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Important Survey!! - seasidewolf - 24-03-08
Right, as I have mentioned on a previous thread, my other hates me calling sports shoes, sneakers, she reckons they are trainers as I am not American.
What do you call them?
RE: Important Survey!! - Minty - 25-03-08
I usually just call them "shoes." Whomever I'm talking to knows what style of shoe I am talking about, no need to call them sneakers or trainers. This doesn't seem that important to me though... lol
RE: Important Survey!! - Lorrie - 25-03-08
sneaks, kicks, soops, or shoes. mostly i refer to my kicks as what they are. so vins are vins. ss1 or 2 are soops. underworlds are underworlds. upper playgrounds are barbeques, pro models are pro mods. etc.
often preceded by the adjective 'swet' - a woman I work with doesn't say things are sweet, they're swet. so it's 'oh my god, those bordeaux vins are fkn swet.'
RE: Important Survey!! - pokey27 - 25-03-08
calls em kicks mainly but trainers as well
RE: Important Survey!! - pirate - 25-03-08
UK = Trainers = Discussion over.
RE: Important Survey!! - King of the Farm - 25-03-08
Wazzucru Wrote:I usually just call them "shoes." Whomever I'm talking to knows what style of shoe I am talking about, no need to call them sneakers or trainers. This doesn't seem that important to me though... lol
Exac-TLY!
I'm American as apple pie.... I've never heard ANY American call them "Sneakers"... sounds like something my mother might've but didn't say.
They're "Shoes"... or *maybe* "Kicks", depending on the crowd.
Freakin Limeys... always trying to run us down into the "sneaker" crowd.
RE: Important Survey!! - deftoned - 25-03-08
I call them several different things, sneakers, trainers, kicks... I've only started calling them trainers in the last coupla years, but growing up it was always sneakers, and I'm definitely not american
RE: Important Survey!! - Dirty - 25-03-08
Shoes! or Shells if im talking to somebody that knows anything about superstars (happens rarely)
RE: Important Survey!! - spitey - 25-03-08
supes or shells for me. but trainers when im going to the gym
RE: Important Survey!! - Sneakerphile - 25-03-08
Kicks, sneaks or supes for me as well.
I know i'm english, but it's just a habit I fell into. Besides, they're not training shoes so I don't think trainers is all that accurate (but then again, I guess sneakers or licks aren't either)
RE: Important Survey!! - spitey - 25-03-08
i dont kick much and i dont sneak about but i do train. beaters- i dont beat people up either...
supe - i am super.
what the fuck is this all about
RE: Important Survey!! - mr.pure - 25-03-08
They ain't called trainers cos we train in them, they're called trainers cos back in the day when not everything needed it's own category, you had boots, shoes, slippers, sandals and trainers !
The world was a simpler place then.
It used to be all trees round here, ya know ?!?
RE: Important Survey!! - super sk8 - 25-03-08
Like Dirtyaccord said, shoes or shells (sometimes soups). But mainly my favorites.
RE: Important Survey!! - cracky - 25-03-08
superstars or trainers for general usage
RE: Important Survey!! - stylz - 26-03-08
In Australia they're sneakers not trainers unless you're a head and then the slang comes into it.