euchrid

Lawless

(as in Blackie Lawless - W.A.S.P)

Another successful and highly enjoyable heelmeet in my view. I disappointed myself by failing to try or buy any shoes/boots all day (apart from the ones loaned to me by Firefox when we got to the Riverside Tavern - cheers pal). There was lots of browsing and watching Tara trying stuff on but that was it. So, nil points to me for wearing heels in public this time - Riverside, being a GLBT venue, didn't count! Yes, I'm a yellow-bellied chicken and I know it. It actually seemed fairly quiet in the shopping centre (visitor-wise). Numbers picked up through the day but it was still far from being busy when we left at about 4:30. The Bluewater malls are all wide and open and have hard-tiled floors. I realised straight away that us heelers would stand out a mile in there. There's also the omnipresent CCTV cameras and wandering security men keeping an eye on you so this is definately not the ideal heel-wearing venue for shy and retiring types (like myself!). That said, it has a great selection of shoe-selling outlets and so is probably an excellent place to go to during the sales when bigger crowds would also help the nervous heeler to 'disappear' a little more.

A good selection of footwear related competitions here if anyone is into that sort of thing (mostly UK entry only - sorry to our USA & European heelers!):-

http://url.traq.it/hosted/faith/tenthousand/

http://www.nwdaily.co.uk/CompetitionsView.aspx?id=3821

http://www.shoestudio.com/fcp-cms/CompetitionPage1/content

My train ticket to Greenhithe has been bought & only £30! b***** daylight robbery! I'll see you guys tomorrow then. Here's looking forward to a serious retail therapy session.

Prince

(Little Red Corvette)

Superpowers

Sprite

Fashion

Desktop

motionless

Lightning

Power.......................

Man ------------------------------ as in The Omega Man - Chuck Heston movie

Nope. Never have. Highly unlikely that I would either. Despite all our company policies outlawing discrimination, unprofessional conduct, verbal abuse, etc., the ribbing would be absolutely merciless. And I work in an office, not on a construction site BTW!

Love apple

I liked those black shoes. It's a stupid programme though. I rarely find it amusing. Too much canned laughter. I always thought it was a European programme (made in Netherlands or Belgium or some such). Hence the total absence of audible dialogue in any of the clips.

Tom Cruise

It wasn't only reported in the Soaraway Scum. Here's a more high-brow version of the same story.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2061288,00.html

So, any decisions been made about this yet? I'm still keen as mustard, personally. Also happy to change the date to Fri 14th Sept if it suits others better. I spent last friday wandering around the shoe shops of Watford to investigate future heelmeet possibilities there. There was a fair few big names on offer - Next, New Look, River Island, Faith, Dune, Schuh, etc. Their Debenhams only had a small shoe selection though. I did no trying on myself as I had Captain Paranoia on my shoulder all day . I had a few furtive rummages though (oo-er). In Stead & Simpson, i'm sure the female assistant hid herself behind a display rack to keep an eye on me. She's obviously never seen a bloke in the women's dept. before!

The 'War On Terrible Shoes' gathers momentum:-

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007410358,00.html

Excellent!

Scientology

Nope. They are too extreme for me. And that's before considering the 'interesting' colour scheme.

If we are expecting others to respect our choice, lets not go on crusades against others personal choices hmmm?

I'm with you on that.

Although I detest the stupid things, I wouldn't trample on other peoples' right to wear them.

I'm not bothered that Crocs exist - there are plenty of ugly/rubbish/stupid shoes out there after all - I just abhor the sheep-like mentality of the wearers (or the majority of them) who wear them because other people are wearing them and because they are 'trendy'. Exactly as happened a few years ago with those idiotic backless 'slip-on' trainers which were taken up by Jade Goody and her ilk.

Now ...............................................

goth (IMO emo = goth-lite!)