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noelekal
··Home For Wayward WatchesWell ... there is that, Kmart.
Unofficial opinion: Speedie...or Speedy?
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Wryfox
·Speedster....sounds racy
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Vercingetorix
··Spam RiskOmega officially addressed this question when they released the Speedy Tuesday. Check and mate.
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nonuffinkbloke
·Far too much of all this abbreviation and acronym bol#@ks going on chaps! Thousands of years spent developing languages and yet everyone, is either too busy or too tired to say the actual words!😡
This kind of thing creates misunderstandings and leads to world wars!
It's an Omega Speedmaster 'for fakks sake'!😡
This kind of thing creates misunderstandings and leads to world wars!
It's an Omega Speedmaster 'for fakks sake'!😡
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R3D9
·How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Or to put it in terms more in keeping with this thread, how many angels can dance on the dot of a DON bezel?
Feel free to grab a loupe, magnifying glass or electron microscope to check.
😁
The answer is 90, of course 😜
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cristos71
·And I was trying to be diplomatic about answering a question that I see often in posts, that I find puzzling. Because in the end, who really cares about any of it? Whether I should put on a brown strap or black. Whether I should trade this watch for that. Whether this box is correct for this year or not. This is just diversion for a life that ends and we become worm food in the end. So while you may not care about this benign little tid-bit, it amused me, and I posted it.
There's a big difference between whether something in the vintage collector's market is period correct or not and how to spell the nickname of an object.
One is relevant to furthering collective knowledge on the subject and IMHO the other is just discussion for discussions sake.
Each to their own of course.
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M'Bob
·There's a big difference between whether something in the vintage collector's market is period correct or not and how to spell the nickname of an object.
One is relevant to furthering collective knowledge on the subject and IMHO the other is just discussion for discussions sake.
Each to their own of course.
No one is debating the relative merits of one type of forum post versus the other. Clearly, a post about nicknames regarding a watch was meant to be lighthearted, and frivolous at best. This should have been obvious to you when you read it.
Frankly, I just don't see the point of posting a "who cares" response to anyone's post. It's discourteous, and the intent escapes me. If you really didn't care, you wouldn't have wasted the time saying so.
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arcadelt
·yet everyone, is either too busy or too tired to say the actual words!
What, you mean like bollocks [emoji6]
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mr_yossarian
·..realized they only appear at least in couples, so Speedies must be right naming!
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nonuffinkbloke
·What, you mean like bollocks [emoji6]
I used it as the plural, English, vernacular form of the singular 'bollock', not an abbreviation of Testicles.
"Bollocks" /ˈbɒləks/ is a word of Middle English origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in colloquial British English and Hiberno-English as a noun to mean "nonsense", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, or an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless".
In recent decades, the colloqial term, 'The bollocks' has gained a positive definition as an abbreviation of the English slang term 'The dog's bollocks': Something of top quality, to be proud of. The idea being that some breeds of dogs tend to display their Testicles with pride. (For those requiring a more polite form of expression 'The 'bee's knees' may be a more acceptable, but less effective, alternative.)
To illustrate this using a horological theme: I often gaze in admiration at my Dad's old 1965, brown dial, Omega Speedmaster Professional and exclaim "Thankyou for this beautiful watch Dad! It really is the 'dogs bollocks'!🥰
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arcadelt
·Well said my friend!
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Oku
·Coming back to the original question, it is obviously Speedy:
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