Some folks sure are busy trying to make replica owners look like clowns. For the record, a clown has a red nose and big shoes.....check out my wisdom right there....booya in yo face TZ!! I checked all of us, and we don't have the big shoes...
What do I care what these guys think?
I will jump to a conclution here; probably 40% of TZ, or any watch forum members, have owned a rep or shitty fake at some time, and more of the regular big boys on gen fora, have reps, a lot more than the haters would like to think.
In a way, a sheep shouting among a flock of sheepandpartylwolves, who think he's in a pure sheep flock.
I have no, absolutely no intention of talking shit about any of those guys over there, and we must try to understand that the whole rep world is connected with things like emotions of the hate you have against unfair competition, and just the simple feeling of surprise.
Some of these guys comment based on knowledge, and some really mean what they state about reps. -that is their right...but in reality, everyone can see the temptation in reps. If there was no obvious temptation in reps, then there would be no future for reps, and therefore no problem, so anyone can see it, but will rarely admit it.
For us to try and convince them that this is a cool hobby, well that is a mission that might happen in some cases, but the civil debate is just to difficult in a tropic rain of different voices, all trying to defend and describe 6 different levels of hate/love/acceptance/curiosity of fake watches.
I don't understand how anyone can get so emotional over these things. but the fact that people that are purely gen owners and who hate reps, often try to tweak the debate towards organising rep owners in one box (the litter box) and gen owners in another box is just disappointing. None of these civil gentleman clubs would accept any such prejudice towards any other group of people.( whichwe aren't by the way, we are as diverse as any other forum)
I think that bonesey has said a lot over there, and though I don't personally think we should spend a lot of time discussing this over there (because we know it will result in an exhausting shit fight) I still think Bones did a fantastic job of staying civil, and proposing only solid data and mature calmness, which I felt a sensible amount of the TZ guys was actually recognising.
In the end, I know that if you read on rep fora, you will get the whole story, and if you limit yourself to gen fora, you will be the guy who is missing out, but on the other hand, I felt that some TZ members, in a subtle way, said that TZ just wasn't the time or place.
Then there's always the guys who find it unnaturally important to join in with a "just to make it clear, I hate fake people and fake watches" -that's a bit odd.....post whore? afraid to admit you have reps? shoulderpatting the big strong members? I don't know, but to read that thread, you need to have a lot of time to filter all the posts that are based on zero insight on the thread subject. Those guys should just have an interessting read, and do the posting in other threads.
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