Someone else will retire me when the time comes.

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• Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s so fucking bleak from a corporation that is responsible for it.

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  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Especially given that their product doesn’t last all that long, most can’t even replace the sole because they glue instead of stitch or welt.

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    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

      This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.

      -Terry Pratchett “Men at Arms”

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    • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is “replacing the sole” still a thing we can do with some boots? I keep replacing my boots because the sole is worn down, but the rest of the boot is still good, and I’d love to have the option of just replacing the sole. Are there companies that make boots where this is possible? Or do I need to find some local shoemaker?

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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Boot-person, here.

    You know who’s secretly laughing inside? Any boot fan looking at your fake ass Doc Martens or Timberlands.

    Both sold out to VC money decades ago.

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    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What do you recommend? I’m not in the market right now but I probably will be in the near ish future.

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    • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      VC

      Vagina cunnilingus?

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a bleak joke, would work on me

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Timberland boots don’t retire. They constantly slack off at work and quit in a rage when confronted about it.

  …also I’m pretty sure they were smoking crack while driving the service van

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• blueamigafan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Please tell me this is satire…

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• Jerkingass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This ad is going to last about as well as their products.

  I just had to shoe cement the sole back on my Timberland Pro boots that I’ve only worn a handful of times over the last two years. Cheap crap.

  I was kicking old and rotted wooden spindles off of a deck we were replacing with the steel toe. It knocked the sole of 2/3 of the boot in the process. The leather has some good marks where you can see the hits were generated. I know it wasn’t the best way, but it was like punching through a wet paper bag with how rotted they were. Ugh.

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  • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Have theu changed hands ? I bought a pair in 1994 and still wear them, I only wear them a couple times a year… but still

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I bought a pair in 1994 and still wear them

      That’s why

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  • WagnasT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve had the same pair of timberland pro boots for 2 years, i walk about 5 miles a week in them through train ballast, they’re still mostly like new.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Whelp, there’s our 出口.

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• mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cynicism 101

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