A still watch is right twice a day. A working watch that is 5 mins ahead is never correct, but is still more useful. amirite?

And a watch that is 12 hours ahead is even more useful.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Is there a difference though? (Between 12 hours ahead and 0?)

by LiveTrifle 1 week ago

It's twelve hours ahead but nobody ever knows.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I believe some watches have an AM/PM indicator. Others have the date. Those would be off on a watch 12 hours off.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yes. There's a world of difference between, say, 6:00 and 18:00. >! No there isn't, they were joking!<

by No-Demand-7475 1 week ago

That's the joke

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well a 12hrs ahead watch is more useful than 5min one alright

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's exactly what I asked my boss in the review

by Anonymous 1 week ago

In 12 hour notation, yes. 24 hour notation can sometimes be a pain. Yes, Officer it was 16pm!

by Huge_Ad_2248 1 week ago

And a watch that is 24 hours ahead is 100000000x more useful.

by ntromp 1 week ago

To be fair, this one is close.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Progress!

by Own_Pace 1 week ago

Accuracy vs Precision.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well... It's always precisely 5 minutes ahead...

by Medhursthattie 1 week ago

Eh, what you are saying is true, but could be described better: With the broken watch, you are more than 5minutes (up to 6h) wrong 98.61% of the time, while the unsynced is always exactly 5 minute wrong

by Relative-Ad5835 1 week ago

My man knows statistics 👍

by Same_Opinion9440 1 week ago

I prefer a sparkling watch

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's only a Rolex if it comes from the Rolex region of France, otherwise it's just a sparkling watch

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Water is essential to life. But if you drown in it.. you'll die

by jaceschneider 1 week ago

The watch is technically correct but not functioning accurately in a conventional sense. The watch is not reliable or functioning as intended, but it happens to show the right time due to the cyclical nature of time, making it only superficially correct.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You will never know when that still watch shows the correct time without a second working watch

by Responsible-Suit 1 week ago

That's… actually a pretty good extension of the metaphor

by Anonymous 1 week ago

A watch that spins at 25,000 RPM is correct 36,000,000 times a day.

by Hackettanita 1 week ago

You can totally do it. I'm too lazy

by Hackettanita 1 week ago

And a watch that spins infinitely fast is always right.

by Helpful-Jelly-4473 1 week ago

What's incorrect about this?

by LiveTrifle 1 week ago

The normal saying is making a specific point, which is logical. So, if you argue something is true, and someone else says someone stupid agrees with you, you use that phrase. All it is saying is that it is not sufficient or logical to prove a statement is false by associating it with a specific person. You could as easily say "Ad hominem attacks are bad", but that's less catchy and many people won't understand the latter.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Being wrong with a predictable pattern is valuable

by Anonymous 1 week ago

a classic argument against accuracy vs precision

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I read it and felt I am supposed to solve a riddle lol

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If it's consistently 5 minutes ahead then it's not fast and you can correct it. If it's counting time faster than 1:1, then it's not that useful

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Technically, if you know it's always 5 minutes ahead, then it is always correct.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No watch is objectively right so this is kind of silly.

by Much-Dragonfruit3805 1 week ago

And a watch spinning out of control will be correct every minute of the day

by Anita96 1 week ago

And a working watch that's off by an hour and 41 minutes is still functionally useless

by Realistic_Habit 1 week ago

"Any working object is more useful than a non-working object" - a revelation

by Diligent_Active_7628 1 week ago

All watches are never correct except the still ones.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Time 8s an illusion. Existence is pointless without meaning. The only Real is now and you have been fooled into believing in a past and a future... They are not real.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

so deep

by Excellent-Canary 1 week ago