Dear Lasik Plus, go fuck yourself

[maderr]

The opening line of their commercial? Needing glasses to read the menu on a first date? Not hot.

What the fuck ever. There's nothing wrong with my glasses, there's nothing wrong with needing glasses to read something. Shit, I have yet to meet the guy I did not think gained plus fifty hot points the minute he puts on glasses. I die every time hottie muscle boy in Leverage does it.

So Lasik Plus can fuck off and die. Gods I hate the world at time.

Comments

[alice_montrose]

And the nasy thing is, this is still surgery. And they don't bother to explain stuff like "health risk" in such commercial.

Hell, I happen to think that, with a frame that suits one's features, glasses are damn sexy! And people have told me that mine give me a more "professional" look, whatever that means. (Okay, I know what it means, I have mirrors.)

On top of that, my optician is of the opinion that laser surgery should only be applied in extreme cases, when it actually makes a difference - and for minor problems, glasses or contacts are the way to go. As I can't stand contacts... *clings to nice glasses she needs for reading and computer time*

Therefore, I agree - Lasik can go fuck themselves!

[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

I totally seconded this opinion!

[rappleart3.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. Seriously, I tried contacts and they were such a hassle. And using a blade to cut the cornea of the eye open? Not hot. I'll keep my nice looking glasses, thank you very much.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Glasses are often damned sexy. People are dumb.

Plus, it's eye surgery. They cut into your eyeball with lasers. *shudders*

[dragonknight337.livejournal.com]

I'm extremely paranoid about that. If I ever did it, I'd get one done, and then if I haven't gone blind after a couple years, get the other one done. And still wear cosmetic glasses, because after 16, I look weird without 'em.

[lisiche.livejournal.com]

I got lasik a few years back (bless them, they fixed my astigmatism *.*) and my only complaint, other than I don't have my hot glasses anymore (and they were hot. Maybe I should get non-prescription lenses in them).... NO ONE TELLS YOU THAT IT SMELLS LIKE BURNING HAIR.

Weird eye bondage contraption? Fine. Cutting a flap of skin off my freaking EYEBALL? Fine. It seriously doesn't hurt at all. But oh god the SMELL of laser burning your insides!! NOT FINE, MAN. NOT FINE. Not when you're not warned about it!

[karinaspellman.livejournal.com]

both my grandmother and my father have gotten that surgery. I'm not them, so I can't pretend to understand. And I don't need glasses (though I'm fairly certain I will need them at some point in the future), so I can't pretend to understand that either. But I can tell you this:

Obviously, these commercials were not made by real women. Or men. Glasses are sexy. Granted, not to everyone, but those people are just missing out.

[spurious-sanity.livejournal.com]

maaaan, that was a bad commercial.

Getting said surgery in 9 days, so cussing it out is kinda hypocritical, but I don't see why they focus on the cosmetic part of it. Personally, I'm doing it 'cause I'm completely and utterly blind without glasses or contacts, and, quite frankly, they're a hassle to deal with.

[thornsilver]

Oh, gods, you are right, that smell was... something.

[thornsilver]

I've had Lazik done. But it less to do with being sexy and more to do with the fact that the eyeglasses were driving me batty. I like not having to worry about them.

[skylark97.livejournal.com]

1) Guys with glasses are hot, and I don't see why the reverse wouldn't be true. Certainly, I wouldn't be caught dead with a guy hung up over whether or not the girl he dated wore glasses.

2) Lasix surgery is creepy. You have to be awake while they cut your eyeballs with scalpels (Okay, maybe not scalpels, per se, but they sure as hell aren't coming after your eyeball with harmless fluffy bunnies...the only time I want to hear lasers and surgery and my body parts in the same sentence would be if I were reenacting some bad 80's flick for shits and giggles.). It's like willingly asking to be an extra in a real life horror movie. O_O Sorry, my nightmares are fucked up enough without me actually having real life experiences behind them.

3) This is why you want to poke advertisers with hot metal sticks. They invent problems where they do not exist so that they can offer idiots consumers solutions to the fake problems so that people will fork over money. I'm sure there are many good reasons for lasik surgery. Sheer superficial, self obsessed vanity is not one of them. But leave it to advertisers to think it's a brilliant way to bring in more business in a slowing economy. -_-

[indigoraven.livejournal.com]

Or... you could be like me, get PRK (Like Lasik, it uses a laser, but the method is different)and be back in glasses in four years. My vision is still good enough to pass the test to drive without them, but damn... Fscking astigmatism.

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

Gah, such idiocy.

Don't get me wrong, I like how I look without glasses better than how I look with them (even with my new glasses, which are smexy), and over the years the hassle of contacts and glasses has only started to bug me instead of getting used to it, so lasik surgery is somewhere on my 'I'll need to save a crapload of money to get this done'-list.

But that commercial completely misses the point! Did no-one stop to think?

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way, I totally dig your new layout. Kyo and Kinni, yay!

[scary-sushi.livejournal.com]

... Is this commercial serious?

...

I can't say anything, I just can't. But I will say this: THANK YOU for getting me into Leverage, this is the most awesome thing on TV. Also, any Leverage guy with glasses (especially Eliot, since he's The Muscle and muscles and glasses are usually portrayed as mutually exclusive) makes me squee. And their hotness doubles. Take that, you idiot commercial!

Also, I like my glasses. Do they want us to think we're ugly? WTH?!

[pc1739.livejournal.com]

Daniel Jackson. Think that says it all.

[tsubaki-dono.livejournal.com]

They are prejudiced, demeaning marketing imbeciles.

Personally, I do love the scene in Bones where Tempe puts on stupid butterfly glasses and the super-hot Seely Booth catches them on her and says, "Oh my God, Bones." And in slow, sultry tones instructs, "Now, pull out the pin in your hair, shake it out and say, 'Do you know what the penalty for overdue books are, Mr Booth?'"

Luffs.

[camden-rehab.livejournal.com]

Glasses are sexy win. Mmmmm. ^__^ And scenes where people ever so tenderly slide off their partner's glasses...? Turns me to goo every time.

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

I was watching Love Actually with my colleagues last week, and there was this character that we all agreed was WAY hotter with the glasses than without. (Without he was just a normal, good-looking dude. The glasses almost /squared/ his hotness.)

[akerushin.livejournal.com]

And what about glasses fetishes?

[akerushin.livejournal.com]

I forgot to include.. some of us blind ones look horrid without glasses (small eyes ya know?).. XD

[suzume-tori.livejournal.com]

Glasses are hot. Hands down, they just -- they are awesome. You can do so much with glasses -- it's like having a great haircut: choose the right ones to frame your face, and you can go from ordinary to adorable (or hot, or chique, or whatever look you work towards).

As a kid I used to wish really really hard that I would get bad eyesight and NEED glasses.

Long story short -- you're right, commercial's wrong.

[scarletempyrean.livejournal.com]

... If there is any person who knows me and says that to my face, I would probably stab them with my very very pointy sword (I take wushu).
I've been wearing glasses for years, and it doesn't seem to make me look ugly. Not when compared to the incredibly ugly girls in short shorts with fat sagging thighs who insist on wearing miniature bandaids in a failed attempt to look provocative.

Not to mention, Coach glasses are incapable of being ugly. :)