some kind of wierd skin disease.
Underneath the tattoo of the cell body, there could be a small line of text that reads, "This is a Purkinje cell."
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Underneath the tattoo of the cell body, there could be a small line of text that reads, "This is a Purkinje cell."
That would probably cause more questions with the general populace than it would answer.
You may also need to include the entry from Webster's... JUST TO BE CERTAIN!
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wow. I almost said "maybe you could have a small label or explanation?"
but I decided it was too much.
I guess not.
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wow. I almost said "maybe you could have a small label or explanation?"
but I decided it was too much.
I guess not.
No, because it has that ironic, deadpan humour that the kids are so fond of these days.
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That's a corset piercing, and it is just temporary, since the rings would reject if you left it in too long. It's just there to be pretty, like anything else we humans do. I think they look awesome, but maybe I've been looking at that site too much - you get desensitized quickly when reading a blog that regulary posts picures of people with heavy genital mods doing suspensions and such.
And that picture would seriously make a great tattoo. You could even get it in uv ink, so it mostly is invisible unless you put a blacklight on it. It'd be tight.
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I've just had a great idea for men and ladies alike: a tongue piercing which vibrates.
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I've just had a great idea for men and ladies alike: a tongue piercing which vibrates.
They exist.
(http://www.bodypunks.com/bodyjewlery.htm)
Just for the record, they really annoy your teeth after a while if you leave it in all the time. (And On.)
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When I read the first post, I was going to do a reply that was just several lines of "AAAAGH AGH! AGH AGH AAAGH!".
Then, reading through the thread, it got into some interesting discussion of tattoos and piercings in general. Plus the magnets thing makes me considerably less unnerved.
Then Mite had to go and talk about heavy-genital-modification suspension systems. I don't know what that is, exactly, but at my best guess: AAGH! AGH AGH! AGH AAAAAGH AGH!
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yeah, I am imagining tiny cranes, and systems of pulleys HANGING OFF OF SOME DUDE'S JUNK
AAGH, AA, AAUGH!
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yeah, I am imagining tiny cranes, and systems of pulleys HANGING OFF OF SOME DUDE'S JUNK
AAGH, AA, AAUGH!
Well, suspensions are usually when people put big hooks through their skin, usually in their backs or their knees, and then either just lean away from them, or flat-out hang from them. Usually the hooks aren't through the heavy genital mods, but you never know. Here's (http://modblog.bmezine.com/entries/200602202125.html) a pretty picture of a hanging girl, coincidentally also wearing a prom dress.
That blog usually contains some of the most beautiful art I will typically see in a day. It also occasionally has things that will give any normal person nightmares. Luckily you usually don't have to look at those pictures unless you want to.
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OH MY!
is she hanging by holes in her skin? is that what you are saying?
why would you do that? is she a masochist?
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I can't say I've ever wanted to do it, but I guess they do it for some of the same reasons people do any crazy shit that hurts (running ultra marathons comes to mind) - endorphins are funny things, and overpowering the fear of pain is also pretty cool. Also, doing something that looks like it should be impossible has gotta be pretty cool. Thrill-seeking comes in a lot of forms, I guess. I hear that if you do it properly it's completely safe.
The ones that make me squirm when they hang by their knees. (http://modblog.bmezine.com/entries/200604210134.html)
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I wish I had a teacher like you.
Or are they all really into piercings/bondage/masochism?
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One time I lost 40 lbs. That was a pretty cool body mod. ;)
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The girl hanging in the dress makes me think of the fairy godmother flying in in some low budget punky school production of cinderella.
The knees thing did make me squirm until I realised, hey my knees actually aren't that sensitive.
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Here's (http://modblog.bmezine.com/entries/200602202125.html) a pretty picture of a hanging girl, coincidentally also wearing a prom dress.
Yea, whenever I try that, they always slip off the hook before I can get them out of the machine.
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The parents pictured in the background of the photo, combined with the resulting comments on the page remind me of this
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/jorgefabregas/44542_m.gif)
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A few of my friends have tattoos. And I cannot bring myself to tell them how terrible they are. How can you possibly tell a good friend - or even a person with whom you have romantic interest - that their tattoos are the stupidest tattoos you have ever seen in your life? It is probably best to keep the idea to myself, but I cannot help but think less of a person who would tattoo themselves with a tattoo that is downright BAD.
Perhaps these people would think that my theoretical tattoos would be equally as stupid. I was thinking about getting a Dali's clock on a bicep, but I abandoned that idea. I was considering a depiction of the creation of the universe in three small circles on the front of my chest. This might be a pretty bad tattoo to some people, perhaps even myself. The first circle would be all black, the center circle would be split down the middle half-black, half-uncolored, the third circle would be the two colors all swirling into each other. The center circle would be dead center over my sternum. This idea a little stupid. I am probably not going to get this. But I should. I don't know.
There is one set of tattoos that I am certain I will get done eventually. These will be three small script letters that one would find used in math. Lowercase script x on the front of my right wrist, lowercase script y on the front of my left wrist, and a lowercase script z on the very top of my head. They are basically labels. I am going to have to wait awhile to get this done, because I am going into a professional field, and it might not be a great idea to have visible, half-insane tattoos.
But one thing is for sure, whenever I show someone any kind of tattoo I get, I am going to encourage negative criticism, because being all like, "Look at my tattoo!," just puts people in an awkward situation.
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A few of my friends have tattoos. And I cannot bring myself to tell them how terrible they are. How can you possibly tell a good friend - or even a person with whom you have romantic interest - that their tattoos are the stupidest tattoos you have ever seen in your life? It is probably best to keep the idea to myself, but I cannot help but think less of a person who would tattoo themselves with a tattoo that is downright BAD.
Perhaps these people would think that my theoretical tattoos would be equally as stupid. I was thinking about getting a Dali's clock on a bicep, but I abandoned that idea. I was considering a depiction of the creation of the universe in three small circles on the front of my chest. This might be a pretty bad tattoo to some people, perhaps even myself. The first circle would be all black, the center circle would be split down the middle half-black, half-uncolored, the third circle would be the two colors all swirling into each other. The center circle would be dead center over my sternum. This idea a little stupid. I am probably not going to get this. But I should. I don't know.
There is one set of tattoos that I am certain I will get done eventually. These will be three small script letters that one would find used in math. Lowercase script x on the front of my right wrist, lowercase script y on the front of my left wrist, and a lowercase script z on the very top of my head. They are basically labels. I am going to have to wait awhile to get this done, because I am going into a professional field, and it might not be a great idea to have visible, half-insane tattoos.
But one thing is for sure, whenever I show someone any kind of tattoo I get, I am going to encourage negative criticism, because being all like, "Look at my tattoo!," just puts people in an awkward situation.
If you have no tattoos already, I would not recommend starting with one over the sternum. Bony places will hurt more than fleshy places.
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#*#*#_god: it is okay to think less of a person for their having a bad tattoo. They decided they wanted something permanently on their body and either: a) put no thought into this choice or b) actually put a lot of thought into the choice and still made a bad decision.
True story: back in the day, I had a huge crush on a guy at university, for over a year, and with such intensity that I was unable to speak to me. Finally we found ourselves at a summer festival in a beer tent, at the same table, when all our friends took off and we were left alone, and he was being oh-so-flirty. Then I looked down, saw that he was wearing shorts and then saw that he had band tattoos aground both ankle-to-calf areas. These tattoos were waves, with dolphins frolicking among rainbows. DOLFINS! RAINBOWS! WAVES! FROLICING! It was the instant end to my crush on this guy. I went from being unable to talk to him due to intense feelings to being unable to talk to him because I was so shocked and embarrassed by his horrible tattoos.
In regard to piercing, as I was sitting waiting for my buddy to come out of the room where he was getting pierced yet again, I was next to this girl with the web of skin between her thumb and index finger pierced and just horribly infected. She was bragging to me about the infection as if being infected was cool, and also said with pride that the piercer had told her it would get infected. She had a confusing attitude about the whole thing, and was infact there to get the other hand pierced in the same way.
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In regard to piercing, as I was sitting waiting for my buddy to come out of the room where he was getting pierced yet again, I was next to this girl with the web of skin between her thumb and index finger pierced and just horribly infected. She was bragging to me about the infection as if being infected was cool, and also said with pride that the piercer had told her it would get infected. She had a confusing attitude about the whole thing, and was infact there to get the other hand pierced in the same way.
I hope whoever runs the place told her to get her infected ass the hell out of his/her shop. That is hella nasty.
~Paul
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I have mixed feelings about pierced glasses. I think I love the idea because it solves the basic worst problem I have with wearing glasses, the fact that they won't stay in place. However I would have to wait until this idea was accepted as utilitarian rather than cool because I consider piercings to be an extremely silly idea.
~Paul
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I sort of wonder if they're jiggly - in my case anyway the legs help to stabilize the glasses, which is necessary to keep me from feeling pukey-come-vertigo.
Also I have held rare-earth magnets so strong you can magnetize them with one in your palm and another on top of you hand, but the pressure is so uncomfortable, so I really wonder how these glasses could possibly be pleasent to wear.
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Also I have held rare-earth magnets so strong you can magnetize them with one in your palm and another on top of you hand, but the pressure is so uncomfortable, so I really wonder how these glasses could possibly be pleasent to wear.
The way I undersand it the pressure is from the magnet to the stud.
~Paul
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The pressure is uncomfortable because the magnets are sticking to each other through your flesh, causing pain.
In this case, you pierce the bridge of your nose, put in a post, and then the magnets stick to the hard post, not your flesh. You shouldn't feel any pressure.
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In regard to piercing, as I was sitting waiting for my buddy to come out of the room where he was getting pierced yet again, I was next to this girl with the web of skin between her thumb and index finger pierced and just horribly infected. She was bragging to me about the infection as if being infected was cool, and also said with pride that the piercer had told her it would get infected. She had a confusing attitude about the whole thing, and was infact there to get the other hand pierced in the same way.
That makes me cringe for multiple reasons.
All I can do to restore peace in this world is to hope this woman suffered a systemic infection.
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The pressure is uncomfortable because the magnets are sticking to each other through your flesh, causing pain.
In this case, you pierce the bridge of your nose, put in a post, and then the magnets stick to the hard post, not your flesh. You shouldn't feel any pressure.
That's exactly what I said, way to post whore Jough.
~Paul
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She was bragging to me about the infection as if being infected was cool.
The Saddest Thing.
~Paul
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That's exactly what I said, way to post whore Jough.
Yeah yeah. We both posted at the same time, you fuck.
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I have mixed feelings about pierced glasses. I think I love the idea because it solves the basic worst problem I have with wearing glasses, the fact that they won't stay in place. However I would have to wait until this idea was accepted as utilitarian rather than cool because I consider piercings to be an extremely silly idea.
~Paul
You can get some croakies or another sort of stretchy band and attach to your glasses around the back of your head, theryby keeping your glasses in place. Or you can get contact lenses, which I use, and they almost never get out of place.
Glasses-not-staying-in-place has been approached at least 100 ways. Should be pretty approachable for you.
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LAZERS are to be aimed at SPACESHIPS not eyes.
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You can get some croakies or another sort of stretchy band and attach to your glasses around the back of your head, theryby keeping your glasses in place. Or you can get contact lenses, which I use, and they almost never get out of place.
Glasses-not-staying-in-place has been approached at least 100 ways. Should be pretty approachable for you.
I used the croakies for a long time, but I never really liked it. It works to keep the glasses more or less in place, but it's adding to the shit on my head not reducing it. Nevermind that it makes you look like a spazz. Also it doesn't work as well when you want to wear a hat or if you have your hair in a ponytail. I tried contacts once and it was a terrible experience, unbearable. Also, the last doctor I visited last said I couldn't wear them because I have astigmatism. Have you any other suggestions?
As for lasers, Dr. Hibbard said they actually make your eyes worse so I remain skeptical.
~Paul
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my mom had laser surgery, and is so happy with it.
I have astigmatism, and I wear glasses. You can get special contacts for it.
At least, I'm pretty sure that's what it is...
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My brother was practically blind from the astigmatism and wore contacts for years before the alien lazer overlords granted him perfect vision. He said the rectal probing was mostly worth it.
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This the point in the thread where Paul digs up the picture of himself wearing croakies and a ponytail.
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This the point in the thread where Paul digs up the picture of himself wearing croakies and a ponytail.
I'll see what I can do tonight when I get home. No promises though because that was before I went digital and all that analog shit is back in Houston. I may have something scanned though.
~Paul
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I got tired of my normal spectacles so I went to the optician for a contact lens exam in early April. It turns out I have astigmatism in my right eye and the special contact lens I was prescribed to correct it is imperfect. I can see at distance with nearly no problems but things that are close to me are completely fuzzy in that eye. I'm hopeful that a follow-up fitting will help.
As for the discomfort, it took me a good 20 minutes to get my contacts in when I was still getting used to poking myself in the eye. Now I get them in and out on the first try every time. I guess I just had to learn to trust that I wasn't going to gouge out my own eyeballs.
Everyone I know who's had laser surgery has been very happy with the results. Cost-wise, I think I'd rather pay $4,000 once for the procedure than have to spend a few hundred dollars every year on new lenses, disinfectant kits, and updated prescriptions. Too bad I don't have any vision insurance.
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I've never had or seen a vision plan that would cover the surgery. In fact, many plans cover a yearly exam and one pair of glasses only. A really good plan might cover contact lenses.
Your best bet for saving money on the surgery is if you have a medical reimbursement account - I think that's an allowable expense.
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I've never had or seen a vision plan that would cover the surgery. In fact, many plans cover a yearly exam and one pair of glasses only. A really good plan might cover contact lenses.
Your best bet for saving money on the surgery is if you have a medical reimbursement account - I think that's an allowable expense.
You can also use Flex Spending for laser surgery if your company offers that.
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My SO's health plan covers laser eye surgery, I suppose health plans here in Canada are better since all the basic health stuff is covered by the government. Unfortunately I am what is known as "a poor candidate" for the surgery - I have dry eyes, so dry that I can just barely tolerate contact lenses - the optometrist describes my eye as porous, whatever that means.
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As for the discomfort, it took me a good 20 minutes to get my contacts in when I was still getting used to poking myself in the eye. Now I get them in and out on the first try every time. I guess I just had to learn to trust that I wasn't going to gouge out my own eyeballs.
I've always been happy with glasses, so I don't eff around with contacts, but when I performed the eye dissection lab it was pretty obvious that there is nothing overly delicate about the eye. Things look like you could make the gentlest incision, and they would split open, but that just ain't the case. You have to seriously dig in with the tip of a scalpel, basically full strength, to even get in there. Probably fifty times tougher than skin.
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I've always been happy with glasses, so I don't eff around with contacts, but when I performed the eye dissection lab it was pretty obvious that there is nothing overly delicate about the eye. Things look like you could make the gentlest incision, and they would split open, but that just ain't the case. You have to seriously dig in with the tip of a scalpel, basically full strength, to even get in there. Probably fifty times tougher than skin.
Yes, I can corroborate this statement with my experience in the science lab. We all got our scalpels and expected to cut the eyes open like marshmallows, but like you said it is incredibly tough. Ten minutes of impatient cutting eventually caused the eye to burst, spurting black liquid all over the table. Cue excited teenage screams. Some of the eyes still had bits of face attached, and as a comparative exercise we tried cutting through both. Skin is like paper compared to the ocular instruments.