I think you got it backwards there. Supposed to figure out if you can accept the other person for who they are before you get married.FTE wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:55 amBugs, features...its all the same once you get married and you just have to accept the person for who they are (Dubb rubb you listening?!)...yinzburgher wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:44 amI'd like to say something like "great minds think alike" but it's probably something more pathological at work in us. More of a bug than a feature.
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Uh huh.cel4145 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:44 amI think you got it backwards there. Supposed to figure out if you can accept the other person for who they are before you get married.FTE wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:55 amBugs, features...its all the same once you get married and you just have to accept the person for who they are (Dubb rubb you listening?!)...yinzburgher wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:44 am
I'd like to say something like "great minds think alike" but it's probably something more pathological at work in us. More of a bug than a feature.
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-------cel4145 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:44 amI think you got it backwards there. Supposed to figure out if you can accept the other person for who they are before you get married.FTE wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:55 amBugs, features...its all the same once you get married and you just have to accept the person for who they are (Dubb rubb you listening?!)...yinzburgher wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:44 am
I'd like to say something like "great minds think alike" but it's probably something more pathological at work in us. More of a bug than a feature.
First accept yourself for the nutcase you* are--then proceed from there.
*"you" = all of us!
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Not really a confession, just some venting. So some of you know how my life has been going. Not bad, just a lot of change and a couple bad things happening ($500 + speeding ticket paid the same day my TV craps out).
Fast forward to today, my new TV arrived! So exciting. While wearing my STO turtle, (this is irrelevant, but hey, watch forum ya know)I get the TV all assembled and go to put it in place, but wait, this TV is too big for the entertainment center I have! Dammit. Grab the tape measure and search the house for suitable furniture. Nothing. But hey! There is a pile of 2X4s out back, surely I can make something work. Even if it is tacky and the woman is going to HATE that I am simply laying 2X4s on top of the entertainment center, so what. It is only temporary.
I go out back and find a couple of nice pressure treated redwood 2X4s and cut them to length. You are brilliant Dub Rubb, back to video games and TV you go you resourceful mofo. Leaving the woodpile in the dusk and then BAM!!
Rusty nail through the shoe and into the foot. Eff me. Oh well, it doesn't really hurt and you had a tetanus shot like 7 years ago. Or was it 12? 15?!? Eff me.
After some searching for medical records to no avail and looking up the effects of tetanus (why?!?) I finally find out that Walgreens offers tetanus shots for like $60. 2 hours of agonizing over what to do for nothing. Oh well, at least the TV works!
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Fast forward to today, my new TV arrived! So exciting. While wearing my STO turtle, (this is irrelevant, but hey, watch forum ya know)I get the TV all assembled and go to put it in place, but wait, this TV is too big for the entertainment center I have! Dammit. Grab the tape measure and search the house for suitable furniture. Nothing. But hey! There is a pile of 2X4s out back, surely I can make something work. Even if it is tacky and the woman is going to HATE that I am simply laying 2X4s on top of the entertainment center, so what. It is only temporary.
I go out back and find a couple of nice pressure treated redwood 2X4s and cut them to length. You are brilliant Dub Rubb, back to video games and TV you go you resourceful mofo. Leaving the woodpile in the dusk and then BAM!!
Rusty nail through the shoe and into the foot. Eff me. Oh well, it doesn't really hurt and you had a tetanus shot like 7 years ago. Or was it 12? 15?!? Eff me.
After some searching for medical records to no avail and looking up the effects of tetanus (why?!?) I finally find out that Walgreens offers tetanus shots for like $60. 2 hours of agonizing over what to do for nothing. Oh well, at least the TV works!
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I think I'm a candidate for King of the Dumbos Award. I keeping posting watch deals without looking at what page I was last on. As a result, my deals get posted on the wrong threads, and when I realize it, I have to scramble to delete them.
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If you don't have anything in the works, I suggest this:
I bought this one when we got our new TV. Ran into the same issue as you, the legs of the TV are far too wide for the stand it sits on. The height adjustment and swivel are great to have.
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My dumbo move of the day:
Today was the turn in the rotation--after several months--for my Alpha chronograph. I put it on my wrist, which I shook for a while to get the engine going. Later when I checked the time, I noticed that the watch had stopped. So I repeated the process, figuring that I hadn't shaken it enough before or moved around enough during a couch potato Saturday. Still later, when I checked the time again, the watch was stopped. Chagrined, I took the watch off to examine it, looked at the back of the case, and read "Mechanical."
I had totally forgotten that it wasn't an automatic and needed to be wound.
Today was the turn in the rotation--after several months--for my Alpha chronograph. I put it on my wrist, which I shook for a while to get the engine going. Later when I checked the time, I noticed that the watch had stopped. So I repeated the process, figuring that I hadn't shaken it enough before or moved around enough during a couch potato Saturday. Still later, when I checked the time again, the watch was stopped. Chagrined, I took the watch off to examine it, looked at the back of the case, and read "Mechanical."
I had totally forgotten that it wasn't an automatic and needed to be wound.
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The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 5:34 pm
I had totally forgotten that it wasn't an automatic and needed to be wound.
I had an opposite but similar experience.
One of my first vintage watches was an old 50's era Elgin.
Not sure if it had come from the ebay description where I bought it, but in my head it was mechanical. so I wound it every time I wore it. It wasn't until years later that i was curious about the movement and discovered it was an auto. D'oh.
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I confess that I feel bad for the unenlightened souls of the WUS HUISABH. If only they would have read between the lines! Here are the last 2 posts there. Not bad deals, but we all know you can pick up a sub $300 samurai. Hell, a $250 samurai isn't out of the realm of possibility(ask me how I know!). I want to spread the word to these poor guys, but sadly not enough to risk banishment (I am waiting on my BSH gilt dial and a successful member of WPAC19). It just saddens me that WUS wont let these two places coexist. They didn't want to have to moderate such a busy topic, so MOT stepped up to the plate. Almost all of us(sorry androidisawesome) frequent both places. I guess I just really wish the relationship could be symbiotic
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I grew up watching Tom Selleck as Magnum P.I. His character still lurks in the recesses of my mind as a role model of sorts, and to me his watch (a Rolex GMT-Master Pepsi) is the watch.
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Higgins! And the dogs! I used to watch that show daily...the 308 is my grail car.BostonCharlie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:44 pm I grew up watching Tom Selleck as Magnum P.I. His character still lurks in the recesses of my mind as a role model of sorts, and to me his watch (a Rolex GMT-Master Pepsi) is the watch.
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I could have purchased a 308, in 2002, for around $24k; it was disappointing in person.FTE wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:18 amHiggins! And the dogs! I used to watch that show daily...the 308 is my grail car.BostonCharlie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:44 pm I grew up watching Tom Selleck as Magnum P.I. His character still lurks in the recesses of my mind as a role model of sorts, and to me his watch (a Rolex GMT-Master Pepsi) is the watch.
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Never meet your heroes.USMChawk wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:40 pmI could of bought a 308, in 2002, for around $24k; it was disappointing in person.FTE wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:18 amHiggins! And the dogs! I used to watch that show daily...the 308 is my grail car.BostonCharlie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:44 pm I grew up watching Tom Selleck as Magnum P.I. His character still lurks in the recesses of my mind as a role model of sorts, and to me his watch (a Rolex GMT-Master Pepsi) is the watch.
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So true. It will almost always disappoint. Just curious, is there a Tom Selleck story here?
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No Tom Selleck story, but as an avid car guy I know that a lot of 80s supercars are better left in the realm of fantasy.
Heck, pretty much any modern mom-mobile minivan can out gun and out hustle a 308.
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