The "Shit I just bought" thread

I don't judge if people don't enjoy a fine timepiece or find it useful, but I happen to appreciate them and find it very useful for business. As this particular piece was a gift, I will wear it for a few decades and then pass down to my son.

Not that it matters, but at my office it is not acceptable to look at your phone during a meeting - it would be considered extremely rude.

Lot of rustled metro sexuals ITT over an overpriced mechanical watch, comon now

At meetings, how is it any less rude to check the time on a nice wrist worn jewelry than by looking at the home screen of a phone? Both insinuates a sense of urgency and or importance. One could argue it can be productive to check stuff on the phone, not so much a mechanical lumb of metal with "Hour - Minute - Seconds - Day - Date - Month - Moon phases". What do you need moon faces for anyway? Are you trying to remember when your wife is ovulating or is it rude to look at the sky as well and deduce this from the shape of it?

Presenters,like this one, comes with easy-to-setup timers with vibration. Learn to present

Also when did gifts count as self bought items as pr. the thread title?

There's probably a unifying and specific term for a roving band of classless douchetards, but I do not know it.

Basically, a classy ass timepiece like that sets you apart from the random dipshittery who are walking down the street oblivious to reality as they gaze in rapture at the random information that their chosen news aggregation service deems worthy of note. It sends a statement to the world, it tells folks that the minutiae they deem important is only judged so because they put weight on it, and if they truly valued the limited time they have to spend on this world the would lift their weary gaze from the device they've chosen to devote an unwieldy chunk of their life to and put some effort in to truly absorbing the wonder that is modern society.

Basically, if you wear a timepiece like that you are letting people know that your time is a valuable thing, a real commodity that you refuse to let go to waste. It is a piece of old time technology that you are showing folks you value the workmanship of. Something that shows you value artistry and true craftsmanship over crass commercialism.
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So aside from dude's sweet watch, my bro at the bar tonight was talking about how awesome his Fleshlight was. His ex bought it for him as a sex toy but they broke up and he said it was the best thing about the relationship. This is a dude that gets ass pretty regularly, but he said he still values his gross sex toy because every once in a while it's just "fucking awesome".

Request to change the title of this thread to The 'metrosexual gifts my sugar mama bought me & the mods whom wish they were kept boy toys too' thread - Post away folks, the more engulfing the subject, the merrier

"NSF certified refrigerator water filter retains beneficial fluoride in water while reducing chlorine taste and odor" almost makes me barf. Where I live the tab water is cleaner than bottled water - and free of chlorine. A swing and a miss, my good Tarrant. Also, fuck you for dodging the real questions: the title of the thread + watch vs phone

Grimmlokk, thanks for explaining why the watch is a low utility jewelry. I don't think anyone got that part
Could you perhaps elaborate on the initial questions regarding meetings, watch vs phone? Here, just for you

At meetings, how is it any less rude to check the time on a nice wrist worn jewelry than by looking at the home screen of a phone? Both insinuates a sense of urgency and or importance. One could argue it can be productive to check stuff on the phone, not so much a mechanical lumb of metal with "Hour - Minute - Seconds - Day - Date - Month - Moon phases". What do you need moon faces for anyway? Are you trying to remember when your wife is ovulating or is it rude to look at the sky as well and deduce this from the shape of it?

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Side question: Whom goes swimming wearing a 10K+ watch? I love how the industry keeps advertising 'up to 1200 meters water proof' etc. on classical mechanical watches. You'd think the very first James Bond movie just aired in the Cinema. Read here for more interesting things about watches:http://montre24.com/watchmagazine/31/

A nice watch serves as an excellent "MUG ME" sign when you're walking down the street. Of course, maybe the fact that I live in a shit hole has jaded me a bit.

I thought the 10K watch came with a private jet, limo, bodyguard, trophy wife and mansion? It doesn't? What a jip :S

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Here is a statement for you guys - I'm sure you'll love it.

Izo dangerously close to going full retard

Soygen_sl said:

27.75 for 6+ months of filtered water is a lot cheaper than bottled when you drink as much water as I do every day!

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WHOA...Stop right there.Filteredwater? You must be part of the 1%.

If you were milk, you'd be part of the 2%.

Soygen_sl said:

It's good to be king, what can I say?

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laughing so hard I am crying

Gotta admit that was funny, well played Soygen

I've had this for a few days now:

Samsung Galaxy Note Tablet 10.1

I'm loving it, I don't know that I can go back to a tablet without a stylus now. Basically, you can choose to hand-write with the stylus in ANY application where the touchscreen keyboard would normally be active and converts it to type. I find that I can get emails and posts to websites hashed out a LOT faster printing with a stylus(and it still has word prediction/correction just like typing) than I can using a touchscreen keyboard. The handwriting recognition is really amazing on this thing, I bet it gets probably 95% of the words I write correct on the first try, and I have pretty shitty handwriting.

Previously on my Nexus 7, I'd never even think about trying write out anything more than a single sentence or so, I'd just hop on my desktop PC to send a lengthy email, but now with the Galaxy Note it's damn near as easy as having a real keyboard.

Grabbed a refurb off of Woot last week for $250. Well worth it, that's only $50 more than I paid for my Nexus 7 last year when they first came out, and it's a massive upgrade.