No I don’t know but why spurge for those when I can get a functioning pair of shades at the dollar store?
How do you feel about leather jackets worn indoors? Same iconic rock star look, don’t need a jacket indoors?
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.
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?
There are no bad reasons to hate on Bono.
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).
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”.
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.
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.
I think I read somewhere that the reason Ad-Rock (Beastie Boys) wears sunglasses when he’s performing is because he has photosensitive epilepsy.
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.
: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?
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.”
Thanks for validating my post and opinion.
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.
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.