Any al-Qaida here? :)

[retroleds]

How Can You Tell Someone Is al-Qaida? Look at His Watch

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/26/how-can-you-tell-someone-is-al-qaida-look-at-his-watch/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%7C210900

[abem]

Phew - I'm safe - no Casios (I'm actually part Egyptian).

Besides, the purported use of the watches for terrorist activities would have the watch wired into a circuit, not worn on the wrist, so it seems kind of irrelevant what someone would be wearing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F91W
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gu ... io_watches

Another example of the fine work being done in the name of Freedom. The quotes from the detainee at the end of the article are hysterical.

-abe.

p.s. Not to be too politically incorrect or anything, but there does appear to be a grain of truth to the stereotype that Arabs are crazy about fancy watches (except for those al-Quaida ones, apparently). For example, the rumor that about half of the HP-01s were bought up by a Saudi prince etc.

[Huertecilla]

Another example of the fine work being done in the name of Freedom.

Very true.

The F91W is like the Honda C90.
Both the most sold bike or watch ever.

Over here the basar in the village of 5000 has sold well over 3000 over the past 10 years.
The boys wear the Colour version or chinese copies and the Golden Casio has been highly fashionable worldwide (save for the US possibly) for two years now. Quite a feat that.

The F91W and derivates are thé most iconic watch éver.
There are several fanclubs even.
I have a hotrodded version on a Maratec SAR orange ´Nato´ and deepsea resistant éxtra virgin oil filling that I call the F911-W



and here is the cold war version:





Over here we can have a good laugh about it but it obviously is a far from funny thing indeed in the name of ´freedom´.

P.s. our most used summer transport is the Innova 125; the successor of the Cub.
Just imagine me in my SAR uniform (I am a rescue work volunteer) wearing my F911-W on my Innova going down the mountain on call out.

This is me as the regional mounted SAR unit:

[abem]

Maybe Casio can use this as the basis of an ad campaign.

From the Wikipedia link above:
""I have a Casio watch due to the fact that they are inexpensive and they last a long time. I like my watch because it is durable. It had a calculator and was waterproof, and before prayers we have to wash up all the way to my elbows."[3]"

Sort of like "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking" but for prisoners - "Takes a beating without retreating."

-abe.

[rewolf]

If it weren't real this would be a good joke - sometimes reality beats it all...

...Over here the basar in the village of 5000 has sold well over 3000 over the past 10 years...

That means that at least half of the inhabitants are potential terrorists. No, wait, even better: there must be an al-Quaida training camp near your village and these watches were purchased as equipment for the trainees. OMG - I bet tomorrow an anti-terror squad will attack your village.
BTW: I recently bought an F91W for my nephew - does this make him a suspect, or me?

[Huertecilla]

- does this make him a suspect, or me?

It ´makes´ Uncle Sam the boogey man.

[LEDluvr]

rewolf wrote:

BTW: I recently bought an F91W for my nephew - does this make him a suspect, or me?

The answer is... BOTH of you! That's what you get for not buying a Seiko.

Huertecilla..... if you see any strange looking birds flying high in the sky - RUN!

[Huertecilla]

Huertecilla..... if you see any strange looking birds flying high in the sky - RUN!

Ah, that is several schools worth of US tax payers money looking for F91 wearers.
It will fill them with pride.

At the primary school my son and his friends are all into the F91W and derivates.
The one with multi couloured LEDS was all te craze untill I made the ´invisible´ one for him. Took the polarsing filter out so you can only read it with polarising sunglasses

Concerning the OT, I know of several peopel, also on wis fora, who have/wear the F91-W becaúse of the stúpid ´logic´.

Here is a very sympathetic fan club btw:
http://www.hablemosderelojes.com/forum/ ... hp?t=23988

[retroleds]

Amazing all the play this topic has gotten. I thought the deal was they liked the digital alarm watches because an electronic alarm is perfect for detonating a bomb with an electrical detonator.

I'm not Muslim, but I think that is kind of cool(from a marketing standpoint at very least) that Casio would make a watch that facilitates a Muslim's prayer obligations. Yeah, yeah, I know it's just a compass - but in a inexpensive yet durable timepiece. And not TOO ugly.

[Huertecilla]

Amazing all the play this topic has gotten. I thought the deal was they liked the digital alarm watches because an electronic alarm is perfect for detonating a bomb with an electrical detonator.

Any digital watch with alarm offers this.
There are mechanical russian ones that make timed contact between two electrical terminals for sale on ebay.
The F91W is simply sold just about ánywhere in many tens of millions yearly hence it was the most availeble and untraceble choice.
It leaves many hundreds of millions of Casio F91Ws and derivates worn by ordinairy people.

Today was market day over here, meaning you could not only buy them in three shops in the villages but also at two stalls on the market.
You dgo into any bar at 10.00 for a cup of coffe and count watches. The Casio F91W and family outnumber all others put together. In some bars, where more blue collar workers come, up to 3 to 1.
Mind; a 5000 soul village in the véry Catholic heartland of southern Spain.

Hence the topic recieves play about the ludicrous US ´logic´ and scandalous inhumane consequences which was the topic.

I'm not Muslim, but I think that is kind of cool(from a marketing standpoint at very least) that Casio would make a watch that facilitates a Muslim's prayer obligations. Yeah, yeah, I know it's just a compass - but in a inexpensive yet durable timepiece. And not TOO ugly.

I agree.
There was a Swiss mechanical too aimed at this market but it has quietly left the scene...
Sad political ´correctness´ to the point of being íncorrect.

[rewolf]

The Casio F91W and family outnumber all others put together. In some bars, where more blue collar workers come, up to 3 to 1.
Mind; a 5000 soul village in the very Catholic heartland of southern Spain.

Catholic - all just camouflage. Al-Quaida training camp. Wasn't especially Granada Arabic until ca. 1500 (Moors)?

[Huertecilla]

Catholic - all just camouflage. Al-Quaida training camp. Wasn't especially Granada Arabic until ca. 1500 (Moors)? [/quote]

Why do you think they dropped an A-bomb on Almeria in 1966?!

[rewolf]

Catholic - all just camouflage. Al-Quaida training camp. Wasn't especially Granada Arabic until ca. 1500 (Moors)?

Why do you think they dropped an A-bomb on Almeria in 1966?! [/quote]Now the pieces fit together - but the bomb failed to detonate and so we have all this al-Quaida-watch-BS today...

[Huertecilla]

Catholic - all just camouflage. Al-Quaida training camp. Wasn't especially Granada Arabic until ca. 1500 (Moors)?

Why do you think they dropped an A-bomb on Almeria in 1966?!

Now the pieces fit together - but the bomb failed to detonate and so we have all this al-Quaida-watch-BS today... [/quote]

Well, I dont know.
After all Mr.al Q. himself proclaimed that ´they´ have not forgotten that they were kicked out of here.

That, the ´reconquista´ and betrayal of the Moors, ís a very sad part of history and the biggest part of Spain stíll has not fully recovered from the consequent dunk into the darkest regions of extremist christian middle ages.
The inquisition and the taliban are identical save for the religion they claim(ed) to uphold.
Christians and muslims alike suffer(ed).
The issue is not the type of religion but human tendency to extremism when that autogenerates power.
That was 500 years ago and we see that today at both sides of the conflict.

I have a museum replica of the Venus of Willendorf on my desk as a constant reminder that Homo sapiens has in nó way evolved over the past 20.000 years. Only our tools have and not for the better.