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tinser by tinserOG 2002 · Feb 2, 2004 · 326 views

Lately, i've been hearing more and more people talk about wearing contacts. This is so weird, to me, because I always figured that most people had good eye sight. But, now I learn, that most of my friends, actually just wear contacts, so I just never knew they have bad eyes.

So, out of curiousity, do you:

Wear contacts or glasses or just have good eye sight?

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rocksupastar #20 rocksupastarFounder

I have good eyes, never needed glasses or contacts, although, maybe i should get some, being that it seems to be cooler...

perrin #20.1 perrinOG 2004

Yeah your not cool unless you wear glasses. (though it seems most of the people now wear contacts so just pretend your wearing contacts)

tinser #20.1.1 tinserOG 2002

good idea! Why spend the money or stick my finger in my eye..i'll just pretend. Hey, everybody, i got contacts!

ilikebirds #19 ilikebirdsOG 2002

I'm asian. soooo i squint alot. and that makes for no good vision

socalgal #18 socalgalOG 2003

I wear contacts, yeah call me four eyes! LOL Although i love the fact that there are pretty cool glasses out there to choose from so i use both. the thing i hate when you wear glasses, is when people say, "Oh my gosh, you look so smart with glasses" uh do i look naturally dumb with out them? lol

skaorsk8 #18.1 skaorsk8OG 2002

WOWWWWW...i can not believe you just said that. seriously, i say that ALLLL the time. like, you look like a walking MORON without them? i dont get that.

socalgal #18.1.1 socalgalOG 2003

you say what? that they look smarter with glasses?

ophelia #18.1.1.1 opheliaOG 2003

when did glasses and intelligence get all entwined to begin with...do intellectuals usually have poor eyesight?...cause i know some pretty dumb people, who wear glasses

socalgal socalgalOG 2003

Thats great! I don't know why they say that

perrin perrinOG 2004

Because people know that glasses generally don't make them look better so to make people feel better they started telling them that wearing glasses makes them look smarter. It's the only compliment people could come up with.

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

generally people who read a lot and do tons of science experiments use their eyes more strenuously and are constantly analyzing things, putting more than the usual strain on thier eyes. thats why they say smart people wear glasses. it's an old, tired addage that doesn't apply anymore. because i know people, who are stupid, without an ounce of common sense, who have never conducted a single science experiment, who wear glasses.

tinser tinserOG 2002

yeah, cause now people can blow their eyes equally well by playing video games

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

i do science experiements and play video games.

ophelia opheliaOG 2003 fivezero

I play video games that involve conducting science experiments to gain points

skaorsk8 #17 skaorsk8OG 2002

you know what's bad. a night of drinking ... umm...stuff. and then your body is all dehydrated, except, you didnt' drink any water yet, but your eyes are all dry, and you can NOT get your contacts OUT. wow. i hate that. don't sleep with them in after drinking, they'll be glued in there

specialk #16 specialkOG 2003

I wear contacts. I didn't have bad eyesight until the end of 8th grade, and finally got glasses in 9th grade, and contacts at the end of 9th grade.
I wear glasses only at night before bed, but I really wish I didn't have to. Of course, I hate the contacts too. Oh well....no perfect eyesight until the new system.

ophelia #15 opheliaOG 2003

OK, first off, i'd like to express my anger and annoyance @ your ASSUMPTION that, since YOU have naturally good eye sight, that, everybody else should too...d'you consider us all inferior now that you know about our poor eyesight?..Was this thread made, to mock us?..

movin' right along

i wear contacts....I get those disposable ones..haha..you're supposed to wear them for 2 weeks..I kid you not, i've been wearing this pear for 3 months...hahaha..& they're still just as good....I think they're immortal

perrin #15.1 perrinOG 2004

I do the same thing. I get the disposable ones then just keep wearing them till they start bothering me. I think I've been wearing my current pair for a few months now and no problems so far.

tinser #15.2 tinserOG 2002

haha, no no...i'm just really surprised. Because...well, i just thought bad eye sight was more rare. But, from what this forum shows, and from what some of my friends have said...i'm completely wrong. I mean, i never ever would have guessed you wore contacts. I almost feel like i'm missing out on a special club or something....you all wake up every morning and put you're little contacts in (with the excpetion of mel who sleeps with them,haha), so that you can see the world. It's just weird/intriguing...yet, so common

thatdarngirl #15.2.1 thatdarngirlOG 2002

Its really a big pain for us who wear only glasses.

tinser #15.2.1.1 tinserOG 2002

yeah, my mom is always losing her glasses...hey, what is on top of that snowmans head?

thatdarngirl thatdarngirlOG 2002

His mowhawk, we spray painted it gold.

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#15.2.1.2 toxicgirlOG 2003

especially in the summer when you are driving and you don't have prescription sunglasses, so you burn holes in your retina. or you get attacked by a shark in the ocean because you couldn't see the dorsal fin swimming your way.

perrin perrinOG 2004

or when you trip over your own feet because you can't seem them, Or slap your self in the face because you can't see where your hands are.

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toxicgirlOG 2003

once i couldn't see my glasses so i sat down to try and remember where i left them before flipping out. i found them under my butt...flattened.

ophelia opheliaOG 2003

Bryan's Trivial Fact of the Day:

You are 20xmore likely to get fatally poisoned by bee stings, than to get fatally injured by a shark

thatdarngirl thatdarngirlOG 2002

YES! So it's either like "oh I'm going to drive today without my glasses on because I really need to wear sunglasses" OR "Owwww..make the burning stop *crash*"

ophelia #15.2.2 opheliaOG 2003

...so go get some eye-color changing contacts, so you don't feel left out...you know those neon green eyes you've always wanted?..now's your chance

tinser #15.2.2.1 tinserOG 2002

you know...i should...but i can't fathom sticking something in my eye

ophelia opheliaOG 2003

neither could any of us @ first..everybody's first contact experience, is full of eye pokes, crying, and retinal discomfort..but, like after 4 days you get the hang of it..I can flip'm up in the air & catch'm w/my eyelide now...

perrin perrinOG 2004

Yeah but can you put them in with your eyes closed.

ophelia opheliaOG 2003

that seems like it'd be quite ineffective...but i will try...2morrow morn

perrin perrinOG 2004

Nah you just open your eyes without opening them to put them in.

perrin #15.2.2.2 perrinOG 2004

I actually want to get those contacts that make the outside of your eyes turn yellow but keep the inside the same color. That way my eyes would look like wolves eyes. How sweet would that be.

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#15.3 dgiaimoOG 2003

From what I've heard, disposable contacts are identical to the non-disposable ones. Only the packaging is different.

perrin #15.3.1 perrinOG 2004

As far as I can tell they are exactly the same the only difference is price. Disposable are cheaper. I use disposable contacts and from time to time just use some protein remover to get rid of the protein.

ophelia #15.3.2 opheliaOG 2003

yeah, s'a freakin optical conspiracy...the man thinks he's sooo clever

tesoro #14 tesoroOG 2001

i have a very weak prescription for driving..but i like wearing my glasses. i was one of hte first ones to get the dark black rims. before they got all..trendy!

yodasucka #13 yodasuckaOG 2003

i wear contacts all the time.. i usually sleep in them.. i have glasses... i just don't enjoy them..

tinser #13.1 tinserOG 2002

woah, you sleep in them?! isnt that like torture?

yodasucka #13.1.1 yodasuckaOG 2003

nsh it doesn't hurt.. even when i wake up they feel totally fine..

perrin #13.1.1.1 perrinOG 2004

really that must be great.

perrin #13.2 perrinOG 2004

It's only torture when you wake up and you have to peel them off your eyes because they have dried out and stuck to your eyeball. It's a pretty freaky feeling.

I used to fall asleep in them all the time. It's really bad for your eyes though. At least that's what they keep telling me.

tinser #13.2.1 tinserOG 2002

wow, i could never wear contacts....the whole touching your eye thing really freaks me out...doesn't it hurt to put them in and take them out?

perrin #13.2.1.1 perrinOG 2004

No it doesn't hurt. You get used to it. The first time I put them in my eyes watered like crazy but after that they were fine.

ophelia #13.3 opheliaOG 2003

you know, you can die from doing that

yodasucka #13.3.1 yodasuckaOG 2003

u can't die! but u can lose your eyesight...

iwz #13.4 iwz

yeah, I binge and purge with my contacts/glasses. I wear my 2-week contacts for about 3 months, sleeping in them every night. Then when they get uncomfortable, I chuck em and wear glasses for about 1.5 months. Then it's back to contacts again.

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#13.5 betsyOG 2004

HUN!!! I used to work in an Ophthamologist's office, under the optician, and she had a guy come in who never took out his contacts, and he had veins growin in his iris cuz his eye was suffocating! It was nasty! Be careful! Follow your optician's directions!
K, I'm done sounding like an old worrywart. <3

yodasucka #13.5.1 yodasuckaOG 2003

for real? ewie... i don't do it often... maybe once or twice a week... is that bad? haha only when i'm really tired or i'm sleeping some where other then my house

perrin #12 perrinOG 2004

I got glasses when I was in 1st grade. Since then my eye sight has rapidly declined. I can't see anything if I'm not wearing contacts or glasses. You should have seen the glasses I used to wear when I was little. Their pretty funny.
Anywho I've been wearing contacts for 6 years now and I only wear my glasses when I go to bed I wear my contacts 90% of the time.

tinser #11 tinserOG 2002

wow!! Almost everybody has bad vision...too much eZabel i think

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#10 toxicgirlOG 2003

I love wearing glasses...I've had them since I was in sixth grade. And now, I am blind enough were they have to shrink the width of my lens in order for them to fit my frames. I have the coolest frames. I love them.

skaorsk8 #9 skaorsk8OG 2002

hey who here has gotten radial kerotonomy... i know my friend marcy got it

thatdarngirl #8 thatdarngirlOG 2002

I finally got glasses sophmore year when I realized I couldn't see things other people could. I still wear them now..contacts freak me out.

beachbum #7 beachbumOG 2002

contacts. i can't even wear glasses anymore-they make me feel all weird and dizzy

perrin #7.1 perrinOG 2004

I have pictures of when you used to wear glasses. Can you say blackmail. :P

My glasses make me feel the same way that's why I almost never wear them.

beachbum #7.1.1 beachbumOG 2002

ooooooh buddy. do you really want to go there? do you know how much i have on YOU?

perrin #7.1.1.1 perrinOG 2004

DOH! Point made. I guess the blackmails offset.

reaf #6 reafOG 2002

glasses every now and then , only when my eyes hurt basically

iwz #5 iwz

I wear contacts 50% of the time, and glasses the other 50%. got glasses in like 3rd grade or something, and contacts in middle school sometime.

Now, without my glasses or contacts, I can't see clearly more than 6 inches away.

skaorsk8 #5.1 skaorsk8OG 2002

that must be bad when you wanna see what time it is in the middle of the night

omegatweeter #4 omegatweeterOG 2003

i wear contacts now, used to wear glasses tho. they gave me headaches and fevers, bleh. but contacts are way better. at first i didn't wanna get them cuz my eyes are pretty sensitive and putting them in would be heck, but i adjusted in a week. it's so much better.

forrestina #3 forrestinaOG 2002

I am nearly legally blind. I usually wear contacts, but lately I've been rockin my new rimless glasses with a purple non-reflective tint!

skaorsk8 #2 skaorsk8OG 2002

i've worn contacts since i was 19 or so. i can't imagine why i didn't get them sooner. the best is being able to wear sunglasses and not look stupid and crash into stuff. also, snowboard goggles. also, you have perpherial vision.

i also sold some friends on them, they were like "they're expensive, i can't", and i was like "yo check out 1-800contacts.com"

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#1 dgiaimoOG 2003

I have eyesight that is just good enough that glasses or contacts don't help, but bad enough that I can't see things that I know I should be able to.

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