I agree 100% and picked up on this same "master race" thread in his posts.
Sorry, but I feel exactly the opposite way. @tyrantlizardrex is not required to have definitive proof of racism in order to point out that the OP's comments smell bad, and I commend him for doing it. Maybe you're not aware that there is a growing white nationalist movement in the US that uses certain language (as well as symbols and hand signals) to communicate their ideology. I have no idea if the OP is a member of this group, but it is a time to be vigilant, and it is totally appropriate to let everyone reading the thread know that such language is unacceptable on OF.
I thought "Teutonic" was an obscure Omega model. If it's not, it should be.
now he'll just leave here none the wiser and thinking that we're jerks.
Yeah, I didn't pick up on the racism either- just some fantasy that the Swiss are capable little elves with magic powers that people elsewhere don't posses.... I guess I missed the subtlety. I'm usually pretty sensitive to it (particularly anti-semitism) so if I stretch my AS radar I guess I can see a a hint in the New Jersey/New York watchmaker/jeweler stereotype versus the vision of blonde Swiss working away in the Alps..but that would really be a bit of a stretch....unless there was wording from the OP that was deleted and I didn't see it (and I was following the original thread and this one since it was directed at my comments from the other thread originally)....which could be possible.
I don't know but I get verklempt when I think of the watch being serviced in a cleanroom with all that clean Swiss air. I bet none of the local watchmakers can afford that kind of setup? Plus there's just something about sending the watch back to its birthplace that makes me happy. When I think about the preciseness of Teutonic personalities working on my watch vs that of someone from New Jersey. Is that even a fair comparison? After all, there's a reason these watches are made in Switzerland and not New Jersey or anywhere else in the U.S. I guess you could find exceptions but to me, it's like finding a good car mechanic. The odds are against you. Better to just send it off to the factory where I know they will do it right?
I honestly can't see why the OP was booted. The redialed watch was a good starting point for a debate on sending a vintage watch to Omega or not, now he'll just leave here none the wiser and thinking that we're jerks.
I agree absolutely with this. I see the OP was making some generalisations regarding the super efficiency that is often associated with that part of the world and regularly used as a marketing tool ("Vorsprung Durch technik" comes to mind) however I find it a hard stretch to equate this with Master race ideology.
The Op was denying some village an idiot as far as I can see so have no interest in coming to his defence but the word Teutonic itself is no more derogatory than Anglo saxon for instance. It has been used in literature and by poets for generations to describe peoples of this region.
Nobody is saying that the term Teutonic is derogatory, that is completely missing the point that @tyrantlizardrex was making. Anyway, I am going to stop trying to explain my perspective on this, since it's clearly being misunderstood by many. I suspect that others get the point.
1. I thought I was making a joke re the Omega Teutonic.
2. So, am I allowed to say the Swiss and Belgians make better chocolate than, say, The Weehawken Chocolate Company? I love me some Belgian chocolates. I assume it would be across the line to say "the Aryan cocoa processing perfection ist uber alles." But if I substitute "Teutonic" for "Aryan," it seems fairly innocuous. Right? 👍
They make a far better Philly Cheesteak in New Jersey than they do in Switzerland.
Riding the Megabus from Baltimore to NYC provides breathtaking views of the Turnpike at 110mph.
Garden State Parkway- doesn’t get much better then that for a parkway.
