Recommend a watch - Page 3

SteveDallas · 01-06-2006, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

But there's something about an adult wearing a Darth Vader or Spongebob Squarepants watch that really makes a statement.

I don't do statements.

mrnoodle · 01-06-2006, 10:28 AM

I look outside. If the sun is up, I should be at work. If not, I can go home.

dar512 · 01-06-2006, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by mrnoodle

I look outside. If the sun is up, I should be at work. If not, I can go home.

Must be hell during the summer.

Elspode · 01-07-2006, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mrnoodle

I look outside. If the sun is up, I should be at work. If not, I can go home.

What the hell are you? A farmer?

wolf · 01-06-2006, 10:32 AM

I also have a shepherd's watch, but it's not much more than a novelty, particularly since I work nights, mostly indoors.

I also have not really had it work right ... I don't think it's "tuned" for my latitude. Either that or someone forgot to wind the sun and it's starting to run slow.

dar512 · 01-06-2006, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

I also have a shepherd's watch, but it's not much more than a novelty, particularly since I work nights, mostly indoors.

I also have not really had it work right ... I don't think it's "tuned" for my latitude. Either that or someone forgot to wind the sun and it's starting to run slow.

Well they did add that extra second at the end of the year.

Undertoad · 01-06-2006, 02:52 PM

Cash is dead.

I carry my identity around with me at all times, as it is inherently part of my history and personality and consciousness.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-06-2006, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Cash is dead.

I carry my identity around with me at all times, as it is inherently part of my history and personality and consciousness.

And so much easier to steal than cash.

Beestie · 01-06-2006, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

And so much easier to steal than cash.

Not only that but you can only spend the cash you steal once. A purloined identity, on the other hand, has syndication value.

Kitsune · 01-08-2006, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Cash is dead.

I carry my identity around with me at all times, as it is inherently part of my history and personality and consciousness.

Alright, fine fine. But hear me out, here. I think the watch is the last vestige of dressing to look good, even in everyday situations. We really don't need watches -- we can tell what time it is through all of the other devices we interact with on a daily basis, so a watch is really nothing more than jewellery. I'm always confused to see people wearing digital watches a-la 1984 or people buying into the pda-combo idea. Most digital watches, being plastic, have the appearance of a cereal box freebie and a PDA on your wrist is just another unneeded, junky piece of electronic excess. Imagine if other pieces of jewellery worked the same way: Would you give a woman an engagement ring that lights up and flashes different colors? Should a man's ring scroll the time and play music when it is time for him to go to a meeting?

Well, okay, don't answer those questions. Still, I don't wear anything more dressy than khakis and a polo on a daily basis, but I wouldn't be caught wearing a watch with a black plastic band or something that connects to a computer. The wristwatch, aside from a ring, is the last piece of decent looking substance men wear these days. Digital displays are okay if you're five and know it is time to go when "the little hand being on the eight" and watches with calculators and computer displays haven't been acceptable since 1986. Some of the watches you guys are suggesting are proof that the last thread of fashion decency is dead.

The next thing you know, straight guys will take to wearing pink shirts and acting as if it were normal.

wolf · 01-08-2006, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Kitsune

I'm always confused to see people wearing digital watches a-la 1984

These are back and I think it's neat.

Trilby · 01-06-2006, 02:58 PM

i never wear a watch as obvious impediment to starting a convo with possible sex partner: "D'you've the time?" said with one eyebrow raised is a go-er. Esp. if wearing an Emma Peel-ish outfit.

Also is useful if state trooper pulls you over and says, "Do you've any idea how fast you were going?"

richlevy · 01-06-2006, 04:43 PM

Well, I have these, but they are more for formal occasions, as I would hate to scratch them up in daily use.

BTW, when I said each day of the week, I meant each weekday of the week. The original Mickey Mouse Club was Monday thru Friday.

MaggieL · 01-07-2006, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

i never wear a watch as obvious impediment to starting a convo with possible sex partner: "D'you've the time?" said with one eyebrow raised is a go-er. Esp. if wearing an Emma Peel-ish outfit.

"I've got the time if you've got the inclination." I doubt dressing like Emma Peel would help me though.

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Also is useful if state trooper pulls you over and says, "Do you've any idea how fast you were going?"

Trooper pulls Werner Heisenberg over, asks ""Do you've any idea how fast you were going?". Dr. Heisen berg replies "No, but I know *exactly* vere I am".

richlevy · 01-07-2006, 04:02 PM

Welcome back Maggie! I haven't seen a post from you in a long while. Have you been lurking or staying away?

01-06-2006, 10:28 AM	#2
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	I look outside. If the sun is up, I should be at work. If not, I can go home. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

01-06-2006, 10:32 AM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I also have a shepherd's watch, but it's not much more than a novelty, particularly since I work nights, mostly indoors. I also have not really had it work right ... I don't think it's "tuned" for my latitude. Either that or someone forgot to wind the sun and it's starting to run slow. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-06-2006, 02:58 PM	#12
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	i never wear a watch as obvious impediment to starting a convo with possible sex partner: "D'you've the time?" said with one eyebrow raised is a go-er. Esp. if wearing an Emma Peel-ish outfit. Also is useful if state trooper pulls you over and says, "Do you've any idea how fast you were going?" __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

01-06-2006, 04:43 PM	#13
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Well, I have these, but they are more for formal occasions, as I would hate to scratch them up in daily use. BTW, when I said each day of the week, I meant each weekday of the week. The original Mickey Mouse Club was Monday thru Friday. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

01-07-2006, 04:02 PM	#15
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Welcome back Maggie! I haven't seen a post from you in a long while. Have you been lurking or staying away? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

01-06-2006, 02:52 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Cash is dead. I carry my identity around with me at all times, as it is inherently part of my history and personality and consciousness.

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