Cons skate shoes?

[BlackEye77]

Anyone have experience with these? Thinking about trying the Sergeant (pic below). They look really good and I'm trying to find something that will last a good amount of time, longer than stuff like the Circas and Fallens that I've been wearing lately. I prefer Vans but money is tight and nowadays their soles seem to get toe holes faster than they used to. If anyone has feedback before I drop $$ on them I'd appreciate it. Thanks. 

[Cthulhu!]

There are a number of things I could have chosen to write about in this letter. I could have chosen to write about how Mr. Black Eye is a card-carrying member of the Hypocrisy Club. Or I might have chosen to write something about the way that I have had enough of his slimy mind games. But, instead, I've decided to devote this entire letter to explaining how this is neither a document written in anger nor something I am being paid to write. What follows is the story of how Mr. Eye can be so rich in the rhetoric of democracy and yet so poor in its implementation.

Prudence is no vice. Cowardice?especially Mr. Eye's morbid form of it?is. I could accuse Mr. Eye of using the worst kinds of stuporous, otiose chiselers I've ever seen to get his way but I wouldn't stoop to that level. He should learn to appreciate what he has instead of feeling so oppressed because he can't do everything he wants every time he wants to. How on earth these hucksters can think of themselves as anything but morally questionable fugitives is beyond me. If Mr. Eye is victorious in his quest to beat plowshares into swords, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity. Just don't expect consistency from a man who is absolutely and obviously unpleasant.

None but the temperamental can deny that Mr. Eye is gorged to the point of bursting at his groaning seams with the drugged-out tosh of unilateralism. Get that straight, please. Any other thinking is blame-shoving or responsibility-dodging. Furthermore, I recommend paying close attention to the praxeological method developed by the economist Ludwig von Mises and using it as a technique to find more constructive contexts in which to work toward resolving conflicts. The praxeological method is useful in this context because it employs praxeology, the general science of human action, to explain why Mr. Eye's illaudable, bleeding-heart sentiments have caused slovenly profiteers (also known as Mr. Eye's underlings) to descend upon us like a swarm of locusts, reaping a harvest of death. Mr. Eye's faithfuls are profoundly influenced by what Mr. Eye says and does. But it goes further than that; there are three fairly obvious problems with Mr. Eye's jokes, each of which needs to be addressed by any letter that attempts to make this world a kinder, gentler place. First, you won't hear Mr. Eye's torchbearers admit that he's crazy. Second, there are a number of complex psychological and social reasons as to why Mr. Eye wants to offer stones instead of bread to the emotional and spiritual hungers of the world. And third, he sometimes has trouble convincing people that the ideas of "freedom" and "Comstockism" are Siamese twins. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few appalling philosophasters to constate authoritatively that Mr. Eye should quote me out of context because "it's the right thing to do". Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that Mr. Eye is not interested in what is true and what is false or in what is good and what is evil. In fact, those distinctions have no meaning to him whatsoever. The only thing that has any meaning to Mr. Eye is materialism. Why? I wish I had a lot more time to answer that question. Unfortunately, the following comment will have to suffice: Mr. Eye really believes that it's amateurish to say "no" to his biased slogans. Unfortunately for him, that's all in his imagination. Mr. Eye needs to get out of that fictional world and get back to reality, where people can see that he seems to have no trouble sweet-talking supercilious flibbertigibbets into helping him trivialize certain events that are particularly special to us all. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that Mr. Eye has not increased our safety, security, or happiness by outraging the very sensibilities of those who value freedom and fairness. All he's increased by doing that is the girth of his bloated ego.

Mr. Eye not only lies but brags about his lying to his confreres. I don't normally want to expose anyone to rigorous sarcasm, satire and disdain, but he unequivocally deserves it. I am not going to go into too great a detail about pernicious popinjays, but be assured that he recently got caught red-handed trying to ignore compromise and focus solely on his personal agenda. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, as Gomer Pyle would say. Rather than persuade you myself that the absence of necessary historiographical context makes Mr. Eye's positions extremely difficult to accept, I decided to gather input from various independent observers: teachers, farmers, shopkeepers, doctors, and so forth. I've tried to get balanced and reasonably accurate views about Mr. Eye's benighted blandishments. For instance, a policeman I interviewed pointed out how Mr. Eye doesn't want us to take steps toward creating an inclusive society free of attitudinal barriers. He wants us to behave like sheep, not showing any inclination to saunter off in a direction other than that in which the shepherd (Mr. Eye) wants us to go. Mr. Eye intends to keep us sheep blissfully ignorant of the fact that he makes it sound like skin color means more than skill, and gender is more impressive than genius. The evidence against that concept is so overwhelming, even an eight-year-old child can recognize it. Even so, I'm sticking out my neck a bit in talking about Mr. Eye's insinuations. It's quite likely he will try to retaliate against me for my telling you that the term "idiot savant" comes to mind when thinking of him. Admittedly, that term applies only halfway to him, which is why I allege that before Mr. Eye initiated a sectarianism flap to help promote his ultra-conniving rantings, people everywhere were expected to build an inclusive, nondiscriminatory movement for social and political change. Nowadays, it's the rare person indeed who realizes that Mr. Eye's threats symbolize lawlessness, violence, and misguided rebellion?extreme liberty for a few, even if the rest of us lose more than a little freedom.

I hope that Mr. Eye's asseverations were intended as a joke, although they're not very funny if they were. Mr. Eye gets a lot of perks from the system. True to form, he ceaselessly moves the goalposts to prevent others from benefiting from the same perks. This suggests that from secret-handshake societies meeting at "the usual place" to back-door admissions committees, Mr. Eye's devotees have always found a way to promote violence in all its forms?physical, sexual, psychological, economical, and social. It's our responsibility to tear down his fortress of revanchism. That's the first step in trying to address the legitimate anger, fear, and alienation of people who have been mobilized by Mr. Eye because they saw no other options for change, and it's the only way to take up the mantle and light the torch of human rights. Now that I've told you what I think, let me end this letter by stating that I fully intend to declare a truce with Mr. Black Eye and commence a dialogue. Let Mr. Eye tremble. And though the heavens fall, let there be justice.

[BlackEye77]

 To paraphrase that post based off the first 15 words and glancing through a ton of crap-
"I would toss specific insults but instead of saying something useful and making a point here's a bunch of words that, though nobody will read, still manage to make me sound douchey."

I hope you used an application that replaces [blank] in a bunch of pre-written babble with whatever name/word you type in. If not, then you put a disturbing amount of thought into me. Weird either way.

It was useful in a sense though. Made me wonder what was wrong with Cons so a quick google search taught me that they were acquisitioned by Nike some time ago, which is all the info I needed to make my buying decision. Didn't realize that, but also haven't owned a pair of Converse since I was 12 so it never came up. Thanks, I guess.

[ivegotlevitation]

Vans still last longer. just look for them on sale or buy them on ebay.

[vince the stud]

you know what we haven't seen in a long time ?

this

[DaSk8D00D]

To paraphrase that post based off the first 15 words and glancing through a ton of crap-
"I would toss specific insults but instead of saying something useful and making a point here's a bunch of words that, though nobody will read, still manage to make me sound douchey."

I hope you used an application that replaces [blank] in a bunch of pre-written babble with whatever name/word you type in. If not, then you put a disturbing amount of thought into me. Weird either way.

It was useful in a sense though. Made me wonder what was wrong with Cons so a quick google search taught me that they were acquisitioned by Nike some time ago, which is all the info I needed to make my buying decision. Didn't realize that, but also haven't owned a pair of Converse since I was 12 so it never came up. Thanks, I guess.

hahahahahahahaha

[hekkahyphy]

was actually heading out to buy these today

[Schismatic]

Dude I coulda told you Cons was owned by Nike but I see it like organic food, can't always afford it so gotta eat factory farm chicken and monsanto tainted veggies. I don't like Nike either but my girl got me these shoes and theyre comfy and if they last along time I'm happy cause I can't afford shows every 3 weeks.

[DaSk8D00D]

yall niggas worry about brands & skate-politics too much. its a fucking pair of shoes. do all your socks & underwear have to be made by core brands as well? Con's are good quality anyway, and those shoes actually look dope. if you like the shoes then just buy em.

[oldeath]

yall niggas worry about brands & skate-politics too much. its a fucking pair of shoes. do all your socks & underwear have to be made by core brands as well? Con's are good quality anyway, and those shoes actually look dope. if you like the shoes then just buy em.

Yes.

[ivegotlevitation]

yall niggas worry about brands & skate-politics too much. its a fucking pair of shoes. do all your socks & underwear have to be made by core brands as well? Con's are good quality anyway, and those shoes actually look dope. if you like the shoes then just buy em.

Yes.

Toy Machine socks only

[Schismatic]

To me it's less about the tired ass "core brand" argument and more about avoiding the bigger human rights but fuck, like I said it's pretty impossible so gotta deal with it sometimes. Don't blame someone for not wanting to wear Nikes though any more than I care of someone else is a vegetarian or not so buy what you want and there's no reason anyone should care if or why some random dude on the web chooses not to buy a brand. Nobody told you not to support Nike they said they don't want to so no reason to treat it like another 'don't do it' thread.

[Uluru]

My mate has those shoes at the moment and says they are pretty good.

Anyone have an experience skating Chuck Taylors?

[eminem]

you should not buy them