I like Adidas Sambas. They are very nearly the most comfortable shoes in the world for walking around and probably for kicking soccer balls on Astroturf, but I’ve long wondered what the long tongue was for.

When I did a google search of “samba why the long tongue,” the third result was a link to a message board on www.skinhead.net titled, “fuck sambas and gazelles.”

Needless to say, my quest hit a detour (incidentally, the long tongue is meant to fold over your laces so that they don’t interfere with the kicking surface of the shoe).

This bulletin board is easily the silliest thing I’ve ever stumbled upon, so let’s jump right in.

Referring to a pair of Adidas Samoas, N.H.Y. writes, “I just got a pair of these and ill [SIC] never go back to samba’s [SIC] theyre [SIC] light as hell and comfortable as fuck and dont [SIC] have that gay ass long tongue”

“yeah because i wear my sambas to impress the fasion [SIC] police…. :rolleyes: God I hope you are joking,” comes a response from trojan_stamp78.

N.H.Y.: “I just figured the fags on here ought to get up to date, sambas are so early 90’s”

What kind of agro, street toughs discuss the fashion police and use terms like, rolleyes? And for an uber-male, N.H.Y. is awfully bent on homosexuality. Calling users on a message board “fags” doesn’t necessarily keep the hate alive, and it sure as shit does nothing to advance the Aryan race. Sure, they are awfully derogatory about it, but I think this board is, in part, like an online version of the legendary highway rest stop. Doesn’t it almost seem like N.H.Y. and trojan_stamp78 are in the early stages of courtship?

Lone Socio, has his head in a slightly more oi place. He/she writes, “Ordered a pair of samoas [SIC] in white when they came out, saw they were made in Vietnam, ebayed [SIC] the fuckers without even trying them on.”

How’s that for devotion to the master race? Lone Socio won’t even wear shoes made by yellow people, which means he probably spends a lot of time curbing young recruits with either his bare feet or in New Balance.
On the other end of the spectrum is JusticeHooligan: “Oh yeah, I’ve also owned a pair of G-Unit sneakers. Imagine the looks you get wearing a shirt that says ‘skinhead’ on it and fucking G-Units. That was beyond interesting, and very entertaining. They were gangsta white too.”
Suffice to say that JusticeHooligan probably got many of these “looks” while loitering around a mall food court.

Really, why are these hate-mongers wasting time talking about footwear? It all seems rather Sarah-Jessica-Parker to me (and I loooove shoes). Apparently I’m not alone, old crow writes: “christ!!!! wear what ya want……..enough with this crap..…”

Well put, although somebody ought to tell old crow that Christ was king of the Jews.