• Bonehead
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    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.

      • Bonehead
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        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.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

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      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.

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

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

    • @frickineh
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      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.

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        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.

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

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

    • Flying SquidM
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      If you were to tell me you suspected Gwyneth Paltrow of being a serial killer, I wouldn’t automatically say you were wrong…

  • @tourist
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    Add cult leaders and pedophiles to the pie chart

    • @jaybone
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      Yeah strong Koresh vibes from these.

  • @gaifux
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    Now I can really see what I’m serial killing!

    • @teamevil
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      So how many bodies you got?