I have sneaking suspicion that the Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Russians also know a bit about cold weather.SolkaTruesilver wrote:Don't trust anything made outside of North America, or manufactured more south than Chicago. these people don't know how to make a good boot to survive a real winder.
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These sadly don't get much store exposure in Canadian and US stores. We're more likely to have chinese shit than proper northern european boots.Captain Seafort wrote:I have sneaking suspicion that the Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Russians also know a bit about cold weather.SolkaTruesilver wrote:Don't trust anything made outside of North America, or manufactured more south than Chicago. these people don't know how to make a good boot to survive a real winder.
Which is why I think, when in US or Canada, go for NAmerican. I'd be happy to give norvegian or Russian products a try if I had the chance.
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Yeah, the only European boots I've seen were $300 a pair, which is way outside my price range.
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You can get some hardy Sorel boots for less than 150$ apiece, and have them delivered in the US.stitch626 wrote:Yeah, the only European boots I've seen were $300 a pair, which is way outside my price range.
Let's just say that your protectionism doesn't make it easy for our quality product to pierce US market.
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That's what happened around here, too. We heard 18-24 and got maybe 3-4.Mikey wrote:That's why I don't bother with "winter" boots. Steel-toed Mack boots for me, with a healthy dose of silicone spray.
We got the same slush, and are getting the snow overnight - fortunately, by the shore we were downgraded from a prediction of 6 - 8" to 2 - 4".
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O usually wear my steel toed military boots. Well the retired ones that I keep. The ones with cuts and nicks in them that I can't buff out anymore. The only bad thing about them is if you get water in them they dye your socks and feet black. Also get a chance of jungle rot.
I live in Virginia Beach and our once in a decade freak snow storm happened after Christmas. Got 12" and then it hit 55 degrees a day or two later.
I live in Virginia Beach and our once in a decade freak snow storm happened after Christmas. Got 12" and then it hit 55 degrees a day or two later.
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Forget your sister being alright, dinner will be late!!!! InexcusableCaptain Picard's Hair wrote:...... Also, due to the late arrival, dinner will be a late one, past 9 pm.
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Another good call. Jungle boots don't hold up well to the cold, but jump boots work wonders and feel like you're wearing sneakers. I know guys who used to do their runs in their jump boots instead of sneakers.McAvoy wrote:O usually wear my steel toed military boots. Well the retired ones that I keep. The ones with cuts and nicks in them that I can't buff out anymore. The only bad thing about them is if you get water in them they dye your socks and feet black. Also get a chance of jungle rot.
I live in Virginia Beach and our once in a decade freak snow storm happened after Christmas. Got 12" and then it hit 55 degrees a day or two later.
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So, had some whole mushrooms with dinner last night, and all I could think at the time was "So this is what the Flood taste like."
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Obviously you had different kinds of mushrooms than I used to.stitch626 wrote:So, had some whole mushrooms with dinner last night, and all I could think at the time was "So this is what the Flood taste like."
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The... Flood?stitch626 wrote:So, had some whole mushrooms with dinner last night, and all I could think at the time was "So this is what the Flood taste like."
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I assume the flood from Halo.
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Yeah, the flood from Halo, he's been in a Halo playing mood for the past couple of days, we found them for PC and have been playing them for like 3 days.
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Ah, okay. That makes sense, then. Never played HALO.
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