You don't need prescription glasses.

So along time ago an eye doctor says...
It's a good thing your left eye is so good cause your right eye is off the charts.
So I buy the prescription glasses and I can see great.
Even without glasses I can see great but if I close my left eye it's a mess.
So I meet a chick who is very smart.
One of those stay at home moms who went to university at 30 years old and was a genius. Scholarship and everything.
She ended up with a biotech company and even testified against me in court once.
Well before all that she explained that eye glasses are basically "different levels of magnification"...so you don't need expensive eye glasses you just need to find "reading glasses at your local store that work"
Your good eye doesn't get affected in a serious way but your bad eye gets help.
So I bought some cheap "reading glasses" and she is right.
I spent $300 on my first set of prescription glasses and when they broke she told me what to do.
Since then I have spent maybe 50 bucks for cheap reading glasses which break from me sleeping on them. In ten years I've spent 50 bucks on glasses.
Just bought a new set due to breakage.
Try it out.

@Patzering
It all depends on what's wrong with your eyes, doesn't it? I wish I could use cheap reading glasses because you can have the frames in all colours and patterns.

Oh I'm sure some eye problems require serious prescription glasses but most people would be ok with simple reading glasses that just enlarge the print.

@patzering said
Oh I'm sure some eye problems require serious prescription glasses but most people would be ok with simple reading glasses that just enlarge the print.

True.

I almost had a stroke.
Finally someone agrees with me.
Took 40 years but I'll take it 😉

@patzering said
I almost had a stroke.
Finally someone agrees with me.
Took 40 years but I'll take it 😉

Might have just been kindness...

Probably 😒

@patzering said
Probably 😒

I'm trying to remember which of my friends use what - 50/50 I guess.

@patzering said
Oh I'm sure some eye problems require serious prescription glasses but most people would be ok with simple reading glasses that just enlarge the print.

allow me to comment, on yer myopic problems,
i have the vision to help you heal...
we'll pull back the curtains, from yer windows of the soul,
now turn around, while yer wallet i steal...

Why did my phone let me type meet?
Dammit.
That reminds me 🤔
I wasn't mad when I was in trial.
They said a lot of nasty things.
I was more mad when I looked at the evidence and seen (sic)
True story.

@patzering said
So along time ago an eye doctor says...
It's a good thing your left eye is so good cause your right eye is off the charts.
So I buy the prescription glasses and I can see great.
Even without glasses I can see great but if I close my left eye it's a mess.
So I meet a chick who is very smart.
One of those stay at home moms who went to university at 30 years old and was a ...[text shortened]... m. In ten years I've spent 50 bucks on glasses.
Just bought a new set due to breakage.
Try it out.

Crap eyes
Crap optician (eye doctor)
Crap spectacles
Crap girlfriend (it’s not ‘magnification’ it’s refraction)
Crap sleep
Crap story really...

@rookie54 said
allow me to comment, on yer myopic problems,
i have the vision to help you heal...
we'll pull back the curtains, from yer windows of the soul,
now turn around, while yer wallet i steal...

You forgot to bend him over...

The only "bending over" is you taking it with that horrible chess rating.

Ya I said it. 😘

@patzering said
The only "bending over" is you taking it with that horrible chess rating.

Ya I said it. 😘

Mocking someone’s chess rating is the last stand of the defeated, the ceruse for the pox-faced nobility of e4 and dandy’s glove slap of the spite-check.

Edit: Cor ‘limey guv, yer a 1600er

I'll give ya me glasses bloke and hope it helps ya

Edit.
I like you but I must say it...
When I started chess I had a higher rating than you.
Don't mess with me.
I was here when RHP came online. 😘

2nd edit
I've bought more memberships than anyone!
One time I had to buy 3 in a month!
My lawyer is still working on that one. 😒