What was the deal with monocles?

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[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord]
I wait for the day I meet a person with glasses fastened as a piercing on the face. I’m betting that somebody has done this, but I want to see it in person.
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Pince nez! Pince! Not pierce!

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I suspect your problem is with the “for a day or so” rather than the one good eye. I use monocular contact lenses - one for distance and one for close work (I am very short sighted in both eyes and now I have presbyopia :smack: ). I was warned about possible problems with depth perception while wearing the lenses but, after a little, while I have had no problem. As noted by minor7flat5 there are plenty of other clues used when building up a 3-D view of the world.

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Ever since I started getting nearsighted, at age 12, I have had different vision in each eye. At first, my right eye was fine, and my left got nearsighted. Later on, I developed astigmatism in my left eye, but the right is still just nearsighted.

My depth perception is not very good, and I can’t see those “Magic Eye” pictures.

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[QUOTE=Derleth]
Pince nez! Pince! Not pierce!
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A pince-nez can’t be used used by mounting it in a piercing. I meant what I said. I await the day I see it in person. Should I have said in a person?

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[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord]
Watching Hogan’s Heroes I saw the proper way it was used in many episodes. Kernal Klink would use it properly, while if asked it’s proper use, Sergent Schultz would say “I know nothing. Nothing!”
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The only reason I opened this thread was to see when the first Colonel Klink reference came along. And I’m sure the spelling was just a pun of some kind. :wink:

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[QUOTE=Chez Guevara]
Additionally, I’m currently working on a routine in which I get the bill/check and feign surprise at the amount I am expected to pay. I then raise an eyebrow, thus causing the monocle to fall majestically into what remains of my dessert.

The eyepiece is retained by a cord to prevent accidents such as you describe but the length of the cord only caters for standing-up surprises, hence the difficulties I’m experiencing in perfecting the sketch without damage to the monocle.
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Dorothy Sayers’ fictional character Lord Peter Wimsey famously wears a monocle. According to the trivia for the BBC production of Strong Poison:

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
It’s not unusual for people to have different vision in each eye. My daughter needs correction in her left eye, but has bad vision in her right. She wears glasses, but a monocle woudl do.<snip>
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Is this a variant of the old saying, “Blind in one eye and can’t see out the other?” :smack:

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Everyone has a dominant eye, either left or right, which they subconsciously use to carry most of the visual workload.

As one grows older, a reading monocle for that dominant eye is an option.