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WAYWT - The Hard Labour Edition aka "Working in your workwear".

What Are You Wearing Today (WAYWT)
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    RoxRocks86
    Raw and Unwashed
    Joined: 2 Mar 2018

    @neph93 i’ll be sure to add some rbf’s once in a while  😉

    @rio - you got the planex?! So jealous 😛

    @rocket  😶 😶 😶 hell no to painting!

    @UnTucked sometimes i like to put on a dress or heels to get my femininity back  😃

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      UnTucked
      Joined: 16 Nov 2014

      @RoxRocks86:

      @UnTucked sometimes i like to put on a dress or heels to get my femininity back  😃

      I hear working at a computer desk helps with that as well…. 😢 LMAO!

      In search of:
      IHV-04, med.
      IHSH-185, large
      IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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        rocket
        Joined: 6 Jan 2011

        hell no of course not  ::) (noted) 😶 @RoxRocks86  so only mud …  😛

        rocketrocksrox 🤙🏼🤙🏾

        It's all humbug, like everywhere
        R.I.P. Geo

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          Crit_Obs
          Joined: 20 Oct 2017

          This might be the place to ask: how do you lads & lassies get specks of paint off your jeans? I got water-soluble paint on mine and the stains got dry before I got around to trying to remove them, and it seems they are sitting mighty tight. 😞

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            neph93
            見習いボス
            Joined: 18 Aug 2014

            @Crit_Obs:

            This might be the place to ask: how do you lads & lassies get specks of paint off your jeans? I got water-soluble paint on mine and the stains got dry before I got around to trying to remove them, and it seems they are sitting mighty tight. 😞
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            I assume what you're after is how do you get them off without losing a patch of indigo? With some difficulty. Certainly don't scrub with water and a cloth as that will strip the indigo. I got wood glue on a pair once, let it harden then picked it out with the tip of a knife. Worked well. These days, anything like that happens I say fekk it and leave it be.

            «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
            We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

            • Dame Vera Lynn
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              Crit_Obs
              Joined: 20 Oct 2017

              @neph93:

              I assume what you're after is how do you get them off without losing a patch of indigo?

              Ideally would have loved coming up with a MacGyver-esque indigo-preserving magic-solution but now I said

              @neph93:

              fekk it

              and tossed the offending pair into the machine. Just a bit worried the wash won’t get rid off the stains as they got good and dry in the meantime. 😞

              Thanks for the moral support!

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                neph93
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                Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                Washing machine may work. If you’re still not happy then it should loosen the paint enough that the knife tip would work. But again I’d not worry about it and just wear them. Wabi-sabi and all that.

                «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                • Dame Vera Lynn
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                  RoxRocks86
                  Raw and Unwashed
                  Joined: 2 Mar 2018

                  How much specs of paint @Crit_Obs ? Not one big dunk into a bucket? If the paint wasn’t rubbed into the denim, like neph said, should be able to peel them off. Worse case scenario just designate the pair to paint days.

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                    Crit_Obs
                    Joined: 20 Oct 2017

                    @RoxRocks86:

                    How much specs of paint @Crit_Obs ?

                    On a scale from ”lol look at the doofus with dirty pants” to ”that’s like, avantgarde, man”, they score a solid ”slightly awkward law student in altogether too expensive clothes, that he uses also when he really shouldn’t”… which isn’t too far off the mark. 😎

                    The wash didn’t do them much good and there’s no ”layer” that I could try and pry off. 😞 I guess that means I’m a pair of presentable jeans short at the moment... And the 888-OD just released... Hmm...

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                      Giles
                      IHUK Crew
                      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                      🙂 🙂

                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        steelworker
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                        Joined: 16 Apr 2014

                        The Tri Ter @work. crane end truck on my left. It's going to get dirrrty.

                        Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                        Well, I have others.

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                          neph93
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                          Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                          @Crit_Obs:

                          On a scale from ”lol look at the doofus with dirty pants” to ”that’s like, avantgarde, man”, they score a solid ”slightly awkward law student in altogether too expensive clothes, that he uses also when he really shouldn’t”… which isn’t too far off the mark. 😎

                          That made me laugh.

                          Think of it this way, you have the perfect excuse for new jeans, AND, you’ve gained the greatest pair of beaters ever. It’s win-win.

                          «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                          We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                          • Dame Vera Lynn
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                            neph93
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                            Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                            @steelworker:

                            The Tri Ter @work. crane end truck on my left. It's going to get dirrrty.

                            Make that pic b&w or sepia and it could go in a museum (I mean that in the nicest possible way). Great stuff.

                            «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                            We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                            • Dame Vera Lynn
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                              steelworker
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                              Joined: 16 Apr 2014

                              ask and ye shall receive

                              Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                              Well, I have others.

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                                neph93
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                                Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                                Brilliant. Looks like the pictures my parents have of my great uncles who worked in the Welsh collieries post WWII. Thanks very much.

                                «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                                • Dame Vera Lynn
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                                  Chris
                                  Raw and Unwashed
                                  Joined: 28 Jun 2010

                                  I had no idea they made collies in Wales.  Not sure what these have to do with steelworker, though.

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                                    steelworker
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                                    Interestingly-to me anyway- there are a number of Welsh & Scot names here, Ercildoun, Berwyn,Uwchland, Bryn Mawr.
                                    As for the dogs that's easily explained  they're thrown into ladles to bring up the carbon.

                                    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                                    Well, I have others.

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                                      neph93
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                                      Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                                      @Chris:

                                      I had no idea they made collies in Wales.  Not sure what these have to do with steelworker, though.

                                      Apparently they make Neanderthals in Arizona and then further decrease their intelligence in Texas. Probably with chemtrails.

                                      «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                      We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                                      • Dame Vera Lynn
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                                        neph93
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                                        Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                                        @steelworker:

                                        Interestingly-to me anyway- there are a number of Welsh & Scot names here, Ercildoun, Berwyn,Uwchland, Bryn Mawr.

                                        Bryn Mawr means «big hill». I just had a Google and the other areas in the township in PN it’s a part of are all named after towns in Wales too, Radnor, Merion and Haverford. I’ve been to the Welsh versions of Haverford and Merion.

                                        «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                        We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                                        • Dame Vera Lynn
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                                        • ChrisC
                                          Chris
                                          Raw and Unwashed
                                          Joined: 28 Jun 2010

                                          That was kinda low, don't you think, neph?  Even I don't dislike Phoenix that much.

                                          Oh, wait.  Yes, I do.

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