Do Not Taunt Rhesus Negative!
That was wind assisted!!
I’m O neg, so let’s see.
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[li]Higher than average IQ:Check[/li][li]More sensitive vision and other senses:Maybe at one time[/li][li]Lower body temperature:Nope[/li][li]Higher blood pressure:Nope[/li][li]Increased occurrence of psychic/intuitive abilities:My aura doesn’t stop watches, so I guess not.[/li][li]Predominantly blue, green, or hazel eyes:Check[/li][li]Red or reddish hair:Nope[/li][li]Increased sensitivity to heat and sunlight:Maybe…[/li][li]Cannot be cloned:I’ve never tried, but I don’t have a twin, so maybe![/li][li]Extra vertebra:If so, no one’s ever noticed it on any x-rays, or at least they didn’t mention it.[/li][/ul]So two definites out of ten. Yep, definitely Nephilim!
When I was kid all watches had to be wound.
I had one watch and it always stopped working on me. First day – fine. Then each subsequent day it would work less and less until it would stop within an hour of putting it on. So I’d put it away and months later take it out again only to have the cycle repeat each time.
It was an old watch. So I was excited when I got a brand new watch for my birthday.
Same thing happened. Exact same cycle.
People told me at the time that there must have been something in my body’s magnetic field.
I thought it was more likely I was doing something wrong with the watches. So I tried winding it more. I tried winding it less. Neither worked. The cycle kept happening. The more the watches were on me, the less they worked.
I finally gave up on wearing watches until the battery powered ones came out. I was so excited to get my first digital watch which I wore until I couldn’t find the batteries for it anymore.
I still don’t know what was going on with the wind-up watches when I was a kid.
Strange things can happen. I once drove from Maine to Florida without the compass on the dash ever once pointing south. Thing was stuck pointing north the whole time. Car engine on; car engine off – didn’t matter. It started out working just fine. But then the compass stuck pointing north. Got me lost a couple of times before I realized the compass was stuck.
But the older I get, the harder it is for me to believe that my body had some kind of magnetic field that interfered with the watches. Yet, I don’t have an explanation for what always happened with my watches.
You probably put the compass on or near a speaker in your dashboard. The compass pointed toward the speaker magnet. You spent the entire time hopelessly lost because you were trying to drive away from the speaker in front of you.
I won’t try to dissect what happened to your watch other than to say you have no magical watch stopping property. You might be careless enough to break them without noticing. Based on the compass story, I wouldn’t bet your powers of observation are good enough to notice when you whack a watch.
I don’t see anything special about downer monkeys to warrant that. Frankly, the little furry primates are awesome to taunt, especially the emo ones.
That’s utter and complete nonsense and you should be ashamed for posting it.
Downer Monkeys. Band Name!
Incidentally, my wife has this issue as well with battery powered watches.Over the course of 12 years, I bought her several decent, seemingly reliable mid-price watches and they all died within six months without fail. Swap the batteries and within months dead again. Bought her a Citizen Eco-Drive and she’s worn it for two years now without issue. Electronics are not her friend either but some of that may be due to her not taking the time to learn how to dig into the guts of the software (or user manual). That is a Blue Job, according to SWMBO.
No, I said
So who’s power of observation isn’t very good?
Because you’re the one who read “Got me lost a couple of times before I realized the compass was stuck” and observed “You spent the entire time hopelessly lost because you were trying to drive away from the speaker in front of you.” So I’d say you proved your level of your power of observation. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
And, incidentally, both of those times were in the deep in the woods driving on one lane roads. The exact times you would depend upon a compass for direction.
Again, your level of powers of observation comes into play because I said:
and
And that’s after ***specifically stating that I thought it was something I was doing something wrong. Not the magnetic field theory I’d been told. ***
However, your explanation of
is completely wrong. Which tends to happen when someone leaps to conclusions with inadequate evidence. As was once famously said, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment” which it obviously did in your case.
I only had the one watch and even as a second-hand watch it was precious to me so I was very careful with it. When I got a brand new watch for my birthday, I was even more careful with it.
But thanks for providing the laugh about powers of observation. I absolutely loved that you used that phrase in your post.
What did you expect? Replace the batteries once and it would run forever?
Of course not, and drop the snark. I have several battery powered watches as well as a nuclear fission powered one (solar Bulova Marine Star) that is my daily wear. My other watches tend to get roughly a year, and in the case of the digital Casio almost two before requiring replacement.
My wife has had several Bulovas, a few Swatches, and a Fossil, IIRC that were all on battery. They all die within a few months and none has lasted longer than 6 months before requiring a replacement cell. The Swatches are actually non-functional at the moment, but I put that down to them being as much fashion wear rather than a durable timepiece. Be that as it may, even the better quality watches die in a much shorter time period that I would expect, especially as they all use common cells, and I get them from the same jeweler. If it were solely due to crappy batteries, why would mine last almost twice as long? Further, I subject my watches to far more abuse than she does.
So far, the Eco-Drive on her wrist seems to have held up.
That would be fusion powered.
Typically I get 4 to 5 years use before battery needs replacing. I once had a Seiko that squeezed 6 more months after low battery warning started (second hand sweeps in 2 second jumps rather than one). If you are getting only a year then perhaps your jeweller is installing sub-standard batteries
:o You are quite right; I apologize for not proofreading a little better…
That is a fair point wrt the batteries, and even if that is the case, my wife’s watches still ate them far more rapidly than mine did. Really it is a moot point a we both have solar watches now, mine going on 18 years, and it has only required the storage cells to be replaced and the watch refurbished once. I am tempted to get two identical watches, place new cells in them and have my wife wear one, me the other and see if hers dies first…
lalaith, I read your post closely and digested every word. I was hyperbolic when I said you got lost the entire time. It was for the amusement of other readers. I didn’t do it for your amusement because it’s not particularly amusing to have your own ridiculous implications called out as I did.
Your entire post seems to vacilate between suggesting that there is some mystical magnetism that stopped your watches when you were a kid and accepting that it was either user error or broken watches. Which is it?
Here is my problem with your watch nonsense. You had some problems with watches when you were a kid. People told you it was caused by mystical magnetism. You believed them when you were a kid. You seem to suggest you don’t believe the magnetism stuff now but you won’t commit to it. Do you believe that your special magnetism caused the watches to stop when you were a kid?
If you don’t believe the magnetism stuff, why do you even bring up the issue of a stuck compass? Did you talk about that because you believe that it illustrates the “strange” magnetism that pervades your life and has caused other things, such as the compass, to not work? Or do you just bring up random, irrelevant things because you can’t tell a story?
I don’t believe your powers of observation are very good and I believe that your compass story shows this. If the compass were perfectly stuck at north, as you say, good powers of observation would lead you to conclude very quickly that it was stuck. Because even relatively straight roads curve and cause your car to change direction. Good powers of observation mean that you would notice almost instantly that it was stuck north, and you’d instantly ignore it. But being stuck north apparently caused you to get lost “a couple times.”
I also don’t believe that the compass, when mounted where you did, ever worked. This is a recollection of a story from years ago, and, like most people, you don’t remember the details that specifically. You probably remember the generalities like it never pointed south, it didn’t work and it caused you to get lost “a couple times.” You probably don’t remember the specifics as well as you think you do. We all have problems with memory. Elizabeth Loftus has done a lot of very interesting research into how our memory fails us.
I’m guessing that you believed the compass worked because it moved when the car turned and you assumed it worked. I believe that you failed to notice that it never actually pointed in the right direction when you turned, you only noticed that it moved at all. For instance, you’d see it changing direction when you turned, but you failed to notice that even when you were heading directly towards the sun in the afternoon, it was not pointing westward. Instead, it probably bobbled about a bit when you were turning and then generally returned to north when you were done because it was pointing to your speaker.
And, for what it’s worth, your criticism of my post doesn’t call into question my powers of observation, but rather my reading comprehension. Perhaps the two are related but you haven’t really supported that.
Some people will stop using the watch since they dont use it long enough they think its not very accurate. but if you use it all the time you will get use to it.
for me i use it all the time at work and when i jog and its accurate i just dont think its not for everyone
According to whose description? The first post in this thread was almost 10 years ago and people have revived it regularly to say that they too stop watches and nooo, it’s not because they’re careless or buy shitty watches. You might be the first one to bring it back from the dead to say something somewhat sensible, if superfluous.