The Sanctuary
Ego => Reinvent Yourself => Topic started by: constantinople on November 23, 2014, 04:09:55 pm
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So I went to buy some shoes yesterday, and I discovered that somewhere in the last year and a half, popular clothing has becoming to fucking faggoty for me to wear anymore. I just couldn't do it. So I had to go and buy more adult footwear since every pair of Vans I saw was looked like some shit you'd find the Jonas Brothers wearing. It was a weird experience, finding out one is too old to wear trendy stuff anymore.
Pros: No longer look like 16 yr old, twice as comfortable as any skate shoes I've ever owned
Cons: costs twice as much as any skate shoes I've ever owned, actually require one to take care of them.
(http://www.zappos.com/images/z/2/5/7/5/2/8/2575281-p-MULTIVIEW.jpg)
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I hear ya. I just wear my black, low-top, slip-resistant, Dr. Scholl's "work" shoes basically everywhere I go. 15 dollars. Kmart. That Dr. Scholl is underrated 'far as I'm concerned. By that I mean I'd fuck him, and by I'd fuck him I mean I think he doesn't get the credit he deserves.
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I hear ya. I just wear my black, low-top, slip-resistant, Dr. Scholl's "work" shoes basically everywhere I go. 15 dollars. Kmart. That Dr. Scholl is underrated 'far as I'm concerned. By that I mean I'd fuck him.
wow, I wear something very similar....treadsafe slip resistant black no laces shoes...when they wear out, I go steal another pair.
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I hear ya. I just wear my black, low-top, slip-resistant, Dr. Scholl's "work" shoes basically everywhere I go. 15 dollars. Kmart. That Dr. Scholl is underrated 'far as I'm concerned. By that I mean I'd fuck him.
when they wear out, I go steal another pair.
Good.
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I have not worn another kind of shoe in over five years
I also order the same thing in restaurants every time
I am one boring motherfucker in real life
(http://i59.tinypic.com/a46k1x.jpg)
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mine
(http://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/dce07b8c-1881/k2-_3c40f301-a7e7-4480-9f42-a3592ce997a5.v1.jpg)
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Now that you're thinking more like an adult it might be time to consider your health when purchasing footwear. The human body evolved the way it did for very good reasons, and it's likely that our shoes are causing us a lot of problems. Work with old people and you know it's just considered normal for everyone to stop being able to wear normal shoes at some point and require highly specialized podiatric footwear. Because regular shoes cause postural problems and pain in the elderly, and their feet need specialized support.
Maybe that's just something that happens with old age, or maybe it's the result of a lifetime of restrictive and unnatural shoes. We really can't expect our feet to work properly if we're never using them properly, right? Plantar and dorsi flexion are things, people didn't evolve for their heels to always be raised higher than their toes, and feet are not rigid and immovable as shoes tend to be.
So I wear minimalist/barefoot stuff, after doing lots of research.
http://www.merrell.com/US/en/Barefoot
http://birthdayshoes.com/barefoot-shoes/
http://www.softstarshoes.com/
http://www.lemsshoes.com/
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Now that you're thinking more like an adult it might be time to consider your health when purchasing footwear. The human body evolved the way it did for very good reasons, and it's likely that our shoes are causing us a lot of problems. Work with old people and you know it's just considered normal for everyone to stop being able to wear normal shoes at some point and require highly specialized podiatric footwear. Because regular shoes cause postural problems and pain in the elderly, and their feet need specialized support.
Maybe that's just something that happens with old age, or maybe it's the result of a lifetime of restrictive and unnatural shoes. We really can't expect our feet to work properly if we're never using them properly, right? Plantar and dorsi flexion are things, people didn't evolve for their heels to always be raised higher than their toes, and feet are not rigid and immovable as shoes tend to be.
So I wear minimalist/barefoot stuff, after doing lots of research.
http://www.merrell.com/US/en/Barefoot
http://birthdayshoes.com/barefoot-shoes/
http://www.softstarshoes.com/
http://www.lemsshoes.com/
Normally I don't agree with your leftist drivel....but here you are 100% absolutely correct.
I would also go so far as to say that if one wants to go this route, just go with a good old pair of moccassins. Don't be one of those people that wears those wierd shoes with the individual toes. Those people need to be soundly beaten and driven out of our society, to live on the fringes as outcasts and marginals.
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Soft Star sells decent moccasins. link above
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA "Ugg shoes". They look more homosexual than their female counterparts.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA "Ugg shoes". They look more homosexual than their female counterparts.
yeah I am not even going to bother going into detail about how much of a faggot constantinople is for trying to dress 'trendy' in the first place. 'Skate shoes'....jesus christ....
eh I said I wasn't going to do this....constantinople knows exactly what I think of him, so I guess it is not necessary to point out each and every reason why I am 100% sure I would laugh at him derisively if I knew him in real life
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA "Ugg shoes". They look more homosexual than their female counterparts.
yeah I am not even going to bother going into detail about how much of a faggot constantinople is for trying to dress 'trendy' in the first place. 'Skate shoes'....jesus christ....
eh I said I wasn't going to do this....constantinople knows exactly what I think of him, so I guess it is not necessary to point out each and every reason why I am 100% sure I would laugh at him derisively if I knew him in real life
I doubt you've so much as verbally berated someone in real life.
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I doubt you've so much as verbally berated someone in real life.
of course you do, as you are a naive book-smart aspergers sufferer.
you have no idea what my life is like or the things I have done
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Those shoes look gayer than vans, and thats saying something, because any teenager where i live wearing vans or etnies immediately gets stuck in the face. Shoulda gone with desert boots, got a pair from clarke bros, theyre pretty much the same style just not gay as yours
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I doubt you've so much as verbally berated someone in real life.
of course you do, as you are a naive book-smart aspergers sufferer.
you have no idea what my life is like or the things I have done
lmao
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These are very Rednecky shoes.
But if there comfortable who gives a fock
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lmao
just because you could never imagine raising your voice to another male, let alone get into a physical conflict, there is no need to project your lack of masculinity onto everyone else. You 'lmao' at your physical and mental superiors, while this is your reality:
(http://i60.tinypic.com/1z1bwgp.jpg)
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Vibram five fingers Speeds and not counting my work boots those are the only shoes I wear. I will beat you in the face with a crowbar if you incompetent redneck drunk retards try and say that those shoes are gay.
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Vibram five fingers Speeds and not counting my work boots those are the only shoes I wear. I will beat you in the face with a crowbar if you incompetent redneck drunk retards try and say that those shoes are gay.
they are not only gay, they make the wearer gay as well.
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But you can move your toes! I used to have a pair.
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But you can move your toes! I used to have a pair.
that must be what made you gay
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Except I'm not gay :roll:
They're shoes haha. Who cares what they look like? Functionality imo.
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Except I'm not gay :roll:
They're shoes haha. Who cares what they look like? Functionality imo.
You're something and it's fucked up
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So I went to buy some shoes yesterday, and I discovered that somewhere in the last year and a half, popular clothing has becoming to fucking faggoty for me to wear anymore. I just couldn't do it. So I had to go and buy more adult footwear since every pair of Vans I saw was looked like some shit you'd find the Jonas Brothers wearing. It was a weird experience, finding out one is too old to wear trendy stuff anymore.
Pros: No longer look like 16 yr old, twice as comfortable as any skate shoes I've ever owned
Cons: costs twice as much as any skate shoes I've ever owned, actually require one to take care of them.
(http://www.zappos.com/images/z/2/5/7/5/2/8/2575281-p-MULTIVIEW.jpg)
i kind of agree with you.. i wear vans and I also wear boots, or flip flops
the last pair of vans i owned my gf said i looked like a 15 year old skateboarder, then i got a new pair and she said she liked them *she is 5 years younger than me* then someone else told me I they look like im a 15 year old skateboarder again... its just one of those things.. wear whatever you want. I have a badass pair of boots I wear some of the time.. but as far as sneakers go you will always look either like your dad wearing a white pair of reebroks or some cool teen in vans/converse.
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Except I'm not gay :roll:
your ridiculous choice of footwear says otherwise
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wear some crocks
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Cats is fashion police :/
yo what smells like well-dressed ham?
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Anyone who wears vans should be pushed in front of one. Anything made popular by scrawny losers in skinny jeans should be ignored
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lmao
just because you could never imagine raising your voice to another male, let alone get into a physical conflict, there is no need to project your lack of masculinity onto everyone else. You 'lmao' at your physical and mental superiors, while this is your reality:
(http://i60.tinypic.com/1z1bwgp.jpg)
hey niglet just because you are 45 years old doesn't mean you are a man.
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Cats is fashion police :/
yo what smells like well-dressed ham?
Ban this freak
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Anyone who wears vans should be pushed in front of one. Anything made popular by scrawny losers in skinny jeans should be ignored
well i don't think the people that made vans are losers.. they are probably more well of than you...
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Anyone who wears vans should be pushed in front of one. Anything made popular by scrawny losers in skinny jeans should be ignored
well i don't think the people that made vans are losers.. they are probably more well of than you...
The people that made them popular, or well known are. The people that actually made them are jews you idiot
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hey niglet just because you are 45 years old doesn't mean you are a man.
I am still a few years away from even being 40 kroz....and your opinion doesn't count anyway, because you literally look like a 10 year old kid who has had too much candy
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Anyone who wears vans should be pushed in front of one. Anything made popular by scrawny losers in skinny jeans should be ignored
well i don't think the people that made vans are losers.. they are probably more well of than you...
The people that made them popular, or well known are. The people that actually made them are jews you idiot
what people? what jews?
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hey niglet just because you are 45 years old doesn't mean you are a man.
I am still a few years away from even being 40 kroz....and your opinion doesn't count anyway, because you literally look like a 10 year old kid who has had too much candy
to much candy?
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Anyone who wears vans should be pushed in front of one. Anything made popular by scrawny losers in skinny jeans should be ignored
well i don't think the people that made vans are losers.. they are probably more well of than you...
The people that made them popular, or well known are. The people that actually made them are jews you idiot
what kind of non jew shoes do you wear?
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to much candy?
No, too much candy, not to
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to much candy?
No, too much candy, not to
what do you mean?
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I wear BMX shoes in the rain and for casual.
These are less than $100...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71VQO2UmKZL._UX535_.jpg)
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I wear BMX shoes in the rain and for casual.
These are less than $100...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71VQO2UmKZL._UX535_.jpg)
the brand is bmx?
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Anyone who wears vans should be pushed in front of one. Anything made popular by scrawny losers in skinny jeans should be ignored
well i don't think the people that made vans are losers.. they are probably more well of than you...
The people that made them popular, or well known are. The people that actually made them are jews you idiot
what kind of non jew shoes do you wear?
My goddamned bare feet, the soles are tough from being a man
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the brand is bmx?
Those aren't BMX shoes in that picture.
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hey niglet just because you are 45 years old doesn't mean you are a man.
I am still a few years away from even being 40 kroz
You have the foot-wear of middle aged failure as well.
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You have the foot-wear of middle aged failure as well.
you are one boring, progeria-looking motherfucker
just stop already, you can't even argue right
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Anyone who wears vans should be pushed in front of one.
Best fucking joke I've seen on this forums so far.
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Vibram five fingers Speeds and not counting my work boots those are the only shoes I wear. I will beat you in the face with a crowbar if you incompetent redneck drunk retards try and say that those shoes are gay.
they are not only gay, they make the w
earer gay as well.
Hey starvingniggerdicklovingclosetcasefuckbag I will break your legs and arms. Pour gasoline on you, and then set you fire. I will piss on you only to put out the flames just so I can skull fuck you until your face caves in and you draw your last breath. After that I will sit on your burnt corpse and enjoy a fucking delicious pimentos and cheese sandwhich.
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until your face caves in
awesome
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I thought the toe shoes was a joke from GTA V. Holy shit.
GAY.
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I thought the toe shoes was a joke from GTA V. Holy shit.
GAY.
well that doesn't mean much coming from a red faced Midwesterner like yourself.
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well that doesn't mean much coming from a red faced Midwesterner like yourself.
Heh this motherfucker
he thinks I am from texas, and that RisiR is from the midwest...and doesn't ever know what anyone is talking about
you need to lay off the drugs, kroz, for real
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I'm not fucking Bradley B you fucking idiots.
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I just got some nike hightops for $70 but in the winter here I wear my workboots, steel toe and shank really helps.
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I thought the toe shoes was a joke from GTA V. Holy shit.
GAY.
Go buy a pair wear them for the 2 week-ish break in and tell me that they are not the most comfortable things you have ever put on your feet.
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I don't think I will do that but hey, maybe you're right and I'm missing out.
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well that doesn't mean much coming from a red faced Midwesterner like yourself.
Heh this motherfucker
he thinks I am from texas, and that RisiR is from the midwest...and doesn't ever know what anyone is talking about
you need to lay off the drugs, kroz, for real
i actually don't do any drugs
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I have not worn another kind of shoe in over five years
I also order the same thing in restaurants every time
I am one boring motherfucker in real life
[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/a46k1x.jpg[/img]
These are the shoes you steal? lulz
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Hahaha....
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I wish I had money to start a shoe collection
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These are the shoes you steal? lulz
yes
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These are the shoes you steal? lulz
yes
you have bad taste bro
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As of this moment I am wearing a pair of black vans skater shoes that I bought around 2005; not because they are stylish (they are marred and muddled with white primer paint) but because they are comfortable and dry and to give my standard issue winter boots a chance to dry out. At the time of purchase I figured I'd try out skate boarding, but gave up after failing miserably after a few basic tricks and deciding I'd save myself the future injuries and surgeries.
Normally I'd be a big proponent of Merrell shoes/boots, but it seems after they stopped being made with American Pride, and started being made with Chinese/Taiwanese sweat I've lost faith. My first pair of Merrell Mocs were bought in 2004, and lasted me until 2011-12, then I bought a replacement pair, same kind/different color/different country, the life span was significantly less then half of the last, the wear/tear/abuse was the same, only difference was country of manufacture, I've almost but not quite lost faith in the brand. It can't be a coincidence that the first pair was made in America and lasted close to a decade but the second pair manufactured in china lasted a fraction of the time. I'm still willing to buy a pair if the price is right but I'm doing research to branch out and put my hard earned money and trust into another brand/country of manufacture.
As of late I've been wearing my standard issue winter desert combat boots because I never wore them in the service and they are water proof and warm (but they roughly weigh about 6+ lbs/pair), however because they are pretty much my only waterproof pair of footwear I have to wear them on a continual basis for work, disallowing them time to dry out, and they stink to high heaven because of the lack of breathability. I was perusing black friday/cyber monday shopping for replacement footwear, but I'm not going to shell out $250 for a pair of boots just to pay for a name.
Instead of providing pictures and links to footwear of various shapes/styles/brands, I'm going to plug super feet insoles, because no matter the brand or type of footwear I decided to spend my hard earned monies on, those insoles have provided me 1-2 years of continuous comfort. They seem rather pricey compared to some of the Dr. Scholls inserts, but like Vibram soles are good for atleast a year of wear and tear. They run from 20-30 bucks for a pair of the insoles, but after about 30 days of breaking in will provide good support and shock absorption for atleast a year. I'm sure you could get away with $20-$30 shoes equipped with these insoles and get away with a year of comfort. Mind you the soles might outlast those walmart $20 clunkers, but after the break in period the soles pay for themselves in overall comfort and durability.
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vans rock /thread
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you have bad taste bro
as long as they aren't flip flops I don't care what I look like
they are good, durable, lightweight all-weather shoes
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Normally I'd be a big proponent of Merrell shoes/boots, but it seems after they stopped being made with American Pride, and started being made with Chinese/Taiwanese sweat I've lost faith. My first pair of Merrell Mocs were bought in 2004, and lasted me until 2011-12, then I bought a replacement pair, same kind/different color/different country, the life span was significantly less then half of the last, the wear/tear/abuse was the same, only difference was country of manufacture, I've almost but not quite lost faith in the brand. It can't be a coincidence that the first pair was made in America and lasted close to a decade but the second pair manufactured in china lasted a fraction of the time. I'm still willing to buy a pair if the price is right but I'm doing research to branch out and put my hard earned money and trust into another brand/country of manufacture.
I'm guessing their "American" factories were actually in Mexifornia like most "made in the usa" crap. If your shit must be made by Mexicans and Hondurans wouldn't you rather them make it in Mexico or Honduras?
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I make these for myself:
http://cdn.instructables.com/FM2/86K8/GFRWMYDZ/FM286K8GFRWMYDZ.MEDIUM.jpg
It's also what I usually give everyone for x-mas