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[-] [email protected] 101 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That wasn't on purpose, that's literally all that was available on the 80s. When I picked my first set, there were only 3 options...those, the black framed nerd glasses with the white band in the middle at a time when Revenge Of The Nerds was a recent movie, or the giant rose colored plastic framed women's glasses. I didn't want to looked like a serial killer, but it was better than the alternatives.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

Oh thank god, I'd assumed my dad was a retired serial killer too

[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

I cannot confirm or deny whether your father was a serial killer, all I can say is that he probably just didn't want to look like a nerd or Elton John.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Maybe he just knew he could never be as fabulous as Elton John so he didn't even try

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That was different times, you wouldn't understand. It was simply the craze of the moment, you were a nobody if you didn't do it.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I was just looking at a photo of the time yesterday. In it were around 15 people. Of those 15:

≈8 were wearing prescription aviators
≈4 were wearing aviator sunglasses
≈3 weren’t wearing any glasses
0 were wearing a different style of glasses

Side note: the person who showed me the photo was the only one in it still alive. He was ≈35 when it was taken. Probably the youngest by far of the group.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

There were the grandma ones with the accented tips. But that was strictly grandmas. So yea. Not many options.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

And then the 90s hit with those round framed tinted glasses and everyone went wild for them

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Seriously, the glasses options were rough. My mom had the big plastic ones and my dad had some similar to these. I got my first pair in '91 and they had marginally better choices for kids, but not much. It was hard out there for a long time.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

There were definitely a lot of kids ones in the early 90s that were basically the glasses in the OP but in an assortment of colors. My first pair was a purple and white speckled version of the 80s "serial killer" glasses.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Lol mine were teal speckled serial killer glasses. I think my second pair was purple.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sometimes I'm about to post something on a meme community and think if it fits and then just post it here

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

itsGoop

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

If you were to tell me you suspected Gwyneth Paltrow of being a serial killer, I wouldn't automatically say you were wrong...

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Add cult leaders and pedophiles to the pie chart

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah strong Koresh vibes from these.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Now I can really see what I'm serial killing!

[-] andrew_bidlaw 3 points 5 months ago

Mass-shooting is just a lack of precision and the excess of ammunition.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

"yOOOOOO"

I had multiple iterations of those.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

So how many bodies you got?

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