Pet Peeves

[Giggles]

When a turd breaks off between your arsecheeks and you have to use a good quarter of the bog roll to rectify the situation. Money and time badly spent.

[StoutAndAle]

The decline of Dr. Martens boots into cheap, Chinese-made, plastic shite. €160+ a pair for utter rubbish. I got a gift voucher for a pair of Docs last September. Glad I didn't pay for them.

Docs were par for the course if you were a metal/punk/whatever fan when I was growing up in the 80/90s (and for a decade or two before that). From when I started secondary school and begged my mam for a pair of DMs (she bought me the shoes rather than the boots by mistake but still) to the next Christmas when I got the boots until this day I've always had a pair.

These things used to be bulletproof. I wore them day in/day out, played football in them, hiked in them, worked 12 hour shifts standing all day in them.... you get the idea... And then, after a year or more's constant battering, they'd still be ready for extra abuse (and would look cool as shit with a battle worn patina on them). Now the things just crack and flake. They don't even wear properly. Sole came away from the brand new pair within 4 months returned them - same problems with the new pair.   

I started noticing the quality dwindling a few years back so switched to Red Wing - an American company with boots still made in the US.  I'll never buy a pair of Docs again. 

[Carnage]

I bought a pair of DM shoes 4+ years ago, wear them regularly and they're still in perfect nick. Maybe it's a different set up for the boots but I can't fault mine.

My previous pair lasted 25 years before chucking them.

[StoutAndAle]

I bought a pair of DM shoes 4+ years ago, wear them regularly and they're still in perfect nick. Maybe it's a different set up for the boots but I can't fault mine.

My previous pair lasted 25 years before chucking them.

Possibly. I still have a pair of DMs  from about 15 years ago - they were made in Vietnam - still pretty good nick and a much better boot than the Chinese made ones which don't even feel like leather.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Bat-wing leather man.

[Eoin McLove]

I picked up a pair of ten hole a couple of years ago and they are in perfect nick still.  I don't wear them all the time in fairness, but they aren't shit quality by any means. Maybe you bought a bogey pair?

[Doctor Crippen]

Buy them in the shop in merchants arch, i get them there and they are great

[Eoin McLove]

Yep, that's where I bought mine.

[Doctor Crippen]

Why the F is imelda may still appearing in newspapers? I for one could not give a bollix about her

[Carnage]

She has a new album out, promotion and all that.

That pair of DMs that lasted 25 years, I should mention that they were subs and only cost me £20 (pre-Euro), so an even better buy than usual. They'd also seen about 4 years as work shoes, with a few summers in the bog thrown in for good measure. I only chucked them as the tread was completely gone, a clean and polish and they'd have looked grand.

[ochoill]

The last pair of docs I had turned to conplete shit after about 3 years, but that was of almost constant wear.  I had expected longer out of them.  They also came apart in the same way mentioned above, cracking and flaking, basically irreparable.  I got a new pair as a gift last year and I wear them much less often, maybe once or twice a week, trying to make them last, but next pair I get will be something else.  Disappointed with them, for that cash you'd expect them to be fairly hardy.

[son of the Morrigan]

Yep, same as above, I was a dedicated doc. marten wearer for twenty five years and poured scorn on all other footwear.
The last pair I got were 10 holers, about 5 years ago, they cost 120 Euro if memory serves and the fucking things didn't last a year.
Cracked and flaked at the toes, and the soles cracked across and wore down to fuck in no time, I swore never again.
I'm a Hiax man now.

[Born of Fire]

Never worn Doc Martens but I have the same complaints about the quality of steel toe work boots. Leather cracking and letting water in, soles falling off from the body of the boot, inner heel liners and insoles getting torn and holed, lace holders popping off, cheap heel shanks bending and cutting into your heels..... A bollocks given the cost of the fuckin things.

[son of the Morrigan]

I find No Risk make a good steel toe work boot, I've bee wearing them the last number of years and they seem to hold up fairly well, dear fuckers though.

[The Heretic]

Why the F is imelda may still appearing in newspapers? I for one could not give a bollix about her

This tells you all you need to know about her...

https://www.irishpost.com/news/imelda-may-reveals-cancelled-festival-gig-sing-conor-mcgregor-fight-132817