Saying that people go as gaga for Nike kicks as for Apple stuff is horribly, horribly mistaken. People have collections of hundreds or thousands of pairs, true sneaker freakers know all the years and models by heart and compete for the most rare (or awesome) colourway, and they can go for thousands.

You have enough justification, apparently, to write this blog post, for instance, and decorate it with pictures, et cetera, and time to open your post for comments, and whatnot.

And, presumably, you justify this as some sort of slyly humorous, perhaps British-tinged, if I may be so bold, version of the various conversational interludes between yourself and the obviously plebian shopworkers you encountered whilst amusing yourself with the elitist touchstones you flaunt, as obviously you yourself are a person of considerable means, and would never denigrate yourself to be on the *other* side of the retail counter.

Anyway, thanks for sharing. I learned a lot. It made me laugh so hard, milk came out of my nose, and I wasn’t even drinking milk.

Also, thanks for being an ostentatious bitch; now I know a website I can show my students, when I’m trying to give them a contemporary example of the phrase “conspicuous consumption”.

Also, thanks for the site; now I have an example to show students in those instances wherein I say that if I ever meet someone such as yourself, I may rethink this whole “pacifist” philosophy my girlfriend introduced me to, renounce Buddhism, and, after having done so, would proceed to engage you in some form of combat, with the intention of rendering at least one organ (or set of organs, as the case may be) completely useless, and hopefully painfully inoperable. This may also be accomplished with various types of weapons, including bladed or blunt-edged weaponry, but excluding any type of firearm, as I choose to fight like a real man, not some pansy-assed NRA advocate.

Also, thanks for making the most useless contribution to the world wide web that I have personally ever witnessed. It sets a new standard for people that are still confused about exactly how boring and insipid their daily lives need to be in order to contribute something completely irrelevant to an already overburdened system that is currently, as I write this, braying out the last, dying throes of a once visionary culture that has now succombed to being yet another pimp, selling pop culture whores to the highest bidder off the back of yet another media juggernaut, which haunts our dreams and will not rest until the last vestige of originally or conscientious though is wiped from the face of our once proud civilization.