woof woof
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My feet are cold.My right foot especially.
Possibly because my right shoe has a huge hole in it. I first spotted the huge hole in it a few weeks ago when my right sock got soaked. I bloody mindedly decided that I'd wear these shoes until the following weekend before breaking out some new ones but I forgot and just carried on wearing them. Actually I first spotted a small hole maybe two or three years ago or possibly longer so I fixed it by melting the area around it with a soldering iron.
I know I've had my moneys worth out of these shoes but it's now a battle of wills between me and the world.
Is it only me?
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DradusContact
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Re: My feet are cold. | woof woof wrote: |
Is it only me? |
You and Ebeneezer Scrooge I think. 
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woof woof
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Oi!!!
I'm green, I'm saving the Earths resourses.
When I've been hopping for a few weeks I might review my position.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr
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If you get shoes with proper Goodyear-welted soles, you can have them resoled and heeled many times, and they'll last forever. May cost more up-front, but long-term more cost-effective and more satisfying.
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woof woof
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Professor Brantano herself sold me this pair.
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scamper
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We have the new Forum Tightwad, it appears.
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woof woof
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It's more to do with an inherited genetic abnormality I have, I have very short arms (and deep pockets.)
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DetmoldDick
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My right shoe has mysteriously(sp?) sprung a leak.
It is a less than 2 year old Timberland rainproof shoe. There are no visible holes, so I don't know how the water is getting in. I re-proofed them and it still let water in on my last excursion in light rain.
Any cobblers out there got a clue?
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DradusContact
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| DetmoldDick wrote: |
Any cobblers out there got a clue? |
I think the last one retired with the last Chimney sweep in '19-odd-seven'
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woof woof
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"Any cobblers out there got a clue?"
Closer examination should reveal the cause.
If you have access to a soldering iron I believe you'll get another 10-15 years out of those.
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woof woof
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DaveGibson
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I thought my brother was tight when he tied string around to stop the front ends of his soles flapping about.
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Alan, I think there's rather less than 2mm tread left.
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woof woof
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I wonder if I can put a claim in against Mazda's as it's clearly caused by the pedal.
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DradusContact
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Ive got a tight uncle. He's got a W plate Yaris 1.0. Typical toyota reliability, however after owning it about 6 years it one day wouldnt start due to the battery dying. He phoned toyota to complain, i bet he probably got a new one too 
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Racing
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That's a shoe? Are you sure it's not some sort of misbegotten offspring of a slipper and one of those godawful croc things some people permit their children to wear?
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Humphrey The Pug
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| Racing wrote: | | That's a shoe? Are you sure it's not some sort of misbegotten offspring of a slipper and one of those godawful croc things some people permit their children to wear? |
With socks!!
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woof woof
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It's a shoe, a cheapo shoe I'll grant you but still a shoe...
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woof woof
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Hmmm...
I'm starting to wonder if I should take off more clothing and photograph it.
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Racing
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Wonder. But for the love of God do not act.
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Scouse
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| Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | Racing wrote: | | That's a shoe? Are you sure it's not some sort of misbegotten offspring of a slipper and one of those godawful croc things some people permit their children to wear? |
With socks!! |
Nah, the worst ones are the adult crocs that come with 'thermal' linings. FFS I understand the hideous things for kids in summer, but if you need to put socks or linings in them then surely it's time to wear proper shoes?
A number of 'earth mother' types at the scouselets school wear them...
The scouselets have them for going the beach or playing in the garden. without the lining.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr
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| Racing wrote: | | That's a shoe? Are you sure it's not some sort of misbegotten offspring of a slipper and one of those godawful croc things some people permit their children to wear? |
I was wondering if it was an implant designed to do both breasts for the price of one
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Scouse
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | Racing wrote: | | That's a shoe? Are you sure it's not some sort of misbegotten offspring of a slipper and one of those godawful croc things some people permit their children to wear? |
I was wondering if it was an implant designed to do both breasts for the price of one |
From a new 'matronly' line for the lady whose getting on a bit?
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scamper
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| woof woof wrote: | It's a shoe, a cheapo shoe I'll grant you but still a shoe...
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Good god Alan, are you a tramp?
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maz
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At least you have got a shoe .
I walk around without, and get up before I go to bed to work down't pit, with now't to eat .......
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DradusContact
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| maz wrote: | At least you have got a shoe .
I walk around without, and get up before I go to bed to work down't pit, with now't to eat ....... |
'erteen miles, in the snow, every morning.
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Big TC
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| DetmoldDick wrote: | | My right shoe has mysteriously(sp?) sprung a leak. |
How amazing! Yesterday, I had to walk through a big puddle, whilst being fully loaded up with shopping bags, and realised that my right shoe had sprung a leak.
I suspect some sort of conspiracy.
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Bob Sacramento
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| woof woof wrote: | It's a shoe, a cheapo shoe I'll grant you but still a shoe...
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Last time I saw something like that I'd just rescued it from next door's dog.
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maz
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| Big TC wrote: | | DetmoldDick wrote: | | My right shoe has mysteriously(sp?) sprung a leak. |
How amazing! Yesterday, I had to walk through a big puddle, whilst being fully loaded up with shopping bags, and realised that my right shoe had sprung a leak.
I suspect some sort of conspiracy. |
have you tried Radweld ?
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Bob Sacramento
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| maz wrote: | | Big TC wrote: | | DetmoldDick wrote: | | My right shoe has mysteriously(sp?) sprung a leak. |
How amazing! Yesterday, I had to walk through a big puddle, whilst being fully loaded up with shopping bags, and realised that my right shoe had sprung a leak.
I suspect some sort of conspiracy. |
have you tried Radweld ? |
Smoking it or injecting?
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr
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| Bob Sacramento wrote: | | maz wrote: | | Big TC wrote: | | DetmoldDick wrote: | | My right shoe has mysteriously(sp?) sprung a leak. |
How amazing! Yesterday, I had to walk through a big puddle, whilst being fully loaded up with shopping bags, and realised that my right shoe had sprung a leak.
I suspect some sort of conspiracy. |
have you tried Radweld ? |
Smoking it or injecting? |
Are you mad? Drink it with Red Bull, of course!
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gonnabuildabuggy
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Re: My feet are cold. | DradusContact wrote: | | woof woof wrote: |
Is it only me? |
You and Ebeneezer Scrooge I think. |
That will be me. I've got a pair by the front door with holes in both sides, I should throw them out but find it more convenient to wear them sometimes than going upstair to get a smarter pair.
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gonnabuildabuggy
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | If you get shoes with proper Goodyear-welted soles, you can have them resoled and heeled many times, and they'll last forever. May cost more up-front, but long-term more cost-effective and more satisfying. |
It just cost me £35 to get my smart leather shoes re-heeled and re-soled.
Annoyingly I bought them for only £35 in the first place from TK MAXX (proper retail £100).
I swear by buying good shoes and rehealing, etc but at those prices it doesn't make sense. Hence I've actually got two pairs with holes in as they aren't worth repairing despite being very good shoes (like the 98 Jag XJ I found with a blown engine, only £500 but not worth a bean as fitting a new engine will cost more than the car would be worth...)
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr
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Even so, you still end up better off. I always find cheap shoes fall apart in 3-6 months, whereas I only need to get my proper ones resoled every year or two.
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Big TC
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| maz wrote: | | Big TC wrote: | | DetmoldDick wrote: | | My right shoe has mysteriously(sp?) sprung a leak. |
How amazing! Yesterday, I had to walk through a big puddle, whilst being fully loaded up with shopping bags, and realised that my right shoe had sprung a leak.
I suspect some sort of conspiracy. |
have you tried Radweld ? |
When I had the Pug 605 and it strated to loose water, I bought a bottle of Radweld and asked the person who was with me to put it in as I needed to pay a visit to the toilet.
When I came back, said person was carefully pouring the Radweld into the windscreen washer bottle.....(Luckily, there was a filter on it, so not too much was put in...). This person will remain nameless. For the moment, at least....
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TimR
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Jasper the mechanic?
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scamper
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | I always find cheap shoes fall apart in 3-6 months, whereas I only need to get my proper ones resoled every year or two. Having said that due to the heavy clutch in my GT3 my left shoe needs doing every 3 weeks. |
Fixed.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr
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I told you, it eases with use. Bunch of girls ...
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Racing
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | Even so, you still end up better off. I always find cheap shoes fall apart in 3-6 months, whereas I only need to get my proper ones resoled every year or two. |
Indeed. And they look better.
I've got one pair of Church's casual loafers which are about 8 years old and have been worn everywhere from the Atacama desert to actually in glacial streams in the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgzstan (I suspect I am almost certainly the only person ever to have waded through a glacial stream in in the Tian Shan mountains whilst wearing Church's loafers), and yet when polished-up they remain respectable enough to be worn at work without comment.
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SpecB
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My feet get cold in shoes with proper leather soles. I had a great pair of Loake dealer boots but I couldn't wear them in winter.
I don't get the opportunity to wear proper shoes much as most of the time I am in my yard boots which get worn nearly every day for a couple of years and then replaced when they wear out. These Ariats I've had for quite a while now and they still keep the water out.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr
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| Racing wrote: | | I suspect I am almost certainly the only person ever to have waded through a glacial stream in in the Tian Shan mountains whilst wearing Church's loafers |
Within the last 100 years, anyway.
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Scouse
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From Terry Pratchett, Vimes' socioeconomic theory on boots:
The reason the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in the city on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
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scamper
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My Church's 1995 vintage are still going strong but need a service.
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Mike Amos
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"Professor Brantano herself sold me this pair."
Had a pair of hers myself once, not until after a damn good shag pile though, I shall treasure that stair carpet for a long time. Stairs are not good for the knees under those circumstances.
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gonnabuildabuggy
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | Even so, you still end up better off. I always find cheap shoes fall apart in 3-6 months, whereas I only need to get my proper ones resoled every year or two. |
These are "proper" shoes, not Church's but something similar, full leather uppers, soles, etc. - TK Maxx sell designer and other stuff at clearance rates.
I only buy work shoes with leather soles, rubber would ruin my image. One pair lasted me 1994 to 2008 but I left them without shoe stretchers for too long and they curled and cracked (they were seriously out of fashion by then).
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Bob Sacramento
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| Scouse wrote: | From Terry Pratchett, Vimes' socioeconomic theory on boots:
The reason the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in the city on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. |
That's one of my favourite Commander Vimes theories too.
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Racing
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | Racing wrote: | | I suspect I am almost certainly the only person ever to have waded through a glacial stream in in the Tian Shan mountains whilst wearing Church's loafers |
Within the last 100 years, anyway. |
I still think it may be a unique occurrence!
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woof woof
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Scamp - "Good god Alan, are you a tramp?"
Well I have been called that but I like to think I'm just kind and loving.
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GonnaBreakABuggy
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I changed my last pair of shoes when the sole finally fell off (halfway around the Bleffa event, in the mud, not fun), so no, you're not the only one.
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PG
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| Bob Sacramento wrote: | | That's one of my favourite Commander Vimes theories too. |
+1.
I mix and match with shoes. Some expensive repairable ones and some cheapo ones. I've got one pair of black Hush Puppie "mock brogues" that refuse to wear out. I think the soles would be the only thing to survive a direct hit from a thermonuclear strike.
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Humphrey The Pug
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I'm another who wears their shoes until they don't really resemble shoes anymore.
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'G'
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I'm in a similar situation where the upper of my Oxford shoes are becoming somewhat tatty, and the, previously frequently resoled, soles are now require resoled.
I have not seen any shoes that appeal to me, thus will not change them for shoes that I find unappealing just to prevent my feet getting wet.
One must suffer for the correct shoes.
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DaveGibson
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I still have a pair of Grenson shoes that I bought in 1989 before a trip to Australia. Admittedly, I only wear them indoors now because I neglected them and the uppers cracked at the sides.
I was wearing them while I painted the skirting board and the glued-on heel fell off putting me in mind of Kenny Rogers' song - "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille". 
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woof woof
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Is that "You picked a fine time to leave my Lucille..with 4 hungry children and a crop in the field..."?
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DaveGibson
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Yes, Alan. Old age is creeping up on me and making me get the quotation wrong but you understood what I meant. I've edited now.
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woof woof
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Funny thing is that I've been singing this to myself all day, you know what it's like when for no apparent reason a song gets stuck in your head.
Maybe it's all the fault of that darn time travel thread.
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Apex clipper
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| woof woof wrote: | | I wonder if I can put a claim in against Mazda's as it's clearly caused by the pedal. |
The brake pedal by the looks of things! Stop being a tightwad.
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canadian bacon
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | If you get shoes with proper Goodyear-welted soles, you can have them resoled and heeled many times, and they'll last forever. May cost more up-front, but long-term more cost-effective and more satisfying. |
not always, my last pair cost 59 bucks, leather uppers, lowers and lining - and they are really well made, maybe I was just lucky.
Alan, look away now.....
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gonnabuildabuggy
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| canadian bacon wrote: | | Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | If you get shoes with proper Goodyear-welted soles, you can have them resoled and heeled many times, and they'll last forever. May cost more up-front, but long-term more cost-effective and more satisfying. |
not always, my last pair cost 59 bucks, leather uppers, lowers and lining - and they are really well made, maybe I was just lucky.
Alan, look away now.....
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What's the X rate with the Canada dollar - mine were £35 for similar (though more stylish I believe )
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canadian bacon
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I wanted tradtional....I prefer dress shoes to be timeless.
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scamper
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| canadian bacon wrote: | | I wanted tradtional....I prefer dress shoes to be timeless. |
I quite agree.
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maz
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| canadian bacon wrote: | | I wanted tradtional....I prefer dress shoes to be timeless. |
Woof Woof prefers them to be warm
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woof woof
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"Woof Woof prefers them to be warm"
On the hole I do.
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Grampa
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| Racing wrote: | | That's a shoe? Are you sure it's not some sort of misbegotten offspring of a slipper and one of those godawful croc things some people permit their children to wear? |
As someone who buys clothes for comfort rather than looks, I much prefer Crocs to ordinary shoes - OK, hardly the last word in style, but great for washing the car, getting in and out of a dinghy, being out in the rain etc - water just runs straight out of them instead of keeping your feet soggy and they are so comfortable - ordinary shoes feel like I'm wearing some kind of straight jacket on my feet.
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Racing
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Wellingtons, flip-flops and all manner of other types of footwear exist for the reason of avoiding soggy feet without needing recourse to those....."things".
But thankfully it's a free world so if you want to wear them you can.
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Grampa
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I'm no where near posh enough to wear wellies - thank goodness - I tried a pair once and couldn't believe how uncomfortable they were, and if you do accidentally get water in them it must be like walking round in a water tank - flip flops are hideously uncomfortable and too cold for winter, so I'll stick with the Crocs thanks.
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scamper
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Never seen the attraction of crocs - lots of clumpy smelly rubber around your feet. And they look silly. much prefer flip flops - your feet get a tan for starters and an airing.
Mrs Scamper has croc flip flops and considering the price, they wore out far quicker than my cheap ones from scabmark.
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Bob Sacramento
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Crocs are a brilliant piece of marketing. Who'd have thought those horrible plastic sandals you wore when you were 4 and on a beach in Cornwall could be given a daft name and flogged to normally sensible adults.
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