Foreigners and huge glasses,whats the story??

homeless student

What is it with foreigners and huge glasses, ones the old Deirdre Barlow would be proud of, nearly every french,spanish and italian people I meet or see lately wear them, is it a fashion statement or what?? they look stupid if you ask me.

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The Backwards Man

It's so they can see wild unfounded generalisations more clearly.

Wednesday Addams

If by 'foreigners' you mean hipsters....

aujopimur

I thought this was going to be about beer.

Pinturicchio

Jay Z is to blame. http://impose.vaesite.net/__data/jay-z-with-hipster-glasses.6.jpg

gobnaitolunacy

Dem foredn hipsters.

homeless student

Pinturicchio wrote: »

Jay Z is to blame. http://impose.vaesite.net/__data/jay-z-with-hipster-glasses.6.jpg

even jay z can't pull it off.

The Backwards Man

homeless student wrote: »

even jay z can't pull it off.

Beyonce does it for him.

WilyCoyote

These are really adapted GoogleGlasses. Google in the right lens and a soap opera in the left.

Mr.McLovin

if they're tinted they're ex-KGB

biko

I wanted huge glasses but could only afford small ones

force eleven

I read the title as 'asses'. Carry on.

osarusan

Popular here in Japan too, but the glasses often don't even have any actual lenses in them.

LoonyLovegood

I have a pair, purely because I'm blind as a bat and smaller ones are even more difficult for me to see.

General General

We'll all be wearing these in a couple of years & saying that all other glasses look stupid.

preston johnny

If you ask me they are making a right bloody spectacle of themselves.

readyletsgo

Just foreign hipsters, how are you only noticing this now? Not got your big glasses on?

homeless student

readyletsgo wrote: »

Just foreign hipsters, how are you only noticing this now? Not got your big glasses on?

can you be a hipster if you only wear huge glasses though? like I haven't seen them wearing the glasses matched with a cowboy hat, work gloves and fishing waders, just the glasses, part time hipsters?

JohnMearsheimer

osarusan wrote: »

Popular here in Japan too, but the glasses often don't even have any actual lenses in them.

I've seen this in Ireland too and I don't quite get it. I've worn glasses for 25 years and it does kind of bug me when I see people wearing glasses with no lenses in them. I'd gladly swap my crappy vision with them so they'd actually have a reason to need glasses

readyletsgo

homeless student wrote: »

can you be a hipster if you only wear huge glasses though? like I haven't seen them wearing the glasses matched with a cowboy hat, work gloves and fishing waders, just the glasses, part time hipsters?

Yes.

Gongoozler

Yeah they're not foreign they're just hipsters.

I wear huge glasses. I love them because they don't restrict my field of vision in the way normal ones do. I'm absolutely delighted they're in fashion so I can find them easily. I actually went for a good few years without wearing glasses when I needed them because I can't stand the way normal frames cut off your peripheral vision and frameless glasses look ridiculous on me. So that's why I wear them and I don't care if people think I'm a hipster.

enda1

A better question would be, why are some people so concerned when people wear something or look slightly outside their narrow definition of normal? Why the need to attach a label such as "hipster" as a catch all to describe anyone who doesn't wear bootcut wranglers, a checked shortsleve shirt, laseless base tan leather shoes and 'normal' glasses?

Is it because you're a bit insecure with difference?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

enda1 wrote: »

A better question would be, why are some people so concerned when people wear something or look slightly outside their narrow definition of normal? Why the need to attach a label such as "hipster" as a catch all to describe anyone who doesn't wear bootcut wranglers, a checked shortsleve shirt, laseless base tan leather shoes and 'normal' glasses?

Is it because you're a bit insecure with difference?

jesus christ you're so ****ing empathetic, that gets me hot

Legs.Eleven

Nah, they're just in fashion (not just hipster fashion). I think they can look sexy on the right face.

UCDVet

Hiding their face so as to avoid the embarrassment of being seen in Ireland? Fair play too them....

old hippy

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

jesus christ you're so ****ing empathetic, that gets me hot

Empathy is in. Scorn is just so last year, man.

wil

JohnMearsheimer wrote: »

I've seen this in Ireland too and I don't quite get it. I've worn glasses for 25 years and it does kind of bug me when I see people wearing glasses with no lenses in them. I'd gladly swap my crappy vision with them so they'd actually have a reason to need glasses

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I wonder could I pedal false legs as a fashion accessory.

I'll conduct my market research in the Isle of Man

Rabelais

There should be a law passed to ensure that it is illegal for more than two Spanish teenagers to congregate in a group together on the streets of our towns and cities. No groups at all if wearing enormous glasses, or if their voice registers above 120 decibels when talking.

holystungun9

osarusan wrote: »

Popular here in Japan too, but the glasses often don't even have any actual lenses in them.

On behalf of your Brethren here in Ireland you are compelled to poke any such twat right in the eye for being a twat.

gobnaitolunacy

osarusan wrote: »

Popular here in Japan too, but the glasses often don't even have any actual lenses in them.

This coming from a country where they have X rated cartoons with octopuses (or is that octopi?)

old hippy

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

This coming from a country where they have X rated cartoons with octopuses (or is that octopi?)

So what? Anime has many different genres, some for kids, some for adults.

chopper6

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

This coming from a country where they have X rated cartoons with octopuses (or is that octopi?)

Japanese porn is genuinely disturbing too

aujopimur

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

This coming from a country where they have X rated cartoons with octopuses (or is that octopi?)

I think it's called octopussies.

General General

enda1 wrote: »

A better question would be, why are some people so concerned when people wear something or look slightly outside their narrow definition of normal? Why the need to attach a label such as "hipster" as a catch all to describe anyone who doesn't wear bootcut wranglers, a checked shortsleve shirt, laseless base tan leather shoes and 'normal' glasses?

Is it because you're a bit insecure with difference?

Oooh. Right. In. The. Nutsack.

Deep.

BillyMitchel

Hipsters?!

Korea was unbelievable for them too. They can make a really sexy attractive girl look really ugly. The ones on Koreans would have been the size of a 28inch telly and cover half their face. Both men and women wore them and half would not even have glass it just be the frame!

holystungun9

chopper6 wrote: »

Japanese porn is genuinely disturbing too

Hey noob, if you can't stand the heat get outta the kitchen.

old hippy

chopper6 wrote: »

Japanese porn is genuinely disturbing too

What, like hard core? Snuff? Rape fantasies? Paedophilia? Bestiality?

You'll find that in a majority of countries. Sadly. But it's much easier to generalise about just one, isn't it?

MJ23

Dem foddiners, takin our glasses, and wimmin.

LordSutch

homeless student wrote: »

Foreigners and huge glasses,whats the story??

1980's spectacle syndrome?