Yep… until my incisors are knocked out and I end up with three lips…
Loftysays
They suck.
Only a sucker for punishment would wear them.
Larrysays
The perfect gift for the nautically-themed super villain’s moll who has everything.
cthulhusays
You are correct. I approve of them. I, err, have a small foot fetish
praesays
Hm, it would be great if they would actually suck. Aka, if the suckers would be functional, enabling the wearer to walk on walls and ceilings
chigau (違う)says
Your ankle couldn’t handle it, PZ.
oolonsays
If they moved, a la Davey Jones tentacles from the POTC films, then they’d be cool. Otherwise too static and painful. We need more robot engineers studying cephalopoda.
Thumper: Who Presents Boxes Which Are Not Openedsays
Fucking hell. Those are fairly epic :)
lakitha tolbertsays
I think you’re supposed to suffer in those.
Suffering is a feature, not a bug.
Robert B.says
The first picture looks really cool. The second picture makes my gut clench in sympathetic anxiety for everyone society expects to ever wear high heels. They may be nominally shoes but they look like deathtraps.
If they moved, a la Davey Jones tentacles from the POTC films, then they’d be cool.
If they were a pair of organic machines that gripped and conformed to the shape of the wearer’s feet, adjusted the position of the feet (as in variable-height heels, arch support, etc.), and responded to ground conditions to vary traction as needed and protect the feet from harm, that would be really cool, in a cute practical hentai sort of way.
Shoes like this would probably not go with a business suit of any sort. I wonder what sort of going-out dress they’d match…
Loftysays
Raging Bee
I wonder what sort of going-out dress they’d match…
Something with 8 rows of quite large sequins.
rqsays
They’re epic, for sure, but they need a different curvature on a few of the tentacles to make them dance-able. The way things are right now, they’d just slip right off.
borax says
Awesome as a sculpture. As a shoe it looks painful and dangerous.
richardelguru says
My feet hurt and I’m only looking at the things!
A boon to chiropodists? ‘Merkan foot-binding? Man’s inhumanity to Woman? You choose…
irisvanderpluym says
I definitely don’t need these shoes: my feet look exactly like that.
plainenglish says
They suck.
Chengis Khan, The Cryofly says
“Aren’t they lovely?”
Yep… until my incisors are knocked out and I end up with three lips…
Lofty says
Only a sucker for punishment would wear them.
Larry says
The perfect gift for the nautically-themed super villain’s moll who has everything.
cthulhu says
You are correct. I approve of them. I, err, have a small foot fetish
prae says
Hm, it would be great if they would actually suck. Aka, if the suckers would be functional, enabling the wearer to walk on walls and ceilings
chigau (違う) says
Your ankle couldn’t handle it, PZ.
oolon says
If they moved, a la Davey Jones tentacles from the POTC films, then they’d be cool. Otherwise too static and painful. We need more robot engineers studying cephalopoda.
Thumper: Who Presents Boxes Which Are Not Opened says
Fucking hell. Those are fairly epic :)
lakitha tolbert says
I think you’re supposed to suffer in those.
Suffering is a feature, not a bug.
Robert B. says
The first picture looks really cool. The second picture makes my gut clench in sympathetic anxiety for everyone society expects to ever wear high heels. They may be nominally shoes but they look like deathtraps.
Raging Bee says
If they moved, a la Davey Jones tentacles from the POTC films, then they’d be cool.
If they were a pair of organic machines that gripped and conformed to the shape of the wearer’s feet, adjusted the position of the feet (as in variable-height heels, arch support, etc.), and responded to ground conditions to vary traction as needed and protect the feet from harm, that would be really cool, in a cute practical hentai sort of way.
Raging Bee says
Shoes like this would probably not go with a business suit of any sort. I wonder what sort of going-out dress they’d match…
Lofty says
Raging Bee
Something with 8 rows of quite large sequins.
rq says
They’re epic, for sure, but they need a different curvature on a few of the tentacles to make them dance-able. The way things are right now, they’d just slip right off.