Hmm. Maybe. My first contacts were the hard ones--wore them for ten years, loved them to bits, still sorry I had to give them up. As I say, didn't exactly spend my days rubbing my eyes (which, with hard lenses, could be rather dangerous).

Either way, I find it really hard to believe that, in 2006, TV producers wouldn't insist on finding a solution to a contact lens problem. I'm still going with mannerism.