I get my glasses at Costco. Between VSP and their prices, I am quite pleased.
Nope, because the poll includes an “Other:” That is our :“other” answer.
I think you’re asking how to buy glasses online? Download the Glasses On app and use it to measure your pupillary distance. Go to an online glasses store, create an account and enter your prescription and PD numbers. Find a frame that you like, and then select lens features (bifocals, type of glass, coatings, etc). The price will be significantly lower than anything you’ve bought in a brick&mortar store. My optometrist said the quality of online glasses is not always great, but I’ve bought 5 or 6 pairs online and never noticed any problems. I’ve used https://eyebuydirect.com. https://www.zennioptical.com is also popular.
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I like clicking things but I don’t like coffee 
My answer was “give him first prize”. Because it was someone else’s problem to enforce the dress code. I’m just judging his playing.
Cataracts - see the thread that @enipla started, way back. Mine were done in 2018; I was 59 at the time.
Optional EYE SURGERY like Lasik etc.? EEEEEEEEEKKK. Not that there’s anything wrong with it for people who want to do so, but no. Just… no. My brother had it one year, and did not realize that afterward, basically his “near” vision would be crap. He wears glasses full time now.
If you do develop sufficient cataracts to require surgery, put a lot of thought into your lens options - I spent months agonizing over it, since unlike glasses, implanted lenses are not terribly easy to fix if you find you cannot stand multifocals or whatever. I could NOT adapt to full-on multifocal glasses - the sort where you can read through one section and drive through another. Instant headache.
At the suggestion of the optician (many years back, when we made the no-multifocals discovery), I tried room-distance multifocals. I could read, and I could (mostly) see the TV, but driving was a bad idea - hence the distance-only glasses that lived in the car.
All that led me to choosing a “low-add” implant. I have good distance vision, good intermediate vision (I can now read the car’s dashboard, which I had trouble with before), and I can read MOST stuff if I have sufficient light; reading glasses do make it easier, but I can often get by with using the phone’s flashlight. Cheap reading glasses abound for most other uses; For the computer, the prescription glasses do work better than the cheap readers. I would likely need reading glasses for books, but 99.9% of my reading is on the Kindle (adjustable font, and backlighting).
Slight disagree, we are given the results that they played the best, that they wore the non-compliant clothes. Those are the fixed variables, the poll is about the judging - do you judge by your personal evaluation of the performance only, or by the rules of the competition. Another good “other” option would be to refuse to judge at all and state your reasons.
Again, I lean towards lawful neutral, and my answer is the best -for me only- when it comes to trying to thread the needle between the various layers of “fair” and “just”. And everyone is going to try to do so differently.
Picking an option where we get to change the circumstances of the poll prior to it arriving in our laps is, IMHO fighting the hypothetical. Not that it’s a big deal, we’re not in great debates or anything!
One of the reasons I feel like trying to thread the needle, or a compromise, is that that I want to consider what other performers had to go through to compete. If the runner up was an entitled schmuck who had private lessons every day and was performing in a bespoke custom fitted tux with a $500 haircut and diamond cufflinks, well, I’m certainly going to have a prejudice against them.
But what if the runner-up performance wise is, as an equally exaggerated example, a person of color, who’s had to practice their entire life on a half-tuned piano at the local church, while working three jobs to pay for lessons, rent a tux, and to help out his family? Is it “fair” that they did the extra work to be able to comply with the requirements but their performance fell short?
For that matter, examining our other assumptions and possible prejudice, we only know that the performer who did best is “mentally ill” which we are all (per the posters intent I assume) expecting to account for why they chose to perform in the outfit and condition they did. But perhaps their mental illness had nothing to do with them choosing to dress in that manner and not bathe for a month? Someone can have a mental illness and ALSO be an ass!
ANYWAY, lots of supposition. And we as judges likely will never have all the detailed information on which to make a truly informed, or fair choice. So in the same ways it’s surprising that they were allowed to perform in that condition, it’s equally surprising we were informed that they were mentally ill. Again, I don’t think the convolutions of interpretation were @Velocity’s intent, but that’s a part of what went through my head.
My ophthalmologist’s office would not give me my pupillary distance over the phone, so I visited in person to obtain it. The person behind the desk said it was a $20 fee for me to receive that info. I asked if it was a part of my medical records. She said yes. I said, well, I own my medical records and I would like this part of them. She relented only after checking with the doctor.
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We got married in mid-March. Saint Patrick’s Day, in fact. Technically Winter but it felt like Spring.
Allowing only one choice in the marriage poll leaves out people who have been married more than once.
Luckily I was married in August both times.
I see “more than one” as an option.
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I get married near the equator in October, so for me it was the rainy season. I chose “something else”.
I only counted the good one. I didn’t count my starter marriage.
Early in our relationship my gf asked me to stop at a Walgreens to pick something up for her. The cashier asked for my loyalty card but I did not have one. I gave my gf’s home phone number and it came up. “Oh, you’re Dave”…“No. she has upgraded.”
Re: college camping protest poll…
I need a let them camp until they damage something OR someone is hurt/killed option.
Me too. The key is whether or not they’re really hurting anyone/anything.
College protest poll needs an “Other” option.
As President, I would camp out with the protesters whether I agreed with their position or not, at least for a night or two. I represent all the students and faculty, not just some of them. I represent the community as well, so how can I know what the protesters really feel and how they really think unless I actually, you know, talk with them. Not to them. With them. They need to know that their voices are heard. Doesn’t mean I agree with them or will do anything they want, but I won’t make those decisions out of ignorance or stubbornness.
If I put in an “Other” option for the college protestors’ camp-in, I suspected too many people would pick it, so I omitted it.
For the three means of travel I picked dirigible (because they’re cool), on foot (good exercise) and Other (teleporters, to save everyone a lot of travel time).
I had no idea about in what direction to pass a joint! But then, I don’t smoke them.
As to the slovenly pianist, rules are rules. The other performers were put to the trouble and relative discomfort of dressing up; she should, as well.
I love my coffee hot, sweet and black, just like my Communications officers.
One-option polls are fun and funny. Bring 'em on!
For the kid and parental-blood-types question, I also picked Other. At the time I’d say, “Hmm, that’s an interesting question. I’ll have to look into that.” Then I’d change the subject, and later call the mom and tell her this came up at school. If the kid came looking for me later, I’d say, “You’d probably better discuss this with your mom.”
My wife and I were married on an exceedingly hot, muggy August day in Vermont. This August we’ll hit the 34-year mark!
My response to the kid’s blood type question would probably be something along the lines of “You should ask your parents about that.”