Yes

HELL YEAH MFER!

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

It’s fascinating seeing people who might as well have big signs on the backs of their vehicles that say “hey! My house is full of expensive stuff and I’m gone on the weekends!”

It’s been on my to do list but getting to the county tax records has been a schlep

I think they’re like pilot’s wings but are what the guys who operated the defensive machine guns in a b-17 or b-29 were issued

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

I realized far too late that most mainstream media is about maximizing views and not telling those stories that worth telling as you said. They start with an interesting idea for a story and if it gets popular it just drags on to get the most amount of eyeballs for as long as possible only for it to end long after it should have with an unsatisfying ending.

And don’t get me started on injecting soap opera esque character drama just to keep the lowest common denominator inerested (looking at you For All Mankind)

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

Are you saying that the country you live in has a violent crime rate of zero?

Calling me a metalworker would be an insult to real metalworkers everywhere. That said, depending on the size of the piece of steel, it’s probably not worth your time to fill in then grind flat when local big box hardware stores sell common sizes of “welding steel” for relatively cheap and as the other poster wrote, McMaster-Carr has just about any size piece of angle you can think of.

Source: was a kid with no money scrounging in what was left of grandpa’s (tool maker) machine shop who is now an adult and now buys the parts I need rather than trying to make do

I should call her…

I’m with you. Once again it turns out that I want a documentary on this alternate history rather than a character drama

I mostly read ebooks but I do buy physical copies of books I want to have on the shelf in the weird hope that maybe my kids or niblings might stumble upon in the future and spark an interest. Luckily I have a really good used bookstore near me that I can buy them for fairly cheaply so I consider it a cheap long term investment that will hopefully pay dividends