General / Off-Topic I have new slippers.

AJW

AJW
Possibly relevant:

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
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Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
 
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Sonof Hibachi

Sonof Hibachi
Patrick_68000 said:
You have a dog ?
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No dogs and I buy good boots, but slippers, WHY CAN'T I BUY GOOD SLIPPERS?

A Gentleman needs a good slipper in order to correctly mooch about his apartment. I am in my apartment now (some would call it a council flat) and I am unable to mooch because my new slippers are appalling.

What the hell is happening to the world? :mad:
 

PigKiller

PigKiller
Agreed! My wife found a pair for me today. Not great, not even good but ok. We've been looking for months. Stores only sell men's slippers at Xmas and Father's day. I live in a 100 yr old house with wood floors. My tootsies get cold playing Elite and good footwear is important.
 

Sonof Hibachi

Sonof Hibachi
PigKiller said:
Agreed! My wife found a pair for me today. Not great, not even good but ok. We've been looking for months. Stores only sell men's slippers at Xmas and Father's day. I live in a 100 yr old house with wood floors. My tootsies get cold playing Elite and good footwear is important.
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Just WOW! Your wife buys your slippers?

This is why I am a single Gentleman. I would not trust my Gentleman's Gentleman to buy my slippers, but a wife! I am horrified.

I need to have a lie down and recover from the shock.
 
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