April 26, 2007

No seat on the Tube? Then these are the boots for you.
posted by some wander by mistake 17 years ago
  • That is the stupidest footwear ever created. Prove me wrong.
  • Surely if she weren't hanging in front of an empty seat, there would be a passenger either enjoying or resenting sniffing her fundament.
  • I WANT! I WANT!
  • And when the tube slams to an unscheduled mystery stop in the middle of a tunnel, said hangers will either slide along the rail like meat in an abattoir or bang together like Newtons Balls on an executive's desk. Worth the price of a All Zones ticket, methinks.
  • Hmmm, Newtons Balls. This is amusing on so many levels I can't even make a list. I like the idea of hanging riders' heads clicking when they bang together. As a person who gets nauseated just diving headfirst into a pool, and for whom gymnastics was a nightmare of dizziness, for myself these hold scant appeal. Unless, of course, they contained Richard Gere, a la American Gigolo.
  • She has to hold onto the straps with her hands. Otherwise, her feet would come right out of those. Also, if she did not hold onto the straps, then her head would be almost touching the ground and she constantly have things brushing up against her head/face.
  • I would like a simple clip or strap to hold my knees together when I'm on the train. They naturally fall apart and I have to hold them so as not to annoy my fellow commuters, which stops me relaxing / snoozing. But it would have to auto-release when I leap up to leave the train.
  • Hmmm these won't work on the Tokyo subway.
  • "That is the stupidest footwear ever created. Prove me wrong."
  • Sorry petebest - I'm trying to work out the connection between this and your link.....
  • for myself these hold scant appeal. Unless, of course, they contained Richard Gere, a la American Gigolo. posted by kinnakeet at 12:55PM UTC on April 26, 2007 Sorry, I thought it might have tripped a few people up. But y'gotta admit that's news (of some sort) and I don't think we have a Richard Gere thread. (do we?)
  • Oh!
  • Would it not go in the hamster thread?
  • This sort of human-appendix-design-mentality is great. I think a lot of people get wrapped up in the ancillary function rather than just appreciating the idea behind the form. To me they look like high heel shoes where the heel protrudes from the toe, rather than the heel. I wonder how springy they would be for people to walk in?
  • IC: You mean up walls and over ceilings? Dumb Idea. Fifteen minutes in the news, then ho-hum. Tick: Just what I thought, who needs somebody's butt in your face on the subway? Not that the trains don't occasionally smell like a giant butt, but still....