# I irrationally hate Bono and Lenny Kravitz because they wear sunglasses indoors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475 "2019-01-27T09:25:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/21 "2019-01-28T05:57:22Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’ve always wondered if tinted contacts could help with light sensitivities. Anyone know? No I don’t know but why spurge for those when I can get a functioning pair of shades at the dollar store? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/22 "2019-01-28T13:27:31Z")
> [@nate](#): > > I do. I’ll never get over it and I’ll never change my mind. Fuck anyone who wears sunglasses as part of their image. Except ZZ-top, I guess I never cared if they did for some reason. > > And don’t give me some excuse about Bono’s sensitive eyes. It doesn’t make a difference to me. > > But I don’t know why. There are plenty of pop stars that I don’t particularly like but I don’t have a visceral reaction to them like those two I mentioned. How do you feel about leather jackets worn indoors? Same iconic rock star look, don’t need a jacket indoors? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/23 "2019-01-28T15:12:05Z")
Bonno is a pretentious wanker whether he wears his glasses all the time or not. It’s sufficient to hate him for that. And as for using glaucoma as an excuse - I’ve had it for 30 years and I don’t go around in sunglasses indoors. And I don’t use it as an excuse to smoke pot. They have prescription medicines and everything. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/24 "2019-01-28T16:07:48Z")
There must be a dozen movie set in the 80’s that feature movie posters with some ‘cool’ 80’s douchebag(s) (often a defenseless child) with a popped collar and sunglasses. Sometimes peering over the tops of sunglasses. Those posters fill me with a mindless overwhelming rage. I want to rip those sunglasses off their smug faces and shout, ‘you look like a douchebag, you are not COOL at ALL.’ ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/25 "2019-01-28T16:59:26Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > There must be a dozen movie set in the 80’s that feature movie posters with some ‘cool’ 80’s douchebag(s) (often a defenseless child) with a popped collar and sunglasses. Sometimes peering over the tops of sunglasses. Those posters fill me with a mindless overwhelming rage. I want to rip those sunglasses off their smug faces and shout, ‘you look like a douchebag, you are not COOL at ALL.’ Envy, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/26 "2019-01-28T17:07:43Z")
There are no bad reasons to hate on Bono. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/27 "2019-01-28T17:41:27Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > How do you feel about leather jackets worn indoors? Same iconic rock star look, don’t need a jacket indoors? If you worked in the meat locker that is my office you would.😛 I too find sunglasses worn indoors to be incredibly obnoxious. The fact that Bono is a sanctimonious twat is another matter. I haven’t noticed LK doing it but he seems like he might have the mojo to pull it off in certain situations. If folks here with glaucoma say they need them, then I’m in no position to challenge that. It wouldn’t occur to me because the few people I’ve know that have it don’t do this (nor do they use marijuana for that purpose). ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/28 "2019-01-28T18:19:15Z")
This reminds me of a stupid incident involving an old friend and his frat brother. They were watching a show with (if you live under a rock and were unaware, a blind musician named) Jose Feliciano, known for always wearing dark shades while performing. My friend noticed that he wasn’t wearing them. His frat brother, not missing a beat, says “He probably bought contacts”. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/29 "2019-01-28T19:10:12Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’ve always wondered if tinted contacts could help with light sensitivities. Anyone know? I know. I had an optometrist recommend these. Proper ones are created by a company specializing in contact lenses for people like athletes who might get hit with stadium lights while trying to complete a play. A regular tinted lens, such as those you can buy online, won’t work. I did get a pair to see how it would work. They did help. My eyes also turned into deep pits of despair (entirely black for the iris and pupil), and thoroughly freaked out my special needs son. The lenses are made from a thicker material than normal these days, so I found them uncomfortable. I would have adjusted, but my son’s reaction made it difficult to continue. If anyone is interested in getting professional lenses made, please PM and I’ll dig up the info. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/30 "2019-01-29T06:31:12Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Envy, perhaps? Most certainly. It must be a sad existence indeed to be filled with such seething rage over someone else’s fashion choises. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/31 "2019-01-29T06:42:37Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Most certainly. It must be a sad existence indeed to be filled with such seething rage over someone else’s fashion choises. The movie posters. Of the 80’s. Must be a dozen. Each one featuring a DOUCHEBAG wearing SUNGLASSES, looking smug, thinking he looks cool. If there’s any envy here, it’s emanating in visible stink lines from you, since you defend such a pathetic trope with fawning vigor. Save up for those Ray-Bans, and you, too, may strut the streets like a wanna-be Tom Cruise. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/32 "2019-01-29T07:57:08Z")
I think I read somewhere that the reason Ad-Rock (Beastie Boys) wears sunglasses when he’s performing is because he has photosensitive epilepsy. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/33 "2019-01-29T12:07:51Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > The movie posters. Of the 80’s. Must be a dozen. Each one featuring a DOUCHEBAG wearing SUNGLASSES, looking smug, thinking he looks cool. If there’s any envy here, it’s emanating in visible stink lines from you, since you defend such a pathetic trope with fawning vigor. Save up for those Ray-Bans, and you, too, may strut the streets like a wanna-be Tom Cruise. It’s a fashion choice. And plenty of very non-douchebag characters/actors wore sunglasses in movie posters in the '80s. And I agree that anyone who gets actually has negative feelings for someone over fashion choices (excluding those deliberately chosen for racism/violent political ideology/etc.) has a problem or at least is someone I don’t want to be around. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/34 "2019-01-29T17:14:20Z")
:smack: OK. I am hollering down a rain barrel. Duh. Derp. I give up. I would hope you would be putting me on with missing the point completely, but I fear you just. don’t. GET it. That’s just plain sad, but not unknown here on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/35 "2019-01-29T20:51:10Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > :smack: OK. I am hollering down a rain barrel. Duh. Derp. I give up. I would hope you would be putting me on with missing the point completely, but I fear you just. don’t. GET it. That’s just plain sad, but not unknown here on the board. So your point is that the unnamed actors who appear in unnamed movie posters you’ve seen from long ago wearing sunglasses are douchebags. Did I miss anything, or does that pretty much sum it up? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/36 "2019-01-30T07:55:12Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > It might ease your burden if you instead hated Lenny Kravitz for what he did to American Woman. I’m all for him doing covers if that means one less chance that he will be writing lyrics of his own. I have always thought he and his band were terrific on the musical side of the equation, but the words that he chooses to put on top of that terrific music are usually so vacant and uninteresting that I feel dumber for at least a couple of hours afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/37 "2019-01-30T13:54:18Z")
[Relevant letter from _Viz_.](http://viz.co.uk/2014/11/18/letterbocks-7/) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/38 "2019-01-30T17:23:26Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > I’m all for him doing covers if that means one less chance that he will be writing lyrics of his own. I have always thought he and his band were terrific on the musical side of the equation, but the words that he chooses to put on top of that terrific music are usually so vacant and uninteresting that I feel dumber for at least a couple of hours afterward. Oh, come on: “Higher, higher and higher we get. I’ll freak you like a sexolette.” That’s gold! 😉 That’s the only Lenny Kravitz song I have heard that I actually like. But is he really singing “Stop Dragging Around”? It sounds like “stop dagging around” to me. Try as I might, I cannot hear the “r” in “dragging.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/39 "2019-01-30T17:27:57Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > The movie posters. Of the 80’s. Must be a dozen. Each one featuring a DOUCHEBAG wearing SUNGLASSES, looking smug, thinking he looks cool. Thanks for validating my post and opinion. > [@](#): > > If there’s any envy here, it’s emanating in visible stink lines from you, since you defend such a pathetic trope with fawning vigor. Please point to even one example in this thread of me “defending” that trope, much less with fawning vigor. Accusing me of things I didn’t say to (somehow, in your mind) bolster your argument only weakens your case. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475/40 "2019-01-31T09:47:24Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Do they wear them at night? I beg to differ with the majority opinion on this thread. Wearing one’s shades indoors and/or at night has been hip, cool, stylin’, and _soigne_ since at least the late 1940s, and it still is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irrationally-hate-bono-and-lenny-kravitz-because-they-wear-sunglasses-indoors/828475.md?page=3)