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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by slicktux on Monday May 08, 2023 @02:11PM (#35865037)
I had to stop wearing mine because what went from a making fun of my antiquated watch turned into I’m a terrorist…

All because of this Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W Scroll down to usage

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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by the_gipsy on Monday May 08, 2023 @02:42PM (#35865427)
Did you stop using it because you read about that, or some actual incident?
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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by hewlett on Monday May 08, 2023 @04:24PM (#35866590)
An Afgan electrical engineer was sent to Guantanamo Bay for wearing it as Al-Qaeda was known to use the F91W in IEDs
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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by porkbeer on Monday May 08, 2023 @04:40PM (#35866781)
Im sure that was the only factor involved.
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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by filoleg on Monday May 08, 2023 @06:07PM (#35867603)
Yeah, I am with you on this one.

I even tried googling for it, but couldn't find any articles referencing both Guantanamo and casio watches, aside from the general ones talking about the whole phenomenon of Al-Quaeda preferring those watches or pieces talking about incidents where the watch was actually used as an IED component.

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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by hewlett on Monday May 08, 2023 @06:16PM (#35867668)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/07/why-am-i-cuba/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2011/apr/25/gu...

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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by slicktux on Monday May 08, 2023 @06:38PM (#35867874)
I was being made fun of in a tongue in cheek way… If it does not apply I let it fly but it was just a little too much.
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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by CydeWeys on Monday May 08, 2023 @09:28PM (#35869169)
By any chance are you Arab? If so, then I can see why that might sting (and why the others were, unfortunately, taking the tack). If you're not though, then meh, easy to dismiss.
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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by orhmeh09 on Monday May 08, 2023 @02:39PM (#35865382)
Who's telling you that? I've been wearing one all this time, save for a few years of folly with an Apple Watch 4. In fact, I just picked up a new one two days ago since I left my old one in another country. No police has ever given me trouble.

I love not having to charge it and not having to worry about bumping it into anything.

(My new watch is a slightly updated model - W-217H-9AVCF, which is a little bigger and has a brighter, more even light in amber)

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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by slicktux on Monday May 08, 2023 @06:41PM (#35867904)
It started out with “your watch is so old it probably had a Wikipedia page” and the person jokingly looked it up scrolled down and it was an “oh shit” reaction… I love the watch and I still have it..
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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by astrange on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:53PM (#35868514)
> PS: Nobody's going to think you're a terrorist if you drive a Toyota, either.

What if you're driving a Hilux technical?

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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by orhmeh09 on Monday May 08, 2023 @09:12PM (#35869083)
Might raise some eyebrows in the US tbh, as they don't sell it there!
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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by somat on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:58AM (#35872026)
Is there a difference between the hilux and tacoma?

All I know is that the tacoma is built(assembled?) in the US. however I always assumed they more or less the same design.

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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by astrange on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:59AM (#35884500)
They're pretty different designs mainly because of different regulations, but have the same purpose. Old Hiluxes are famously near-indestructible; Top Gear once drove one into the ocean and it still started.

…btw, "technical" means it has a machine gun mounted in the back.

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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by MegaDeKay on Monday May 08, 2023 @05:21PM (#35867227)
You should have told them you were planning to run for President of the United States. Barack Obama wore an F-91W in his youth.

https://watchesyoucanafford.com/the-venerable-casio-f-91w-di...

Or you were just a big fan of Napoleon Dynamite, who wore one as well.

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Re:Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital W... by KomoD on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:53AM (#35875242)
Is this a joke post?
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