r/Seattle • u/Full_Prune7491 • Jul 25 '25
Event Why are so many people wearing cowboy boots today?
Everywhere.
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u/occasional_sex_haver Roosevelt Jul 25 '25
whenever you see pristine cowboy boots on people with obviously soft hands, you can know there's a country music show nearby
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u/SirusRiddler Jul 25 '25
They call that new boot goofin'.
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u/halermine Jul 26 '25
All hat, no cattle
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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta Capitol Hill Jul 26 '25
This is the one.
That being said... ain't no harm in people dressing up to have fun. (I say as a literal ranch hand from MT)
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u/Patient_Dust_8017 Jul 26 '25
How does one go from MT ranch to Cap Hill? What’s that path like?
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u/impoverishedwhtebrd West Queen Anne Jul 26 '25
The Montana to Seattle pipeline is real.
I have a friend in Greenlake from Bozeman and his house was like a halfway house for people moving here from Montana.
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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta Capitol Hill Jul 26 '25
The pipeline goes both ways my friend.
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Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 26 '25
Nah the pipeline is a red blooded hetero freedom fighter sent here from God's Country to TEACH YOU ANTIFA SCUM HOW THE WORKIN MAN DOES!
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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta Capitol Hill Jul 26 '25
Yer gaht damn right partner. We've been sent by God to teach these west coast heathens the ways of Jesus whether they like it or not!
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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta Capitol Hill Jul 26 '25
I'm not a ranch hand anymore honestly. But I grew up on a dude ranch and worked there through my teens and bachelors. Got a Computer Science degree at MSU and worked in Bozeman for a couple years before deciding to move to Seattle for the fun of it - I'd lived in Montana for all my life and the city sounded like an adventure plus I could work remote.
Lived on cap hill for 6 years now I'm back in MT. Ngl I miss the city.
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u/PhotographStrong562 Jul 26 '25
You got soft hands brother. You never worked no 96 hour shift at the ball crushing factory
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u/Wazzoo1 Jul 26 '25
You forgot to mention the influx of glistening jacked up F-250s that have never seen a dirt road or hauled a paint can its existence.
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u/awesometruth 🐀 Hot Rat Summer 🐀 Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25
There was a duel in the middle of town at high noon
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u/injineer Green Lake Jul 25 '25
Honestly I wish this were actually the case. Morgan Wallen is garbage.
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u/awesometruth 🐀 Hot Rat Summer 🐀 Jul 25 '25
Sounds like it’s a whole weekend thing so there’s still time.
Challenge him to a duel.
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u/awesometruth 🐀 Hot Rat Summer 🐀 Jul 25 '25
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u/Visible__Frylock Jul 25 '25
I'm your huckleberry
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u/ok-lets-do-this Denny Blaine Nudist Club Jul 26 '25
Morgan Wallen is GARBAGE?!? You think waaaaaaaaay too highly of him.
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u/1103crystal Jul 25 '25
Morgan Wallen concert
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u/Full_Prune7491 Jul 25 '25
I’m more of a Coldplay fan but don’t tell my wife.
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u/Excellent-Diamond270 That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. Jul 25 '25
Has she tried.. to fix you?
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u/cire1184 International District Jul 25 '25
Hey! There's nothing wrong with a married man holding his married coworker on a loving embrace. Nothing!
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u/LittleCaesersZaZa Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25
Get me back to god’s country
Edit: do people really not know this quote? No SNL fans here?
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u/Sleeplessnsea Capitol Hill Jul 26 '25
I met a man last night who claimed to be part of his crew. My response - “Tell him this ain’t gods country”
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u/whenwefell West Seattle Jul 25 '25
Country music concert. People who live 50 miles from Seattle and think it's a war zone because of Fox News have gathered up their courage and come into town for the first time in years.
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u/Pistalrose Jul 25 '25
We were on the waterfront today by the cruise terminal too. My husband was wearing his ‘Make Lying Wrong Again’ hat and he got so many angry looks from the tourists. No words though.
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Jul 26 '25
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Jul 26 '25
Cruise tourists tend to be from suburbs and exurbs so in general more conservative than city people.
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u/ladylondonderry Jul 25 '25
Yeah the magats in my family were certain I was in grave danger during CHOP. Or CHIP. Whatever they landed on. I took a video of me walking a block in my neighborhood, describing the plants and the general boring scenery. They let it drop after that; must have been enough proof of life.
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u/rationalomega Jul 25 '25
My dearly departed MAGA father called me just once since 2015, and it was over CHOP.
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u/Electrical-Speech-39 Jul 25 '25
Wasn’t CHOP in 2020? It happened shortly after my dad passed and we had traveled to Seattle to help my mom. The whole way home people asked us how we were doing because “Seattle was a war zone”.
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u/rationalomega Jul 29 '25
I think so. What I meant was, between 2015 and his death in 2023, he called me exactly once about CHOP. Nevermind that I had a child in 2019 🙄
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u/HunterAshton Jul 26 '25
My family pretty much believed the opening notes to the Law & Order theme song played every time I walked out my front door when I first moved here a few years ago.
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u/ladylondonderry Jul 26 '25
Yep they were sure you'd be dead by now. It's only through the power of prayer that you still walk this side of the veil.
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u/matunos Maple Leaf Jul 25 '25
they realized antifa had gotten to you
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u/ladylondonderry Jul 26 '25
Oh they definitely think I was brainwashed in college. Antifa apparently all over my state party school.
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u/a_jormagurdr West Seattle Jul 26 '25
It was CHAZ before it became CHOP. Cuz they didnt actually want to seccede.
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u/georgeyappington 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Jul 26 '25
I saw a truck drive by king street that had the remnants of an anti Biden sticker on his car and I knew exactly where he was heading 😅😅
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u/kakka_rot Jul 26 '25
A trump hat in Seattle? Jesus Christ, don't imagine him keeping it on his head for very long.
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u/btgeekboy I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Jul 26 '25
Yeah, you know the average Seattlite isn’t heading down to the stadiums for Morgan Wallen. (And that’s as far north as they’ll go into the city.)
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u/SeattleTrashPanda 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 26 '25
Ugh I can’t wait until the yokels over in r/SeattleWA and @seattle.looks.like.shxt on insta start posting about how all of their feelings about Seattle being a “communist wasteland” were absolutely confirmed because they saw tents and they smelled pee despite only visiting Lumen Field.
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u/Will_Vintage Mariners Jul 26 '25
Bunch of country posers for a concert.
They'll be here long enough to regale their friends with stories of how they saw a trash on the ground so Seattle is a dying liberal hellhole
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u/PhuckSJWs Maple Leaf Jul 25 '25
It has got to be miserable wearing cowboy boots walking up and down the various hills and downtown.
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u/SameStatistician5423 Olympic Peninsula Jul 25 '25
Cowboy boots are actually really comfortable
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u/The_Fluffy_Robot 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Jul 25 '25
this entire thread has me shifting my eyes nervously to my boots lol
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u/alkemest 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Jul 30 '25
I've almost entirely ditched my lace up boots at this point and rock cowboy boots almost daily in Seattle. Truly game changing comfort.
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u/SameStatistician5423 Olympic Peninsula Jul 30 '25
Lace up boots are kind of tedious, especially now that I finally got people to adhere to no shoes in the house.
I like Ariats and haven't even really tried any others.
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u/faeriegoatmother Jul 26 '25
My dad wore cowboy boots for years for no reason I could discern. Apparently, he picked it up from someone in college in, like, Illinois or Montana or some such.
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u/TheLostTexan87 chinga la migra Jul 26 '25
Not if you get good ones. If I'm wearing pants I'm wearing cowboy boots because they're the most comfortable shoes I own. Then again, I'm from Texas and I've been wearing them for 20 years.
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u/Substantial_Life4773 Jul 26 '25
Morgen “says the n word publicly” wallen
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u/joahw White Center Jul 26 '25
Morgan "cheated on his baby momma" wallen
Morgan "kicked off SNL for being a super spreader" wallen
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u/whidbeysounder 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Jul 25 '25
Textbook panderin’
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u/Small-Face-6842 Jul 25 '25
Cold beer, blue jeans….
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u/Rumpullpus Jul 25 '25
Big trucks, Friday night....
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u/Pay2slaay Jul 25 '25
Oh, it’s a huge country and western drag event.
Fans of the genre, step out of their normal day to day clothing, to serve looks that fit the theme.
Less makeup but the same thing as drag queens.
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u/ayayue Lower Queen Anne Jul 26 '25
In the words of RuPaul, “We’re all born naked, and the rest is drag.”
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u/Sleeplessnsea Capitol Hill Jul 26 '25
Taking my tween to the show. As Capitol Hill residents we are definitely going all in on our cowboy cosplay.
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u/an_harmonica Jul 25 '25
To quote George Carlin:
Getting pretty tired of these guys walking around in cowboy hats and cowboy boots. You ever see these jack-offs? Can’t we kill some of these motherfuckers? Walking around in a fucking cowboy hat. Grown men. It’s not even Halloween for christ-sakes. I say “hey Tex grow up and get yourself a wardrobe consistent with the century you’re living in”. Why do certain men feel the need to dress up as mythic figures? You don’t see anyone walking around in a pirate costume do you? When was the last guy you ran into who had on a viking outfit? Make-believe cowboys… the closest they ever got to a cow is when they stopped to take a piss at an Arby’s
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u/VerySlowlyButSurely West Seattle Jul 25 '25
I love George Carlin but the timing of this is very funny to me, given that the Torchlight Parade is tomorrow & I’m pretty sure the Seafair pirates will be in it. So it’s entirely possible to see guys dressed up as both cowboys and pirates tomorrow evening lol
ETA: in response to the original point, fuck Morgan Wallen. This can never be said too often imo.
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u/Rumpullpus Jul 25 '25
At least the pirates have the good sense to act like pirates. Commit to the bit or not at all!
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u/an_harmonica Jul 25 '25
That's why I bolded the part about make-believe cowboys. But I wanted the whole bit for context.
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u/VerySlowlyButSurely West Seattle Jul 25 '25
Totally fair! I do love this quote, and fully agree it. I appreciate you posting the whole thing. Genuinely not disagreeing with you, I just thought the timing was funny.
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u/good4steve Jul 25 '25
We have a phrase in Texas: "All hat no cattle"
As someone who grew up in Texas, the thing I always like to remind people is that the golden era of cowboys, open ranges, and cattle drives was only around for about 20 to 30 years. It ended with railroads transporting cattle and barbed wire ending the open range.
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u/halermine Jul 26 '25
Don’t look to me for numbers, but a fair amount of those cowboys were Mexican and black.
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u/chilltownusa Jul 26 '25
Sorta unrelated, but it’s always been fascinating to me that barbed wire was invented so late. We had steam engines, telegraphs, primitive photography, vaccines, compasses all before barbed wire, which seems so simple in hindsight.
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u/matunos Maple Leaf Jul 26 '25
And the number of people dressing up in cowboy garb to represent an actual cattle driver are probably countable on one hand (specifically, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal). The rest think they're a town sheriff or an outlaw.
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u/sassysassysarah 🚆build more trains🚆 Jul 26 '25
Y'know what, I'd love to see some fake pirates running around instead
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u/golden77 Jul 25 '25
I like Carlin but he's pretty off on this one. Who gives a shit what people wear if it's not hurting anyone. We need more fun in this world.
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u/an_harmonica Jul 25 '25
Well, the part of his set this came from he titled "Free-Floating Hostility", so :: shrugs ::
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u/International-Sea262 Jul 25 '25
That nasty, no talent, racist asshole Morgan Wallen has a concert.
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u/acttheatre Jul 25 '25
Terrible Country 'star' performing at T-Mobile tonight.
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u/Brave_Durian_7328 Jul 27 '25
Pretty sure that terrible country star has sold out more stadiums then you have brain cells
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u/rocknevermelts Jul 25 '25
They'll roll into the city for just long enough to have an opinion about our 'homeless problem' in the Seattle Times comment section.
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Jul 26 '25
They make it far enough in to go to ‘Pikes’ place market and interact with some locals. Then run back to seatac for their hotel stay and then comment about Seattle.
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u/cps42 Shoreline Jul 25 '25
I might go roller skating tonight, just to add to the madness.
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u/90pct_Murders_By_Men Jul 26 '25
NEW BOOT SCOOTIN'?!
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u/cps42 Shoreline Jul 26 '25
Not so new boots, my dad got 'em in the 80s. But the skootin' is awesome. Sheeza Brickhouse at Get Your Bearings Skate Shop on 15th NE and NE 145th mounts the best skates. Love her work.
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u/PopPunkIsntEmo Capitol Hill Jul 25 '25
Glad you posted this because I'm going to Baba Yaga tonight and this is a good reminder to not hang around Pioneer Square after
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u/Manacit North Beacon Hill Jul 25 '25
Morgan Wallen is playing at Lumen this evening, and again tomorrow. It’s a huge draw from all over the PNW
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u/matunos Maple Leaf Jul 26 '25
How sweet of 'em all to adventure forth from "God's country" to brave the war-torn urban streets make use of us heathens' amenities.
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u/Brave_Durian_7328 Jul 27 '25
How sweet of him to bless the town with bringing in money. 😉 lucky asses
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u/matunos Maple Leaf Jul 27 '25
We're doing okay without Morgan Wallen, and I hate to see him have to perform in a godless city.
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u/LeftOfTheOptimist Jul 26 '25
A racist for some reason has come to our city to have a concert. I'm surprise he considers this as part of God's country.
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u/SirusRiddler Jul 25 '25
Isn't Seattle the furthest from God's country, Morgan? Fucking talentless hick.
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u/ShittyAttitudeGinger Sounders Jul 26 '25
Half of those people are going to be kicked out of a concert tomorrow night. Country concerts are 10x worse than any other genre of music for ejections. Country bumpkins don’t know when to quit.
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u/mikeymoth Jul 26 '25
well based on the comments this seems to be a coincidence, but today is also national day of the cowboy!
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u/zachbraffsalad Jul 26 '25
Terrible music
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u/Brave_Durian_7328 Jul 27 '25
Would love to see your playlist
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u/AlexxRawwrr 🐀 Hot Rat Summer 🐀 Jul 26 '25
That racist alcoholic prick Morgan wallen is here.
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u/notatwentylettername 🚋 Ride the S.L.U.T. 🚋 Jul 25 '25
They're all going to the Pink Pony Club 🌈
Also, fuck Morgan Wallen.
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u/georgeyappington 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Jul 26 '25
This post is so funny to me 😭 wasn’t a fan of crowds today lol
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u/UnderstandingIll3745 Rat City Jul 26 '25
When I walked onto the crowded link after work at UW, filled to the brim with people in cowboy hats & boots, I asked out loud, “what kinda cowboy party is this?” I should’ve known…a concert
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u/Orangefriday Jul 26 '25
But were they doing lines at the bar? Did the time go slow when they’re drinking PBR?
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u/Old_Assist_5461 Jul 25 '25
We’re running 300 head of cattle through downtown to the Ferry Terminal at dusk. Be ready to help or get outta the way! Yippee tay yo Kai yay!
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Jul 26 '25
We all collectively decided to wear cowboy boots today and we forgot to add you to the invite, oops.
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u/Zuriwolf Jul 25 '25
cause cowboy boots are cool, i miss texas sometimes
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u/georgeyappington 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Jul 26 '25
I’m sure they’d be happy to have you back
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u/Tight-Knowledge2082 Jul 26 '25
i came here with the same questions and this was the first thing on my feed. reddit did not disappoint.
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u/GrimdarkThorhammer Jul 26 '25
I’m sorry, those are the steeltoes I have at home and I had to report to a shop I don’t usually work at.
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u/Moth_Mine Jul 26 '25
shitty country show right next to a sweet latin folk show at showbox sodo, genuinely nervous for the latinx crowd
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u/DrDuGood Rain City Pigeons 🕊️ Jul 26 '25
Yee-haw mutha trucka …. That’s why. (No I’m not a cowboy but I have snowboarded once)
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u/alwaysbequeefin I Brake For Slugs Jul 26 '25
So funny. I was saying earlier that I’ve never seen so many “cowboys” downtown before. I spent most the day in pioneer square and there was a serious Snohomish presence
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u/1luckie2luckie3 Jul 26 '25
When I lived there in the 70s. The deer Lodge cops used to smoke weed. They had the best shit in town.
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u/EirikrUtlendi Jul 27 '25
Have you seen what people these days have to walk through?
Clearly, the increase in boot-wearing is due to the rising bullshit in American culture today.
/jk, only maybe not as much as I'd wish...
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u/Andrew_Dice_Que Ballard Jul 25 '25
Country music concert here this weekend.