You can’t have nice things -sulk content

Sorry to sound a bit pretentious and middle class but I’m a bit annoyed and in a sulk.  What is that you can’t really have nice things, becuase someone always wants to steal it, damage it, has no respect for it re accidental & careless damage (e.g. car doors in supermarket car parks).

Apparantly the latest growth crime is nicking peoples watches from airport security trays, something I find weird due to being in a highly secure area, but also – with an upcoming holiday – kinda ruining the idea of taking something decent with me.

However, about a 2 miles away there’s a guy in a council house with an Aston Martin parked in the drive, no one touches is ?‍♂️

Just becuase weve obtained things of value, now we can only wear/use/display things behind closed doors.

Time to downgrade to a terraced house, buy a G shock from eBay and some Primark jeans   🙁

Fancy working all this years to afford a life you can’t live.  ??

Take your shoes off and stuff your watch in it. Or large bag etc. I do keep and eye on my stuff as much as i can when i travel.

Just put your watch in a bag before you get to security and watch the bag going through. No need to have watch sitting on display in a open tray. Its not difficult.

However, about a 2 miles away there’s a guy in a council house with an Aston Martin parked in the drive, no one touches is

#SnobberyAintDead

Maybe have a read of The Spirit Level

In short – inequality is bad for everyone. The more you increase the divide between the haves and have-nots the more the haves suffer from the harms this places on the have-nots.

Crime, sickness, depression, suicide, taxes – they all increase in line with rising division – but non of those things care which side of divide you are on.

In the UK over the last decade or so we’ve masked a lack of growth by pointedly making the poor poorer in order to create an illusion for the rich so that they feel richer. So we’re paying the social cost for that division without the actual increase in wealth.

However, about a 2 miles away there’s a guy in a council house with an Aston Martin parked in the drive,
#SnobberyAintDead

Thats just an example of ‘opportunity cost’. Choosing one thing ‘costs’ you the other things you could have had.  I could have an Aston Martin parked outside my house – but I spent the money on a house instead.

Nowt wrong with a G Shock!

Lots of crime happens in lots of places but the chances of it affecting you/me as an individual is relatively low. I don’t flaunt the nice things I own but even with my anxiety, I don’t worry about taking them out and using them when I want. If the worst happens, they are insured.

If you are daft enough to leave a “nice watch” lying in a tray in full view then walking away…

Based on the OP, perhaps leave it at home, and remove one more stress factor?

Also another hint… You can get cheaper then G-Shocks… And guess what… They still tell the time.

kinda ruining the idea of taking something decent with me.

can you put it in your suitcase until you arrive?

However, about a 2 miles away there’s a guy in a council house with an Aston Martin parked in the drive, no one touches is ?‍

come on dude, this kind of comment is normally beneath you. you’re not really like that

..and another thing. You are going on holiday. That is a nice thing and something that is out of reach of reality for a huge section of society. So complaining about the risk of of nice watch being stolen on your way to your nice holiday (despite there being very easy ways to mitigate the risk of theft) isn’t a great look.

This isn’t just about watches, sometimes life just feels a bit damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

I had a stunning MTb ride yesterday, then -with every one out at the theatre and an after noon of a few beers watching the Olympic road cycling  – came home to a fountain of water spurting out the side of the house. Turns out it was a split washer in the outside tap which I managed to fix, but the drama cost me a settled afternoon.

Sorry but I’m grumbling and in a bit of a funk which is playing on my intolerance of uncertainty perfectionist personality. ?

Just put your watch in a bag before you get to security and watch the bag going through. No need to have watch sitting on display in a open tray. Its not difficult.

Did this from the day they introduced it (I use to travel, a LOT, and all over the world).

No brainer, same with phone etc – in fact everything goes into my carry-on as I stand in the queue.

 came home to a fountain of water spurting out the side of the house. Turns out it was a split washer in the outside tap which I managed to fix, but the drama cost me a settled afternoon.

Better than having to deal with it in January standing in the rain at zero degrees. #glasshalffull

isn’t a great look.

Apologies, I needed to moan.  I appreciate it’s selfish.

I blame Thatcherism.

Is the watch thing actually a thing or another urban legend?

I just leave mine on, tbh security can seem to tell it’s just a watch.

Surely the answer is to travel first class?

Surely the answer is F-91W?

Lol

Surely the answer is to travel first class?

Inside my private jet it’s a classless society – very equitable. Although someone still has to sit by the toilet door, non of us are very far from it wherever we sit.

Nothing to add other than to ask how you managed to get an emoji to display!?

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Typing on an iPad, albeit that wasn’t the emoji I chose….

Kryton57
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Typing on an iPad, albeit that wasn’t the emoji I chose….

Lol, thanks for clarifying. I wonder if there is some hidden work around to get them worrying?

Inside my private jet it’s a classless society – very equitable. Although someone still has to sit by the toilet door, non of us are very far from it wherever we sit.

You obviously need a bigger jet.

Regular air traveller and fellow watch fan….I just put all my valuables in to my carry on that gets locked. I also have an airtag in the carry on.

I have to admit before I was flying as regularly as I do, I would just empty everything out into trays and would be thinking how easy it would be for someone to swipe my watch or wallet. But now I’ve worked out a routine, its fairly secure and also a smoother process for the security team.

You can get cheaper then G-Shocks… And guess what… They still tell the time

Casio A700! Love mine

You obviously need a bigger jet.

Or a smaller one without a toilet 🙂

A friend of mine has an old pal whose surprisingly humble sounding business (recycling pallets) has made him really quite surprisingly wealthy  – so my pal gets to travel around on his private jet. As a result there are airports all around Europe where he’s landed and taken off again pretty much just so someone can on the plane have a wee.

Turns out it was a split washer in the outside tap which I managed to fix, but the drama cost me a settled afternoon.

Hope you’re not going on holiday to East Ukraine!

As a result there are airports all around Europe where he’s landed and taken off again pretty much just so someone can on the plane have a wee.

Can we start a ‘this is why we can’t have a nice planet’ thread? 😉

Can we start a ‘this is why we can’t have a nice planet’ thread? 😉

See – thats what I said to him – you should hang out with me, and sit by the toilet. Much better for the planet.

I had not heard of this type of crime and TBH it surprises me. The perp will surely be captured on CCTV and will be airside so unable to leave easily until their flight departs so surely reasonably easy to catch.

I think “having nice things” has always been a risk. About a decade ago at one of my local ridings spots there was a notorious car that followed riders back to their homes. I don’t think I was ever followed but modified the route back to my house to include alleyways where a car could not go.

I know the news is depressing but at least the weather is decent and some of the Olympics is compelling – bright side and all that 🙂

Is the watch thing actually a thing or another urban legend?

I just leave mine on, tbh security can seem to tell it’s just a watch.

I leave my £79 Garmin Solar on as it doesn’t seem to set off the alarms but my other watch does.

Yes it’s a sulk but i do agree with the sentiment. It makes you feel like not bothering to work hard sometimes when its so easy to have your stuff taken but really those are all just material goods, the real things like owning a home, saving a good pension, having job security, looking after your health can’t be stolen from you.

When it comes to bikes, I do prefer discreet non distinctive colours and branding for this reason. No lairy colours or big lettered brand names. Shame really as there are some nice colour schemes I like but wouldn’t be comfortable with.

the real things like owning a home, saving a good pension, having job security, looking after your health can’t be stolen from you.

This is the attitude I’ve come to have too. Also as a self employed person, IP is an asset that noone can steal (relatively speaking)

Flew out of Manchester recently and I’m sure it was a case of all small electronics into your carry on.

But I’d just left my watch on.

Mate got stopped and bag swabbed for the two saline tubes in his first aid kit.

i fly pretty regularly and have never removed my watch at security, and never been asked to.

back in the day I used to DJ and would occasionally smuggle the odd pill into the club in my record bag. I wasn’t a big caner, and (almost) never took drugs when working, but, y’know.

Then I started getting gigs overseas and on one flight, they took a record out of my bag and swabbed it.  Eek!  Nothing bad happened but it put the shits up me.  I made sure to keep any rugs well away from my tunes in future!  A friend even went as far as to buy a brand new record bag specifically for a gig in Dubai, just to be absolutely sure…

i fly pretty regularly and have never removed my watch at security, and never been asked to.

Surely only two possible explanations:

– your watch is not as bling as the OP’s
– the security staff are actually the ones on the take and they target watches they like

(these may not be mutually exclusive)

Weird that the OP couldn’t just put it in a bag / jacket pocket or round the handle or strap of a bag so it was not easy pickings… but then its probably not actually a very common theft, and social media tell you its some new crisis.

I’ve never taken a watch off going through any security, I have triggered the alarm a couple of times at concert venues and assumed it was steel toecaps in boots I was wearing, or my keys, never ever considered it was my watch, often a steel dive watch.

Now I tend to wear a Casio GA-B2100 ‘CasiOak’; great watch, I’ve got a basic black one and a yellow Tough Solar, which has Bluetooth and I can sync it to a Casio app that lets me change settings, something I struggle with using the buttons.

I hate the plastic straps, they literally bring me out in an itchy rash, but I’ve got really comfortable woven stretch straps fitted and I barely notice I’m wearing them.

On the subject of can’t have nice things, it’s especially annoying when it’s the people that the nice things are given to set out to destroy the place the nice things are, for example…

Authorities search for answers after vandals destroy more than 50 trees and wildlife habitat: ‘This wanton destruction of woodland … is ecological vandalism’

Surely the only people who could nick it are:

1 -Other travellers, going through security just ahead or after you

2 -Security staff.

1 must be an incredibly expensive and time consuming way of potentially nicking nice watches.

2 more likely but still seems not too plausible. They are vetted and work airside, so they must be subject to considerable scrutiny themselves when arriving and leaving work.