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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Just One More on March 13, 2008, 07:13:40 AM
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I got a new pair of safety shoes about two weeks ago. They are work ones, so "cheapest is best"
Two weeks in and it's still creak, creak, creak everywhere I go. Any tips? (looks towards the ex-military types)
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I got a new pair of safety shoes about two weeks ago. They are work ones, so "cheapest is best"
Two weeks in and it's still creak, creak, creak everywhere I go. Any tips? (looks towards the ex-military types)
Buy a new pair?
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Buy some ear plugs?
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Get a bunch of bananas – they don’t make very good shoes but they make fantastic slippers!
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© The Topper 1965
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Thanks for all your help so far guys Banghead lol:
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Thanks for all your help so far guys Banghead lol:
No problem. Never be afraid to ask... whistle:
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Check the noise is not from your knees.
I sound like that in bare feet. cry:
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My father sold shoes for most of his life. He was actually apprenticed to a shoe shop at the age of 14. so what follows is the voice of my father giving the benefit of 40 years in the trade (I suffered it, now it is your turn)
A good application of polish with a cloth to ALL leather surfaces, leave to "soak in" over night and buff up in the morning and your problem may go away. Remember to polish all the bits that one doesn't normally see ~under the laces, the surface of the tongue etc. I still polish the arch under all of my shoes .... such was his training and I am driven mad by people who walk around with the price label still stuck beneath their shoes.
Now shoes and boots come with a support built into the arch of the shoe. This runs from heel to sole and is often, in cheap shoes, of inferior quality metal. If the squeaking is coming from there it is because the support is loose and you will not be able to cure it without deconstructing the shoe/boot. Best throw them away and start again. You can tell if that is the cause of the squeaking because you will be able to feel it through your foot. You could try returning them as a complaint but most shoe shop assistants nowadays will not know how they are made and will look at you as if you are mad.
Lastly, an old saying whenever anyones footware was heard to be squeaking was "Time you paid for those boots and the bloody squeak will go away"
Ooooooooooooo .... It's an education this site ~ innit?
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eeek:
I - don't - know - what - to - say
Just to taunt you, I have just checked and have price labels both inside and outside my shoes. eveilgrin:
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The Mad Hatter had a similar problem, IIRC
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eeek:
I - don't - know - what - to - say
Just to taunt you, I have just checked and have price labels both inside and outside my shoes. eveilgrin:
I am not surprised. Damned slovenly behaviour! Wouldn't have done in my day I can tell you.
Actually apart from "driving me mad" and taking Nicks Mad Hatter point I do often laugh at wimmin mincing along, thinking they look like a million dollars, dressed to the nines and the legend £19.99 Reduced in sale £9.99 stuck beneath their shoes for all to see.
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When my sis got married her new husband to be knelt at the altar to reveal the words "HELP ME" on the soles of his shoes written there by a thoughtful relative! eveilgrin:
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eeek:
I - don't - know - what - to - say
Just to taunt you, I have just checked and have price labels both inside and outside my shoes. eveilgrin:
I am not surprised. Damned slovenly behaviour! Wouldn't have done in my day I can tell you.
Actually apart from "driving me mad" and taking Nicks Mad Hatter point I do often laugh at wimmin mincing along, thinking they look like a million dollars, dressed to the nines and the legend £19.99 Reduced in sale £9.99 stuck beneath their shoes for all to see.
Mine say £4 Primark!
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yOU WAS ROBBED!
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yOU WAS ROBBED!
Take the caps lock off sweetie and I may be able to take you seriously.
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cAPS lOCK Or not he has a point.
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I hate the way she says "sweetey" cussing: like that
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I hate the way she says "sweetey" cussing: like that
Do you? Why is that pumpkin?
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I am on the edge here, I am on the edge! Banghead
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I am on the edge here, I am on the edge! Banghead
Surely not my little choufleur.
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evil:
It's a good job we are all broadminded eveilgrin:
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Define Broadminded ..... other than Fat Headed
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My father sold shoes for most of his life. He was actually apprenticed to a shoe shop at the age of 14. so what follows is the voice of my father giving the benefit of 40 years in the trade (I suffered it, now it is your turn)
A good application of polish with a cloth to ALL leather surfaces, leave to "soak in" over night and buff up in the morning and your problem may go away. Remember to polish all the bits that one doesn't normally see ~under the laces, the surface of the tongue etc. I still polish the arch under all of my shoes .... such was his training and I am driven mad by people who walk around with the price label still stuck beneath their shoes.
Now shoes and boots come with a support built into the arch of the shoe. This runs from heel to sole and is often, in cheap shoes, of inferior quality metal. If the squeaking is coming from there it is because the support is loose and you will not be able to cure it without deconstructing the shoe/boot. Best throw them away and start again. You can tell if that is the cause of the squeaking because you will be able to feel it through your foot. You could try returning them as a complaint but most shoe shop assistants nowadays will not know how they are made and will look at you as if you are mad.
Lastly, an old saying whenever anyones footware was heard to be squeaking was "Time you paid for those boots and the bloody squeak will go away"
Ooooooooooooo .... It's an education this site ~ innit?
All sounds good to me Snoopy. This tongue "thing", nothing seems to take the taste away, there's always tomorrow I suppose shocked003
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doh: I am surrounded by them evil:
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By what sweetie?
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Ignore her. Her medication has gone awry
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I'm Back! ...if that helps at all? shrugs:
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LAZARUS!!
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Jesus?
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No sweetie. LAZARUS
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I can see I should have stayed away… whistle:
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Quite so
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Give us a sign O resurrected BM. bs:
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Give us a sign O resurrected BM. bs:
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THE RED CROSS ! !
We are truly blessed.
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"He's not the Messiah .... He's just a naughty boy"
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"He's not the Messiah .... He's just a naughty boy"
Stone him, stone him!
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scared2:
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scared2:
The trick of turning beer into water wasn't such a good idea.
Mind you, the 'burning bush' on your head worked a treat.