Comment by 🐐 namark
Re: "One of my local box chain stores no longer carries regular…"
You wear a writwatch so that you don't have to pull out and unlock your pocket watch every time, it makes your look cooler. And you don't replace them when they stop working, you replace them when they get a bit worn, unless it's a luxury piece.
s/wrist watch/smartwatch
s/pocket watch/smartphone
nothing changed.
Feb 17 · 3 months ago
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🚀 lars_the_bear · Feb 17 at 08:28:
@namark Young people don't have to pull out and unlock their smartphones: they never put them down. I've always worn a wrist watch -- I can't imagine being without one -- but my kids mock me for how un-cool this is.
@lars_the_brear And then the battery dies and they tie themselves to a wall? I imagine back in good ol days some people would hold on to and swing their pocket watches around too, you can make it work, but you gotta have it in you. With the innovation of a wristwatch you can be a hopeless clutz and still pretend to be cool!
If you wanna be cool today though, you gotta have the smartwatch, and do everything with it: gotta open doors, dim lights, start cars, check out, check in, check point, check mate, gesture control your robot dog, summon a megazord, that kind of stuff.
Wristwatches broke the 'Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch' symmetry...
And the age of hypnosis
Original Post
One of my local box chain stores no longer carries regular wristwatches. sign of the times.