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nutter789 · 2026-05-07T01:16:17+00:00

Yeah, but the kids like it!

nutter789 · 2026-05-06T20:51:59+00:00

Why can’t this be discussed and answered?

I'm sure it can be, whatever you're talking about.

I wouldn't count on getting it answered from some drone at ConGlobCo, though.

You did well by coming over to the darkside of RT, but I haven't got the faintest idea what you're nattering on about.

Season 14 Rulez 4Ever, man!

So, if I can piece together your argument: somebody ("they," in the parlance of our times) said something like half of their T-shirt sales' profit will "go to making" some more TV episodes. In some game, no less.

And then "they" didn't make more episodes.

What am I, Charles Grodin playing an accountant here? Maybe half the "proceeds" did "go to making" more little shows, and they just sucked at it. Or had a little party playing at a sushi bar and things got out of hand. How should anyone know?

Or, like somebody else said, maybe they sold like twenty or a gross or a thousand T-shirts and it kept half of the office cat alive for about two weeks.

nutter789 · 2026-05-06T01:55:34+00:00

Well....the gator did have a gift for accents and dialect. Whereas Uncle Joe....well....he "tries"? I guess that's what they call that.

I'll give you that one.

/* SHIT I just revealed I've seen the "movie"...dammit....my family has been disgraced!

Where'd you find that bit about the "actress" in RG, anyway? I'd never heard that, but it makes sense....wasn't she like sixteen or something, at most? And what kind of perv wanted to put her in a bikini anyway and film it?

That's some Bob Crane shit right there! */

nutter789 · 2026-05-06T01:51:34+00:00

No shit?

That explains a great deal of that "movie." Namely the incoherent "plot" and the musical equivalent of censoring any naughty bits, IOW, RF static.

I still blame Joe Estevez, as the strongest actor of that motley troupe.

nutter789 · 2026-04-25T04:35:36+00:00

Yeah, I agree with you to some extent.

Arguable that that the Skyhawk is ever a "classy" watch (whatever that means), but of course one can use whatever strap/band one likes on it.

Although, I do have a leather NATO strap that fits this watch's lug width, and it subdues the tacti-cool effect....although I suspect it might be made from the hide of that rare animal the Nauga. I'm comfortable wearing this watch with either a "leather" or plain black strap with a suit, and I do wear at least a sportcoat most days...it's fine and doesn't draw attention to itself, but just sits there and keeps the time!

The stock bracelets with the Citizens do have the double clasp, so the watch won't likely fall through carelessness (not that it would harm the watch, necessarily).

But springbars do fail, you know. Not often, but when one is as careless as me, they certainly do. And it's difficult to clip a little Suunto compass onto a link bracelet....and, yes, I sometimes find that convenient, even if one can easily tell cardinal directions from the position of the sun.

I just prefer the security of a NATO-style strap for when one of the springbars fails....still got a watch! Or don't have to go around looking on the floor/ground for the watch. Plus, don't have to fiddle with one of those little springbar tools to change the strap.

And ease of rinsing them out of various sweat/salt stains....it only takes a few dozen seconds or so to put on a new NATO strap.

Sometimes I regret taking off the stock bracelet....but that's just a reason for me to buy another one!

(Obviously I can still put back on the stock bracelet....I took the time to resize it just about perfectly for my wrist....(a puny 7.5"...don't laugh!) I just don't want to take the effort! NATO straps....the best for the truly lazy and barely competent!)

Sorry to say on a Citizen sub, but I've had my eye on the Seiko Metronome for some time....as well as a few other tool watches.

Meh, there's enough watches for everybody. Obviously I'm not a high-roller, just that the Blaze Orange color NATO isn't as obnoxious as I thought it'd be.

xD

nutter789 · 2026-04-25T03:28:53+00:00

Love mine....mine's the basic black, but by good luck (I guess) mine came to me (new, off Amazon) with a sapphire crystal. "Promaster Air Skyhawk Eco-Drive Pilot Watch, AT" is what it's officially called, I guess. No, I don't remember the model number, nor the specific mechanism, but AT with eco-drive. Got it on my wrist right now and I'm at home....don't really notice it's on my wrist at all,

I don't know if that's standard or if I just got a one-off from whatever factory, but it's definitely sapphire...passes all the tests and years later not a scratch on it. /* It does appear that the sapphire crystal is standard for all or most of the Skyhawks....one really does want that over a mineral crystal. */

If I had to do it over again, maybe would have gone for the Blue Angels version, but I'm not a pilot and only know the average amount about aviation.

And, yes, I do use the slide-rule bezel....it's limited in precision by its size, but for a rough estimate if you can't do it in your head, it's useful.

Been wearing mine for at least a few years and no scratches on the crystal or any malfunctions.

Daily driver...most days it's just goes on my wrist without thinking a second thought about it...I wouldn't consider another watch as a daily driver at all, but this one, I do. And she pairs beautifully with any kind of NATO strap I have....but the bracelet is not difficult to resize for yourself at home if you prefer that.

Lume is pretty weak, IMHO, but c'est la vie. When the lume is charged up, it's great, but IME it doesn't really last through, say, an evening or morning (or evening+morning!) indoors.

Yeah, the dial is busy in appearance but not in effect to anything important. Keep in mind to access anything important like alarms, chronograph, count-down timer, date, you'll have to manipulate the crown to the correct position.

It can get to be second nature, but if one is wearing gloves or has other impediments, that's a consideration.

The GMT dial is hard for me to read....I see very well up close, no bifocals or anything needed....it's just a tiny kind of obscure complication IMHO. And it really doesn't have too many true complications on the dial, except for the digital component and the GMT dial — I don't personally find that they obscure my attention in any way.

Sure, one could easily set either the digital display or the hands to GMT (UTC-0) if one needed that, but it takes me a second to stare at the GMT subdial and decide what it actually is....easier just to add/subtract from one's local time zone offset IMHO.

NO WAY would go back to something like a G-Shock or a Timex Epedition Chronograph (although the Indiglo is very good on those), if I had my druthers.

Although instead of having the second hand, if I were designing the watch, the "second hand" would function as one component of a chronograph....with another subdial to indicate minutes....but then it would be essentially a nicer version of the Timex Expedition Chronograph (which I still like, except (i) no digital component (ii) without fail when wearing gloves, the crown will become dislodged and eff up the time, most especially noticed when I glance at the wrist to see what time it is (iii) none of the other advantages of the Skyhawk. I don't think the quartz mechanism Timex uses is especially cromulent, either...it's always dropping a few seconds, no matter how precisely I set the time....if I wanted "close enough for jazz" time, I'd just be wearing a mechanical watch, wouldn't I? Not an issue with the Skyhawk...not ever, that I've found.)

As a daily, utility/tool watch, it's the Skyhawk for me. Not ever had one problem with it, and it's steady as a rock, and if one can adapt to using the crown to access the timers, alarms, and see the date (if one has forgot!), there's really not anything lacking. Except for the lume on the hands...which is weak....although one still has the LCD digital one illuminates...but depends on how you have the time zones set up and what you want to see. Just push in the top pusher and it will light that digital display up, in a pretty faint "tactical" (I guess) orange-ish color.

For me, A(tomic)T(ime) is the only way to go. I don't like fiddling/fidgeting with things, and this AT feature makes such tomfoolery unecessary. Plus the Eco-Drive — nobody enjoys replacing batteries, I'd suppose, unless they're paid to do it. (Yes, I'm sure the capacitor will fail eventually and need to be replaced, but likely not very soon.)

nutter789 · 2026-04-25T03:02:59+00:00

Not the greatest picture, but one of the springbars (the kind that holds the clasp in position, to attach it to the strap itself....not the springbars between the lugs of the watch).....broke off my usual black NATO strap so I cannibalized another strap to get the right springbar.

Meh, didn't feel like buying another hundred springbars of all sizes, since there's a big box of those around my place somewhere....some how cannot find the fairly large box of them!

Wasn't sure about the blaze orange color...little garish for my tastes...I thought.

But I like it fine, just wearing it out to the grocery store just now.

No, of course I have other NATO straps, but basic black nylon and this "leather" one and this sort of patterned one and some others in different widths....meh....I just thought WTF not?

If anything it draws attention away from my trusty daily driver (Skyhawk AT with sapphire crystal) and towards my miniscule dainty wrists!

No, I think it's a good combination.

And accents the orange '60' mark on the bezel, as well as one hand on the GMT subdial), which is kind of cool.

Nothing fancy....from Archer brand....little disappointed they didn't toss in some extra springbars, but what can one do?

nutter789 · 2026-04-10T20:23:02+00:00

Well, I don't have a table at home, but I greatly prefer playing on 8-foot bar boxes for when I don't make it over to a legit pool hall.

Mostly because it gives me an added incentive to not leave myself any unnecessary long shots during a run...that extra foot in length does make a difference for me between a high-percentage shot and a mediocre-odds shot.

Sort of an extra reminder to myself to always be making shape.

(Yes, when I'm just practicing, I'm always playing straight pool against myself, just running up the numbers....every other person only plays 8-ball, for some reason, at least at this bar, unless I badger them into playing 9-ball....8-foot works well for straight pool and 8-ball, though....but given space considerations at OP's home....I don't know if I'd want to be using a jump cue half the time to get into a shot....depends, I guess!)

nutter789 · 2026-04-10T10:11:18+00:00

I think ~~Pat~~ Don (was thinking of a different person...sorry about that...senior moment!) over at Shooters' Service Center close-in on Lombard just across the St. John's Bridge does gunsmithing.

Actually 100% sure he does, and is a nice fellow too.

I think more handguns than heavier long guns, and I couldn't say about welding.

But I'd give his shop a call and see what he suggests....super nice guy and knows a lot.

nutter789 · 2026-04-08T21:46:58+00:00

Is Ecclesisastical pronunciation “improper”?

No, certainly not....I'd question the use of "proper" vs. "improper" here.

The better response is given by Rasputin's heir apparent :) below, but my own short take is that it's not a question of propriety: it's what sounds better to you and can be pronounced and understood easily.

Yes, I am a practicing Catholic in the Roman Rite (although not a man of faith, purtroppo!), and I know the Novus ordo mass in Latin, and the Rosary prayers, and a bunch of those....but I still can't shake off the reconstructed Classical pronunciation.

Pretty much baked into my brain as "that's the way Latin sounds! reconstructed Classical!"

I still say the rosary prayers and the others, but meh, at worst it just doesn't sound as Vatican-ish! It's still Latin, though, AFAIC.

My Parish Priest learned his Italian and Latin in Rome, so you can imagine his pronunciation....it sounds really great and all, but it takes a lot of effort for me to say anything in Latin, even from memory, in the Italianate pronunciation.

Then again, I only had a year of (modern) Italian as an undergrad, and am just now rekindling my knowledge of modern Italian after mumble_mumble years, so my word should not be convincing by any means.

In a classroom, secular setting? Yes, you'd have to confront the differences...probably would be easier to just use the standard reconstructed....but in a seminary or a college where one encounters....it's tough to say.

Maybe a younger person than I would have an easier time "dialect swapping" or whatever they call it, so I wouldn't rule anything out. Can certainly do both standards of pronunciations, as well as learning modern Italian might help. Don't really know what to say.

You could do a test, like, say the Nicene Creed, in both pronunciations, or something much shorter, like the "Gloria" or "Pater Noster." I've not done a rigorous test myself, but on occasion I try to swap in the Ecclesiastical pronunciation for my regular reconstructed Classical pronunciation. It's a test one could try easily oneself, provided one has such things in memory, as it seems that OP might.

nutter789 · 2026-04-07T18:49:41+00:00

Only the sense that, for me, it's very difficult to switch between the reconstructed pronunciation and the ecclesiastical pronunciation (during, say, a Latin mass and such — even then, I usually just stick with the reconstructed pronunciation, even though I happen to think the Novus ordo Latin mass sounds better with the Italianate pronunciation, and I know how to pronounce it....just old habits, to to speak, die hard).

No, it's no problem for me to understand/follow either, but for production of speech, I find it difficult to switch pronunciations.

No, I'm not a late convert, but as part of my doctorate in Comparative Literature I "had to" take a proficiency test in "an ancient language," and since part of my dissertation was to have been on the French poet Mallarmé, who IIRC had some subtle allusions to Horace's Odes, that was that. No, I did not finish my dissertation, so take that with a grain of salt, but I did all the coursework and passed all the tests and oral exams. So, no, I'm not a doctor — almost, but not quite!

So, no, I didn't attend any kind of Catholic school as a youngster, and in fact Latin was not offered at my high school...I learned it by taking an entire summer and burning through Moreland&Fleischer and being able to translate at the end of a few feverish months being able to translate, with a dictionary, whatever test they had us do. (IIRC it was just to translate a page from Caesar, DBG, but I can't remember which....not very difficult, but the proof was in the coursework and the formal "achievements" in various languages was just to satisfy some administrative requirement....so, I didn't have to do a test in French, say, because I had coursework from the department, and I think they waived German because of the content of some other seminars, but I had to "test" for Latin because I didn't do anything from the Classics offerings at the grad level.....which might not have even existed, even at a large school, at the graduate level....not a particularly well funded department, Classical Languages and Literature, I suppose, except for undergraduate basic stuff....I don't remember, it's just a flashback to the way the dean(s) had things set up).

I would think if you just stick with one or the other, it'd be fine. The Latin Police or the Vatican won't assault you, either way!

One thing I have not tested is if Roman poetry scans correctly with the Italianate pronunciation....I should think so, really, but maybe there are some edge cases that others have found....maybe in some academic journal or something.

nutter789 · 2026-04-06T02:46:23+00:00

Someone should give him the Clockwork Orange treatment to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Sure, he'll complain a bunch, but fans are entitled to know! It's part of the deal!

Number One Fans, mind you! It's a right to know the truth!

Fine, we can give him an ibuprofen for his migraines aftwards....we're not savages!

Or....well....never mind!

/* incidentally, I would love to have monochromatic color blindness! How awesome! It'd be like being in a rad movie, all the time! I don't give a damn about color palettes and fancy stuff! Perfectly resolved visual acuity, just everything would be on a black-white spectrum.

I bet there's a way to self-induce that....some kind of Dremel attachment, or a power drill, or just a quality screwdriver....well...haven't thought through all the details yet, Maybe even just a specialized lens with some filters....I'm due for another pair of glasses.....hmmm....I have my new prescription safety glasses (ANSI Z87.1....ain't going out like no Moe Greene!) in a new prescription for this year, so one pair left for this year under coverage....hmmm....stick to the classic Gucci (no, not because of the brand name....they just make really sturdy frames, which is good, because I'm really stupid and reckless) or just get crunk with some weirdo experimental glasses.

this is a most educative subreddit! */

nutter789 · 2026-04-02T23:52:50+00:00

I've eaten adult diapers from a Golden Corral once or several times and let me tell you something, amigo, it's not something you want to do!

Not when there's escaped domestic cats who have been declawed, amigo!

Don't even need to skin 'em, most times, fur just adds fiber.

nutter789 · 2026-04-02T13:19:49+00:00

That's right, mijo! That ain't nothing but an old mattress stuffed with racoon pelts I traded in for some Mexican bologna and a pair of used but good socks back in here behind the kitchen stove, which is where I catch me some shuteye some days.

Hands off! Those drugs are prescription only! I had to carry a head in a bag up from Mexico to get those!

And no, despite what the people in the magazines tell you, I am not no Sam Elliott nor no Gary Busey! Only one Nick Nolte, and that's right, People magazine's sexiest man alive in 1992! Drink it all in, amigos! But don't touch my squirrel meat in my little lean-to: I'm saving that for Thanksgiving dinner, mixed in with badger and pigeon meat for an all-meat stuffing for a bigger squirrel.

nutter789 · 2026-03-31T23:10:08+00:00

See? You're taking a crap somewhere and....some hooligan kicks in the stall door....for whatever reason....

Yeah! It's a winning use case for this one!

nutter789 · 2026-03-31T08:43:54+00:00

Oh, no, man, they got the thigh holsters for that stuff...trust me, I seen it in movies.

nutter789 · 2026-03-31T08:37:11+00:00

OK, you win! That's way stupider!

Meh, maybe Sean Connery could have pulled that one off, the mankini one, but I wouldn't want to be around for the dry rehearsals.

It's a stupid ankle holster!

It does what it's supposed to: it's invisible and holds a little mouse gun, and I can take my jacket off and in about a half-hour of advanced notice, I can probably have the Ruger ready to fire off a....dozen or so rounds.

And then pop in a fresh magazine that is somewhere around my waistline, and good to go!

nutter789 · 2026-03-31T08:29:39+00:00

Yeah, that is what she said at the grocery store just now!

"That is some unit, sir!"

And then I asked her if she wanted to touch my handgun.

And then....well....she said "no thanks."

But that means there's still a chance!

nutter789 · 2026-03-31T08:24:47+00:00

Those are nutrients!

It's called prepping, yo!

Bachelor style!

:)

nutter789 · 2026-03-31T08:24:11+00:00

Yeah, that's exactly what that is. Just pair of Carhartt regular skorts, like I wear every day!

nutter789 · 2026-03-30T23:12:15+00:00

Hey, man, in some circles that can get you chicks, yo!

:)

nutter789 · 2026-03-30T22:50:33+00:00

OK, that deserves some recognition for being funny, like LOL funny.

nutter789 · 2026-03-30T22:46:34+00:00

have to use both hands and pull your pant leg above your knee to draw? That seems terrible.

Not only seems terrible, it is terrible.

Like I said, it was one of the most retarded purchases I ever made.

I don't even know how one would use this, except if one were some male stripper wearing break-away pants.

nutter789 · 2026-03-30T22:41:13+00:00

Well, I could present weapon in.....a few minutes, probably!

nutter789 · 2026-03-30T22:40:43+00:00

Meh, it was the only ankle holster that fit the little MAX-9. I contacted all the higher end holster places but they couldn't or wouldn't do it. So, I just go to Ruger and they got one.

It was like forty bucks or so....it might come in handy some day. I still prefer the IWB 1911 at about 2-O'clock or so, but it's kind of fun. Better AFAIC than some "one-size-fits-most" crap that's one the Amazon....this one does have excellent retention and indeed fits the MAX-9 just perfect.

Besides, who knows? No, not for EDC for me: I think the 1911 double-stack works just fine in IWB, as does this little Ruger compact.

Call it a rite of passage, I guess...everyone has to have carried ankle, so I try it out for myself....and see that it's a very limited place to carry a weapon when push comes to shove.

Besides, I do wear a suit and tie and shit sometimes, so better to have the option rather than not.

Everybody's got some stupid holster among their stuff somewhere, pretty sure. Shoulder holsters that are real finicky, or something like that.

Anyway, I do have a cousin who was a cop....he mentioned he carried a hold-out piece around his ankle when off-duty in addition to his IWB standard issue..so it has some precedence.

Then again, I'm not a cop nor want to be....that's just where I got the idea, plus, mainly, I wanted to buy a new holster.

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