I don’t disagree that a Casio is ‘functional’; but I do disagree that all Rolexes are ‘dress’ watches. Have a look at this one. (Note: Mine doesn’t have the date.)
It’s stainless steel, and it’s not fancy. It tells you what time it is (and the date, in this case), and it has a rotating bezel so you can keep track of your bottom time. Completely functional, and not fancy. I’ve seen ‘working’ Subs that looked like they’d been through a blender and still worked.
Or more basic, the Air-King I mentioned earlier (this is the watch I want… GoFundMe for your favourite ex-Los Angelino?):
Compare those to this Oyster Datejust:
Now that’s a dress watch. (Though it’s solidly upper middle-class. If you really have money, you get much more exclusive watches – or a Casio.)
There’s probably a more-appropriate thread for discussing watches, though.
Yeah, “pre-Neolithic” is not a good fit for the Sentinelese tech level.
They are probably best described as “Neolithic” in that they do in fact have stone tools but not metal ones… sort of. Because apparently they have used nails and other hardware either left on their shores or washed up on them to make arrow points and the like, they’ll use metal pots, knives, and other tools likewise found by them, but have no ability to make such things themselves. If it washes up on the beach and they can find a use for it they’ll use it. Yay modern garbage…?
But they themselves don’t have the tech to produce such things. From their viewpoint maybe a metal pot is like aliens leaving advanced tech for us, or something from Fairyland.
But they very much can make tools and weapons with stone-age techniques when they want to do so.
“Neolithic” and “stone-age” are not synonymous; the former was the last period of the latter. Stone tools were invented long before the start of the neolithic age.
ISTM that any use of those technical archeological terms applied to current-era isolated tribes is going to be fraught with “yeah buts”.
In one sense we know a lot more about isolated tribes than long-ago tribes. In other senses maybe not. And we can’t avoid the fact there’s been some modern “pollution” of their lives, even if it’s just our garbage drifting onto their shores.
Setting aside the doubtless crappy terminology about the idiot who visited their island, is there anyone here who’s expert enough to talk about the standard archeological labels and how they fit the North Sentinelese? Which should probably be an offshoot thread.
According to the Oak Creek Police Department, officers were called to a gas station for a fight inside a commercial motor vehicle.
The driver of that vehicle was found to be operating while intoxicated and arrested.
While at that scene, police received an unrelated report of a vehicle on the railroad tracks near Drexel Avenue. That driver was also found to be operating while intoxicated, and arrested
During that OWI investigation, the driver’s friends arrived at the scene, attempting to pick him up. The driver of that vehicle had a blood alcohol content of more than double the legal limit, and was arrested for OWI as well.
Eh. Aside from the random use of the word “woke” at one point in his semi-coherent ramblings, there’s no indication that he’s become a right-winger. He mainly just seems to think it’s ridiculous for any band not including him to call themselves “The Sex Pistols”, and I’m in agreement with him there.
Just as a quick, easy-to-find reference, if his Wikipedia page is assumed to be credible, he’s described there as not liking Trump at first but then coming out in support of him.
Possibly apocryphal story related in a company safety meeting by a Kansas highway patrolman:
Pulled over a car for possible DUI as it was going slow and still having trouble staying in the lane. Asks driver for license, he doesn’t have one because he is legally blind. Asked why he was the driving, he said he was the only sober one in the car.
This is actually a real problem for me as I literally have a framed photograph of Mr. Rotten prominently displayed in my living room. Not because I’m a huge fan of his but because he’s posing with my dead best friend. Still, with apologies to DBF, it’s going to have to come down. Or maybe I’ll just paste a picture of Joe Strummer’s face over his.
That’s a shame about the picture. I like his music just fine. I did all my purchasing of it before Trump, so at least there’s that, as far as I’m concerned.
The Joe Strummer thing sounds like a good solution, though. I would assume your friend would be okay with it.
As much as I grieved when Strummer died, maybe it was a good thing that he died young enough to not become a grumpy geezer like John Lydon. (no, I don’t really think Joe Strummer would have any sympathy for Trump. That’s unthinkable)
