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MyGodItsFullofStars Since: Feb, 2011
#1: Mar 23rd 2012 at 12:35:40 PM

What's the deal? That look used to be so common back in the 70s, now people think they have to dye everything to "look young". What is wrong with trying to look older and distinguished?

You know what else you don't see enough of anymore? Women wearing glasses. I think girls look cute in glasses, so this whole craze with contact lenses is kind of irksome.

Not to mention mustaches. What happened to the 'stache?

Steventheman Cmdr. of His Supremacy's Armed Forces from Wales Since: Feb, 2011
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#2: Mar 23rd 2012 at 12:39:45 PM

I agree on that point about the girls not wearing glasses.

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#3: Mar 23rd 2012 at 12:41:05 PM

I wear glasses...

I often have contact if I'm doing sports. Being punched in the face breaks your glasses, don't you know?

Steventheman Cmdr. of His Supremacy's Armed Forces from Wales Since: Feb, 2011
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#4: Mar 23rd 2012 at 12:44:30 PM

Also you need to add an extra k to Meganeko.

It's Meganekko

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MyGodItsFullofStars Since: Feb, 2011
#5: Mar 23rd 2012 at 12:46:39 PM

[up]I figured that out, but decided that it was funnier to leave it in.

Steventheman Cmdr. of His Supremacy's Armed Forces from Wales Since: Feb, 2011
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#6: Mar 23rd 2012 at 12:47:36 PM

I find girls with glasses attractive.

Not massive cats.

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#7: Mar 23rd 2012 at 1:29:00 PM

I'd have to agree that girls with glasses, and grey beards with brown hair are attractive.

Not mustaches, though.

Unless you're a cowboy, porn star, or Drunk (the Troper), you should never have a 'stache on its own.

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MarkVonLewis Since: Jun, 2010
#8: Mar 23rd 2012 at 1:37:40 PM

If I was gonna grow a 'stache, I'd go all out and just grow friendly mutton chops.

Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#9: Mar 23rd 2012 at 3:13:51 PM

Not to mention mustaches. What happened to the 'stache?
-touches upper lip-

Still there.

Unless you're a cowboy, porn star, or Drunk (the Troper), you should never have a 'stache on its own.
I don't have a moustache. The moustache has me.

edited 23rd Mar '12 3:16:40 PM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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#10: Mar 23rd 2012 at 3:18:22 PM

If I was gonna grow a 'stache, I'd go all out and just grow friendly mutton chops.
Way ahead of you.

LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#11: Mar 23rd 2012 at 4:31:07 PM

Well, there's more to glasses than just looks, you know... glasses can be a real pain in the neck. For one thing, if you spend any length of time in a cold place, be prepared to flail around blind for a few minutes once you leave it.

Be not afraid...
czhang from Canada Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#12: Mar 23rd 2012 at 5:04:46 PM

They also leave really weird indents in your nose and just aren't comfortable. It's really hard to move around quickly with glasses on, too, 'cause they fall off so easily.

And my friends kept stealing them which was annoying.

Actually I was the one stealing my friends' glasses but I assume it was annoying.

Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#13: Mar 23rd 2012 at 5:09:23 PM

They also leave really weird indents in your nose and just aren't comfortable.
They are still more comfortable than jamming shards of glass in your eyeballs, though.

I tried contacts once. I do not wish to relive the experience. I might consider laser eye surgery, but I heard contrasting comments about quality of vision after it and I'm pretty much used to glasses anyway by now.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
czhang from Canada Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#14: Mar 23rd 2012 at 5:14:16 PM

Contacts haven't been made of glass for a long time. I find them a lot better than glasses, practically speaking.

LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#15: Mar 23rd 2012 at 5:31:48 PM

It's really hard to move around quickly with glasses on, too, 'cause they fall off so easily

I think this might be a case of having badly fitted glasses. I've never had any trouble with mine falling off. Fogging up, being covered with smears that you can't get rid of, and developing mysterious scratches that you can't see through *

yes, but not falling off.

I would try contact lenses, but apparently my eyeball is such a weird shape they wouldn't fit properly.

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Grimview Catalytic from British Columbia Since: Mar, 2012
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#16: Mar 23rd 2012 at 6:31:28 PM

Glasses have always been pretty comfortable for me. Once in a rare while I'll get a headache if I'm doing a lot of intensive focusing on small print for hours on end, and taking my glasses off will help lessen the headache... but glasses are perfectly comfortable.

And as far as glasses on girls go; it varies, but by and large, women who have them tend to suit them.

Girls have also told me that my glasses suit me... so now I'm curious; is there actually an interest among the girls here, in guys in glasses? I mean, most things have a flipside... I don't see why this wouldn't. tongue

As to facial hair; it does not suit me, at all. I get Perma-Stubble; more than that doesn't really work for me. But if my dad's any indication, I won't start greying until my late 50s anyway, so I've got more than thirty years before grey beard/dark hair is even an option. tongue

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#17: Mar 23rd 2012 at 10:09:37 PM

I like how I am the exception to the commandment that "thou shalt not grow a mustache".

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DrunkGirlfriend from Castle Geekhaven Since: Jan, 2011
#18: Mar 24th 2012 at 8:36:41 AM

I wear glasses sometimes and contacts sometimes. If I'm doing something that requires safety glasses or something, then I wear contacts, because the safety glasses that are meant to be worn over glasses never fit right.

And if I'm doing anything other than sitting around doing nothing, I'll wear contacts, but that's just because my glasses keep coming apart because the last time I got new lenses in them, they did something to the frame and the screw that holds one of the lenses in keeps working it's way loose.

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#19: Mar 24th 2012 at 1:07:06 PM

I'd rather not stick stuff in my eyes, though having to clean my glasses every morning is annoying...

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#20: Mar 24th 2012 at 10:58:29 PM

Why do you clean your glasses every morning?

I clean mine maybe once a week. And I only have one eye, so cleanliness is much more important for me to actually see.

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Mouser Since: Jan, 2001
#21: Mar 25th 2012 at 9:31:53 AM

Nobody has ever rocked that look.

Some guys stumbled into it and have since seen the error of their ways.

Octo Prince of Dorne from Germany Since: Mar, 2011
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#22: Mar 25th 2012 at 9:52:58 AM

Ugh, moustaches (as in, only upper lip hair, nothing more). They just look sleazy. There's a reason they've become associated with bad porn.

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#23: Mar 26th 2012 at 10:37:49 AM

I can twirl mine.

And my moustache.

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MEPT72 Vote is No from Boston, MA Since: Sep, 2009
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#24: Mar 26th 2012 at 12:01:43 PM

In the summer my beard tends to get noticably lighter than my hair. Though my head hair has more grey than my beard, my beard has more red and blonde. In the summer the beard will bleach in spots to be rather red-blonde.

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#25: Mar 26th 2012 at 6:02:02 PM

I'm afraid I'm too young for grey hair and too blond for brown hair, but I get the sentiment. I myself proudly sport as much of a ringbeard as can be reasonably mustered (the mo and beard don't join, but oh well).

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