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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    The OP sounds poor
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    oregonblitzkrieg said:

    After the socialist revolution, these bourgeois timepieces will be seized from you greedy capitalists. The metals will be melted down to make new, free watches of equality for the proletariat.


    I laffed.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    2001400ex said:

    Swaye said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Swaye said:

    Sledog said:

    I am not a big watch guy. Mine keep good time are usually titanium and contain a lot of tritium. I did however purchase a Rolex for the spousal unit. Damn thing has broken several times. $600.00 bucks to have Rolex turn it around. Rolex quit selling parts years ago so you usually have to send it to them. No more Rolex.

    Yeah, maintenance on luxury watches is a thing. It sucks.
    I'm dreading the day I gotta send mine in have is services. Seems to be OK for now and is only about 10 secs fast per day.
    The watch makers always recommend to have them serviced every 3-5 years, but fuck that. If it is still keeping good time let it roll imo. It's like 450 bucks for a standard service. Fuck that.
    If you can afford the watch, you should be able to afford the maintenance. That's like someone buying a BMW that can't afford $500 to change out the headlight.
    Because getting something is cool.

    Paying to just keep it working sucks.


    How do you not understand this?

    Do you like washing your car and getting oil changes?

    Or is it just something you have to do and it sucks because it gives you no value and is just money out of your pocket?
    You should do the research and know that when buying it. I personally wouldn't buy a watch that needs more maintenance than a battery every few years. But that's just me. That's why I don't own a BMW or Audi, I'd rather have the resale value and maintenance of a Toyota. (For wife's car, I have a Duramax.)
    Things poor people say.....
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    MikeDamone said:

    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    2001400ex said:

    Swaye said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Swaye said:

    Sledog said:

    I am not a big watch guy. Mine keep good time are usually titanium and contain a lot of tritium. I did however purchase a Rolex for the spousal unit. Damn thing has broken several times. $600.00 bucks to have Rolex turn it around. Rolex quit selling parts years ago so you usually have to send it to them. No more Rolex.

    Yeah, maintenance on luxury watches is a thing. It sucks.
    I'm dreading the day I gotta send mine in have is services. Seems to be OK for now and is only about 10 secs fast per day.
    The watch makers always recommend to have them serviced every 3-5 years, but fuck that. If it is still keeping good time let it roll imo. It's like 450 bucks for a standard service. Fuck that.
    If you can afford the watch, you should be able to afford the maintenance. That's like someone buying a BMW that can't afford $500 to change out the headlight.
    Because getting something is cool.

    Paying to just keep it working sucks.


    How do you not understand this?

    Do you like washing your car and getting oil changes?

    Or is it just something you have to do and it sucks because it gives you no value and is just money out of your pocket?
    You should do the research and know that when buying it. I personally wouldn't buy a watch that needs more maintenance than a battery every few years. But that's just me. That's why I don't own a BMW or Audi, I'd rather have the resale value and maintenance of a Toyota. (For wife's car, I have a Duramax.)
    Things poor people say.....
    Or accountants.
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  • Mosster47
    Mosster47 Member Posts: 6,246
    edited July 2018
    Buying cheap shit with no reliability or resale is the M.O. of the poor. Smart people buy the best once and forget about it.

    People give me shit for driving an 05 Cummins. Come see me in ten years when your sunk cost car is in a scrap heap and I've still got 250k miles to go before my first rebuild.
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Mosster47 said:

    Being cheap shit with no reliability or resale is the M.O. of the poor. Smart people buy the best once and forget about it.

    People give me shit for driving an 05 Cummins. Come see me in ten years when your sunk cost car is in a scrap heap and I've still got 250k miles to go before my first rebuild.

    I've got 165k on my tuned/deleted 08 Duramax. Little maintenance here and there like I'm doing the rear brakes And a glow plug Saturday. I've driven it 125k miles andit's still worth 2/3 what I paid for it.
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  • PostGameOrangeSlices
    PostGameOrangeSlices Member Posts: 27,673
    Pretty easy to have a social security net and higher "quality of life" ranking when your country is non-diverse and has 1/40th the population
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  • Squirt
    Squirt Member Posts: 485
    YellowSnow said:

    Being the most homogenous large nation on Earth does wonders for social cohesion. They have no one to blame but themselves when shit goes wrong.

    I'm late to the party, but I gotta comment on this notion. Fuck off with this ethnic-cohesion shit. There's not a country on the planet that hasn't suffered from violent internal conflict despite ethnic "cohesion." Places like Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, etc. aren't timeless polities that have enjoyed internal harmony for centuries. Japan's social cohesion has as much to do with income equality, its social-safety net, and anime as anything else.

    I sound like I care. I'm going to look at pictures of boobs to calm myself down.
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