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JrzyTmata

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Posted: Oct 27, 2016 - 7:37am

 meower wrote:

This is mostly for Kurtster, but others might know too.

 

I've been nearsighted, and worn glasses for many years. Actually, I mainly wear contacts. More recently, I've needed reading glasses. But (and here's the weird thing,) I only need the reading glasses when my contacts are in. If I'm not wearing my contacts, I can read things up close just fine.

WTF is that ?



 
I was the same way for years. it will change as the reading prescription gets stronger.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Oct 27, 2016 - 6:25am

 aflanigan wrote:

I always thought presbyopia was limited to what I have, which is inability to focus on things close to the eye due to stiffening of the lens. I guess for some it works the other way.

 
They're two different things but don't cancel each other out. Most of us will suffer from both, eventually. I guess my saying the nearsightedness comes from the same stiffening of the lens isn't correct, tho.
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Posted: Oct 27, 2016 - 6:22am

 meower wrote:

This is mostly for Kurtster, but others might know too.

 

I've been nearsighted, and worn glasses for many years. Actually, I mainly wear contacts. More recently, I've needed reading glasses. But (and here's the weird thing,) I only need the reading glasses when my contacts are in. If I'm not wearing my contacts, I can read things up close just fine.

WTF is that ?



 




Same thing for me. I can read ok with glasses, but it's all a blur with the contacts. I think it might have something to do with the focal point being closer with contacts/farther with glasses. I dread if the day comes when I can't read with glasses either.
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Posted: Oct 27, 2016 - 6:00am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
. The flexibility of the lens decreases as we age (sorry) and distance vision (if we ever had it) is the first to go: nearsightedness. 
 
I always thought presbyopia was limited to what I have, which is inability to focus on things close to the eye due to stiffening of the lens. I guess for some it works the other way.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Oct 27, 2016 - 5:31am

 meower wrote:

This is mostly for Kurtster, but others might know too.

 

I've been nearsighted, and worn glasses for many years. Actually, I mainly wear contacts. More recently, I've needed reading glasses. But (and here's the weird thing,) I only need the reading glasses when my contacts are in. If I'm not wearing my contacts, I can read things up close just fine.

WTF is that ?



 
It's typical, and I'm the same way, except my distance vision is not so bad that I can't drive without glasses legally. I prefer to drive, ski, go to movies etc with glasses or contacts, but I don't have to. Normally I do without, because it's so annoying to me to have to have reading glasses or bifocals or take the glasses off to see up close.

The lens in your eye distorts in order to focus on things at different distances. The flexibility of the lens decreases as we age (sorry) and distance vision (if we ever had it) is the first to go: nearsightedness. Put a lens in front of your eye to help focus on distance, it affects your ability focus up close. You probably only notice the problem when you're wearing contacts because it's so easy to remove your glasses to read up close that you might not even realize you're doing it... it's just more comfortable, like taking off your sunglasses indoors.
 
You and I probably have a few more years of being able to read without correction, but I've noticed that without readers (and without contacts), I have to hold books at just the right distance*, and books with smaller type than normal make me sad.
 
*Probably a coincidence but it's the same distance as I usually have my computer monitor. I moved my work monitor further away a few years ago, to try to re-introduce some flexibility. Maybe I should have moved it closer.  


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Posted: Oct 27, 2016 - 4:45am

This is mostly for Kurtster, but others might know too.

 

I've been nearsighted, and worn glasses for many years. Actually, I mainly wear contacts. More recently, I've needed reading glasses. But (and here's the weird thing,) I only need the reading glasses when my contacts are in. If I'm not wearing my contacts, I can read things up close just fine.

WTF is that ?


Coaxial

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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 10:30pm

 Steely_D wrote:

Wait, I changed my mind. I want to be the male HC.

 

Get in line.
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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 10:19pm

 Steely_D wrote:

Get in line, pal.

 
EW...

Coaxial

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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 10:16pm

 buzz wrote:

i was originally thinking 35¢, but i can be flexible.

 
{#High-five}
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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 10:13pm

 Coaxial wrote:

So your saying 75 might be too much?{#Lol}

 
i was originally thinking 35¢, but i can be flexible.
Coaxial

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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 10:11pm

 buzz wrote:

you'd pay $75 for the license to be Me™? 
 
you know that one of the benefits of being Me™ is complete access to my Wit & Wisdom™. 

 
So you're saying 75 might be too much?{#Lol}


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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 10:09pm

 Coaxial wrote:

I'd be willing to invest 75. dollars American.

 
you'd pay $75 for the license to be Me™? 
 
you know that one of the benefits of being Me™ is complete access to my Wit & Wisdom™. 
Coaxial

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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 10:06pm

 islander wrote:

Coax has a nice tax return, but you'll owe him some change. 

 
I'd be willing to invest 75. dollars American. I'm not just whistling Dixie either.{#No}

{#Whistle}I'm whistling a We Built This City On Rock And Roll—MacArthur Park medley.


buzz

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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 10:00pm

 islander wrote:

Coax has a nice tax return, but you'll owe him some change. 

 
Be the change you feel you're owed.
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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 9:55pm

 buzz wrote:

HELLS NO! i aint done with me. all of a sudden being me has become extremely popular. they are standing in line for the chance. i think those that want to be Me™ wouldn't mind paying a small licensing fee. it will help me offset the cost of being Me™.

 
Coax has a nice tax return, but you'll owe him some change. 
Coaxial

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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 9:53pm

 buzz wrote:

HELLS NO! i aint done with me. all of a sudden being me has become extremely popular. they are standing in line for the chance. i think those that want to be Me™ wouldn't mind paying a small licensing fee. it will help me offset the cost of being Me™.

 
You could sell franchises.
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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 9:39pm

 islander wrote:

Fine, he's about done with that anyway, he wants to be manbird now.  On the count of three, everyone take two steps to the right...

 
HELLS NO! i aint done with me. all of a sudden being me has become extremely popular. they are standing in line for the chance. i think those that want to be Me™ wouldn't mind paying a small licensing fee. it will help me offset the cost of being Me™.


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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 9:35pm

 buzz wrote:
 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Shiraz.   all five.

 
i use a botanical product dailey.  it does nothing for pain but it does keep me sane. 
 
isn't that aroma therapy?
islander

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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 9:29pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:

I want to be buzz.

 
Fine, he's about done with that anyway, he wants to be manbird now.  On the count of three, everyone take two steps to the right...
buzz

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Posted: Mar 27, 2015 - 7:20pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:

I want to be buzz.

 
you're just too creepy
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