More than 170 of your posts have been since 1 January, a rate of well over 3,000 per year.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChronoPantera
Despite what you claim, it does appear that you are pelting hell-for-leather for the promised land by posting any old tiresome dross.
:smile-new: I see what you did there.Quote:
Originally Posted by unclealec
So what , don't read it .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Curta
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Is your forum ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris_in_the_UK
Originally Posted by ChronoPantera
"says the man with 41,089 posts
your post rate is 2162 per year !!!
mine is less than 198 per year
enough said i think"
I've got a maths/physics degree, but you need to be about nine years old to follow my calaculation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris_in_the_UK
let me break it down into something that maybe even you can follow Chris_in_dim_UK
you've now done 41,130 posts in approx 19 years. therefore your rate of posting is 41,130 divided by 19 . ie approx 2164 posts per year.
I've now done 202 post in just over 1 year. therefore my rate is 202 divided by 1 so approx 202 posts per year.
so your rate is 10 times as many as my post rate, so you shouldn't be whingeing about it.
DIVVY !!!
Martyn, pardon my ignorance but what is vGTG you refer to ?Quote:
Originally Posted by MartynJC (UK)
platinum or rose gold 6102p ?
(I like the 5004T)
You need to be about six years old to follow my calaculation:
Of your 202 posts, you've made 180 in the last three weeks. Your average posting cadence during that time has been higher than Chris's or anybody else's.
Your posts are also having the highest BS factor of any poster.
The two combined make you an insufferable annoyance.
I can't wait until you arrive in the BP and I can translate the above into clear language.
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Originally Posted by Raffe
bla bla bla
water off a ducks back, i don't give a monkeys what you think Raffe.
i've never heard such nonsense about this reaching 250 posts. it's totally irrational.
Incidentally if everyone on this forum had an attidude like yours i'd delete my account now.
HOWEVER fortunately that is NOT the case.
(I started my first thread on 8th December, which is nearly 2 months ago, so thats approx 102 posts per month, which is less than half of YOUR rate of 271 per month, so get your facts right before you start your aiming your drivel at me)
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Originally Posted by ChronoPantera
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As an outsider viewing this thread, I think you may possibly be mistaking quantity for quality whether you mean to or not. For example, a large proportion of your posts over the last month have been very short and not on topics related to horology at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChronoPantera
I'm no expert but as a word of advice, I think you need to consider what you seek to gain from being a part of the community as coming in all guns blazing will likely see you being ostracized.
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Originally Posted by Spesh
I thank you for your polite comment, (unlike some of the others i've had.)
Over the Christmas holidays i had plenty of time on my hands, and thus was pleasantly surprised to find a whole host of topics on TZ, (alongside horology), which i also find interesting, such as motorbikes, cars, film, cooking, etc etc. Therefore i started posting on all these different threads, without realising my post rate might be of concern to some members.
I started 2 horology related threads, and a classic car thread, and have been posting on those, alongside other topics of interest to me.
(However over the last month, I've been too busy with work commitments to get on TZ as much as previously.)
when i started this thread, I suddenly started to get comments that seemed unnecessarily dramatic, and thus i replied to some of them "all guns blazing"
for example Raffe's post,
"You need to be about six years old to follow my calaculation:
...........
Your posts are also having the highest BS factor of any poster.
The two combined make you an insufferable annoyance.
I can't wait until you arrive in the BP and I can translate the above into clear language."
i found this comment somewhat OTT, and was thus robust in my reply, and don't make any appologies for doing so.
However I am wondering there is something more than just being able to post on sales corner when 250 posts is reached ? as there seems to have been a sizeable hullaballo with some members, about my seemingly reaching that mark too quickly ?
All very amusing, and somewhat mysterious !!
You really are the poo that won’t flush
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Originally Posted by wileeeeeey
Bob The Floater: all sweetcorn, all of the time...
Pompous, self-important, humourless, content-free sweetcorn.
Another one for the 'ignore' list.
I can't help thinking that the analogy can be extended to now seeing this thread as an effluent discharge from the Bear Pit...
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I'd just buy perfect original, unpolished, versions of the watches I've sold over the years:
Siffert Autavia
PloProf
Marine Chronometer
Speedmaster 321
6105-8110
Red Sub
Tudor Sub
and so on. All of which I regret selling. And the fun will be in the hunt.
Mine would be a bit of an amalgam of things I have always wanted but never thought attainable for cost reasons
MN Tudor Snowflake
Titanium Ploprof
Breguet Type XXI
Issued Zenith Tipo CP2
Ones that I could have bought but didn't when they were affordable
Rolex 16710
Heuer Autavia Black PVD
Lemania SAAF (1872 version)
And I would definitely be commissioning someone to make me my perfect watch using the Lemania 5195 movement
I have no particular need for anything from the upper stratosphere of watches.
This reminds me of a priest in secondary school we all called Father SweetcornQuote:
Originally Posted by earlofsodbury
He was quite a suspect guy and the nickname came as we thought given the chance he'd have his lad right up your poo pipe
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Originally Posted by wileeeeeey
You, sir, have just redeemed this entire thread :ky:
If I had won £100m on the Lottery, I think watches would be the last thing on my mind!
Ferrari F40, a ski lodge in Beaver Creek and about 3 months on a diving holiday would be where I started!
M
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I'm waking up to the realisation that I don't need the number of watches I have, but with a big chunk of change - I'd probably splurge on:
- Blancpain FF Barakuda
- Bremont Martin Baker white face
- S/H Comex Seadweller - the bestest condition, fullest documentation model I could find.
- S/H An original Blancpain Fifty Fathoms.
- S/H A Snoopy Omega Moonwatch
Then - I'd sell off all but a couple of my current collection.
vGTG is the online virtual get together unlike real life impromptu regional GTG that sometimes occur. (I organised a couple of events for the Surrey region while living there). I set up a virtual GTG via zoom back in covid days and we used to meet quite regularly. Just this year we have decided to meet online on the last Thursday of each month.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChronoPantera
Send me a PM if you want to join in and I can send you the link details. A little contribution to the TZ fund would be appreciated but not mandatory as the zoom license comes out of our own pocket. Beer or whiskey drinking is encouraged but again not mandatory. Most topics covered and we even talk about watches occasionally!
rose gold for me.
Given that kind of money, I'd probably try to buy Dave Scott's Apollo 15 EVA Bulova chronograph.
It last sold at auction in October 2015 for $1.625M.
Reason ? Well I'm into one of a kind space flown watches and Bulova seem incapable of manufacturing a decent tribute watch.
Same here virtually; buy those which have since gone beyond my 'reasonable', Zenith A277/DeLuca/Cairelli, Airan/Breguet XX's, some old Heuers, a RAAF Lemania [Dave - see MWR on the Aussie 5100 origins fyi] and so on. The only Rolex I'd want would be a 1655 Explorer.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweets
The only 'expensive' watch I hanker for is a Universal Geneve Cairelli HA-1 [one for sale now on Chrono24, a v v v rare bird].
If I won £100M on Euromillions I think I'd start off by buying an IWC Mark XX on bracelet. I'd then start collecting the rest of the IWC Mark watches. What can I say. I like 'em!
https://i.postimg.cc/DWqF656k/mark-xx-bracelet.jpg
Haywood Milton and Mike Wood’s collections would do nicely:-)
I think you might run out of cash with that one.....Quote:
Originally Posted by RAJEN