Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Chris S]

How do top-end manufacturers manage to sell ugly glasses with thick plastic frames? When I was a child people who wore glasses like that got the piss taken out of them.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

How do top-end manufacturers manage to sell ugly glasses with thick plastic frames? When I was a child people who wore glasses like that got the piss taken out of them.

Marketing

a "profession" that has a lot to answer for

 

[Electric_Andy]

How do top-end manufacturers manage to sell ugly glasses with thick plastic frames? When I was a child people who wore glasses like that got the piss taken out of them.

I think it goes something like this:

Famous person wears something stereotypically "ugly" or "nerdy" to try and be different.
Because the famous person is famous and therefore "cool", rich people then buy the same stuff to also look cool.
After a while, affordable brands copy the look so everyday people can buy the ugly stuff and it becomes a highstreet trend.

See also Ugg boots, oversized padded coats, platform trainers and weird handbags

 

[Time Waster]

I think it goes something like this:

Famous person wears something stereotypically "ugly" or "nerdy" to try and be different.
Because the famous person is famous and therefore "cool", rich people then buy the same stuff to also look cool.
After a while, affordable brands copy the look so everyday people can buy the ugly stuff and it becomes a highstreet trend.

See also Ugg boots, oversized padded coats, platform trainers and weird handbags

UGG boots! OMG how on earth are they even a thing still? I have never seen anyone wearing one without the sole sloping inwards. Seriously, do they come with an inwards sloping sole unit out of the box? They offer no foot support. And to think I once worked with someone who went walking in the LAkes and used her UGG boots thinking they were good walking boots!! She is now a farmer wearing sensible and farmers supplied work boots. Never seen her with Ugg boots since that Lakes trip. At least she learnt from her mistake!!

 

[Jameshow]

I think it goes something like this:

Famous person wears something stereotypically "ugly" or "nerdy" to try and be different.
Because the famous person is famous and therefore "cool", rich people then buy the same stuff to also look cool.
After a while, affordable brands copy the look so everyday people can buy the ugly stuff and it becomes a highstreet trend.

See also Ugg boots, oversized padded coats, platform trainers and weird handbags

But the. An ex celebrity pops up wearing them and kills them dead as quick as they arrived!

Princess Anne and cargo trousers comes to mind!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How do top-end manufacturers manage to sell ugly glasses with thick plastic frames? When I was a child people who wore glasses like that got the piss taken out of them.

No such thing as ugly glasses, just ugly wearers.

 

[winjim]

I think if you're gonna have to wear something on your face, you might as well wear something on your face. Fashion, innit.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I think if you're gonna have to wear something on your face, you might as well wear something on your face. Fashion, innit.

I just want to be able to see things properly - what they look like to other people is not my problem
(but my wife does have views - at leats that shows she looks at me now and again!!!

(probably connected to the fact that I never look at my self in a mirror if I can help it
when my wife moved in she complained that I didn;t have a single mirror in the whole house
not one - of any kind!!!

 

[Chris S]

No such thing as ugly glasses, just ugly wearers.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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You sexy thing

 

[Jameshow]

Can you still get AA map books?

Used to be everywhere for a couple of quid and ideal for redneck touring without being a slave to a phone or Garmin..

 

[Alex321]

Can you still get AA map books?

Used to be everywhere for a couple of quid and ideal for redneck touring without being a slave to a phone or Garmin..

Yes
https://www.theworks.co.uk/p/maps-a...-great-britain-and-ireland/9780749584054.html

 

[Ming the Merciless]

when my wife moved in she complained that I didn;t have a single mirror in the whole house
not one - of any kind!!!

Ever wondered if you are a vampire?

 

[welsh dragon]

Is there anything that can't be fixed with duxt tape.

 

[Poacher]

Why are so many supermarkets designed with an odd number of aisles, with the result that you go up one aisle, down the next, up the next, down the next, up the next... and finish up at the end farthest from the tills?