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How to tie your laces

PhoenixParker · 2011-06-22 22:09:20

I posted this in the Dublin Docklands thread, but figured maybe it could go here too. Only discovered this myself about three weeks ago, couldn't believe the simplicity of it. I'd been tieing my shoe laces wrong for years. (former scouts apparently all know this) Can't get it to embed - but it's the TED Talk here. (Only…

22-06-2011 11:09pm

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PhoenixParker

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I posted this in the Dublin Docklands thread, but figured maybe it could go here too.

Only discovered this myself about three weeks ago, couldn't believe the simplicity of it. I'd been tieing my shoe laces wrong for years.
(former scouts apparently all know this)

Can't get it to embed - but it's the TED Talk here.

(Only six minutes long)

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#2 23-06-2011 2:25pm

TFBubendorfer

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5 years ago I started using the knot described in here:

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

I have not had even one loose shoe lace since!

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#3 23-06-2011 5:00pm

yantz

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any chance of showin us how to put on our stockins aswell:o

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#4 23-06-2011 11:32pm

Oryx

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Get speed laces. I havent tied my shoes in two years.

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