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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.
I have sneaking suspicion that the Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Russians also know a bit about cold weather.
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Captain Seafort wrote:
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.
I have sneaking suspicion that the Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Russians also know a bit about cold weather.
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.

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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stitch626 wrote:Yeah, the only European boots I've seen were $300 a pair, which is way outside my price range.
You can get some hardy Sorel boots for less than 150$ apiece, and have them delivered in the US.

Let's just say that your protectionism doesn't make it easy for our quality product to pierce US market.
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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".
That's what happened around here, too. We heard 18-24 and got maybe 3-4.
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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.
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Captain Picard's Hair wrote:...... Also, due to the late arrival, dinner will be a late one, past 9 pm.
Forget your sister being alright, dinner will be late!!!! Inexcusable :)
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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.
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.
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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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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."
Obviously you had different kinds of mushrooms than I used to.
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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."
The... Flood? :?
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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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