Cali

It's not a binary concept, but a continuum.

Those aren't my style either (tooo short of a heel), but there is no reason you couldn't wear them. The only thing holding you back is yourself.

3 minutes ago, Jkrenzer said:

My opinion, pants inside is just not comfortable and they ball up over the boot

Skinny Pants.

I mostly wear my boots on the outside without problems ever since I switched to hyper-flex soft pants.

Now the next question...

Pants inside (the boot) or outside (hiding the boot) or ?????

25 minutes ago, pebblesf said:

Yeah, I'm confused...  You didn't take your boots off when your height was measured?  Doesn't really make sense, maybe I misunderstood.  

Apparently @p1ng74 doesn't have to remove his boots, but my doctor's assistants always ask me to remove my shoes to measure my height.

They always ask me to remove my heels to measure my height.

It was Feb. yesterday and close to 80 F yesterday here;

Pre-pandemic, a few faculty (including me) wore high heels.  More administrators and their assistants did. Our lab faculty will almost never wear heels in labs.

12 hours ago, Chorlini said:

I don't get this trend you guys are talking about. No stiletto heels whatsoever being worn here in my neck of the words. And I work at a university that is 60% female students. At best only some 6cm chunky heeled boots. And those accursed designer combat boots of course.

It might be weather related. I'm in a temperate locale, so I might see more than someone in a colder area.  Don't the (women) faculty wear boots with heels?

30 minutes ago, 70splats said:

Love 70s platforms! Glad they're coming back. Spike heels are so uninteresting, and boring to me, just my opinion.

I like both at the same time, stilettoes with platforms. My Jessica Simpson knee high boots and booties give the best of both worlds.

Wearing stilettoes puts you a different frame of mind. On one hand you to have to be a little careful where you put your foot down, but on the flip side the power you get from them is amazing. They are power shoes for sure.

2 hours ago, SF said:

...... after all, how many heels can a guy have?  Can anyone answer that?  ha ha

The number of heels a person can have is limited only by one's storage ability. With me, its around 70.

However with the ability for storage units, that could easily exceed thousands.  But who has the time to wear them then. 

In the first article:

Lillian Stone wrote: “But wearing sky-high heels also takes serious self-assurance, even for the women onto whom painful footwear is traditionally thrust. Seeing a man strut in a hazardous shoe suggests an immense confidence.”

This is the misconception that pervades heels.  Heels don't need to be painful footwear.  I won't buy or wear painful footwear.  But many people will buy it, so manufactures continue to make and sell it as must have fashion designs.

1 hour ago, VirginHeels said:

I’m intending to use what I've ordered to get folk used to me in a 4 inch heel.

This made me laugh.

I remember when I switched to wearing women's shoes.  I was so happy to find shoes that fit my type of feet. I purchased my first booties with 2 inch heels. Remembering being afraid of the clicking noise.  But my friends notice right away I was now taller.  Especially true when you are eye to eye with them, then all of a sudden they are looking at your nose.  

I'll fill up twice tomorrow.

I put too many miles on my cars to keep them that long....250k miles and time for a new one. Or one of my kids crashes one.

I like the idea of constructing vaults along breakwaters so that wave surge can push and pull air through turbines.  You can compress gases but not liquids.

2 hours ago, Jkrenzer said:

You're kidding yourself to think solar alone will handle all that is needed.

I don't need to cover your needs, just need to cover my needs.  My friends with electric cars and solar panels spend under $20 a month on electricity and almost nothing on gasoline.

The electricity for the electrolysis needs to come from wind or wave.  We could also use the "water" from treatment plants to get the gas.

They now have H2 powered trains and ferries as well as cars and buses.

Individual power generating...solar. 

All these vehicles need a battery (potential energy storage) whether it's in the form LNG, gasoline, diesel, alcohol, geothermal, hydrogen, nuclear, .... or water.

Even the compress air cars in some countries, the cylinder is the battery.

I wear heels partly for orthopedic reasons. I have a middle eastern friend ask me why I don't wear "male" orthopedic heels, instead of the heels I wear.  Answer is simple: they are clumsy, ugly, expensive, and since they are made for a man's foot, they don't fit. I love the variety in my heels.

If you look closely, many are 2.5 inch heels with a 2.5 inch platform. I would NEVER wear any one of those heels and I like platforms. They are just ugly and clumsy and shiny.

I know, you need the time to fix the batteries in your robot.  Come back a visit anytime.

Costco is a funny place. Since I am almost always in heels I get recognized upon entry. There is one membership checker that will always compliment me on my heels. I usually have at least one other encounter every time I visit Costco. Last visit it was two shoes encounters (posted in CailWorld) and another one where a women blocked my entrance into a chill room to tell me she loved my chetah hoodie and mask.

Sounds like a software issue or a faulty energy gauge on the batteries. I heard schnaps can help.

Sorry. but I love my platforms.  

34 minutes ago, at9 said:

You've given me a first opportunity (outside of maths lessons) to use the word "frustum".

You have never been to a circus then.