(for anyone confused, he’s guessing her prescription)
FYI, Dr. Glaucomflecken is an ophthalmologist and has a YouTube channel full of medical comedy bits. I’d link it but I’m too tired from writing and triple-checking “Glaucomflecken” and “ophthalmologist”.
He’s awesome. And hes doing real activism for the fucked up US medical system.
Oh shit, I know that channel and didn’t pick up who it was until your comment made me look closer at his profile picture. He’s pretty damn funny with healthcare relevant comedy.
I’m a doctor and every time I write ophthalmologist I’m surprised at how many H’s there and where they end up.
I know, right? At least it’s not otorhinolaryngology.
I gotchu https://youtube.com/@dglaucomflecken
Thank you! Yay, teamwork makes the fediverse go 'round!
Is his name genuinely that close to Glaucoma or is it a “stage” name. If real, I think that’s wild he chose to become an ophthalmologist.
It’s a stage name. His real name is Will Flanary and Glaucomflecken is a medical term:
Glaucomflecken are small, gray-white spots that form on the front layer of the eye’s natural lens. They are the physical scars left behind when the eye has suffered a sudden, severe spike in internal pressure, typically due to an episode of acute angle-closure glaucoma.
I totally understand. Nice work on those words, especially if you’re on your phone.
Appreciate your appreciation ❤️
Oh man I love that guy. His vids are great. I esp love his rural medicine bits because I grew up in the boonies and it reminds me of home lmao.
Is he the one with the video of the farmer guy who says “my wife told me I should come in” and they all go into high alert? Lol
That’s the guy! Don’t worry, he’ll get Texaco Mike on the phone! He’s got the MRI machine 🤣
Same, I love their their horrifying dependence on texaco Mike for modern medical tech.
he is a -3 cuz didn’t see it coming
cries in -6
I started my contacts journey at +7.5 and +7.75. I’ve been in +3.00 and +3.25 for about 10 years now. No one knows why I dramatically got better in 3 years but that was a wild 3 years of not really being able to see because it was changing so much.
Could be worse, -12.5 and -16 in contacts for me. Prefer it to being blind though.
Jesus, I didn’t think they made contacts that thick. On the bright side, those bad boys could probably stop a direct hit from a nail gun before it hit your eye. I bet it’s like wearing permanent safety glasses.
As far as I know only one company does, so uh, hope you like them because it’s that or glasses thick as a submarine window. Even with the -16 I can still only get to 20/50 vision thanks to the early onset cataracts caused by the extreme myopia. Is what it is though, I don’t complain.
That sucks. I’m sorry you have to deal with all that. Sounds like you have a good attitude about it at least
I appreciate the consideration. Honestly, I can see better now than in my 20s thanks to years of conscious effort to train my brain to use that eye too. When I finally got a vision test at around five years old, I was already pretty bad off in the one eye, but the other was fine at the time, so my brain just kind of learned to use it for peripheral vision and not much else. Hopefully I don’t get macular degeneration or a detached retina, but what can you do but make the best of it? Take care out their folks, and get your kids eyes checked!
Gotta train your eye muscles to maintain your reading speed.
When you can feel the inertia of your contact lenses, they’ve gotten too thick
Yes, he could have worded that better, lol.
I had to consider what the joke was… guess my mind is on the correct lens Rx because I wear glasses also
Glasses wearing world unite.
Hah i saw the “dr” first and knew what he was talking about. Also helps to be a glasses wearer in this case i guess
The rest of his username is the German word for “glaucoma spots” btw.
And alas, though he tries to guide others to medical truths, the damage is already done and in one fell swoop he has been cursed to ‘die alone’
Diopter? I don’t even know her.
He has made some hilarious videos about being a doctor, for those who don’t know who he is. Can highly recommend
Oh hello, Jimothy
I am guessing we are talking about Cylinder here because those look a little thick for a -1 Sphere.
At least he didn’t double down hahaa
I still have the same reaction to seeing anyone discus someone else’s medical information unprompted like that. Kinda creepy ngl
He’s an internet doctor personality, so he does that.
What a prick. As if he could tell from that picture how attractive she is anyway, she’s not dressed in a revealing way, which is a suggestion to not talk about her looks like that.
Hes talking about her glasses but like, on the subject of people actually making comments like you’ve misunderstood him to be doing, people aren’t more deserving of crappy comments on their bodies based on how they dress 😅
Either give someone a non-dickhead compliment in a context where its appropriate or keep your thoughts to yourself. Learning to understand what kinds of compliments don’t carry a feeling of entitlement to their time and reciprocation for the person receiving them is a skill, but its an important one thats worth doing. And It’s important to remember that person doesnt owe you any attention or positivity back for the fact you chose to comment on them
(Much of this isnt really purely a reply to you teyrnon, not trying to single you out, just saw the opportunity to address the way we comment on people and expand on the idea that the way people dress doesnt mean folks are entitled to interacting with them in a way that sucks for the person being commented on)
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Exactly, it’s fucking creepy. It’s not normal to just casually blurt out people’s medical information.
Okay, so he’s an ophthalmologist, and he’s talking about what her potential prescription for her glasses might be.
It is easily misread as a misogynist measurement of her beauty, and he recognizes that and acknowledges it. It wasn’t what he meant. Hence, the meme.
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The glasses she refers to and are wearing are the context of his comment. That’s pretty easy to understand if you aren’t obsessed with standards of physical beauty.
I’d never heard of this guy either. But I read all the way to the bottom and deduced from the last comment that his previous comment meant something other than the woman’s appearance. It requires using intelligence.
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take a day break
/s ?
I don’t think you need to see any body to tell that she has a pretty face, just to counter your implied “there’s no way to know for sure whether or not she’s that ugly and it’s rude to point it out while she’s dressed like that”.
Wooooosh
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Okay Ethan….
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