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 zimpara 01 Jul 2015
You can wear them all day without tramadol?
Complain about continually slipping off heel hooks?
 GrahamD 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

You don't have any socks thick enough to keep them on
abseil 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

You can fall asleep in them.
You wear them as slippers at home.
Your toes are not mashed together and painful when you take them off.
You never complain about how tight they are.
 ByEek 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

> Complain about continually slipping off heel hooks?

Easily solved by wearing socks. Not sure why you would need to take pain killers though. I still don't understand the need to uber tight shoes. There is little or no point. Being in constant pain certainly doesn't improve your ability.
 mp3ferret 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

You ask the kid in the climbing shop.
aultguish 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

You get to the crag and find a couple of illegal immigrants have sneaked inside them
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 wercat 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

You can supplement your diet by finding sultanas, raisins and the odd salted peanut in your shoes after climbing
abseil 01 Jul 2015
In reply to aultguish:

> You get to the crag and find a couple of illegal immigrants have sneaked inside them

That's a really callus* comment.

*This is a REALLY BAD PUN on "Calais"

PS, aultguish, I'm just joking with 'callus'!
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aultguish 01 Jul 2015
In reply to abseil:

I like what you did there
 Scarab9 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

your toes don't overlap when you take them off

you've room for toe nails

you don't fall between the bars in a cattle grid

 Greasy Prusiks 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

Your feet fit in them.
 peppermill 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

You don't have to 'pop the seal' around your foot with your finger when you try and take them off
 Roland.Online 01 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

You can fit them over your head.
 Cusco 08 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

You can get them on without having to use Morrisons carrier bags as an aid to pulling them on (and then being forced to climb the 8b+ wearing the carrier bags as socks - was that the reason for the 55 second red point...?!).

[In homage to a local wad]
 Luke01 08 Jul 2015
You say things like:

> Easily solved by wearing socks. Not sure why you would need to take pain killers though. I still don't understand the need to uber tight shoes. There is little or no point. Being in constant pain certainly doesn't improve your ability.

 Timmd 08 Jul 2015
In reply to ByEek:
> Easily solved by wearing socks. Not sure why you would need to take pain killers though. I still don't understand the need to uber tight shoes. There is little or no point. Being in constant pain certainly doesn't improve your ability.

I've read of climbers needing to have their toe joints fused in later life to solve the arthritic pain from tight rock boots.

After having (some) toe joint pain the day after wearing my tighter rock boots I've decided I want my toes to be fine to walk on into old age, and I wear my comfier ones now.

I can always wear them just for a bit on something more 'footy'...
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 Dell 08 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

...they double up as canoes for a DWS approach.
 Offwidth 08 Jul 2015
In reply to zimpara:

Too one sided all these jokes...

...if you are a Chuck Norris fan.

...if you are turned on by the prospect of arthritis.

...if you are too tight to replace the current ones that are falling apart.

...if you are too daft to realise advertising may not be true.

...if you are a devotee of foot-binding.
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