What I got for Xmas

[walpurgis]

Stopped smoking a pipe when I discovered Ganja. Mind you, I was only fourteen.

[Macca]

I like the idea of using it at meetings in work. Makes a good pointer and can be used to stab the air in order to emphasise a point. I reckon could make Managing Director in a year if I had a pipe.

[Pigmy Pony]

Don't be putting weed in it until you get home - that kind of thing can really stall your climb up the career ladder.

[alphaGT]

Although ive got a few wrist watches i almost never wear one, as i dont like it on my arm; comes from working inside tvs ... i wore pocket watches a lot but rarely now. my mobile phone or the car gives me the time ....should i need it.

People tend to collect things that appeal to them. A friend has more than 18 guitars! Some are worth thousands. While he always plays this cheap BC Rich at practice, always the same one. Another friend collects guns, he’s an avid gun collector, even though he’s a terrible shot. I myself save gold bullion.
It’s all the same, you can show your watches, wear one when you go out. My friend can break out a $3,000 guitar and jam on it, or the other can take any one of his guns to the range and fire it. While my gold coins are no fun, they just sit there, and I can’t insure them. So there’s a lot to be said for collecting. If you had to come up with some real money in a hurry, perhaps your watch collection could bring some cash? Or a nice windfall for your benefactor?

But like you, and most people today, I’m never without my Smartphone, so even though I gave my watch away at retirement, there’s no escaping this minute by minute world we live in.

Russell

[struth]

People tend to collect things that appeal to them. A friend has more than 18 guitars! Some are worth thousands. While he always plays this cheap BC Rich at practice, always the same one. Another friend collects guns, he’s an avid gun collector, even though he’s a terrible shot. I myself save gold bullion.
It’s all the same, you can show your watches, wear one when you go out. My friend can break out a $3,000 guitar and jam on it, or the other can take any one of his guns to the range and fire it. While my gold coins are no fun, they just sit there, and I can’t insure them. So there’s a lot to be said for collecting. If you had to come up with some real money in a hurry, perhaps your watch collection could bring some cash? Or a nice windfall for your benefactor?

But like you, and most people today, I’m never without my Smartphone, so even though I gave my watch away at retirement, there’s no escaping this minute by minute world we live in.

Russell

Interesting his fav is an old cheapie. Reminds me of Willie Nelson.

[Roy S]

I've just finished a bottle of Old Spice!

Do you take it straight or on the rocks?

[Pigmy Pony]

Do you take it straight or on the rocks?

I imagine he would take it straight, having built up a resistance over the decades.

For 'special occasions' he would use 'Hai Karate', which combined with the black silk dressing gown with the Kung Fu dragon on the back made him a big hit with the laydees

[Roy S]

Or Denim, for the man who doesn’t have to try TOO hard

[walpurgis]

People tend to collect things that appeal to them. A friend has more than 18 guitars! Some are worth thousands. While he always plays this cheap BC Rich at practice, always the same one. Another friend collects guns, he’s an avid gun collector, even though he’s a terrible shot. I myself save gold bullion.
It’s all the same, you can show your watches, wear one when you go out. My friend can break out a $3,000 guitar and jam on it, or the other can take any one of his guns to the range and fire it. While my gold coins are no fun, they just sit there, and I can’t insure them. So there’s a lot to be said for collecting. If you had to come up with some real money in a hurry, perhaps your watch collection could bring some cash? Or a nice windfall for your benefactor?

But like you, and most people today, I’m never without my Smartphone, so even though I gave my watch away at retirement, there’s no escaping this minute by minute world we live in.

Russell

I no longer collect anything or feel any need to, nor could I justify the cost to myself these days.

I do not own a smartphone and stopped wearing a watch about six years ago.

And (not entirely related) I have had a lifelong aversion to bodily embelishments, so no tattooos, gold chains, piercings or jewellery of any kind.

No interest in being a 'follower' either, so I don't get involved in football and other sports, religion, politics, etc (but I do visit audio forums ).

None the worse for it!

[Roy S]

I no longer collect anything or feel any need to, nor could I justify the cost to myself these days.

I do not own a smartphone and stopped wearing a watch about six years ago.

And (not entirely related) I have had a lifelong aversion to bodily embelishments, so no tattooos, gold chains, piercings or jewellery of any kind.

No interest in being a 'follower' either, so I don't get involved in football and other sports, religion, politics, etc (but I do visit audio forums ).

None the worse for it!

I love collecting stuff (Hifi,records, cds, watches, model buses, coins), I enjoy all my collections & they will all be added to as & when desired items might crop up (except the coins, have kind of given up on that one) as I'm not overly obsessive about any of them.

I'd feel like I was missing an arm without a watch (even though I'm retired & my times my own) & as I suffer with a goldfish memory these days I rely on my smartphone to remind me about events/appointments etc. & I like being able to 'google' stuff while out & about, has settled many an argument.

Not one for much jewellery either (other than watches of course & a gold chain that Mum got me) & with you on the 'following' bit, can't understand why people get so worked up about particular sports especially.

Different strokes..