digital watches wtf?!

Pushing down on the window to see rainbow colors was also a good way to pass the time in study hall.

I finally stopped wearing a watch. It's been ten years since I've awoke from a nap due to the alarm on my wrist. I haven't looked back.

i still have my Timex Ironman, which i'd wear if the clasp was fixed.

Oh, come on. So many possibilities! Hairy chest + gold chain = LADIEZZZ!

http://www.metiskitap.com/ToolBoxVA%5CData%5CDataFiles%5CMds%5CImage/General/Size0/MPic4809.jpg

No, it's more precise. Not that most people would ever notice, but you do pay more for something that's better made, with Swiss parts, self-winding, etc. etc.

I love these.

What about Tag Heuer? Can I have one of those? Because I think they're really nice.

And that the thing -- nice. It's just nice. You can look at your cell phone to tell the time, right?

Avd yeah, caitlin, it is a stutus thing. "I can afford to buy myself little luxury items."

dude, I got a computer at home that loses minutes a day.

Long, boring childhood.

I mean, how often do I *not* know what time it is?

How often do you pull your phone out to look? There's your answer.

Watches are great because they're convenient, especially for commuting, wandering around, timing how long you've been out taking a shit, going to lunch, etc. The added functions of a digital watch are all that more useful.

But, if you just want a fancy piece of jewelry, make sure you get diamond encrusted gold shit so people really know you spent a lot.

I won't tell you!

and why do you imagine I'm trying to wage class war?

I don't.

Do people with nice watches really piss you off on principle?

No, but people who say stupid shit like this do: "I don't wear a watch at all now, because at my age, I can't be seen wearing a cheap hip piece of crap. Either buy a real watch (pricey!) or go without. "

How stupid can you be? Obviously, you're judging people by these idiotic standards. You don't seem to realize that only people trapped in the same sort of mental prison as you are will be impressed by (or disapprove of) a watch. Snap out of it. Snap out of it!

Do you use the word "yuppie" a lot?

Never cared much for that word, although I've a feeling you care a great deal for it, you fuckin' yuppie wannabe!

(I don't wear a watch because it feels weird having something attached to my wrist, and I don't need to know what time it is that bad anyway. How hard is it to find a clock in this shiny modern age we live in?)

I've worn a watch probably every single day since I was... I don't know... 7 or 8? I'm a creature of habit. I had the same watch 3 times in a row at one point and the one I have now is the same one I had last time. My life is really centered around time. Maybe I'm kind of psycho that way. I'm always checking to see how many more minutes I have to sit at my desk. But I also like counting things, like trying to wash a certain number of dishes in 5 minutes.

IN conclusion, I am crazy.

My Dad can tell you what time it is within a minute without a watch even if you're in the middle of nowhere and it's cloudy out.

1. when writing a post-it note to someone in your office, the date and time is right in front of your face, as you generally hold the pad in place with your watch hand while you're writing with your other.

2. when someone asks you the time - A. you've got the time, B. saying "5:07" is a great answer. People with analog watches will fumble and say, "Five ohhh... Five O'Clock." This leaves them open to the annoying follow up question, "Five o'clock exactly?" Because often people who ask the time know generally but want to know exactly.

3. timer - great for cooking, meditating, taking a lazy ass break where you can really let your mind go, knowing a little chime will bring you back to reality when you need to.

4. multiple alarms

5. data bank

no, you're stupid and wrong

How hard is it to find a clock in this shiny modern age we live in?

What the fuck kind of rationale is this? A day in the life of a watchless jackass:

Watchless Jacakss: "Hm, we might be running late for the movie, so let's look out for the nearest fast food restaurant on the way there so we can duck in real quick and see if there's a visible clock on the wall. Then, if there is one, we'll know whether or not we should run for it or try our damnedest to hail a cab. Who cares if we look stupid and it will be funny when the cashier asks us if she can help us because we can laugh and say, 'Nope! Just checkin' the time! Haha!'...

Jackass #2: Or hey, better yet, let's annoy that stranger on the sidewalk. He's got a watch and I have faith that he's kind enough to give me the correct time... Hey mister, what time is it?"

Guy with watch: Sevengmgmm... quarter to eight.

Jackass #2: Exactly?

Guy with watch: Do I look like a fuckin' atomic clock to you? Buy a watch.

I am in watch hell. Missing it that is. I didn’t know how much I relied upon it until it was off my wrist. Oh and Paunchy, it’s a really nice watch too, and I understand even if others didn’t seem to, that at a certain age you feel you should have graduated to a nice timepiece unless you’re hip and cool and rich (and everyone you see or meet knows these things about you which is pretty impossible unless you’re a head of state or movie star or some such) and depending on where you are and what you do, people judge. It’s just how some places and people are.

Anyway, I wear my watch 24/7 sleeping, swimming, showering, whatever. But yeech! I got a little rash under it cuz of the moisture all the time and it got too itchy so I took it off and am using a cream on the wrist to clear the rash.

Problem is, I never seem to know exactly what time it is. I can know roughly the time, but I never really know for sure. I am always late for everything anyway – no matter how hard I try I botch it even if I start out with time to spare. So now without the watch I keep looking absently at my wrist where there is currently nothing but a red rash and I get upset that I don’t have the watch to tell the time and also I am angry about the rash. Wtf? Nice watches should not cause a rash. I would expect it with a mystery metal cheapo, but 14k? what up with that?

I got a watch on a chain a few years ago, and started wearing it, but it’s awkward as hell and too close to my face to read properly since my eyes cannot focus on it so I stopped wearing it. I do try not to ask people what time it is, but when I do I say: “ What time is it exactly? Which saves one second delay of asking again when they say: “ it’s about….”

What the fuck kind of rationale is this?

*slowly pulls phone out of pocket, checks time, returns it to pocket*
*looks at dashboard of car*

"What time is it? Hold on, let me check my phone like a girl! I even put it in a bag like a girl when I wear tight pants because it's a hassle to dig out of my pockets!"

Oh yeah, that's so much more convenient than simply looking at the back of your wrist.

..oh wait, heres a good one - YOUR PC DUH ITS RIGHT IN FRONT OV YOO.

i imagine this being the opening line in some paranoid anti-U.N./Big Brother rant

The truth of the matter is, I don't really care what time it is when I'm not at work. Run to my car, why, am I rushing my dinner?

What's funny is that I glance at my wrist all the damn time to MOCK watch-wearers and I say things like "HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE" and "I NEED TO GET GOING" when in fact I am just realizing it is currently TWO FRECKLES PAST A HAIR, haw haw haw.

http://www.g-unitwatches.com/watches/gs_specialorder.jpg

Also, is there a watch with a metronome? that would be fun.

PS - WATCH ROCKISM

One of my old digital watches could be set to do a metronome-style bleep, but only at whole-second intervals. Which made it not much use as a metronome unless you stick to 60bpm music,* but it was very handy when working in a darkroom, for timing print exposures.**

* off the top of my head, I think allegro is usually defined as 72bpm; so allegretto is probably about 60.

** and counting out 3.. 6.. 9 seconds of light.

all that stuff abt feeling like you've grown up into an expensive 'timepeice' (wtf? its a watch!!) is what makes me keep this crappy thing. i see guys with expensive watches and they just seem like kids playing dress up. i've been through enough to *know i'm an adult, and if someone needs a signnifier like an expensive watch to point this out, then i don't really need to know em.

and i NEED the watch. i freak if i'm not wearing one.

http://www.extras4u.com/pictures/collectables/watch_ring/watch_ring_1.jpg

I did wear one of those goofy not-really-a-pocketwatch dangler things that hooks onto your belt loop type watches for a while when I was resisting the cellphone. I don't think any of them are digital, though.

Like this:

http://buy.overstock.com/images/products/L1005874.jpg

Most of these are stupidly designed, though. They should have the dial with the 12 positioned close to the ground, so when you pick it up to look at it the face is right-side up. But as you can see here, the 6 is closest to the ground, so when you pick it up the face is upside down.

DUD!