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submitted 10 months ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I grew up with $20 walmart blenders, and hated anything that required a blender.

Recently bought a ninja and there is no going back. I'll never use a crappy blender again.

Anything else like that?

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 191 points 10 months ago

Boots.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... 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 a 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.

A cute little passage from Terry Pratchett, but it holds very true if you ever need boots.

Paying for quality boot work, especially the kind that can be re-soled, is worth it for anyone who has to wear boots with any regularity.

When I first got a job that needed boots I was using an old secondhand pair. It was hell. Eventually I saved up for a quality pair and was totally worth it. I've not underspent on boots since.

As for suggestions as to what brand to go with these days for that... I'm less sure on that because I'm researching new brands myself since Red Wings are a joke compared to what they used to be. Danner still seems pretty all right these days.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 67 points 10 months ago

You don't truly appreciate a good pair a boots till you park a 2 ton pallet jack on your toes and laugh it off.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I dropped a semi truck lift gate on my toes one time, and didn’t even notice until I went to walk away and realized I was pinned down. Red Wing doesn’t fuck around with their safety toe boots.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Best part of my time in a warehouse was that I could keep the safety boots after I quit

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They let me keep the condoms when I quit the whorehouse too.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Well now we know why the cumfarts are maggoty, huh

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I’m not an animal.

I rinse them before I reuse them.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

That makes me even more worried as to where the maggots are coming from

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

You know what, I take it back, I don't want to know

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You sound like my proctologist.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I certainly have enough interest in peoples behinds to be seen as one

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Oh you are a hobbyist proctologist?

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Finding a prostate to tickle is always fun, what can I say

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Unless you find it in the dumpster behind Wendy’s, because it gets a little dark then.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I'd have thought that using the word proctologist had already excluded anything outside of consentual rectal exams between living adults

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That doesn’t sound like my proctologist.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

So that's where the maggots are coming from

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I thought you didn’t want to know.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I'm conflicted.

On one hand, you piqued my interest now, but on the other hand, I want to sleep peacefully tonight.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Safety boots with steelcap? That's another category though. Don't want to use them for a walk.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

That hasn't stopped me. Just think of it as training weights.

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I always walk my dog after I finish work in my steel capped work boots. The times that I actually do walk in my sneakers is so weird, like I’m not used to not having weights on my feet while I walk.

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