"Nah nah nah nah, I can't hear you," State Dept says.
Volkditty
"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."
Last paragraph...
"Then the wheel falls off while you're driving, or the autopilot plows into a jersey wall, and you're meant to be thrilled.* Glad even. Grateful! This is proof: You were an early adopter. A beta tester, a brave explorer. You're helping to work out the bugs, mapping new territory. Who knows? In a hundred years this car's descendants might be as reliable as cars that by then will be 150 years old, and you will have played a part in making it so. Won't that be nice.
*Assuming you lived through it."
Gorny McGorn Face
Scroll back up and check out the headline of the thread you're posting in...
I wore a Hamilton Khaki Field King on the daily for close to 15 years before I finally switched over to a Garmin smartwatch. The leather strap is more comfortable than a metal bracelet IMO and the watch case is distinctive enough to be a noteworthy fashion statement without being ostentatiously clunky.
You don't have to have an opinion about everything.