@Barney@RiotDemon@sammydog01 I actually learned around the tree first and did that fine for years. But your shoelaces come undone with that.
When I was in my teens my mom heard about bunny ears and we both tried it. No coming undone! I have now been doing bunny ears for over 30 years.
No one has ever said “look at your laces, you can’t tie them around the tree? Lame!” because I don’t think they can tell.
I’m not stopping to re-tie undone laces, which is great because getting my hands near my feet feels like I might throw out my back.
So you can keep your “advanced” tree method. Me and my bunnies are having a great time. Barney, never doubt yourself.
@Barney@mollama@RiotDemon@sammydog01 Until I read Mollama’s comment, I never really thought about it but I do both. I always double tie my laces to keep them from coming undone and because they are usually soooo long.
I wouldn’t laugh at someone for their lace tying method. I would laugh at an adult who said around the tree (never heard that before) or bunny ears.
Then there’s the Ian knot.
@Barney@mollama@sammydog01 I guess I do the around the tree method. The trick is to go backwards around the tree to keep your laces from coming untied. All of my sneakers are slip ons because they stay tied for so long.
Actually, it was my dad who taught me the bunny ears method. I had tried and tried to learn the tree method, but I just couldn’t get it, so he asked around work (he was a mail carrier), if anyone had any suggestions. One of his co-workers showed him how to do it this way. I’m afraid if he hadn’t, I’d still be tying my shoes in double knots.
@Barney@callow@mollama@RiotDemon@sammydog01 Ahhhh. That’s what my granddaughter was trying to do. Mystery solved. She asked for my help tying her shoelaces a couple of months ago and showed me this. (And of course my reaction was something like WTF?!) Now I can tell her that her technique is called an Ian knot.
@Barney@djslack@mollama@sammydog01 this is the knot I use! That’s what I meant by going backwards. Works great. Been using that for several years now. Barely have to retie my shoes.
@Barney@djslack@mollama@RiotDemon@sammydog01 The stupid thing is…it all depends on which way you tie the first knot…in the end you are just tying a square knot (if done right) or a “granny knot” if done wrong. The granny knot will come untied.
The best method is the “bunny ears” method but instead of just tucking one “ear” in you tuck both around…this ends up with a knot that NEVER comes undone on it’s own but is super simple to untie. I think they call it the Ians Secure knot:
@Barney@djslack@mollama@RiotDemon@sammydog01 Likely those whose shoes are coming undone aren’t making a square knot with the knot part of tying a bow (round the tree or bunny method).The video of the fast one, if you look carefully this is just another way of making a square knot with the tied part.
@lseeber@moonhat Just check around. I think someone’s selling it for a buck. Phone number costs extra. Just don’t give it to @cinoclav. Or maybe charge him $5. I hear he has a lot of Meh coupons.
@carl669 I’ve looked all over the raincoat for your magic word and I don’t see it. So if you are asking me if you sent Barney, it looks like you didn’t.
@Cythwulf Stuffing Barney into a small box is a sin. But he’s happy now.
Haha that is great.
Wasn’t me. We don’t have enough time for my sins anyway.
@cinoclav Somehow, I didn’t think it was you.
@Barney Not that I wouldn’t, but I have no idea where you live!
@cinoclav I guess I’m safe, huh?
@Barney Not necessarily.
@cinoclav Yikes!
Oooh, you can learn to tie your shoelaces and button your buttons!
@RiotDemon Buttons, I’m pretty good with. Shoelaces, I need all of the help I can get.
@Barney well, in the meantime you can use the Velcro shoes.
@RiotDemon This is the way I tie my shoelaces. (I love all of the purple in this video.)
@Barney I’ve never learned that method.
@RiotDemon That method is the method of last resort. It’s for those of us who couldn’t get the hang of tying shoelaces the way everyone else does.
@Barney @RiotDemon I learned the bunny ear method first. Then I advanced to the around the tree method.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 Show off.
@Barney @RiotDemon @sammydog01 I actually learned around the tree first and did that fine for years. But your shoelaces come undone with that.
When I was in my teens my mom heard about bunny ears and we both tried it. No coming undone! I have now been doing bunny ears for over 30 years.
So you can keep your “advanced” tree method. Me and my bunnies are having a great time. Barney, never doubt yourself.
@Barney @mollama @RiotDemon @sammydog01 Until I read Mollama’s comment, I never really thought about it but I do both. I always double tie my laces to keep them from coming undone and because they are usually soooo long.
I wouldn’t laugh at someone for their lace tying method. I would laugh at an adult who said around the tree (never heard that before) or bunny ears.
Then there’s the Ian knot.
@Barney @mollama @sammydog01 I guess I do the around the tree method. The trick is to go backwards around the tree to keep your laces from coming untied. All of my sneakers are slip ons because they stay tied for so long.
@mollama @RiotDemon @sammydog01 I guess I’m doing it all wrong because my shoestrings still come untied.
Actually, it was my dad who taught me the bunny ears method. I had tried and tried to learn the tree method, but I just couldn’t get it, so he asked around work (he was a mail carrier), if anyone had any suggestions. One of his co-workers showed him how to do it this way. I’m afraid if he hadn’t, I’d still be tying my shoes in double knots.
@Barney @mollama @RiotDemon @sammydog01 only the best and brightest learn bunny ears first!! (Me, too!!!)
@Barney @mikibell @mollama @sammydog01 ouch.
/image sad stupid face
@mikibell @mollama @RiotDemon @sammydog01 But I never got past the Bunny Ears stage and I think it’s too late for me to learn now.
@Barney @callow @mollama @RiotDemon @sammydog01 Ahhhh. That’s what my granddaughter was trying to do. Mystery solved. She asked for my help tying her shoelaces a couple of months ago and showed me this. (And of course my reaction was something like WTF?!) Now I can tell her that her technique is called an Ian knot.
@RiotDemon that’s my story and I am stickin to it!
/giphy hugs
@mehcuda67 Actually, I’ve never accomplished the Ian knot, but it does look pretty cool.
@callow I would laugh at me too for saying bunny ears (I didn’t recognize the phrase “around the tree” but immediately figured out what was meant. And thanks for the Ian video, I’ll try that.) But then, I also go down slides at playgrounds, and will often be found dancing to the Musak in the elevator when the doors open.
Life is too short to avoid silly names. I just found out today I supposedly won’t make it to 100 like I planned because some scientists decided climate change will wipe out everything by 2050 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwionrrpt-riAhVFOK0KHQbdCvcQzPwBCAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html&psig=AOvVaw1w2qNy8rEUdwFqtRLlTk1B&ust=1560651982648463). So since I can’t get to really really old, I’m fine with acting really really young.
/giphy old and fun
@Barney @mollama @RiotDemon @sammydog01 this guy explains them coming untied:
/youtube Ted talk you’re tying your shoes wrong
@Barney @djslack @mollama @sammydog01 this is the knot I use! That’s what I meant by going backwards. Works great. Been using that for several years now. Barely have to retie my shoes.
@Barney @djslack @mollama @RiotDemon @sammydog01 The stupid thing is…it all depends on which way you tie the first knot…in the end you are just tying a square knot (if done right) or a “granny knot” if done wrong. The granny knot will come untied.
The best method is the “bunny ears” method but instead of just tucking one “ear” in you tuck both around…this ends up with a knot that NEVER comes undone on it’s own but is super simple to untie. I think they call it the Ians Secure knot:
@Barney @djslack @mollama @RiotDemon @sammydog01 Likely those whose shoes are coming undone aren’t making a square knot with the knot part of tying a bow (round the tree or bunny method).The video of the fast one, if you look carefully this is just another way of making a square knot with the tied part.
This incident is not my doing.
And I will only publicly confess my sins in completely illegible cursive.
/giphy “illegible cursive”
@f00l I kinda thought it wasn’t from you.
@Barney
I hope this unknown sender/instigator is not a
compleat f00l.
@f00l I believe there is only one compleat f00l around here.
@Barney
Everyone else just just a pretender.
/giphy “the pretenders”
Not I, but I wish I had thought of it.
@therealjrn Aw…
Innocent!! (Of this incident, at least!)
@mikibell And I loved my purple and almost purple scarfs.
Wow, he’s sporting some pretty nice duds there!
@moonhat He’s stylin’.
If I knew your address, it’s the kind of thing I would totally do. So…guilty in a metaphorical, Pilgrim’s Progress kind of way.
/giphy pilgrims progress
@UncleVinny I kinda thought it might be you.
Wish I could take credit. I like how someone thinks
And no. I do not want to confess my sins. No time and some have not been found out yet
@speediedelivery You still might have my address, but you moved and never gave me your new one.
No potato salad for you.
@Barney I tried to come and give you a hug but I didn’t want to drown.
I am sure I sent the right address. Just watch for the men on the white coats, they will help if you get lost again.
@speediedelivery Meanie.
@Barney @speediedelivery is it mean if it is well intentioned? Hehheehehehe
@Barney @mikibell I am a meanie. I also know nothing and I can’t hear you. ☻
heh… that’s pretty cool. but… does everyone here have your mailing address? lol… I know I don’t.
@lseeber Uh… Yeah, quite a few people do.
@Barney ok
@lseeber It’s probably not what should be done online, but… Oh, well.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Barney @lseeber I don’t have Barn’s mailing address either, lseeber. Maybe you and me are the only ones. Sigh.
@lseeber @moonhat Just check around. I think someone’s selling it for a buck. Phone number costs extra.
Just don’t give it to @cinoclav. Or maybe charge him $5. I hear he has a lot of Meh coupons.
@Barney @lseeber @moonhat And I could use one of those coupons to send you something nice. But you won’t tell me where to send it!
@Barney @cinoclav @moonhat
@cinoclav I’m smarter than I look.
@Barney Said to the guy with all the coupons.
@cinoclav Said to the guy with coupons for Meh. Yep, I’m smarter than I look.
@Barney But you’re here all the time, you must love their products!
Btw, why wouldn’t you trust me to send you something delightful?
@cinoclav Sure I trust you, but I can’t think of anything I need. Seriously.
And I’m here, not for what Meh sells, but because I like the people (and staff) who hang out on the forum.
@Barney @cinoclav
/giphy d’awww
it could have been me, but i probably would have secretly written “fuck” somewhere on the raincoat. so, if you don’t see that, it wasn’t me.
@carl669 I’ve looked all over the raincoat for your magic word and I don’t see it. So if you are asking me if you sent Barney, it looks like you didn’t.
@Barney phew. you never know what i’ll do at the post office when i’m drunk.
@carl669 maybe then send @Barney this cross stitched piece of work and she will know for sure it is you.
It’s only a sin if you believe it is.