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Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, November 14, 2003, 10:05
Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> Staving JS Bangs: > > > >Perchance the cultural associations are helping this? As the older thing, > >analog clocks have prestige. In America, at least, only analog watches can > >be worn in any semi-formal setting, as digital watches are considered > >insufferably tacky. > > Possibly also analogue watches are generally of better construction than > digital? When I used to wear digitals, they usually fell to bits very > quickly. Analogue ones tend to last me a fair bit longer.
While cheap digital clocks often are of laughable quality, there are good ones available. They seem to be fairly popular among the "rich-and-sporty" subset of young men (and easily costs 5x than my analog-digital watch, which works perfectly after 5 years). Andreas