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Friday 124 - Irma Edition (pg. 6)
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| Silky Johnson |
I have a pair of Docs with a sneaker sole. The most comfortable, versatile, durable pair of shoes I own. The leather is so soft yet stands up in all kinds of conditions. The only shoes/boots I wore out to clubs/raves in recent years cause I didn't have to worry about them getting all ed up.
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| OrangestO |
Those are cute - would look good on a slender foot.
Docs are nice, but I'm OCD about the yellow threading on the shoe's sole. I wear all black.
The only Docs I've found without that yellow threading are these.
I would need to try them on before I'm sold, though. They look a bit bulky.
No point in buying shoes online when I'm in London, anyway. So many nice shoe shops here (my one material vice). |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I do NOT like that perforated leather. They look like retard shoes. :o |
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| OrangestO |
| Yea, not a fan of that either. Retard shoes :stongue: |
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| Silky Johnson |
My husband bought a pair of runners for work a while back and they were ugly as . Totally looked like retard shoes and I ripped on him about it. He said his sister said the same thing, lol.
I kinda felt bad cause he was so stoked about them. Wamp wamp. Bahaha. |
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| Jon_Snow |
retard shoes never heard of that one. :stongue:
runners are designed so you don't get run over, not always a good fashion option. I have a pair of asics that have color without being obnoxious.
Today I learned how to say in French "", "" and "shut your goddamn mouth". Everyone is so polite I haven't had a chance to use it. |
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| MSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Today I learned how to say in French "", "" and "shut your goddamn mouth". Everyone is so polite I haven't had a chance to use it. |
Ah yes, the quintessential lingo of the touring pedophile. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| :stongue::stongue: |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by OrangestO
Docs are nice, but I'm OCD about the yellow threading on the shoe's sole. I wear all black. |
My old Docs didn't have the yellow stitching. They looked like this:
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
are you so naive to think everyone has a wallet full of cards? |
I find it odd because that's the standard here, I imagined it was just as easy to have different cards linked to the same account there as well. Brazilian banks don't even charge you anything for a spare card (the usual combo is having a Visa and a Mastercard), and more than half of all payments here are cashless - the only thing bringing this number down is piss poor infrastructure in the countryside, because it can easily approach 90% in bigger cities (the only sources I found are in Portuguese, sorry about that).
Maybe I'm underestimating the impact of common Brazilian problems to our transition to being a cashless society (such as lack of coins if you need change, it's not unusual to get drop mints instead, and an overall dearth of ATMs where you need them the most). Apparently, Brazil is an outlier (along with China) in the developing world regarding how quickly we can go cashless... But, given how widespread it is here, I assumed it was the same in the UK. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Apparently the coalition government in 2010 were seriously considering moving the UK to a cash-free society. The main reason they baulked at it would be the backlash from charities who depend so heavily on loose change donations in collection boxes, and so on.
The infrastructure is all there to do it. In my local shop, for example, there are now about eight self-checkouts and only one human cashier, and all the self-checkouts accept card only. I recounted the story mainly because it was a perfect moment of cosmic irony, and also it proves the point that there are always moments when the electronic infrastructure won't be available and you need to pay someone fast.
Don't tell me your vending machines take card over there as well. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Don't tell me your vending machines take card over there as well. |
Now, vending machines aren't really common around here for whatever reason (not sure why) but, if I'm not mistaken, the ones in the hospital near my house do take card, and I remember using one at the airport in Manaus that did take card as well.
I can check next time I go see a doctor :p |
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