My Thoughts About The Rolex Rippers
If you didn't see this recent BBC "documentary" (mockumentary, more like), you haven't missed anything important or life changing.
It was all as fake as an episode of "Most Haunted", full of inaccuracies, poorly contrived and obviously scripted, and well, it was just trash.
The best part for me was the "We'd better get out of here, a rival gang is coming!" scene except that there was no footage of any rival gang, none turned up, none were shown, and nothing happened.
You can't even call this cheap student film "scaremongering" because it really did more to encourage becoming a watch thief than it did to dissuade people from that criminal lifestyle. It certainly didn't make it seem like you'd be in too much trouble wearing a luxury watch in public either since the news sources were several years old from all over the world and still only totalled about half a dozen.
Right now, the fallout and drama caused by this "drama" has led Paul Thorpe to hate it so much that he watched it 3 times, LOL, and he's clearly seething with rage and jealousy that he didn't get a mention despite claiming that he inspired it and was consulted many times by the pretty girl presenter (she's as much of a journalist as Paul Thorpe is) about it.
Basically, Paul Thorpe claims that the documentary was all his idea, but is glad that he didn't get a mention or his name in the credits because it was so bad. You have to laugh. He's also now roped in Rikki Daman from the Scottish Watches podcast to support him (with a combined YouTube video and podcast) even though the latter just follows every word Paul says like a gullible puppy and believes it.
Meanwhile, Oisin O'Malley claims that he invented the spotter scenario for a movie he never made despite it being a known trope from pre-history, and is certainly a literary and movie trope akin to Tralala luring guys to be robbed in "Last Exit to Brooklyn". Oisin alleges that he told Paul Thorpe his movie outline once, and Paul Thorpe must have claimed it as his own to tell to the documentary girl. Of course, there's no way to prove this one way or another.
I'm sure Oisin will claim to have written "Last Exit to Brooklyn" (actually it was authored by Hubert Selby Jr.) eventually as he now claims that he directed Sarah Michelle Gellar playing the piano in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (which he didn't). SMG has only played the piano in a film called "Veronica Decides To Die", and there's no mention on the IMDb (or anywhere else) about Oisin O'Malley having any part in either production.
Tim Write made some fun comments on his livestream about Paul Thorpe, and I'm sure the next bunch of grifters to join in will be Archieluxury and his gang, just as long as there is mucho SuperChat money to be made from it. If they do, it will be the icing on the cake after Archie can get robbed (allegedly, even though there's no police or newspaper reports as proof) without having to go to London. Except that he did go to London last year wearing all kinds of expensive watches and nothing happened to him there at all.
My own opinion on all of it is that everyone mentioned above are a bunch of liars with their own agendas.
If you believe any of this rubbish then you also believe that TGV works as an uncredited watch design consultant as his real job (ROFL) and you might be wearing one of his designs without even knowing it. Yeah, right, because Pagani Design are falling over themselves to hire a plagiarising and copyright ignoring YouTuber... oh wait, given they only make homages... maybe... LOL
You probably also believe that Britt and Jenni (whose channel started with 20K before a single video was ever posted on it) don't buy fake subscribers (all the proof is on Social Blade), and that if you give them enough Patreon money, they'll touch you somewhere privately. LOL Anyone want to buy a London Bridge? I might have one for sale.
Bottom line, don't believe this stupid BBC documentary. You'd see more truth about criminal activities and watch thefts in an episode of "Minder" or "Only Fools And Horses".
Just wear your watches. If you're going to be robbed in London, it'll be for your wallet too, although you won't have any money left in it after 5 minutes in rip-off Britain!
Bad stuff happens, of course, so do your best to prevent it. Take out insurance, and be careful if you don't know the area, maybe wear a Casio instead.
Use common sense and you won't be a victim.
I'm pretty much done with collecting now, but I've certainly got a good variety of affordable watches. As an occasional YouTuber, I'm a comedian not an influencer. Skmei is the new Casio!
Yo. Kanye and Kim are stealing Rolexes now?
I haven’t watched it but it must have been shocking for you to decapitate every YouTuber in sight!!
Wait…Most Haunted isn’t real?
Wow.... You've made it sound so bad I actually want to go watch it now!... and Only Fools and Horses. (Especially that Batman Christmas special...I seem to remember someone getting mugged in that)
The irony is your watch is more likely to be stolen from your house while you're out than from your wrist.
Wait…Most Haunted isn’t real?
If you like most haunted I can highly recommend the Netflix... 'docmentey' "28 days Haunted" (think that's what it's called).
Amazing.
Oh shit, not this crowd again...
My man you are firing shots out here 😂
Wow.... You've made it sound so bad I actually want to go watch it now!... and Only Fools and Horses. (Especially that Batman Christmas special...I seem to remember someone getting mugged in that)
Like eating a chili pepper that you know you'll regret but still the mouth opens and the tongue extends....
'Use common sense and you won't be a victim' The most logical and correct thinking we have heard in recent times regarding the watch crime world..
I agree on the youtuber grifters, but I want to believe that Londontown is plagued by dusky machete-swinging sportswear aficionados on mopeds that swoop in on the call from your waitress tipping them off on your Laurent Ferrier or something. The insinuation that this is a xenophonic moral panic of a manufactured crisis does not sit well with me.
Its half an hour of my life I can't get back. It was scripted worse than an episode of house wife's of wherever.
There was a lot to in there that didn't make sense. But if they are all walking round with ballistic style face masks how hard are they to actually see 🤷 it's not like it's going to be hard for the police to catch them.
I agree on the youtuber grifters, but I want to believe that Londontown is plagued by dusky machete-swinging sportswear aficionados on mopeds that swoop in on the call from your waitress tipping them off on your Laurent Ferrier or something. The insinuation that this is a xenophonic moral panic of a manufactured crisis does not sit well with me.
It is indeed very depressing when you discover that the couple mugging you only do it because they were paid to do so and because they are followed around by a camera crew.
These are sad time indeed when one can't even trust the criminal element and has to hire stand ins.
I love the fact Paul Thorpe published on a Xenophobic YT rant about Britain being overrun with immigrants.. so announced he was leaving Britain… …presumably…to move somewhere…as an immigrant himself..!? Not sure he understands the irony, but I’m sure he could easily crowd fund a one way ticket. I’d be the first to pay to get rid.
PS. “Pope Tier” just got funnier..
Is the rival gang they were referring to…the cops? 🤣
Or grey market consigners?
I once had a cheese sandwich stolen in front of my eyes in London……….
I once had a cheese sandwich stolen in front of my eyes in London……….
Hahaha 😂
Hahaha 😂
Wouldn’t normally bother me but it was frickin Red Leicester!
The fact that this detritus is what the BBC licence fee is being spent on, plus how they've killed Doctor Woke now, makes me glad that I don't actually pay a licence fee anyway and haven't for years.
You're lucky. My wife is addicted to Eastenders, or I would have ditched the whole finger-wagging, kale-eating, establishment shit-show a long time ago.
The fact that this detritus is what the BBC licence fee is being spent on, plus how they've killed Doctor Woke now, makes me glad that I don't actually pay a licence fee anyway and haven't for years.
Bang on the money that one Dean….
That's why I always take out extra sandwich insurance before I go to Greggs.
"Use common sense and you won't be a victim."
This.
I've visited only in my most depressing nightmares
Im sure it was on a Samaritans watch list. You could smell the desperation and hopelessness as soon as you walked through the door. From what I remember the food was like self harming you really had to have a lack of respect for your body or self loathing to even contemplate stopping 😁
Oh shit, not this crowd again...
I'm sorry. I have to screenshot this. It's too good
The BBC has always been bollocks. Its full of self aggrandizing LSE, SOAS, and Oxbridge graduates that hide behind "neutrality" to pump out misinformation. Many years ago, actually many many many years ago with my classmates at LSE we would have a drinking game where we would watch BBC news and drink everytime they made a factually incorrect statement. Needless to say I don't remember much of my time in London XD.
Shots fired to some YouTubers I watch. Who to trust this days?
Exactly none of those guys. :-)
I missed most of the kerfuffle as most of the YouTube videos I watch is people cleaning patios and cars that haven't been washed in 20 years (strangely satisfying) and of course RentaGhost.
The crass innuendos about Britt and Jenni are totally unaceptable. You might dislike them, but plain ad hominem insults are wrong.
Im sure it was on a Samaritans watch list. You could smell the desperation and hopelessness as soon as you walked through the door. From what I remember the food was like self harming you really had to have a lack of respect for your body or self loathing to even contemplate stopping 😁
I was trying to think of a western canadian restaurant that would have the same vibes, and I realized that I had forced myself to forget about Bonanza. The last location I knew of was in saskatoon, and I recoiled from the google map restaurant list like I had just seen a nazi war criminal walk across the street.