Och aye the noo

[Hot_Tamale]

Yes, I'm right handed as well. As I said, I don't know if I'll take the offer regarding the contacts? It might not seem awkward to you, but, just getting the contacts in sounds really sore, y'know? Again, that might just be me being a squirmish? :bigsmile:

Lol, I know..I'm still squeamish sometimes too. If I try too hard then I push on my eyeball too hard and I accidentally give myself a bad headache for the rest of the day, you don't want that happening to you.

 

[Graeme1988]

Lol, I know..I'm still squeamish sometimes too. If I try too hard then I push on my eyeball too hard and I accidentally give myself a bad headache for the rest of the day, you don't want that happening to you.

Nope! Don't think contacts are for me, then. Just keep to glasses. Or save up for a few years and get that laser-eye treatment? :thinking:

I'm dazing enough as it is whenever my glasses off, and I've only got them today. So that must mean I'm already adjusting to them?

 

[theslowesthand]

:kickingmyself: :sad:

Above pretty much sums up how I'm feeling. Still dwelling on my failure from the other day. Quite depressed because of it. ::

What was that failure, if i may ask? :question:

 

[theslowesthand]

Well, ah wear glasses now. Yay! Ah've went fae dumb, glakit mong to an elite member o' Scotland's intelligentsia within 48 hours. Basically the reverse o' that comedy movie cliche where the geeky-looking character gan fae lookin' like a right minger to gorgeous.

At least, that's the impression within the family now, y'know? Cuz o' the beard, the bald heid and fat, hairy belly. Just need a pipe n' that's me... Ma sister did use the intelligentisia line, like. Which is pretty high-brow for someone living in such a rural part o' Scotland, but doesnae live oan a farm.

Perhaps yer family might treat ye differently from now on?? And might not view u as intidimating/etc?? :question:

Btw: welcome to the club!! :bigsmile:

 

[Graeme1988]

What was that failure, if i may ask? :question:

Oh, just this:

I failed my peripheral vision test while getting my eyes tested yesterday. :sad:

Made a right arse of it. As the wummin testing me compared the test to the videogame, Space Invaders. And ah huv'nae played that game in 20 years. h:

 

[Graeme1988]

Perhaps yer family might treat ye differently from now on?? And might not view u as intidimating/etc?? :question:

Don't know about that. :idontknow: I mean, I'm still a big lad, not exactly some scrawny f**ker. So, the imitidation factor's still probably gonnae be there, I'm guessing? Unless I completely shave ma beard off n' never grow it back, which would take 10 years off my actual age. :thinking:

 

[Graeme1988]

Btw: welcome to the club!! :bigsmile:

Cheers. :brindis: Though, I don't think I'm as good lookin' now? :shyness:

 

[Graeme1988]

Ah cannae seem to do anything right. :kickingmyself:

 

[Graeme1988]

My oldest sister's giving me grief a

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bout why I'm not wear my spare glasses. Nearly through a raging tantrum when ah said ah wus'nae as keen on them. Being turquoise with a white trim roon the legs.

"Well, ye should've picked a different pair then", she snaps at me. Ah just telt her:
"But there wus'nae an other frames ah liked. Ah didnae want a pair that would be too big for ma face"
"Aye, yer right enough"​

Don't know why the wimmin in ma family always f**kin' snap at me whenever I speak up for myself. Makes me wonder why ah even bother open ma mooth. :thumbdown:

Other than that, just trying to get planned for ma wee summer trip to Edinburgh again this year. Don't know if, given the current climate politically, that an offensive but ironically intended t-shirt would get the same response as they have the past couple years I've trekked up to capital? :question:

 

[Hot_Tamale]

On my screen there is an ad for prescription glasses from some random company under your last posting..fancy that.

 

[Graeme1988]

2017 has not gotten off to a great start for me. :sad: :kickingmyself:

 

[Graeme1988]

On my screen there is an ad for prescription glasses from some random company under your last posting..fancy that.

Must be because I mentioned getting my eyes test and that offer I got the other day from my local opticians in Dumfries.

Though, gotta admit ah felt a wee bit emotion during both visits. Not because ah wus finally getting glasses. Naw, naw! It wus just that on both visits to Dumfries, which is a lovely market town just a few miles from where I live.

Anyway, as my sister and I are walking to the local opticians we hear the faint sound o' bagpipes, gradually getting louder, and there, just a few yards away, in middle o' the tiown, is this guy playing the pipes. Decked oot in full Highland dress anaw. The kilt, tartan sash, the lot. Looked like he wus posing for a Scottish shortbread tin. :bigsmile:

Ah don't know, it's just felt a bit weird hearing the bagpipes in the middle o' the day. Since, normally ah only hear them being playing when wandering aboot Edinburgh. Or after a music gig that I've attended here:

 

[theslowesthand]

Cheers. :brindis: Though, I don't think I'm as good lookin' now? :shyness:

I had trouble with that for many years. Finding the glasses that suit you in all situations is hard. The best ones i've been wearing for several years - they are "frameless" & so don't stand out very much at all (very low-key), unlike previous shiny-framed & plasticy glasses i've had. But i had to make them "myself" (bought a pair of frameless reading glasses --> got optometrist to create short-sighted lenses for them, & drill a few holes & grooves). Mind you, the surface is now degraded, so can't see very clearly thru them. And the nose thingies are green/yellowed (should be clear). Did buy another pair reading glasses, but lost em. Oh well, they do the job.

 

[Graeme1988]

Wish this in-grown toenail would get better. Ah really need to get back in shape afore spending ma summer in Edinburgh this year. Since I don't really want to be going about in my wheelchair as much when out and about.

 

[Graeme1988]

Way too many/much compromises. And i'm not wasting or missing out on that much, really. Overall, it's just SO not worth it. DECIDED. I shall stay single until the day i die.

Ah've came to this same conclusion, masel' 10 years ago. Though, I've been messed about too much by ma own family that ah've became too guarded to fully trust anybuddy, really. Ah mean, you probably would anaw if folk around ye lied to you so much that ye cannae tell when they're be truthful and honest.

Don't give a flyin' f**k about loneliness anymore, man. Ah prefer ma own company too much to even consider masel' lonely. Plus, I'm bore as f**k to hing oot with. mg: PS: Sorry for not replying to this post in the actual thread.

 

[theslowesthand]

Ah've came to this same conclusion, masel' 10 years ago. Though, I've been messed about too much by ma own family that ah've became too guarded to fully trust anybuddy, really. Ah mean, you probably would anaw if folk around ye lied to you so much that ye cannae tell when they're be truthful and honest.

Don't give a flyin' f**k about loneliness anymore, man. Ah prefer ma own company too much to even consider masel' lonely. Plus, I'm bore as f**k to hing oot with. mg: PS: Sorry for not replying to this post in the actual thread.

It's a "decision" i've made in theory. But in practise i still desire (for various reasons) to have relations with a woman; it's just no "practical". Do you feel any attraction say, if a real beautiful hot babe walks past you in town? Or are you past all that even? I guess if i was happier, i might not pine for them so much; for my whole life i've been fed the fantasy of romance/hapiness/etc, & i find it hard to "shake off". And being attracted to a woman's sexuality, well that's hard-wired, can't do nout about that?

 

[Graeme1988]

It's a "decision" i've made in theory. But in practise i still desire (for various reasons) to have relations with a woman; it's just no "practical". Do you feel any attraction say, if a real beautiful hot babe walks past you in town? Or are you past all that even?

Oh aye! Ah still feel attraction if some hot lassie walks past me in town. Since they tend to check me out anyway. Subtly, of course. Like that short, chubby blonde lassie who works in ma local supermarket did a few months ago.

Or even me just politely saying "Hiya" to a this lassie who was about my age - a complete stranger to me - as I walked up the path to my house with my sister from her car. The lassie say hi back, like, and kinda blushed. :bigsmile:

So, wouldnae say I'm past that, entirely. It's just more awkward for me as I've got that "Disabled people can't have sex, they're asexual" assumption to deal with due to my disability. And getting similarly invasive, personal questions about that, like ah used get about the way I walked in primary school.

I guess if i was happier, i might not pine for them so much; for my whole life i've been fed the fantasy of romance/hapiness/etc, & i find it hard to "shake off". And being attracted to a woman's sexuality, well that's hard-wired, can't do nout about that?

I kinda wonder that about maself as well, the whole if I were happier n' that, then things would be better. Rather than huvin to fake being happy all the time. Sadly ah wus'nae fed that same fantasy aboot romance n' happiness until my mid-20s, seriously.

So it's kinda difficult to "shake off" being telt yer useless, men are b@$%@"*s and relationship aren't worth the effin' hassle, y'know? :sad:
But that what ye get when ye come from a dysfunctional, manipulative family.

 

[PugofCrydee]

I wondered what 'Och aye the noo' meant.. I mean, just now. So I looked it up;

Scotticism. ... An archetypal example of an overt Scotticism is "Och aye the noo", which translates as "Oh yes, just now". This phrase is often used in parody by non-Scots and although the phrases "Och aye" and "the noo" are in common use by Scots separately, they are rarely used together.

So Graeme, using the words together now are we?! What's this all about then?? Pretending to be a Scotsman aye right? Didn't really know what it meant did ye?? Hmm... I knew something was amiss with ye! Explain yourself òigridh man!..

*Put's bagpipes aside, wait's with arms folded, tapping right foot..adjust's kilt...*

 

[Graeme1988]

I wondered what 'Och aye the noo' meant.. I mean, just now. So I looked it up;

Scotticism. ... An archetypal example of an overt Scotticism is "Och aye the noo", which translates as "Oh yes, just now". This phrase is often used in parody by non-Scots and although the phrases "Och aye" and "the noo" are in common use by Scots separately, they are rarely used together.

So Graeme, using the words together now are we?! What's this all about then?? Pretending to be a Scotsman aye right? Didn't really know what it meant did ye?? Hmm... I knew something was amiss with ye! Explain yourself òigridh man!..

*Put's bagpipes aside, wait's with arms folded, tapping right foot..adjust's kilt...*

Pug, whit da fu... whit are ye oan, man?! Me pretending tae be Scottish... :veryangry: Away n' bile yer heid! Haud oan a minute here, did ah no explain that here a few years ago? :thinking: Awrite, ye got me. Brace yersel'... I'm actually a Geordie fae South Shields. Why aye man!

Ah mean, ah huv'nae been using the Scots dialect as much, lately. If that's whit's made ye ask aboot this? But that wus summit ah chose tae dae, so it wouldnae feel to difficult tae read ma posts. Also, didnae want tae over-use the lingo.

Of course, ah knew whit the title o' ma thread meant. Couldnae think of a better title for ma ain thread, so thought I'd use "Och aye the noo". Sarcastically, like. But, och well... So much fur ma sense o' humour. mg:

 

[PugofCrydee]

Haha it's all good mate! I was just feelin a little... lonely at the moment I posted that lol. The site was unusually quiet, so I thought I'd see if I could get a response!

My humor can be a little.. off kilter at times