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3 hours ago, hiddenheels said:

While that sucks, you can look at the silver lining and buy more heels...

The good old ones are long gone and most of new ones are like the second act of a very bad play- not worth the cost of admission and not for my budget.

It seems like the quality of the materials and the workmanship has changed for the worse over the years and my shoes do not last half as long as similar ones did in the past.

Going to the Goodwill store is like going on an Easter egg hunt. You never know what you will find there. 

This contest is looking like Groundhog Day. It does not know when to end.

I think the biggest drawback to clear/ plastic shoes is that they don't 'breath' like leather or cloth shoes and cause the feet to sweat more than usual, making your feet uncomfortable.   

Putin and company are already too late. The ghetto kids in Watts, East Palo Alto and Oakland have already succeeded in screwing up the English language years ago.

The 'expert analyst' can prove anything with statistics and surveys. It's just a matter of how they word their questions for them to get the answers they want to hear and to put those answers out as facts or so called truth.

Some of the roads in my area would make excellent tank traps. If the Russian army ever comes this way they would be stuck in rush hour gridlock or the roads themselves would defeat them. 

1 hour ago, nzfreestyler said:

I understood Amanda and Megan were going to judge this at a later date based on the frequency and number of posted entries.

With out a deadline, how will you know when it is time to print the paper?

There are more than plenty of entries to be judged. It is quite clear that some of the entries will not make it past the first round. However, there are plenty of other entries that merit being in the final four.

This contest has been going on since January. Has anyone set a closing date for entries?

With so many great pictures, a multiway tie is likely. Perhaps our fearless leader Tech should be the tiebreaker and decide the ultimate winner.

16 hours ago, Shyheels said:

Sure, but alas, editors know better. I’m the guy they send off to Chad or New Guinea...

Hopefully it was not Lae, Papua New Guinea. I have been there my self, and that place is an absolute dump.

A shoe with what looks like Legos for the heels??? I hope that does not go main stream fashion.

The first picture, the guys with the hats, look like a bunch of Harry Potter clones that escaped from a tacky golf course. 

Hairy legs with a kilt is appropriate if you are in a Highland infantry regiment like the Back Watch or the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, but then again you would be wearing combat boots, and all of your mates would also have hairy legs. 

Spikemike probably has the same problem I have with open toed shoes. My toe nails are total disaster areas and are cringe worthy to look at and need to be kept hidden. 

3 hours ago, Puffer said:

... and I see that there is also a setting for 'heel height' - 'High' or 'Med'.   

I take it that that the heavy cycle is for your combat boots.

Awful thought on this.  Santa Claus in fur trimmed short shorts, fishnet hose, black knee high stiletto boots, and don't forget the dark sunglasses.

2 hours ago, luketheduke8 said:

What about these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ladies-Fur-Platform-PU-Leather-Platform-Stiletto-Heels-Pumps-Size-UK-2-53456-HOT/162591532150?var=461594635831&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D46150%26meid%3D62e900b153c640de99592d8ff88d62e2%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D162591532150&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

i weirdly like them 

They would make nice shoes for the bedroom, but not outside.

Shoes that belong on a cartoon character. Not to be worn by a real person.

Depending on your body shape, a dead president like Nixon or Theodore Roosevelt is always a uncontroversial option.  

5 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

I have never heard of anything quite this extreme, I don't really see how they think they can control people's behavior that closely, like forbidding the crossing of legs. Even if there is sound science to it, how are you going to control that? You can buy all the fancy ergonomic stuff in the world, but you can't make people use it.

As a former (and maybe future) "safety guy" at work, I like to think I strike a good balance between putting everybody in bubble wrap and practicality. The creation off OSHA (or its equivalent elsewhere) was a major step in protecting the ordinary worker from unscrupulous employers, but like most things of this nature, it can become absurd. Having said that, I have to admit that I kind of laugh at "office safety." I know there are serious concerns, some of which have been addressed here, but honestly, I work with my hands over my head much of the time, and there is always the potential of being killed violently by chance at any given jobsite, particularly projects with large equipment and machinery.

I regularly deal with MSHA- the OSHA people that deal with mines and quarries. Yes they do go to extremes. The inspectors are very full of themselves. I have only met 2 kinds of MSHA inspectors- those who think they are gods, and those who know they are gods. 

Unless there is something offensive in the background, the background is irrelevant. It's the heels up front that counts.

The third video kind of reminds me of Harpo Marx chasing a girl around a movie set. 

Age is just a number on the scorecard of life. What counts more is attitude, health, an how you look and feel in what you choose to wear. If you have good health, have a positive attitude, look and feel great wearing your heels and clothes,  then age becomes irrelevant.

Inspired by Japanese footwear?