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[greenkoolayd]

i have poor-kid guilt/anxiety about anything that costs more than $50.

(thats a bit of an exaggeration, but it sort of isnt.)

[wombat]

I'm OK with things that cost more than 50 dollars unless they're so small that I can ruin them by dropping them into the toilet, so I do have a lot of anxiety about my phone.

[jay-ell]

I have serious Roast Beef syndrome about buying new stuff for myself, but I go absolutely overboard when buying for other people.

I blame my mother.

[littlefallsmets]

I told her I wouldn't give anything away in advance but... when I know, I'll tell you all where to get it.

[doomglobe]

Hey, are pocket watches still a thing?

I was having a text with The Boy and we were wondering what to do with our spare teeth. I said dudes used to mount shit like that on their pocket watch chains and wondered what the modern equivalent of that would be. Then he mentioned he wanted a pocket watch and forgot to put it on his xmas list.

Huh.

How is this not tempting as the dickens?

A cellphone shaped like a pocketwatch with a pocketwatch screensaver would be pretty rad. I don't think even wrist watches are still a thing, though, unless you count them as jewelry.

[doomglobe]

Fox update:

Thing left my car with about 3 grand worth of damage, I've convinced the special lady to ride out there with me to pick it up this weekend. Insurance is covering most of it, but I doubt the car will be restored to full quality, as shit never goes back on quite straight. I'll probably be selling it at a loss, getting into some car loan style debt, and wasting a couple weekends on craigslist and at lots because I don't want to deal with whatever problems will come in 10k miles because some part didn't fit exactly perfect and it wore something else out.

On the bright side, I SMOKED that fox.

[jaydub]

"In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate." -Chester L. Karrass

This is true, and its why if you're smart and aggressive a union is a terrible thing.  Someone else does the negotiating, and your talents are averaged in with the knuckle draggers.  I originally hired on with my current company 15 years ago as a temp.  After 3 months I told my boss to hire me full time or I would look for other opportunities.  A week later I was full time, with a salary I negotiated with him based on the work I had shown to date.  A little later I was talking with another guy who had been there for 3 years and was still a temp.  Good worker, smart and talented, but apparently just didn't know how to get what he wanted (full time gig with benefits, etc).  He just kept waiting for HR to magically decide it was time to bring him onto the payroll.

[theinevitable]

Ever since I decided that I want Quality Things in small quantities, instead of lots of bullshit that I buy at goodwill, I have maybe a reverse roast beef syndrome. When I am buying a shirt and my mom (who has, um, a lot of money) comments that it is awfully expensive you know something is going horribly wrong.

(It was at J. Crew or something, it's not like it was a $100 shirt.)

[CortJstr]

A cellphone shaped like a pocketwatch with a pocketwatch screensaver would be pretty rad. I don't think even wrist watches are still a thing, though, unless you count them as jewelry.

I check the time way too often for my cellphone in my pocket as a time-keeping device to be practical. Especially in meetings.

[jay-ell]

I know a few people who still wear wristwatches. It strikes me as odd, but whatever.

[wombat]

I actually still wear a wristwatch a lot of the time. It relates to my anxiety about my phone - partly that this anxiety means that I keep it  in a complicated protective case so it takes extra effort to look at it, and partly because the fewer times I check the time on the phone, the fewer chances I have to drop it and break it.

[theinevitable]

I have a 40$ Timex from Target, and I wear it when I want to feel like a grownup.

Tonight my roommates' band is having a record release party, and it is getting lots of social media mentions and is at a hip weird tiny venue, and we are all banking on the idea that there will be tons of babes there. Is there any reason to believe there is an untapped reservoir of hipster babes in St Louis? No, there is not. Peak Babe in St Louis was 50 years ago.

[pmcd9]

I have a 40$ Timex from Target, and I wear it when I want to feel like a grownup.

As someone who was alive during the "wristwatch era" I am happy for the convenience of having the time on my phone. This is why you listen to records as well, isn't it?

[theinevitable]

No, I read something that said that wearing a watch looks good at job interviews. My dad agrees with this, he says it infuriates him that people pull out their phones in meetings to "look at the time."
It also helps when I am at work and am not allowed to look at my phone. But I mostly think it looks cool. Fashion blogs told me I should get a watch.

[wombat]

I have noticed that although everyone has a phone that tells the time, there are even more fancy watches for sale than ever before, so it does seem like they have become a fashion accessory.

Of course it's infuriating that people take out their phone in meetings to "look at the time." I do this too even when I am wearing a watch. Of course we are really looking at our email because the meeting is making us want to claw our eyes out with boredom.