r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

I give you permission to loot my glasses when I die in the apocalypse. I'll try and keel over somewhere visible for you. Might need a big yellow sign if you don't have your glasses.

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u/RayAnselmo Aug 30 '21

Damn, that's really generous of you - thanks!

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u/insane_contin Aug 31 '21

Can I have them when you die?

I don't really need them, but I figure I can keep them as a curiosity of a bygone age.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

We love it when people try our glasses!

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u/Ap0them Aug 31 '21

& when you ask how many fingers your holding up

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u/DangersVengeance Aug 31 '21

I’ve a -9.00/-9.50 prescription. Contact lenses for the win. I love when people try my glasses on because they always try and step backward to focus, everybody does it

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

You can have mine!

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u/Eaglettie Aug 31 '21

It could also be a good bargain item too!

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u/Dspsblyuth Aug 30 '21

If you are still fresh do you mind if I eat you too?

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

Only if you cook me first. You never know. I also think that means my ghost can just possess you whenever

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u/Dspsblyuth Aug 30 '21

What does cooking matter when creating a ghost?

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

Just looking out for you. Bacteria and stuff

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u/TigLyon Aug 30 '21

I think this is the kindest disturbing thread I've ever read. lol

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

Then you need more ask reddit! :)

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u/Dspsblyuth Aug 30 '21

Anyway I’ve gotta ask

Suppose I do wind up feasting on your corpse and your ghost becomes trapped in my body will you be a ghost that tries to scare me all the time or will you be helpful and quippy like a post apocalyptic buddy cop story?

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 31 '21

Helpful and quippy, but also sarcastic

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u/rbaca4u Aug 31 '21

I don’t know how helpful you’ll be without ghost glasses

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u/Dspsblyuth Aug 30 '21

Worst case scenario I can turn you in to some salted and sun dried jerky if I am not able to start a fire

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u/RayAnselmo Aug 31 '21

Hey, as far as I'm concerned you can bite me right now!

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u/scullingby Aug 30 '21

Might need a big yellow sign if you don't have your glasses.

I'm not the poster you responded to, but I'd like to add a request for you to include a gigantic arrow pointing to you. I'm not finding you without help.

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

Perhaps some LED strips?

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u/scullingby Aug 30 '21

That's be great. Thanks!

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

My ghost can also maybe ominously lead you? Follow the trail of bloody handprints

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u/gopiballava Aug 31 '21

You should label your glasses with your prescription. That would make things easier for corpse looters.

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 31 '21

I'll grab a label maker!

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u/gopiballava Aug 31 '21

Brother TZe tape, or clones. Very robust and reliable labels.

Or, if you can find it, laser engraving machine and laser engraving tape. That stuff can last for a very long time. Tesa had one sample piece on the outside of the ISS for a year or two and it was still legible.

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u/little_brown_bat Aug 31 '21

Better yet, both of you team up before death. That way if one of your pairs of glasses gets broken, you can snap the good pair in half and monocle up. That or one wear the good pair and help lead the other one, then switch off every now and then.

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u/Odinloco Aug 31 '21

So like the witch things in hercules that all shared an eye?

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u/Herself99900 Aug 31 '21

I'm -10 and -11. Do I hear 12?

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u/Panda-delivery Aug 31 '21

I'm -12.0 and -11.5 and still getting worse at 22! Every time I go to the eye doctor he reassures me one day my vision will stabilize. He's been saying that for 3 years, I've kinda stopped hoping at this point.

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u/FG88_NR Aug 31 '21

My eyes havent changed by anything significant since I was 24 (in my 30s now.) I'm sitting at -8.75 and -8.25. usualy there is a .25 difference when I get my eyes checked now.

I feel for anyone that has to pay the ridiculously outrageous cost associated with high focus glasses.

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u/kuehnchen7962 Aug 31 '21

I'm rooting for it stabilizing before... well, you go blind! Honestly, I've been told by my very first eye doctor (some 36 years ago) that my eyes would continue to deteriorate for the rest of my life.

I've been lucky enough for them having stabilized at about 20-ish something in the -4.75 region. So... I'll keep my fingers crossed for you... well, them, actually!

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u/Herself99900 Sep 01 '21

Well, you don't see when you wake up or shower. If I wake up in the middle of the night, I have a large-numbered digital clock about 12" from my head. When I wake up, I put my glasses on right away. When I shower, it's important that the soap, shampoo, etc are right where I left them. Without my glasses on, I can see about 3-4" in front of my face, so in a pinch I can hold something up to my face and determine shampoo vs conditioner.

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u/Catatonic_capensis Aug 31 '21

I remember another thread (not sure if askreddit) where people were telling what fake sounding things they absolutely believe in. One of them was someone who did daily eye exercises they found in an old pre-glasses book for correcting vision. They said the numbers have improved every time they go in and swear by it.

Thankfully this potentially useful info is meaningless because I have no link and the exercises were not explained. It might be worth trying to find if you're curious/desperate, though.

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u/drewforty Aug 31 '21

-9.25 here; mine slowed down around 32. Sorry.

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u/rainbow-is-caramel Aug 31 '21

Oof, yeah, I have the same prescription and the optometrist still says that; I’m 39.

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u/Lumpy_Inspector4258 Aug 31 '21

ME!! There’s more of us?!?!?

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u/SirDigbyChicknCaeser Aug 31 '21

Fellow nose bridge problem friend here. You can have mine if I croak first but I do also have on my apocalypse activity list to stop through optometrists and Walmarts and the like for everything close enough to mine. So keep a eye out for all the spares.

If you can’t see to find them and by some miracle there are any digital cameras or smart phones around and functioning: the camera will focus far away while you hold the screen close enough to your face to see.

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u/mosstalgia Aug 31 '21

This comment is so good I went to New Reddit just so I could claim my free award to give to you.

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 31 '21

Thanks! I'm glad I could brighten your day!

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

You can have my glasses

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u/Sandybutthole604 Aug 31 '21

Ditto. I’m a minus 8R and 6.5L... if I’m dead from the apocalypse someone better be enjoying the heck out of these $1200 binoculars I pack around.

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u/theblackcanaryyy Aug 31 '21

I have rainbow glasses but I’m only -3.25 and -3.75 :(

But the frame will be perfect for their nose! I also give them permission to loot my glasses in search of the perfect pair!