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I finally got fed up, and since I failed my last annual eye test I decided to replace my three pairs of glasses: walk/drive, computer, and reading - all different distance and I always had the wrong ones on - with a single pair and go back to varifocals.
And I'd forgotten how much of a PITA they were in the early days. Picked them up this morning, my peripheral vision is permanently blurry, and I have to move my head about to get what I am looking at in the "sweet spot". Worst bit is the distance: while it's nice to be able to read road signs and what the car's computer is telling me I have to dip my head more than I'm used to to see where I'm going comfortably. And the computer? Nice and clear where I'm looking, but unless I sit right back in my chair, the other monitor is pretty much invisible. Which might be good in the long run in terms of posture... :sigh.
I know it will improve in a couple of days as I get used to it, but at the moment it's a PITA!
How many of us lot here use glasses / contacts / binoculars these days?
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OriginalGriff wrote: contacts
It is for me, but I have glasses as a "backup".
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I wear spectacles. 
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Real men wear monocles!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Two of them!
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I just make a spectacle of myself.
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I have glasses (and used contact lenses for a short time, but didn't liked them) since I was 16...
As today I'm technically blind to anything not moving when without them...
Can read books from a distance of 15-20 cm (stuck in my face), but the monitor is only a colorful stain even with 500% zoom (the max Chrome offers)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 8-May-17 10:04am.
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I guess by varifocals you mean what some call progressive? Yeah I hated my first pair of progressives. I really had to "aim" for the sweet spot. Even turning my neck when reading across the screen.
After several years, when getting my second pair, I had figured it and it was to allow the "reading zone" a bit less-than-perfect, that made the sweet spot so much sweeter. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The blue/purple tint they have looks great though. 
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Matches his rinse.
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Yes and they look great on his long wet nose. 
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I'm wearing glasses since the age of 14 (short-sighted).
I got my first varifocals 10 years ago but never got really satisfied with them. So I'm still using less strong glasses for reading and PC work - or even no glasses for short (< 40 cm) distances.
Plus two sun glasses for driving and reading.
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I've been wearing glasses (short sighted) since age 6. I now have two pairs - one for long distance (driving etc.) and one for reading/computer work.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm thankfully okay to a range of about 5 feet, but it goes to hell after that.
I like the Oakley frame arm design because I can comfortably shift them to the top of the head for reading/computer work, and back down for anything else.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Nathan Minier wrote: I can comfortably shift them to the top of the head for reading/computer work, and back down for anything else
Jousting?
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the any key okay
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Sure, that counts.
I'd want to put a band on them for that, though.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I'm a glasses guy, work and computer.
Only wear contacts when not doing the above. (My contacts are just a touch higher degree and seem much sharper - great for outdoors activities as can both see better and wear ray bans.)
Also mornings go without glasses/contacts until time to leave, more relaxing [not to see too much in the morning]. (Shave by Braille, brush teeth by taste, by choice no hair to comb.)
OIOW, glasses for boring/routine stuff, contacts for interesting stuff, naked for relaxation.
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Lopatir wrote: naked for relaxation
Remind me not to go for a beer with you.
Or if I do, to leave my glasses at home... 
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Quote: Remind me not to go for a beer with you.
Or if I do, to leave my glasses at home
I wish I'd left my "beer glasses" at home more often in the past 
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Reading/Otherthings bifocals.
Computer is still a separate single vision pair. I can't be silting my head this way and that trying to see what's on the monitor.
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THIS.
The vision plan with my employer actually provides for me to have an extra pair of Computer glasses that are single focus. They stay at the computer and have different frames from my everyday, "Hey, look! I'm over 50." glasses so I can tell which are which without putting them on.
When I forget to switch at the computer, I realize after a few minutes when I am looking down my nose at the screen and switch. Instant relief.
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Varifocals have always worked well for me, from the very first pair, and even with the small frames that most of us wear these days. I do sometimes wear contact lenses, but they are not varifocal, so I need to wear a distance lens in one eye and a close up in the other. Sounds weird but it works surprisingly well.
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OriginalGriff wrote: How many of us lot here use glasses / contacts / binoculars these days?
Had glasses from around 20 years old but switched for contacts for a long, long time. Had Lasik just over 3 years ago and have been free of glasses/lenses ever since
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I bought a pair of variable focus glasses from the pharmacy last week. What junk! Everything is distorted. My computer monitor appeared to be twice as wide at the bottom than the top! I immediately returned them in exchange for a fixed focus pair that works great for computer viewing.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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