Fashion victim or not?

[billyg]

Like it andy, I am a big fan of pink gear both for golf and socially, I even have pink shoes for a night out to match my shirts.

The problem is that where I come from, you are an alleged homosexual if you don't have love and hate tattoo'd on your knuckles, or if you don't have a mangey staff that you walk on a bit of rope, or if you don't call everyone bruv, or if you aren't on the dole, or if you don't use recreational drugs/have a drink problem. Chatham, putting the $h!t in $h!thole.

This makes me as gay as gay can be in the eyes of the locals so the pink clobber tops it off.

Ide like to see one of these oiks force the point with someone who only last week gave a slap to an assailant who tried to mug him with a knife!

On another level the N.Kent coast can be a bit menthal it's true. It's the same all the way from Gravesend round to Deal IMHO.

Could be worse MWJ, you could be stuck here in hells kitchen with the likes of me.

 

[medwayjon]

Fortunately people don't tend to have a go at me round here.

Where you from billyg?

 

[billyg]

Fortunately people don't tend to have a go at me round here.

Where you from billyg?

Smack bang in Central London for my sins, just round the corner from Urbangolf in Smithfields as it happens....well there's got to be SOME upside to living in The Smoke

I travel a round journey of 50 miles and 3.5 hours to my 'local' golf club.Not much open space round here and the lowlifes would only nick the clubs- such is life.

 

[toonarmy]

The problem is that where I come from, you are an alleged homosexual if you don't have love and hate tattoo'd on your knuckles, or if you don't have a mangey staff that you walk on a bit of rope, or if you don't call everyone bruv, or if you aren't on the dole, or if you don't use recreational drugs/have a drink problem. Chatham, putting the $h!t in $h!thole.

Oh come on. Chatham has wonderful earthy charm, not to mention that lovely faux-gangster/mockney accent the local youth love to adopt. And the fashions, well...simply to die for darling

Ah, takes me back to Saturday afternoons in the Pentagon centre - no matter how dark it gets on the course, at least I'm not dealing with that any more!

As for clothing, I like to buy and wear quality clobber as a general rule and the course is no different, but at pikey prices if I can get away with it. Picked up plenty of European Tour polo shirts for not much at all and these are the stock T-shirt. Jumpers tend to be the likes of John Smedley (ooh, get me) and trousers tend to be Bagutta, Ted Baker, Massimo Dutti bargains that I've picked up.

Look good, feel good, I always say and that's why my shoes are always clean. Bizarre, but it really affects me on the course if my shoes are visibly marked with mud or grass and I have to remove it before the next shot, otherwise it's all I can hear in my head 'dirty shoes! dirty shoes!'

I need help...

 

[billyg]

Oh come on. Chatham has wonderful earthy charm, not to mention that lovely faux-gangster/mockney accent the local youth love to adopt. And the fashions, well...simply to die for darling

I beg to differ on that point Mr. Toon. Much of the original Cockney 'massif' de-camped to Essex and north Kent during post-war austerity hence-(Thames) estuary english.

Having said that to be a true Cockney one would need to be born somewhere off Cheapside and St. Barts. hasn't had a maternity ward for over 20 years.

Eastenders is a backlot in Borehamwood or BBC Elstree as it is confusingly known(I used to work there many years ago on Holby City which is shot in the adjoining building) and could indeed be classed mockney however.

 

[viscount17]

Pods???? sorry am lost.

£100 aint bad i suppose, they are the ones in this months magazine

try this.

http://www.todaysgolfer.co.uk/Golf/News/searchresults/January-08/jan3-footjoy-pods/?&R=EPI-14348

 

[USER1999]

I also need to play in clean shoes, and wipe off any mud as I go round. Fussy really. Can't address the ball properly if there is mud on my shoes.

I will wear anything, as long as it is loud, but shoes have to be FJs, preferably classics.

 

[John_Findlay]

I'm testing these new FJ Pods for GM at the mo'. Think the review is going to be in the April issue.

When I first took them out of the box I thought that Linford Sprinter should be wearing them but they're brill...and, very importantly, easy to clean at this time of year. Good as new after 5 muddy rounds.

As Lesley Phillips would say, "Ding Dong"

 

[TonyN]

Pods???? sorry am lost.

£100 aint bad i suppose, they are the ones in this months magazine

try this.

http://www.todaysgolfer.co.uk/Golf/News/searchresults/January-08/jan3-footjoy-pods/?&R=EPI-14348

Cheers for that. Might go get a pair this week, they look good!

 

[madandra]

ony ... try the Footjoy reelfits as they are nice too. I just got mine and the are £99 in AG. Thats £30 less than everywhere else.

AG are giving you £20 trade in for your old shoes too.

 

[USER1999]

WTF do they do with old golf shoes?

 

[madandra]

You may find them on some weird fetish site for £100 a pair. Or donate them to poor kids in ...





Barnsley !!!!!

 

[TonyN]

yeah ok al have a look at them too. Will keep my other shoes cause they will be great in the summer. I just want somethin trainer type for the range and the wet conditions.

 

[madandra]

Adidas 360 tour are on sale in AG for £65. They really were £109 and I loved them (the leather peeled off the toe and went for FJ reelies)

 

[viscount17]

andy, AG's current line is trade in on just about everything, even gloves (£2)!
I worked out that if I traded in all the stuff I have or want to upgrade I'd get about £220 or so. However, I'm sure there's a snag in that, although I didn't see it specifically stated, I'm sure the trade ins only work on like for like. So I can't find all the old gloves, broken trolleys etc and get a new set of irons.
Anyway, the clubs are going to my son to get him started.