(for anyone confused, he’s guessing her prescription)

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    FYI, Dr. Glaucomflecken is an ophthalmologist and has a YouTube channel full of medical comedy bits. I’d link it but I’m too tired from writing and triple-checking “Glaucomflecken” and “ophthalmologist”.

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      Oh shit, I know that channel and didn’t pick up who it was until your comment made me look closer at his profile picture. He’s pretty damn funny with healthcare relevant comedy.

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      I’m a doctor and every time I write ophthalmologist I’m surprised at how many H’s there and where they end up.

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      Is his name genuinely that close to Glaucoma or is it a “stage” name. If real, I think that’s wild he chose to become an ophthalmologist.

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        It’s a stage name. His real name is Will Flanary and Glaucomflecken is a medical term:

        Glaucomflecken are small, gray-white spots that form on the front layer of the eye’s natural lens. They are the physical scars left behind when the eye has suffered a sudden, severe spike in internal pressure, typically due to an episode of acute angle-closure glaucoma.

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      I totally understand. Nice work on those words, especially if you’re on your phone.

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    Oh man I love that guy. His vids are great. I esp love his rural medicine bits because I grew up in the boonies and it reminds me of home lmao.

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      I started my contacts journey at +7.5 and +7.75. I’ve been in +3.00 and +3.25 for about 10 years now. No one knows why I dramatically got better in 3 years but that was a wild 3 years of not really being able to see because it was changing so much.

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        Jesus, I didn’t think they made contacts that thick. On the bright side, those bad boys could probably stop a direct hit from a nail gun before it hit your eye. I bet it’s like wearing permanent safety glasses.

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          As far as I know only one company does, so uh, hope you like them because it’s that or glasses thick as a submarine window. Even with the -16 I can still only get to 20/50 vision thanks to the early onset cataracts caused by the extreme myopia. Is what it is though, I don’t complain.

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            That sucks. I’m sorry you have to deal with all that. Sounds like you have a good attitude about it at least

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              I appreciate the consideration. Honestly, I can see better now than in my 20s thanks to years of conscious effort to train my brain to use that eye too. When I finally got a vision test at around five years old, I was already pretty bad off in the one eye, but the other was fine at the time, so my brain just kind of learned to use it for peripheral vision and not much else. Hopefully I don’t get macular degeneration or a detached retina, but what can you do but make the best of it? Take care out their folks, and get your kids eyes checked!

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    Hah i saw the “dr” first and knew what he was talking about. Also helps to be a glasses wearer in this case i guess

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    He has made some hilarious videos about being a doctor, for those who don’t know who he is. Can highly recommend

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    What a prick. As if he could tell from that picture how attractive she is anyway, she’s not dressed in a revealing way, which is a suggestion to not talk about her looks like that.

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      Hes talking about her glasses but like, on the subject of people actually making comments like you’ve misunderstood him to be doing, people aren’t more deserving of crappy comments on their bodies based on how they dress 😅

      Either give someone a non-dickhead compliment in a context where its appropriate or keep your thoughts to yourself. Learning to understand what kinds of compliments don’t carry a feeling of entitlement to their time and reciprocation for the person receiving them is a skill, but its an important one thats worth doing. And It’s important to remember that person doesnt owe you any attention or positivity back for the fact you chose to comment on them

      (Much of this isnt really purely a reply to you teyrnon, not trying to single you out, just saw the opportunity to address the way we comment on people and expand on the idea that the way people dress doesnt mean folks are entitled to interacting with them in a way that sucks for the person being commented on)

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        Be that as it may, nothing in the post told us non dorks that don’t follow this douchebag on youtube of his meaning.

        Seriously, concerning (a stand in for fuck,) all of you guys, this post said nothing of the subtext but now I’m attacked for it? It’s because you guys are fucking nerds that follow people that suck.

        Fuck this guy, and fuck whomever posted this without context then trashes people that don’t know the inside joke, which is marginally funny perhaps.

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          Exactly, it’s fucking creepy. It’s not normal to just casually blurt out people’s medical information.

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      Okay, so he’s an ophthalmologist, and he’s talking about what her potential prescription for her glasses might be.

      It is easily misread as a misogynist measurement of her beauty, and he recognizes that and acknowledges it. It wasn’t what he meant. Hence, the meme.

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        No shit? It’s hard to believe it’s read as not an eye joke because it has no indication of any eye connection. Look at this post, how is anyone not familiar with this guy to know that?

        That makes you all the assholes here honestly. Mic drop.

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          The glasses she refers to and are wearing are the context of his comment. That’s pretty easy to understand if you aren’t obsessed with standards of physical beauty.

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          I’d never heard of this guy either. But I read all the way to the bottom and deduced from the last comment that his previous comment meant something other than the woman’s appearance. It requires using intelligence.

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          Oh rather. Let.s all canvass the comments before commenting, because we are such cunts. Good advice.

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      I don’t think you need to see any body to tell that she has a pretty face, just to counter your implied “there’s no way to know for sure whether or not she’s that ugly and it’s rude to point it out while she’s dressed like that”.

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        Ha ha, except there is no indication of the joke in the title. So does that not make you the asshole here? You post an inside joke without letting anyone in on the joke, then trash everyone that doesn’t get it, which they can’t because they don’t watch this?

        Which is all to say, you suck, a lot. You are a person that finds downvoted posts to dig on, because you have nothing to contribute of your own.

        Eat a dick, or whatever don’t go crying gay hurtful on that figure of speech. Seems like something you would do.

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          I didn’t post shit, you whiny little asshole. don’t be bitching to me because not only did you not get the joke, and not only did you not read the sentence explaining the joke RIGHT FUCKING UNDER THE JOKE, but you can’t even read a username to know I’m not the OP. you absolute buffoon. you’re making an utter mockery of the low estimation of intelligence anyone had for you.

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    I still have the same reaction to seeing anyone discus someone else’s medical information unprompted like that. Kinda creepy ngl