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The problem for me is perception. The only American mechanical watch I ever had (as a boy) lasted about a week before it fell apart.
Tools, yes American tools, tend to be massively over engineered and last a lifetime (as does the food) but everything else seems to be engineered to the lowest possible budget (artisan stuff excepted).
Huge generalisation of course, but still couldn't see myself buying Weiss or Ball or Westclox (the latter was the one that ticked itself to death in a week).
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Just built this to relieve the pressure on kitchen cabinets (and to stop me having to buy new chilli sauce every week when it turns nasty in the UV on the kitchen counter).
Sorry in advance that I haven't sorted the wiring nor taken the film off the doors.
http://instagram.com/p/pO7FpnFmET/The point is though that dearly beloved has ALREADY filled EVERY SINGLE cupboard with random shit. EVERY SINGLE CUPBOARD.
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Put the PAM back on bracelet for the warm weather. LOVE my 31trum horween strap but it feels like a new watch by swapping.
http://instagram.com/p/pO3ay5lmNq/
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Listening to the book club thingy on Radio 4 I was aghast at one panellist being all offended that another had given their child Huckleberry Finn to read without supervision as it contained the word Nigger. FFS what are things coming to?
No, now that I am enlightened to the origins of the word belm, I wouldn't use it. Nor would I use spaz or any of the other late seventies playground pejoratives relating to mental impairment. That is because I am a normal, rational, reasonably pleasant person.
I do however feel the the 'gets offended in case someone gets offended' shite is waaaay over the top these days.
If I am offended by something I say so to the offending person, I don't need someone else to do it on my behalf.
One of my O level english lit texts was The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joesph Conrad which is a classic and an awesome book to boot. I bet nobody gets to read it in school these days because of all this fuckwittery.
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Do me a favour Stoney old fella, if you list it on eBay could you mis-spell it a little?
Youngun's Bax Mill?
Seriously though, I would love it but my spend pot for watches is earmarked until later this year. Beautiful watch and a bargain.