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Brass Neck
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Jan 27, 2021 09:53AM
Sounds like you need oxblood polish?
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A friend of my mum's worked for Cherry Blossom Shoe Polish, made by Reckitt's. Presumably that's the connection? (Not my mum's friend)
I agree with Brass. I thought classic DMs were oxblood. I had some in the seventies and used oxblood polish.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cherry-Bloss...
Do people still use shoe polish? A wetwipe works just as well and there's no mess.
"I agree with Brass."well, ye're baith talking shite! popular misconception - the colour may have been generally known as oxblood, but the official title of the colour is 'cherry red' - dm's don't make an 'oxblood' polish (other brands do but that's of no interest to me), they make a 'cherry', which, unless the recipe has now changed, is the crux of my issue! i prefer to blend dm polishes rather than foul the sacred footwear with another brand.
collette - that's a ridiculous statement! that's ok if your footwear is plastic, or if you don't want longevity from them. show the docs the love and you'll get 7 or 8 years from each pair, with constant wear.
I'll ridiculous you! Cheeky bugger. It never did my Docs any harm, or my trainers or my suede boots.
Tech XXIII wrote: ""I agree with Brass."well, ye're baith talking shite! popular misconception - the colour may have been generally known as oxblood, but the official title of the colour is 'cherry red' - dm's don'..."
Doc Martens are shite anyway, and no amount of polishing is going to change that.
The awful 'air sole' that wears through in no time, or the paltry attachment of sole to upper that inevitably begins to peel away.
Soon flapping and yawning, like an over zealous mother in law.
Middle aged men seem to favour them, believing they hold some elixir like properties to keep them connected to a long flown youth.
i forgive you, my child, for ye know not of what ye profess!i don't need to justify why they are god's own footwear, but i have not been without a pair for close on 48 years! in that time, 1 duff pair (which were instantly replaced by the dm factory direct). to polish to a high sheen is as close as i come to a religious experience!
Shiny Shoes!!I liked my Docs when I had them but the price tag nowadays for a pair is bloody ridiculous. You can get better boots for a lot less money,
i'll happily buy and wear tenner jeans from pep & co, but the docs i will gladly pay the asking price - and mrs t's 'blue light card' is good for 20% off from both 'the doctor marten's shop' and 'schuh'.
Collette wrote: "Shiny Shoes!!I liked my Docs when I had them but the price tag nowadays for a pair is bloody ridiculous. You can get better boots for a lot less money,"
Yep, fashion over quality.
And why is it, those National Front Thickos loved DMs so much?
Serial wrote: "And why is it, those National Front Thickos loved DMs so much?"As did pretty well every participant in Rock Against Racism events. What's your point? Is this another "Hitler was a vegetarian"-type argument.
please see my photos for my afternoon's work with those shiny shiny boots of leather!i think you'll find most of the n.f. clowns (skins excepted - was there ever such a conflicted youth culture?) preferred the paratrooper boots for maximum impact.
if you can point me toward a more interesting, iconic and varied footwear history than that of the dm's, do tell! they are part of who i am and what i've done, and i'll be buried in a pair!
Tech XXIII wrote: "...........when i die!"LOL!
How many pairs will you still need to buy to last you till then?
An interesting thought :0
I have several pairs but have to agree that they're not that comfortable to wear although I've never paid the shop price for any of them. I got my first pair at 18 once I'd escaped to uni - me mam wun't let me 'ave any, said wearin' 'em got yer 'ead kicked in! I bought a pair and I've yet to have my head kicked in. I certainly remember using oxblood polish on them regularly.There was a big gap, possibly 2 decades when I didn't have or wear any but the more recent ones might look good (eye of the beholder and all that) - I got lots of complimentary remarks about a pale blue suede pair with bright orange laces I bought cheap off ebay. I find the so-called cushion soles have little give and after a decent walk have all sorts of niggling pains in the soles of my feet and toes. The leather's not that thick and the lining's similarly thin and unyielding. I don't know if that's related to DM moving the majority of their manufacturing out to Thailand and China?
In re using polish - let's not forget that C avoids going out if it rains or snows and even then only to get to the car so the waterproofing properties of a wax polish are not required! I haven't polished a pair of shoes in years - the DM's soles usually wore down/split before they got too scuffed. It's only since I got Minnie and am out mooching twice a day for up to 4 hours along muddy paths and sandy beaches in a pair of proper LaSportiva hiking boots that I use polish on them and them alone for max water repellence. Worn down DM soles are useless on ice and even freshly-mopped floors are a risk!
'Avoids going out if it rains or snows' ha ha. If they need cleaned...wet wipe (aka baby rile) dry with a bit of kitchen towel and Bob's your uncle. Then there's such has a thing as a protector spray which I do own.
Collette wrote: "'Avoids going out if it rains or snows' ha ha. If they need cleaned...wet wipe (aka baby rile) dry with a bit of kitchen towel and Bob's your uncle. Then there's such has a thing as a protector spr..."Owt to avoid a bit of elbow grease! You should give this method a go;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7txB...
good boys!i knew a chap who used the 'hot knife' method on his docs - if you were prepared to put up with the ritual (i wasn't), the finish was like a mirror.
Tech XXIII wrote: "good boys!i knew a chap who used the 'hot knife' method on his docs - if you were prepared to put up with the ritual (i wasn't), the finish was like a mirror."
There's some intense shoe polishing methods.
I remember a friend I had years ago showing me a method of boot polishing. Can't remember it all now, but it definitely included some kind of flame in the method. The method was the one he was taught when in borstal, and it was shiny boots or punishment when he was there. Not anymore I imagine :0
Brass Neck wrote: "Collette wrote: "'Avoids going out if it rains or snows' ha ha. If they need cleaned...wet wipe (aka baby rile) dry with a bit of kitchen towel and Bob's your uncle. Then there's such has a thing a..."Bugger that for a game of soldiers (no pun intended). I see a few major typos in my last post. Must have had my boxing gloves on.
In other news, I got a phone call from my Mum a wee while ago. She's to get her 1st covid jab on Wednesday. So happy for her.
Collette wrote: "In other news, I got a phone call from my Mum a wee while ago. She's to get her 1st covid jab on Wednesday. So happy for her."My Mum got her vaccination date, 8th feb, today too.
Serial wrote: "Collette wrote: "In other news, I got a phone call from my Mum a wee while ago. She's to get her 1st covid jab on Wednesday. So happy for her."My Mum got her vaccination date, 8th feb, today too."
2 happy Mums then, Tim. 😊 Hopefully my Uncle Alan who's in his 80s will have heard something too.
Old folk getting their 1st jab is a good thing obvs but they won't be immune to infection. There'll be little protection until 2 weeks after and then much higher some time after their 2nd which could be almost 3 months after the 1st, not the most science-led decision ever. Even with the highest level of protection they're not immune, it's just that their own immune system has been tuned up to recognise and more effectively fight off the coronavirus. They can still catch it, can be ill with it and can almost certainly pass it on; they're just a lot less likely to be hospitalised or die. They and we have to maintain social distancing for months yet until, like Flu, we think the level of risk is 'acceptable'. Flu sees between about 12 and 28k promoted to glory annually even with a 71-75% uptake of the vaccine but nowhere near the 100k and rising (any bets on what it'll reach by end of March?) Covid's seen off.I'm tooling over to Sheffield on Tuesday for Dad's 2nd and Mum's 1st. Same venue and time? Hah! He's just down the hill at the Northern General and hopefully an hour and a quarter later she's rockin' the Arena. Still, small mercies, they are on the same day in the same city.
Collette wrote: "Serial wrote: "Collette wrote: "In other news, I got a phone call from my Mum a wee while ago. She's to get her 1st covid jab on Wednesday. So happy for her."My Mum got her vaccination date, 8th ..."
They are definitely mover quicker with vaccinating in the UK.
I'm due to start my annual Calf feeding work, in about a week. Farmers mum who I work with is 83! No vaccinations for her yet. We see no one, but I'll still wear a mask when working with her.
I was hoping she'd have had the jab before the work started again.
What are you feeding the calfs to?Presumably most of that work is outdoors or at least not in close proximity and unventilated enclosed spaces? Given your social outcast status(!) and mask wearing Dr Neck doesn't see too much risk.
"Even with the highest level of protection they're not immune"nutshelled! the man say a right thing!
Brass Neck wrote: "What are you feeding the calfs to?Presumably most of that work is outdoors or at least not in close proximity and unventilated enclosed spaces? Given your social outcast status(!) and mask wearin..."
Indoors, but drafty barn, we would be in small Calf Pens together in close proximity.
Brass Neck wrote: "Old folk getting their 1st jab is a good thing obvs but they won't be immune to infection. There'll be little protection until 2 weeks after and then much higher some time after their 2nd which cou..."My Mum hasn't been doing anything since last March (apart from attending the odd Dr's appointment) The only people she has proper contact with are myself and D, and the highlight of our week is getting both sets of messages at Asda. And we were wearing our masks away back when everybody else was walking about without one on as if they didn't have a care in the world. D ordered masks and alcohol rub before the first lockdown. Until and even after Mum gets her 2nd jab, she/we won't be doing anything differently.
Tech XXIII wrote: ""Even with the highest level of protection they're not immune"nutshelled! the man say a right thing!"
Indeed, it would be nice if people could understand that immune doesn't mean invulnerable. People who have been vaccinated are immune in a biological sense, inasmuch as they have memory T-cells & B-cells that will mount an adaptive immune response much more quickly than those who haven't been vaccinated. But they're not "immune" in the colloquial sense of not being able to be infected.
"it would be nice" - bloody essential more like but who's tellin' 'em? Not Bozza who's hoping the 'world-beating', flag-waving, bugger everyone else vaccination programme will mask his many errors and crowd-pleasing/rabid backbencher-appeasing delays in acting and early relaxations and save his PMship.
Starting self isolation as the DH is having an out patient procedure next week. Not much different, except for no walking. It's risky anyway here, as many folks seem to believe they don't need to exercise even common politeness and walk two or more abreast, taking up the whole pavement, so anyone who doesn't want to risk a too-close encounter has to take to the road. Pre-covid, I would take them on but now it seems safer to avoid them.In GOW mode, I just don't understand what's happened to courtesy.
"I just don't understand what's happened to courtesy." - not a recent decline, just more noticeable under the heightened tension of the pandemic.
people are being found out as the ingracious, ignorant, greedy, selfish, inconsiderate bastids they've always been, but now highlighted by the need to behave in a way that might benefit others.
Tech XXIII wrote: "people are being found out as the ingracious, ignorant, greedy, selfish, inconsiderate bastids they've always been, but now highlighted by the need to behave in a way that might benefit others."Rasta no tolrate no bombaclats.
"tolrate" - there's a fee to pay on the road to Babylon?
sigham i driven by a need to repatriate to africa?
no
do i consider haile selassie i to be the earth's rightful ruler?
no
do i sustain myself with an ital diet?
no
do i smoke the herb as sacrament?
no(t for a long time)
does reggae/roots/dub music instill in me a sense of unity, protest and the need for peace?
yes
i only find these rasta references tiresome - to a great number of people, they are actually offensive!
Housework's all done, so today's plans are a shower after I've had my 2nd cuppa, scramble eggs for brunch, and listening to the rest of the Bon Jovi album I got yesterday. If I have time this afternoon I'll maybe watch a horror movie on the stick. Then tonight buffet dinner (since I still have a load of stuff in the freezer from Christmas), a bottle of Pink Moscato and a couple of eps of Death In Paradise. Sorted!
"do i consider haile selassie i to be the earth's rightful ruler?no"
Ouches. Dreadsful news.
Awright, good news is wife needs much less preparation for going out (shopping today!! food!!!), just get ready upper part face make up.
So in about half an hour we are ready to move out.
Week ago we started visiting canteen for a tea break split in two groups. Saw my boss wearing mask recently. Looks like covid has come to Leitrim at last.Jokes aside our son's family in Mexico got covid. Girl (4 years) was alright all the way, son and his spouse spent couple weeks feeling not so well. Sense of smell is already back, thankfully there was no hospital involved.
Friend of mine (my AA sponsor) died from covid in Riga right before xmas. Sad.
Offensive? To who?What's offensive is those middle class twats who dread their hair and talk in faux Jamaican accents, smoke weed and take their washing home to mummy in Surrey on the weekends.
Now there's a good use for those Doc Martens.
Post Soviet wrote: ""do i consider haile selassie i to be the earth's rightful ruler?no"
Ouches. Dreadsful news.
Awright, good news is wife needs much less preparation for going out (shopping today!! food!!!), jus..."
It's a whole new thing thinking do I recognise that person, when half their face is masked. People say hello, and I sort of pause and say hello back, trying to reconstruct their lower face, to remember them.
A bit like that 'Guess Who' game.
Off to pick two new Piggies tomorrow, for fattening.Boiled the porkers some spuds, as a welcome meal for them, when they arrive.
"A bit like that 'Guess Who' game" - more like inverted Naked Attraction without the naughty bits.
Brass Neck wrote: ""A bit like that 'Guess Who' game" - more like inverted Naked Attraction without the naughty bits."Is there anything less sexy than that dirge of a program?
Serial wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: ""A bit like that 'Guess Who' game" - more like inverted Naked Attraction without the naughty bits."Is there anything less sexy than that dirge of a program?"
Nope.
Looking through amazon to find a replacement kitchen knife for one that just snapped in use. Source of some amusement, as most come with the info that they're "delivered before Valentina's Day". Romance isn't dead, after all. ;o)
Isabella wrote: "Looking through amazon to find a replacement kitchen knife for one that just snapped in use. Source of some amusement, as most come with the info that they're "delivered before Valentina's Day". Ro..."Brilliant!
A different kind of 'blooming rose' for valentines.
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