Posts made by Ikeaparty

Happy thanksgiving to the Canadians in here! Perfect tgiving shirt, also happy flannel season

@bradleyjames cap is just starting up! been no rain so water was super low but Tuesday it poured so a good amount of fish pushed in, will get better in a week or two though when they open the dam.

havent hit sand heads, dont have a boat sadly! but seen some videos of it and it looks crazy busy

River salmon fishing is back on!! Two nice coho from this morning on the Capilano in North Vancouver

Tried this place tonight, Hua's Braised Chicken, they make Dao Kou braised chicken, some special recipe from Henan province. Anyways really good and they give you gloves which is nice so you can just use your hands, the soup was also really good

Lofgren Donkey Punchers, when it's nice out I almost always default to Birks so nice to have some cooler weather and start wearing these, admittedly I've had them like.. a year and a half and worn them maybe 40 hours, gotta change that this year

I am not as good at long writing as some of the other awesome posts above but I have more or less always been buying raw denim, various brands over the years since I was like 16 (35 now). My wife bought me my first pair of 777 in 2019 at The Shop after a friend kept telling me just get Iron Heart the other brands are great but you will love Iron Heart.

I wore those jeans through all of covid, then I had a big beer focussed trip to Amsterdam > Cologne > Munich > Pilsen > Prague coming up in 2023, I wanted to get a new pair of jeans for it because I had a crotch blowout in my first pair, I was leaving on the Thursday so I put in the order on the Saturday before it hoping somehow I could get it in time, they emailed about the sizing and I explained I already had a pair, just needed them hemmed, but I was leaving Thursday at like 2PM and was hoping to get them in time. Somehow, they managed to hem the jeans and get them to my door Thursday at 12PM, two hours before leaving to the airport. At this point I was like, I am never buying jeans anywhere else. Then things snowballed into shirts and hats and belts and boots and has just kept going, at this point it's the forum here, not that I post a lot, but seeing other regulars post alot, seeing progress on specific items, news about things coming up, the product releases all that on top of just absolutely insane and never before experienced by me customer service keeps me coming back.

One other cool experience was last year I went to London had never been, the IHUK crew setup a time for me and my wife to go by the showroom, before that Alex was texting me his favorite places to get a cask beer, because I wanted to experience that. I had also missed the first STF bucket hat release because I was stuck on some big client escalation and when I got to the showroom they had brought the photo model down for me to buy since they knew I wanted it and I had commented how I missed it as it sold out. After hanging at the showroom for a bit Alex took me and my wife to a pub he liked, gave us a bunch of other cocktail spots to check out around London, some food spots as well, created a group chat with some of the other guys who were into similar things and texted me a few times during the trip to check in and see if there was any advice I needed or anything. Really made me feel like I had friends there who wanted me to have the best time in London, my wife was super impressed, she has told a bunch of people about it when they ask what brand of clothes im wearing.

I think all in all the what has Iron Heart done for me is just made me feel a part of it, like i'm not a faceless customer who is just dollars to them but someone they know and treat so well right from the start, I am not an important person, but Iron Heart crew makes me feel like I am an important person to them, and you can see that they do this for everyone around here, that goes so far in comparison to other brands with zero interaction with their customers.

Officially September and it's under 20? Boots it is!

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Dino release day is a good day

The moment the temperature is in the teens it's denim shirt time

This is sick, love the ripstop

@ChrisC super good!! This month I made khao poon which is like a Laos khaoi soi, pork laab, thum mak hoong which is Laos papaya salad has some super funky fish sauce and crab paste, and then this one, khao piak sen, the serious eats recipe for this one is great: https://www.seriouseats.com/khao-piak-sen-lao-chicken-noodle-soup

Made Khao Piak Sen tonight, had Laos for this month's cooking challenge, last of the four meals of the month

Congrats Alex!! And echoing the sentiment nothing but confidence in the direction and path ahead.

A few of my friends and I went through a big cantillon phase these are some of the bangers, including a fake shrine we made for Jean for Zwanze one year during COVID

@Pointman I also love sip of sunshine! I have a decent Cantillon cellar going back to 2015 with various different bottles, although been working on drinking it down the last few years. We've had some bangers due to the Brews for New Avenues auction that used to happen in Portland

Drinking this IPA with terpenes from Superflux tonight

@Pointman nice haul!! got a few photos like these from Cantillon but havent been in a few years now, i miss it!

I live like 5 minutes by car from The Shop, 20 minute walk, I still buy stuff from IHUK because I know my measurements and we have 12% of sales tax here in BC but IHUK is tax free.

I get that it sucks a local retailer is losing access to IH but I think IH knows what they are doing with their business and we aren't entitled to having a retailer in our city or province just because it is more convenient to us, there is people in here who don't have one in their country at all.

Gonna have to grab one of these, bought one on vacation and guess I was bloated or something because a few days after getting home I tried it on it was definitely too big, sold that one almost immediately on marketplace somehow. These are some of the most comfortable shirts I've ever had

@will6er those slubby t shirts from them are awesome, i went 5 and it feels slightly big after a hot wash still, 4 felt like it fit too perfectly though that it would be done after washing it

Not sure about the pockets but I LOVE the fit of mine, I am not a guy who can layer because I run extremely hot so all my CPOs are shirt sized, now if only it was cool enough to wear it!