MoT's WDF

Split-Time wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 2:33 pmThey announced "no memorabilia."

That's hilarious considering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15 ... s_incident

Saturday requires most of the day to install a light fixture. The canopy bolts were too short, requiring a 30 minute drive to get longer ones. Then when installed it didn’t work because of a bad ground connection inside the fixture. Another trip to the store. By 5:00 pm finally got it installed.



That was followed on Sunday by a 5.5 hour drive to Mountaineer Casino that ended up taking 8.5 hours due to endless traffic jams from northern KY through Columbus OH. 12 hour workday on Monday including drive home.

These are the extent of my complaints. Happy I can just bitch and moan and don’t have real problems.

ManOnTime wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:01 pm

Split-Time wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 2:33 pmThey announced "no memorabilia."

That's hilarious considering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15 ... s_incident

I know . I realized after the fact that there are people who probably "flip" autographs like some of us flip watches. It would have been evident that I am not one of those people. BTW the astronaut in question may have been wearing an Omega darkside of the moon. I know it wasn't a standard speedy. I did almost ask about that. Small chance that I may see him tomorrow in a not-so-public event, so I'll be on the lookout. It would be a very fitting watch.

Pin and collar bracelets.

I really, really, really, really, really dislike them.

Give me screw links or friction pins any time over that damned contraption.

Not my complaint--but a complaint from an Amazon purchaser who obviously has no clue about hacking/non-hacking:

I have two complains: it's impossible to set precise time on this thing - second hand simply never stops, seller never mentioned it . . .

ManOnTime wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:29 pm Pin and collar bracelets.

I really, really, really, really, really dislike them.

Give me screw links or friction pins any time over that damned contraption.

I am conflicted about liking this post, because I hate them too.

There should be some mention in the manual about what type of bracelet, whether screws, pins, or pin & collars. Just to set expectations at the very least

ManOnTime wrote:Pin and collar bracelets.

I really, really, really, really, really dislike them.

Give me screw links or friction pins any time over that damned contraption.

Your vacuum loves them. Throw the dog a bone.

Damnit!

Just after I order a new watch, that wonderful digger-up of deals The JohnP has to discover a watch that I have been tracking for some time selling for hundreds of $$$ less than before.

Grrr!

The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:40 pm Damnit!

Just after I order a new watch, that wonderful digger-up of deals The JohnP has to discover a watch that I have been tracking for some time selling for hundreds of $$$ less than before.

Grrr!

Ouch! I know it's no real consolation but.....happens to everybody. Was it the Raymond Weil? Any chance whoever you bought it from has a price match policy?

yinzburgher wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:57 pm

The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:40 pm Damnit!

Just after I order a new watch, that wonderful digger-up of deals The JohnP has to discover a watch that I have been tracking for some time selling for hundreds of $$$ less than before.

Grrr!

Ouch! I know it's no real consolation but.....happens to everybody. Was it the Raymond Weil? Any chance whoever you bought it from has a price match policy?

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It was the RW that I was looking at, but that was not the watch I bought. I ordered the Zeppelin thinline power reserve I posted the other day.

The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:40 pm Damnit!

Just after I order a new watch, that wonderful digger-up of deals The JohnP has to discover a watch that I have been tracking for some time selling for hundreds of $$$ less than before.

Grrr!

And on my end, I keep posting deals so other people will buy them before I get too tempted to do so myself.

As someone who scours Kickstarter projects on the regular, this practice really irks me for some reason.

Now and again, I run across a new campaign that for some reason insists on naming their different colorways as if they're different models.
Example:



Then they create a support tier for each of the variants.
WHY?!?!?

Does it make it look like they are producing a "collection?"
Or make it seem they is more to their campaign than probable catalog sourced parts?

Either way, I really dislike the practice.

I was thinking about posting something here and then that damn [mention]peskydonut[/mention] beat me to it in the mistake of the day thread. I'm normally not too concerned with errors in the speech or writing of others. My own posts here are littered with spelling and grammatical errors. But I think we may have reached peak misuse of the word "literally." I started noticing it a couple years ago but in the past few months I hear the word all the time and rarely is it being used correctly. Not long ago I heard a presidential candidate say that we are going to have to "literally put the world back together," which implies to me that the earth has broken into pieces. Then a few days ago I heard a new reporter say that someone was "literally living high off the hog," once again using literally to describe figurative language. Those are just two recent examples but I hear people use the word A LOT. It can apparently mean figuratively, metaphorically, really, actually, virtually, very or it can just be used as a filler world if you don't know what else to say. Serious question......Do anyone know how this happened? Maybe a cultural moment that I missed but others are aware of. How can a word come to mean its opposite or come to have no real meaning in such a short amount of time? To be completely honest, my big fear is that I hear it so much that I just start using the word in the same way.