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Who makes the military desert boots there Wolfdog, is it Danner ?
Ive never worn Danner but have done god knows how many miles in Meindl, Alt-Berg and Lowa desert boots and they are superb.
Lightweight, resilient and breathable with excellent support to ankles, arches and forefoot/metatarsal areas.
Cheap as chips from surplus and worth every single penny.
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Laced boots support your feet better, period.
Over time slip ons will naturally loosing and your feet move about in them, even if it’s slightly, and that causes fatigue, bad feet and without the support of a lace system can lead to injury.
When it comes to boots that you have to ware and put to the test, laces are a country mile in front.
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4 hours ago, Dutch said:
I just look at Man Utd, Tottenham, Chelsea etc the last few years and Pellegrini a few seasons back
I do think Steidten will have a bit of pull in attracting a manager
Man Utd are/were the biggest club in the world mate and most of their fans didn’t realise they had 20 plus years of absolute fantasy football, how do you replicate fantasy ?…….you can’t and I think a lot of the fans have realised you can’t.
Ten Haag is doing amazing with what was a wreck of club and dressing room imho.
Postecoglu and the yids are playing amazing, seat of your pants football…..I love Postecoglus approach, he just don’t give a f**k by the look….he is going to play the way he wants and attack you and let the cards fall where they will after a great game of football, I love all that shit.
Chelsea ?…..who gives a toss, they have been a rich man’s play thing so long that I don’t think anyone is surprised or even cares that they have fallen into the hands of an American who is a comedy roadshow…..he is the Max Hardcore of football club owners ! Lol
I remember when Pellegrini was appointed, I actually said “f**k sake” out loud…..an appointment so boring and without any thought or ambition……it was just getting “a name”……absolutely no thought process behind it at all.
If you want to win things then go and win them, don’t “try and not loose” your way to glory…..it’s gutless shit.
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28 minutes ago, mackem said:
The entire west is under assault,I spoke to an Indian guy who told me you can get an entire USA package in India for $30k that includes flights to Columbia a guided route overland,transportation across the border and a consultation with an immigration lawyer once they get stateside,the invasion isn’t stopping in any western country at all,if anything it’s gathering pace.
I watched a thing the other day and illegal immigrants are sleeping in police station receptions at night and living outside the station in the day in Chicago.
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1 hour ago, Blackmag said:
If moyse does go which I think he will. maybe try for klopps assistant he is thought of highly or McKenna at Ipswich if they don't go up he's done a brilliant job with them plus there's a few unemployed like flick low Garcia amongst others looking for work
I’ve been saying id like to see Linjders or someone like him since we dumped Pellergrini mate
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If you have to have safety toe caps then these are the best I’ve used:
Timberland Pro Splitrock CT XT Waterproof Safety Boots
SAFETYBOOTSUK.CO.UK
The Splitrock CT XT is made with responsible sourced leather and REBOTL Linings made with 40...
If you don’t, then military issue desert boots are as good as anything. -
13 minutes ago, Wolfdog91 said:
How long do y'all usually get out of a pair till you need to replace them ? Looking at about 3-5 months for mine till they get to the point I have to replace them per company policy the non skid surface on these barges eat the treads pretty quick or wears out the leather on top of the steel toe ...always a fun feeling dropping right at $200 on a pair of work boots, and these are the cheaper ones
Where do you work ?….the Yellowstone ranch ? Lol
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5 minutes ago, Dutch said:
I’m a bit torn on the whole Moyes situation.
I can’t fault what he’s done the past few years - waited 39 years for a trophy! In some ways I actually think he’s overachieved with the squad, only Paqueta, Kudus, Alvarez and Bowen are top players who’d get in a top 8 side
It’s similar to the Allardyce days, when it’s bad it’s f*cling bad as he’s no plan b.
Who do we get in though? We seem to be heavily linked to Julien Lopetegui, but he never seems to stay anywhere long
I know what I’d like to see, sadly that won’t happen and the alternative I couldn’t really care about mate….it will be standard stuff, long as It’s not awful to look at that’s about as much as we can hope for I reckon.
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3 hours ago, TOMO said:
I was getting bored with DC and his building job pics....but all is forgiven DC...
And I love how Wilf is trying to join in...f**k off admit it your same as the rest of us lot clueless...lol
Don’t for one second think I am down there with you oiks, I’m special ! Lol
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Just now, gnasher16 said:
I disagree i think it is a South London thing they just have no respect for property this is a mob who were infamous for trashing their own areas during the footie stuff of the 80's remember.....my sister and her ex husband had a pub round the corner to this one and it was constant......i like to think us over the river would at least take it outside like proper chaps should but they have a safety in numbers attitude in my opinion,neither of these 2 actually wanted to fight as i found out by how easy it was to split them up !
That’s just your east London prejudice talking ! Lol
Fights and pubs go together like fish and chips, tanked up lads picking silly scraps that in reality they only want to half get into is a national pastime and I personally f***ing loathe all that caper.
I just don’t want to be around these people, both my Brothers had pubs in South London for years but they were no different from pubs in Essex, East London, Central London, Dundee……city and town pubs are completely different to the quiet little country pub run by the retired cozzer.
Theres a reason grown blokes are in a shabby boozer in a shabby part of town getting tanked on a weekday, it’s because they are c**ts mate….worlds full of them.
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First and foremost, it’s my belief that men of a certain age should avoid pubs…..after 40 your tolerance for c**ts just seems to fade away completely and where’s there’s drink there’s c**ts.
However, in response to your post, absolutely someone should have at least got the girls out the way, I don’t think that’s even a question is it.
Its not a south London thing mate, it’s a boozed up c**ts thing.
As for “oh, shouldn’t have got involved it’s a family thing”, bollocks to that, f**k their family, doing the right thing is just something you do.
That’s my tuppence worth anyway.
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18 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:
When i use the phrase " lads like you " im referring to leavers of course,fans who wanted the move......having spoke to loads over the last few years im seeing a distinct pattern so i'll ask you the same mate.
In your heart of hearts are you kicking yourself about the move now ?......having gone from a little club you liked to a big club you dislike , in hindsite do you regret the club moving and everything that comes with it ?
Decent question mate.
My answer is this, I’ve never been to the new place and I’m sure I’d probably hate it with my “bloke who just wants to go football” head on…..that’s being totally honest.
That said, did it need to happen ?……absolutely yes, there’s no other way for clubs except to move forward and I 100% stand behind that……personally I don’t think fan or not a fan comes into that decision, it’s just a reality imho
It was an opportunity I don’t think any club would have turned their nose up at.I think we have only half done the job as I don’t think we have backed it up properly but that is another conversation really.
So as a Fan, no, not a bit of me.
As a realist, yes, absolutely.
I don’t dislike our club at all, this is going to sound a bit cringe but there’s still plenty of lads like you and me and I like those people…..I like our dry sense of gallows humour as fans and I like the football heritage of the club and the area.
My last game before I moved was the night cup game against Everton when Adrian scored the winning penalty…..Me, my lad when he was little and my pals….what a night to finish on, how could I dislike that club ?
I intensely dislike Moyes type of football and I laugh at some of the claptrap we come out with as a club but I don’t think that could be called disliking my club could it ?
We ain’t entitled screamers like City or Liverpool fans, we can have a chuckle at getting done in 5-2 at Palace away but we like our football and generally lads from round there know what a bit of proper football looks like.
So I’d say, you have the wrong impression mate, I don’t dislike our club at all, I just dislike shite football.
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If anyone is feeling down and needs a cheer up, simply follow the speculation and statements from our little West Ham about who our new manager may be, who they are talking to etc !
Its amazing, it’s like the media team are just sitting around smoking crack and just sending random posts ! Lol
Yesterday it was Sporting Lisbons head Coach Amorin (spel ?) flown in for talks…….Amorin ?…….Sullivan has more chance of getting Alladding !
Expect to see a constant flow of this nonsense until we land Tony Mowbray !
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9 minutes ago, mackem said:
Gamerooster will return from the front line.
“……….as a bunch of flowers”
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7 minutes ago, Greyman said:
Can we not start a separate thread on GEEK SPEAK for all this and get back to how Russia are slaughtering the Ukrainians who are abandoning posts and deserting in there droves or how they are destroying the arms we are supplying at a rate of nots lol
Yep, apologies mate, that went off on a sharp deviation I admit.
Anyway, back to matters at hand, let’s hope Putin tops that f***ing creep Zelensky soon !
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45 minutes ago, Born Hunter said:
Yep that’s a project
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I’m just used to good PMs really benefiting projects.
I’ll give you a true example mate, a bloke I knew set up a relocation firm.
He was a salesman with no relevant experience in the field beyond selling people the service.
His firm did a relocation for a big solicitors firm in London, on the day it was completed the solicitors had one of their top lawyers flying in from the United States to do a job.
One of the relocation lads forgot to plug in this blokes phone in his office…..so he sat there all day and did nothing.
The solicitors billed the relocation firm £10,000 for this blokes lost days work !
That’s ten grand because somebody didn’t make sure about details and just assumed it would be ok because they told someone else to do it !
On another job it cost the company moving £150,000 to rent a server room in their old office for 4 days because the IT didn’t get it all sorted in time because the lawyers didn’t sort out the lease in time.Details mate, making sure, talking to everyone and then making sure again all the way along the entire life cycle of a project……most of these tits assume that if you throw in a few nonsense buzz words, send everyone a spreadsheet once in a while, crib about £200 when the jobs worth a million quid and send some emails that it constituents good work and it will all just fall into place, it won’t…..somebody will be going home 15 minutes early to watch the darts or having a holiday in Tenerife on crucial days when they should be doing their bit, you need to know they are going to do that in advance and adjust or everything breaks down.
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Why can none of these people ever say or seem to understand that vast numbers of English people and British people feel undermined, unwelcome and under attack in their own land and events like this are just a manifestation of all those frustrations that are quiet frankly sneered at, insulted and ignored.
I’m not an educated or clever man, but as far as I can see the question these people should be asking is not “should police be acting like this to gatherings of people waving a St George’s cross ?”, the question is “Why do they feel the need to be there proclaiming there own identity in their own nation in the first place ?”
Why do they feel this way ?
Thats the question that never gets asked or spoken about and I wouldn’t mind betting it’s because they know the answer and don’t have the guts to talk about it.
Im not massively into St George’s day, I have seen people from Tamworth to Tim Buk Tu, black as the ace of spades, draping themselves in the St George’s cross…..my flag is my blood, your genetic heritage and the bond to the soil under your feet in your own land beats any and every flag.
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7 hours ago, Born Hunter said:
Not sure I'd really call that project management tbh. That sounds more a business as usual activity. What's the output? I mean a PM would do that as part of an actual project if there wasn't a dedicated team member to handle logistics but it's not exactly representing the value that a PM really brings to an organisation.
Not that I'm a project manager but the best ones are experts at stakeholder management. I see it all of the time where directors/VPs are completely misaligned, team members too afraid to voice concerns over feasibility etc etc. Stakeholder management and discipline are all there is too it at it's core. They have a sixth sense for risk too.
I suspect we're talking about two very different professionals really.
It was a description of a small portion of a wider project, as in: Big company needs to seamlessly move to new location, there’s 500 people to shift, they need all new equipment installed to deadlines and to meet with legal lease breaks / new tenancy agreements / IT needs to seamlessly move servers and all infrastructure / they need to finish work at old location on Friday evening and just walk into a fully functioning new location with everything down to their stapler in the right places on Monday morning or they are loosing millions of pound etc etc etc……it’s multifaceted and involves a lot of people having to deliver key elements at exactly the right time in exactly the right order.
Belive me, it’s a project ! Lol
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30 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:
project management speak maté.
best run some of those terms past your own “Scrum Master “ to see how that goes down buddy .
the reality is most PMs I know spend most of the day on two different blowers , end up doing most of the other peoples jobs for them and end up getting malleted as soon as the project is finished . Proper cut throat industry where everyone pulls their wages , figures and earnings out of their arse .
fair play if you can make a good wage at it .
The best project managers I met met were women and and only about half of those were any good, the blokes were normally tossers doing nothing more than handing out spread sheets and time lines but without an actual clue of how projects have to fit together in reality.
A normal conversation would be along the lines of:
PM:
”X amount of kit will arrive on X amount of 40ft lorry’s at X time every evening for 14 days”
Me:
”Who’s doing the transport and what’s their contact number, I don’t want to have 10 blokes standing around doing nothing while the driver has egg & chips in a cafe on the M20”
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”The manufacturers are arranging that and they have assured me it’s all sorted, no problem”
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”It’s never all sorted and when they go home and 4:30 they don’t care, give me the number of the person at the manufacture and I’ll talk to them”
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”It will be fine, they have assured me”
Me:
”I’ll repeat, it’s never all fine, just give me their details, I need to know everyone and their contacts at every step so I can make sure your job gets done on time”
PM:
”I’ll email them tomorrow and double check, but it’s all fine”
Me:
”I’ll just fly out there and see them myself”
Absolute amateurs the lot of them in my experience……when it gos boss eyed they normally have a confused look and the excuse of “well I emailed and sent the spreadsheet ?!”
Yeah, but you didn’t make sure and then make sure again did you ya f***ing idiot !
These people have caused me no end of extra hours in my life because I never let other people break my promises and I can’t stand excuses.
Women ( when you get a good one) I found are much better at the role, they let people who know get on with their job, are open to advice and collate and deliver information well so that everyone knows who, what, how and when.
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6 hours ago, mushroom said:
Some of the coders I've worked with/hired are on big big bucks. A mate is earning easily close to a Mil € a year going into big companies and reforming their IT teams to make them more efficient... He moved to Andorra for the max 10% tax bracket lol.. If they are able to go it alone and invoice the clients/companies they'll end up much better off, more so if they move to a low tax country
If the fat little c**t starts earning a million sovs he can give me some of it so I don’t do him in !
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10 hours ago, steve t said:
We milk them and eat the kids. Wife doesn't like pork or else I'd do a couple of pigs . Used to keep Dexter cows but got out of them last year.
We’re they short Dexters mate ?, how were those to keep ?
I had Australian Lowline Angus and they were brilliant to over winter…..they ate nothing but silage and cost €2 a week each to keep over the winter.
The condition on them was unbelievable for such low inputs, you’d have thought I’d given them a bag of meal every day…..they will thrive on nothing.
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The nearest I ever got to doing the London Marathon was when it used to go past my front room window every year when I was a kid ! Lol
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1 hour ago, NEWKID said:
Good on them mate, that's great going for such young adults.. you must be really proud and rightly so.
I guess I think there is opportunities for anyone with the right work ethic and if you want to step up your earnings then you need to take right amount of risk. The really wealthy people I know personally are entrepreneurial and extremely driven only one of them I can think of went to Uni, he worked for F1 for a bit and set up a very successful security camera/sensor business where they designed and installed security systems sold the company for a song and set up a clever scanning booth (we helped in early stage design), which is used at end of production line for cars to check any imperfections, clever bit of kit. I know quite a few blokes who run decent building firms, scrap yards, scaffold businesses etc and are worth a mint (multi multi mmillionaires), property etc, none ever went to Uni... I'm certainly not decrying education, far from it, but there are lots of ways to make money (you know only too well) and if you have the right mindset it is still there for you. I won't clog my lads views with negativity about being raped by our government or how many ways we are taxed as it could dampen the early drive/spirit, I tell him it is all there for him, take a chance, have a go etc... I agree with you and as an older more cynical man see the way we are pulled out straight, I genuinely feel sorry for people on the minimum wage grafting there nuts off to make ends meet, but (and I'm sorry if it offends) we all have the same opportunity, not everyone is built to take risks and put the extra bit in, and thats fine, but life can be a drag and a struggle if that's the case...
I agree almost completely mate, but I think now in a world where we can go anywhere I’d be seriously looking at what places embrace the entrepreneur rather than keep throwing chairs in his way.
Mind you, it’s the same old conversations down the ages…..my old pal god rest his soul was a machinery dealer (diggers, tracked machines, JCBs etc ), came out of a travelling family in the same area of Deptford as my people, he was a lot older than me by 30 years but he used to say “I should have took my family to America when I was young”
So I suppose blokes of a certain age always have these conversations.
Looking back, nobody would have put me off so it’s a bit rich for me to give lectures but I genuinely feel for young people getting started in this world……that’s where education comes into its own I suppose, my nicked supermarket bread crate full of dusters and dishcloths and ironing board covers is todays educated youngsters laptop.
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Work boots
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Posted · Edited by WILF
Now, there’s an old fashioned thing……I have always cleaned my boots, it’s like a weird obsessive compulsive thing I have.
Bore the arse off my oldest lad about stuff like that ! Lol
But it’s something I have always done, look after your kit and it will look after you…..plus, you wouldn’t go out with the arse hanging out your trousers like a tramp so why should it be different for your boots.