Highluc

Oh just be quiet and keep flippin' those waffles buddy! That is all that you people are good at anyway.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Although I initially thought of just not responding anymore (what I did for a while), I see other honest people on this board also getting harassed. Not only single people but complete nations being insulted. For me the pot is full. Out of curiousity I just checked out Turbo's profile and from there it was easy to get a view of ALL HIS POSTINGS (90) since he joined. I didn't find any single one talking about highheels. I do not understand the moderators of this board didn't intervene yet. This individual NEVER wrote anything CONSTRUCTIVE for this comunity and just created hamoc on non-heeled subjects and insulted many people and their respectful nations. This person should be banned from comments on this board unless they are polite and well thought. This board has been created by gentlemen and untill a few months ago has been instrumental in promoting the heel ideas from all genders, fashions, passions and even fetishes without any problems. Anybody infringing our friendly close community just to create trouble (if not the 3th world war) should be warned (in private e-mail by the board masters) to either behave and stick to the philosophy of the discussion board or leave. I'm tired of being insulted, and my proud compatriots ridiculed without valid reason. Either this will be stopped or I resign my membership of this board.

My God, it is true! The Belgians really have flipped just like their waffles!

No you idiot! This is some very simple math here. All you do is you take the amount of all of the idiots who were protesting this war (i.e., the ones who were marching in New York, London, Paris, Rome, etc.), of which, I assumed was a number of roughly 3,000,000 people and you divide it by the total population of human beings on earth today and multiply that figure by 100. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the total population of the earth is approximately 6,290,708,213.

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw

What I have just described above is a simple definition of percent error. If you don’t believe me then you can read the following book, of which I currently hold the first edition of in my library.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072431938/qid=1052068294/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8353900-7155125?v=glance&s=books

Since you are so well educated and so well versed (yea right, whatever!) I am surprised that you didn’t figure this one out already.

No I'm not an idiot and just return the ball by stating that with your reasoning even less than 0,0004 % of the earth's population decided that starting a war was the only solution, maybe that was the reason the United Nations were a bit reluctant to help out. :argue:

Most of the anti-war protestors (0.0004% of the earth’s population)

Hey, they use that Florida vote counting machine again.

What a coincidence, I'm also from the fifties and am also a great fan of long straight skirts which I now wear about 50% of the time. I also prefer them to be tight and restrictive and have the habit of sewing most slits closed, or having the seamstress install an extra zipper and take them in altogether, especially at the knees. The zipper at the bottom allows me to adjust the restriction according to what has to be done. If I have to step up a large step (bus etc) or run to cross a street, I open the zipper a bit more and close it again when walking normally. I'm wearing those since years and my way of walk is completely different know with my knees always close together, even in pants. Even getting in and out of cars I do differently, whatever I wear. While most people find these skirts uncomfortable I like the challenge and the feeling and never got tired of it. I'm glad they are back into fashion now and don't care if they only marketed for girls. I can now buy them in any store while 20 years ago I needed a seamstress to have them made because the style had completely vanished. I also like the mermaid style long skirts that are becoming popular. Skintight at the knees and widening below. The stretchy materials allow so much more styles as before.

Very nice and acceptable summer wear Robert. I've been driving my cars since more than 30 years in all kind of heels and never had problems.

Pathetic scums and trash of the world never have to explain anything. Over and OUT.

Every Brantano store in Belgium has a rack with size 42 ladies models but the choices are much more limited as the 40 or 41. You can check the available models through the Belgian Brantano website http://www.brantano.be/

You can enter either the french (right) or flamish (left) selection button on the bottom. Next select DAMES on the bar and when the shoe size selection comes up select what should come as 42 but says PLUS GRANDES POINTURES. You then will have to select the shoe type and style from the next choice page. Some pages have extras that can be selected at the bottom and only the size 42 (or above) models will be displayed. If you know the Brantano store you will go to (find them on the left bar under RECHERCHE DE MAGASIN) you can have the selected model(s) delivered free at that store ready for you to pick up when you come along. You'll get a confirmation mail you'll have to show to get your size 42.

Hoping this could help you and welcome to Belgium soon.

First of all you misspelled the word Asses with a capital or was this intentional to honnor the ones you worship?

The results of brainwashing by the "free US" media are amazing.

They are nothing but a bunch of do nothing Euros who like to draw up a resolution mandate and then not abide by it by any means

As far as I know, Euros is a word describing a currency, please specify what you understand by it.

Dr Shoe, I'll take you in a coalition, you sound well educated, unbiassed and are open for reasoning and accepting independant valid points.

No further comments from my part, a liberal free European person with a vision.

Nicole Kidman has lots of catch up to do regarding heels. If she had been able to persuade Tom Cruise in wearing heels she would have been a much happier person (maybe still married?), and we (the guys) would have had a perfect role model to get our shoe choices popularized and accepted a little more.

Hi Laury, I actually saw that happen on the wedding of a Belgian friend with an American girl last year. Both the bride and maids of honnor had matching white flip flops which they wore under their long bridal dresses as soon as the official part was finished and we proceeded for food and the party. It looked awful.

But yes, you could turn into a high heeled woman. The trouble with high heels is that they are very addictive, once you start wearing them there is no going back and before you know it, you got womans legs. I know it happened to me.

Sounds very familiar, as you can read on my website I already past that point of no return some time ago. Do any of you guys living on heels also have such problems (tendons and calves) when skiing for a week?

I hope there will be another heely meeting in the next few months, sure would be nice to meet you in real life!

Welcome back Lion. Those heely meetings don't come falling from the sky, somebody has to take the lead in that and it's not my turn anymore. Out of 28 Dutch people somebody should be capable of getting something going. Get organized, I'm sure a lot of our US, Australian, and other large countrymen (and girls) could just dream of such a concentration of same interest people and would have gotten together already. Go for it guys.

Hello Highluc and TallSwede,

I have made an initial test on the mist sandals. I wore them last night for 3 hours - at home though, as it was raining outside and cold too.

The heel is actually 4.5" when measured although in the catalogue it says 4". This has happened a lot lately with me so I am wondering if it because I have largish feet (UK 7). So to be honest I am used to shoes/boots upto 4" and therefore noticed the extra .5". The heels are really thin and lovely. The vamp is thin as it is one plait that opens up to the three strands on the inside of the foot (as per pic). My right foot was fine, but the single plait on the left foot over my little toe, after 2 hours started to hurt a little.

The ankle cuff is very thin and made up of the rear plait divided into two. I found that it did stay in place stangely enough but offered little support. Walking in them is like walking in mules. At first I tried walking in them as I would with normal ankle supported sandals and quickly realised that I had to change my tact as I was wobbling. I therefore treated them like mules and as I walked they behaved like a mule making that flip flop noise as the heels of my feet touched and left the heel of the sandals.

Unfortunately the only solid ground to test the heel noise was my kitchen, which is lino tiles and not the best for hearing a good click click click but in saying that I think they have good noise potential especially with the flip flop effect going on there too.

Is that enough of a test guys or do you want me to study these shoes more and make another report?

Julie xx

Hi Julietta, thanks to that test report of those Sacha ankle strap sandals I ordered a pair from Argos and got them delivered through Xaphod last weekend. Further reports by me of these fantastic sandals can be read on my website now. Julietta, thanks for the help, Tallswede, go get a pair somewhere.

When sitting in a Spitfire, you are almost at eye level of any heels around. I was looking through the right side and behind me (was driving in convertible mode). The car being from 1966 had no safety belts and my wife ended up having her forehead smashed into the windscreen. Although she never had to go to a doctor or missed any work, and no consequences other than a swollen forehead for a few days, I was convicted by court for involuntary harm to people costing me 400 Euros. Add to that the repair cost of the car of about 2500 Euros and you can see how heels can ruin your life for a while.

Sorry I think you misunderstood me, in Europe a caravan is also small house on wheels being trailed behind a car when going on vacation (mostly seen with Dutch licence plates crawling over the roads all year through ).

Second thoughts - don't answer it!!

I never even took pictures of stranger's shoes but can't defend myself against the jury anymore because I was silenced in the discussion.

I drove into a caravan that stood still on the road while I was watching a girl pumping gas who wore the same platforms wedges I was wearing. It cost me lots of money because I initially couldn't find a replacement bonnet for my 1966 Triumph Spitfire Mk2 and the old one was smashed beyond repair. Some people on this board saw the ruined bonnet in my garage, the car still hasn't been driven after a 4 year total restauration. anybody interested in buying?

Don't be too paranoid, The difference between a camera, a gun or knife is still pretty obvious and the man only makes pictures of feet and shoes, the rest remains hidden so I don't think privacy breach is a problem. PS: As a man living on heels (sometimes even in drag mode), I know what exposure and vulnarability means and I think I'm even more a target as any real girl or women.

Glad I helped somebody else discover the joys of heels. This person again proves the limitations are in our own mind and are worth surpassing.

Xaphod brought my new heeled sandals along from the UK, they are from Sacha London and are marked 8/42 on the box. On the underside of the soles, which are identical in length, one is marked 8/42 and the other 8/41. Actually they are much closer to a 41 as to a 42.

Hi, JH, Congratulations on your first purchase. Have you any ideas yet on where you want to go with your heel wearing, and what sort of heels you are thinking of buying next? This is xaphod on Luc's machine. We were in Brussels today doing something instead of shoe shopping .... I have another small passion which is architecture, so I'm afraid I dragged Luc all around the Victor Horta houses in Brussels. Where in Belgium are you? Xa

Hey, you hoopy froods, all these rumours about me hijacking the IIP drive ship are total dingoes kidneys ! xaphod .... one head, but 5" taller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ sorry, Stephen, sometimes we can get a bit carried away Normal service will be resumed when we work out what is normal in the first place.

Hi, Yam, If you have come across an 'azerty' keyboard, I'm using one of those at Luc's, so typos will be fast and furious. A variant on a typo is the wobbly mouth syndrome. I remember one my brother produced when he was learning the facts of life, refering to a 'sanity towel', as opposed to the other kind.

Just take a trip to Leatherworks in London, choose the colours you want, and any other variations you would like. Xa ( on Luc's crazy Belgian keyboard)

If ankle boots count as well I'm over 20 (but don't dare to count either). Any courageous person can count them for themselves on my website.