Eye don't get it.

Follow the knocked over cones?
/got nuthin'

Lens hope the cops find em.

goddamnit. Learn to spell.

I see what ya did there Subby.

witchofthedogs: goddamnit. Learn to spell.

This.

Incidentally, are Spelling Nazis a subset of Grammar Nazis or a different thing entirely?

they thought it was cataract, turns out it was rincoln.

Sees what you did there.

/hot

Link (new window)


She sees, too

The thieves were quite ocular, telling jokes as they robbed the stores.

forteblast: witchofthedogs: goddamnit. Learn to spell.

This.

Incidentally, are Spelling Nazis a subset of Grammar Nazis or a different thing entirely?

I think we're a separate division of the Proper English Enforcement Army.

Normally, I don't care, but goddamnit, I hate it when headlines are f*cked up because someone doesn't have a grasp of proper spelling. And it's easy spelling, too.

This would have been funnier had subby not made stuff up just to fit his puns.

Are all headlines puns now? I have it on good authority that puns are the form of humor. Below fart jokes even.

lowest form of humor, that is.

INTERTRON: This would have been funnier had subby not made stuff up just to fit his puns.

Yeah, this headline was extra lame. I can't even think of a model of car whose name sounds like cataract, and there wasn't actually a car in the story.

Optometrist are all thieves to begin with. I am convinced they can be replaced with some sort of automated kiosk. They are not even 'doctors'...in Europe an optometrist is not called a 'doctor'.

/hundred bucks for an eye exam and the gimp refuses to sign back on my contacts.com orders.

roothog: model of car whose name sounds like cataract

Make, not model.

/hot

.....


**sigh**


:-/


snickerdoodles


her


MST3K


Titanic is best movie ever.


and so on.

Shadey indeed.

The police plan to make a spectacle of their arrest.

Getaway vehicle has been corrected as a Rincorn Continentar ....

Ba dum tsssh! Eye clearly see what you did there Subby.

/lemme guess...
//veal, all week, tip your server?

I'll keep a lookout.

I would have thought the contact lenses would be easier to fence.

What an awful headline. Subby really had to stretch it on this one. -1

Oh hai u need ai surgery?

Eyewitnesses described a penguin dracula.

BlorfMaster: Optometrist are all thieves to begin with. I am convinced they can be replaced with some sort of automated kiosk. They are not even 'doctors'...in Europe an optometrist is not called a 'doctor'.

/hundred bucks for an eye exam and the gimp refuses to sign back on my contacts.com orders.

I ranted about this the other day. The autorefractors get, at best, within about 10% of your Rx, assuming that you don't have small pupils, cataracts, were moving around too much, etc. I rarely see the slips out of the machine match up with the actual Rx save perhaps in kids. We're not just spinning dials at random in the exam room, and vision is very subjective.

I'm not aware of what the status of optometry is in Europe, but I do know that when I was going through grad school in the 1990's, European optometrists that wanted to practice in the US had to go back to school for about two years to up their license, since we're more medically oriented than most optometry is throughout the world.

As for signing your contacts.com order, it depends on the state. In Washington, my understanding of state law is that I have to release a finalized contact lens Rx to the patient on request (and I do), but that is not true in all states. Some allow the doctors to hold them. I believe that may have been trumped by federal law a few years back, but since I release final Rx's routinely, I haven't paid attention to the law in that respect.

roothog: INTERTRON: This would have been funnier had subby not made stuff up just to fit his puns.

Yeah, this headline was extra lame. I can't even think of a model of car whose name sounds like cataract, and there wasn't actually a car in the story.

Uvea got to be kidding me.

Fano: roothog: INTERTRON: This would have been funnier had subby not made stuff up just to fit his puns.

Yeah, this headline was extra lame. I can't even think of a model of car whose name sounds like cataract, and there wasn't actually a car in the story.

Uvea got to be kidding me.

Are you farking kidding me?

Subby

+1

Eye lol'd!!1!1

SwiftFox: I would have thought the contact lenses would be easier to fence.

Strangely, not really. I've heard that these things end up at swap meets or even sent overseas.

I actually knew an optician that had worked for a major nationwide chain as their lab manager, basically making glasses all day. He left for another job, which he lost after he failed a drug test. For the following two years, the store had a huge inventory problem. They lost ten's of thousands of dollars in merchandise a year for two years, far more than any other store in the region. A new manager came in and decided just as a precaution to change the locks. A few weeks later, they caught this former lab manager in one of the bathrooms after closing and kicked him out. After that, their stolen materials dropped to almost nothing.

The suspicion, never proved, was that he was actually making glasses to order in the middle of the night to trade for money or drugs. Since the missing inventory included uncut lenses, it's a pretty good theory.

You know what I'd say the whole time I was robbing an optometrist?

"Better like this, or better like this...better like this, or better like this...better like this, or better like this..."

BlorfMaster

Optometrist are all thieves to begin with. I am convinced they can be replaced with some sort of automated kiosk. They are not even 'doctors'...in Europe an optometrist is not called a 'doctor'.


Hmmm. I wonder how they get those DEA nubers, then.


hundred bucks for an eye exam and the gimp refuses to sign back on my contacts.com orders.

Thanks to lobbying by the likes of contacts.com, federal law permits dispensing of the order by said online distributor twelve hours after the prescription verification request has been completed unless they've been notified the Rx is incorrect or expired.

My guess is you're just trying to game the system and your optometrist's office is exercising due diligence.
Go get your Rx renewed, dude.

Eirik

The suspicion, never proved, was that he was actually making glasses to order in the middle of the night to trade for money or drugs. Since the missing inventory included uncut lenses, it's a pretty good theory.

Goofy b-tard is apparantly unaware of the very low cost of uncut SV's. It would have been a great scam to set up a lab account and use the former employer's equipment.

I don't get it. I must be blind!

zipperlip: BlorfMaster

The suspicion, never proved, was that he was actually making glasses to order in the middle of the night to trade for money or drugs. Since the missing inventory included uncut lenses, it's a pretty good theory.

Goofy b-tard is apparantly unaware of the very low cost of uncut SV's. It would have been a great scam to set up a lab account and use the former employer's equipment.

Don't think it would have worked there, since it was a national chain that radiated out from a central lab. He might have been able to game the system by setting up orders and getting specific stock sent into the store, but I suspect if that happened more than a few times someone would have noticed. Easier to steal frames out of overstock and lenses out of normal stock.

Your idea might have worked in a private office, and in fact I've heard of variations of that happening before.

some local pupils may have seen something, were they not blocked by a teacher.

It looks like they were framed!

This reminds me of the guy who fell into a lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself....

Chances are, their vision was blurred.

I misread the headline as "Call if you have any cataracts." Apparently I do.

Am I the only one over the pun as headline thing?

Giant Clown Shoe: Am I the only one over the pun as headline thing?

No.

Eirik: BlorfMaster: Optometrist are all thieves to begin with. I am convinced they can be replaced with some sort of automated kiosk. They are not even 'doctors'...in Europe an optometrist is not called a 'doctor'.

/hundred bucks for an eye exam and the gimp refuses to sign back on my contacts.com orders.

I ranted about this the other day. The autorefractors get, at best, within about 10% of your Rx, assuming that you don't have small pupils, cataracts, were moving around too much, etc. I rarely see the slips out of the machine match up with the actual Rx save perhaps in kids. We're not just spinning dials at random in the exam room, and vision is very subjective.

I'm not aware of what the status of optometry is in Europe, but I do know that when I was going through grad school in the 1990's, European optometrists that wanted to practice in the US had to go back to school for about two years to up their license, since we're more medically oriented than most optometry is throughout the world.

As for signing your contacts.com order, it depends on the state. In Washington, my understanding of state law is that I have to release a finalized contact lens Rx to the patient on request (and I do), but that is not true in all states. Some allow the doctors to hold them. I believe that may have been trumped by federal law a few years back, but since I release final Rx's routinely, I haven't paid attention to the law in that respect.

Go ahead and try to fight fools that feel they are smarter than doctors. Certainly they are smarter than M.D.s who are simply idiots that are in the pocket of drug companies and don't know any more than any person with access to the internet. If they are smarter than those guys, hell, they are smarter than optometrists, who study from a two year program. I mean seriously, stigmatism? Why would anyone try to claim their "patients" have a stigma?