Solar eclipse idiots

[Irregularelephant]

The amount of people on my social media feed i have seen using a colander to stare directly at the sun through it rather than casting a shadow with it to view. Or people who have permanently damaged their phones from the glare. Or the knock off glasses from dodgy websites that arent certified.
IABU: they will all be fine
IANBU: They have damaged there eyes and are silly

And damage to the inside of an eye often isn’t painful!

We were out with colander and pin hole sheets with a neighbour. Then an older man on a walker(relevant as he was trying to walk at the same time)holding it over his face. I rushed over to help him, he genuinely thought thats how you did it.
Lets not forget the president of the usa in 2017. I swear some people think they are invunerable.share.google/pS86lnGcjT5m352C8

Yeah, that’s why I voted YABU 😕

genuinely, how do you manage daily life without EVER looking at the sun?

Staring directly for a long period, yes, obviously dangerous.

'quick peek' aka what most people do constantly, probably without ever realising it - how exactly is this going to lead to blindness? There are millions of people, both nowadays and throughout history, who work outside in baking sun daily without any form of eye protection, I can't work out whether you think they managed to do so without ever looking anywhere near the sun, or if they are all completely blind after one 'quick peek'?

The damage more likely to develop as they age....I know first hand as mine and my partners did....needing corneal grafts.

Disagree.. I found plenty of info about projecting onto card/paper

nowhere said look thru holes!

People thought to look straight through a colander- oh my life!!

Must be great to be so perfect. This is such a mumsnet thread

have seen using a colander to stare directly at the sun

They must have strained their eyes. Boom boom.

Zero sympathy for these absolute twats

I sat outside with my teenage son yesterday to watch the eclipse. One of the young lads on our estate was complaining about sore eyes as he had looked directly at the sun with no protection.... apparently he didn't know it was dangerous 🙃
Absolute numpties.

Didnt you tell him?

It was thick cloud and mist where I live so we saw nothing at all. It didn’t go dark. The cows in the next field continued eating normally. We couldn’t even see an outline of the sun. What a total let down 😭

@onceandneveragain

'quick peek' aka what most people do constantly, probably without ever realising it - how exactly is this going to lead to blindness?

I didn't mention blindness. I very much doubt that loads of people are going blind, but there will be a number of people who spent far too long looking at the eclipse and will have caused damage to their eyes. No pain, no symptoms but damage nevertheless.

When I was young, it was "normal" to slather oneself in oil and bake in the sun, but I don't think many people do that these days, and (some of) those that did are experiencing the consequences of that damage many years later.

All the hysteria over this is hilarious and just ridiculous.

OP, the people posting photos of the colander over their face are doing it as a joke.

No there were lots of people looking through the colander

One neighbour was looking at it through two pairs of sunglasses. I gave her my spare pair of eclipse glasses (yes, I was one of those organised people who ordered in time).

It’s just natural selection

Honestly. I’d rather be an idiot than a complete misery like these people.

I agree. I replied in the thread about those who peeked, giving my experience of having eye problems thanks to the pressures going up because of my eye anatomy (causing similar problems to the damage caused by glaucoma. Mine is narrow angle closure glaucoma).

Some horrid person replied saying they didn't want to read about my health problems. 🤔😳😕 It made me sad that someone would be unkind when all I'm trying to do is give a bit of advice on how eyesight is precious. Their immature attitude made me think they probably didn't care.

@x2boys i did. I also lent him a welding glass to look through. Hope he's okay today

Also, eclipses have happened through history but there don't seem to be folk tales about thousands of people going blind afterwards.

So while having a quick peek wasn't all that sensible it's unlikely to result in terrible damage for most people.

😳 I'm sure they will be ok, but it does make you wince at the level of common sense around!

Tbf that's probably a lot of people panicking after reading about potential eye damage rather than genuinely thinking they have eye pain.

Yes, this.