• Toes♀@ani.social
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    21 days ago

    This is a pet peeve of mine.

    I’ll sooner walk around semi blind before staring at the smudges.

    • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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      21 days ago

      I got some new button up shirts (they are fishing shirts) and the bottom of the button up part has a glasses cleaning cloth built into the shirt.

        • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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          20 days ago

          Aren’t all parts of a shirt suitable as a cleaning cloth?

          Good question! No! Most t-shirts work well, but button-up shirts are often not soft, pliable, or absorbable enough to really function well for glasses cleaning (IMO, anyway).

          You aren’t likely to scratch the glasses (glass is very hard), but you kinda just move the smudges around and make them worse with certain fabrics. I want either a nice mostly-cotton blend, or a nice thick microfiber cloth (microfiber is not created equal, and some are practically useless).

          Maybe I’m just picky. Your mileage may vary.

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            20 days ago

            Thanks for a surprisingly in-depth answer! I very rarely wear proper shirts, which I think explains my assumptions.

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              19 days ago

              Also although you will have a hard(-ish) time scratching the glass by using a good shirt if you have any kind of coating on your glasses (such as a blue filter or anti-reflex coating or whatever) you CAN easily scratch those (usually)!

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            16 days ago

            I (almost) never use a t-shirt to clean my glasses, but once tried the internal lining of my jacket since it looks like a coarser version of the cloth that came with my glasses. The result wasn’t the same but it was still good.

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      20 days ago

      This is why I have around 5 thousand cleaning cloths distrubuted around the house and car. Never a smudged glass.

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    21 days ago

    There are not many things that make me irrationally angry… Fucking with my glasses is one of them.

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    21 days ago

    I hate when people ask me to pass them their glasses. They’re putting the responsibility of not smudging their glasses on me. Sure I can do it, but there is always that small possibility of failure.

    If the glasses are folded up there is that moment of trying to decide how to grab the glasses. Do I grab them by the bridge bit that sits on their nose, or by the bits that hook over the ears? Surely it’s too risky to grab by the frame around the glasses… if they exist.

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      20 days ago

      I hate it when people ask me to pass them the salt. They’re putting the responsibility of not spilling it on me. Sure I can do it, but there is always that small possibility of failure.

      If it hasn’t been used yet there is that moment of trying to decide how to grab the shaker. Do I grab it by the cap or by the sides? Surely it’s too risky to grab the cap… If it’s not screwed on correctly.

      • Tiefkuehlkost@feddit.org
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        20 days ago

        Shure it sounds trivial but the difference is that everybody normally handles salt and is therefore familiar with it, but not every person handles glasses, I myself could not tell you the last time I picked some up.

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          19 days ago

          IDK where the hell you’re from but I know at least three times as many people with glasses as without. There’s no excuse.

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            19 days ago

            IDK how old you are but in my age group i know at least three times as many people without glasses as with. There’s an excuse.

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      21 days ago

      I usually pick them up by the handles, while locking my fingers against the bridge, so that I can’t slip against the glas.

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      20 days ago

      My glasses don’t have a frame, but there’s no chance that they’ll break from holding them from the sides of the glasses. Though it does increase the risk of smudging them.