Reply With Quote- Don't try to remove the cyclops from a mineral crystal with a Dremmel.
I am a much wiser and better man since I started coming here. Just consider some of the things I have learnt:
1. A chronograph is actually intended to be used for measuring the total period of your permitted ownership prior to flipping it - like the mileage gauge on your car.
2. Before I came here, you know in "Reality", I was always a level-headed, decisive person - so I soon found my obsessive mind-changing tendencies regarding watches quite unnerving. But now I understand that its because this is all driven by intangibles, you know, emotions and that - and up to then I didn't realise I had any.
3. The most valuable part of my anatomy is actually the bit occupied by my watch.
So what have you learnt from TZ-UK then?
- Don't try to remove the cyclops from a mineral crystal with a Dremmel.
1. What Retrograde means
2. What a Column Wheel Chrono is
3. That an interest in watch is an expensive thing!
4. That there are some epic watches available at bargain prices
5. That there are some awful watches costing huge amounts of money
6. That true watch fans precede every positive statement about a Breitling with "I don't usually like Breitlings but...".
7. That not EVERYONE with a Rolex is an arse
8. That I don't like all Breitlings, Omegas, Rolexes, TAGs, etc, etc, etc and that's OK (although I suspected this).
9. That watches were really cool in the 70s, unlike virtually EVERYTHING else.
10. That some Seikos cost more than my car!
M
The legal definition of the difference between a biscuit and cake; biscuits go soft when stale but cakes go hard. Can't remember the exact context but the question was 'is a Jaffa cake a biscuit or a cake?' Apparently VAT has to be paid on biscuits but not on cakes.
regards
grant
Some guys don't like Rolex pics.
Don't be late for sales meets at motorway service stations.
I learned not to post pics of shoes.
Cross the forum at your peril!
I learned not to look at pictures of Java's shoes - once seen they can't be unseen
Funny, read my thoughtsOriginally Posted by dejjl
RIAC
The "Average" man wears XL jackets and size 7 shoes.
Fanboys don't have a sense of humour, and that some fanboys are touchier than others.
Debating if Rolex is better than Omega or vica versa is like starting World War 3
Grand Seiko and Rolex are so similar you couldn't slip a fag paper between them
Don't arrange to meet at motorway services that don't have a footbridge!
And used underwear...
M.
There are plenty who don't own a Rolex that are an arse7. That not EVERYONE with a Rolex is an arse
I learned how to win friends and influence people using the theories of Thorstein Veblen.
Do check to see if there is already a thread about what you are going to write about.
Don't quote pics if you are the first reply!
Edit: and DE Shaving is Great!
Last edited by Thorien; 20th November 2014 at 19:03.
When selling on SC don't try to break even or, God forbid, make a profit.
Unless it's a Rolex.
If you ever feel a bit down in the dumps visit the bear pit and you'll soon be laughing.
That humour does not always translate into the written word. Especially online.
That trolls exploit people who are too literal.
Eddie is God.
Learned I need to keep my wallet away from the SC
That flipping isn't a sex act from porn.
You cannot predict in any way on meeting someone that they have horrific taste in watches.
Repeat posters are shallow and only posting for SC access.
There really are people out there who change their watch strap to match their socks.
I nearly spat out my coffee reading this....
The only thing I have learnt is it would have been much cheaper had I just left my wallet out in the street for everyone to help themselves. Not as much fun though..
costa coffee at the service station must make a lot of money from TZ buyers
+ 1
I've never been in there, will you take me one day please Tony.
And than the same average man finds watches above 42mm too big!
Most recently I learnt that large Russian dive watches are more effective than 'The Game' or any other pickup technique.
I've learnt that I have a bit of a problem, but I believe this forum was also the cause as well as the vehicle for realisation
I learned that watches apparently don't use heat treated steel.
also discovered time factors :)
Oh, and that Cannop is a big hero
I have learned that I want to visit Stockholm nightclubs ,not Newcastle-upon-tyne ones
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I have learned that I want to visit Stockholm nightclubs ,not Newcastle-upon-tyne ones
Well this needs a bit more detail........
That "Charming Company" is a budget range of inflatable dolls sold in Spain.
I've learnt about watches... Fascinating things they are too!
There are an equal number of arse kissers and miserable gits on here...plus one weird Spaniard.
When I joined the forum Rolex was a card indexing system....
And Rolodex was a Veblen watch brand.😄
That my first expensive watch wasn't an expensive watch.
That getting 250 posts is like trying to get to the end if the rainbow, if you don't want to look like an arse every other day because although you really like these clock things you are very much at the bottom of a steep learning curve.
Last edited by barreti; 20th November 2014 at 23:33.
That people can be as narrow minded and petty in their outlook of this hobby as in other spheres of life.
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