Geek Chic

[Richard K Niner]

How would face paint work on fur? <!--emo&:huh:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/huh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='huh.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[DesertFoxCat]

<!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> uh...magic?

[Steve the Pocket]

I believe David has mentioned that he wears glasses mostly for the asthetic value. (His natural vision is almost normal.) I guess Millie feels the same way.

[dcsimpson]

<!--QuoteBegin-Octan+Oct 19 2005, 07:33 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Octan @ Oct 19 2005, 07:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I believe David has mentioned that he wears glasses mostly for the asthetic value.  (His natural vision is almost normal.)  I guess Millie feels the same way. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Actually, this whole storyline is more or less autobiographical. I was to the point of considering wearing glasses with plain-glass frames, when, at age 16, my vision thankfully went south just enough that I had them prescribed to me.<br><br>As noted, my vision isn't terrible--my driver's license says nothing about glasses, since I can pass the DMV eye test--but it does correct from 20/45 or so down to about 20/15. But mostly I just never felt I looked like myself without them.<br><br>I actually got the best vision of the Simpson children--my sister inherited my mother's terrible eyesight, and my brother has even worse vision and is blind as a bat unaided. Both of them wear contacts. Me, I would never get contacts. I mean, why? Glasses are a great fashion accessory.<br><br>I can't believe it took me this long to use it in the strip. <!--emo&B)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Muninn]

Another defence of glasses; Much like Charles Schulz described his own face as, I believe mine to be similarly plain looking without any striking features. Glasses really are like fashion for the face. I don't wear them out of some sense of insecurity, I have to. My eyesight isn't so good with distance.

[Tom Flapwell]

I had dreaded wearing glasses since early elementary school, and now that I need them for distances, I still avoid them much of the time. I know they make people look smarter and often more attractive -- heck, in <i>How to Marry a Millionaire</i>, they made Marilyn Friggin Monroe more attractive! But even now that I take a certain pride in nerdiness, I don't want to fit all the stereotypes of nerds. I'd feel like I had come straight out of kids' TV. Besides, I don't like things touching my ears for any long period.<br><br>(Flying foxes differ from most bats: their vision is generally quite good.) <!--emo&B)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[GhostWay]

I've had glasses for as long as I remember (and then some), so I can't really imagine myself without glasses. My eyesight's actually getting gradually worse; I had to have my current eyeglasses custom-ordered because the prescription was too strong for the glasses store to grind themselves. However, I like to think I've developed some more sense in choosing frames recently.<br><br>The thing I dislike most about glasses, though, is the immense difficulty I always seem to have in finding clip-on sunglasses that fit my frames. Erg.

[Bocaj Claw]

My vision is pretty bad. Sitting a normal distance from the computer and the only words visible on this page is the huge "Define 'Cynical'" at the top. My eyes have gotten worse almost every time I had an examination. At first I didn't like them but now I can't imagine myself without them.<br><br>People who know me actually say I look better with my glasses on and that I look scary without them.

[Rikirk]

I think millie gets *cuter* with every single strip...<br><br>I think she would look good with glasses.<br><br>I've needed glasses ever since I was in first grade and could not read the school blackboard. It did'nt help that i never liked sitting up near the front. I liked the back...less obvious that way.<br><br>They say its heredatary, but parents and grandparents will tell you its from sitting too close to the tv as a kid, yeah...ive been there...done that.

[DanShive]

I was so nervous about wearing glasses for the first time in Junior High that I preemptively started making jokes about both my wearing glasses and seeing people as they truly are for the first time. Putting on my glasses to look at people then cringing is the behavior I most clearly remember.<br><br>I don't think anybody made fun of my glasses, but they certainly rolled their eyes at my antics.

[DD_133]

My eyes aren't getting much worse than they have already. I can barely (Im using this loosely, by just sitting about 3 feet away from the moniter everything except large lettering gets blurry. I think glasses are a neat accessory too, but having a younger brother and sister can sometimes lead them to be being a haphazard. But I can't live with 20/85 vision. >_>

[Arloest]

Eh, I had great, near-20/20 vision for years. But just recently, like last year, all the sudden, well, I couldn't see! I think when I first got my glasses my vision was 20/45, but it's gotten substantially worse since. I'm probably, like, 20/60 now, if that. And I personally don't like the way I look in glasses, so I might get contacts.

[norsenerd]

<!--QuoteBegin-Bocaj Claw+Oct 19 2005, 07:32 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ Oct 19 2005, 07:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> People who know me actually say I look better with my glasses on and that I look scary without them.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>You jsut look scary.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin-Arloest+ Oct 19 2005, 10:41 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Arloest @ Oct 19 2005, 10:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> And I personally don't like the way I look in glasses, so I might get contacts.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Awww... waht a shame.

[ShadOtterdan]

I can see reasonably well without my glasses (I usually take them off because I keep fidgeting with them) but wearing them keeps me from getting eyestrain, and they also help my vision because my right eye is much worse than my left, so without my glasses I have to concentrate only through my left eye. Also my eyesight has been getting gradually worse, I just know that by the time I get to be my mom's age I will probably be as blind as her without my glasses.As for how I look in them, I really like them. I like how other people look with glasses to.

[Steve the Pocket]

Me, I'm one of those people who probably looks better without them, except that constantly squinting tends not to be attractive. (Lucky for me my vision is nowhere near as bad as my parents'.) But I doubt I could comfortably wear contacts, and I've heard bad things about laser surgery (most of which involved a dollar sign and a frightening quantity of zeroes), so bespectacled I remain. <!--emo&B)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' /><!--endemo-->