u/SulHam

Earlier this week I was using the standard site to shop and prepare a cart. Coming back to it now, the whole EU layout is changed and frankly just bad?

• Apparently I can't use my own account, I have to use a sketchy third party to log in
• As a result, all my info (past orders, favorites & the cart I had prepared) are just gone.
• Info is just straight-up missing
  • The free mini of this month simply has no information on the rules that apply, despite the image saying 'click for more info'
  • I guess Europe doesn't get the ghoulie bags? If so, they certainly don't tell you about it
  • The menu at the top has been gutted. The forum isn't there anymore
  • Can't even view new releases

I used to get my Red Wings repaired by 'Wijsman' in Delft, the certified cobbler recommended by Red Wing Amsterdam. He was great and friendly, but unfortunately he moved away to Austria some time ago.

My last repair (in 2024), I sent my shoes to Red Wing Amsterdam themselves as they supposedly offered repairs themselves. It was a horrid experience; they barely responded to e-mails, did a poor job and were way more expensive to boot (ha). Not only that, it took me months to get my shoes back. Apparently they don't do it in-house, but just sent it to some anonymous cobbler.

I'm in for another heel replacement, but don't want to go though that hassle again. Does anyone have some recommendations for cobblers in the Netherlands that they trust?

Hello everyone!

Last summer, a friend of ours subtly came out to us during a house party. People wrote their names on red cups and she wrote her new name on it. It was noticed & positively acknowledged by some that were present. After she went home, she announced it in the group chat. The party was still going on and I had the drunken inspiration to save her cup - put some transparent tape on the writing to protect it and then washed it.

My idea was to gift it back with some decorations put on it; maybe bedazzle it with plastic gems in her favourite colour, maybe something else. Friends thought it'd be a fun and sentimental gift as well, considering it being the first time she wrote her name (at least for us, I reckon she probably wrote it before just to see if it felt right?). I kept the cup over the past year & even through a move, and I just found it again. With her birthday coming up, I should take some action.

However, my overthinking ass is worried about unseen pitfalls and so I figured I should ask for some perspective. Thus I've come to beseech you for it.

My questions:

1. How would you feel about this gift? Is there anything I could be overlooking that might make it be in bad taste somehow? Is it stupidly corny? Is it too focussed on her coming out to us?
2. Would it be better to gift it during the birthday, or sometime near the coming out (to us) anniversary as a gift specific to that occasion?

Thank you for your time.