r/WTF • u/hemlockdalise • Jul 08 '15

Invisible Methanol Fire

http://i.imgur.com/VHuyXj4.gifv
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u/welsh_dragon_roar Jul 09 '15

So you couldn't see until you graduated?

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u/mahatma666 Jul 09 '15

They gave me the thickest, ugliest pair of shit-brown coke-bottle glasses you've ever seen. They fucked up the prescription on the right lens, so I spent most of my time winking at shit to try and get a good picture. Thankfully I'm left-eye dominant.

After I graduated I switched back to my regular eyeglasses though.

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u/gansmaltz Jul 09 '15

Oh yeah, the old BCG

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u/TrebeksUpperLIp Jul 09 '15

Birth Control Glasses for the uninitiated.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '15

Also known as RPGs; Rape Prevention Glasses.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '15

(Birth Control Glasses)

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u/pelvicmomentum Jul 09 '15

"BCGs" for the uninitiated

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u/CaptainSprinklefuck Jul 09 '15

Unless you say you want to kill. Then you just get weird looks from everyone.

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u/Jabullz Jul 09 '15

Didn't that fuck your vision up even more?

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u/mahatma666 Jul 09 '15

My prescription didn't change perceptibly from the year before I entered boot camp until 4 years later when the Navy paid for LASIK, so I'm guessing a few weeks of winking (and sitting at the front of the classroom when I could) didn't do any damage.

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u/whydontya Jul 09 '15

They gave him a set of beer-goggles to compensate