>>The real question is, did anyone actually wear them long enough to find out if they worked or not? or possibly even made the person's eyesight worse?
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>Well, considering they don't seem to be advertising them any longer...
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>My sister is into everything that I see as snake oil. I'm not averse to the idea of herbs as beneficial, but she believes there is a herb to cure every ailment from cancer to Parkinsons. She said that if she ever gets cancer, she will not see a doctor, she will go to a 'health practitioner' and have her toxins purged. This will cure her. Either that, or aromatherapy - I don't think she's decided which yet.

I have a friend who's into homeopathy. In fact she did a 3 year cause to become a homeopathy. I'm sceptical and I put it to her that if she ever got abola virus or some other necrotic flesh-eating infection she wouldn't experiment first with nux vomica or whatever other sweetened pills of FA she promulgates.

>She's a vegetarian (I have no issues with this), but when she sits down to eat, she also unloads a pharmacopeia (all natural, of course) from her purse onto the table around her plate. She told me, "I don't want to have to worry about getting sick".

Sounds like the American women, married to the ex-husband, in Absoloutely Fabulous (which you've probably never seen down in your basement).

> said that I'd never met anyone in my life who worries more about getting sick. It occupies her every waking moment. All her thoughts and actions revolve around worrying about getting sick.

Too true :-)

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>She remembers some of her past lives, and has out of body experiences. And all that is just the beginning.
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>She's my sister and I love her, but we don't see much of each other.

Figures! Well she may see more of you than you - her, when she's astral travelling.

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>>>>>About 10 or so years ago, there was a product advertised in a TV infomercial that was based on this concept. It was a pair of glasses. The lenses were black plastic covered with pinholes. The pitch was that if you wore these for a while (a year? 2 years? who knows.) you'd be able to see while your eyes would get exercise and you wouldn't need glasses. I know about this because my sister bought a pair. She proudly told me about them at thanksgiving dinner one year. As you might imagine, I was a little incredulous, not at the fact that my sister would by them (you'd have to know her), but at the concept. My first question was, "you wear glasses so that you don't have to wear glasses?". Anyway, I tried them on, and immediately felt like a fly.
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>>>>I hope you didn't go and regurgitate all over the turkey then crap on the butter!
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>>>>>I could see hundreds of duplicates of very small parts of everything I looked at. What a stupid idea.
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>>>>Sure you weren't looking through a kaleiderscope? Maybe you should have had your own pin-hole prescription?
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>>>>Strange, as the concept is the same as the camera obscura, or "instamatic" film camera.
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>>>Are you sure? Didn't the instamatic still only have one aperture? These 'glasses' had many holes regularly spaced all over the lenses.