There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
I was doing rescue for the annual club racing here in Ireland. A young girl capsized her topper, luckily we were sitting on the open water side and saw the rigging wrapped around her neck. The boat was turtling and she was being dragged down too, panicking as you would. I rammed our nose under and cut her out while the other fellow hauled her head from under the water. Next time I'll get a selfie with her little blue face (chuckling to myself)
Safe to say she never came back. I imagine being hung while drowning isn't a pleasant way to die. Here's my working knife, a useful thing I keep on me most days. Legal to carry in the UK and doubles as a hammer and flat head screwdriver when not a knife. However it's not flashy enough for massdrop to sell it! Note this is the blade after it's been submerged in salt water daily for the last 6years. It's in pretty good condition if I do say so myself. 10/10 quality