Mandy Lifeboats Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, sidcow said: I assume to say LOOK AT MY SUPER EXPENSIVE WATCH which is fine. I know someone who is exactly like that. The hilarious thing is that he knows nothing about watches. Once he turned up with a monstrosity he'd got from a shopping channel. It was made by someone like "Lunge & Rulex of Switzerland" who have been producing luxury watches of the highest standard for only £500 by "cutting out the middle man". It was a watch you can order from China for about £30 with an maker's name printed on the face. I was wearing a 1970s watch which I picked up for £400 a few years earlier. My watchtold the time to a reasonable accuracy but was a little slow. It told me the date as long as I remembered to amend it if the month didn't have 31 days. I had to wind it manually. His watch told his the time on Mars, his height above sea level and when it was dark it produced a light bright enough to keep ships off the rocks. One of us was wearing a watch worth £500. The other didn't realise what a sucker he'd been. Edited March 28, 2022 by Mandy Lifeboats Spelling mishsteaks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brommy Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 54 minutes ago, sidcow said: Been meaning to post this in here for ages. Those massive ankle length puffer jackets. Got to be one of the ugliest fashion statements I've seen for a while. I really think you have to go back to shell suits really and I think in a few days years people will look back on them in their same way. Orrible things. Fully agree. They remind me of insulation lagging so the wearer looks like a walking immersion tank. I can only assume they are worn by people who are making the statement - 'it keeps me warm and I'll give a middle-finger salute to everyone who thinks it looks ridiculous'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 One of these bad boys was the ultimate time-telling status symbol back in those halcyon schoolyard days... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Risso said: Of course they're a functional item, what utter nonsense. Not everybody is glued to their phone 24 hours a day, and there are lots of times when it wouldn't be appropriate/advisable to be looking at your phone to see what the time is. And phones are every bit as much of a fashion statement as a watch, if not more so, otherwise people wouldn't spend hundreds of pounts upgrading them every 18 months when the actual differences between the models is negligible. How many could have bought a Hulk for what they've been paying for their phones for the past 10 years, I know which is the better and cooler thing to do. It's the same for everything though, books, models, watches, cars, motorbikes, vinyl, erotic aids, whatever you're into is your bag and whatever is someone else's bag is theirs. The only other spot to compare this with on VT is the guys that collect vinyl records, it's something I haven't done for years, we have no choice at one time but I can dig it, in fact I'm quite envious when I see some of the pics posted on here of collections and even more so some of the hifi setups people have, just marvellous. I'll never get the things I don't get argument, if you don't get it, why read about it, or better still appreciate someone else's thing (intended), it's all good, within reason of course. p.s. Imagine the uproar if the unknowing knew how much we pay to have ******** serviced, ouch. Edited March 28, 2022 by Phil Silvers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 28, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Risso said: If I'm swimming, skiing, playing football or any number of other sports, I can look at my watch. Breaks Law 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 28, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Risso said: If I'm in a meeting where taking out your phone and studying it would be rude, I can look at my watch. This is why you'd have a tablet. It's very rude to be looking at phones in a meeting but supermax it to a tablet and *bingo* instant professionalism and totally on the ball 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 22 minutes ago, bickster said: Breaks Law 4 The last 10 minutes of every Tuesday's dads' 6-a-side is "first to five". There's no way of strictly enforcing that without a watch, and it's taken very seriously, let me tell you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 20 minutes ago, bickster said: This is why you'd have a tablet. It's very rude to be looking at phones in a meeting but supermax it to a tablet and *bingo* instant professionalism and totally on the ball Ah, the modern equivalent of walking round the office holding a folder to look important, like it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 28, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 28, 2022 28 minutes ago, Risso said: Ah, the modern equivalent of walking round the office holding a folder to look important, like it! I really want to get a tablet and a big part of that is to help with work. The above is the exact reason I haven't pulled the trigger yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted March 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 28, 2022 Watches are fine, I haven’t owned one in any year beginning with a 2, but that’s just me. You want big expensive watches, fill your boots. My ipad tells me the time, the radio tells me the time, my phone tells me the time. I once spent £99 on a boxed set of vinyl records. Not a single thing on them I didn’t already have in a download folder somewhere. It’s personal discretionary spending that I think probably has fairly minimal impact on the lives of others. You go for it if you like watches. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Risso Posted March 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 28, 2022 When Putin's first nuke hits, and the EMP knocks out your phone, my watch will still work. Oh how I'll laugh as I tuck into my radioactive rat in the cellar! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 8 hours ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: Luxury watches explained - Part 2. The Dacia car will cost me a few thousand quid. I will use it for 5 years and it’s going to be worth very little. The DB5 will cost me a lot more. But after 5 years of use it will still be worth a significant sum. It might even be worth more than I paid for it 5 years ago. I saw a DB5 at my local petrol station a few months. Just a fella abut 60, didn't look flashy at all. Probably had it ages. Got to be worth over £500k now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 7 hours ago, GarethRDR said: One of these bad boys was the ultimate time-telling status symbol back in those halcyon schoolyard days... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Always wanted one of these (rich kid in class had one ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 The bbc 6music hype/fascination over Kae Tempest (and little sims for that matter - although I often like the instrumental side of her tracks) must be getting old - just not my bag but it’s unavoidable on their station and social media. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 On 28/03/2022 at 19:36, theboyangel said: Always wanted one of these (rich kid in class had one ) Things you 'literally' didn't get? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 5 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Things you 'literally' didn't get? Maybe I should’ve added in one of the messages about watches for context Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Probably been said before, but NFTs baffle me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 12, 2022 Moderator Share Posted April 12, 2022 15 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said: Probably been said before, but NFTs baffle me. Just replace the initials NFT with the word grift and you'll understand it a lot more 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted April 12, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Dante_Lockhart said: Probably been said before, but NFTs baffle me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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