For the attention of gord bennett from our Eastern contingent ...
I forget what thread it was on but you recommended the Dewalt Challenger 2 boots,
I bought a pair on ebay for £65 inc. p&p and they are quite Superb (motoring connection).
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....I forget what thread it was on...
Dog,
Forum search is your friend in this situation.
A message body search for 'boots' gives:
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=726&m=11775
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>>> Forum search is your friend in this situation. <<<
Ah! the gettting old thread ... very droll ifih :D
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...the getting old thread ....
Hadn't spotted that, but I guess it is appropriate. :)
Happy walking - looks like a cracking day for it up here, bright and dry, but not too hot.
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>>> looks like a cracking day for it up here, bright and dry, but not too hot. <<<
Best time of year really, along with Autumn - must be nice in leafy land ... its at times like this we miss the Bodmin Moor.
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Ah well done Dog me old mate, fair price too.
They'll last well, the only boot i've had that could stand 12 months of transporter deck use.
Happy walking, and it's lovely in Northants too swmbo and i are going for a walk shortly to enjoy the sun.
Last edited by: gordonbennet on Sat 10 Apr 10 at 09:58
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>>> it's lovely in Northants too swmbo and i are going for a walk shortly to enjoy the sun <<<
Yep! make the most of it - one & all ~
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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You''l be on a nulab subversive's list for that lovely poem.
For some reason Jerusalem is now being sung in mind after reading that.
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>>> You''l be on a nulab subversive's list for that lovely poem <<<
Pity about that tunnel though gord - what would Will say about it I ponder!
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>> Pity about that tunnel though gord - what would Will say about it I ponder!
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I can't speak for William and i don't suppose it would have read like this, but SWMBO has just composed a line or two.
They sold us down the river
with their tunnel neath the sea
they gave away our heritage
it's now a sad old place to be
The wars they fought to save us
from the Germans to the Frogs
were all a waste of men and time
cos it's all gone to the dogs
We didn't need a tunnel
what we needed was a gate
how sad for all our children
how sad cos it's too late
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My swmbo to your swmbo = Brilliant!
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Mawkish sentimental claptrap.
>Or as a moat defensive to a house,
>Against the envy of less happier lands,-- ?
If it was such a blessed plot- a little world, why did we wander all over the world taking over other less happier lands?
This is a land of cuthroats, thieves, exploiters and villans, and proud of it. It was ever thus (bankers anyone?)
Last edited by: Zero on Sat 10 Apr 10 at 10:48
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>>> This is a land of cuthroats, thieves, exploiters and villans, and proud of it <<<
Yes Sir! but ... I've oftentimes pondered that thought and I came to the conclusion long, long ago that if we wern't suchlike, then others would have raped, pillaged & cut our throats,
Like the French, Germans, Scandinavians, Romans, Normans, Jutes, Angles,Dutch, Spanish, Argies,
even the Yankees had a go once for gawds sake!
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>> Like the French Germans Scandinavians Romans Normans Jutes Angles Dutch Spanish Argies
>> even the Yankees had a go once for gawds sake!
Only the spanish, germans, and argies failed. The rest managed it.
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>>> The rest managed it. <<<
Well comrade Z ... I've pondered that too, and we're the richer for it IMO and,
between me & thee, I've even wondered about how things would be,
if we'd all been forced to sprekenzi duetch c45.
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well...
we wouldnt be trying to get rid of gordon brown at this point.
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With the greatest respect to gb's missus's charming and unpretentious verse, I have to say that the channel tunnel isn't responsible for any of our national ills. It is just a useful transport link.
Our national ills are built in and are all our own. Or rather, they are our version of the world's current ills.
Honestly Zero... jokes like the above effort could easily make simple people misunderstand you. I enjoy the Alf Garnett pose myself from time to time, but I wouldn't want to accumulate the sort of fan club he got...
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A strange discussion arose over a cup of workshop coffee earlier this week.
One of the old hands raised the question of: "With hindsight, would it have been better for Britain if the Nazis had invaded in 1940?"
Ten years ago that question would have been laughable, if not unthinkable. Shockingly; it was agreed that it probably would have been.
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>>> Ten years ago that question would have been laughable, if not unthinkable <<<
Our Queen is of Saxe Coburg Gotha decent, Prince Philip is a Greek,
Gordon Brown & Alistair Darling are Scots as is Tony Blair,
So would German rule be any different for 'the man in the street'?
The only issue here is that the Nazis bear no relationship to present day Germany,
but it would have been a different story had Nazi Germany prevailed in WW2.
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Gordon Brown or Himmler? Hmmm; that's a tough one....
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The well oiled propaganda machine is far better under Gord though, and the other lot have the same model...is that the superior quality of modern oils?
The unthinkable question i've had doubts about for some time too.
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I'm slightly surprised that I haven't provoked a Drezden-sized firestorm here.
Britain would have become a vassal state of the Third Reich - like France and Norway - the Germans didn't have enough manpower to occupy/repress all their vast territory by themselves.
Things would have been very unpleasant for at least twenty years, but the Germans were a cultured and civilized race that sought the admiration and respect of their conquered peoples; so, after a bit of whinging, the chances are that they would eventually have been accepted by most and life would have gone on much as before.
Internationally; if Britain had been forced to hand over its massive Navy and empire, then the world would have looked very different with three power blocks - America; China-Japan and the, soon to be nuclear-armed, German empire.
As the historic events of the last few weeks have shown; through pure economic power and sound money, a reunited and resurgent Germany now calls the shots in the EU - of which we are nothing but a vassal state......
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Germany was working to produce the V3 nuclear missile toward the end of WW2 and many of their top scientists ended up working for the American Atom & Hydrogen bomb research establishments after the war.
Hitler would not have hesitated to hit the USA with his own version of Little Boy & Fat Man if he had them.
So the world could have looked a very different place indeed post war, if the Axis powers had achieved their aims.
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>> Axis powers had achieved their aims.
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One of them wasn't the Sun was it...never knew which side they were on..;)
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gb,
Is it me, or is this the mother of all thread drifts?
When Dog posted a 'thank you' for your boots recommendation, I don't suppose he thought someone would want to use them to invade Poland.
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>> Is it me or is this the mother of all thread drifts?
Great innit, we can chuck little bits in to create a bit of tongue in cheek banter, couldn't have got away with this at the other place.
To get it back on thread those stormtroopers would have had an easier time goosestepping in DeWalt boots..;)
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...Great innit...
Yes, it is.
I'm sorry to see you've failed to learn the lesson I gave you a week or so ago about the ol' Currant Bun.
Go to the bottom of the class.
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>> I'm sorry to see you've failed to learn the lesson I gave you a week
>> or so ago about the ol' Currant Bun.
For heavens sake a week is a lifetime at the Wapping, they've changed allegiance twice since Friday...''just one cornetto...''
Last edited by: gordonbennet on Sun 11 Apr 10 at 22:01
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"Things would have been very unpleasant for at least twenty years, but the Germans were a cultured and civilized race that sought the admiration and respect of their conquered peoples"
Apart form the ones they chose to exterminate of course. Or perhaps that didn't happen and we have all been misinformed about the Nazis?
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Kinkyboots for me...or thighboots...thall we thing a thong o thixpence,
Last edited by: gordonbennet on Sun 11 Apr 10 at 21:37
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I think I would have fitted in perfectly. I can picture me now, climbing from the suicide door of a citroen traction avant, leather boots and silver deaths head collar badge gleaming
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>> boots and silver deaths head collar badge gleaming...
... swigging from a bottle of stolen Calvados and barking with a more or less straight face a series of increasingly surrealist orders and pieces of cod-racist polemic to faze the Ubersturmbahnfuhrer and make him reach, frowning, for his rule book... Yes Zero, I can picture it too. The Citroen is my first car, matt desert sand... Eheu! Eheu!
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A whole thread about boots ending (up with gb in kinkyboots) and not a word from Humph.
Where's the expert when you need him?
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CGN
We're told that they planned the extermination and the Nazi party was certainly a death-cult - but the spin-merchants of the Holocaust industry have been at work for decades, so no-one will ever know for sure what was said at the Wansee Conference.
Whether it would have happened at all if hostilities had ceased in 1940/41, pre-Pearl Harbor, is another great unknowable.
In the later stages of the war, with the Herrenvolk themselves starving, I don't find it strange that there was no food available for stigmatized slave-workers and the well-documented atrocities occurred.
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Have you seen Conspiracy? - the dramatisation of the Wannsee Conference with Kenneth Branagh.
Superbly acted, and surely some of the most chilling television ever produced. It could have been any high level industrial board meeting anywhere, but with genocide as the main company product (genocide of many people, let us not forget gypsies, mentaly and physically disabled, gay)
If the copy of the minutes of the wannsee conference are half truths, its still shocking.
Again I find it mildly amusing that several regimes of the Israeli government employ and embark on methods developed by the national socialists.
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I did watch it intently - as a work of dramatic fiction loosely based on real events.
Yes; the Nazis did have a very no-nonsense policy towards many groups they disapproved of, or considered non-productive, like the Blods.
Support for Eugenics wasn't just confined to Germany though - and viewing the breeding rate of the welfare-parasite class here, I'm beginning to wonder if maybe they had a point....
Trust me; it's not just Kidon that go in for "key asset degradation" - you think it didn't happen in Ireland...?
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Screwloose, I'm impressed, that's a disturbing post.
I'm constantly amazed at humanity's ability to demonise and distance themselves from other groups of humans. If you really think that there is any merit in the targeted mass slaughter of (sorry, "a non-nonsense policy towards") a group of people, however that group is defined, then I hope you never get anywhere near power.
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I am becoming uncomfortable with the direction this thread has taken. Sorry, but I that's how I feel. I have no wish to offend anyone and am generally a supporter of free speech but I'm just not enjoying this.
Edit - I know that no one is forcing me to read it BTW. Just asking if we could maybe move on and change the subject.
Last edited by: Humph D'bout on Mon 12 Apr 10 at 17:05
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Yep, me too, not nice.
Back to the original subject, sort of, can anyone explain why odern technical walking boots are designed to make you look like a spaceman? It's great that they are light and comfortable, but why would anyone like silver with orange flashes as a colour scheme.
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your old mate - Elfin Safety
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>> Edit - I know that no one is forcing me to read it BTW. Just
>> asking if we could maybe move on and change the subject.
you think this is bad, one woman on a forum insists that Obama is a nazi, and the reason he is bringing in health care is because he is going to let loose a plague that will kill all iranians and blame it on Israel, so he can nuke them in return. The health care is so americans dont get sick from the plague!
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>>that's a disturbing post.
I'm in full agreement.
I think the more relaxed approach to moderation on here really needs to be accompanied by some self moderation.
I don't log on to a motoring forum, or even an innocuous thread about rugged boots!, to read stuff like that, and I can't imagine it's massively popular with many members of the site.
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...needs to be accompanied by some self moderation...
Which I think is happening.
The subject's been kicked around a bit, but I'm also now in favour of a change of direction.
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I'll tell ya one thing about these ere Dewalt Challenger 2 bootz ... I was beginning to get a bit of pain in my RH hip but its completely disappeared since wearing the boots night & day.
So it must have been caused by my old leather 'caterpillar' jobbies.
The Dawalts are more like trainers compared to some boots & and I might even give the London marathon a go,
if its broadcast in HD.
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I was
>> beginning to get a bit of pain in my RH hip but its completely disappeared
>> since wearing the boots night & day.
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Well stilletto's in bed do cause me a bit of enjoyable pain, similarly when swmbo wears 'em...can't say i've tried the DeWalts for romantic nightwear but seams??! Devon is the plaice to be...haven't checked out DeWalts thighboot range yet.
Sorry Dog it had to be done,
i had been getting progressively worse leg ankle and foot aches and pains, the company issue cheap crap should really be have come with a government health warning, so i bought meself a pair of these DW jobbies a few years ago and things improved no end.
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>>>Well stilletto's in bed do cause me a bit of enjoyable pain, similarly when swmbo wears 'em <<<
I can well see that Mr's bennett and your good-self find alternative entertainment to while away the cold dark Winter months in the Shire of Northampton comrade gordon (I'm referring to the poetry btw.)
Certainly beats watching telly anyway ... talking of which ya can now check on whether you'll be able to receive HDTV on Freeview soon ~ www.freeview.co.uk/freeview/HD
Only trouble is you'll need another flippin box, even though ya telly may be HD oven-ready!
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Good God NC, where have you been? Nice to hear your voice all of a sudden.
Really can't say I'm disturbed - I've heard far worse many times and even uttered it myself in a spirit of gross and tasteless provocation - but distasteful and dangerous crap is just that, and shouldn't be given all that much attention.
Trouble is, a lot of people get nervous about a lot of subjects, and accusations start to fly as people try to sweep them under the carpet for fear of their own thoughts. On the whole I favour free speech more than most people. But I like it to say something useful or amusing even if it upsets those of tender sensibility.
Does that make proper sense to anyone?
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>>On the whole I favour free speech more than most people. But I like it to say something useful or amusing even if it upsets those of tender sensibility.
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>> Does that make proper sense to anyone?
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Yes.
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The irony is that because the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei did not succeed with world domination, we can sit here in relative safety and discuss such matters.
One has to consider there are still countries (China, North Korea) that do not allow such freedoms, even today.
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>> Support for Eugenics wasn't just confined to Germany though - and viewing the breeding rate of the welfare-parasite class here I'm beginning to wonder if maybe they had a point....
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So it's not just me then. Welfare parasite class indeed. 10/10 Screwloose, 10/10
MD
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Martin, are you mad?? On welfare perhaps, pain in the neck maybe, but you think mass murder is a solution?
This thread has taken a horrible turn. I know there is a generally right-wing sentiment on the old HJ forum, but this is ridiculous. Or am I missing a joke here and looking a tit? I hope so.
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>> Martin are you mad?? On welfare perhaps pain in the neck maybe but you think
>> mass murder is a solution?
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Did I say Mass Murder was a solution? Did I? Screwloose has a point whether his was Tic or serious and my views have been well documented in the past. As regards the group that takes takes takes and who make a career out of it, often for generations, I am, as are many others, seriously chuffed off with it. Clearly Mass Murder is not an option and one that I wouldn't condone in any way shape or form, but what I would condone though is those that can perform a task of work despite their piffling excuses and trivial whinings (and who don't contribute any effort) should be on subsistence only and no more. I have been self employed since 1976 in the construction industry. My body (knees, Back) are shot, but that is my problem. I have no choice but to toil and toil I do, but I am sick to the back teeth of the Poncing classes ('avin it away) at mine and others expense.
I ain't going to say any more as I suspect I will set fire to the Swear filter and receive a reprimand from DD
The very best to you all,
Martin.
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Sorry if my euphemisms are considered rather too unfunny - it was indeed meant partly TIC, although I will admit to possessing all the tact and subtlety of a Panzer division.
Eugenics isn't about mass-murder; in fact, it's regularly practiced in this country - just mainly on cattle, show-dogs and racehorses, where it's called "pedigree" and considered a good thing.
Anyway; back to walking boots.
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>> called "pedigree" and considered a good thing.
Looking at the cripples they now put up as best of breed German Shepards, I woudl dispute that.
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>> Honestly Zero... jokes like the above effort could easily make simple people misunderstand you. I
>> enjoy the Alf Garnett pose myself from time to time but I wouldn't want to
>> accumulate the sort of fan club he got...
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Silly old Moo!
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I see the post rating / "report as offensive" buttons work then! ;-)
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Indeed. Misunderstanding aplenty.
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I feel sure I should be moderating this one but as you lot seem to have managed it yourselves there's nothing for me to do...
I like this New World, it's a lot less work!! :-)
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To get back to the OP................
You blokes have life so easy.
All your shoes/boots come with the same size heel.
Wellies, trainers, walking boots, posh shoes, even your snoop doggy dog slippers.
You're arthritic hips and your endless twinges have an easy life.
Now, in contrast us weaker sex have to put up with slippers (flat), then you want us to get dressed up and suddenly rise by a good 3'' to look smart.
How do you think a day in those affects the twinges?
I'll tell you on Thursday morning if I can make it downstairs!
Then of course we have the very fashionable 6'' heels that become very attractive to a female like me who is barely 5' 2'' and all I've ever wanted from life is another 6'' on the end of my legs!
Now I wonder, .............can I be 6'' taller tomorrow, just for one day?
Tall is slim.....
Tall is elegant........
Tall is sexy......
Men, you do have an easy life.
Now I shall be offended if this thread drifts again since I've given you so much food for thoughts!
Pat
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Ossa, the now defunct Spanish Motorcycle company made a model called a Stiletto believe it or believe it not. With that you could rise up and be on your favourite mode of transport. Now hows that for a drift?
www.theowencollection.com (Middle row 2/3 the way down the page).
Morning all.....................
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That's a mean machine Martin, but doesn't it make you feel old when you walk into a museum and see familiar things?
Pat
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I think I might get mine out later! 1984 twin shock Fantic Trialler. Bought brand spank in September 1984 for £1,600.00 dead which included the works trials suit (WOW). That doesn't fit now except perhaps one arm and half a leg!, but still got it. E-bay I guess. The bike which is totally unmolested has covered probably no more than 300 miles max.
Sun is shining and I'm having a day off (ish)
Best regards.......Martin.
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Keep it Martin, for old times sake.
But get rid of the suit, that's the route to bad memories when nothing fits anymore.:(
They are fun bikes and then the emphasis was more on fun than speed.
Pat
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>> To get back to the OP................
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>> You blokes have life so easy.
>> All your shoes/boots come with the same size heel.
You are of course joking. I am at the moment trying to pursuade Nicole I would look good in cuban heeled boots.
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You're 5' 2'' too then?
Pat
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No I am 6 foot, but 6' 1-1/2" is much better
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Decisive intervention, Wobbly - terrific link.
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These boots are made for walking - Iffy
