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Waterboarding is like bodyboarding .. right?

Nope.. I’d rather be waterboarded

You'd think so wouldn't you..

One week I asked for jalapeños (you have to pronounce it with a strong J at Morrisons or they haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about) then she said.. “is this one for you?” “Ooh.. I can tell you like it a bit spicy “ and winked.. Im sorry? what?

How old do you think we are? .. my unwanted love interest is probably a Debbie or a Julie

Jeez.. Martin, Don't! .. you're triggering my PTSD.. check this mad shit out, when we used to live out in the sticks, Sarah would buy our daily food from M&S (don't tell @Geeman but she used to work there doing Visual Merchandising.. window displays and such so we used to get staff discount giving us 20% off so we could eat fancy food from M&S for the same price as Tesco food.. hence my long and much derided association with Marks & Spencer.. .. is it all coming together now G? At the weekend, i would drive to a huge out of town Asda or Morrison's for all the shit she couldn't carry.. the best part was the boy and i could stuff our faces on the 'cheese on a stick' freebies at the deli counter.. the second best part was their build your own pizza.. when the kid was little and Sarah was on very extended maternity leave.. we would go on adventures in the woods on Sunday morning, a couple of pints at the country pub, walk back home and he would have an afternoon nap while Sarah cooked Sunday lunch.. when he got to school age, we'd be out in the Peak District and Sarah would stay home, wash her hair and catch up on shit she'd missed in the week being a busy working mum.. but because i've never paid much attention to the time.. by the time we got home Sunday dinner was often ruined so one day she said "fuck it!.. if you two can't come home on time.. i'm not doing Sunday dinner again" so rather than binning off the Peaks we reverted to pizzas on Sunday evening which we could just bang in the oven.. we still have Sunday pizzas now.. I digress.. since i've been riding to work, i can't pick up a weekly shop so we have it delivered but you can't get 'make your own pizzas' delivered so i've been trying to find somewhere that makes them.. We only have a M&S Foods or a Waitrose nearby and neither do.. anywho, late last year, my mum asked me to go to Morrison's and get her 6x bottles of wine which were on offer.. i noticed they did 'make your own pizzas' so i drove there again the following week.. the pizzas were fucking great, family loved them and asked if i could get these again next week.. so i did, it was the same woman who served me but she was uncomfortably flirtatious.. call me shallow but if she was attractive, i'd feel flattered.. but she doesn't even have a full set of teeth.. i was polite as per.. but the next week, she started making lewd innuendos.. like fking Les Dawson.. then she said "Ooo i like the way that you talk and everything" wft! ..maybe because i don't sound like i'm from the fucking arse-end of Sheffield .. i made a point of saying "the mushroom one is for my wife" "the spicy chicken is for my kid".. ..i told the family that it was freaking me out and i couldn't bear to go back.. they just laughed and said "i needed to man up".. last week i asked for a pizza and she said "i thought you'd come in to ask me out" my god, can't a sexy denim-head go buy pizzas without being perved over by a toothless woman? ..after i had a mini-freakout when i got lost in Ikea, just having to go to unfamiliar places is really triggering for my anxiety so knowing i have to go get pizzas on Saturday and deal with this shit is making me feel anxious from Thursday onwards..

Even the nerdiest of nerdy denim-nerds never said.. "Ooh! .. i like your jeans.. and i can tell based on your build that you usually wear a size 32" but on very close inspection of the patch.. it quite rightly says 34" so you've obviously sized up due to the manufacturers reproducing a sizing quirk" Never happened.. never will, just sell me jeans that f'kin fit.. ffs! It's not even difficult.. make the jeans.. make the intentional mistakes if you will.. but when they're made, just measure them up before sewing on the appropriate patch.. jeez?!

I hate this^ shit .. the only thing that matters is that your jeans fit.. it's completely irrelevant what the patch says.. more so when the size stamp becomes illegible after the second wash.. nobody has ever bought i'll fitting, ball crushing jeans because it's a repro quirk.. In day's of yore, when folks bought their jeans at the local store, they would have simply chosen a larger or smaller size if the sizing labels were inaccurate but the way we shop nowadays means you're selling ppl jeans that don't fit for the sake of your own vanity project.. I can excuse the first run of CSF to some extent because they were supposed to be bought over the counter in store.. i may or may not have been a contributing factor in why they wasn't

Oh yes.. i do agree.. (my FW-47s looked weird af when raw.. the hip flare was insane) but just comparing the above fits.. the silhouette of both W34 doesn't look much different but the comparison bewteen the raw and washed W36 is stark. Tell you what does look unusual.. is how open / protruding the belt loops are? obvs will settle down but are other folks noticing this?

If you need an excuse @MJF9 https://zenmarket.jp/en/auction.aspx?itemCode=x1185970895 O/W .. Golden denim, golden size, golden price..

Remind me again .. what size were those SC-47s ?

Reading between the lines.. it sounds like someone needs to come to terms with the fact they’re no longer a W34 I think they both look great but I’d go for the W36 if you plan to wash lots and W34 if it’s (like me) every 6mths or just keep both and compare wash routines on the denim. The unwashed W36 looks very unflattering.. makes you look 6” shorter and 4” wider.

Yes.. research purposes

Hmm.. yes, that’s a little more ambiguous. Try it.. it must be at least a couple of days since your last purchase..

The fees are reasonable and the reviews are excellent so it wouldn’t hurt to just give them a whirl, take some screenshots of the checkout process and let us know the results. What I posted above is pasted from their FAQs but all proxy services used to claim ‘we will not lower value for shipping’ in their index but they still would..

There was always Jonathan aka, Bandana Almanac but from memory, he charged 15% which is only 5% less than VAT.

Based on personal experience from 15yrs ago SuToCorp are probably the last.. but they're only geared towards shop buying.. realtime auction bidding is impossible with the service they provide.

You could always ask? .. but see below Who pays for import tax? Edited 3 years ago As the importer, you are fully responsible for covering any customs tax or duty incurred by your shipment. The international shipping fee you pay does NOT include customs duties or import taxes. Before ordering anything online from a different country, we recommend researching your country's import and customs laws. Doing so will prevent any surprises further down the road! If you're confused about any law, you can always contact your country's nearest customs office for more information. To customers in the European Union: Our business is based in Japan with a global client base and is not VAT registered. We can't pay or provide VAT invoices for taxes that are incurred by the importation of products bought through our service.

Someone suggested them here recently.. noting that they would mark down value, I read the T&Cs, customer reviews.. ect and they don’t.

No bother, i'm happy to help. The M40313s just add to this great resource so kudos to your friend for finding them and noticing that they are a little special. Since the death of GeoCities JP .. (which was never great) this is the only Sugarcane M-Series resource on the webz.. so for years now, you notice the info from here copy/pasted into Yahoo / Mercari / Carousell sales posts, where thrifters have found an old pair of jeans, searched the product code which sends them here.. their WTF! moment when they find a 500 post thread regarding the 30yr old jeans they've just found always makes me smile.. Now, if i can just figure out a way of monetising it.. i'll be rich!.. rich, i tell's ya!

I use friendly forum members.. just put a shout out in the Small Qs thread, i'm sure someone will come to the rescue.

Another pair for sale here @redragon so probably not all that rare. https://zenmarket.jp/mercariproduct.aspx?itemCode=ewjEkW4R2oxriNhq8tKgJU It's just a case that nobody has noticed the M40313 product code and by doing so has put them into the "1991-2003" catagory of SC production.

Thanks Martin, they're a different pair to the Miura 46s / leaning more towards a war model. @redragon they're basically a pair of SC41947 with an M-Series product code.. protruding back pocket stitch seems to be the only real difference.. Timeline / 25yrs old does track.. the SC47s were released in 2003 so would have been in production in 2001 + 2002 .. possibly conceived in 2000, they could be sample pairs rebranded for Hinoya Anniversary.. my only cause for question would be the lack of arcs which were used liberally on most early 2000 SC repros.. but it doesn't cause me to doubt that they are what your friend thinks they are.. bearing in mind, the previous generation or SC jeans didn't have arcs either. It's a really nice find!

That CSF loop was copied from a pair in the Miura collection so it exists in at least two places.. unless that pair in the 501 book are the Miura 46s?

Well done Martin! Is that^ stitch a loop a’la CSF or stitched through? I don’t have that book, I had Flash’s copy for a while and stored it to memory.. the same memory which forgot all about the Gardeners conversation