I discovered the socks last year at a sales event in the local town hall. 3 pair for $25 - about 13 quid. Working on an asphalt road gang for 12 years I went through a lot of socks and my feet STUNK which I found strange because when I was in the army none of us had smelly feet - because we wore ALL WOOL socks. I tried to get some from the local Army and Navy Store but they cost an arm and a leg so stuck to the wool/acrylic combination (called 'Explorer' here in Oz). I tried these 'Bamboo' socks and they were like walking on air (my initial reaction was where the hell were these 20 years ago) and the bloke I got them off gave me the spiel like I told you. I managed to get another three pair off EBay (3 pair $30 - 16 quid) so they are not cheap but I'll tell you now that once you've tried them you'll never wear any others. They do take some 3-4 days to dry out after washing (don't ask me - read up about them on Google) and I have found the same comfort with the trunks which are of normal thickness not like the socks. Please try them.
****ing miracle mate, the only thing i could make out of a bamboo was a bow and arrows when i was a kid.
I did the same mate but we mostly used them for fishing rods. I was telling "The Child-Bride" about your reaction to the bamboo Socks and she said that "serve's you right for putting that Roger Daltrey bullsh!t up" but she did emphasize that they take 4 days to dry. They are not recommended for spin drying so she said to warn you all to put them in a warm place.
Well that rules me out buying any, they boil everything out here where i am, i have to buy clothes 2 sizes too big and allow for shrinkage.
Bamboo duds and socks. Boil them. Hoy in some chilli and random green muck veg and herb things. Hey presto. A soup. I think ive have consumed this before
When I was in the Army (Nasho's for 2 years, I did half in Aden on the Arabian Peninsular - if I ever meet you, bring a tin helmet and a bucket of sand and I'll tell you a desert story) we had a shooting contest with the local APL (Aden Protectorate Levies - they filed their front sights of their rifles till they were as thin as razor blades and then plugged their rear sights with putty and put a needle through it, that's how good their eyesight was) they were popping off treacle tins at 600 yards and we couldn't get anywhere near them, but, I digress, we had a meal later and there were some delicacies covered in gravy that were the tastiest things I'd ever had until I was told that they were sheep's eyes!
You just don't bring any decent clobber out here mate, they destroy everything. Even though they have these all singing and dancing washing machines, they only know one setting, 'boil the ****ing life out of it'
Where in Gawds name are you "Mack"? The last time I heard of conditions like that was a place in Poland - Auschwitz I think they called it!
Been there as well, horrible place mate. I once worked in Krakow and had some spare time so went for a visit, never again. I'm actually in Nigeria, the digs are fine but they just don't have any subtlety about them, everything is full on, hence the boiling of everything. even the food is cremated FFS
I could tell you some proper desert stories. But it bores people when i waffle on with military tales. There once was a little exercise called Desert Storm. Didnt last very long like. Loads of mad mullahs got killed. End of story.
Yes, I know this is totally off topic to the thread but I visited the Holocaust Museum and I'm not going to say any more. It should be compulsive viewing. I couldn't see a human being raising his hand or voice against another human being ever again.
I never got that far mate, sort of wish i had TBH but the atmosphere on the approach road was bad enough for me. We just sat in the car and watched the silence then turned back, not a word spoken between us on the way back. I'll never forget that experience ever.
