Back in the medieval era (or at least from the 11th century to the 15th) in Europe and England (or at least Western Europe and England), many people wore shoes. These non-barefoot people mostly bought their shoes from the local Cordwainer, who had been trained in the business for many years and possibly almost his entire life; if it was a family business.
Cordwainers made individual shoes, for one individual person, and their lives depended on how well they sold, and their sale depended on how well they made shoes, so their lives depended on how well they made shoes. These were insanely specialized people, they had one and only one trade.
Nowadays, in this age of mass-production and interchangeable parts, we think of shoes as being interchangeable. Anyone with the same shoe size can wear your shoes as comfortably as you wear them, because it's sort of a one-size-fits-all thing. It wasn't always like that, though.
Back in the day, you had a professional Cordwainer, taking the measurements of your foot, and making a shoe specifically for you and no one else. Each toe, each callus, corn, bump, or wart, was important. These shoes basically felt like walking around barefoot, they fit so very well. Of course, they'd be slightly big so your feet had room to grow. These shoes would have to keep your feet warm in the dead of winter, in the days before most people had all these fancy ventilation systems to keep them warm. Firm and supple, soft yet strong, a perfect fit for your foot, and if you found a good enough cordwainer, you could choose the color! If you had a fantastic Cordwainer, you could have your shoes scented to smell like lilies.
Remember, these were the days when people walked a lot more than they did now, and typically couldn't have loads and loads and loads of shoes. That one pair was important, it was to last long and feel comfortable for years. Any small mistake, over years, would become very bothersome, like a pebble in a boot becomes bothersome when you walk up the mountain. It needs to be more comfortable than your customer's own feet, because if it isn't, why would your customer buy your shoes?
So, yeah, ever since mass-production, the quality of shoes has gone very much down. I don't think any of us really realize what sort of shoes they had in the middle ages.
So, yeah, Cinderella being identified by her shoe? Not actually that unlikely. A shoe was individual to a foot, and a foot is as individual to a person as a hand or face
3rd san pellegrino blood orange drink of the night, i think this is going to be the new thing that i end up drinking stupidly unhealthy amounts of it constantly until i become sick of it
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Admittedly I do wish there was more consistency between states sometimes.
Are you allowed to turn right while a traffic light's showing a red right-arrow? Depending on what state you're in, the answer is either "of course you are", "of course you're not", or "who's ever heard of a red arrow?"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also, my mother actually ran into some trouble with the front plate thing a couple months ago. She bought a car from out of state and it didn't have any place to mount the front plate.
So she and Dad looked for the proper bracket at about two junkyards, then declared it "impossible to find" and paid a dealer $40 to install a $2 piece of plastic.
@ Mr. Truant: e621.net images never actually embed, FYI.
I wouldn't care to say anything since it's easy enough to drag them to a new tab, except the site runs NSFW ads so should maybe be tagged as such? Although I guess you're not actually linking anything so maybe it doesn't matter.
3rd san pellegrino blood orange drink of the night, i think this is going to be the new thing that i end up drinking stupidly unhealthy amounts of it constantly until i become sick of it
Nah just run 5-6 miles in the morning, throw it up, and you'll be ready to destroy your liver again long before evening decides to show up
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
3rd san pellegrino blood orange drink of the night, i think this is going to be the new thing that i end up drinking stupidly unhealthy amounts of it constantly until i become sick of it
Nah just run 5-6 miles in the morning, throw it up, and you'll be ready to destroy your liver again long before evening decides to show up
its not alcoholic
i do this with non alcoholic drinks
i went through a period of drinking a litre or so of mango juice a day, then it was chocolate soya, then chocolate milk, now this stuff
dont need to worry about alcoholic drinks anyway, i am immune to hangovers. my brother was too and that only stopped for him when he got alcohol poisoning once so im aiming not to do that and maintain the present circumstances. also i dont like to get hugely wasted anyway. wasted sunn wolf is not a good person to be around on any level.
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tell your grandparents that theyre gay, steal their money and run away
Are you allowed to turn right while a traffic light's showing a red right-arrow? Depending on what state you're in, the answer is either "of course you are", "of course you're not", or "who's ever heard of a red arrow?"
So she and Dad looked for the proper bracket at about two junkyards, then declared it "impossible to find" and paid a dealer $40 to install a $2 piece of plastic.
why am i related to these people
I wouldn't care to say anything since it's easy enough to drag them to a new tab, except the site runs NSFW ads so should maybe be tagged as such? Although I guess you're not actually linking anything so maybe it doesn't matter.
its not alcoholic
i do this with non alcoholic drinks
i went through a period of drinking a litre or so of mango juice a day, then it was chocolate soya, then chocolate milk, now this stuff
dont need to worry about alcoholic drinks anyway, i am immune to hangovers. my brother was too and that only stopped for him when he got alcohol poisoning once so im aiming not to do that and maintain the present circumstances. also i dont like to get hugely wasted anyway. wasted sunn wolf is not a good person to be around on any level.