Skirted-UK

My local golf course has it's own bore hole. The water is pumped up during the day and stored in a reservoir. The course is automatically watered during the night, each Hole and Tee has it's own sprinkler which pops up when in use. The prices that our local water company charge would make it too expensive to use tap water. Can't see what people see in Golf anyway!

Hi Daz, Back in the early 90's before women were allowed to wear trousers in banks, my local TSB bank issued it's female staff with long navy straight skirts. They were very 50's style with a small pleat at the back instead of a slit. I thought they looked great, but I heard that the were not popular with the women because of the limited movement they had in these skirts. I think today it would be impossible for an employer to issue such a uniform style, as women could claim that it was hazardous.

This business of who can wear skirts and who can't seems to be taking a new twist. Not so long ago when school governors were mostly men, female pupils and staff were not allowed to wear trousers. Now that a lot of school governors are women, it seems to be going in the opposite direction. See this link below from the BBC News about a school that is banning girls from wearing skirts!

There appears to be a strong anti-skirt movement here in the UK amongst women, who having won the right to wear trousers now want to see skirts banned. Only two years ago a mother challenged her daughter's school rule of skirts only for girls. She claimed her daughter's skirt was a hazard as she would not be able to run in it in an emergency. This was nonsense as the skirt in question was a flared mini.

With women giving all this bad publicity to skirts, I can see a time in the not too distant future when they will outlawed at work and school on health and safety grounds.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3823551.stm

On the other side of the argument are school boys like 15 year old Ed Ellson who wore a skirt a school in protest at the trousers only rule for boys. The surprising thing about this was that he was supported by his mother, who give him one of her straight black skirts to wear. You have to admire the lad, it takes a lot of bottle to go to school wearing one of your mother's straight skirts!. But with his shoulder length hair and his age I don't suppose many people took much notice. See the link below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3796163.stm

Sophia Loren, (They don't make them like that anymore )

Nice to see you back Laurie.

It's good to see you back Gene, it's been a bit dull without you. !

I find women in trousers a complete turn off Sorry

Not true. If is has come off at the heel/shoe it can be often fixed by drilling deep holes and inserting screws. I guarantee a repair done this way will be stonger than the original and I can prove it by calculation

If the tube has broken, the heel will need to be replaced.

I have repaired 4" heels that have come off the shoe by using screws and high power Araldite, and as you say it is much stronger than the original nail fixing.

I think tights/stockings look good on women, but not when worn with sandals. I tried tights but I gave up on them in the end. I found that they were just too much trouble, they are difficult to get on and they ladder easily. The cheaper ones seem to be made of a very abrasive fabric which drags on the hemline of a straight skirt when walking, which I find irritating. The best tights I found are Elbeo Caress support tights, they are very strong and have a slippery texture which does not cline to the hemline of a skirt. They were difficult to get on and are expensive at £7.00 a pair. The only advantage I found with tights is that they make high heel court shoes more comfortable. Nowadays I prefer to wear court shoes and a skirt with bare legs. I much prefer to feel the lining of a skirt on my bare legs, specially in the winter when it's cool.

Do the red and green labels mean they are not a pair?

Oh,silly me, I just realised its a nautical thing isn't it, to show left and right.

Emma

Red = Port, Green = Starboard. Easily remembered by the phrase "The ship left Port" (Port wine is Red)

I just thought I would chuck this in Emma, you never know you might be out with a load of Sailors one night and want to impress them.

It's great to see you back Anita!

I'd like opinions and medical advice about this.

Is it possible to slighly modify the shape of your feet without harming them by wearing tight pointed toe boots for short periods of time. Wearing never exceeds 30 minutes at once, or even less if it becomes inconfortable.

I do this since two months now, 30 mins morning, 30 mins midday and 30 mins in the evening without any discomfort, my feet are slowly taking a nicely "arrow" shape, but I'd like to know if its dangerous to continue ...

We all start off wearing high heel shoes with pointed toes for short periods of time, but after 25 years or so it turns into a long time and you end up with feet like Dr Shoe and myself.

I have worn 4" stilettos for the last 25 years, at the time that was all I could get in women's shoes in my size. My toes have now compacted into the toe shape of a pointed toe stiletto shoe and the 4" heels have given me muscular calves and shortened the tendons in my legs.

Unlike Dr Shoe my compacted toes don't cause me any problems, but I would hate a Chiropodist to see them.

My shortened tendons on the other hand can be a problem, they feel tight and painful if I walk for long distances in flat shoes and on several occasions I have pulled the Achilles tendons in my legs by running or jumping. This is extremely painful and lasts for a week or so.

The bottom line is, if you wear women's shoes for long enough you will eventually end up with women's leg and feet problems.

I bought a pair of these Vivian Loafers from www.womenshoesplus.com last week to wear in public. They are very comfortable and look and feel like men's shoes.

The problem is that they are more difficult to drive in then a pair of 4" stiletto courts. The 3" block heel makes it difficult to depress the clutch fully and there's not much room between the transmission tunnel and the clutch peddle.

I was surprised to find that I have to use a completely different technique to walk in them. I seems strange not being able to pivot on the heels and angle these shoes when walking. I have never owned a pair of 3" block heels before, they seem very strange after the instability of stilettos.

[ I have worked on Meteors, Vampires, Dakotas, Canberras, Neptunes, C130A and E, Mirages and finally Machi. Didnt get to work on F111s. I have worked on all these doing every thing from preflights, A service through to D services on the Hercs and also in the aircroft depot where all the instrumention is overhauled. Jeff

We will miss you Anita

Talking about women shaving their legs. When I was last in Russia I noticed that a lot a smartly dressed Russian women do not shave their legs. One young woman I saw on the underground was very expensively dressed in a leather skirt suit and a fir coat. Her make-up was immaculate, she looked like a model. She was wearing a pair of 4" heel black patent court shoes, she had great legs but under her nylons you could see that they were covered in black hair. I thought it looked strangely sexy on such an attractive woman.

My legs are covered in thick black hair. I used to feel very self-conscious in shorts, I got so fed up with people making funny remarks about them that one day I shaved the lot off. Since then I have not looked back. The cool satin lining of a straight skirt feels wonderful on freshly shaved legs. The only drawback is that I have to shave my legs twice a day to keep them smooth. Once you start shaving your legs you have to do it once a day or they will feel very prickly and itchy if you leave it too long, but I would hate to have hairy legs again.

I am annoyed that the BBC has lost a good Director General while we are still stuck with Tony Blair. It would have been better for all of us if Tony Blair had resigned and Greg Dyke had stayed on. Things in this country just seem to get worse!

I have only been on this forum since last April, but the thing that impressed me most is what a nice friendly group of people your are. The moderators are excellent, in fact I would go so far as to say that Firefox is wasted here, he should be in the diplomatic service.

Nothing to do with high heels, but I would like to use this forum to congratulate NASA on their success in landing their Mars rover on the planet this morning.

Here are some of the outstanding images transmitted from the surface of Mars today. They are raw data images from the JPL website which have been processed using PhotoShop.

Dead Duck A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgery. As she lay her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, "I'm so sorry, Cuddles has passed away." The distressed owner wailed, "Are you sure? "Yes, I am sure. The duck is dead," he replied. "How can you be so sure," she protested. "I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something." The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room, and returned a few moments later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head. The vet patted the dog and took it out, and returned a few moments later with a beautiful cat. The cat jumped up on the table and also sniffed delicately at the bird. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room. The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck." Then the vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill which he handed to the woman. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!" she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead?!!" Are you ready for the "punch line"............ The vet shrugged. "I'm sorry. If you'd taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan .........

Once upon a time, a perfect man and a perfect woman met. After a perfect courtship, they had a perfect wedding. Their life together was, of course, perfect. One snowy, stormy Christmas Eve, this perfect couple was driving their perfect car along a winding road, when they noticed someone at the side of the road in distress. Being the perfect couple, they stopped to help. There stood Santa Claus with a huge bundle of toys. Not wanting to disappoint any children on the eve of Christmas, the perfect couple loaded Santa and his toys into their vehicle. Soon they were driving along delivering the toys. Unfortunately, the driving conditions deteriorated and the perfect couple and Santa Claus had an accident. Only one survived the accident. Question: Who was the survivor ? Answer: The perfect woman survived. She's the only one who really existed in the first place. Everyone knows there is no Santa Claus and there is no such thing as a perfect man. Women stop reading here, that is the end of the joke. Men keep reading ..... So, if there is no perfect man and no Santa Claus the woman must have been driving. This explains why there was a car accident. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

She sometimes wears some nice tight skirts on Countdown.