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edisonprime

Last reply Jul 6, 2023 · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Do you wear glasses or contacts or don't you?

Don't interpret this as bragging because all I'm doing is putting my two cents in, but I have above average vision and I see like an owl. The only issue I have with my eyes are a couple floaters that 99% of the time don't even realize are there. The only glasses I have are my 3D glasses for my 3D TV. How about you guys?

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N6BY

Jul 4, 2023

I am far sighted and need reading glasses -- usually 3.0 strength.

I struggled with the decision over whether to get LASIK for weeks. Finally decided that I was willing to do it.

Then when I got to the optometrist appointment I asked about LASIK and the optometrist immediately responded "You're too old". I was around 61 then and now I'm 65.

In a way I was relieved about not being eligible. I understand that vision changes too quickly for old people and LASIK is not recommended over a certain age.

Fortunately my long distance vision is still good enough not to require glasses. I just use reading glasses for up close.

And oddly enough, I see much better with cheap drug store reading glasses than the prescription ones. That's a good thing because I break or lose them so often it would be REAL expensive if I was dependent on prescription glasses!

telstar_1

Jul 4, 2023

N6BY said:
I am far sighted and need reading glasses -- usually 3.0 strength.

I struggled with the decision over whether to get LASIK for weeks. Finally decided that I was willing to do it.

Then when I got to the optometrist appointment I asked about LASIK and the optometrist immediately responded "You're too old". I was around 61 then and now I'm 65.

In a way I was relieved about not being eligible. I understand that vision changes too quickly for old people and LASIK is not recommended over a certain age.

Fortunately my long distance vision is still good enough not to require glasses. I just use reading glasses for up close.

And oddly enough, I see much better with cheap drug store reading glasses than the prescription ones. That's a good thing because I break or lose them so often it would be REAL expensive if I was dependent on prescription glasses!

Basic cheaters are very effective.

This is not a great endorsement for LASIK in that even if you're younger the degree of correction is inevitably going to degrade as you age and the change in shape of the eye naturally accelerates.

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Ronnie-

Jul 4, 2023

Nearsighted here. Been that way since I was in first grade.

Got the "coke bottle" glasses, and went to soft contacts i think around 6th grade. My eyes leveled out in my late teens at a -10.00 prescription, although now, I think they are a step worse. I do have an appointment soon to get rechecked.

Basically cant see crap over about 10 inches from my face without correction. Eye exams typically go, "read the lowest line of the chart."

"What chart"

"The one on the wall."

"What wall?"

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raoul5788

Jul 4, 2023

Ronnie- said:
Nearsighted here. Been that way since I was in first grade.

Got the "coke bottle" glasses, and went to soft contacts i think around 6th grade. My eyes leveled out in my late teens at a -10.00 prescription, although now, I think they are a step worse. I do have an appointment soon to get rechecked.

Basically cant see crap over about 10 inches from my face without correction. Eye exams typically go, "read the lowest line of the chart."

That's even worse than my eyes! With one eye I can see just the top line and not even that with the other.

TheKrell

Jul 5, 2023

Ronnie- said:
Got the "coke bottle" glasses, and went to soft contacts i think around 6th grade. My eyes leveled out in my late teens at a -10.00 prescription,

At one point many years ago, one of my eyes was -11 diopters. As I aged, both eyes have improved greatly and now I'm about -8.

long_time_Dish

Jul 6, 2023

Near-sighted here. Been wearing glasses since I was 19. Never tried contacts, eyes are too sensitive and start watering if I even think of putting something (besides occasional eye-drops) in them. Went to line bifocals at the age of 58 - like the line as I don't need to "hunt" for the bifocal area, it's right there, quick and easy to find and doesn't peter-out on the edges like progressives do (tried progressives, once).

One time, went in to get new lenses in my very comfortable frames and the guy took them in back and was gone for quite some time. When he came back out, he was apologizing for breaking my the left bow, said he was trying to straighten them out and the left one broke and he tried to fix it, but couldn't. I was incensed! I asked him, why the hell were you even messing with the bows? I had them exactly the way I wanted them and they were comfortable! You were just supposed to put in the new lenses, not mess with bows! At that point, a manager came out and asked what was going on and we took our turns explaining the issue and she turned to me and said "well, I can offer you 50% off new frames?" I told her, I don't want new frames, but obviously I'm going to need to get some. I asked her if they had frames with the solid, one-piece nose bridge (as I hate the kind with nose pads) and she told me no, they didn't carry that kind. That didn't help my attitude. Anyway, I got new frames, took them a week to redo the lenses, so I used an older pair I had and never went back to that place ever again...

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Last reply Today at 4:48 PM · posted in TV Shows

Brutal review of Netflix's series Below

Don't know if any of you have watched this series yet, it would be interesting to see if you feel this review was accurate. It was very humorous to listen to however.

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KAB

Today at 8:16 AM

What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.

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Today at 4:48 PM

KAB said:
What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.

If the review is like the article, oi! Eighteen paragraphs into the review and... all they've done is not really talk at all about the actual thing they are reviewing.

Halfway into the "written" review, I know more about how the writer "thinks" than I do about what they are writing about. I understand their politics, their self-overestimated understanding of film, their inability to be funny.

Takes about 22 paragraphs to get to one that starts "Anyway, the story kicks off...". Talk about Slop!

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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Paramount+

Season 2 order already in hand:

'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1

I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.

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klang

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.

Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

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MikeD-C05

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

Yeah, the foot stuff was just nasty. I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less. Funny, I love being shoe less at home and never wear shoes indoors in my home for long, but seeing her laying on all her furniture with her bare feet hanging out just kind of grossed me out.

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harshness

Oct 13, 2026

MikeD-C05 said:
I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.

Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

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MikeD-C05

Oct 18, 2026

harshness said:
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure. So walking around the station like she did she would get stuff on her feet. I am sure the robot vacuum is still going to miss stuff, with all those different alien species running around there.

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harshness

Oct 18, 2026

MikeD-C05 said:
There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure.

Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.

MikeD-C05

Monday at 1:35 PM

harshness said:
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.

I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.

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osu1991

Monday at 1:59 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.

Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping

MikeD-C05

Yesterday at 12:25 PM

osu1991 said:
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though

Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 4:30 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin

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long_time_Dish

Yesterday at 4:38 PM

Well, look at the way she sat in the Captain's Chair. I didn't say the show should have been called "Captain Chair-Whore" for nothing...

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primestar31

Yesterday at 11:00 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

Just sayin...

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MikeD-C05

Today at 11:17 AM

Jimbo said:
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ...

For a whole generation of adults it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Today at 11:53 AM

Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.

long_time_Dish

Today at 3:35 PM

harshness said:
Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.

Was never a huge of the Ferengi-centric episodes in Trek...

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