tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post49223629952856791..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: What Are the Chances?Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-43648877781724312052011-01-15T21:07:37.066+00:002011-01-15T21:07:37.066+00:00What's worse is that big chunky expensive watc...What's worse is that big chunky expensive watches are becoming popular with the ladies too - on this side of the world at least. Hideous! I'm a non-watch wearer too, lost my last one while surfing(!) and never replaced it. It's tricky to drop a mobile phone in tea, requires some precision aiming, but more than plausible to drop it down the toilet, I found once to my cost!KateNZnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-81260416162710775772011-01-14T18:00:40.885+00:002011-01-14T18:00:40.885+00:00I've been thinking about Nige's incident l...I've been thinking about Nige's incident <i>laterally</i>, as I call it. Watches are a distraction - he clearly lacks coffee tables and/or coasters.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-86670943859704941102011-01-14T13:16:03.938+00:002011-01-14T13:16:03.938+00:00There's a great bit in Ginsberg's Howl -- ...There's a great bit in Ginsberg's <i>Howl</i> -- which rightly or not, I've always read as a mock-heroic piece -- where his angel-headed etc. hipsters defiantly "throw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time" only to have "alarm clocks fall on their heads every day for the next decade".<br /><br />I'm basically a non-watch wearer, but I've had that experience of timepiece bellyflopping into mug of tea at least twice. Perhaps its quite common?jonathan lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986943428040953041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-43999209281474749672011-01-14T11:54:13.112+00:002011-01-14T11:54:13.112+00:00When you 'cross over' Brit, and join Gaw a...When you 'cross over' Brit, and join Gaw and I on the other side, you will begin to see the liberating side of the watchless world. 'a good half dozen' watch straps? What a joke. Tea ruined? A thing of the past. Unsightly pale-skin watch outline, wrecking a beautifully tanned arm...I could go on...mahlermannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-28687355362246204452011-01-14T11:08:55.436+00:002011-01-14T11:08:55.436+00:00I reckon you non-watchers just saw Easy Rider at a...I reckon you non-watchers just saw Easy Rider at a formative age. Chucking their watches was the symbol of rejecting The Man. Makes a bit more sense in the desert than the city, mind. I had a flatmate at uni who did exactly that, used to drive me bananas constantly asking the time. Personally I can't see how having to look around for clocks, makes you more free than having your own one...Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-38391610706509551642011-01-14T09:07:19.093+00:002011-01-14T09:07:19.093+00:00I've never worn a watch. And I too am like an ...I've never worn a watch. And I too am like an Indian brave. How. I usually ask squaw for time.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-91780333888772477982011-01-14T06:30:31.175+00:002011-01-14T06:30:31.175+00:00Brit - sadly yes, the wrist-phone is already among...Brit - sadly yes, the wrist-phone is already among us. Saw a 'sad bastard' on the train last week, talking to his wrist, with a half-smile playing on his banker lips (yes, that's a 'b') And Mark, I agree about the body clock - and add to this the position of the sun in the sky in summer, useful if you are up-country and away from the modern worldmahlermannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-54699853431575832372011-01-13T21:48:35.269+00:002011-01-13T21:48:35.269+00:00Hmmn. According to his biographer, the naturalist ...Hmmn. According to his biographer, the naturalist C.J.P. Ionides whose passion in life was snakes - he thought little of resting a puff adder on his lap - "threw his watch away in 1927 and never again carried one". My theory is that if you leave your watch at home you will have a more interesting day than if you take it with you and, with a bit of practice, find that your body clock is remarkably good at estimating what time it is anyway.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-22082021416523703542011-01-13T20:18:31.775+00:002011-01-13T20:18:31.775+00:00Although we usually had food on the table when I w...Although we usually had food on the table when I was at school, my mum couldn't afford a watch for me, and I pretended with the other kids that I didn't want one anyway. This carried on into adulthood, and I discovered, in a rather contrarian way, that in fact I really didn't need one as, at any given moment I could tell anybody the time give or take 5 minutes - which is accurate enough, I feel. My wile was to almost subconsciously keep an eye on the time throughout the day - in shops, on office walls, on the wrists of others, on public buildings - in fact just about anywhere. It's become a 'thing' in my family. They know I have never owned a timepiece; they stopped testing me years ago; they always lose the bet; I'm always close.mahlermannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-41284070031549803732011-01-13T19:19:41.786+00:002011-01-13T19:19:41.786+00:00I'll be honest, Nige. I'm surprised by thi...I'll be honest, Nige. I'm surprised by this post. I'vep always thought of you as a pocket watch and fob man.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-36229888765212419732011-01-13T16:56:12.477+00:002011-01-13T16:56:12.477+00:00No way, Gaw! Can you wear your phone on your wrist...No way, Gaw! Can you wear your phone on your wrist and glance at it?<br /><br />The other essential on a watch is the date, for me. I've got a Citizen Eco-Drive which doesn't need batteries or winding, and thus, with any luck, will last me forever.<br /><br />That's a great opening line, btw, Nige. Reminds me of the brilliant poem "Daddy fell into the pond." (Check out ToE for a clumsy mishap of my own).Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-41801920462149233812011-01-13T15:58:20.797+00:002011-01-13T15:58:20.797+00:00Have mobile phones got a sweep second hand as stan...Have mobile phones got a sweep second hand as standard Gaw? Can you, more to the point, drop them in your tea?Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-18815526286032709312011-01-13T14:07:50.989+00:002011-01-13T14:07:50.989+00:00Haven't mobile phones made watches obsolete?Haven't mobile phones made watches obsolete?Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-36887527195252192102011-01-13T13:20:45.476+00:002011-01-13T13:20:45.476+00:00Hear hear. My older brother is into ridiculously e...Hear hear. My older brother is into ridiculously expensive watches and even has a display case to put them in (puke) the thing that really gets me though is that you have to wind them all the time. I have a cheap(ish) watch that I dont have to wind at all. Seems like I got the better deal.wormhttp://thedabbler.co.uknoreply@blogger.com