What watch should I buy next?
Response: I don’t know. Let me ask you:
- What watch should I buy next?
- Do I even need another watch?
- Can I afford another watch?
- Also, I want breakfast. Or Brinner. Breakfast for dinner. It’s glorious. But how should I order my eggs?
The only correct answer is, “Dude. Get what YOU want. I can’t tell you who to be.”
If you don’t know what that is, then the Greek aphorism “γνῶθι σεαυτόν” (Know Yourself) applies.
I can’t figure out who you are. How you want your eggs. What watch you should buy. What car you should drive. What city you should live in. What house you should buy. How many children you should have. Where you should work.
That is YOUR decision. So adult, and enjoy it. It’s awesome.
Stop caring what random losers (like me, or anyone else on the Internet) like or don’t like by Internet clicks, and buy what YOU like and can afford. You like Invicta, Hublot, an Apple Watch, something Tiffany/Sky Blue, a Swatch, a Green Rolex, a Mickey Mouse watch (I have two, desire one more, and have an Animaniacs Fossil, too).
One Greek philosopher goes up to another Greek philosopher. “Which water clock should I buy? Or should I get a sundial instead?”
Second Greek philosopher: “γνῶθι σεαυτόν”
See how easy that works? γνῶθι σεαυτόν. Please. Just γνῶθι σεαυτόν. Don’t ask me to γνῶθι σεαυτόν for you. I have to γνῶθι σεαυτόν for myself. So γνῶθι σεαυτόν for yourself.
And if you γνῶθι σεαυτόν and end up liking a bejeweled Hublot homage of a Casio G-Shock (like Hodinkee’s Sarah Miller), I’ll give you a thumbs up for being you so you can feel good about being you. A lot of folks on this forum probably will, because we have strong opinions but probably respect other people having strong opinions and different tastes than we do. That’s adulting.
Props to Sarah Miller for deciding what SHE liked instead of asking you, me, or the rest of the losers online what to think or buy for her.
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." - Segal’s Law
Uh... so you're saying I shouldn't ask you which watch I should buy next?
Come on, man! I'm definitely somewhere on the spectrum, but even I know that "talk is not about information sharing." We homo sapiens mostly converse with one another to signal tribal loyalty and build coalitions, yeah? In other words, we make conversation just to make friends.
And in the watch community, instead of making friends by saying, "Boy, it sure is hot today, isn't it?" we say, "Of these 3 watches, which one should I get?"
By the way, the "Boy it sure is hot today," should not be confused with, the below, which is definitely very directed, as opposed to just making conversation:
It's cool, man. We're all on here to make conversation and make friends and have fun giving our opinions to total strangers, and receiving the opinions of total strangers, etc., etc.
By the way, "It's gettin' hot in here, so..."
Its rhetorical and you really don't want input but if we listen enough you will figure it out and get a new watch anyway. Problem solved. your welcome.
Uh... so you're saying I shouldn't ask you which watch I should buy next?
Come on, man! I'm definitely somewhere on the spectrum, but even I know that "talk is not about information sharing." We homo sapiens mostly converse with one another to signal tribal loyalty and build coalitions, yeah? In other words, we make conversation just to make friends.
And in the watch community, instead of making friends by saying, "Boy, it sure is hot today, isn't it?" we say, "Of these 3 watches, which one should I get?"
By the way, the "Boy it sure is hot today," should not be confused with, the below, which is definitely very directed, as opposed to just making conversation:
It's cool, man. We're all on here to make conversation and make friends and have fun giving our opinions to total strangers, and receiving the opinions of total strangers, etc., etc.
By the way, "It's gettin' hot in here, so..."
This. Green is HOT. Has been for two years. This is your exit watch.
Its rhetorical and you really don't want input but if we listen enough you will figure it out and get a new watch anyway. Problem solved. your welcome.
#truth
Sorry, but on this topic the great philosopher Harold Francis Callahan comes to mind: "A man's got to know his limitations."
WTF? Are you not paying attention? The correct answer is BB58 or Speedy for the poor. Nautilus or Newman Daytona for the rest.
Sorry, but on this topic the great philosopher Harold Francis Callahan comes to mind: "A man's got to know his limitations."
A man walks into his AD, and the AD says,