My eyes rolled so hard... May 2, 2019 10:04 PM   Subscribe

I read this comment from oulipian on the Blue and did a quick web search for other "my eyes rolled so hard" moments on Metafilter. List within. Share your own!

I guess I shouldn't have read the article, because I got to the part where it says "...before landing at Nori, a company addressing climate change with blockchain" and my eyes rolled so hard they exceeded the annual energy consumption of several European countries
- oulipian

I hope this looks OK, because my eyes rolled so hard they fell out and I can't see what I'm typing.
- dirigibleman

My eyes rolled so quickly that they went back in time to yesterday and now everything I'm seeing is 24 hours out of sync, send help
- duffell (Yeah that's me, stop rolling your eyes)

I would have read the rest of the article, but my eyes rolled so hard at the first sentence that they fell right out of my sockets and rolled under the couch.
- Spatch

My eyes rolled so far back, I could see the inside of my skull.
- Smilla's Sense of Snark

my eyes rolled so hard they fell out and rolled away under the sofa
- pseudostrabismus

my eyes rolled so hard I saw my power animal.
- palomar

My eyes rolled so hard when I learned that Anakin was building C-3PO that I spent enough time searching for them in the theater after the movie was over the ushers kicked me out.
- hippybear

Great, my eyes rolled so hard that they're stuck in the up position and I look like a jackass trying to type this.
- indubitable

My eyes rolled so hard I detached a retina.
- markr

my eyes rolled so hard I might have sprained something
- LastOfHisKind
posted by duffell to MetaFilter-Related at 10:04 PM (24 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite

Ooh, I love these. I usually use "my eyes rolled so hard I gave myself a migraine" or "they fell out" or "they got stuck that way" and now I'm feeling creatively deficient. I'll have to step up my eyeroll game.
posted by potrzebie at 10:43 PM on May 2, 2019 [2 favorites]


When I read the headline and preview of this post in my rss reader I thought you were calling out someone's comment for something shitty and that the mods were gonna "have a day" and I rolled my eyes so hard my ears farted.

Then I clicked and read and fully support this sort of behavior.
posted by chasles at 4:40 AM on May 3, 2019 [23 favorites]


I watched Terminator Genisys over the weekend and after about 2 minutes of the time-line stuff, I just rolled my eyes and stopped caring.–Fizz
posted by Fizz at 7:01 AM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


I like to say “If you find some eyeballs rolling around on the floor near you, let me know; mine fell out from rolling them too hard.”

I also use “I rolled my eyes so hard I now have vertigo.”
posted by sockermom at 9:13 AM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


Pro tip: if you roll your eyes at precisely 23.976 revolutions per second, on video they appear to be perfectly still
posted by oulipian at 9:37 AM on May 3, 2019 [7 favorites]


I say ‘if I roll my eyes any harder I’ll be staring at my own *brain*...’
posted by ersatzkat at 9:59 AM on May 3, 2019


my eyes rolled so hard they fell out and rolled away under the sofa
- pseudostrabismus


Eye-ponisterical.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:14 AM on May 3, 2019 [8 favorites]


I can put up with some bad writing in a mystery novel, but was defeated by the first book in the Frey and McGray series when I reached this sentence:

His eyes immediately fell on the violin case, like peas rolling to the bottom of a bowl.

Ever since then, I've noticed that characters who roll their eyes at each other is a sign that a book isn't going to be very good.
posted by betweenthebars at 10:28 AM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


I tend to go with "full-body eye-roll," like "*insert full-body eye-roll here*" or "that was so stupid I just suffered from a full-body eye-roll"
posted by Eyebrows McGee (staff) at 10:55 AM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


My ayes rolled so hard they became nays.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:14 AM on May 3, 2019 [19 favorites]


I use "MERF" for that pretty regularly...
posted by suelac at 11:42 AM on May 3, 2019


I am positive that I have said some variation on "I rolled my eyes right out of my head and now they are under the couch help" on this very site.
posted by sarcasticah at 12:28 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


I used to be on a board (what up, Kvetchers!) on which the eye-roll emoji had been misinterpreted so many times that we added the initialism SDER: self-directed eye-roll. It lives on in many of the friendships that started there!
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 1:11 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


I just went to the eye doctor and found out I have "lattice degeneration" from myopia which has a (slightly) increased risk of retinal detachment so now I am paranoid about rolling my eyes too much. Roll your un-stretched retinal nerves while ye may, Mefites.

*I'm mostly kidding there is no real evidence that moving your eyes too much affects the nerves.
posted by nakedmolerats at 1:52 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


I've never hit on an eye roll saying I liked in the heat of the moment.

Though, recently, I did use it like, "rolling my eyes to death". I liked that because it's saying I will damage your eyes from rolling them so much, but there's also a shadow of the reading that it will be fatal to me which I think is a nice emphasis.
posted by fleacircus at 2:56 PM on May 3, 2019


I rolled my eyes so hard they said "Reply hazy, try again."
posted by Corvid at 4:32 PM on May 3, 2019 [10 favorites]


👀🙄😳👁👁
posted by Lynsey at 12:49 PM on May 4, 2019


My eyes rolled so hard they were developed into a popular serious of ensemble action films.
posted by lucidium at 4:06 PM on May 4, 2019


My eyes rolled me so hard.
posted by aws17576 at 7:04 PM on May 4, 2019


Somebody once told me my eyes are gonna roll me
posted by moonmilk at 9:13 AM on May 5, 2019 [4 favorites]


My eyes rolled so hard the dealer called it a hardway seven.
posted by nickmark at 8:14 AM on May 6, 2019


<<eyeroll in Spanish>>
posted by It's Never Lurgi at 9:32 PM on May 6, 2019


"Nearly sprained my eyes."

"Like to broke my eyes a-rollin' 'em."
posted by aspersioncast at 5:00 AM on May 9, 2019 [1 favorite]


Y'all's faces are going to freeze that way!
posted by fiercecupcake at 8:21 AM on May 9, 2019


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