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[-] mstrk@lemmy.world 83 points 4 months ago
[-] CenturionKing@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago
[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_pointy_boots

I'd argue it's a toned down version of these. Go to any mostly Mexican party/club, and you see these.

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

…elongating the toe of normal boots by as much as 5 feet (1.5 m)

That’s excessive.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

lol that’s the best name they could come up with for them?

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

It's only worse with seagulls. I saw a cool big speckled seagull once and decided to google how it's called. It's called "big speckled seagull". A small gray seagull would be called a "small grey seagull". All the other animals are usually called something cool, like if you see a big beaver, it's "Johnson's beaver", or an eagle, and it's called a "southern nesting eagle".
Then a fucking seagull is a fucking seagull.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago
[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

Great for kicking someone in the sphincter from the front

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Must be how they got their name

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

A person of culture, I see.

[-] ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Those were extremely popular in a town where I worked between 2013 and 2016. As a non-Latina, I laughed a little when I first saw them, because I had never seen any shoes like that. Someone told me they were Oaxacan boots. Men who dress in traditional Oaxacan attire will often wear them.

[-] mac@infosec.pub 9 points 4 months ago

Then you slowly follow the shoes up the uncannily thin and tall figure to be greeted with a sharp toothed smile, attached to the face of a tight skinned yet aged man "helllooo, pity about the loss of another" he states.

[-] taxet_@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

Reminded me of a Finnish rock group called Leningrad Cowboys. They were big over here I think when I was a kid at least.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

However if the deceased has these shoes its your duty to take them

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Oh what's this conveniently placed hole in the ground that I can push this dude in?

[-] moon@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Sometimes you need a little laugh when you're in mourning. People wearing ridiculous shit is actually a thing that helps

[-] braxy29@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

i think there's like a whole subculture around these shoes, no joke

edit - other people in thread explaining it better!

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

They look a lot like leeches.

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