They are definitely a buy it for life item assuming you take care of them and get them resoled when needed which mine are about ready for. I did the paper trace method where you mail them your fit sheets. I’m not sure what the process is now but I went through it about 8/9 years ago so it probably has changed. That said, it was a smooth and easy process but be prepared to wait for them. I’m unfortunately one of the small percentage of people who don’t fit into stock sizes so they had to custom build for me which they did an amazing job of!

Yep, the very same. So right up front I’m going to say that they are great and that I love them. I have them so perfectly broken in that they are molded to my feet and after not wearing them for a few day, I’m always a little surprised at how comfortable they are when I put them on. I have a pair of redwings that I recently got (because my employer was buying) and they aren’t nearly as nice as my nicks. I can feel a difference between them and it’s noticeable.

All of that said I will admit that at my last job I got a boot stipend so I’m not going to say that I paid full price for them. So if that weren’t the case I honestly couldn’t say that I would drop them money of expensive boots. Are they twice as good as redwings for twice the price? With the way I use any of my boots these days definitely not. Do I need to wear what I think are the toughest boots on the planet? Not even a little. Are they comfortable and do I have good memories attached to them? Definitely, and I wouldn’t trade them for the world

Joke answer: look I’d agree with you that the m14 is the better rifle but then we’d both be wrong.

Actual answer: they are both good and worthy of our love and affection. So long as you’re enjoying it then go forth and do good work

Nice

HYDRATION IS BADASS!!!

Nick’s lace to toe Hot Shots

I have an actual answer. I bought a metal detector and naturally I set to work in the backyard to see if I could find anything cool. Well I don’t know if you think rusty nails and bottle caps are cool but I sure found a lot of those. I did find a lot of good time to practice though.

Fast forward a few months, I had branched out to local parks and such and hadn’t revisited the backyard. We were having some landscaping done which included digging up some tree stumps. For a lark I ran the detector over one of the holes a stump had come out of and I got a hit. Not just a hit but a hit that registered the same as a pre-1964 quarter. Silver.

After a little digging I pulled up a pair of vintage ww2 aerial gunnery wings! (Note: these aren’t the ones I found but they are very similar)

Not sure how I had missed them or what they were doing there but best I can figure is that since the house dated to the late 1950’s some kid grabbed his dads wings from the war and managed to lose them in the backyard and was never able to find them. Sad for dad but cool for me I guess

Jesus! mark this nsfw! I vomited in my mouth a little bit

Being tall is not all it’s cracked up to be, I assure you.

My back and knees constantly hurt, I can’t buy clothes at stores, dodging chandeliers and low doorways isn’t fun, there’s nothing interesting on the top of shelves and cabinets, no I don’t play basketball, every airplane is uncomfortable, my feet hang off the end of the bed, and where are all these women who want tall men?

If true

This is a nickel plated griswold. Nickel plating is something they did at the factory on some skillets because there was some section of the population back then who were obsessed with nickel plating.

As far as the center logo being gone, there was a time when natural gas piped to the home wasn’t as refined and still had sulfur in it and during combustion it produced a minute amount of sulfuric acid which over time caused pitting in the bottom of skillets