Along with NIKE, add Adidas to the list…

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aleshanee said:
my dad always did that with his work shoes.... he kept 5 on hand at all times and rotated them down... . he bought a new pair of them about twice a year... black catapillar alaska style with steel toes.... .. he kept the best pair polished and oiled for ems and fire department work... the second pair also polished but as a back up pair for the same work.... then when that second pair started looking raggedy he put them to use as rigging work shoes for climbing the ships rigging and working aloft.. coz by that time they were worn just enough to be flexible but still tough enough to protect his feet.....

then after that he used them for on deck and below deck working shoes only.. ..... and finally the most worn out pair he wore into the water with hard hat dive gear and surface supplied air lines on harbor mooring repair jobs... and other under water rigging jobs where he wasn;t required to swim and could just stay on the bottom in the silt layer until the job was done... ...that pair usually didn;t last more than 2 jobs and then had to be tossed....

but then when he retired from diving and working the rigging he started just donating his old ems shoes to goodwill.... and more than once we saw homeless guys wearing an old pair of his shoes... but i often wondered if those guys would have still wanted to wear them if they knew the history of what happens to shoes in the course of ems and fire rescue work.... i wouldn;t have...
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Did he do underwater welding or something?
 
HukNduck said:
Did he do underwater welding or something?
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he was a certified salvage and underwater marine-repair/rigging diver.... so yeah - welding was part of it.... as well as all kinds of other underwater repair work - salvage and recovery included..... it;s what he did locally to pay his way through paramedic school long before i came into the family ...... but because he had a family he only worked the diving job part time because to work it full time would have kept him on a boat or a platform and always thousands of miles from home.... instead he stayed a full time paramedic for over 30 years working here in hawaii and being close to home.....

but he got too old for diving work long before he retired from ems so he doesn;t go into the water much anymore at all, except to accompany me and my friends when we are spear fishing... and that;s all done with snorkels and basic gear.... no tanks or regulators.... (well... at least not for us... he still uses tanks and regulators sometimes and goes out a little farther and to deeper depth than where we are to explore and enjoy the water.. but he keeps an eye on us at the same time...).

i actually got to help out on the dive barge from time to time when i was a teenager..... serving as an assistant guage monitor... helping divers with suiting up... watching lines... and then cleaning and preparing the decompression chamber whenever they had to use it... basically just gopher fetchit stuff.... but i learned a lot doing that.... and made some spending money... ;)
 
HukNduck said:
Yes, the school board plays a major role, but it’d be nice to see some people willing to take a stand like Daniel in the Bible—consequences be darned!
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Agree, but principle is often sacrificed in the altar of expedience.
 
does anyone remember pf-flyers?.... whatver happened to giving away super secret
decoder rings to sell super fast action shoes to would be secret agents - protecting
the world from volcanos?.........

i use to watch johnny quest on the retro cartoon channel when i was in gradeshool
and i have the whole set of dvds.... (this commercial was included on one)....

but from what i understand both johnny quest and his ads for pf-flyer action shoes
are deemed inappropriate for children.... and yet ads about drag queens and self
mutilated transgenders are?....:rolleyes:


 
voicecrying said:
I remember the FFF poster pfflyer. Wish he was still posting.
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me too..... it has been a long time since i saw him....... ...

i did buy a pair of those shoes a few years ago when i saw them online.... got a good deal on a brand new pair of them.. but did not get a super secret decoder ring.. :cautious:.... and when the shoes arrived i realized they were cheap for a reason... ... .. very cheap.. in every way imaginable...... :confused:.. .. .... but i always thought the johnny quest ad was cool.... :cool:
 
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