Specs!

[Robin Spark]

No not the forum member,

but it looks like spending all those hours on the computer and reading have finally taken their toll and now wearing my first pair of spectacles.  Only for close up work though and not needed for anything else!

 

[binky]

go walking or some other outdoor sport, its really good for re-focussing eyes and stopping eyes becoming 'fixed focus'

 

[m4tty]

This thread is useless without pictures mate. Come on let's see the new look. I need them too really but been holding off, stupid I know

 

[Robin Spark]

Yes your right there Binky,  its all too easy to get wrapped up on the internet and not have a real life. Actually though, I went into the local bike store today to get a mountain bike and I do outdoor stuff fairly often, Im probably just kidding myself in that its just me getting older (was my birthday this week!)

This thread is useless without pictures mate. Come on let's see the new look. I need them too really but been holding off, stupid I know

No photos sorry!  However i have been putting it off since last year which is when I had my eyes tested!!!

what also put me off was at the time, the Mrs had just spent £300 on her spectacles and there was no way i could afford anything for moi.

 

[kerching]

Well I've just got some new specs as the old ones were a bit moody!

Never realised how far away the floor was!

 

[OnOff]

I've been short sighted since I was a kid and for a while had ever stronger prescriptions - I think up to about  -6 or something. Approaching 50 and I found that I was having to increasingly take my glasses off when using say a tape to mark a line on something. Knew something was "odd" when I was having to take my glasses OFF to see the telly as with a bit of a squint it was better. I went to the opticians (Costco actually). Seems that my eyes have in fact got "better" as in by over one diopter or so each. So new WEAKER glasses at a couple of hundred quid +! Of course the DOWNSIDE is that that this may be the start of a slide "the other way" into being longsighted and old age!

 

[ProDave]

I've needed reading glasses since I was 40. My arms were getting too short to rear the paper.  Now I'm 50 I could do with a slightly stronger set.

I had my eyes tested last year. I still don't need normal glasses.  Howver, I missed a trick.  During all the fiddling around as they popped different lenses in, all of a sudden, one set of lenses he popped in enabled me to clearly read the very bottom line of the chart.  I wish now I had said "hold it thaere, I'll have a pair like that"

But it's the cost of glasses that gets me.  My reading glasses cost ne £6 from a market. So why are the FRAMES for prescription glasses at least £100 before even considering the lenses?  If you can make a cheap set of glasses AND lenses for £6, then surely you can make a decent set of frames for say £25?

 

[misssweden]

I've needed reading glasses since I was 40. My arms were getting too short to rear the paper. Now I'm 50 I could do with a slightly stronger set.

I had my eyes tested last year. I still don't need normal glasses. Howver, I missed a trick. During all the fiddling around as they popped different lenses in, all of a sudden, one set of lenses he popped in enabled me to clearly read the very bottom line of the chart. I wish now I had said "hold it thaere, I'll have a pair like that"

But it's the cost of glasses that gets me. My reading glasses cost ne £6 from a market. So why are the FRAMES for prescription glasses at least £100 before even considering the lenses? If you can make a cheap set of glasses AND lenses for £6, then surely you can make a decent set of frames for say £25?

Very good point Dave! I've always wondered why the hell the frames cost a fortune. Mine (that I gave up wearing as working in rain and dust meant I could actully see better when I took them off. When will windscreen wipers be available for glasses? ) cost £110!

 

[M107]

I get fed up with mine.....outside in the sun they tint in seconds,  go back inside and it takes ages for them to clear, pain in the area when. You need to get back into a dark loft.

 

[NozSpark]

The first time I realised that I needed glasses was when I was 18 and driving home from the Wirral.... I had to go around a roundabout twice before I could read the road signs :shakehead

The last time I had my eyesight tested I was the same as before and found it really difficult to find a pair of frames that fitted my HUGE head... I did in the end but then found out that they were exactly the same as I was wearing so I didn't bother

 

[Evans Electric]

I believe we are ripped off  in Britain  with the cost of specs , As Dave says , the science is in the lenses not the frames which must two -a-penny TBH.

Unless you're paying for "Designer" frames  and who the hell would know  (or care) anyway?

The opticians charge the earth for specs , best to take your prescription to Direct Specs or whoever .  Mine were £40 I think.

Picture of Robinspark in his specs ??    Think  Sid Little in his Bottle Bottoms!!! :innocent

 

[OnOff]

When I was a vain youngster I bought contact lenses as soon as I was able too. They were OK but used to maybe "over" wear them somewhat. I came home one night three sheets to the wind and then some! Went to bed and was awakened by the then dog barking to be let out. Now as a glasses wearer when you wake up you lean over and put your glasses on. So.........still drunk I made my way through the darkened house and let the dog out. As I was up anyway I figured I'd get a drink.................but turning the light on and I can't see a thing for blurred vision! Thinking "Christ, how much did I drink?" the dog's barking going mad for a fox making the headache even worse. So to rub my aching head I'm leaning against the back door frame and remove my glasses. IT'S A MIRACLE............I CAN SEE!!!

The moral is don't forget to take your lenses out before you go to bed!

 

[husky2013]

Iv had to wear glasses since i was 12/13  got contact lenses when i was 17 (more so when i could afford them) to start with i got the daily dispose ones which became a pain in the bottom! so i got the ones that you could keep in (including when asleep) and changed every 21 days  these tho for my prescription used to cost £45 a month which got fat too expensive so i went back to glasses when i turned 19! since then iv had 3 pairs of glasses.

my last pair which i got in august last 2012  cost me £69  for DKNY Designer Frames with Ultra Fast Reactalight lenses  they tint down in sunlight and lighten back up to clear within 3seconds.

Streety got himself a new pair a couple of weeks later  he got flexi frame (the ones that you can squish and twist) and dont break, with ultra thin and light lenses with the anti scratch coating on them and they cost him £101    if he had gone for the standard lenses he could have got a pair of prescription safety glasses  or prescription sunglasses instead for free

both lots where from specsavers who in my opinion are pretty good for offers on specs  just not the contact lenses!

my Neice who is 10 got a pair of childrens Bench designer frames with standard lenses and a matching pair of sunglasses for £10!

 

[kerching]

i have bi focal lenses in my diving masks!

Just........ not able to read depth, time , direction, gas switches, run times etc

 

[Robin Spark]

I believe we are ripped off  in Britain  with the cost of specs , As Dave says , the science is in the lenses not the frames which must two -a-penny TBH.

Unless you're paying for "Designer" frames  and who the hell would know  (or care) anyway?

The opticians charge the earth for specs , best to take your prescription to Direct Specs or whoever .  Mine were £40 I think.

Picture of Robinspark in his specs ??    Think  Sid Little in his Bottle Bottoms!!! :innocent

HA VERY FUNNY, but no nothing like him! I do get little eyes when i have my beer goggles on though! 

 

[Technician]

Just a little note on the above;

I did hear a story many years ago about an engineer

working on some switchgear.  He had removed the

arc shutes from a circuit breaker which may have been

a little foolish and the circuit breaker opened.

He was wearing contact lenses at the time and they

"fused" with the cornea of BOTH eyes.

It was not a pretty case.

 

[OnOff]

Just a little note on the above;

I did hear a story many years ago about an engineer

working on some switchgear.  He had removed the

arc shutes from a circuit breaker which may have been

a little foolish and the circuit breaker opened.

He was wearing contact lenses at the time and they

"fused" with the cornea of BOTH eyes.

It was not a pretty case.

+1. As an apprentice we weren't allowed to wear contact lenses when welding because of the UV light potentially causing similar issues.

 

[Technician]

+1. As an apprentice we weren't allowed to wear contact lenses when welding because of the UV light potentially causing similar issues.

This is something that SHOULD be brought to the attention

of apprentices but I am sure a lot of folks are not aware of it.