Jesus H Christ - Panerai

Can't find the words - this is what we've come to - may an enormous asteroid strike the earth in my lifetime.

Who cares?

Without a reliable timepiece you might end up like this feckless fellow:

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

--T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" [1915]

Get off Facebook.

100% approve. Jimmy is, in fact, my hero. 

The 1996 Everest Disaster would have been avoided if the climbers had adhered to their turnaround time.

K Weber wrote: The 1996 Everest Disaster would have been avoided if the climbers had adhered to their turnaround time.

Good point! 

K Weber wrote: The 1996 Everest Disaster would have been avoided if the climbers had adhered to their turnaround time.

Or if they had climbed faster ;)

Wearing a watch while (technical) climbing is ADAF!

Slimey McDonalds wrote: - may an enormous asteroid strike the earth in my lifetime.

I was hoping a smaller meteor and not an enormous or giant one. Now I just really want to know the difference between an asteroid and a meteor, as it relates to striking the earth of course.

Hank Caylor wrote:

I was hoping a smaller meteor and not an enormous or giant one. Now I just really want to know the difference between an asteroid and a meteor, as it relates to striking the earth of course.

Great question, I actually think I chose the wrong type of space rock.

Anybody else catch when Chin had some kind of herbal enema or something he was pushing during those climbs down in the antarctic?  Those marketing pieces were equally amazing.

Jimmy’s gotta eat! Don’t hate the player, hate the game. 

Let's be honest, Jimmy Chin is not starving.

This is nothing new:

And how do you feel about Bachar hawking Bic razors or Ron Kauk plugging Ford Broncos?

the schmuck wrote: And how do you feel about Bachar hawking Bic razors or Ron Kauk plugging Ford Broncos?

Or Katie Brown and Alex Honnold for Citibank?

Slimey McDonalds wrote:Can't find the words - this is what we've come to - may an enormous asteroid strike the earth in my lifetime.

As I just said in another thread, it really isn't necessary to be triggered and outraged by everything.

Yeah, tried and true marketing strategy:  people who can easily afford something like a guided Everest climb have the means to buy something as ridiculous as a multi-thousand dollar luxury watch that tells time with less accuracy than a Casio you can find used at a thrift store.

If you can't afford Everest, well: bed up with a luxury brand that has really nothing to do with the hobby to pay your way. All they ask is you help them sell the watch to all those people that, literally wouldn't give you the time of day on the street. I guess I don't have a problem with that, but it is pretty far into the realm of what Bill Hicks would be talking about in his bit about artists selling things in commercials.

Also, I don't think there was any other waterproof watch in 1953 - Rolex was it. Things are a little different, now.

That Panerai is $13,000.  Perfect for the Italian frogman driving a Ferrari.  What BS.

My iPhone tells time just fine. 

the schmuck wrote: And how do you feel about Bachar hawking Bic razors or Ron Kauk plugging Ford Broncos?

Ford Bronco II

The really scary part is that such advertising must work, or they would have canned it. There's a sucker born every minute...