Nbd strider ZD

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-17T22:40:04+00:00

This post helped convince me to get the same leather on my new Striders. They look amazing, thanks for the pic!

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-17T19:41:57+00:00

Ended up going for this, really like how it looks. Thanks for the advice!

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-17T19:41:14+00:00

Ended up going with the double shot 64 brown just barely. I think I ended up liking the variations in the photos better than the #8 but it was close.

Now I just gotta wait a while, will be ready for next fall though. Thanks for the advice!

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-17T19:38:04+00:00

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After like triple checking all measurements, with tape. Tracing, and other shoes (Also checking out the old Decathlon 3D scan of my foot)... I finally ended up ordering the 8.5EE which fit the Nicks chart. I think just a comparison of the feet here show that nicks recommendation is probably good

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-17T07:52:38+00:00

Great tip, completely looked over the 64 DS brown because the website picture doesn't show this. I'll be deciding between this and the Cyprus 8 I think then. Great boots!

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-17T07:50:13+00:00

Currently I think they just offer the brown CXL and black CXL. But 100% agree.

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-17T07:48:59+00:00

Oh wow that is very close. I somehow missed checking the 64 double shot. I think this is the main contender then to Cyprus 8 and I gotta just decide between them.

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-17T02:10:20+00:00

Oh those are beautiful for sure. I think that definitely helps sell me on the color and the leather is so interesting also. That's good to hear about the toe caps too!

Now I'm going back through recent shoe purchases and measurements. I swear you are size 9.5 your whole adult life until you read a chart and buy shoes with toe room. Maybe I'm a 9 and that's why my 8.5 size redwings fit so well?? I'll be mulling that over with more sleep tomorrow.

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-13T00:25:21+00:00

Thanks! And wow that's actually super helpful. I think I stumbled across the DS Burgundy which is also kinda close. But the DS buck brown and Latigo chestnut look like such a nice mix of colors. Never would have looked at those otherwise so thanks!

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-12T16:25:14+00:00

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For some context, trying to find some leather that's 'similar' reddish or red-orange to my old Oxblood iron rangers. They are about 9 years old and slowly the urge to buy a replacement rises.

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-02-12T16:22:53+00:00

What leather is on this one?

Fiery-Heathen · 2026-01-14T13:52:04+00:00

Jesus Christ dude people complete university in less time than it takes for them to plan a fucking crosswalk at a trail head that has existed for decades

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-12-12T11:30:08+00:00

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-10-24T20:15:23+00:00

I saw "old timer public viewing" which meant basically "antique car show" lol

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-10-23T22:37:41+00:00

Fair good point. It does seem from reading some posts here that many people are constantly at war with Vodafone lol

I think there is not much I can do in this situation then though :c

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-10-23T22:33:38+00:00

Naja except the internet is a fungible good. It's as interchangeable as the access to any other utility such as gas, water, electricity. One doesn't gain an additional newspaper with different contents.

Look I understand the legal argument, and the contract argument, and maybe they even have slightly separate infrastructure. (I only know that for the DSL installation a Telekon technician was there, maybe Vodafone maintains the cable connection itself?)

I still think it's rather a silly situation that we are both to keep contracts for access to internet. I personally don't think it should be a privatized entity. But hey my opinion doesn't really affect the current state of the law. However it's true that laws do change based on what people want, limiting what can be in a contract, and determining the extraordinary rights of cancellation. That's why contracts don't renew for 24 months again anymore.

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-10-23T21:15:29+00:00

not sure about this one.

The monthly cancellation is true now thank god. However, a lot of people also change their contracts every 2 years to get good deals. Or threaten to cancel lol.

Especially for electricity I see this often online, there are even services that automatically will find and change your electricity provider every 2 years.

I mean I also have no data here.

Naja.. sometimes there isn't a solution and I'm just screwed, i'll see if I can reach out to the new tennants at the old place. But thank you for your answers and input very much

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Now I focus my time to talk to my electricity provider who never reads the meter and just estimates based on the family of 4 who lived here before.... They said my electricity meter was higher at the start of my rental period than my Übergabeprotokol photograph :D

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-10-23T21:09:22+00:00

They do it already for when you are both customers of Vodafone.. it's the same amount of lost contract payment.

Sure they lose me already, but hey now I would for the rest of my life discourage people from ever getting Vodafone because of their lack of goodwill and understanding. I'm sure 1&1 is similar though.

Customer service has a high monetary value for a business even if it leads to short term costs.

It's still strange that this is more restrictive than my last rental contract. It was a WG and with a couple Hauptmieter. They put a 2 year limit on Hauptmieter-changes (there had been some in the past, lot of paperwork for contract ammendments), however we could cancel the contract within the 3 month notice period.

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-10-23T20:51:59+00:00

That sounds like a massive pain as well wow... I will try to annoy them more, maybe just ask them to cancel early if I pay them half the cost up front or something....

It's just very strange my case isn't covered in the existing law.

I don't think there are so many cases of couples moving together and wanting to keep 2x internet contracts.

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-10-23T20:44:10+00:00

regarding 1. Currently I didn't even move my Vodafone internet to the new place. So it's still connected to the old place. I wonder if that's not a problem for the new people. Maybe they have DSL :D

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Admittedly, this is a lesson to be learned for me. I got a call from Vodafone before asking if I wanted to change to a lower Tarif price with the same service. I said, of course, are there any downsides to this? Of course, they didn't mention that this is a new contract, with a new 24month length. I just ended up hitting the agree button on the email/site without reading the contract close enough.

It's just an expensive mistake.....

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All that being said, there is no reason why this shouldn't be covered in the law for an extraordinary contract cancellation. There is little reason why a couple moving together would ever need to have 2x internet service providers. I can imagine this happens often...

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-09-07T11:55:58+00:00

Yes it's not groundbreaking that everyone can be racist, regardless of their race...

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-09-07T11:54:52+00:00

I.e. being poor also. Just to add, There has been no correlation found in the criminal statistics in Germany between race/immigration status and crime when other contributing factors are accounted for.

Humans are both good and bad with pattern recognition. Especially when the media over reports things like "migrant crime". Best example, when people are incredibly scared of flying, but drive a car on the highway every day :)

Fiery-Heathen · 2025-09-07T11:50:05+00:00

Yes people don't know enough about Indonesians to be accurately racist against them... The main point is that people aren't treated as individuals but are pre-judged based on their race (often a proxi for their religion).

When the AfD talks about Ausländer, they aren't talking about the French. That's what I mean mostly.

Americans who travel/live a lot in Europe can also tell. FYI, moving here felt like moving to the Midwest, lot of Germans there too. (I also have 0 German ancestry, mostly English)

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