No apologies here apparently.
I wonder what kind of watch he was wearing?
I wonder what kind of watch he was wearing?
An unapologetic thread about "manly" things...
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Pharmseller post all these manly photo’s…. He’s trying to mask the fact he has a pink 7mm-08 stashed in his closet.
Just want to circle back on the dildos. He had a lot of interest takes on them.
Here's my manly shit. The purest form of motorsports and my first love. Started racing at 13 y/o at Amago Speedway in Warner Springs, CA. May that track RIP. Then, started rebuilding kart motors in Carlsbad ,CA at Hi-Rev engineering and setting up KRT chassis for customers right after i got my license. When i was racing 2 strokes, If you showed up to the track with blue painted motor fins, everyone knew you had the power to get to and stay in the front of the pack.
I will be racing karts and part of the PNW karting community until Jesus Christ comes back or I breathe my last breath. I am absolutely the happiest nutjob in the pits
The kart track community and being in the seat was my first sanctuary of peace of mind, well before church ever was. Surfing and karting are both "My thing." Everything mentally is "shut off" when i'm out on the track(or out in the surf alone with my thoughts with my best man till the next set) and purely reacting to the sensations at play. When everything is shut off for a period of time.....I'm really happy after the reset.
I will be racing karts and part of the PNW karting community until Jesus Christ comes back or I breathe my last breath. I am absolutely the happiest nutjob in the pits
The kart track community and being in the seat was my first sanctuary of peace of mind, well before church ever was. Surfing and karting are both "My thing." Everything mentally is "shut off" when i'm out on the track(or out in the surf alone with my thoughts with my best man till the next set) and purely reacting to the sensations at play. When everything is shut off for a period of time.....I'm really happy after the reset.
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I used to get to that place while long distance swimming. After about a mile sometimes I'd find my mind watching me swim from the top of the pool area. Totally restful.Here's my manly shit. The purest form of motorsports and my first love. Started racing at 13 y/o at Amago Speedway in Warner Springs, CA. May that track RIP. Then, started rebuilding kart motors in Carlsbad ,CA at Hi-Rev engineering and setting up KRT chassis for customers right after i got my license. When i was racing 2 strokes, If you showed up to the track with blue painted motor fins, everyone knew you had the power to get to and stay in the front of the pack.
I will be racing karts and part of the PNW karting community until Jesus Christ comes back or I breathe my last breath. I am absolutely the happiest nutjob in the pits
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OH YEAH!!! I fully know that! I'm part fish. What i absolutely love about water is that it takes shape, but yet has no form and only "confined" by God and forces of the wind. Or......Cup of water and pitcher of beer. That feeling of flowing around it can be REALLY addicting. Its even better, for only me, when you're charging heavy surf and moving your body n' board on top of it. I remember surf sessions and epic west coast swells since I started in 2000.
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Careful now he’ll threaten to sue you.
Something wrong with a pink 7-08 now? Fuck, I can’t keep up with these rules
Nice news eye candy towards the end too. Stay stoked, my boys and girls! Don't be commom place.
No one gets out of this world alive but thru Jesus afterwards....So deal with that as you will when you see Him, let's go shoot steel plates as far away as we can, charge awesome waves and go kart racing in the meantime. YEEEEEEEEEWWWWW!!!!! 
Nice news eye candy towards the end too. Stay stoked, my boys and girls! Don't be commom place.
Haha! Thats awesome!
Im reminded of a time I was on the slopes and saw this 70 year old lady on a snowboard, and she was like “hey dude, nice pow today”
I carried a Swiss army knife all through Jr. High and high school. Art teacher showed me how to sharpen it with a stone. No big deal back then.
Man’s got to have some in the truck to keep the jewels dry in the summer!
I think I mentioned it here before but truth be told- I'm terrible at knife sharpening and have always been envious of folks that seemed to just "click" with the skill. My grandfather could spend 10 minutes with a whetstone & have the blade razor sharp and cut the hair on his arm. Me on the other hand- I've purchased so many products promising to make knife sharpening easy and still haven't found anything that I've been happy with the results. To your point though- knife sharpening is 100% as manly of a skill as it comes. Just wish I wasn't so terrible at it.
-LD
I can appreciate what you're getting at but I'd argue that a "good" pen doesn't necessarily need to be "fancy/expensive" either.
My first "good" pen was a Cross ballpoint that I used in H.S. Truth be told- I was probably trying to emulate the example my father was presenting (either knowingly or unknowingly) and wanted to be "classy". That pen easily got me through my junior & senior year of HS and whether warranted or not it did seem to give me just a little boost of self confidence that I wasn't using a standard 'Bic' like most of my classmates.
As I said- nothing extravagant, if memory serves me- I'd say it was likely $25-$30 from either Staples or Office Max at the time (of course I was probably only making $6 an hour part time as a HS student) but quality & character doesn't always need to translate to being something expensive. It was a sad day for sure when the pen dropped & cracked and I had to toss it. Just for illustration purposes, it looked something like this...
As I got older through the decades I was always 'practical' with my pens but still always appreciated a slightly nicer option. My intermediate pen of choice for a while was a bougie Fisher Space Pen which likely cost around $40 at that point but I thought those were absolutely the coolest pens around and that infatuation got me through my military stint (& all that came with it) while being rather content with my choice as compared to the 'skill craft ' pens everyone else was using. Again nothing fancy- just pens that looked like the below...
These days- I tend to be more focused on throwing my "extraneous" income towards firearms & investments for my future and as such have taken a liking to Zebra & Sharpie Pens as my "buy a pack and roll out" choice...
But I still keep a "nice" pen or two in my inventory. Lately my brand of choice has been Parker Pens, and honestly a large part of that is because of the history of the brand and a little bit of knowledge of such knows that entire World Wars have been ended with a Parker pen while signing armistices. Might be cool to others but for me it's something I appreciate and as such that's where I'm 'living' now.
Again- nothing extravagant.. maybe $100 or so for my most expensive pen? But I've signed my marriage license with a Parker, I've signed my mortgage on my house with a Parker (had to get a blue ink cartridge for that) and used the same Parkers for some other important milestones in my recent life. Believe the models I have are "Sonnet" & roller balls (fountain pens & I never seemed to get along) and for the auxiliary things that led up to those important documents, I used a Parker "jotter". (think taking notes while visiting houses and even then probably was only around $15-20 or so for those pens). While I'm talking about my Parker's mid as well share what they look like too...
So to sum things up- I get that not everyone appreciates something as simple as a pen (and that's fine) but I'd argue that there isn't anything inherently gay about appreciating 'nice' things & also to say that 'nicer' things doesn't always equate to outrageously expensive either. I'm still digging my pens & think I keep things reasonable but if others are happy with a Bic that's fine too- I only 'splurge' on these pens for myself & not to impress anyone.
To each their own.
-LD
Photo #3--My son on his knee with the M249 wearing the Luminox in Iraq getting ready to search guy having a Holy Jesus moment.... David Leeson Pulitzer Prize Photo BTW
Fair enough- and I'd agree with you that often times discussions about watches are often times dick measuring contests on who spent the most. That said... they don't always have to be either. As an example-
I'm presently evaluating incredibly similar dive watches from Citizen & Seiko, either of which is well under the $500 threshold. Heck- with a little bit of patience and catching them on sale- you could likely get BOTH for around $500 all said & done. Thus far I'm really digging the both of 'em but as similar as they are the subtle differences come out as well. If there'd be any interest here I'd consider doing one of my signature 'long winded' comparassdons between 'em.
That said- I was in Japan a couple of years ago and spent an entire weekend going through Tokyo primarily looking at all of the luxury watches. Not really that exciting of a story to tell truth be told but I saw some fascinating pieces from all the known (and unknown) brands and had an absolute blast drinking in the watches (I'd never seen so much extravagance in one place, albeit a very LARGE city).
-LD
Not saying that you're wrong with the Rolex GMT Master but I've always lusted after Omega watches because, at least in my mind, that's what "James Bond wore". Perhaps he wore Rolex's too but I only seem to remember the Omega's. Funny story- I remember when Golden Eye came out in the mid 90's and I wanted that Omega Seamaster in the worst possible way... here's a pic of it...
That movie made that watch seem so freaking cool to me (remember the scene when Bond used it to cut the floor of the train out?) and to date myself- there was one store local to me that I knew carried Omega watches (but clearly had no clue what they cost). I had not yet graduated HS and remember working my butt off and saving something like $500 to buy this watch from- ready for this, Service Merchandise.
Bless the hearts of their employees at the time because they actually let me handle the watch and almost 30 years later I remember seeing the price tag and realizing I wasn't anywhere close to being able to afford that watch and had to sheepishly "play it cool" and hand it back to them saying I'd "sleep on it" knowing full well that we both knew there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell I could afford it. Damn I'm still embarrassed about that moment all these years later.
Love a good cigar. I have something like 5 or 6 humidors going but never seem to find the time (more realistically 'make' the time) to enjoy them. So I spend years keeping them cool & humidified for a celebration I struggle to make.
Practical, quality pen allowed in carry-on luggage but has defense capability:
You should make the time while you can. Of course I'll project a bit here, but: I used to enjoy a nice drink. I'd buy good bottles for celebrating "special" occasions or when I reached some life milestone, and then regular bottles to drink.
But those special moments, never seemed special enough, or got pushed off until later, or I still hadn't "earned" it. Then I was suddenly in a life-threatening, and life-changing, motorcycle accident.
And I realized, while in that hospital bed, that all the good bourbon, the money, the nice things, I damn near came and went before enjoying any of it.
Have a cigar.
Years ago my buddy was manager of a really exclusive mens store. They carried really cool stuff that you dont see hardly anywherer else. When I went into an excluse mens shop on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills they were all over me, they didnt have anything as nice. I was pulling in lots of money at the time and he would always let me know when the big sales came up so I ended up with a closet full of razzle dazzle clothes.
One day a different friend asked me why I never wore any of them..."Saving them for a special occasion" I reply. "Like your funeral?" he asks.
I got the message.
I'm not familiar with the Richard Mille brand but have played with some IWC's which I liked (the pilot watches in particular being my personal preference from IWC).
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This might very well be the most sensible post I've come across here in the Pit. I do believe you're right & I'm planning on smoking some hunk of meat this weekend so dammit to hell I'm breaking out a "good" one.
This is what I'm talking about too when it comes to sitting on a metric crap ton of cigars...
That's the haul from one year's cigar fest (and I've gone to multiple)
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