What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective?

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meyotch@slrpnk.net · 43 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A shit-scented mustache

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1y

The ol' Dirty Sanchez

actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I've heard a therapist call it "shit-colored glasses."

jimmy90@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

fundamentalist lens - nothing can every live up to ridiculous expectations

EightBitBlood@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Mine calls em shit shades.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 26 pts · 1y (1 reply)

In terms of clichés, I'd go with 'they see the glass as half empty.'

Not exact, but close enough

xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

Rose-colored glasses Vs half-emptied glasses does have a nice ring to it

Impound4017@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 1y

I think that’s just cynicism or perhaps pessimism.

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

A jaundiced eye?

Jarix@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Cynicism

Steve@communick.news · 10 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Green tinted glasses would be the technical answer.

Sick tinted glasses?

Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

Jade-colored glasses?

expatriado@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

in photography when a flash light has too much green cast, we put a color correction pink gel filter on it, in that way pink and green are opposite

Steve@communick.news · 2 pts · 1y

Exactly

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Like Emerald City, lol

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Those sound dope af

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 1y

My ophthalmologist calls it 20/20.

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y

I've heard it called "doomer goggles", but only in very online contexts

the_q@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y
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cmeu@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Shit colored

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Brown-tinted glasses.

Makes everything look like shit.

Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

I've seen a lot of various 3 word combos mostly revolving around shit and shit adjacent coloured eyeware and that was my thought as well but one thing I think everyone's missed is that it you want to try and stick to that template so it's recognisable as the antonym for the phrase but still change enough of it to be clever, we should change tinted as well and I think "tainted" is perfect since it sounds almost the same and has a similar meaning in context but still adds it's own negative connotations.

"Shit tainted glasses" is the chef's kiss in my mind. Unless anyone's got something that means the same or almost the same as glasses but also adds additional negative overtones.

loomi@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Jaded

higgsboson@dubvee.org · 5 pts · 1y
hardware26@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
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Leather@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Shit colored goggles.

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

The correct prescription lenses.

timmytbt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

Rage-coloured glasses?

phonics@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Shit stained brain.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I think that's called having depression.

RootAccess@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Glasses

whaleross@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

People that call themselves "realist"-glasses.

morphballganon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Trauma

cloudless@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y
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mceldritch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Carnage Visors

Grimy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Rot colored glasses

PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 1y

Blackpilled maybe?

thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -4 pts · 1y

"being an asshole"