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- imbecile0
sneaker thread? / men's boot thread?
channeling my best omahadesigns impression...
how many pairs of shoes do you wear / rotate through regularly?
sneakers?
leisure / casual?
chukkas / boots?
dress shoes?currently sitting on six dress casual sneakers to take me into fall.
white leather vans x 2
gray canvas vans x 1
white leather ecco x 1
gray perf leather uno camper x 1
white gray brown leather twins camper x 1haven't worn chukkas in a few years, missing a good pair. any suggestions? looking for a black and / or brown
my oliberte boots are a chore going on and coming off so they're more of an all day cold weather boot one or two months out of the year
just chucked some dead campers, adidas, fly london, kenneth cole reaction. kept a pair of original penguin, but they're narrow, I rarely wear them
hey dudes, anything by kanye, or those big red rubber boots need not apply
- I basically wear one pair of shoes at a time, depending upon the season. I have multiples of the same clothing theme which I work throughNairn
- ... essentially I just have a continuous uniform which I modify depending upon temperature. All my clothes are either blue or green.Nairn
- I'm on holiday at the moment, so have my winter boots, along with last summer's sneakers and a pair of flip flops. Jeans, blue shorts, blue teesNairn
- ...and I STILL think I have too many clothes and want to pare down.Nairn
- about 10 pairs (incl. olibertes bizarely) usually solovair astronauts or one of two pairs of sauconey jazz 81's (incredibly well made), tretorn chelseas forkingsteven
- walking the dog, and a few pairs of crepe souled clarks and sebagos that never get worn because the weather here rarely permits.kingsteven
- old pair of adidas zx for cutting the grass, and another pair of saucony's i just wear runningkingsteven
- nairn, i employ a similar approach. i need to keep my shoes fresh, though. if I wear a pair too often, they get funky. #isweatimbecile
- kingsteven, that astronaut is a nice boot, loving the variations. I've heard saucony are wider than new balance so that may be worth a look for me.imbecile
- 6 pairs of leather boots, 2 of textile boots, 3 of sneakers*, 2 of flip-flops, 2 of espadrilles, 1 of Roman flip flops... * I'm going to throw 3 pairs tomorrowOBBTKN
- I’ve managed to get it down to one pair each of nice tall boots, strapped chelsea boots, paratrooper boots, and house ‘flopsscarabin
- One pair of New Balance work shoes, and one pair of New Balance sneakers when I'm not at work..Akagiyama
- I've got too many for a side note. I'd better speak to a grown up about it.MrT
- This is a safe space, take all the notes you need.imbecile
- 3 pairs which I use actively (at least once a week), 8 pairs stored in the atticdrgs
- misterhow6
I watch MASH everyday before work. I realize it's an old-old show and there are some really dated ideas BUT it's short, it's good storytelling and it reminds me of my Dad.
- Tru dat. But by the end of the series, Pierce was unbearable.Gnash
- I started around season 5 and I'm currently in Season 10misterhow
- https://www.youtube.…BonSeff
- M*A*S*H* is W*O*K*E*. pushing that drag agenda on the youth... or something along those lines. My step dad watched it all the time till Tour of Duty came on tvhydro74
- That theme song... straight depressing. But I love that you love your Dad. I thought about lighting cigars from time to time when mine is gone.canoe
- scarabin4
In text boxes that vertical line typing cursor thing should go slanted in italics, and bold when bold
- agreedmonospaced
- YupYakuZoku
- 'caret'Nairn
- and a curly-cue when it's script. and a skull when it's wingdings.doesnotexist
- A lederhosen when it’s black-letter, a monocle when it’s serifGnash
- and a little inverted crucifix when it's underline. I'm in.MrT
- james cameron's face when it's papyrusdoesnotexist
- oey_oey1
I'm trying to make a Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for the website of a band of friends of mine but all tools ask if it's a business or a private person, no other option is given.
Most of the tools require an address (difficult) and a phone number (it's possible).
Does anyone have the experience or know a tool that I can use?
- Throw it at ChatGPT and see what shit sticks?Nairn
- I thought about that already but I'm still trying other options.oey_oey
- find a similar venture, rip and adapt.fadein11
- Okay I made one in a tool and it looks pretty good and informative. I've tried ChatGPT and despite providing all info possible it was very general.oey_oey
- imbecile18
An approximately four year girl took the time to tell me and my dog that we “look cool”. I’m riding that wave into the weekend.
- pogpango
- i was riding the high when a teenager told me i'm cool.pango
- Damn. Well done, sir.Continuity
- lol, a kid with his dad walking a king charles pointed and called my springer 'a real spaniel' the other day. that's right kid!kingsteven
- https://i0.wp.com/ba…neverscared
- you look coolcanoe
- positive vibesmilfhunter
- yah positive vibes, ride the wave all weekend, slinging you-look-cools to all the deserving!canoe
- canoe0
Law firm sent a PDF with screenshots of text. Can AI extract the text from the document?
- Ugh, I see all kinds of paid subscription services, seems like it may take more time finding a solution than solving on my own.canoe
- I think I found a solution. I'll read the text into dictation app. Boom done. Thanks AI!canoe
- Google for OCR, not AI.Nairn
- Acrobat can ocr textGnash
- nicecanoe
- with ios you can copy text from pics, https://support.appl…robotinc
- yeah, iPhone does thismonospaced
- also, what the hell's up with law firms having the worst file management?monospaced
- Regular old apple images does this. No need for special toolsscarabin
- I used OCR with Acrobat, had to adjust the line breaks, but whatevs.canoe
- They do research for plaintiff attorneys, 'we only take cases that involve death' 'did you know that more sanitation workers die a year than...canoe
- milfhunter4
For fuck sake. my girlfriend got scammed via email to buy a shitload of apple cards. She is just working at this new company and thought the email account was legit. I'm so mad those lazy cunts scamming people and at the same time so pist at my girlfriend for being so stupid. god fucking damnit.
- Could be worse... could be Google Play Store cards.shapesalad
- How much did the Indian's scam from her?utopian
- 1800milfhunter
- I told her to checkin with her job. Hopefully she will get her work to pay for it since it all happend via work e-mail.milfhunter
- wtf - hang on, a work email came in and said we need you to buy 1800 worth of apple cards using your own money and she was like "yep, sounds legit?!?"whatthefunk
- Username checks out.palimpsest
- @whatthefuck My girlfriend is sweet but she can have these dump actions once in a while.milfhunter
- I just want to know one thing -- is your girlfriend a milf or notdrgs
- @drgs i wish. but no.milfhunter
- I honestly didn’t think anyone COULD fall for a scam like this. Because they’re so stupid and obvious.monospaced
- The scammers, that is. Nobody needing money needs apple gift cards. That makes no sense.monospaced
- it does have boomer written all over it.fadein11
- ouch. doubt work will compensate for her action....pango
- @pango as far as i know they are looking into it. She works at a foundation with a shitload of moneymilfhunter
- jagara2
For people in your life who don't give a shit about computers, and who only use them to surf the web, read emails and watch Netflix: do the planet a favor and give them an old laptop running Ubuntu. Daily use isn't more nerdy than using windows, or MacOS for that matter.
Just put a $45 SSD (500GB) a in a Lenovo R400 from 2008. And it runs gloriously. Throw in a new 3rd party battery (also around $45), and you got a winning combo.
Especially those old Lenovos are great for this.
- The new SSD is the key, though. Tired old HDD's are the bottleneck.jagara
- Up the RAM too.Nairn
- That would be ideal, but for machines this old RAM is likely expensive legacy hardware.jagara
- You need to check out your local shit PC shops :)
Or eBay...Nairn - I resolved a few years back to never buy a new Laptop again after getting a Thinkpad - I think you were the same, about the same time? ...Nairn
- .. but the new Apple Mx range kinda changed that mentality. Just waiting for the PC equivalent to come out.. never.
Until then, second hand still.Nairn - I love my Thinkpad. Best laptop I've ever had, as I use them (emergency design work only). It's good enough, and if it dies, it's not £1.x grand down the drainNairn
- Yup, no more new laptops for me. Running Windows, though. The Ubuntu ones is for my mom and my sister :)jagara
- The Apple Mx processors will eventually get a PC alternative. Of course the is trillions to be made :)jagara
- *therejagara
- i still have a lenovo x201. thing is indestructable. can pour water into the keyboard and it laughs at you.microkorg
- yes ssd and max out the rammicrokorg
- Gardener5
I think I am the last one standing from the CRMK radio schedule of 30 years ago this month, so many of these presenters are dead. I'm still in the same slot after all these years but for a short while I was midnight to 2am ON THE CABLE! I don't think anyone was actually listening at that time of night but it allowed me to hone my spinning mischief skills (still honing)
- Nutter0
Finished watched the movie 'Green Room', taking two headache pills and heading to bed. By god that movie hits hard and is just malicious.
Not sure I'd recommend it.
- That's the one with Patrick Stewart as a Nazi, right?Continuity
- yepNutter
- doggydoggdog6
My libido is gone
- One less problem...OBBTKN
- Now you can finally work on your novel.jagara
- https://www.youtube.…YakuZoku
- Zinc is good for the dink.NBQ00
- Viagra is much bettercrazyprick
- is you talking about the will to fuck or not getting a stiffy?milfhunter
- our boi got too much games. he's just tired of fucking. like a cock in the breeding pen.pango
- Viagra doesn't do shit if your mind's not in the right place.oey_oey
- I had that happen when i turned 40, ends up it was stage III kidney cancer. They yanked the kidney and I've been boner bob ever since - 9 years now.tbgoodwillie
- oh damn! congrats!pango
- https://www.qbn.com/…utopian
- Fast, exercise, eat zero processed foods, eat no sugar besides honey/fruits, eat high natural fats eg cream/lard, no veg oil = no problems.shapesalad
- @tbgoodwillie this sounds like my google search results when searching for libido loss.milfhunter
- sted4
eeeeww what the fuck?
- OBBTKN0
I spent 3 hours sanding the roof of my fucking Fiat, it was sunburned.
Sunburned in the most rainy regions in Europe!!
F**k off global warning!!
- next, wax on wax offYakuZoku
- ^ lolContinuity
- Moldero...I'm talking about a car not a surfboard ;)OBBTKN
- haha!YakuZoku
- for all that is pure, do not apply wax to a car in the method one may cover a surfboard D:imbecile
- An expression which immediately leaps to mind is 'polishing a turd' :P
wishing many more years of good health to your Multipla!BuddhaHat - Mine got it, too. Just got her back from the paint shopscarabin
- hahahahaah "global warning", even though I didn't spell it correctly, it turns out to be correct ;)OBBTKN
- Thanks for the Multipla joke.SimonFFM
- Tell me you guys opted for a checkerboard pattern on your roofs...imbecile
- You fit in a Fiat??PonyBoy
- An old guy is going to paint it... He does lots of paints for industry; metal parts and big ass mechanics. I think it will be enough to approach the color, lolOBBTKN
- I fit easy Kev. It is a very roomy car. The question would be, how do I get into my wife's Citroën C1, LOLOBBTKN
- drgs-1
Have I mentioned how I hate this decade? Have I mentioned how it has no flavor?
Upvote if you're old and tiredFrom the 80's memories thread
- kingsteven0
google tells me i am not the inventor of the scotch egg sandwich, but i have independently discovered it
- Send them complaints for misappropriation... You're the real inventor, period, grunts!OBBTKN
- misterhow0
When did System Preferences become System Settings?
- https://i.imgur.com/…
in a future far far away....probably in one of those 4 updatesuan - Mac's log-in name and QBN user name don't check out.
At all.Continuity - wow people still use light mode?fadein11
- Ventura, whole system stuff changed to mirror iOSkingsteven
- @fade ... err, I do. I can't stand dark mode. :\Continuity
- i stand with mr continuityhans_glib
- Nov 2022 according to the URLdrgs
- Innovation Never Settingsutopian
- Signs your getting old... Dark mode in all my devices here, Mac Mini tooOBBTKN
- Who is laura burke?maquito
- ^ Borrowed Imagemisterhow
- is Laura the new Karen?oey_oey
- Renamed so they can change on updates. Preferences implies the user set them.cannonball1978
- https://i.imgur.com/…
- i_monk38
This afternoon I had to lift my elderly neighbour off his shower floor, stepping in his blood and shit with my socks. He was grey, his legs so frail. Didn't think 'don't move him, in case it's more serious', could only think of getting him off the floor, because that's what you do when a little old lady meekly knocks on your door and is barely able to say her husband had fallen. I got him into one of those plastic shower seats—probably what he fell out of in the first place—while his wife called for an ambulance. She's been going senile for a year now, couldn't remember '911' for an ambulance. The paramedics bandaged the deep gash in his leg and got him to walk to the gurney in the hallway. I couldn't tell what he'd hit his leg on, but there was blood smeared all over the tiles. He was shaking, shock I suppose, when they wheeled him out.
My dad has a long history of falling and I thought about that the entire time. He's broken both hips, fractured his ribs and a vertebra, and splattered blood across the bedroom floor from hitting his head, on four separate occasions. Those are just the ones that did serious damage: two years ago he fell on some ice in the driveway and couldn't get up without a passerby's help. Tonight my mom told me about a time he fell out of the bathtub when I was away at college—I hadn't heard that one before. Two months ago he fell in their laundry room; no injuries but he couldn't even turn himself over and my mom couldn't lift him anyway, so my sister and brother in law had to go over to pick him up. His feet have been fucked up since his days as a paratrooper, they don't always work properly. (My mother fell last October and broke her arm, checking the neighbour's mail while they were away.)
I can still smell the blood and shit seven hours later. Frailty is terrifying.
- You're a good human, i_monk. <3PonyBoy
- Mensch!Continuity
- upvoted your readiness to help, the situation is fucked up. I had to do it once with my grandfather. he was so ashamed. fuck getting old eh...oey_oey
- Youse a good dude.jagara
- pics?drgs
- Well done mateHayzilla
- Old age is the single most horrifying thing in life.shapesalad
- One day we will all be in such a situation and then you'll be happy to have a partner or a good neighbour to take care for you.milfhunter
- Very well done :)OBBTKN
- The thing is, that old man, inside, he feels like he did at 28, or 35, 40... just the body isn't responding like it used to do.shapesalad
- First, spot on because your fight or flight instinct probably saved this man, but also your personal history and that trauma.. take a day off.garbage
- Elderly down in the shower is one of the few "don't don't move them" situations. It could be a minor stroke, myocardial situation, or a medication complication.garbage
- That shit is not easy, not even for the pros. Stellar job, and also take a breather and give yourself some time.garbage
- Rule One of trauma is having to take some of it for your own. Anybody who says otherwise is a fucking liar.garbage
- Good job. Frailty, specially with old people, makes me very sad :,(maquito
- Empathy!ideaist
- crazy, man. way to step up, it's tough to be put in that situation_niko
- I've had to do the same thing for my Mother-In-Law a few times... it's pretty upsetting. But I'm glad I've been able to help. It's what family is for.exador1
- so for what it's worth, i know how it feels dude. Proud of you.exador1
- damnYakuZoku
- Sad but good that you were able to helpSquiddy
- Good man. Also, old people need to wear helmets more oftencrazyprick
- My grandfather died falling off the toilet, hitting his head on the tub, lost consciousness and then suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen.cotton
- I didn't sleep much last night, I keep thinking about it.i_monk
- I can relate. I hope to have neighbours like you when I'm that oldhotroddy
- @cotton - i almost died from losing consciousness (trauma to the head causing brain hemorrhage. ) and it's probably not a bad way to go. you just fall asleep.hotroddy
- Jeez cotton, that's a rough one.
@imonk It's hard to shake the gravity of those situations, and quite frankly it takes some time. You did the right thing.garbage - thank god you were there i monk, i've heard some nightmare situations involving wives unable to move their husbands in later life. horrible thing to contemplatekingsteven
- @i_monk you have a big heart. Respect.Krassy
- Yes, it very much is. Thank you for sharing, I hope you're OK.BuddhaHat
- Bless you for your help. May someone do the same for you someday.cannonball1978
- Hayzilla0
Got a weird thing going on with my Apple music. A song I like came on my itunes and it sounded different to how I remember it. Like the piano sound was different. Missing bits. Checked it on Youtube and it does have more piano like I remember.
Is Apple messing around with songs?
Apple Version:
https://music.apple.com/gb/album…Original Version:
- Okay now it's embarrassed me by having the right version on that web preview link I sent. Fuck knows whats going on.Hayzilla
- I don’t think apple can chang the music, most likely just a different version.monospaced
- Wasn’t there a thing where apple would swap out your low bitrate mp3s you uploaded for high bitrate? Maybe their high bitrate version has a different mix.monNom
- I remember thinking at the time (must be over ten years ago now) that sounded good on the surface, but would eliminate rarer versions of the tracks I like.monNom
- On your Itunes? Messing with your offline library? Nahh :)jagara
- canoe5
Oh boy. Headed into a first client meeting and it has the (she/her) noted on the zoom invite. I think I'm going to start using (caffeine/sativa) for mine.
- ah, do you think you are going to be ok?fadein11
- slight jitters. the 'oh boy' thing comes from me being old and not knowing what to expect. it wasn't judgy downvoters!canoe
- Do you think she could happily exist without that pronoun bullshit?crazyprick
- LolOBBTKN
- I don't know but she def did not smile despite wanting me to write how fun and cool her vocal school is... not a single wink of a smile.canoe
- (whomso/whomsoever)spot13
- Let me she/them tiddiescrazyprick
- have a client at the moment as well with this nonsensemilfhunter
- kingsteven7
having a smoke outside the bar and a guy passing came up to me... "steven" i squinted and somehow guessed his name "roger" he said "no robert"... phew close.
Robert tells me i'd had a big influence on him by being really encouraging when he was making music and helped him out when played his first gig. and now he's a councillor and tries to do that for other people.
!!NO IDEA WHO THIS GUY IS!!
gave him my number and said give me a shout.
cut to 3AM: have remembered every detail about Robert and talking to him in ~2006. his music was great and maybe once a year since i've wondered what that guys up to. know he was an absolute aloof cunt then and will never send me a message now. FFS OLD MAN BRAIN
- spoofed the absolute fuck out of that conversation like a living breathing chat gptkingsteven