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Monday - Open Thread | 259 comments (259 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Fran , You missed this one from July 29, 2007:

RussiaToday : Features : Moscow girls run glamorous race

Not every woman can manage walking on high heels - and sprinting in them is way more challenging. The "High Heel Race" competition attracted about 100 eager participants, keen to prove nothing is impossible for Russian girls.

Watch the hilarious video.

Sillyness-Award cum laude!

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 02:45:38 PM EST

Re: Crazy Russians. (4.00 / 3)

LOL, thanks ElcoB! Just crazy!!

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 02:52:32 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (4.00 / 5)

13 seconds is really fast

by zoe on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 02:54:02 PM EST
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I'd really love to be able to wear heels more than I do, but the pain of those thin soles does me in.

12 seconds for 100m is faster than I could ever do it in sport shoes.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 02:54:37 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (none / 1)

I would love to wear high heels more than I already do, but they make me 6 foot four inches tall and EVERYONE stares when I walk down the street because how many 6 foot four women do you see every day?

by zoe on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 02:59:50 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (4.00 / 5)

Just in my dreams.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 03:09:01 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (4.00 / 5)

I have just one word for you: "Everest"

by zoe on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 03:15:20 PM EST
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Well, I'm not much shorter and it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Isn't it part of the fun ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 03:15:31 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (4.00 / 4)

I have to be in the mood for blatant exhibitionism

by zoe on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 03:17:28 PM EST
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This reminds me: have you noticed that Cecilia doesn't wear any high heels, especially when posing next to our president?

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 04:14:27 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (4.00 / 3)

yes, right away actually.

by zoe on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 04:21:50 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (none / 1)

Good thing you're not married to Sarko then... I'm not talking only about the size, of course :-)

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 04:35:23 PM EST
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if Sarko had been married to me, there is no way he would be President today. I would have sabotaged his political career long ago.

by zoe on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 04:48:56 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (none / 1)

That's the spirit...

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 04:54:38 PM EST
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Re: Crazy Russians. (4.00 / 3)

they sell gel thingies for putting in your shoes in the drug stores

by zoe on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 03:16:20 PM EST
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They don't work for me. I was told once that testosterone promotes bony ridges on joints. It's why males have bony knuckles. The same thing happens on feet and I think I've got sharp ridges that just won't work on heels. walking in heels is agony.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Aug 20th, 2007 at 05:08:47 PM EST
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