Serious question about prescription lenses

[VonBonfire]

Is there some reason when a person who wears prescription lenses decides to chew someone's ass that they feel compelled to remove their glasses to make eye contact? I don't wear glasses and was even turned down for a job mopping up at my local lens crafters once but is there something that prevents a person from directing a hot tempered glare at someone when you are wearing them? What's up with that? Anyone? Is it just for theatrics or do prescription lenses dial back the intensity of the wearer or something? I have noticed this over and over again.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Theatrics.

 

[VonBonfire]

Theatrics.

Yeah but it was always happening in very serious settings. I horsed around at college because that's what everyone else was doing and worked in the drama department for a side gig (read: GAAAAAY) and the head drama guy never removed his glasses in anger once. He was a little more conservative minded than most of the rest of the other people working there though so maybe that was part of it. I feel like people who do this sense some obstruction in their lenses that blocks full eye contact but a quality pair seem perfectly transparent to me.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Yeah but it was always happening in very serious settings. I horsed around at college because that's what everyone else was doing and worked in the drama department for a side gig (read: GAAAAAY) and the head drama guy never removed his glasses in anger once. He was a little more conservative minded than most of the rest of the other people working there though so maybe that was part of it. I feel like people who do this sense some obstruction in their lenses that blocks full eye contact but a quality pair seem perfectly transparent to me.

I think drama teachers or actors invented it bro.

 

[shar-vell Dan]

 

[VonBonfire]

I think drama teachers or actors invented it bro.

Got it. So my boss was just trying to break the mold I guess. Man was that guy ever serious about pointing lights around. Talk about tedious.

 

[70 Mach 1]

I Ieave my glasses on for verbal assaults but i do slam my hat on the floor and kick it

 

[VonBonfire]

I Ieave my glaases on for verbal assaults but i do slam my hat on the floor and kick it

Maybe it's just mostly a thing among educators since I have seen so many do it. But my dad was an educator and didn't seem to have a problem whooping our asses with his glasses on. He bitchslapped me clean over sideways one time and his glasses even didn't budge. Thought the dude had closed fist punched me. It was April though and tax season was on. Dude had alcoholic level rage every year around that time since he was also an accountant.

 

[70 Mach 1]

Besides the drama effect it may be a far sided thing where its easier for them to see.

I wear glasses. I only take them off for things close up.

Which is a pain in the ass.

If im gapping my points i take them off to see the little screws. To read the dwell meter i put them back on.

Non stop. On and off all day.

Then I'll usually sit or step on them before the job is done. Which im very good at doing lol

 

[VonBonfire]

Besides the drama effect it may be a far sided thing where its easier for them to see.

I wear glasses. I only take them off for things close up.

Which is a pain in the ass.

If im gapping my points i take them off to see the little screws. To read the dwell meter i put them back on.

Non stop. On and off all day.

Then I'll usually sit or step on them before the job is done. Which im very good at doing lol

Copy that. Only thing I'm not getting is what the little screws you are talking about have to do with crapping your pants? All my jeans are riveted, not screwed. If they had screws I would definitely hold back on the red loc-tite unless I couldn't keep them from backing out. What brand do you wear?

 

[Bad Brain]

Is there some reason when a person who wears prescription lenses decides to chew someone's ass that they feel compelled to remove their glasses to make eye contact?

Okay, so what did you do this time VB?

 

[VonBonfire]

Okay, so what did you do this time VB?

I didn't remove my shades when someone else was chewing my ass.

 

[Dan Gleesak]

I think it is strictly for effect. This guys podcast wouldn’t be the same without it

 

[rsm]

it's in case it gets physical, glasses are expensive and are easily damaged.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Another possibility is reading glasses. If they are looking at something close up they need the glasses. When it's time to give the old " I will kill you" stare to someone a few feet away those glasses no longer help you see. They make everything like you're on acid.

 

[Wetordry]

I look over the top of them when you might consider to stfu.
Taking them off seems like wasted energy.
Reading glasses, not as costly as prescriptions.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I look over the top of them when you might consider to stfu.
Taking them off seems like wasted energy.
Reading glasses, not as costly as prescriptions.

When I am at the pad and likely to be fucking around on a computer or phone or reading a book or when I am at work, in the truck and likely to be doing the computer work they are hanging low on my nose. When I address someone I will peer over the top of them. I had perfect vision my whole life and I still have perfect vision if it's more than a few feet from my face. I can read signs from a long way off. In the last couple years I have noticed my arms are too short. It's very frustrating.

 

[paulyc]

Besides the drama effect it may be a far sided thing where its easier for them to see.

I wear glasses. I only take them off for things close up.

Which is a pain in the ass.

If im gapping my points i take them off to see the little screws. To read the dwell meter i put them back on.

Non stop. On and off all day.

Then I'll usually sit or step on them before the job is done. Which im very good at doing lol

Maybe convert to electronic ignition ? It’s not the 60s or the 70s anymore…

 

[Floyd Eye]

Maybe convert to electronic ignition ? It’s not the 60s or the 70s anymore…

While I love a nice, vintage muscle car with a big fat Holley on top, I agree. Fuck points man. Change the distributor and be done with it.

 

[paulyc]

While I love a nice, vintage muscle car with a big fat Holley on top, I agree. Fuck points man. Change the distributor and be done with it.

Those Pertronix kits you don’t even change the distributor. Still looks stock.