14/08/09 DMFA#Filler STOP FALLING APART!

[Turnsky]

As Janus has often said to me.. 

[OminousShadow]

Amber. Take advice from someone that this has happened to before: Do NOT touch ANYTHING. It will only make things worse.

[SuaveIV]

...depending on where you got the glasses, you might just be able to get the frames replaced.

...however, if you feel that it's time to get a full replacement, I suggest you try and get your glasses online. You would still have to get an eye exam elsewhere, but you end up saving quite a bit of cash. But, you have to wait like a month for them to ship to ya...

Zenni Optical

[Jairus]

Quick! Someone track down whoever repaired Devin's arms and get him to rebuild Mason! We can rebuild him! Faster, stronger, better! He is... the six million loonie man! Though that won't get you very far nowadays...

[The_one_who_is_odd]

Huh is it just me or does something happen at the most interesting parts of this comic? And thus a new conspiracy is born

[JackTheCubiWolf]

I had similar problems with my glasses. My one lens kept falling out. Even the slightest touch made it pop out. I ended up lossing it somewhere in my room. Luckly, my next eye doctor appointment is soon. Although, I lost the lens a few months ago. I've been wearing my old pare.

Let's just hope you luck gets better Amber.

[Scarydragon]

Quick! Someone track down whoever repaired Devin's arms and get him to rebuild Mason! We can rebuild him! Faster, stronger, better! He is... the six million loonie man! Though that won't get you very far nowadays...

Ouch, take that Canada!

[TheAuldGrump]

I remember my next to last pair of glass eyeglasses. I came in from the cold to a nice warm room, and one of the lenses exploded when they warmed up. The glasses were still under warranty, so I went and got them replaced... and the same thing happened to my last pair of glass eyeglasses.

The Auld Grump

[Anri]

Ruining Canada? Hum, well, this summer has been pretty unusually cool, wet and stormy. 

[VSMIT]

Worst glasses story for me was 2 pairs ago, opened them up when I woke up and one of the arms snapped off.  Right between the hinge and the screw holding the lens in the frame.  Life without glasses sucks.

Hope everything works out, Amber, and make sure to get Mason fixed soon!

[rabid_fox]

STOP SPOOKIN' THE WITCH.

[LionHeart]

I've had that happen to me - the glasses breaking while cleaning them thing. Not fun at all, even if you have an old pair sitting around (which I do, being the sort who hates to throw out anything).

I've also had lenses fall out because the screws holding them in place worked loose. Even less fun, especially if (like me) you're half-blind without them, and trying to find a tiny screw in carpet while half-blind...

[Succubus_1982]

Amber not only have all the things that you've mentioned happenned to me before but about 90% (save people's arms dropping off but I'm sure its only a matter of time) have happenned this week! We seem to be suffering from the same run of bad luck! My glasses broke yesterday and I had to buy a new keyboard on Monday because most of the keys were irrepairably jammed (will teach me not to type when eating messy fajitas  )

Either that I'm simply jinxing you with MY bad luck! After all I did join very recently right around the same time the problems started? *le gasp* 

In any event I have nothing but sympathy. Fortunately for me I got my glasses from a very nice place that will repair them free of charge (mostly coz I'm on the dole) and if I have to get new ones.... also free. Pity I don't know your prescription or I could try and get you a pair 

[Fex]

*eats popcorn while watching canada slide into the oceoan because Amber touched it*

[Janus Whitefurr]

And then Amber starts doing this.

[Maril]

I've also had lenses fall out because the screws holding them in place worked loose. Even less fun, especially if (like me) you're half-blind without them, and trying to find a tiny screw in carpet while half-blind...

Dear god I hate that >_o  My vision only extends a foot in front of me without my glasses, so trying to find that damn screw is near impossible.  If it wasn't for the fact that I'm the only one in my apt with a drivers license I would always just say screw it and make my room mate take me to wal-mart to get them fixed...

Don't worry Amber, I have the same luck as you when it comes to computers.  You're not alone.  One of mine, the monitor actually spontaneously combusted one day...  That was certainly an interesting night...  Another got a virus that completely destroyed it without having access to the internet (never did figure THAT one out...) So I feel your pain X_X

[Succubus_1982]

I find in such instances sellotape works wonders.... (although you then end up looking like a certain boy wizard)

[ChaosMageX]

I've also had my last glasses break at the center of the nose bridge while cleaning them...the shocking thing was that they're flexon brand glasses and shouldn't do that.

Also, the right lens of my glasses pops out...a lot.  Fortunately, the little screw that holds it in place has always stayed in the frame and could be easily screwed back in place.  It's mostly because I fall asleep with my glasses on and roll around all over them in my sleep.

Anyway, that's why I always carry a repair kit with a few back-up screws, a mini-screwdriver, and a mini-magnifying-glass in my wallet at all times, because I never know when it's going to happen again.

However, I really hope my glasses don't break at the bridge again, since neither duct tape nor transparent tape was effective in holding it together (the bridge is curved) and my walking vibrations were enough to shake the patch job apart with my last pair, sigh.

Also, that break happened around the time of my final exams last semester...talk about a bad omen, but I still did okay.

[LionHeart]

Dear god I hate that >_o  My vision only extends a foot in front of me without my glasses, so trying to find that damn screw is near impossible.  If it wasn't for the fact that I'm the only one in my apt with a drivers license I would always just say screw it and make my room mate take me to wal-mart to get them fixed...

Yeah, same here, and I live alone. Although keeping an old pair handy helps - either you can cannibalise the frames for replacement screws, or you can wear the old pair to see well enough to drive to the nearest optician.

Don't worry Amber, I have the same luck as you when it comes to computers.  You're not alone.  One of mine, the monitor actually spontaneously combusted one day...  That was certainly an interesting night...  Another got a virus that completely destroyed it without having access to the internet (never did figure THAT one out...) So I feel your pain X_X

I had a monitor go "pfft" and stop working with no warning whatever once. Which was annoying, since I was surfing the net (on dial-up) at the time. I did have a spare, but the spare was so old that it would only support 800 x 600, and had no sound (after this, I bought a set of powered speakers, which I still use today). At first, I though the old monitor had quit as well - all I got were lines across the screen; after some fiddling and starting Windows in safe mode, did I figure out the problem.

Also, the right lens of my glasses pops out...a lot.  Fortunately, the little screw that holds it in place has always stayed in the frame and could be easily screwed back in place.  It's mostly because I fall asleep with my glasses on and roll around all over them in my sleep.

Anyway, that's why I always carry a repair kit with a few back-up screws, a mini-screwdriver, and a mini-magnifying-glass in my wallet at all times, because I never know when it's going to happen again.

However, I really hope my glasses don't break at the bridge again, since neither duct tape nor transparent tape was effective in holding it together (the bridge is curved) and my walking vibrations were enough to shake the patch job apart with my last pair, sigh.

Yes, tape doesn't work too well with metal frames. Interestingly, it was nearly always the right lens that would fall out, for some reason.

Also interesting is that since I started wearing the semi-rimless style frames, I've never had a problem with lenses falling out.

[ChaosMageX]

I think semi-rims are a bit better because they aren't held in by those fragile little screws.  Instead, they're permanently held in by high tension wires that are welded (I think) to the rest of the frame, which is why semi-rim and rimless glasses are so much more expensive.

I can't wait for the price of the new laser surgery to come down.  I think the new surgery cuts your cornea like a fresnel lens instead of temporarily slicing it in half and cutting it below, which could be traumatically dislodged and blind you later in life.

[Naldru]

*eats popcorn while watching canada slide into the oceoan because Amber touched it*

Given the location of most of Canada's population, it would probably fall into the Great Lakes.

[Jairus]

Quick! Someone track down whoever repaired Devin's arms and get him to rebuild Mason! We can rebuild him! Faster, stronger, better! He is... the six million loonie man! Though that won't get you very far nowadays...

Ouch, take that Canada!

I sort of meant that six million of anything won't get you very far nowadays.

As for me, I haven't had a problem with my glasses since I bought them last November. Though I have spilled coffee over my keyboard, which ordinarily wouldn't be too huge of a problem except that I have a laptop...

[Denji]

Amber if I wake up and look out my window tomorrow and see Canada in ruin, I'm going to hunt you down and feed you to the polar bears. :(

[ChaosMageX]

Anyone can hate Canada (except Canadians) after watching the final episode of King of the Hill, "Uh-oh Canada".

If all Canadians are ungrateful bastards like the guy in that episode...

Wait, wait, I shouldn't be saying this, because right now Canada has a much better health care system than we do.

[Rafe]

If all goes well, I can hold out with this temporary setup until next Friday when Mason gets paid and I can go to the eye-doctor.

But... but Amber, you live in Canada, where all health related problems are taken care of by the benevolent Government Health Care System!  No one has to pay for such things, or wait days or weeks to get vision-related health care!  Why are you going through such needless suffering?

Please call Mr. Harper.  I'm sure he'll fix things up just as soon as let him know.

[Mao]

Wow, I love how people are slamming Canadian Health Care.  It's awesome.

[Tapewolf]

Wow, I love how people are slamming Canadian Health Care.  It's awesome.

You should see the incredible things that have been said about the NHS in Britain.  It's like someone put LSD in the water supply or something.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_alive/

[Anri]

Anyone can hate Canada (except Canadians) after watching the final episode of King of the Hill, "Uh-oh Canada".

If all Canadians are ungrateful bastards like the guy in that episode...

Wait, wait, I shouldn't be saying this, because right now Canada has a much better health care system than we do.

Yes, clearly a cartoon knows us so very well. C'mon buddy, start making south park references now. There's no doot aboot it being correct!

[Succubus_1982]

Wow, I love how people are slamming Canadian Health Care.  It's awesome.

You should see the incredible things that have been said about the NHS in Britain.  It's like someone put LSD in the water supply or something.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_alive/

Wow. I was suckered in by those rumours too (and my own bad experiences with the health care system). But its good to hear its not true.

[Tapewolf]

Wow. I was suckered in by those rumours too (and my own bad experiences with the health care system). But its good to hear its not true.

To be fair, the NHS is far from perfect, though what the FUD campaigns I've seen are conveniently ignoring is that you can bypass the NHS if you choose and go private, in which case you'll be in the same kind of position as in the US.
What really tickled me was that some of the anti-healthcare people were talking about Socialist Russia.  I guess they still think Reagan is still president