BS: People Wearing Galasses

Subject: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:02 AM

Heloo,
Do you wear glasses or not?
I do,
this= waht happend=, I crashed into a car, police came [i was not drunk, and was fully legal, [licence, insurance, mot etc, so no problums theere],
polivece man say=Waht you crash into that car for then?
i said 2I didn't see it, thhats reason why"
he said= "ok, get some glasses, then we let you off, then he says ="can you read number plate on my police man car?"

i said no, becase , of he park it to far away, he said he cuold see it, but is, his car, so waht you expect?


anyway=he let me off, didnt haf to go court or anything, but haf to got glasses.

i went to SpecSavers, they are shit

they put advert on telly="go to specsavers, they really nice etc"

but they reubbish, my glasses fell to bits in about too weeks, =
my advive is dont go to specsabvers, they are rubbissh, and just rip you off..

ps=and i payed 10 more for non scratch lensis, amd they scratched to bits in 5 minutes, amd i took them back, and they not bothered,.


all togetehrt=
my glasses was 100 pounds, and they are crap, and propbably worht ony 5 pound, so dont go to sprcsavers, they are shite,.


specsaVERS -if you read this,its true, and you cant soo me, cos its true.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Glasess
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:08 AM

helo, i slpedd glasses wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:09 AM

No wonder you are having problems with those glasses. They are way too heavy man! 100 pounds? I would also go for the lighter 5 pound pair.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:12 AM

Heeheehee :)

Well, being totally blind, I am lucky; I don't need them!

Sorry. ;)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:14 AM

oh.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:18 AM

Anyway= One of my customers is blind, he asked me one day for a menu, he says = "can you read it to me., as i'm visually impaired?"
i says= "do you mean you are blind?"
he says =Yes!

he's a musician [everyone in hul is a musician], he's in a band called Drypool, he's the guitarist.

if your intrested = put drpool music and hull in your searcher, you can hear soundfiles from the bbc site.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:19 AM

drypool.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:22 AM

Oh, cool; thanks, John. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST,Sightly Impressed
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:20 AM

Teresa,

Just curious, how do Sir jOhn from Hull posts sound on a "reader" or whatever it is you use? Pardon a sighted person's ignorance.

You are an inspiration and someone to "look up" to and admire.

Good reading on the Web.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:26 AM

Sightly impressed :) Heehee, I love wordplay.

Well, they just sound like they're John's posts. I can tell them right off, especially the more booze he's gotten into. (Sorry, John; no offense meant; I've done it myself any number of times). So he has his own "voice" in the screen reader.

Same with Bobert, tweed, 'spaw, and any one of several others. I can just tell by the way they put their words together.

Thanks for the kind words; I'm just meandering around with my warped and disjointed thought process here on the 'cat. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:28 AM

no offence taken!
:)

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: goodbar
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:35 AM

when i was going to get my licence on august 31, 2004, i eavesdropped into the conversation of some old people. one was all like "i hope they don't make me take an eye test. i'd probably fail and they wouldn't let me renew my license."

thank god they make everyone do it.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:47 AM

Teresa,
Your just be the person I've been looking for.
I have pondered on a question for several years now about being blind and dreams.
Have you been blind from birth?
If so I have always wanted to know what you see in dreams. And do you see color?
I wanted to ask you this on the MOAB but this is no bullshit.
Peace, Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:03 AM

Ah ... :) well, I've been blind since birth. I'm not really much of a sensory dreamer. I don't remember much of anything sensory, unless it's particularly vivid. Mostly it's concepts and awareness, kind of like observing with strong empathic overtones, if that makes sense. Hard to put it into words. :) My dreams are pretty disjointed. In fact, when some people describe their experiences with hallucinogens, it reminds me of my dreams. :) Sometimes I envy people who dream straightforward plots. I have friends who'll wake up and tell me their dreams, and they sound like the most wonderful storylines.

Well, I'll discuss anything on MOAB or anywhere else 'round here, too. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST,Nightmare
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:09 AM

Teresa,

If you want to dream eat a lot just before you go to bed. Eat something especially "colorfull" and you might just see rainbows!

An old saying goes something like this: Feed a night mare...

I don't remember the rest. Perhaps it was just a dream, in black and white, no less.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:14 AM

Well, I have nightmares when I drink a lot of coffee before I go to sleep. My favorite way to influence my dreams is to listen to a good audiobook and fall asleep to it. Then all of a sudden I'm one of the characters! Music does this, too. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:30 AM

Speaking of which ... off to read my current book, Steven Brust's _The Sun, the Moon, and The Stars_ ... about an artist's thought process while doing a particular painting, interspersed with Hungarian folk tales. Kind of a visual book, but visual things fascinate me; they're like magic. And the descriptions of the process of creating something kind of remind me of writing, which I hope to do more of.

...Then off to sleep; hopefully interesting dreams, no? :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST,Nightmare
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:34 AM

Er, Teresa, don't say "speaking of Witch" or you are bound to have a nightmare!

Sweet Dreams ma'am!

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:46 AM

John - I went to the opticians in Boots (chemist chain store in UK), they were much better, tested everthing they could possibly test.... now is a good time because they usually have a sale on... my designer (FCUK) frames cost 1/2 price, still over £80 though!

(And they are FCUK, a screw fell out after 6 months and it's a special screw that can only be replaced in the factory, which means sending the glasses away. We used a screw from another design and it's fine!)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: hilda fish
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:58 AM

I just love reading your posts Sir jOhn from Hull. Do have a unique 'language' about them and they are funny - are they meant to be? My mother who is now very dead indeed, when she was advised to get glasses, decided not to because a) she felt that there was nothing much that she wanted to see very closely b) she'd sooner spend any money she had on a flagon c) she thought she was young and beautiful and didn't want to be disappointed. I was prescribed glasses when I was about 20 and I spent a fortune on them but they got run over by a cattle truck within about half an hour of me getting them. I thought there was a lesson in that for me. My daughter-in-law has been virtually blind all her life and it was getting worse but she's had one of those operations and she's now pretty much 100% sighted with just the slightest myopia which is gonna be corrected shortly. From being very nervous and tentative physically she's turned into a confident dynamo which includes that she now wants to learn to drive. It is making my son very nervous as he is a bit used to her being nearly blind and therefore dependent but he daren't say that! I think it's better to not have glasses and just say you were drunk if you crash into anything:)))

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 06:05 AM

Heloo fish woman,
i only got glasses becase i crashed my car, i tell polce man= "heloo, = not my fault, i was not see it,"


you say= better to be drunk than a wearing glasses person, =
thats rubbisgh, as=
if you drunk and crash, they put you in jail, and take drivingf licence off you,
if you got bad eyes sight, they just moan at you, and say " get some glasses straight away, if we see you drive again, and you not were glasses= we ban you etc, ie take your driving licence away"


drunk is your fault, but eyes can slowly get worse, like mine did, anmd youyu dont know how bad they got till you crash.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: hilda fish
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 07:51 AM

Yeah, I know. Just trying to be funny.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: *Laura*
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 08:17 AM

I have glasses for seeing the board in college and driving and they make me look clever but I don't like em cos when I take them off eerything is really blurry. :(

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: MartinRyan
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 07:15 PM

"galasses"? I thought this was a stray from Norn Iron!

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Scoville
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 08:45 PM

Yeah--I've worn them since I was 10. I've considered contacts but I really hate the thought of having something stuck to my eye (or having to put my fingers near my eyes to get them out). I'm pretty sick of them--even with high-density plastic the lenses are pretty thick and I don't really have enough nose to hold them up so I'm always having to push them back into place. But I can't see diddly without them so oh, well.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 08:47 PM

OK, jOhn, who's let you out THIS time?

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 09:29 PM

I've worn glasses since I was 6 or 7 years old. No big deal. Some years ago an ophthalamogist corrected my vision to as close to 20/20 as he dared -- and suddenly I could see rocks in the asphalt! I could read signs a hundred meters away!

Seems like I had amblyopia as a child and it wasn't corrected, along with some other smaller problems. I primarily use one eye, even now, but the glasses correction helped a lot. I did not have much depth perception (which is why I still can't catch a ball very well), a 2-D person in a 3-D world.

As you can imagine, one lense is considerably thicker than the other!

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 09:41 PM

G'day jHon,

I noticed I was getting a bit short-sighted about 33 years ago (working in cost accounting). I qualified in photography and used my sight constantly (a bit like keeping muscles fit!) and didn't bother with glasses. I noticed people around me who still did clerical jobs just get shorter and shorter-sighted because they wear glasses ... and keep adapting to the stronger lenses ... ?

Eventually, I was sent for an examination for glaucoma, since my mother suffered from this, and - while I did not have glaucoma - the optician said I needed glasses. (They were about -.5 dioptre right and - 1 dioptre left ... plus some barrel correction for mild astigmatism.) I've had these for about 18 years ... but would only wear them for driving on unlit bush (country) roads, on clouded or moonless nights. I still pass the eyesight test when I renew my driving licence every 5 years (last tested in December .... 5 weeks ago). I can't remember where I put my glasses after the licence renewal (I had them ... just in case I didn't pass the test!) ... and I haven't needed them for any other purpose. I suspect that, if I wore them all the time ... I wouldn't be able to see past the front door!

Regard(les)s,

Bob

(Nothing against glasses when they are needed ... but I'm determined to keep enough short sight to read, write, photograph, print, draw, compute and play music ... without aid! I will find those glasses before driving off to see friends about 2 hours out of Sydney.)

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 10:13 PM

there once was a girl who wore galasses
and played mechanical phallases
she did it so much
it got sore to the touch
until she developed calluses

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:16 PM

I wear glasses.....if I didn't I can't see more than 2" in front of my face....and that is when I'm sober. Tried contacts, but I was allergic to all the cleaning solutions. No go.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 10:01 AM

Only females wear gal asses.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 10:11 AM

Bought my first pair last year from Boyes on Hessle Road for Six pounds five shillings, and they are fab.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: LilyFestre
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 10:31 AM

I wear glasses when I am out and about. The minute I get home, off they go! I *might* put them back on while playing my fiddle...but only after I am sufficiently frustrated about not playing well because I can't see the darn notes!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 05:39 PM

100 pounds? Lucky you! To get a decent frame, the lightest plastic lenses, correction for near-sightedness and astigmatisms(SP?) in both eyes - $1000+. I used to wear hard contact lenses but my eyes are just too dry now. They can't fit me for soft ones - I try every year. Bu at least I don't have to wear the hideous, huge Coke bottle affairs I had from age 5 to age 45.

Scratch-proofing is a joke. So is the coating they put on for sun glare - it scratches!

Bad glasses joke from the New Yorker:
Police Officer: I am ticketing you for speeding and driving without your glasses.
Lasy: But officer, I have contacts.
Police Officer: I don't care who you know, you're getting a ticket!

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Burke
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 07:54 PM

I've had glasses since I was 10. I only need them for distance. When my eyes started loosing flexibility in my 40's, it got so that I could not read with them on. Now I have progressive lenses with very minor correction on the bottom. Most of the time I don't wear my glasses while at home or at my desk at work. I do wear them to drive, etc. They are essential when I need to see close & far at the same time as singing in choir.

At some distances I cannot focus very well with both eyes, but with one closed I can see fine. It turns out one of my eyes looks higher than the other. My glasses have some correction for this, but it's not perfect. Far distances were fine, it's things like signs about 20 feet away.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 08:03 PM

I was amazed at both my mom and a boyfriend I had. Both were extremely near-sighted, and they felt completely comfortable at home functioning without their glasses. Sometimes they'd say, "Oh, wait until I get my glasses before I read you that label". etc. I was so amazed, because they'd cook, pour things, etc. They both said that
they just got used to the way things looked ... which blob was which. :) I always called them "honorary blind folks" ... from my perspective a compliment! :D

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 09:29 PM

"Only females wear gal asses." good one uNcle dave!
Funny joke SINFULL erm, SINSULL!

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 09:51 PM

I wear cheap readers for reading and close work. Don't need 'em for driving. I can still tell you the sex of a bug sitting on a tree leaf a hundred yards away.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST,bee,bee,buh beeeeee
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 10:02 PM

The sex or the gender?
If'n the sex you might need two bugs which would be easier to see.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST,Richard H
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 10:25 PM

I once loved a girl from another island but was too shy to tell her. Then she went away. Sometime after she wrote me a letter and we started to write each other and I told her I loved her and she said she loved me. But we were miles apart.

Then she passed through my island for a few days. I took her to my home. No one else was there. My heart went "thump, thump." And I kissed her.

But she had just smoked a cigarette and I nearly puked.

And she had just got new contacts and kept taking them out and putting them in. And with all that taking out and putting in, we never got around to sex or anything. So it ended right there.

Which is sad because I still think about her. And she gave me a copy of "Maxims of La Rouchefoucauld" and wrote in the front, "'True love is like ghosts. We all talk about it but few of us have ever seen one.' Have we?" And I thought we had.

Sorry to intrude on this post but if she had stuck to galasses, we just might be together today.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: open mike
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:51 AM

i thought Galasses were some type of device used to hold up stockings
like garters or some buckel ty7pe thingies/?
we used to wear something in girl scouts that was an elastic that
went around the tops of our knee-high stockings..with a little
ribbon or fringe that hung down the side..what are those??
if you google galasses you will find many others spell it Jo9hn's way.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:58 AM

garters?

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 01:18 AM

A galleass is not something you wear, jOhn, it's an ancient ship. It was a compromise between the galleon and the galley, hence, galleass. It looked like a very large, long galleon, with a midsection mounting a huge bank of oars on each side. Sometimes 2 or 3 tiers of oars on the bigger galleasses. They were very impressive looking, but proved to be vulnerable in battle. The Spanish employed them against the British at the time of the Armada, but without much success. They could not mount as many heavy guns as a galleon, because the oars took up the midsection. They were also less seaworthy on the high seas, but, like galleys, were much more manueverable when there was little or no wind. Thus they were useful in certain situations. The galleass, like the galley, had a ram at the front for ramming other ships. Although they failed as an effective ship in the Atlantic, they remained popular in Mediterranean waters for some time, as did the smaller galleys.

Galleons, however, ruled the seven seas, and proved far more formidable as fighting ships.

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 01:41 AM

I think the confusion is between galeass (define by Little Hawk, above) and galluses, an old Scots word for suspenders:

galluses


SYLLABICATION:
gal·lus·es

PRONUNCIATION:
AUDIO: gl-sz     KEY

PLURAL NOUN:
Suspenders for trousers.

ETYMOLOGY:
Variant of gallowses, pl. of gallows.




A

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Teresa
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 02:00 AM

Variant of gallows :)

And there was me thinking of galoshes ...

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: Kaleea
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 02:24 AM

So I was out in San Diego helping my niece with her new baby in November. I was not wearing galoshes or on a ship. The day before I flew home (no, not on my broomstick!) we stopped at the local optometry office to tighten a screw which was about to fall out. I handed the guy there my glasses & he walked away to fix them. After awhile I went to the main desk to inquire about my glasses. They handed me a pair which looked sorta like mine, but were not. The girl had given my glasses to a lady who walked out & was not seen again. Yes, really.
    While my neice was quite put out about it, I merely wondered what the Universe had in mind. I had been needing new glasses for quite a while. I got them that afternoon. The exam & the glasses at no cost to me. The Dr. was chuckling about it. He figured that had never happened before in the free world. Except they couldn't do bifocals in one day. Or the transitions lenses. So I have 2 pairs now. & the also snap on sunglasses thingie. About $600 worth.
    Beware of people who walk away with your glasses--it could be the universe plotting to get you new ones!
       Kaleea

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: mooman
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 04:18 AM

Blind as a bat with a blindfold close up and can see like a hawk (not a little one) with a telescope at distance so I have to have horrifically expensive Varilux lenses and hence treat them with the utmost care.

"Hey, they're my glasses...!"

"Sorry, didn't realise it was your beer.."

"Beer? Oh, that's OK...!"

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 08:02 AM

Like I said - Norn Iron!

Regards

p.s. Lets not discuss suspenders....

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 08:59 AM

Oh yes please lets discuss suspenders......I think its that piece of naked flesh at the top of the thigh.......happy days

Subject: RE: BS: People Wearing Galasses
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:11 AM

I'm shortsighted and wear glasses - have done since I was 12. I tend to agree with Bob Bolton that the more you wear them the more you seem to need them. I have multifocals now, which I really hate. They are useless for seeing close up, unless I peer down my nose, and my peripheral vision for things like backing the car is no good with them either. I have persevered with them for a long time, hoping I would get used to them - at least they don't make me seasick any more, but I still don't like them.

Actually what I would really like, if I was brave enough to take the very slight risk, and had enough money, would be to have laser surgery. My son had it, and he was delighted with the results.

There is one good thing though, about being shortsighted. I can see things really close up without my glasses in the finest detail. I'm the one they'd ask to thread a needle. Also comes in handy when looking at the street directory or the phone book.

Jenny