Ralph B <google80> writes:
>On Feb 7, 10:47=A0am, r...@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) wrote:
>=A0I was
>ast
>
>A DIY alternative:
>- [..]

ilsmihcf[*]
[*] i larfed so much i had a coughing fit.

Linda Fox <linda.ff> wrote:

|On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:56:53 -0000, Plusnet <not> wrote:
|>If the good lord had intended us to peer through letter-boxes......
|......he wouldn't have put so many of them at almost ground level like
|wot ours is (it was already there when we moved in, honest)

Ground-level letterboxes are the bane of my life. I spend more of my life
shoving bits of paper through letterboxes than perhaps I would like, and the
bending involved in ground-level letterboxes give me reflux something
chronic. :(

n

Plusnet <not> wrote:

|If the lenses are so tiny in the heighth* dimension, they only have to
|slip down one's nose by one or two millimeters & you're looking over
|them & not through them.

Don't you spend your life pushing your specs back up your nose no matter
what shape they are?

n

Niles wrote:
> Plusnet <not> wrote:
>
> |If the lenses are so tiny in the heighth* dimension, they only have to
> |slip down one's nose by one or two millimeters & you're looking over
> |them & not through them.
>
> Don't you spend your life pushing your specs back up your nose no matter
> what shape they are?
>
> n

Certainly not. I go back to the optician's time and time again till it
stops happening. I go back three times for most new pairs. If specs
slip down my nose while I'm making pots, the clay from my fingers if I
push the specs up would interfere with my vision and scratch the specs
even more than I tend to already. Plus, when you're throwing you don't
want any interruption.

Niles wrote:

>Don't you spend your life pushing your specs back up your nose no matter
>what shape they are?
>
Many years ago, I had the misfortune to select a pair of glasses
with a plastic frame and integral nose pads. They kept slipping
down, which a moment's application of basic physics showed to be
inevitable when the contact surfaces were as near vertical as
makes no difference.

Ever since, I have insisted upon adjustable nose pads, which,
whilst gravity still sucks, at least gives me a fighting chance.

Chris

Niles wrote:
> Linda Fox <linda.ff> wrote:
>
> |On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:56:53 -0000, Plusnet <not> wrote:
> |>If the good lord had intended us to peer through letter-boxes......
> |......he wouldn't have put so many of them at almost ground level like
> |wot ours is (it was already there when we moved in, honest)
>
> Ground-level letterboxes are the bane of my life. I spend more of my life
> shoving bits of paper through letterboxes than perhaps I would like, and the
> bending involved in ground-level letterboxes give me reflux something
> chronic. :(
>

It's hard to imagine how they ever seemed like a good idea even at the
time they were put in.
"Now what about the letter box? The postman's going to be wanting to
push the letters in .... aha, how about putting a slit down at
ankle-level? That'd be perfect!"

Chris J Dixon <chris> wrote:

|Many years ago, I had the misfortune to select a pair of glasses
|with a plastic frame and integral nose pads. They kept slipping
|down, which a moment's application of basic physics showed to be
|inevitable when the contact surfaces were as near vertical as
|makes no difference.
|
|Ever since, I have insisted upon adjustable nose pads, which,
|whilst gravity still sucks, at least gives me a fighting chance.

Oh dear. I have allowed myself to be sold a plastic frame this time, that
should arrive in a few weeks, after always previously having had metal ones
with separate nosepieces.

All the metal ones they showed me seem rather delicate, and the previous
pair broke three times in two years and had to be posted off to a barn in
Yorkshire somewhere to be resoldered.

The opticians seemed to think that there were two alternatives: spend an
extra 90 quid per pair of lenses on the NePlusUltraThin(tm) version, or stop
having nice-looking metal frames.

n

Marjorie wrote:
> Niles wrote:
>
> It's hard to imagine how they ever seemed like a good idea even at the
> time they were put in.
> "Now what about the letter box? The postman's going to be wanting to
> push the letters in .... aha, how about putting a slit down at
> ankle-level? That'd be perfect!"
>
You write in the past tense as if they don't do this any more. I am
about to have window and door replacements and my chosen door style (as
similar as possible to the current, original one) has a ground-level
letterbox. Luckily, one can request something different.

In article <611439F1s8sa3U1>, clothandclay28
says...

> You write in the past tense as if they don't do this any more. I am
> about to have window and door replacements and my chosen door style (as
> similar as possible to the current, original one) has a ground-level
> letterbox. Luckily, one can request something different.
>Are these doors are mainly glass & hence there ain't many places where
one could stick the letterbox?

In article <foelue$9ho$2>, rf10
says...
> Ralph B <google80> writes:
>
> ilsmihcf[*]
>
>[*] i larfed so much i had a coughing fit.
>
Wince.

I think I feel a sinus headache coming on.

In article <610f05F1sfgm5U1>, clothandclay28
says...
> > Don't you spend your life pushing your specs back up your nose no matter
> > what shape they are?
> >
> > n
>
> Certainly not.
snip
> Plus, when you're throwing you don't want any interruption.
>I believe Muttiah Muralitharan* might agree with you.

In message <0gulq3p9ot9kn03m1nuc8vmb7tqjnrrf63>, Niles
<alex.foster> writes
>Linda Fox <linda.ff> wrote:
>
>|On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:56:53 -0000, Plusnet <not> wrote:
>|>If the good lord had intended us to peer through letter-boxes......
>|......he wouldn't have put so many of them at almost ground level like
>|wot ours is (it was already there when we moved in, honest)
>
>Ground-level letterboxes are the bane of my life. I spend more of my life
>shoving bits of paper through letterboxes than perhaps I would like, and the
>bending involved in ground-level letterboxes give me reflux something
>chronic. :(
>
And them wot takes yer fingers orff.

Sincerely Chris

In message <foelue$9ho$2>, Robin Fairbairns
<rf10> writes
> Ralph B <google80> writes:
>
>ilsmihcf[*]
>
>[*] i larfed so much i had a coughing fit.

*Ouch*!! Far TMI

Sincerely Chris

In message <9julq39n20fhoec16p82qefi2qc8rigpsn>, Niles
<alex.foster> writes
>Plusnet <not> wrote:
>
>|If the lenses are so tiny in the heighth* dimension, they only have to
>|slip down one's nose by one or two millimeters & you're looking over
>|them & not through them.
>
>Don't you spend your life pushing your specs back up your nose no matter
>what shape they are?
>
No. But Toodles did. That was one of the reasons why he had contact
lenses as soon as he could persuade anyone to provide them for his poor
sight. He has a very small bridge on his nose and his specs frames were
very large and the lenses very heavy. When he wore specs/contact lenses
it was in the days before modern thin lenses had been invented.

Sincerely Chris

In article <9julq39n20fhoec16p82qefi2qc8rigpsn>,
alex.foster says...
> Plusnet <not> wrote:
>
> |If the lenses are so tiny in the heighth* dimension, they only have to
> |slip down one's nose by one or two millimeters & you're looking over
> |them & not through them.
>
> Don't you spend your life pushing your specs back up your nose no matter
> what shape they are?
>
As I have a shiney nose (TMI?) - Yes.

Because my lenses are quite large (by current standards) this doesn't
make much difference.

If they were these newfangled tiny things, the lenses wouldn't be where
I need them.

Perhaps the solution would be to have plastic surgery in order to
engineer a horizontal surface on the bridge of my nose.

I wonder what other bits & pieces I could have modified for practical
purposes?