How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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BootsShe Who Must Be Ignored has just reminded me of my dirty little secret.
Boots. Not thigh-length PVC jobbies, but all the rest. I'm not quite Imelda Marcos, but...
Caterpillar Work Boots. Everyday use, 10 years old and going strong.
4 x Pairs walking boots, used according to weather, terrain etc. 3 pairs with Goretex, one in leather.
2 x pairs desert boots. One for 'normal' use, one for keeping ticks off my legs when lurking in the undergrowth in the summer.
All terrain sandals or whatever posh flipflops are called these days. 1 good and one cheap slobbing pair.
Hunter wellies.
Road trainers, cross trainers, very angry trainers.
Stockmans boots for when I want to apply accelerator and brake pedals simultaneously (noisy).
In the loft on the retired list, we have DMs so perfectly broken in that I keep swearing I'll resole them one day, combat boots similar, and I think there may even be some cowboy ones up there as well.
Then there are the work ones....
My footwear cleaning kit is a small crate, I own at least 4 different sorts of polish, plus waxes, sprays and so forth. I find traditional boot 'bulling' relaxing, god help me.
And then there's the rest of the 'outdoor' kit. I can't go past an outdoor shop with a 'sale' sign, it's just a physical impossibility. Quite how I have ended up buying (since New Year): cyalumes/Maglite strobe kit/a second steel thermos/mini carabiners/yet more socks/new Ron Hills/yet more stuff sacks is a mystery known only to the Gods. And Mastercard.
In short, I am equipped to handle all the adverse weather conditions going, and what do I get?
Bloody Global Warming.
(Right, now to find best t'internet price on a Snugpak Rocket Pack. And I could do with that cool looking emergency strobe thingy. And one of those teeny JetBoil jobbies. And a new pair of Craghoppers. Someone sedate me before the share price of Karrimor goes up again)
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 15:55, 2 replies)
This is a really, really important question:is it possible to resole DM boots, I mean, with the proper DM tread? I have a great pair (limited edition) that I wore from the age of 15-20 that are completely sole-destroyed and I'd love to get those babies fixed.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 15:59,
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Bloody Global Warming.doesn't mean nice warm weather. It means more turbulent weather, which will (on a global average) be warmer. Perhaps you'll need the boots while trudging away from the wreckage of your house/ town/ city/ country to somewhere less ruined. But don't let the other refugees kill you for your nice boots, mind.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 16:38, closed)
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