Last one
i'm going now, see you in teh 'ning

( NoobMaster get the keys to his new house on the 23rd WOO!, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:07, archived)

hahaha

( mictoboy got uke? http://ukulele.mictoboy.co.uk, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:08, archived)

compo it
HARD!
( Dances with Rabbits if you repost in a new thread i repost an animash, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:09, archived)

:)
hahaha
(rappola , pissing into the wind since, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:10, archived)

Heh
My last pair set me back £130, even an optician laughed and said I was a muppet for paying so much for shades
( Jahled The most heroic gerbil in Guildford, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:11, archived)

I need prescription sunglasses.
I'm not going through another summer having to choose between non-blindy and fuzzy or blind but in perfect focus...
( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:13, archived)

This is why I chose contacts!
30 years of sun blindness!
I just bought some damn sexy Police* ones!


*Not the coppers!!
( Mstandot ...erm.....nah, it's gone!, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:15, archived)

I'm going to try contacts
but as I work all day in front of a computer I may need to keep my glasses on me.
( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:17, archived)

I need hard gas permeable ones!
They are so annoying, if you can get monthly or daily ones they are supposed to be much comfier.
( Mstandot ...erm.....nah, it's gone!, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:19, archived)

My pants are hard gas permeable.

( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:20, archived)

me too as well
Mine were £15 a month from specsavers. I'vce looked at buying them from an online retailer, but my bad eye (technically, worse eye) has such a strong prescription that most of the online sites don't cater for them.

/blind as a whatsit blog
( b3th icon sponsored by mongychops, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:43, archived)

photochromatic lenses (or 'Reactions' in specsaver speak) might be worth considering
but one potential drawback is making any excess light sensitivity worse because they will always react (albeit not fully) to marginally increased light levels

I get by with normal glasses, but use (daily) disposable contact lenses (I have a minor astigmatism, but normal [non-toric] lenses produce a good enough correction) whenever I need to wear sunglasses (usually when sea kayaking).

If I ever wanted to do the ladeez-who-lunch thing and sit in the sun guzzling lattes during my lunch break, then I would probably get prescription sunglasses. I'm not a woman though, so that isn't really a problem :P

Oh, and daily disposable lenses are usually thin/moist enough to last an entire working day; if you go for monthly ones, then you might end up with dry eyes and need glasses as a back up etc.
( custard ... oh, bollocks..., Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:24, archived)

Thank you for all the advice!

( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:27, archived)

can you wear lenses when kayaking?
I was told not to get my lenses near water. bacteria and all that...
( b3th icon sponsored by mongychops, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:45, archived)

I thought that too
but it isn't an issue with daily lenses; you bin them so is there no chance for anything (bugs, protein deposits etc.) to build up on them.

also (according to the last optician/dispensing optician I asked about this), sea water is less likely to contain anything nasty than (untreated) fresh water; it's more sterile apparently.
( custard ... oh, bollocks..., Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:54, archived)

fairy nuff

( b3th icon sponsored by mongychops, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:56, archived)

kayaking with contacts
I used to do it all the time. The only risk is that if you go through rapids or down a fall and you don't close your eyes in time and get a face full of water, they may get washed up to the top of your eyes. Don't worry though, they drift back down shortly after. I developed the habit of doing rapids with one eye only slightly open, so if the fully open one got the lens washed up I could still see out of one eye.
(SteamedCleaner, Tue 4 Mar 2008, 14:55, archived)

You actually do some work?
I had failed to grasp this, Captain! ;)
( Jahled The most heroic gerbil in Guildford, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:29, archived)

I don't think you understand.
She works on b3ta, and so is in front of a computer all day.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:29, archived)

I do, I manage stuff.

( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:30, archived)

silly laydee.
ironing is not career ;)
( Pasanonic WARNING - May induce flouncing., Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:32, archived)

Can you not get those really thin clip-on
UV sunglass filters?
(Jeru The Cunt of Monte Cristo, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:19, archived)

I suppose, but they're hardly what I'd call attractive.

( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:19, archived)

I wouldn't know
I didn't even know you knew glasses to be honest.
(Jeru The Cunt of Monte Cristo, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:21, archived)

I don't wear them in a lot of photos
as they always seem to reflect whatever light's in the room.
( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:22, archived)

and people wouldn't be able to ogle your lovely green(?) eyes
and rub the fronts of their trousers etc.
( custard ... oh, bollocks..., Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:26, archived)

Green sometimes, blue sometimes, violetty grey sometimes.
Ca depende.
( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:28, archived)

cor...
Chameleon eyes... yummy...
( custard ... oh, bollocks..., Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:29, archived)

Or frightening.

( Captain Wow 'like Molly Ringwald except much more frightening', Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:31, archived)

I have tried on other people's glasses on occasion
They make me look marginally less freaky looking.

Although they shroud my light-cannot-escape-from-its-surface eyes.
(Jeru The Cunt of Monte Cristo, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:30, archived)

me to
but they have lasted me 4 years so far, would have got through 2753 cheap pairs by now so all works out in the end.
( NoobMaster get the keys to his new house on the 23rd WOO!, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:14, archived)

I wear
Bloc. Which are like Oakley but without the ridiculous mark up and bicycle courier stigma.
www.eyeweardirect.co.uk/index.php?cPath=1_4
( Pasanonic WARNING - May induce flouncing., Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:19, archived)

pffffft

( Haku 's Root Beer has gone flat, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 22:33, archived)