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Lol,, that made me snort coffe out my nose!!! Class! Reg is a top fella, can always find the unusual gems in the metaphoric haystack that is the rep world! Sixx

If you use the member search Pete, you will find Trusty is a pretty well respected dealer on this site also! Rep Geek are on the same lines as our forum, we just know we are better than they are is all!! Sixx

Ohh but to have a 'Doggiefied' Skyland!!! Welcome back R, I hope you and Mrs G (Like I'm going to use the canine in that name?!?!) are well and out on your bikes in the nice spring weather!! Sixx

Scottish football has, unfortunately, went way down hill over the 20years or so. It used to be, if you looked at any succesful team in England, and several European countries, there would be a spine of Scottish players in their side. Leeds with Bremner, Liverpool with Dagliesh, Souness, Hansen, et al. Now a days, there is very few REAL good Scottish players anywhere, especially in Scotland! Our football has suffered very badly from 2 maladys. One, the Celtic-Rangers dominance, over the past 20-25 years they have been the only real contenders for any real silverware (trophies and league titles) in Scotland, due to this if you ask most Scottish youngsters who they support you will inevitably get the answer Celtic or Rangers, no matter where they come from. But sadly, Scottish football suffers from the afore mentioned religous disease. Now don't get me wrong, I have my own faith and I strongly believe in it, but I would never push it upon another and certainly would never have it enter the hallowed stadia of Football! Kids here tend to get segregated to catholic or protestant schools, where you either support celtic for catholic or ranger for protestant. Every so often you will get a kid who supports his local team (hearts of hibs for Edinburgh, dundee or dundee utd for dundee etc...) But, sadly, we suffer from the celtic rangers malady more than ever. They have all the money so get to buy the pick of the players in Scotland and abroad, and we have the "we support the winners" mentality, see Manchester United fans for themost part!! The other part of the malady, being a small nation, we don't produce the same volume of players as other countries, and the training from an early age has almost dissappeared. It used to be, you had primery school football teams (from the age of 5-11) then highschool teams (ages 11-18) and while playing for these teams, there was the chance of being picked for regional teams, which would play in regional leagues outwith the school leagues. These teams usually had strong connections with the big teams (lets call them 'feeder' teams) so they would nurture these youngsters until one of the pro clubs would take them on youth books. This rarely happens anymore, in the late 70's early 80's we had a big problem with teachers not getting paid enough. School teachers would get paid terrible wages but were expected to still do voluntery extra carricular pastimes, ie, run the school football team. When teachers started to complain then start to strike over pay, one of the first thingss to go was the after school activities, manly the school football teams. As a nation, Scotland, in my opinion, has never recovered from this, and so it goes around, religion rules the big teams, and the big teams rule the leagues, they buy in foriegn rather than cultivateing homegrown talent because it is easier and cheaper to buy a 'ready made' good footballer than to train from grassroots upwards! A very sad state of affairs, BUT, we still have the best travelling International fans in the World. Everyone is happy when Scotland comes to town because you know there isn't going to be trouble and all your beer will be drank rather than thrown at other supporters!! England, on the other hand, is the rich and promised land, for British footballers. The UK, made of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and England, has had to bow to the, admitedly far superior football, of England for about the last 15-20 years. England is different to Scotland and the other Celt countries (see above), where they are rarely bothered by religous interferance, they have a much higher population than the other countries and usually have at least 2 teams per city! This is where England has triumphed over the other countries, having two large teams per city, usually seperated by single figure miles from each other, you are brought up to support YOUR team, the team your dad supported, his dad supported and so on. There can be fierce rivalry within some of these 'darby matches' as we call them, bragging rights for work on Monday morning when you go back to work and get to poke fun at the 'otherside'. This, however, spilt over to serious violence and destruction during the late 70's and early 80s. Born from frustration of a very bad finacial climate, young men not being able to get jobs, or losing their jobs (see the coal and steel industries for perfect example) all this pent up anger and frustration had to have somewhere to go and almost inevitably, it exploded into the already fierce rivalries of football. 'Fans' (I use the word advisedly) would go on, usually drink fuled, rampage through the streets of what ever city they were playing in on that given saturday, fighting with other fans and passersby alike! These were mostly madeup of skinheads, punks and your average angry young man on the street, these were bad enough, but soon it would become almost a business! In the early to mid 80's, the success of English teams like Liverpool especially and the now almost easy access to other European countries by flight, meant that fans were now traveling to Europe for European cup ties, the best of the best from all the big European countries would clash, differing footballing styles making for some epic encounters! The English 'Hooligans' as they were now called, suddenly had access to other countries and inevitably, other fans! Some of the pictures coming back to the UK were horrific, fans wandering around dazed and covered in blood, shops and bars trashed and destroyed because, as the English found out to their glee, they weren't the only country to have 'hooligans'! On these travels abroad the fans had access to designer clothes, something only available at the time to the very rich and famous, but now they were available at much cheaper prices than at home and often for free as the violent rampages would often include grabbing as much as you could carry from the particular shop the melee was passing at tha time! These guys would come home to a triumphant return to their friends who could not afford to go abroad and of course looking 'the part' with the new found clothing they were sporting. 'Hooligans' they were no longer, now they were smart dressed, they were organised, they were 'Football Casuals'! This was the new lable given to them, the were no longer the raging punk or skinhead, the frustrated striking miner! They were now well dressed often in well paid jobs, but more importantly they were orginised and clever. Each big club had it's own 'firm', they all had their own names, Chelsea had the Headhunters, Westham with the ICF, Hibs with the CCS. All highly charged and highly organised gangs interested in only being the top firm! So there you go Lani, a short history of where a certain countries footballing passion went wrong with religion being allowed to be a part of the 'sport' and the other where the sports passion and family and club history and local pride turned to violence. Hope this helped. Sixx

Yeah, thats the one Omni, just thought it was an interesting wee curio. It is a plastic credit card like authenticity certificate. Been a fan of Dali's for a good while, I can remember the picture that I think this is based on (dodgy memory, sorry) but have never seen the watch to my knowledge. Just thought I would throw it out there to se what people thought. Sixx

I picked up a kinda cool little curio from ebay tonight, no idea if any of you guys remember the Dali softwatch or not. But I got a warrenty/cetificate of authenticity for one from a store I buy stuff from every so often. It's no great ground breaking thing, just thought some of you guys might find it interesting/amusing. Does anyone remember the watch at all? Sixx

I can't stand the guy! Miserable bastid in my view! Only good thing he ever done was getting the New York Dolls back togeather, well what was left of them anyways!! Used to do Smiths/Moz nights in my old club, man I hated those nights!! Made a fortune on them, but I swear I could have sold razor blades at the front door for a good profit!!

Hi Don, welcome to the world!! I hope you have deep pockets my friend cause this hobby takes more from you than Crack!!! lol If you use the search button, top right of your screen, it will open up all manner of reviews, buyers thoughts, even part by part break downs of the watches themselves! My advice to you mate is to do as much reading as you can and then you can make a informed decision yourself. Personally I thikn you have made a good choice with the TAG's, the reps are super close to the gens!! But this hobby isn't all about getting a rep to fool as a gen, it's about getting watches that you really like and learning a whole lot about the movements and brands themselves! ToadTorrent, one of our premier members, has written an awesome guid to starting off in this hobby of ours. I would strongly advise reading it, it's funny, incisive and gives you a great grounding to start out on!! here is a link to it for you. Good luck and welcome aboard my friend!!! http://www.rwg.cc/members/Hey-Noobor-NoobR...tml&hl=noob Sixx

Top job MrB, most impressive!! Welcome to the boards, this is one of the more interesting intro's for sure!! lol You have done great work man, think you would have a good line of customers wanting this done if you offer it out to the board!! Again congrats on some great handy work!! Sixx

Can't believe I'm gonna go this, but, for you Murph I'll go the extra mile!! I'm with Fakey, thats just vile and STOP IT!! NOW!!!! *shudder* thats twice I've almost been nice to him now!! You better appreciate this Murph!! Ahhhh, AHhhhhhh, AHH, STOP IT, get off that site!! NOW!!!!!!!

Their documents are untagged and Firefox doesn't like it. You get a warning box come up and say they are untagged. It won't work with my voice software either! If you get the new updated Firefox it will work, just not with assistance software. Nickos, there are plenty pictures of AP's with the straps on in their customer gallery. No need to wait for pics on here, there are plenty on the site!

Try turning the crown clockwise when it is in the first unlocked position. Some watches need the mainspring tightened, so wind the crown clockwise about 20-30 times just to get some tension in the spring. If this doesn't work send it back to your dealer as DOA.

Lol, quite a lot knowing you Dave!!

Now don't you be wasting beer there R!!! lol How are you man? I just left you feedback for the watches, I love the Ebel!! Sixx

lol, I'm sure you have Dave!

Don't worry Clerek, Dave was just being a pedantic ass!

As some of you may or may not know, I played in bands for a lot of years when I was younger. I have been friends with the Crue for a long time and have played Tommy's drums on several occassions, that kit that goes round and round is a killer I still have no idea how managed the solos he did in that thing!! As for Neil, I have a lot of fiends in Niagra Falls and the Toronto area. One of these knows Geddy Lee pretty well, on one of my trips over there we went to Geddy's house and had a laugh and went down to his studio and were messing around (I got to play YYZ with Geddy which was awesome!!) then from out of nowhere Neil came round with some new stuff he was doing and wanted to try it out with Geddy. After talking for a while we decided it would be fun to jam and have a laugh, I ended up in a drumming duel with Mr Peart, it was amazing fun, I used to be a pretty good player, but man, my skill never even came close to what this guy could do. In our 'Deliverence Duel' as it was from then called, I got totally creamed, but it was an experience that taught me loads and leaves me with awesome memories, of guys who were almost Gods in my youth and who turned out to be just great guys with a great sense of humour, in my now dark wee world. I would say he is by far the best I have ever watched or played with no contest!! But my boy, Tommy, has some serious skills too!! Hes not just some dumb rockstar he is an amazing guy with a huge heart and a massive talent!! Sixx

I've played with him a couple of times, the guy is on a different planet!! If only I had a smidge of the talent and skill he has!! One of the greatest and most breathtaking skill he has, as well show in YYZ up there, is the way he can go from such different styles, beats and solos in the blink of an eye! Only other drummer I've played with that even comes close to him, both on a technical and showmanship level, is Tommy Lee! He gets played ou as a dumb rock starwho parties with playboy girls etc, but if you ever see him play live or have seen one of his solo's he really is up there! But on a pure techincal and skill level I have yet to play with anyone anywhere as good as Neil!! This young kid is pretty impressive though!!

Top work Lani!!! I swear you're part machine dude!! Maybe we should all chip in and get you the Terminator 3 AP ROO, it would be fitting indeed!! Watch for the 'red eye' folks, it's the give away!! I'll take 6, 66, 166. Thank you my friend, from us all!! Oh and Ken is totally right, the 'P' bar is where it's AT!!!

Good man Trend, this was the 2nd thing I read on this board, the first being Toads noob guide. 3 days later I had ordered 2 V3 Skylands, one for me one for my pop, they are stunning watches! Peter is a great guy, you will not be dissapointed!! Can't remember if I thanked you for this Toady, you know how my memory is, but it by far the most well researched, amusing and complete review I have read (no offence to BT here, your reviews are stunning too)! You were on song the day you wrote this one bud!!

I don't really care where it came from to be honest bro!! You know why I bought it and I love it!! Sixx

Classy pen needs a classy watch bro!! That HBB is a serious watch, heavily understated considering whats on the bezel! Your pen in black, understated, but full of passion and soul!! Sixx

They would need all the details of the watch that they were working on to be able to order parts from the factory. It is the same with pretty much everything these days, I have worked in IT for over 10 years and I know for a fact that I wouldn't be allowed to even touch a service call without all the relevant details and certainly wouldn't be able to process it without the old parts and the serial numbers of both out going and incoming parts. Pretty much every service industry is the same these days, it is way too expensive to send parts out without knowing that you are going to get parts back in that you can either fix or charge for! I don't think this is going to be a winner for you bud, but good luck to you none the less!! If it works then you have a wee goldmine in your hands I would imagine! Sixx

I can testify to TJ's PAM's still going like a train as I helped finance his wedding by purchasing one!! It's a great watch can only lose secs per day, if that, because I have never been told that it's out by anything, great build quality and, I totally love the bracelet on it, being in a world where touch and feel is everything to me, these are amazing (almost as cool as the VC half 'crown' bracelets if you can get your paws on one, they are wicked cool!!) and the best part, I have a piece of history from my mates wedding!! Sixx

Erm, NO! That comes from the '08 collection bud, not much chance that it's been repped yet, or if it has the chrono's tend to be the ones that do. I may be wrong in this, I frequently am, But to my knowledge, no! Sorry can't be any more help bud.