Where do you look?

starbelgrade · 15-09-2010 10:59am #1

I like to make eye contact with people when I talk to them, but when it comes to cross-eyed or lazy-eyed people, where do you look? Do you pick one eye & aim for that, or just go for a kind of middle ground between the two?

It's impossible to follow both. Is there a social norm for this?

minidazzler · 15-09-2010 11:00am

I stare at a girls tits all the time, really simplifies things you know!

Dravokivich · 15-09-2010 11:00am

I pick 1 and stick with it the whole time...more often then not, it's the banjax'd 1 I tend to look at...

clived2 · 15-09-2010 11:02am

you look at them staight in the jap eye, and tell them to get that *white wet stuff outta here*

*paper

Sykk · 15-09-2010 11:03am

I make an excuse that I have an important phonecall then go post on boards to ask for advise.

My advise to you, say to him "Sir, you're cross eyed, sorry but I'm just getting that out of the way". He won't mind you being confused and not knowing where to look then.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 15-09-2010 11:04am

I would think forehead but I wouldn't know as most people are too humble to look me in the eye.

Uriel. · 15-09-2010 11:05am

I pick one of their gammy eyes and just stare at that one

The_Kew_Tour · 15-09-2010 11:05am

I look downstairs

kfallon · 15-09-2010 11:05am

If two crosseyed people are looking at each other, where do they look? At the person standing next to them???

starbelgrade · 15-09-2010 11:06am

Noor Full Tennis wrote: »

I would think forehead

Like, just pretend that they're a cyclops?

PeterIanStaker · 15-09-2010 11:07am

I had this teacher in secondary with this really freaky lazy eye. You'd think you were out of her line of sight but then she'd tell you to stop messing, she'd be staring at you the whole time.

I guess she couldnt control her pupils:o

_feedback_ · 15-09-2010 11:07am

I just click my fingers in their face and shout "eh . . . hello? Over here"

Dravokivich · 15-09-2010 11:07am

kfallon wrote: »

If two crosseyed people are looking at each other, where do they look? At the person standing next to them???

That would be quite the dilema...

starbelgrade · 15-09-2010 11:08am

kfallon wrote: »

If two crosseyed people are looking at each other, where do they look?

Everywhere.

TerryTibbs! · 15-09-2010 11:08am

kfallon wrote: »

If two crosseyed people are looking at each other, where do they look? At the person standing next to them???

They spontaneously combust

chin_grin · 15-09-2010 11:11am

kfallon wrote: »

If two crosseyed people are looking at each other, where do they look?

At trees falling in the woods.

Sea Sharp · 15-09-2010 11:11am

I shout at them: "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOUR EYES YA BIG WEIRD BASTARD" and then I run off screaming.

Brendog · 15-09-2010 11:12am

"HEY! DON'T RAISE YOU EYES TO HEA.......sorry"

Banned Account · 15-09-2010 11:13am

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admiralofthefleet · 15-09-2010 11:15am

boobies

stovelid · 15-09-2010 11:19am

Top of the bridge of the nose.

Banned Account · 15-09-2010 11:22am

stovelid wrote: »

Top of the bridge of the nose.

What if they had a unibrow??

Sykk · 15-09-2010 11:23am

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

What if they had a unibrow??

What's wrong with a unibrow?

Brussels Sprout · 15-09-2010 11:23am

Serious answer: If you pick the point on a person's forehead that would the third point in a triangle along with their eyes and stare at that then they'll think you're staring right into their eyes.

liah · 15-09-2010 11:24am

I just look at whatever one is looking at me straight-on.

I'd be curious to hear from a person with a lazy eye as to which we should be looking at, though.

Banned Account · 15-09-2010 11:29am

Sykk wrote: »

What's wrong with a unibrow?

Are you talking to me

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or him?

winston82 · 15-09-2010 11:32am

When a delivery man knocks on my door with my order of paper I look him straight in the eye and tell him to leave them there and I will bring the the rest of the way. Anything else would be obnoxious.

DOC09UNAM · 15-09-2010 11:39am

That's an extremely sleye dig.

starbelgrade · 15-09-2010 11:44am

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

That's an extremely sleye dig.

And it was a lazy joke that made me cross.

alwaysadub · 15-09-2010 11:58am

Being quite short, i'm usually left looking at people's chins anyway! So unless it's a cross eyed midget, i can usually use my (lack of) height to look elsewhere

Ms. Captain M · 15-09-2010 1:14pm

Home & Away

Flimbos · 15-09-2010 1:23pm

I knew a man who was cross eyed.
His wife left him for seeing someone on the side.

/gets coat...

DoneDL · 15-09-2010 1:44pm

Used to have a boss who was cross eyed, would always say "sorry son, i was looking at you but I was talking to him" not good when it was bollocking time

Pretty_Pistol · 15-09-2010 2:00pm

I failed to look at the right eye the last time I was talking to a cross-eyed person because they actually said "Pretty_Pistol, I AM talking to you. It's just I have a wandering eye."

phill106 · 15-09-2010 2:10pm

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

Serious answer: If you pick the point on a person's forehead that would the third point in a triangle along with their eyes and stare at that then they'll think you're staring right into their eyes.

What if you went too high? They would think i was staring at their hair then!
I think between the eyes is best.

bonerm · 15-09-2010 2:12pm

I just imagine the skull under their face and look at that.

Lothaar v2 · 15-09-2010 2:12pm

I always look people straight in the ear.

To make sure they're listening to me.

Asphyxia · 15-09-2010 2:17pm

I used to be so bad with eye contact I got into a bad habit of staring at the ground and twiddling my thumbs together. It was after I had an interview for a job that I stopped doing it, I went in and sat down and didn't take my eyes off the lady, it worked as well I got the job in the end

Usually when I feel I can't look someone in the eye I look in between the persons eyes... kind of cheating but it helps.

Kasabian · 15-09-2010 3:28pm

I just cross my own eyes and continue the conversation, it makes for a more comfortable engagement for all.

I don't really cross my eyes , I am not a freak

arybvtcw0eolkf · 15-09-2010 3:33pm

I'm awful..

I look at a blokes weight and height and put them into weight categories for fighting

Girls, I look at their boobs, belly, fanny.

Stercus Accidit · 15-09-2010 3:36pm

Point and laugh at them, humor always breaks the tension.

Vinta81 · 15-09-2010 3:43pm

Just talking about this in college today, I subconsiously look at a guys crotch area at first, I don't know why? Usually peoples forehead though.

Son Of A Vidic · 15-09-2010 3:50pm

When I used to work in the Royal Free Hospital in London, most female staff had their ID badges hanging around the breast region. Male staff tended to have their ID's attached to a belt or hip pocket. It was a fecking nightmare if you wanted to check a staff members name ect. Because it would have looked like I was looking at breasts and balls all day.:eek:

RockinRolla · 15-09-2010 4:00pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

I like to make eye contact with people when I talk to them, but when it comes to cross-eyed or lazy-eyed people, where do you look? Do you pick one eye & aim for that, or just go for a kind of middle ground between the two?

It's impossible to follow both. Is there a social norm for this?

Well, if I was walking down the street and seen you, I'd look the other way.

minidazzler · 15-09-2010 4:09pm

Vinta81 wrote: »

Just talking about this in college today, I subconsiously look at a guys crotch area at first, I don't know why? Usually peoples forehead though.

I'd love to catch a girl doing that so then I could get all huffy about my eyes being up here *points to eyes*.

Vinta81 · 15-09-2010 4:27pm

minidazzler wrote: »

I'd love to catch a girl doing that so then I could get all huffy about my eyes being up here *points to eyes*.

cleremy jarkson · 15-09-2010 4:37pm

what is this i dont even

Sonz · 15-09-2010 7:58pm

You look at them like you would anyone else, its not nice when someone with something wrong with their appearance is made fun of. Yes i had a sqint in my left eye and had an operation on it and now i can only focus out of one eye at a time, and i really hate when people point it out, paranoid enough about it

Kasabian · 15-09-2010 8:18pm

Sonz wrote: »

You look at them like you would anyone else, its not nice when someone with something wrong with their appearance is made fun of. Yes i had a sqint in my left eye and had an operation on it and now i can only focus out of one eye at a time, and i really hate when people point it out, paranoid enough about it

Just to clarify , you're paranoid about your squinty left eye , have I got that right ?

Are you allowed drive?

Sonz · 15-09-2010 8:23pm

Kasabian wrote: »

Just to clarify , you're paranoid about your squinty left eye , have I got that right ?

Are you allowed drive?

I ''had'' a squint in my left eye, i have 20/20 vision in both eyes and yes i can drive. When i look at someone and focus out lets say the right eye and the left looks the other way.

starbelgrade · 15-09-2010 8:34pm

Sonz wrote: »

You look at them like you would anyone else, its not nice when someone with something wrong with their appearance is made fun of. Yes i had a sqint in my left eye and had an operation on it and now i can only focus out of one eye at a time, and i really hate when people point it out, paranoid enough about it

You see, that's the point.

You can't look at them like everyone else, because you don't know which bloomin' eye to make contact with.

It's impossibe to do both & as someone pointed out, the way to make it not look like you're trying to figure out which eye to focus on, is to pick a point on their forehead & that's not what you do with everybody else.

Where do you look?

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