Why do so many eductaed people wear glasses/contacts?

[duke o' york]

A lad at my school played football for England schoolboys, and got decent A level results, but that was the exception, rather than the rule. All the other members of the football team were dumb, and only allowed back into 6th form because they were good at football.

[DaShi]

Because they **** all the time.

[jdd2007]

At least at my school, a lot of people who own glasses never wear them for style reasons. They don't realize that they look just as stupid squinting at the board all the time. So I guess the best answer for you is that smart people don't give a damn about whether they look nerdy, or whatever the stupid football squinting football guys think about bifocals. They're mostly black, so maybe focalphobia is cultural around here. The only AA celebrity I associate with glasses is Spike Lee, someone who is not really known as a terribly fashionable dresser.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Also, the association smart = weak is false. I know at my (geek) school, we have the best athletics in the area. Just not in sports like football or basketball - we're better at individual sports like swimming and track and tennis.

It means your school is in a area where natural selection is going to wipe out. Nothing more.

[lightblue]

One of the guys in my class in school got 94% on his final exams (2nd in the year, of 320ish people) and is a two time olympian.

I have competed at national level in basketball and rowing, and have also done a PhD at Cambridge University.

I don't wear glasses.

So i guess you're not the only one.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by duke o' york
A lad at my school played football for England schoolboys, and got decent A level results, but that was the exception, rather than the rule. All the other members of the football team were dumb, and only allowed back into 6th form because they were good at football.

i played football for my school and college, and got decent results. i'm exceptional, yay!

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


It means your school is in a area where natural selection is going to wipe out. Nothing more.

What makes this statement scarier is that many other Chinese think in these terms as well.

[Al'Kimiya]

You will all soon find out that green-eyed men are underrepresented in the area of eyeglass-wearing, how is that for superiority?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
It means your school is in a area where natural selection is going to wipe out.

I understand every word in that sentence, but I can't parse it. Try rewriting it so that it makes sense.

[Dauphin]

He means that if you live in an area where nobody is sporty, even the weak (whom natural selection would select against at some point) look good.

Despite the poor grammar it was still intelligible.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I understand every word in that sentence, but I can't parse it.

You can't parse it. You speak as if you were a computer.

[Kuciwalker]

The word parse, and its meaning, predates the invention of the computer

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Dauphin
He means that if you live in an area where nobody is sporty, even the weak (whom natural selection would select against at some point) look good.

Which is silly, since he must be talking about the entire United States... we have one of the top crew teams in the country

[Dauphin]

Well, UR was taking cheap shots... unfortunately one was to his foot.

[mrmitchell]

Also, the association smart = weak is false. I know at my (geek) school, we have the best athletics in the area. Just not in sports like football or basketball - we're better at individual sports like swimming and track and tennis.

Yeah, but how many people care about what you're better at?

Track is probably third to football and basketball in terms of care...tennis and swimming are getting on down there...

Maybe the thing your school is really exhibiting is that, since team sports like football and basketball are sucked at, no one at your school is good at teamwork skills?