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ETA: The inability to display threads in RCO is particularly problematic for longer threads, such as the 960+ post threads like the one kneehighs did.

i prefer last post at the top but fortunately there forum software has a feature that is possibly even better than this. Clicking the dot or star to the left of the thread title takes you to the most recent unread post in that thread.

Would it be possible for one of the mods to sensitively tweak titles with particularly bad howlers? It would give you something to do lol. I honestly don't feel it matters too much in the posts, which are written colloquially anyway, but the titles are our public face.

I like sensible titles. The universal "Help please" is about as unhelpful as you can get. At one level it's self policing. Threads with badly worded titles will get less attention and die out sooner. Another way is to rely on the reporting system so that members can flag unhelpful titles. It's essential that they suggest a better title in the report. This shares the burden.between members and the team.

You boy! You've been abusing apostrophes again! Write out one hundred times: "I must not abuse apostrophe's" [sic] I still tend towards Shaw on the subject. Complete abolition, even for greengrocer's [sic]. I know you can contrive sentences where the apostrophe is critical to the meaning but its [sic] not hard to avoid problems in practice. i seem to be a bit [sic] this morning.

Not sure what happened to my previous post. I was having trouble posting and part of it seems to have been repeated. (Edit by Dr. Shoe: The post in question has no been corrected!)

Pugilism isn't my style, but if anyone wants to go toe to toe with me on lingistics I'll see them outside LOL. I may be little, but I'm tough!

OK big girl, I'm up for it. Semicolons at dawn! And keep your filthy participles off my gerund. http://childrensbook...it-in-one-of-my

Back to capitalisation. First Direct are an excellent bank but surely spelling their own name without capitals is false modesty: http://www2.firstdir....com/1/2/��Does CaMeLcASe give you the hump?

However, it is quite correct to use an apostrophe to pluralise nouns of foriegn origin. Therefore banana's is quite correct! (source: Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss)

I don't have a copy of ES&L to hand but I would find it very strange to use an apostrophe in any plural. I try to avoid them even in plurals of acronyms etc. I agree that they are hard to avoid in expressions like: "Dotting of i's" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Use_in_forming_certain_plurals

The good doctor is certainly right to say that usages have changed and evolved. It would now be considered very old fashioned to put dots between the letters of (say) BBC or UNESCO. Commas at the ends of lines of addresses now also look archaic.

Somewhere between pedantry* and sloppiness have we not lost the soul (sole?) of this discussion? *From the Uxbridge Enlish Dictionary.... Pedantry: The art of fiiting footware to the Formicidae family

There is a good cobbler NE London. I......

You might mean Achilles at "The Craftsman" in HAckney. http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1247/98409.php

Dear doctor, on titles I think we are agreed. In other forums (fora?) unhelpful thread titles like "help please" or even worse "HeLp PlEaSe!!!!!!!!!!!!!" usually lead me to ignore the thread altogether. Do you realise how painful it was to type that abomination. To a large extent I reckon it's self policing. Unhelpful titles mean that many will ignore the thread so it will die early. As for smilies, I'll use them sparingly. Forum language isn't the formal prose of a book or even a newspaper. Few of us when posting have the leisure to choose our words with the same care that we might use in a piece of written work. Nor does forun language carry the fine nuances of the spoken word. Smilies are a shorthand for expressing emotions, can indicate a tone of voice and can even be a partial replacement for body language. Now I'm starting to sound like a teacher! I am not now, and never have been, a member of the............teaching profession. Americans and Tom Lehrer fans will understand that remark

I fully agree with Meganiwish, the good Dr and Tacchi Alti about good English. I enjoy reading it and attempt to write it. But let's not forget that this is a High Heels Forum, not an English Language Forum (deliberate use of capitals). There are also members for whom English is a foreign language, some may be dyslexic and others may be less able to write good English. My own pet hates are ALL CAPITALS and walls of text.

Web page doesn't have an english version - - Never took french - -

Google translate does a fair attempt: http://translate.goo...3/05/easy-boys/

There's quite a lot of colloquial french in there which I really don't understand and doesn't translate well in google

Thank you. I've just deleted loads of stuff. I was still getting messages from people, but maybe that was because they were replying to ones I'd sent, so I assumed the computer just tucked the excess ones away somewhere, down the back of the sofa or in an old biscuit tin (cookie jar?). I can be a bit dim sometimes.

Down your way I believe the excess messages are culled by Norman invaders spearing them in the eye

Havn't watched it for years. Surely many a platform boot fetish was started by Abba :-)

I have done in the past. I've got children out in the world and I hope if they need it someone will. They're going to be walking around New York shouting 'I Like Kicks', aren't they?

Just over a year ago I met somebody who had just about run out of options about where to stay. Ended up in my spare room for a week or two. That break was enough for them to find their way back to some semblance of normality.

What people injure themselves with their own clothes and then sue someone?

Americans.

I have this style of Doc Martens clogs in both black and brown. Very comfortable, have worn them outside many times. Unfortunately no longer available.

http://www.clogs.co.uk/cat_barclog.htm

Ha! I managed to foul up posting a link AGAIN. I wonder if this is better. Yes, it works. Yippee!

I've been to the factory when I was up in Yorkshire last year and had a look round the showroom. I like clogs but wasn't really in a buying mood that day. I spend many days wearing classic "Sanita" clogs. they may not be the most beautiful of shoes but they are certainly comfortable.

Yesterday my partner and I were unexpctedly given a pair of tickets for White Mischief "Royal Jubilee Gala" http://www.whitemischief.info/ We were told it was a Victorian/Steampunk event. We are not people who go mainstream "clubbing" and weren't too sure about how to dress. We did our best and looked OK. We were possibly the oldest people there:smile: Yes, I did wear heels though nothing spectacular, kneehigh boots with 2.5" heels over leather trousers

OK, not many men in heels but plenty who had taken a lot of time and trouble on their appearance and clothing. Certainly nobody in baggy jeans or other "streetwear". There is hope yet for both the male of the species who likes to dress up and the female who is proud to see him doing it.

If I had worn my 5" stiletto thigh boots I would not have felt at all out of place though my feet are not comfortable enough in them to have been happy doing so. My partner loves seeing me wear them.

Unless you are a natural born woman,.....

Under current legislation that should also include those who have fully completed M>F transition and are legally recognised as women. Such a person should have no need to mention that they are TS in a forum like this or in most other places for that matter.

That doesn't alter the rest of the argument. Anyone who is still legally male, regardless of how they present or dress is still male and according to forum rules may not claim to be female. That's purely a matter for Tech and his team - if you don't like the rules, nobody is forcing you to join.

Leatherworks of London do a pair of knee length and thigh length in rubber.l

There has been recent discussion about whether Leatherworks still exist. The consensis is that they don't and that the website is orphaned.

I tried on a similar pair recently, at the TripleL Latex stall at London Fetish Fair. It's like walking on your toes all the time, except that if you relax your calf muscles you will fall over backwards. Fun to try but definitely not something for me to buy.

I love her acute and accurate powers of observation:

Men Were in Heels During the Time of Louis XIV

He wore heels all the time. He was photographed in heels as well.

PS: Louis XIV died in 1715, almost a century before photography was invented.

Puffer and I did taxation of high heels as an April fool spoof a year or two back. This guy was a few days late for 1/4/2012:smile:

Some of us here may well use HH as part of fetish activities and that's fine. Others purely as a matter of fashion freedom. Or any mix of the two. That's all perfectly fine and dandy.

There are plenty of places where HH as a fetish can be discussed. Fetlife has already ben mentioned. Informed Consent is another place. I'm sure there are plenty more.

After years of trial and error HHP has evolved to become a HH fashion forum where all genders are equally welcome. As such it's unique and judging by the number of active members it's successful in that role.

It's a free world, nobody is forcing anybody to become a member of HHP but if you want to discuss HH as fetish then it's just not the right place. You wouldn't go into a greengrocers shop to buy a chicken.

Lol, this made me laugh... What is "south yorks"?

If you google it you will find out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yorkshire

Residents of that county, well north of London, often (mistakenly of course) think of it as the capital of the universe.