This Is The Day

[guitician]

I use an "Optivisor" for close work now. They come in choices of magnification, and have a flip down loupe for extra zoom.

TowerHobbies.com | Donegan Optivisor LX w/Lens #5

[Gibsonman63]

The eyesight is the 2nd thing to go.

[Chuck H]

What's the first???

For me it was my attraction to young women (and their attraction to me).

There's a fine line between "mature and cool" and "creepy old guy"

Chuck

[Enzo]

Hah!!!

When I was young I couldn't get the time of day... and I even had a watch. COuldn't seem to talk to the girls the right way.


Now I am God's gift to waitresses and can flirt 'em up with the best of them.

Oh if only I had the line of shit I have now way back then... I'd have been unstoppable. I'm the cool old guy. I still never get any, but they like me now.

[jrfrond]

Hah!!!

When I was young I couldn't get the time of day... and I even had a watch. COuldn't seem to talk to the girls the right way.


Now I am God's gift to waitresses and can flirt 'em up with the best of them.

Oh if only I had the line of shit I have now way back then... I'd have been unstoppable. I'm the cool old guy. I still never get any, but they like me now.

True that. Does someone want to tell me exactly WHY this happens??? Seems like Father Time has a cruel sense of humor!

[jrfrond]

Get this to go with the OptiVisor, and you'll be the talk of the shop!!!

QUASAR LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR OPTIVISOR

[Tom Phillips]

That's a hoot. The general idea is good but I think the bare LEDs without a lens system to focus and even out the light will be minimally effective. Looks like it would be a great FX for a low budget sci fy movie though.

[txstrat]

On the other hand you could use the LEDs to shine right in your face and it might help.
No joke, an optician once told me the iris goes limp when we get old - and as the iris contracts with more light (that's why we can't read in dim light first) we might better run around with these lighting systems all the time.

[J M Fahey]

Does someone want to tell me exactly WHY this happens???

Well , I *do* have a theory about this, but it is cruel to us, so ... let it rest as-is.

[jrfrond]

On the other hand you could use the LEDs to shine right in your face and it might help.
No joke, an optician once told me the iris goes limp when we get old - and as the iris contracts with more light (that's why we can't read in dim light first) we might better run around with these lighting systems all the time.

Hey there buddy, speak for your OWN limp iris!!! My iris is a stiff as it ever was!

Tom, the LED system actually works pretty well. Saves my ass when working on surface-mount stuff.

I really do wanna hear about that "cruel theory". Perhaps we can all be enlightened, hmmm??? We can take it, we're all "mature" adults here. :O

[52 Bill]

True that. Does someone want to tell me exactly WHY this happens??? Seems like Father Time has a cruel sense of humor!

I think it's because we reach an age that makes us "safe" to younger women. We can still write the check, but our funds are insufficient.

[J M Fahey]

Yes, it's basically that. 52 Bill hit the target on the center.
By the way things are, girls want to be the ones who decide who, (let's put it in few words), goes to bed with them.
Since "in theory" we are always horny, no matter the situation, their standard attitude is "no", "don't bother me", "I'm not interested" and 1000 other variations, most of which mean cutting flirting short, *even if they are interested*.
Worst case, they know we'll still insist so actually it's a prety safe bet they do.
Even "cool mature guys" have a chance at the game, so girls still resist ... or pretend to.
But when we are past ripe (at least in that particular girl's taste, maybe not with others), we become, as 52Bill said , "safe".
They will not hold anymore, enjoying the game as a game, which is fun for us too, no mistake about that.
But ... eventually taking them to our room "to see our wonderful collection of Japanese stamps" or whatever the excuse ... no way José !!!
Although, of course, this is not news for anybody.
Conclusion #2: even if a rejuvenating machine took us back 25 years, with all of our "modern wit" intact, it would certainly lose most of the power it seems to have today, because the old game rules would apply again.
Well, I've only typed what many already realize, if only in the bottom of their minds.

[Chuck H]

I have another theory... Waitresses like tips


As well as any other opportunistic gal I suppose. And "safe" is a major factor too

A friend just lamented to me how he had become "invisible" to teenagers... sigh.

[Ronsonic]

A friend just lamented to me how he had become "invisible" to teenagers... sigh.

Hmmm, must be nature's way of telling him something. Whatever could that message be? Hmmm.

[txstrat]

A friend just lamented to me how he had become "invisible" to teenagers... sigh.

A friend of mine when he was 30 went to a disco and tried to talk to some gals. One of them said: "Look, now they come in here when they wanna lay down to die."

Hey there buddy, speak for your OWN limp iris!!! My iris is a stiff as it ever was!

I hope not the iris only.