Horological hobby pet-peeves:

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Sellers who have no idea what size their watch is...(Or falsely enlarge/shrink it to attract buyers)

34mm = 35.5mm
37mm becomes 39mm

or conversely large Panerai’s go from 47mm to 45mm
 
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NATO straps, which are most of the time just plain [IMO] unattractive, but when these things are attached on a dress watch ... 😲

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NATO straps, which are most of the time just plain [IMO] unattractive, but when these things are attached on a dress watch ... 😲

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Very cheap NATO straps, fitting to a watch that the seller is asking top (or above) market for.
 
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Very cheap NATO straps, fitting to a watch that the seller is asking top (or above) market for.

I think that Bear Grylls, instead of wasting his time filming himself drinking urine, or eating a live fish (and then choppering it back to the luxury hotel) should form a squadron of ex SAS, SBS, US Rangers, US Navy Seals, Sayeret Matkal, KSM/KSB, and other real users of NATO straps.

They (the HDFNUS (Hunt Down Fake NATO User Squad)) would then be given missions (and permissions) to hunt down, and strike down upon them, with great vengeance and furious anger, those that wear NATO straps for purposes other than for which they were originally intended.

Especially those caught wearing anything other than olive drab, Admiralty grey, or black.
And especially especially a double punishment for those using MULTI-COLOURED NATOs!

That's my take on the wearing of NATO straps.



OK OK.
I can see the nitpickers "tut-tutting" and pointing out that Israel is not a member of NATO, therefore the Sayeret guys should not be part of the gang.
But hey, where are you going to find better kick arse special forces guys in the Middle East, where fake NATOs are rampant?
Answer me that!

PS: Edited for a pissy little spelling mistake.
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Since we've drifted a tad...how 'bout when people replace the toilet paper so it rolls off the bottom?
 
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Since we've drifted a tad...how 'bout when people replace the toilet paper so it rolls off the bottom?
Bastards!
 
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Since we've drifted a tad...how 'bout when people replace the toilet paper so it rolls off the bottom?

Unreel! (I’ll get my coat.)
 
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NATO straps, which are most of the time just plain [IMO] unattractive, but when these things are attached on a dress watch ... 😲

I just hate it when people don't use NATO's on their Patek dress watches...

 
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Since we've drifted a tad...how 'bout when people replace the toilet paper so it rolls off the bottom?
My sister’s ex was a JAG officer. He tried a case where a colonel threw his wife out of a second story window for putting the toilet paper on the roll the wrong way....now that’s tightly wound! (pardon the pun on multiple fronts). 😎
 
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My sister’s ex was a JAG officer. He tried a case where a colonel threw his wife out of a second story window for putting the toilet paper on the roll the wrong way....now that’s tightly wound! (pardon the pun on multiple fronts). 😎

I see no crime here.
 
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Since we've drifted a tad...how 'bout when people replace the toilet paper so it rolls off the bottom?
Sometimes you have to do that when you have cats that like to unspool the whole roll.

Thank goodness not mine!
 
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Spalling can be galling somtimes...

Yes, and I find your alliteration illuminating.