jmc

. . . The one really doesn't influence the other.

Yeah, you're right. Further, I would say the one enhances the other -- I am all that much more appreciative of a woman wearing heels well given that I have a deeper understanding of what she is really doing.

I could be surrounded by a roomful of well-heeled women (oh, Nirvana!) and upon returning home I would have an unstoppable desire to slip on a pair of my own heels.

This is the kind of behavior that gives all us heel-wearing guys a bad reputation.

Welcome aboard, Freddy!

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Does any have any idea why we are (in my case anyway) compelled to wear high heels? Quite a common theme is trying on mummy's heeled shoes when young? . . .

We get into that question rather deeply around here -- look around through the threads -- especially in the "For the Guys" section. The topic comes up a lot so those threads are always getting bumped to the top of the list.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah let me think about that.....

It's a no-brainer for me!

Those red heels catch the eye -- and hold it!

Good to see you back, Adeana. Hope you had an enjoyable night out :-)

Isn't it amazing how we just need to collect more and more! . . .

And I cannot remember ever seeing a closet full of standard-issue men's shoes!

washtub

one event could be a visit to Leslie Shoe Company....They're in the western Mich area, aren't they?

Uhhh, sorry. They're in Rogers City -- northeastern Mich. It's a good 300-mile drive from the Holland area.

I was just wondering, if your partner was female and wore heels all the time, especially for you. Would you still have a need to wear heels yourself or would that desire need be satiated at all?

I'm pretty sure I would want to wear them myself anyway. Heels are beautiful on a female foot, lovely to watch, delicious to hear and intriguing to see.

But the feeling! Oh, the feeling! Eye candy is great but the real appreciation comes from the experience.

Hose are thinner when compared to socks so they take up less space inside shoes -- a big plus for bigfoot guys that have to skimp on shoe sizes. The nylon material is a lot slipperier than socks too -- it slides into shoes much better. Take it into consideration. . .

Ouch! That heel looks like a piece of pipe. They must be quite heavy. It looks like you are a rather accomplished metal-crafter.

The black and red patterns are very striking. You will get noticed!

Are they still in business?

Ronco is still very much around, as is Ron Popeil (although he is retired now).

Besides, the military has used "radiation hardened" chips for decades. So what's to stop the private sector from buying those same chips?

Price. Radiation-hardened chips are pricey. I don't see anybody shucking out the $$$ for rad-hard RFID tags no matter how nosey they are. Further, RFID tags have to be somewhat sensitive to radio-frequency energy -- it is kind of a necessity for that application. A highly-directed beam of intense RF energy will reduce them to amorphous silicon, regardless of how hardened they were. At that point they will be no more responsive than a handful of beach sand.

White is technically a non-color, like black.

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That brings to mind one of my time-honored "Mars-Venus" comparisons. Ever notice that women recognize at least 14 different shades of white? There's "cream", "eggshell", "off-white", "snow", "Navajo", "bone", "sand", "seashell", and many more too numerous to mention, most of which are virtually indistinguishable to men. To men, in fact, white is pretty much the absence of color! Women recognize a far larger spectrum than men do. Men distinguish more than the basic Crayola-8 set but for men, a lot of the Crayola-64 set are pretty much redundant!

It's good that they cleared that up

chrominance

"hence 4 wkd pairs in selfridges"

What does "wkd" mean? I've noticed it being used quite a few places.

Technically, "wicked".

But in Internet-text-messaging-ese, it's a very good thing, like the way inner-city types say "baaaad" to mean "really good".

Because I like em'!...

Can't get any easier than that!

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campfire

It's ironic that we call country "The Land of the Free". We are already the most tracked, catalogued, analyzed and dossiered people on the face of Planet Earth. Our buying habits are already tracked through credit and debit cards while our online activities are tracked through Internet cookies. Go to a store you haven't dealt with before and make a purchase with a credit or debit card. Chances are very good you will soon begin receiving sales flyers from that store -- they tracked your mailing address through the card. Most of this data mining is performed by the private sector to track our buying habits, to target marketing campaigns and to drive product development. But I think the RFID tracking is going to be considered a step too far. For those concerned about privacy, I can visualize the "RFID zapper" -- a device that overloads the RFID tag and burns out the chip to render it inert. It will be available on underground web-sites first, then Ronco will come out with one on the Home Shopping channel (RFID tagged, of course). Then it will hit the shelves at Wal-Mart. Come to think of it, I'd bet an RFID tag wouldn't last long in a microwave oven!

Will, should you ever drop back in and see this, there's something you might want to consider.

Your wife comes across as a cold and calculating woman. You have to deal with her on that level.

Let her waste some money on the psychiatrist . . . and save the bills. Then, when you have collected the charges for a couple of sessions, point out the vast difference in pricing between an hour of couch-time at the shrink's and a nice pair of boots at Nordstrom (or wherever). You can stock a pretty big shoe closet with the amount of money you'd spend on any psychiatrist. (only half-joking here!)

On a more serious note, she obviously thinks there is something wrong with you. I'm sure I'll have a lot of agreement when I say that she might benefit from a psychiatric session herself. She sounds far too controlling for a healthy relationship, and you might want to go into this with the psych. It sounds like she wants to simply dominate your individuality with the force of her persona and that is not healthy for your marriage. Before it's all over, she's going to have to spend some time on that couch too. It might not get you into a pair of heels but it might help out in other facets of your life together.

[i'm so sorry, using this forum...

many thanks to all of these hundreds of people who have read my stupid thoughts. may be...I can't change the world...not the whole and also only one member of it... i'm sorry, when nobody can't understand my stupid comments... I think, i'm an allien...with all my seltsamen verhaltensweisen..my head is not clean,...but what is the exact clean terrain of beeing? what's the correct beeing ?

To wear, what I want...that is one thing, what I can do...in some special way I know....the other people the round will laugh and will pack me in a bottle described "a lonley fool". but... they are not wrong...I'm lonely in panthyhose, with booted heels... o yeah... a man in the dust is also a lonley cowboy....lol -) have a nic day, wek...and what you ever want...DO IT!

shortskip

I see no reason for you to be sorry. It sounds like you are struggling the same issues the rest of us are. We are all weighing issues such as the desire to be different, the sting of not being accepted for what we are, possible consequences of not being accepted (some real and some imaginary), what this means about our identity, how it affects personal relationships, on and on. . .

We all come up with our own answers, each from our own perspective. I see nothing "stupid" about anything you have posted.

Hospital ("Mercy" seems to be a common name for hospitals around here.)

. . .There was also a man who worked there that constantly tried to take a look. I even spilled my water on the table and he can over to help out. I said thank and he said no problem....while at the same time looking at my boots.... I think he liked them. . .

He was probably thinking "I wonder if I could get away with that?"

Sounds like a fun outing.

Merged the "adjustable heels" threads.