Becky’s strategy of hiding something that you think is weird by distracting them with something even more weird is sound as far as it goes.
The chances of this working for Joyce, however, is just about nill and the glasses currently on her face will not survive a look in the mirror.
Becky’s thought processes relating to the divorce are cynical, possibly not altogether serious, but also undoubtedly shaped from being a strong-willed person used to expressing herself in a repressive environment where she had to go over under around and through in order exert any control or influence on her situation.
Also totally been there on the insurance thing. Nothing sucks more than picking out frames only to learn you can only really choose from like one rack. One thing they don’t tell you about glasses and that they can be stupidly expensive for no justifiable reason at least to me.
I can respect lenses being expensive depending on the prescription.
Frames, however, should never be above $50. My uninformed opinion, of course.
Sirksome
Glasses like a lot of things are also a sort of fashion accessory so you’re really not paying for the function but the design. And of course like any accessory they can put stupid stuff in it like gold or LED’s. Lenses don’t escape it either. Everything from scratch proof, to those transition lenses that are also sunglasses or bifocals or any focals effect the price. It’s a whole industry. Google even tried to do glasses once. I wonder whatever happened to that? It was news for like a week then kinda vanished.
Khyrin
Google Glass is an attempt at Augmented Reality. it’s still available for Enterprise solutions, but as far as I know, the Commercial release was permanently sidelined due to privacy concerns. To wit: People beating Glass users on the street because they thought the user was recording and felt their right to privacy extended to destroying any recording equipment they could see, even if it wasn’t in recording mode.
Jane
In fairness, a decent number of Glasses users were being super-obnoxious about their right to record everything they could see, regardless of whether uncomfortable they were making other people.
Violence might be taking things too far, but building a camera into something that can’t easily be put away without significantly inconveniencing the user was a terrible idea, unless the idea is to ensure a certain set of people get to take creepshots without anyone being able to tell them to knock it off.
Greg
On the street (actually, anywhere beside a private home and/or business) you don’t *have* a right to privacy.
That aside, those glasses are hideous.
Also, fun fact: glasses frames are actually dirt cheap to manufacture. The reason they’re so expensive is that one conglomerate, Luxottica, owns pretty much every goddamned eyewear company in the world, particularly in the US.
Pearl Vision too expensive, so you head over to Lenscrafters? Haha, fuck you, Luxottica owns them both. So go to the internet. Glasses.com? Nice try–it’s Luxottica. Screw it, head over to Target for glasses? Suck it–Luxxotica again!
Yay for Capitalism and the illusion of choice!
Jane
And it’s still rude to go around bars recording things you think might be amusing without the consent of the people present, even if it’s technically legal. Nor is appropriate to follow people you think are attractive in hopes of getting a better picture of them.
If those glasses were to ever go mainstream, we would absolutely need to to revisit legislation regarding the circumstances under which you can record things, because most of our society isn’t built around the idea that you’re being recorded 24/7, and nobody wants their entire life defined by a clip that went viral one time.
I mean, some people did overreact, certainly – but there were an uncomfortable number of people refusing to acknowledge that you really should stop recording when other people ask you to.
Enkrod
This is not necessarily true around the world. In Germany you very much have a right to your own picture even if you are in a public place. People can take a photo of something if you are on the photo but not the center of attention, people can not take a photo that clearly has you as the object of attention without your permission. Even Dashcams are borderline illegal here.
Since Google would want to supply customers around the world, the Google Glass was just a bad idea.
Personally I think that it is a good thing for society if people can tell if someone is recording and that any equipment, that lets you record other people without any obvious sign that you do, is breaking an unwritten societal code of conduct.
Hmm, I ended up going online to find “Harry Potter” prescription ready frames (for an Adrian Seidelman cosplay, actually) and they were dirt cheap while still being pretty decent quality. Can’t try them on until they come in the mail, though! ?
Khyrin
For the record: The idea was you could have, like, schematics overlaid, or a HUD for walking directions. The camera on the modern Enterprise version has its fixed focus set at 0.6m, or just barely at arm’s length, and engages a green LED to indicate when it’s recording. Presumably, these were changes to discourage the taking of “creepshots”.
Bicycle Bill
And you shouldn’t have to pay $300 for a pair of sneakers, and cell phones shouldn’t cost $800 or more. But so long as people are willing to shell out that sort of money, Nike and Apple will keep pricing them that high.
ktbear
Yea, $300 dollars for those shoes some peasant got paid 50c to produce with $2.00 worth of materials. Sounds fair.
cleo
Bruh that’s the realest, I was an optician, they marked up those frames by like 250% what they cost to buy from the manufacturer, and since Luxoticca (Oakley, Ralph Lauren, Ray-Ban, and other brands) corner a huge piece of that market they set the manufacturer cost super high anyways and other brands match that cost. Most frames, even “luxury” frames, are basically the same acetate material as the ones that are fully covered by like, Medicaid. Just a little prettier. Splurge on lenses if your eyes are pretty messed up, but I will never buy frames from an optical clinic again.
Frames at most optometrists are mostly ~designer~. You can get glasses online for like ten bucks.
crow
I’m so used to glasses being at least $100 that the online ones seem like a scam.
shpanda4354
Please recognize the stockholm syndrome of expensive healthcare. Purchasing online glasses is a freeing experience. I can vouch for Zenni being a legitimate business.
Needfuldoer
But are their frames any good? I’d get a cheap spare from them to keep in the car as long as they’re sturdier than $5 drugstore readers.
Hilzabub
Mostly they are. Sometimes not, but the number of times I’ve wound up with a bad pair matches my rate of issues with the expensive ones from the stores. It’s just that I can afford to buy glasses a lot more frequently these days because of online sites.
My kids need glasses, and I buy two pairs at a time so when they break one I’ve got a spare on hand, and it’s still much cheaper than buying one pair at the optician/optical store.
zee
I can vouch for glassesshop. Both frames i got were sturdy despite being thin and the lenses were high quality
Blindness
the issue with it is in comfort and how they affect your vision beyond correction: you buy them online but you don’t know how they fit on your face or how they are around your periphery. It’s “cheaper” but you might actually be spending money on something that you can’t wear because they don’t fit!
vlanoik
I’ve heard people praise finding a frame they like at a store, finding out the name/ID of it and finding those same frames online for less
zee
That’s why glasses websites give exact measurements and have tutorials on how to measure your face. You end up getting ones that fit better that what you get in person
cleo
Another optician hack – most places will adjust frames even if you’ve never bought glasses from them, they just might make you sign a form saying they can’t replace them if they break during adjustment. I stan Zenni.
Sirksome
I’ve never been able to order a set of frames online. My prescription is so strong the frames have to be custom made. Apparently a jail somewhere on the east coast according to my optometrist.
Delicious Taffy
That’s a certain sort of awesome. But also terrible?
brute
same boat :/ eyes are too fucked for cheap frames.
woobie
Empty frames, maybe.
Cholma
Frames are expensive because, just like diamonds, ONE company has bought out all the other companies or used their leverage to bully optometrists so they won’t offer the cheaper options. It’s disgusting. The best pair of frames I ever had was a $30 pair I bought in South Korea in the 1980s. Just kept replacing the lenses as needed. I was so pissed when I lost them in an car accident in 2013.
Brian
I know what you mean. My mom got an eye exam and they made her buy glasses from them on her insurance (which cost the insurance company something like $600). I get my glasses from Zenni Optical (search Google). This isn’t an ad, but I feel like people should know about this. My frames were like $7 and the prescription itself only cost about $24 or so, and with shipping it came up to $38. It came with UV protection, blue-blocker, scratch resistance and a hydrophobic coating for easy cleaning. You can also get transition lenses for like $40 more. Whenever I talk to anyone about their glasses, they keep saying that they could have bought the same pair for about $300 or something ridiculous like that.
Uly
The frames, maybe, but the lenses will still cost.
Why in the world are you all relying on insurance for glasses? o_O I’ve always paid for those out of pocket. It’s no different from buying a phone or a computer for me.
Delicious Taffy
People are broke, Lurker.
clif
Even more people just barely getting by than normal. I can plunk down a couple of thousand for a computer now and not think a lot about it, but for most of my life that simply wasn’t true. When people are in college or just out, the budget doesn’t stretch that far.
TheLurkerAbove
That’s awful though. 🙁
Rainhat
Wow, you don’t actually have to RP as your Gravitar.
Uly
…I don’t casually buy new phones and computers either.
Wizard
Insurance should cover large, unpredictable expenses. Routine, easily predicted expenses should be paid out of pocket. You know you need an eye exam every year, so it should be part of your regular budget. Paying through insurance just adds a layer of administration and reduces the incentive to shop around for the best value. Both of these factors drive up costs.
brute
yeah, you don’t get to decide what people “should” do with their expenses. you don’t know any of us, our lives, or our financial situations.
also, as people have said, shopping around isn’t an option for specialized prescriptions. stop blaming consumers for shitty situations created by corporations.
Uly
Funny, people in countries with universal healthcare don’t get gouged as much as Americans.
Huehuetotl
Having people by the short hairs is what drives up the price.
Huehuetotl
“Reduces the incentive to shop around for the best value”. There shouldn’t be a need to shop around for the best value. And it’s nothing like buying a computer or phone, where the prices are very clearly posted, and not hidden behind some byzantine bait-and-switch. And also doing so while its difficult to see small print, because you’re looking for an actual medical device, not a gaming platform.
thejeff
The problem with that approach with healthcare in particular is that it disincentivizes people from getting that routine preventative care, since they have to pay out of pocket.
This leads to things not getting caught early or prevented entirely and thus costs much more overall than covering the routine care does.
And in this case in particular it makes no sense at all – we’re talking about buying glasses, not the exam. Should Joyce have budgeted for glasses when she didn’t even know she had vision problems? On a college student’s budget?
crow
So insulin shouldn’t be covered?
Ava-Ann
Also it costs more the more blind you are…. Seriously those deals you see on TV don’t apply if your lens are basically coke bottles
Cholma
No kidding! I was shocked at how much more expensive my lenses got when he doc switched me from single prescription to Progressive lenses. (modern form on bi-focals) OUCH.
Azhrei Vep
If you’ve GOT the insurance, why not?
Moonie
r/ihavemoney
“Relying on insurance”… are you not from here? In the US we generally pay an arm and a leg for insurance. The whole POINT is using it.
TheLurkerAbove
Not in USA, yea. Insurance doesn’t cover it, and if I asked my agent about it I’d probably get laughed at.
Oh man, there’s a great Adam Ruins Everything episode that goes into how a single company owns 80% of the eyewear industry and essentially sets the prices.
(Snopes points out there’s not enough evidence to be sure of the 80% number but that the company does own a massive chunk of the market)
Cholma
Yep. I haven’t seen that ep (but Adam has good vids) but I knew about the monoply. Eyeglass Frame prices are artificially inflated just like the price of diamonds and insulin.
Join the (US) military.
Free glasses, but BC frames only.
Cholma
Shortly before I ETS’d in 1992, they started offering TWO frame options: the classic black “nerd”/”birth control” frames, OR the same thing but in BROWN! 😀
If one’s partner is aiming there, I don’t think one needs to worry about birth control. Severe stinging, perhaps. I suppose the glasses might help shield one from that at least.
brionl
The point of “Birth Control Glasses” is that if you wear them, you don’t have to worry about BC, ’cause you ain’t getting laid.
Wizard
I’ve also heard them called RPGs: Rape Prevention Glasses.
King Daniel
That…is a pretty awful name.
Demoted Oblivious
This is by folks who have, for one reason or another, agreed to commit egregious violence on behalf of (and only on the orders of) their government in exchange for pay. That is what I had to agree to at least, and I imagine their contract isn’t too different. Bleak, dark humor, like your own blood drying on the windswept rocks of a desolate island, kind of goes hand in hand with the job description.
thejeff
Both of those names also go back decades. Probably to the 60s for the BCG. A much less sensitive time.
They were officially “RPG” for “Regulation Prescription Glasses” at one point and with the Birth Control joke already around the rape version was basically inevitable.
Rose by Any Other Name
@brionl
Yeah, I got that. And I decided to reply with a joke where I took that moderately crass and entirely inaccurate term to its logical conclusion. Because that’s what I like doing.
Making jokes about sex acts, I mean. I don’t think anyone likes getting jizz in their eyes.
It’s all about ordering them online! There’s zenni, glassesusa, and many more, where you’ll get the entire thing that you put on your face (frames, lenses, coatings, shipping) for $70 or less.
What the hell Becky?! Joyce’s eye’s are gorgeous and expressive. Why would you denigrate her like that or _ever_ attempt to distract from them? I thought you were her friend!?
Besides that, Joyce loves sweatervests! (Or at least she did last season/semester.) Calling Dorothy’s reserved frame choice “the sweatervest of glasses” isn’t exactly damning.
(Unless that’s her way of approving the suggestion her “nEmEsIs” made… I liked those on Joyce so I’ll go with that theory.)
249 thoughts on “Eyeballs”
Ana Chronistic
cool of Joyce to just try them on anyway like they don’t make her look like a Powerpuff Girl character
Johan
She’s be a puff villain. No foods can touch ever.
clif
There seems to be several levels to this.
Becky’s strategy of hiding something that you think is weird by distracting them with something even more weird is sound as far as it goes.
The chances of this working for Joyce, however, is just about nill and the glasses currently on her face will not survive a look in the mirror.
Becky’s thought processes relating to the divorce are cynical, possibly not altogether serious, but also undoubtedly shaped from being a strong-willed person used to expressing herself in a repressive environment where she had to go over under around and through in order exert any control or influence on her situation.
Needfuldoer
They’re like a red version of Phoebe Heyerdahl’s glasses, or maybe Amber’s.
Pylgrim
More like a BtAS character.
Sirksome
Sorry Becky but those glasses do not suit Joyce at all! Personal opinion of course.
Chris
I think that’s the point.
Reltzik
They look like Becky drew glasses on a photo of Joyce with a red pen. … which is basically what this is.
Sirksome
Also totally been there on the insurance thing. Nothing sucks more than picking out frames only to learn you can only really choose from like one rack. One thing they don’t tell you about glasses and that they can be stupidly expensive for no justifiable reason at least to me.
Katosen27
I can respect lenses being expensive depending on the prescription.
Frames, however, should never be above $50. My uninformed opinion, of course.
Sirksome
Glasses like a lot of things are also a sort of fashion accessory so you’re really not paying for the function but the design. And of course like any accessory they can put stupid stuff in it like gold or LED’s. Lenses don’t escape it either. Everything from scratch proof, to those transition lenses that are also sunglasses or bifocals or any focals effect the price. It’s a whole industry. Google even tried to do glasses once. I wonder whatever happened to that? It was news for like a week then kinda vanished.
Khyrin
Google Glass is an attempt at Augmented Reality. it’s still available for Enterprise solutions, but as far as I know, the Commercial release was permanently sidelined due to privacy concerns. To wit: People beating Glass users on the street because they thought the user was recording and felt their right to privacy extended to destroying any recording equipment they could see, even if it wasn’t in recording mode.
Jane
In fairness, a decent number of Glasses users were being super-obnoxious about their right to record everything they could see, regardless of whether uncomfortable they were making other people.
Violence might be taking things too far, but building a camera into something that can’t easily be put away without significantly inconveniencing the user was a terrible idea, unless the idea is to ensure a certain set of people get to take creepshots without anyone being able to tell them to knock it off.
Greg
On the street (actually, anywhere beside a private home and/or business) you don’t *have* a right to privacy.
That aside, those glasses are hideous.
Also, fun fact: glasses frames are actually dirt cheap to manufacture. The reason they’re so expensive is that one conglomerate, Luxottica, owns pretty much every goddamned eyewear company in the world, particularly in the US.
Pearl Vision too expensive, so you head over to Lenscrafters? Haha, fuck you, Luxottica owns them both. So go to the internet. Glasses.com? Nice try–it’s Luxottica. Screw it, head over to Target for glasses? Suck it–Luxxotica again!
Yay for Capitalism and the illusion of choice!
Jane
And it’s still rude to go around bars recording things you think might be amusing without the consent of the people present, even if it’s technically legal. Nor is appropriate to follow people you think are attractive in hopes of getting a better picture of them.
If those glasses were to ever go mainstream, we would absolutely need to to revisit legislation regarding the circumstances under which you can record things, because most of our society isn’t built around the idea that you’re being recorded 24/7, and nobody wants their entire life defined by a clip that went viral one time.
I mean, some people did overreact, certainly – but there were an uncomfortable number of people refusing to acknowledge that you really should stop recording when other people ask you to.
Enkrod
This is not necessarily true around the world. In Germany you very much have a right to your own picture even if you are in a public place. People can take a photo of something if you are on the photo but not the center of attention, people can not take a photo that clearly has you as the object of attention without your permission. Even Dashcams are borderline illegal here.
Since Google would want to supply customers around the world, the Google Glass was just a bad idea.
Personally I think that it is a good thing for society if people can tell if someone is recording and that any equipment, that lets you record other people without any obvious sign that you do, is breaking an unwritten societal code of conduct.
Ana Chronistic
Hmm, I ended up going online to find “Harry Potter” prescription ready frames (for an Adrian Seidelman cosplay, actually) and they were dirt cheap while still being pretty decent quality. Can’t try them on until they come in the mail, though! ?
Khyrin
For the record: The idea was you could have, like, schematics overlaid, or a HUD for walking directions. The camera on the modern Enterprise version has its fixed focus set at 0.6m, or just barely at arm’s length, and engages a green LED to indicate when it’s recording. Presumably, these were changes to discourage the taking of “creepshots”.
Bicycle Bill
And you shouldn’t have to pay $300 for a pair of sneakers, and cell phones shouldn’t cost $800 or more. But so long as people are willing to shell out that sort of money, Nike and Apple will keep pricing them that high.
ktbear
Yea, $300 dollars for those shoes some peasant got paid 50c to produce with $2.00 worth of materials. Sounds fair.
cleo
Bruh that’s the realest, I was an optician, they marked up those frames by like 250% what they cost to buy from the manufacturer, and since Luxoticca (Oakley, Ralph Lauren, Ray-Ban, and other brands) corner a huge piece of that market they set the manufacturer cost super high anyways and other brands match that cost. Most frames, even “luxury” frames, are basically the same acetate material as the ones that are fully covered by like, Medicaid. Just a little prettier. Splurge on lenses if your eyes are pretty messed up, but I will never buy frames from an optical clinic again.
not someone else
Frames at most optometrists are mostly ~designer~. You can get glasses online for like ten bucks.
crow
I’m so used to glasses being at least $100 that the online ones seem like a scam.
shpanda4354
Please recognize the stockholm syndrome of expensive healthcare. Purchasing online glasses is a freeing experience. I can vouch for Zenni being a legitimate business.
Needfuldoer
But are their frames any good? I’d get a cheap spare from them to keep in the car as long as they’re sturdier than $5 drugstore readers.
Hilzabub
Mostly they are. Sometimes not, but the number of times I’ve wound up with a bad pair matches my rate of issues with the expensive ones from the stores. It’s just that I can afford to buy glasses a lot more frequently these days because of online sites.
My kids need glasses, and I buy two pairs at a time so when they break one I’ve got a spare on hand, and it’s still much cheaper than buying one pair at the optician/optical store.
zee
I can vouch for glassesshop. Both frames i got were sturdy despite being thin and the lenses were high quality
Blindness
the issue with it is in comfort and how they affect your vision beyond correction: you buy them online but you don’t know how they fit on your face or how they are around your periphery. It’s “cheaper” but you might actually be spending money on something that you can’t wear because they don’t fit!
vlanoik
I’ve heard people praise finding a frame they like at a store, finding out the name/ID of it and finding those same frames online for less
zee
That’s why glasses websites give exact measurements and have tutorials on how to measure your face. You end up getting ones that fit better that what you get in person
cleo
Another optician hack – most places will adjust frames even if you’ve never bought glasses from them, they just might make you sign a form saying they can’t replace them if they break during adjustment. I stan Zenni.
Sirksome
I’ve never been able to order a set of frames online. My prescription is so strong the frames have to be custom made. Apparently a jail somewhere on the east coast according to my optometrist.
Delicious Taffy
That’s a certain sort of awesome. But also terrible?
brute
same boat :/ eyes are too fucked for cheap frames.
woobie
Empty frames, maybe.
Cholma
Frames are expensive because, just like diamonds, ONE company has bought out all the other companies or used their leverage to bully optometrists so they won’t offer the cheaper options. It’s disgusting. The best pair of frames I ever had was a $30 pair I bought in South Korea in the 1980s. Just kept replacing the lenses as needed. I was so pissed when I lost them in an car accident in 2013.
Brian
I know what you mean. My mom got an eye exam and they made her buy glasses from them on her insurance (which cost the insurance company something like $600). I get my glasses from Zenni Optical (search Google). This isn’t an ad, but I feel like people should know about this. My frames were like $7 and the prescription itself only cost about $24 or so, and with shipping it came up to $38. It came with UV protection, blue-blocker, scratch resistance and a hydrophobic coating for easy cleaning. You can also get transition lenses for like $40 more. Whenever I talk to anyone about their glasses, they keep saying that they could have bought the same pair for about $300 or something ridiculous like that.
Uly
The frames, maybe, but the lenses will still cost.
SuperZero
Did you know some people can see for free? Wild.
clif
Unamerican.
Sam
This checks out because I’m Scottish, not American.
TheLurkerAbove
Why in the world are you all relying on insurance for glasses? o_O I’ve always paid for those out of pocket. It’s no different from buying a phone or a computer for me.
Delicious Taffy
People are broke, Lurker.
clif
Even more people just barely getting by than normal. I can plunk down a couple of thousand for a computer now and not think a lot about it, but for most of my life that simply wasn’t true. When people are in college or just out, the budget doesn’t stretch that far.
TheLurkerAbove
That’s awful though. 🙁
Rainhat
Wow, you don’t actually have to RP as your Gravitar.
Uly
…I don’t casually buy new phones and computers either.
Wizard
Insurance should cover large, unpredictable expenses. Routine, easily predicted expenses should be paid out of pocket. You know you need an eye exam every year, so it should be part of your regular budget. Paying through insurance just adds a layer of administration and reduces the incentive to shop around for the best value. Both of these factors drive up costs.
brute
yeah, you don’t get to decide what people “should” do with their expenses. you don’t know any of us, our lives, or our financial situations.
also, as people have said, shopping around isn’t an option for specialized prescriptions. stop blaming consumers for shitty situations created by corporations.
Uly
Funny, people in countries with universal healthcare don’t get gouged as much as Americans.
Huehuetotl
Having people by the short hairs is what drives up the price.
Huehuetotl
“Reduces the incentive to shop around for the best value”. There shouldn’t be a need to shop around for the best value. And it’s nothing like buying a computer or phone, where the prices are very clearly posted, and not hidden behind some byzantine bait-and-switch. And also doing so while its difficult to see small print, because you’re looking for an actual medical device, not a gaming platform.
thejeff
The problem with that approach with healthcare in particular is that it disincentivizes people from getting that routine preventative care, since they have to pay out of pocket.
This leads to things not getting caught early or prevented entirely and thus costs much more overall than covering the routine care does.
And in this case in particular it makes no sense at all – we’re talking about buying glasses, not the exam. Should Joyce have budgeted for glasses when she didn’t even know she had vision problems? On a college student’s budget?
crow
So insulin shouldn’t be covered?
Ava-Ann
Also it costs more the more blind you are…. Seriously those deals you see on TV don’t apply if your lens are basically coke bottles
Cholma
No kidding! I was shocked at how much more expensive my lenses got when he doc switched me from single prescription to Progressive lenses. (modern form on bi-focals) OUCH.
Azhrei Vep
If you’ve GOT the insurance, why not?
Moonie
r/ihavemoney
“Relying on insurance”… are you not from here? In the US we generally pay an arm and a leg for insurance. The whole POINT is using it.
TheLurkerAbove
Not in USA, yea. Insurance doesn’t cover it, and if I asked my agent about it I’d probably get laughed at.
Bogeywoman
Oh man, there’s a great Adam Ruins Everything episode that goes into how a single company owns 80% of the eyewear industry and essentially sets the prices.
(Snopes points out there’s not enough evidence to be sure of the 80% number but that the company does own a massive chunk of the market)
Cholma
Yep. I haven’t seen that ep (but Adam has good vids) but I knew about the monoply. Eyeglass Frame prices are artificially inflated just like the price of diamonds and insulin.
woobie
Join the (US) military.
Free glasses, but BC frames only.
Cholma
Shortly before I ETS’d in 1992, they started offering TWO frame options: the classic black “nerd”/”birth control” frames, OR the same thing but in BROWN! 😀
Rose by Any Other Name
**opens mouth**
**closes mouth**
**clears throat**
If one’s partner is aiming there, I don’t think one needs to worry about birth control. Severe stinging, perhaps. I suppose the glasses might help shield one from that at least.
brionl
The point of “Birth Control Glasses” is that if you wear them, you don’t have to worry about BC, ’cause you ain’t getting laid.
Wizard
I’ve also heard them called RPGs: Rape Prevention Glasses.
King Daniel
That…is a pretty awful name.
Demoted Oblivious
This is by folks who have, for one reason or another, agreed to commit egregious violence on behalf of (and only on the orders of) their government in exchange for pay. That is what I had to agree to at least, and I imagine their contract isn’t too different. Bleak, dark humor, like your own blood drying on the windswept rocks of a desolate island, kind of goes hand in hand with the job description.
thejeff
Both of those names also go back decades. Probably to the 60s for the BCG. A much less sensitive time.
They were officially “RPG” for “Regulation Prescription Glasses” at one point and with the Birth Control joke already around the rape version was basically inevitable.
Rose by Any Other Name
@brionl
Yeah, I got that. And I decided to reply with a joke where I took that moderately crass and entirely inaccurate term to its logical conclusion. Because that’s what I like doing.
Making jokes about sex acts, I mean. I don’t think anyone likes getting jizz in their eyes.
UnfrozenNeanderthal
The answer is ‘because capitalism’. Eyeglasses are pretty well monopolized
misanthropope
there are no monopolies in capitalism! competition! unregulated free markets, look FREEDUM IS RIGHT IN THE NAME.
TrueVCU
Luxxotica demands sacrifice
Leorale
It’s all about ordering them online! There’s zenni, glassesusa, and many more, where you’ll get the entire thing that you put on your face (frames, lenses, coatings, shipping) for $70 or less.
Demoted Oblivious
What the hell Becky?! Joyce’s eye’s are gorgeous and expressive. Why would you denigrate her like that or _ever_ attempt to distract from them? I thought you were her friend!?
Needfuldoer
Besides that, Joyce loves sweatervests! (Or at least she did last season/semester.) Calling Dorothy’s reserved frame choice “the sweatervest of glasses” isn’t exactly damning.
(Unless that’s her way of approving the suggestion her “nEmEsIs” made… I liked those on Joyce so I’ll go with that theory.)
StClair