xaphod

Allyx, I have to be in London on Fri 19th Nov. Strangely enough, I will be wearing heels. Xa

Excellent .... another willing recruit to the cause. Welcome Xa

2. Most of the major towns around here are infested with "Chavs" and louts who mainly seem to come out at night. I am worried that they might spot me and give me a hard time - the last thing I need on my first proper outing. I have read that many of the guys on this forum have had their worst reaction from these types, so I need to research my route/location a little better - preferably somewhere I will not run into anyone I know.

What's the definition of 'Chavs' .... I can guess that it means yobs or people looking for a bit of bovver.

..... anyway, it's been said before that the best time to wear heels is in daylight when these characters don't feel so emboldened with lots of other people about.

Xa

Hi .... BTW has the track 'LA woman' by the Doors any significance ? I think genetics has some effect on predisposition to heely interest .... my father was always on at my mother to wear higher heels. As to wearing them himself, the 50s was waaaaay too repressed for him to even countenance this. Xa

TXT .... that makes 2 of us. not pleased Xa

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I was walking down Oxford St yesterday and overheard a woman on the phone behind me. My ears came on line when I heard 'and he's wearing heels'. ..... so I turned around and said 'and I'm listening as well'. She muttered something unintelligible and hurried along. I couldn't have kept up if I wanted to .... she was wearing Ugg (uuk) boots. Xa

These are too much like 'tit and bum' crap that slobbering unsophisticated pubescent boys might buy from a seedy bookshop. Not for this board, please. Xa

We still get Coupling in Canada, on BBC Canada :-) It's quite funny but more than a little odd. I think every guy in the show has had sex with every woman in the show. And by inference, one of the women maybe with another of the women. Ah, well, it's a good show. We don't get it too often but try to watch when it comes on. That and WRC.

As for why things bomb in the US, the theory aomgst some of the people I know is that with Briitish telly you need to know stuff (history, science, geography, etc.) whereas with American TV you need to laugh when the soundtrack tells you to (Pavlovian conditioning).

Yes, I'm a 'Coupling' fan. I think the Patrick and Sally trilogy (starts with Patrick dreaming that Sally phoned him at 3am for help in removing a spider from her bedroom) is 'sweet' on a simplistic level, but has so many undercurrents that multiple replays on a vcr are necessary to be aware of them all.

Xa

That was an interesting series calv (boy meets girl) and brought up some interesting points.

The Gender Swap programs have also been interesting (2 so far) but the choice of celebrities to do the swapping has been kind of strange, obviously done just to increase the difficulty factor.

Also did anyone see the "Transgender Teenagers" program in the UK ?

Chris, you didn't miss much ..... just the usual Channel 4 trying to use purient curiosity to sell something that was pretty third-rate.

Xa

The gutter press think it's OK, so I think street shots are OK. Xa

So where's this "limp wristed poofter" y'all are talking about...all I see is Xapod and his 4x4 ???

Rock on.......

But, Jim, you can see further through a brick wall than most people !

Xa

Um, I wouldn't have said 'limp-wristed poofter' myself. You look masculine to me, even in the skirt and boots. I think it's the skinhead look...

Yeah, image is important. But it can be all too deceptive.

The skinhead look does create confusion at times. It's more due to the fact that I have b.....er-all hair which looks pretty untidy if I grow it. This is the neatest it has ever been in my life !!!

Xa

Mausi ... Suggest a reasonable price in Euros and you can have them. They are size 40, in other words, a bit big for my size 39 feet. Xa

Hi, MPB, Whatever floats your boat .... if it's heels then you will find a sympathetic audience here. Do you wear your heels in public, I wonder. The whole glam-rock image would wreck people's heads, so the boots would be part of the overall effect. I also find that the idea of the whole image being offbeat is a better way to wear heels as opposed to standard male clothes with a kinky pair of shoes. Xa

Ellen-Jay:-)

Please don't let Heelfan's over-exuberance deter you from adding pics to your postings from time to time. ........ Cheers---

Dawn HH

Yes, HF, can get a bit ahead of himself, at times. He's actually a quite pleasant guy, but he is not necessarily aware that silent is an anagram of listen all the time.

Xa

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...... but what a pity that is all that the proles perceive. eg.

'Regular guy' doing serious work on his 4wd

Limp-wristed poofter posing with his 4wd

What a pity that I don't fit in any of the 'pigeonholes' above. Actually, all I am is me.

There are times that I don't mind if people, to feel comfortable, put me in some sort of social category, but there are other times when I find people's lack of imagination or breadth-of-mind intensely frustrating.

Xa

Hi, Jim,

Here's a pic of the gearbox on its way back to the rightful place. To the left of the blue connector you will see something that looks suspiciously like the mainsheet tackle for a sailing boat. Funnily enough, it is!

The mainsheet is run throught the hole in the body where the gearstick normally lives, to a wooden A-frame that I built in the passenger compartment. The blue scissors affair is the transmission jack.

Xa

OOps .... foulup. Things in my life are getting a bit complicated (buying and selling houses and all the other stuff), so I will be in the Channel Isles for that weekend. I am available for the next weekend, though. Xa

First w/e in Nov for preference, otherwise second. Xa

Aldo ... Hello, Aldo shoes, Fred speaking. xaph ... Oh, Hi. I bought a pair of boots from you on Friday, and I like them so much, I would like to buy another pair. Aldo ... Oh good, do you have the details? xaph ... Yes, I have the number on the sales ticket, will that do? Aldo ... Yes, fine. xaph ... 13------ Aldo ... hang on, they're ladies boots. xaph ... Quite right, I'm the guy who wears heels. The item number is 13-04-06-122_240 in size 39. Are they still on sale for £89.95 ? Aldo ... WOW --- sorry I'll check, sir. (keyboard noises). Yes, we have them. xaph ... OK, I'll be in on Thursday or Friday .... do you want a credit card number? Aldo ... No, Sir, that's not needed. We will put them aside until Friday for you. xaph ... OK, see you by Friday. Bye bye. Aldo ... (confused silence) Xa

..... well, it brings a smile to my face.

Xa

Yes, Jim, I'm pushing the envelope a bit, but if you are going to get laughed at when the proles see you have a pair of heels with normal male clothes, then you might as well go the whole hog and dress as you like. You might be interested in something I tried out, a variation on the 'all black look. Black T shirt, black leather trousers, but with the red Aldo boots from the above pic. Instead of hiding the boots, the colour was the thing that screamed 'look here'. I'm working out whether this 'works' or not still. Xa

It seems that there's an ALDO in Bluewater. I would find that interesting. Havn't been to Lakeside for over a year .... last time it was pretty boring, just like any UK high street. Xa

Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.

FRED..... FRED ...... come here

..... sorry, just calling my pet woodworm.

Xa