BigPapiDoesItAgain

The current catalog 36mm OP blue dial is called medium blue and is a flat finish. Great looking. As someone mentioned double batons at the 3 & 9 position. I got the beige dial version this spring from a cold call from my AD. 36mm OP is a great watch in my opinion. Oyster bracelet quality and comfort unimpeachable and current versions have the EZ Link. They just don’t make a lot of them in any one color configuration as the number of dial choices dilutes it out.

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How could you leave out Atlas? It’s even a Louisville Slugger bat model.

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Atlas Slugged

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Are you using the Endurance? If so, switch to the Purolator Boss. Similar filters with some differences, but the Boss is a solid high-end filter that beats most of the boutique brands. If you are using the orange can of death, literally anything else will be better.

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Does the filter make a difference if one is changing oil at shorter intervals anyway? I do the changes on the ICE cars we have in the family including my adult children's vehicles, half because I like to, half because I'm operating under the assumption of optimizing all I can to make them last. I'm sure I'm opering under overkill specs changing FS oil at 6.5K intervals, but in my line of work, I'm used to reaping the benefits afforded by redundant systems (swiss cheese theory and all).

Three of the cars have upright cartridge filters which I much prefer and I use the OEMs. On my son's Silverado 1500, the filter is an underneath mount in a tight space and can be hard to turn, I use the K&N filter that has the nut on the top of the filter that makes it easy to get off even though I hand tighten when putting on as my hands are usually a little slick by the time I get to the filter.

I swear the highest concentration of terrible drivers is the 10-12 corridor between BR/Hammond/NOLA. Go ahead and thrown in the actual cities of BR and NOLA and I'm pretty sure that clinches it.

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Shreveport has turned into a shithole

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Very few deep south cities the size of Shreveport that aren't just like it, which is quite sad. Normally one has to look for trouble in this city, violent crime is almost exclusively drug scene or domestic violence and one is able to avoid geographically, this was an instance where it spilled into a busy area with plenty of uninvolved targets, fortunately no innocents hurt or killed unlike the stray bullet from a gunfight taking the life of an innocent child in South Highlands back in the spring of 2022.

Shreveport does now have a competent mayor for what that is worth, but I don't see any end to the problems the city faces anytime soon, again like much of the traditional south.

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If she's derm, I want to know how in dafuq she got surgery privileges. The get zero surgical training other than skin procedures. Holding a retractor as a student or intern doesn't count.

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My bet is that this did not occur in a hospital system, but some type of private clinic/quasi surgery center that she was probably invested in or owned. She probably went to a weekend course for lipo, hired out some washed up anesthesia provider and hung out a shingle to do cut rate cosmetic procedures. Those types of facilities aren't subject to the same standard of inspection and regulation that real hospitals are, which is why the general public has to be very careful.

I'm a big believer in only doing procedures that one has had legitimate and rigorous training for and when adding new procedures they should be germaine to a skill set already possessed.

This is more than awful. Makes me sick.

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The only thing polarizing is the indices

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I agree with both of you guys...I love stick dials. This one would be much better without the arabics, not 100% sure I'll keep it, but I do like the Oysterquartz case shape/flat jubilee/integrated bracelet and really dig the visible decorated movement, and the gold skeletonized rotor is an especially nice touch, in my estimation. I also wasn't sure what I would think about the honeycomb dial, but it is killer in person, particularly under a loupe mag.

On the topic of simple stick dials, I also picked this 12600-0012 beige dial 36mm OP last month from the same AD. I was at least mildly surprised to get two calls in such short order, but they know I like 36 mm watches.

Well that was a fricking awful pfft. of a game. That lineup lets Eddie Rodriguez beat them. That's pitiful.

c'mon Judge, shock me and don't do what I think you're gonna do here.

I think I just saw a semi-incognito Al Leiter sitting down low behind home plate.

all those American dudes with hands dutifully over their hearts for the Italian anthem . At least they all have Italian names and look the part, unlike Austin Wells lol. :lol: