View Poll Results: Do you wear a watch?
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Poll:Do you wear a watch?
03-10-2015, 10:29 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Poll:Do you wear a watch?
Taking my new found fetish (AAPL watch product research) to the ER polls. Thank you for participating.
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03-10-2015, 10:31 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ERTX
Yes or No.
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Gimme the facts, just the facts, M'am.
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03-10-2015, 10:33 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Toronto
Posts: 3,321
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Yes black or white? No grays on this one.
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03-10-2015, 10:37 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Jacksonville
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Never have. Hate the way it feels on my wrist. Never been much for any type of jewelry/accessories. I wear my wedding band and a crucifix around my neck only.
Mike
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03-10-2015, 10:40 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: North Scottsdale
Posts: 1,545
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did when I worked, don't anymore.
Near where I live there is a bell tower that chimes the hour of the day and chimes once on the half hour. About all I need now.
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03-10-2015, 10:44 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Western Maryland
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Never have. Like Mike, don't like the way it feels. Have always been good to about 5 minutes with time of day estimates without one - drives DW crazy. She has no sense of time whatsoever.
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03-10-2015, 10:44 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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IMHO, there is not even a remote possibility that a yes/no poll on this forum can generate any significant amount of data. Folks here are just too nuanced, and we delight in explaining why "it depends."
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03-10-2015, 10:45 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Northern Ohio
Posts: 3,182
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Used to a lot.
Recently I use the iPhone as a pocket watch and pull it out to check the time.
(very) Occasionally I wear a dress watch. It's not gold though.
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03-10-2015, 10:51 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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Rarely.
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03-10-2015, 10:51 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 12,901
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Sometimes.
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03-10-2015, 10:54 AM
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As a kid I wore a cheap timex but when I was 20(15 years ago) I got a cell phone so I no longer had any use for a watch.
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03-10-2015, 11:00 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Moscow
Posts: 1,572
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Daily. Don't like having to pull out a cellphone to check the time.
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03-10-2015, 11:02 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Twin Cities
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Never wore one much in the old days as I became an expert at sneaking a peak at other people's watches. Now I just look at my phone.
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03-10-2015, 11:06 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 1,543
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Yes...like my watch.
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03-10-2015, 11:16 AM
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Location: NC
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Used to, but stopped years ago. I still have 6 watches, all with long dead batteries. Once I started carrying a cell (later smartphone) everywhere, watches became redundant. Why bother with a device that only tells me time and maybe day/date and alarm when phones do all that and far more?
I assume folks who still wear watches do so for fashion/jewelry/status, or they're technology late adopters. When I want to know the time - homes, cars and many businesses have clocks, so it's not that often I need a timepiece. And if I ever reach the point that it's too much of a bother to pull out a phone...but to each his/her own.
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03-10-2015, 11:18 AM
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I wore one regularly until it broke around 1990 then I stopped until 2008 when my ladyfriend bought me one. I was still working all those years but never felt the need to have one because I had a clock in my car, clocks at my office and at home and at my ladyfriend's place. I also found that being watchless took stress from my life when it came to the commute on the trains.
Even with a watch, I don't wear it often anyway because of the availability of clocks. But after my stopwatch died a few years ago (I use it for the school-Scrabble tourneys I run) the wristwatch comes in handy.
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03-10-2015, 11:19 AM
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#17
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Yes- I love my vintage Rolex (bought used about 10 years ago). I feel naked without it.
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03-10-2015, 11:21 AM
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#18
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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I wore a watch every day, wasn't comfortable if I happened to forget it. Till the first day of RE, haven't worn one since. Probably never will.
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03-10-2015, 11:21 AM
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Location: New Orleans
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I love my beat up old Timex and would feel naked without it, too!
Polls like this are hilarious to me when I think of how frequently people without watches ask me what time it is. Sometimes I feel like responding, "What's the matter, where's your cell phone? " I guess it's just a PITA for them to be dragging out their cell phones all the time.
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03-10-2015, 11:21 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 236
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I wear 2...... but not at the same time.
A $10 digital Casio which I bought 20 years ago. This watch has outlived 4 wristbands!
And a specialized golf watch. It measures the distance from where I'm standing to the pin on the current hole using GPS. For non-golfers, once you know the distance to the hole, you can select the appropriate club for your shot. Oh... and (of course) it tells me time/date/etc. too.
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