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  • #16
    I suspect the truth of the matter is that we're all a bunch of Preverts (sic: cookies for the reference) and some of us wear glasses...

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    • #17
      Quoth TheCheerfulTreeRat View Post
      I suspect the truth of the matter is that we're all a bunch of Preverts (sic: cookies for the reference) and some of us wear glasses...
      As long as we aren't Pervects...
      I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
      Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
      Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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      • #18
        Quoth dalesys View Post
        As long as we aren't Pervects...
        "Watch your mouth, kid." 'Nuff said.

        "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
        Still A Customer."

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        • #19
          Quoth Jester View Post
          "Watch your mouth, kid." 'Nuff said.
          Yessir, green & scaly.
          I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
          Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
          Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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          • #20
            Quoth dalesys View Post
            As long as we aren't Pervects...
            Just keep the Pervish food away from me.
            "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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            • #21
              I would actually try it. But then, I am culinarily very adventurous.

              "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
              Still A Customer."

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              • #22
                Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                Midway through first grade, IIRC.

                I win. So far, anyway.
                Haha, preschool suckers!! Although a friend of mine's daughter started wearing them at 8 months so I think she has us all beat, lol.

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                • #23
                  I didn't get any specs til 6th grade, but I was telling my parents "I can't see what's on the TV screen" as early as age three >_<
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                  "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
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                  • #24
                    I got my glasses halfway through freshmen year. My mom, dad, sister, brother in law, and boyfriend all wear them too.
                    I can attest to my perviness as well as my bf's... Everyone else's? *shudders* Not going there. :P
                    Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
                    Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever

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                    • #25
                      We're actually PROverts here. Pervs are in the minor leagues.

                      I got glasses in 3rd grade, did what I could to get out of wearing them because they looked honest to God Urkelish. Got contacts as soon as I could, only got glasses this time around because we have HSAs this year and it was extra money and I really do need a backup pair anyway.

                      Tried to wear them a few times. Don't like them. Make me dizzy. Odd thing, they are custom made specifically for my eye shape, size, space between my eyes, etc, and they feel like they aren't mine.
                      You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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                      • #26
                        Quoth dalesys View Post
                        As long as we aren't Pervects...
                        Oh, don't be such a Klahd!
                        I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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                        • #27
                          Quoth dragon_wings View Post
                          Everyone else's? *shudders* Not going there. :P
                          Where's Sheldon where we need him?

                          dalesys is already here, so he's cool....Wait... a little bit over to the left...yeah, right in the middle of those red and white concentric circles...uh huh. Now stay put a minute...*runs*
                          "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                          "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                          "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                          "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                          "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                          "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                          Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                          "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                          • #28
                            My glasses are an interesting story.

                            Grade school and junior high...no need.

                            High school....found myself sitting closer and closer to the blackboard, until even I had to admit something was wrong when I couldn't see it from the front row...and so my sophomore year, I got my first pair of glasses. Which, being a teenage boy, I wore as little as possible. Basically, only the places I needed them: class, movies, driving, and watching tv. Everywhere else, I'd fake it.

                            A few years later, after doing the same thing through most of college, I went out and got contacts. And wore them pretty much all the time, resorting to glasses only in the morning and late at night, i.e., before I put my contacts in and after I'd taken then out. Still avoided being seen in public with glasses whenever possible.

                            As I got older, this relaxed, and I'd wear my glasses more and more.

                            Now, although I HAVE contacts, and plenty of them, ready to go, I pretty much wear my glasses full time. I don't know why. I prefer the way I look without them, to be honest, but even though I have disposable contacts (wear them once, throw them out), I just can't be bothered to wear them any more.

                            Weird.

                            "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                            Still A Customer."

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                            • #29
                              My dad was told by his boss to ditch the contacts and only wear glasses on the job. He was also told to not do anything about the grey in his hair. They want him to appear mature and wise.

                              He barely ever wears contacts, except when he's doing work where he needs to wear safety glasses that don't fit over his glasses and whatnot.
                              You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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                              • #30
                                I first read this as Tales from the Lounge: Chesapeake Edition and I thought ooh, a local!

                                Then I wondered if the op was a fan of The League of Gentlemen.

                                Then I questioned my sanity.

                                Thanks op. I needed that.
                                "Announcing your intentions is a good way to hear God laugh." Al Swearingen (Deadwood)

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