Hindsight is 20/20.
I love rephrasing that as “Looking at an ass is a full mark”
You see perfectly out your butt!
They obviously don’t wear glasses.
That’s also Dr. Glaucomflecken a semi-famous optometrist.
It took me a while to get the joke. I was just like, yeah that’s probably close to her prescription.
Ophthalmologist
I’m not sure what he can find to be optimistic about in this economy.
I think you’ve confused his job. The study of birds is a very interesting field of study.
I think you’ve confused his job. The study of fields is very interesting for birds.
I think you’ll find he’s a cancer specialist, actually.
No, you’re thinking of an ornithologist. An opthalmologist is someone who practices dark arts.
That’s an occultist.
An opthalmologist is an appointed official who investigates complaints by taxpayers against government departments.
You’re thinking of an ombudsman. An ophthalmologist is a grappling submission that uses your legs and hips to hyperextend an opponent’s shoulder joint.
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He should have had his scribe write the joke
No such thing
Knock knock, Hi. That’s internet famous to you, sir!
Damn, it took me a while, haha 😂
Surely that was on purpose.
Diopter was my first reading too, and my account isn’t even “Dr. Glaucomflecken”.
Guy is a social media actor shorts comedian and is pretty based. So not only would he not say something like shitty that, he wouldn’t say it publicly. On yt he has 1.27m subscribers.
social media actor shorts comedian
And also a real ophthalmologist, which seems relevant :-)
Him being an actual eye doctor makes his skits so, so much better.
My reading of it following the ethans point of view first. People are different. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So given Dr. Glaucomflecken is an opthalmologist, I’m at least 37.3% sure he meant her eyeglass prescription in diopters. Isn’t that right, Johnathan?
Take shitposts seriously and get into fights with strangers
The color coding of the scores is so completely fucked.
White? Or is it the background for the time left in the quarter you meant? The scores appear to be white on blue and white on black. Not sure why they did the WNBA logo to be on orange though. The shot clock being on red makes sense to me as it is the “imminent danger”. (Probably could just do black on white for it though)
Yes.
I’m putting on my needs context hat and standing next to the needs context sign.
Comment refers to the girl’s eyeglass prescription, not a ranking of her attractiveness.
Based on the distortion visible in her glasses, her prescription is approximately -1.00 to -1.50 diopters. Severely nearsighted prescriptions would cause the wearer to appear to have much smaller eyes; farsighted prescription would cause the eyes to appear larger.
The doctor is saying what her likely rx is, the responder i think assumes hes talking about her attractiveness out of 10, or is just being a snarky dick.
This interaction truly tickled me in a way that I had to comment lol, even if it’s not furthering the convo. Great post!
It truly is!
ethan is the weeb.
Ethan, wake up. u_u
she does look a lot like Paige from The Americans tho, i gemuinely thought it was her
My misogynistic brain: she’s not that bad looking.
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Great response, given that the alternative was to double down and take the lifelong commitment to the path of misogyny
i think he is referring to the strength of her prescription. a -1 or -1.5 diopter prescription is mild - i.e. her glasses aren’t strong enough for the person she offered them to. misogyny was not intended
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It took me about 5 seconds to get the joke (about the time to grab and put my glasses on so I could read all the text)
woosh
What? I think you missed what he is saying like the reply to him. He was talking about her glasses not her looks. If he doubled down it would have just been him explaining what he meant and that would be that.
It is fair to be confused and not know that he’s really talking about the prescription if you don’t know what that is and you don’t know Dr. Glaucomflecken is an actual ophthalmologist from his comedy Youtube shorts.
I’m assuming you are talking about Ethan but I’m not sure how misogyny or shitting on someone talking about glasses are the only 2 options?
Oh dear I should really be more careful with irony in written text or else feel the wrath of the mob! 😅 I meant that calling her a -1 can be interpreted as pretty offensive and Ethan pointed that out. Now the other guy saw the issue and corrected his comment with a follow up. I just meant that he did that in a really good way. He could have also chosen to never admit a mistake and just become a misogynist now.
-1 was obviously about her glasses. The screenshot is basically going “look at this idiot who didn’t realize that” nobody did anything misogynistic in the screenshot and being heavyhanded in labels like that make it easier for actual examples of misogyny to be dismissed.
I think what Jeff is pointing out is that it isn’t uncommon for someone to be misinterpreted as a misogynist and, when called out, decide to lean into the misogyny rather than away, even if it wasn’t their original intention. In this instance, it’s a miscommunication that the OP handled in a way that made me laugh out loud, but I think Jeff is right, that there are also people who, in the same situation would have responded something to the effect of “I was talking about her vision. Maybe if you women weren’t all so [insert twitter-typical misogyny here]”, etc etc. Obviously that isn’t what happened here, but it has been known to.
I’ve never seen a double whoosh before. It’s one thing to not get the joke, it’s another thing to not get the joke after the joke has been explained to you.
