JulesMaximus
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Originally posted by: compuwiz1
When they do that, all it means is, they have good enough credit to get in debt for a Rolex. People who have real, green folding money, have no need for such BS gratification. I know this, trust me.
That's not true. I have a friend who bought his Rolex with a bonus one year. He paid cash for it, owns his own house in Huntington Beach and drives an Infiniti G35 coupe.
BTW-He wears that watch every single day.
What's the point of money if you don't spend it??? Watch, car, travels whatever it is that makes you happy.
Money has no value once you are dead!
Money has no value once you are dead!
thecoolnessrune
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My gf said she would buy me a rolex for a wedding gift.
So I guess I have to marry her to get the watch.
So I guess I have to marry her to get the watch.
It is a status symbol. It tells people, who haven't had the chance to know you for a while, that you're doing well, you've got your life under control, and you know how to convey that in a quality watch. Or it says that you're in alot of debt for conspicuous consumtions.
But if you're gonna show the world that you like nice watches, don't get a Rolex. Too cliche.
But if you're gonna show the world that you like nice watches, don't get a Rolex. Too cliche.
I wear a Tag that someone gave me.
I never really thought about it, until:
1. A female friend told me that women look at a guy's watch to see how much money he has. I then noticed that strippers did tend to look at guys' watches.
2. I was at a party with the company president when he told me, "Nice watch!" and showed me his Tag.
So does this mean strippers = company president? :Q
I never really thought about it, until:
1. A female friend told me that women look at a guy's watch to see how much money he has. I then noticed that strippers did tend to look at guys' watches.
2. I was at a party with the company president when he told me, "Nice watch!" and showed me his Tag.
So does this mean strippers = company president? :Q
Same reason women lust after Gucci/Prada/Louis Vuitton handbags?
Any handbag will do the job, but it's some kind of style statement or a feel-good-purchase. And trust me, they will never stuff it to more than half its capacity - why risk getting it bent out of shape?
I find gold/diamond watches repulsive and too showy. Something cleaner and more elegant is classy. Style is never about the price-tag but if you make it so, you end up looking like those fish-out-of-water look-at-me-I-am-so-cool clueless types.
Any handbag will do the job, but it's some kind of style statement or a feel-good-purchase. And trust me, they will never stuff it to more than half its capacity - why risk getting it bent out of shape?
I find gold/diamond watches repulsive and too showy. Something cleaner and more elegant is classy. Style is never about the price-tag but if you make it so, you end up looking like those fish-out-of-water look-at-me-I-am-so-cool clueless types.
I don't really know, I got my watches as gifts so I wear them everywhere I go, and you'd be surprised a lot of people notice that I'm wearing a watch. Actually my favorite watch that I own isn't my most expensive one, I just wear it almost everyday. Some people talk to me about watches sometimes and nobody has asked me in a negetive way why I would wear such an expensive watch. I don't wear my watches to keep perfect time, I only sync them to my atomic clock about once every six months. I think men like watches for the same reason some women like jewelry. You can also say that the money a watch costs, you can buy a nice vacation, but a watch will last you a long time and they hold their value really well sometimes.
DivideBYZero
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WhoBeDaPlaya
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What expensive watch? Casios reflect who I am.
Great scientists like Hubert Farnsworth wear them
Great scientists like Hubert Farnsworth wear them
WhoBeDaPlaya
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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Apparently, PAB thinks they are the King Kong Donkey Shit_To Rule The World. Now, go research his posts. See if he really has one. I'll bet he fucking_ doesn't.
He has a sweet Folex!
I love how lack of knowledge about a given subject gives anyone on the internet the ability to make up patently false claims.
Your profound commentary on societal values blew me away and I'm turning a new leaf.
I will shed myself of vial life destroying timepieces and rise like a glimmering golden god beyond the black horizon and into the void to rule the very cosmos.
My shackles, to dust.
Live long, hail the all, forth dont and tread, mule balls beget you, in sin.
I will shed myself of vial life destroying timepieces and rise like a glimmering golden god beyond the black horizon and into the void to rule the very cosmos.
My shackles, to dust.
Live long, hail the all, forth dont and tread, mule balls beget you, in sin.
People at work always give me crap about this...the handbag analogy was great, I've used that one too. Or, one time a woman was giving me grief and I asked why she needed a huge diamond ring. She said it was her wedding ring and it was different. I said "so if you didn't have a 2 1/2 carat diamond, it would be impossible to be married?" She didn't have a good response.
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