Armed Polite Society

A few years ago I bought a $5 wristwatch from Aldi.  It had no markings on the face, just hour and minute hands (maybe a second hand, I don't remember.)  Chinese watch with a Chinese or Japanese quartz movement.  It actually kept good time, and I quickly got good at figuring out the time just from the angles of the hands relative to the axis of the band or maybe the stem.  I quit using it after about a year and a half when the band broke and a new band would cost more than the watch.  The watch still worked and was on the original battery.

This doesn't seem to line up with what Brandon is campaigning on regarding sticking it to the 1%. Gee, what a shocker.

63% of new audits as of Summer 2023 targeted taxpayers with income of less than $200,000, per WSJ.

https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/05/07/bidens-irs-targeting-middle-class-n2395992

Got to remember education is not so much about the kids anymore but more about the teachers and the unions now. The kids are the pawns in their chess game.

We did read 1984 and Brave New World.  My group also read The Sun Also Rises which was a pointless book about people getting drunk all the time (reflects the title). 

On the other hand, I didn't get to read Out of the Silent Planet and the Lord of the Rings trilogy for book reports.  Of course, I screwed up the book report for the second one procrastinating.  My senior english teacher was surprised I was ranked as high as I was in my graduating class. 

I had 'em all, from the first red LED press the button to bing up the display (Texas Instruments?) through Casio calculator watches and one that picked up the time signals from Fort Collins and re-set itself.

I'm with hawkmoon now.  The fewer gewgaws the better, with big numbers and hands, and that's it.  I had a Humvee watch like the standard military ones for many years which finally gave up the ghost.  Could tell the time without looking directly at it.

Went a-looking, found a nice simple replacement for less than $10,which did fine.  The only problem was there were no instructions as to how to use the tiny stopwatch on the face.  Was I surprised when I looked at it with a magnifying glass and it turned out the "stopwatch" was only a printed-on fake !  !  !

I was highly amused, not outraged, but of course the adage about getting what you paid for crossed my mind every time.