WATCHING THE WATCHES

Ever since I was a kid I've always worn Casio Digital watches, and I still do. Now I have a stylish looking purple one that I splashed out NZ$59 for because I'm fairly loaded these days and like to make a statement.

Time for me has always been digital, and to read an analogue clock I have to do a sort of mental conversion to digital in order to really get a sense of what the actual time is.

As well as being digital, the main thing I'm looking for in a watch is simple efficiency. I want a reliable digital watch that’s accurate, comfortable to wear and easy to read. Casio watches tick all those boxes and they are surprisingly cheap as well.

The whole idea of trying to show off how bling you are with ostentatious displays of jewelry like watches has always seemed really fake, try hard, and retarded to me.

I don't think I've ever spent more than NZ$100 on a watch and I've never had any desire to.

But I do follow FI racing and was aware that many of the drivers wear stupidly expensive watches that they are sponsored to show off to their fans.

The sort of prices I was imagining on the F1 grid were around US$20k - about twice the price of a Rolex, so it was a bit of a surprise to find out they go way higher than that.

Lewis Hamilton has the dearest watch of any F1 driver. An unreadable abomination allegedly "worth" US$2.3 million.

Max Verstappen has the cheapest F1 watch at a miserly US$6.6K. He let's his driving do the talking. But holy shit, that is the ugliest watch I've ever seen. I wouldn't pay $20 for that stupid looking thing.

 
If I ever want to look wealthy and bling, I might splash out for a retro Casio. This one would do me. It's a bit pricey at NZ$139 but it has that fully loaded bling look, so if I really wanted to impress, I might consider going that high.

NEW ZEALAND SELECTIONS

 Who are you voting for this year?, I'm sometimes asked.

Just like most countries, here in New Zealand we have a choice of red clowns or blue clowns. 

 I think both cults are appalling, but I slightly prefer National (blue) because when Labour (red) are pretending to be "in power" they shift the whole tone of the country to openly libtard. We are all being played by both sides, but here is a specific example that I've experienced myself online since chump was selected. 

 

The American situation is very similar and I'm no fan of the orange clown, but would rather have him than Kamala. (Yes, I know I've been played there!)

On Facebook, Mossad's #1 social programming platform, and the only social media platform I still use (I have excuses, but I know it's a bad habit) for the whole time bidet was head puppet I had to use four FB accounts because I was constantly being suspended. 

 During the covidhoax (2020-2024) the FB censorship was particularly bad, and if you wanted to post anything that questioned the deep state narratives, you had to misspell key words, blur parts of images, and run multiple accounts to work around the constant 30 day account suspensions.

But in 2025 (essentially since Trump was selected), FB backed right off on censorship. Most people on FB are still expecting the old censorship restrictions, and like sheep avoiding an imaginary electric fence, they have no idea that the power to the fence is no longer turned on.

We can now post all sorts of stuff that would have caused an account suspension in 2024 - vaccinations, eugenics, trannies, jews, globalist pedos - most of this stuff is no longer a problem on FB.

In fact since chump replaced bidet, on FB I've been able to post almost anything I want, with no more suspensions. I even did an experiment last year to prove that - https://sift666.blogspot.com/p/facebook-uncensored.html

 

So despite knowing that it's all a deliberate tactic to divide society, and I'm being played, I do enjoy shredding libtards, and a "conservative" rather than openly "liberal" fake government makes that seem easier. 

I'll actually vote for winnie again this time around even though I don't trust him an inch, for essentially the same reason - libtards hate him!

 

 It's all a circus show...

 

RANDOMS 2026 #14

POLAROID REVIVALISTS

 

Bad Monkey is a really entertaining TV series from 2024 that I've recently been watching.

It's based on a book by Carl Hiaasen, also called Bad Monkey, and it's unusually well done.

That is not something I often say about TV programs, in fact I usually say they are utter crap. But I like Bad Monkey, both the book and the TV series.

In episode 7 there is a Polaroid camera featured. Although I've seen those before, I don't know much about them and have never used one myself. Maybe they were popular in America but not so much in New Zealand?

So I had questions! - When were they popular?, how much did they cost?, and are they now cool again and having a revival in the digital era?

I looked them up online…

Polaroid history from 1948 to modern retro cool

Some main points of interest to me were:

The first black & white Polaroid camera was sold way back in 1948. It was an instant hit.

 

The first colour Polaroid camera, The Land 100, was released in 1963 and it retailed in America for US$149. 

The new ones now are modeled on the ones from the late 70's.

At that point Polaroid cameras were pumping, and they were at peak popularity throughout the 70's & 80's. But their popularity started to decline in the 90's, and although Polaroid did develop an early digital camera, the digital revolution pretty much ended things for Polaroid.

 

"Polaroid Corporation filed for bankruptcy in 2001 its brand and assets were sold off. A successor Polaroid company formed, and the branded assets changed hands multiple times before being sold to Polish billionaire Wiaczesław Smołokowski in 2017" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation

In the 60's and 70's Polaroid cameras were expensive in New Zealand, with our weak currency, and heavy import taxes, along with the already relatively expensive prices of the cameras to begin with. 

 

Adjusted for inflation, a Polaroid camera in New Zealand, back in the 70's would have cost the equivalent of around NZ$2000, and then there were the expensive film costs on top of that.

So it's no surprise that they were not very common here, even in the 80's & 90's. But I gather they were once huge in America and are now becoming trendy again.

It turns out that there is currently a POLAROID REVIVALIST movement, and the new retro Polaroid cameras are styled to look like the old 70's ones, but they have been updated to work with blue-tooth and phone apps.

They now sell in New Zealand at around NZ$400 for a high end one. 

 

The big drawback is the cost of the film. In NZ that works out at $2 a shot! For someone like me who regularly knocks off up to 200 photos in one session on my digital camera, in the hope of getting half a dozen good ones, that would be up to $400 a day. No thanks!

But apparently kids love them and drunken party goers think they are wondrous, and there are basic ones selling in NZ from as little as $98.

 

Which is pretty cheap, so I'm guessing the objective here is to get people locked into repeat buying the film.

But there are easy ways to get Polaroid photos without paying $2 a shot. In fact there are dozens of free ways to edit or take digital photos that look like Polaroids! Here are some recommendations for phone apps:

10 Best Apps That Make Pictures Look Like Polaroids

Personally I try my best to avoid using phones, so I want to do this on my Linux PC. Here is a post showing how to turn a digital photo into a Polaroid with GIMP

 Turn a digital photo into Polaroid with GIMP

 
 

THEY LIVE REVISITED

"They Live" was a classic 80's movie that exposes how we are all being programmed. It does not need to be "remade", the original just needs to be watched!

 

But the Jewish owned media corporations pull the same scams constantly. Predictive programing is the entire basis of platforms like Facebook & Youtube, as it is with all other forms of media.

Apparently a darker remake of the movie "They Live" is planned. It is built around a world where the aliens have already won. The original was exposing them, but a remake would just be yet more predictive programing... 

 

They have already won, and you are the defeated goyim...