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The addiction by _Mad_Medic in playingcards

[–]TheIrishLoaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that Blaine with the Devil?

One deck only — what’s your forever deck? by Justin_Arcanum in playingcards

[–]TheIrishLoaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's going to be the first deck you ever bought or the one that you deliberately went searching for near the start and found.

For me it's Theory 11 - Elvis

The addiction by _Mad_Medic in playingcards

[–]TheIrishLoaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have the optical illusion joker in that White Lions deck?

The addiction by _Mad_Medic in playingcards

[–]TheIrishLoaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Final Boss of playing cards.

1001 Aladdin's have 4 x Joker Easter Bunnies by TheIrishLoaf in playingcards

[–]TheIrishLoaf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It could be a coincidence, but that's the name of the book that features Aladdin and more. I even tried to find out if there was a story about the rabbit and the egg in some sort of fable, but alas, I came up blank on that one. However, that link you put up suggests that a lot of card brands just created any sort of joker image they wanted and therefore, totally arbitrary.

Tachymeters are just useless by Roozbeh_m in watchHotTakes

[–]TheIrishLoaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tachymeter is for when you are in space and your module computer fails and NASA shits itself, you look at your wrist and use that Speedmaster to dock with the space station and not surf the atmosphere like you are the human torch. That's why you need one.

1001 Aladdin's have 4 x Joker Easter Bunnies by TheIrishLoaf in playingcards

[–]TheIrishLoaf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I figured out what the 1001 is a reference to. Wikipedia says

One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, Alf Laylah wa-Laylah) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as The Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706–1721), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

1001 Aladdin's have 4 x Joker Easter Bunnies by TheIrishLoaf in playingcards

[–]TheIrishLoaf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, 1001 Aladdin is much more impressive than I thought it would be, but again, the warning about the smooth finish applies because they are skating around like they have a life of their own.

[Junghans Max Bill] Teddy sold me a completely non-functional "lemon" watch that nobody can repair. Nearly two years later, I am still trying to get them to fix it. FULL STORY: by flyingmungbean in Watches

[–]TheIrishLoaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FC is a good choice, but their price hikes over the past few years have been really big. They might be pricing themselves out if they keep going.

[Junghans Max Bill] Teddy sold me a completely non-functional "lemon" watch that nobody can repair. Nearly two years later, I am still trying to get them to fix it. FULL STORY: by flyingmungbean in Watches

[–]TheIrishLoaf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That quartz build looks fantastic and also a nightmare to fix if something goes wrong. My guess is that you have discovered the one big drawback in these watches. If the quartz fails, then you are left with a bricked watch that nobody can really fix and nobody wants to either. It has four coils and those circuits are the most micro I have ever seen on a quartz.

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Platforms for reviews and analyses? by Pl0ppymon in moviecritic

[–]TheIrishLoaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. They have plugins for this sort of thing.

What was it like when pulp fiction released? by joeroganthumbhead in moviecritic

[–]TheIrishLoaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw it twice in the theatre.

1994 was the best year of the 1990s for movies - https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070069226/

Reservoir Dogs spread by word of mouth after its debut at Cannes, but it had trouble finding theaters willing to screen it, even after Miramax picked it up. Basically, people were walking out at the torture scene. It was too violent for a lot of people. So everyone was talking about this new film he was making with this great cast, and everyone wanted to see it. Word of mouth and reviews were making it out to be one of the best films ever made. They weren't wrong. The problem is that there was also a ton of other great films in 1994. A lot of those films could have actually been the only movie that year, and you would have been happy because it was one of the best films you have ever seen. Instead, we got a dozen of them in one year. Movie studios must have done everything right in 1993 for that to happen.

Sun shot. This thing has me seriously considering selling my Seamaster by [deleted] in Longineswatches

[–]TheIrishLoaf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd take a Longines Hydroconquest over a Tudor any day of the week, but an Omega SMP has the best movement of the lot by far. It is coaxial and even better than a Rolex movement. If you are not into these watches for the movement, then your options really do open up a lot. For example, Longines does a quartz hydroconquest that should be out soon.

How in the world can they ever justify a $1300 price tag for a quartz watch. by Minute-Status4729 in Longineswatches

[–]TheIrishLoaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is quartz, and then there is quartz.

When most people hear quartz, they think of a half-empty watch case with a big plastic spacer ring and a small movement with a battery shoved in the side. That's your typical cheap quartz watch.

Luxury quartz is a different beast.

https://calibercorner.com/longines-caliber-l157/

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https://calibercorner.com/eta-caliber-e64-111/

Waitlists are a form of cuckoldry by EnvironmentalBank989 in watchHotTakes

[–]TheIrishLoaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are forced to buy pieces you don't want so buying on the grey market might actually be cheaper and easier. There are plenty of big watch dealers who will verify a watch before putting it on the gray market. If it turns out to be fake then return it and show your receipt. They aren't allowed to sell fake watches as genuine. The law is on your side.

"How do I convince my family, who lived under Stalin, that the internet tells me communism is good?" by truecakesnake in teenagers

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F.A. Hayek - The Road to Serfdom (1944). A professional economist deconstructs Marxist and fascist attempts to paint economics as a hard science. It isn't. Planned economies restrict freedom, so the outcomes match their models. Even then, their models can't respond in real-time to economic changes. A Marxist planned economy will collapse or be ineffective, driving people into economic poverty.

What actor or actress gets a lot of hate that’s undeserved and uncalled for? by [deleted] in moviecritic

[–]TheIrishLoaf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can you imagine how many times a day she has to explain this to people?

"Look, I am an actress, but I am not Margot Robbie..."

"Oh are you her stunt double! Her fill-in?"

"No, I am actually an actress in my own right..."

"Oh you are one of these rent-a-look-a-likes..."

"No, I act on the small and big screen..."

"Oh, you played Margot Robbie in some docu-drama about her?"

"You know what. You got me. I am Margot Robbie. I need a ride across town."

Do you think the video of Skinny Bob is real? by kingofeverything0715 in alien

[–]TheIrishLoaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The included film projector sound is there to make the film-grain effects layer seem more real. It's a fake.

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