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And I think you'd rather try to insult than think or discuss. That's become normal here.

You don't use both your eyes simultaneously?

I know when a pair of expensive glasses twists the world so much that I can't walk straight.

I have a trial lens set and make my own prescriptions. There's nothing confusing about that, especially doing only spherical correction. I have astigmatism but most of the time don't wear glasses, so my brain is used to the astigmatism. The classic (documented centuries ago) mistake that optometrists make is over-correcting for astigmatism on each eye independently.

Laser speckle is a good way to precisely verify your focal lengths and make a prescription, if you don't have a trial lens set.

and if a kid have a big difference between eyes it is very important to get glasses and use them otherwise the brains just starts ignoring the bad eye until it's basically useless and at that point it can't be fixed

Ah, the legendary spotted dick. I don't think it made it to these shores, at least not by that name.

I've had a steak and kidney sort of stew but no pastry was involved. I like it as long as someone else cooks it somewhere else. The aroma of cow piss as it cooks is off-putting.

Almost as dreaded as fruitcake... I liked it as a child but then I also liked candied sweet potatoes. I still like sweet potatoes, but no syrup please.

Do what?

But the setup is head immobile looking at an eye chart. In real life, scenes change and people move around.

I'm nearsighted so only use glasses outdoors, or watching a movie maybe. No glasses for computing or average close work.

They should let people turn the knobs themselves.

I don't want anyone adjusting my face.

Zenni works, and the glasss are so cheap that I can iterate if it's not perfect. That spins off lots of spares.

I suspect that a lot of local glasses stores order Chinese now. But still charge $200 for frames.

Brains do astonishing DSP. Two eyes have much better resolution than one, and our brains correct all sorts of geometric distortions in real time.

I have a lot in one eye but I'm used to it.

California is very sloppy about that. You only need one eye and that doesn't have to be very good.

Zenni works for me. I have a regular bifocal pair and one set up for reading/computer. Bifocal where one is about a foot away and the other takes over around 2 feet for working with the computer.

Nope, you can do it with a wooden mixing spoon in a bowl.

Not sure what you mean by that.

The bread I like isn't available at the grocery store. It costs about $7 for a two-pound loaf at the bakery (unless I go on Mondays and get the senior citizens' discount). It comes out of the oven at about

It's not worth skimping on bread, which is nearly the only starch I eat.

It's hard to compare; I've never looked at the produce at our Costco. We eat apples and bananas. I buy frozen cherries to put in my yogurt.

We don't eat that much meat. For our very occasional beef purchases I'm happy to go to the butcher shop. Costco's skinless, boneless chicken breasts are too big--they're tough and stringy.

Arm and Hammer unscented. It's the only kind we buy.

If I shop the sales, I can get TP as cheaply as at Costco, and its quality is exactly what we want.

Asparagus at the greengrocer when it's local in season.

Isn't that what I said?

When Ronald Reagan was President, the USDA declared that ketchup could be considered a vegetable portion in school lunches. Intense mockery followed.

Sure has. I first bought it at a Mrs. Bridges Pantry, a specialty store in CT with a lot of Brit imports. That goes back maybe 20 years.

I like most anything with raisinsg in it.

Are both positive, magnifiers?

When I had cataract surgery, I elected to stay nearsighted. 17" FL in one eye for computing, 12" in the other for reading.

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Technically, it was Reagan's USDA staff, not the man himself (who had plenty of other flaws, to be sure).

Wrong setup then. As others have said, maybe time for a new ophthalmologist.

Same here.

Most people wouldn't know what to do, and so will not ask.

If the doctors know you, and trust you not to break anything, they often will. I'd been with that particular practice for decades.

I think what I called a refractometer is actually called a Keratometer (measures the cornea). The leitz unit I mentioned is almost fully automated, and yields a map of the corneal surface curvature versus location on the cornea.

Ahh, well, what we must do for Science.

But it may be easier to adjust _for_ your face.

Yes. Actually, the tools to make the adjustments are not all that expensive, and one can do the adjusting oneself. Especially if one can afford to wreck a few pair while learning.

The classic jewelry supplier is Gesswein, who are still very much in business.

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The German-pattern pliers (and nippers) are the traditional Gesswein tools. I have an old Gesswein flat-flat pliers that are very old (made in USA, bought used), and still work just fine. And although they are all steel, they fit my hand perfectly - one could use this old tool all day, hunched over a bench.

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Absolutely. That's why there are so many optometrists.

Joe

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Yes!

I had macular hole surgery a few years back on my dominant eye and the sulfur hexafluoride gas tends to hasten cataract formation. I've been kicking the cataract surgery can down the road so my dominant eye is also the less functional one. That leads to some interesting visual effects.