Pugwash

Doesn't matter, to be honest. I like 'em all. Thanks for that.

Oh, before I forget ... Caseback shots!!!

Today, it's one of these: This one, in fact: As seen here (with a different strap) and here

Oh, how very nice!

Just one. AR - is it close to the gen on the rep?

You say mid-sized, I say tiny.

Good comedy makes us ask questions.

"Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me," Not about winning, eh?

True, but it's not very in keeping with the very premise of Christianity. It's a fatal flaw, in fact. The very ambiguity of the whole thing shows either a stupid god or a careless god. No, I just don't buy it. The more I studied religion and the history of Christianity, the more I realised that it's nothing but a hoax perpetuated to control the gullible. Pope, infallible, right? Surely, if there were a God, and he were in charge, Pope Alexander VI (Roderic Borja) would have been struck down, but instead, he was quite happy to let him carry on, to the point of his debasing the entire papacy to a joke. All popes after him are not allowed to say "Alex Six? He was a c0ck" because to do so undermines their post. How anyone can blindly take what the religion has been distilled to as gospel is something I don't really understand. If you're going to believe something that big, surely it pays to do a little research first.

If there were a God, he died in 1914. God is a necessary part of civilisation's evolution. We needed to go through being united under one supreme being before we could get over killing each other for sport and food. Once we'd done that, we no longer needed an invisible "Don't or you'll burn for eternity" stick. If there were one true religion, why hasn't it won? And my big anti-religion question: Why is your religion determined by the birthplace of your parents?

Simply because as soon as you accept the premise of Christianity, you either believe the lot or you don't. If you choose to disagree with the first council of Nicaea's hatchet job and prefer to follow an earlier version based on what's available, you're picking and choosing, but it's against God's will because Emperor Constantine I was acting as an instrument of God (even though he was a Sun worshipper, go figure) in striking out controversial passages. The Nicene Creed was put forward by Constantine I to unify the Christians under one bible and did so as the first great picker and chooser. The Bible isn't a holy book, it's a heretic emperor's pet project. I mean the whole point of the first council of Nicaea was to vote on whether or not Jesus was his own dad. A vote. Just think about it.

It's the same hypocrisy, even though I'm in no way suggesting guanaco is a paedophile, obviously. If you like having an imaginary friend, sure, carry on. Just don't give it money and most certainly don't base any important decisions on whether or not it's real. Because it isn't. No, it isn't and you know it.

I'm not sure his shills are him. I think they're merely brainwashed victims that believe they've found their new leader. What makes me think this? Here's the last post on wm9's forum from our favourite Daunwaun, the spacktard that tried to pass his wm9 "day-day" as a genuine.

I simply don't think you've thought this out. You're like the paedophile priests that say they believe in god but blatantly disobey His orders knowing a fiery pit of hell awaits if what they believe is true. You know you're not supposed to pick and choose the bits to believe, right? What you're actually saying is that you believe in God and you're ignoring him because you simply believe you know better. Great. Oops.

If Santa is nice, black with silver-ringed subdials.

I didn't post any pics. I've not got a TAG yet.

I don't think By-Tor will be getting one of these. However, I'm looking forward to the Eunomians review so I can add it to the IWC Guide that'll be coming out shortly after the Aquatimer.

Sure, sounds like a laugh. However, if bandwidth is costing an arm and a leg, is a radio the best solution?

I want a Carrera.

Precious Time is based in the UK. There's no customs risk there. Narikaa and TTK also can deliver from the UK.

I feel provoked by Christians, though. And I know how to insult the religion without insulting the individual people. I can't say the same about Islam. If Christians started killing people because they felt slighted, then ... oh, wait. Isn't that what this war in Iraq is about? God told Shrub to invade, no?

It's not illegal to own replicas in the UK, but it is illegal to import them and to sell them. Welcome on board. I prefer a veneer of anonymity but not as much as when I lived in France where it is illegal to possess counterfeit goods.

You've been in the US too long. You're thinking like the World Police again. You deal with your problems on your doorstep. You clean up your own back yard before telling your neighbours how to do theirs. To me, this means I can rip the proverbial out of Christians because that's my duty. That's my fight. Mohammed? I know sweet [censored] adams about the Muslim culture and wouldn't know where to start. That makes no sense. I fail to see how you got there from my post.

The problem we've got is we don't know which model Sub it is and we don't know what mods had been done to it. Back then, when Rolex serviced a watch, they took whatever dial, whatever hands, whatever crystal, whatever bezel and whatever crown were lying around to replace whatever you started with. To paraphrase a Rolex engineer, "we never realised people 40 years on would be looking at them in such detail. We used what was available, regardless of the model". (come on, someone must have the original quote somewhere)

It's not that. Taking the [censored] out of Mohammed is simply not my fight. Taking the [censored] out of Christians, however, that's my culture. I was raised in a Christian country so that's the one I'll rebel against. Oh and much like you have every right to walk through Harlem wearing a Klansman outfit, it still doesn't make it worth doing to prove a point. Same reason not to post Mohammed jokes on the internet. Someone, somewhere is going to be stupid about it and that's simply neither my fault nor my problem.