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arjunrattan
Apr 26, 2005, 2:16 AM
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ditto??
why are gym rental shoes that slimy green color, always??
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cintune
Apr 26, 2005, 2:18 AM
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So no one will try to steal them?
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chauch
Apr 26, 2005, 2:19 AM
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In reply to: ditto?? why are gym rental shoes that slimy green color, always??
so you can tell who rents and who owns their own shoes. no one, in their right mind, would buy those ugly slimy green shoes...
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curt
Apr 26, 2005, 2:22 AM
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In reply to: why are gym rental shoes that slimy green color, always??
Because they have had thousands and thousands of slimy feet in them. Did you really want to know? :lol:
Curt
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wingnut
Apr 26, 2005, 12:36 PM
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the shoes here are purple.
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wjca
Apr 26, 2005, 7:31 PM
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Its the same reason rental bowling shoes are four or five different colors. You see, the companies that produce this sort of rental gear can only afford to hire color blind people that can't get jobs anywhere else. I mean who in their right minds hires color blind people anyway? Would you want to employ someone who can't tell the difference between mauve and fusha? What if you're having a color emergency? What was the original question again?
Oh yea, the shoes, a few years ago slimy green for rental gear was massed produced by the producing people (Acme I think) on a bad tip that slimy green was the new black. Stupid asses, even a colored blind fashion expert (yea like there are any of those around, see paragraph above) knew that piss yellow was the new black. Several years later, that mistake is finally correcting itself because my climbing gym has slowing been getting rid of the slimy greens for the piss yellows. Little do they know that now, neon slimy green is now the new black. These people need to get on board with whats hot in rental gear, man.
If you think rental climbing shoes are nasty, check out the heavies that rent bowling shoes. MMMM cheese. Is that rochefort?
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jeep4evr
Apr 27, 2005, 5:16 AM
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My only guess is that back in the mid 70's when climbing was really taking off (correct any historical errors on my part, I wasn't even a glimmer yet) that nasty slimy green color was the ultra hip climbing color that matched their clientele's bell bottoms and Clarence Williams III afro style head hair. But the shoes were built so good that gyms haven't bothered to recycle them in for 2005 model LaSportiva.
So, I'm guessing, in 10,000 years the only things left on earth will be cockroaches and green rental shoes.
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monkeyarm
Apr 27, 2005, 5:29 AM
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I thought it was because of the odd color it would be easy to distinguish rentals from shoes a person owned, making them harder to wander off with
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brokenarmboy19
Apr 27, 2005, 6:06 AM
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It's to identify the n00bs DUH
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din
Apr 27, 2005, 6:09 AM
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In reply to: It's to identify the n00bs DUH
speaking of, STFU n00b.
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brokenarmboy19
Apr 28, 2005, 8:00 PM
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Hey what's wrong with n00bs you were a n00b once yourself you didn't pop out of that orangutan you call a mother and send a 5.15a
so unless you are sharma shut you stink hole
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rockmonkey24
Apr 28, 2005, 9:22 PM
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In reply to: I thought it was because of the odd color it would be easy to distinguish rentals from shoes a person owned, making them harder to wander off with |
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bler
Apr 29, 2005, 12:01 AM
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please don't ever use the term n00b, you make yourself look bad..
espically with the zeros, come on, were not playing everquest here are we ?
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In reply to: so unless you are sharma
Wow...Sharma is my hero too. He's sooo strong. :lol: :wink:
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lazyjammin
Apr 29, 2005, 12:28 AM
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I always thought it was the same reason they painted institutions that color, It so that when you are 2 feet off the deck and your nerves are going and you cant find the next jug and you look down at the wicked exposure you see the soothing green color of your rental shoes and it relaxes you just enough that you manage to make a controlled landing on the pad.
But then again maybe its the cheapest dye.
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vegastradguy
Apr 29, 2005, 12:33 AM
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dude, they're green because the cheapest shoes for gym owners are either the Bufo gym shoe (really slimey green) or the Evolv Quest (i think it's the quest- either way, that's Evolv's green shoe as well...)
green leather must be cheap. makes you wonder where it came from...
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boulderkid17
Apr 29, 2005, 12:35 AM
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Because the regular green costs more
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bear829
Apr 29, 2005, 1:13 AM
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Its because of all the foot fungus. They were originally tan. :lol:
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