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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?
Sin tack
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.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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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... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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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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I had that with a pair of bloody expensive reading glasses from a f@rt@rsy, overpaid optician. Books looked like trapezoids.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: trapezoids
Yeah! That's the word I was looking for. The computer screen looked like a trapezoid. My eyes felt cross-eyed.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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What a coincidence ... I was at the optician's the other day and you'll never guess who I bumped into?!
Everyone
I'll get my coat ...
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I went for the laser treatment in 2003 after wearing glasses for nearly ten years and I'd do it again at twice the price.
They can do one eye for nearsightedness, and the other for farsightedness. The brain somehow has the ability to compensate and make everything look in focus even in those cases.
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I have that with my contact lenses.
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Interesting. Are your contacts interchangeable, or do you always have to use the same for the left and the other for the right?
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Right eye for close up, left for distance; based on which is the dominant eye (in my case right).
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Had the same thing done when they removed my cataracts. Left eye for close, right eye for distance.
Middle eye for double click.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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I wear progressives (trifocals) for the most part. When I started wearing them, I had the same problems you are experiencing now. Unfortunately, I have to go back and get a new prescription, because my eyes have gotten worse. Not looking forward to going through that again. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Picked up my annual new-pair last week. Progressives.
These are a type produced by Shamir (vs. Varilux), and the field of view is quite large (and they cost $195 US extra, above what my vision plan will cover). Nearsighted+astigmatic. These are the next-gen computer generated version and hence the wider field, covering most of the lens.
One note - for your next time: I've had them put the computer-distance as the central vision point for years. Looking straight ahead at my monitors is the most relaxed state. The infinity focus is a bit higher on the lens.
One thing I've noted (not yet with this pair) is that they've seemed to get deep scratches more easily - which is something I've never had at all, before. Deliberately softer plastic?
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