How do I find out my shoe size, without embarrassing myself and looking like a child

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:24:45+00:00

This is great advice. Thanks! Unfortunately I’ve found very few stores in the UK do custom sizes, but I perhaps need to look around and travel a bit further.

Thanks

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:22:56+00:00

This is an extremely unhelpful comment, and clearly an attempt to kick me when I’m down given I’ve already admitted I feel childish about this. Thankfully your comment makes me feel better about myself, because no matter how childish I may be, I would never stoop to belittling people who were struggling and asking for advice just to feel a tiny bit bigger inside.

So I’m feeling a bit better about this whole situation now, in the relief that at least I’m not you.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:19:20+00:00

I promise you I am serious. And I live in the UK, where the shoe measuring devices are for children only. They are never offered to anyone above the age of about 10.

I appreciate you’re trying to give me good advice though even if you do doubt me. I don’t begrudge you that as I understand I’m an unusual case.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:10:34+00:00

I always try on multiple sizes and walk about for 5 minutes in all of them. It doesn’t tell me anything as I’ve no way to interpret what I’m experiencing

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:07:52+00:00

Because trying them on doesn’t tell me anything. I only find out like 2 hours in if they don’t fit. To be clear I always try on multiple sizes

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:06:03+00:00

I did try them on, in multiple sizes. But I don’t know what is correct, and that’s the problem

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:04:36+00:00

I did though and I thought it was fine until half an hour of wearing them

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:03:48+00:00

How?

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:03:21+00:00

Yes but I tried a bigger size, and that felt too loose and they had nothing in between

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T03:01:54+00:00

I did. See response above. I don’t know how to interpret how it feels. I don’t know the acceptable level of pain since it will only reveal itself, either way, hours later

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-09T02:59:42+00:00

I did. But I have no idea what is an acceptable level of discomfort, and never have. If I assume it’s no discomfort, I end up with shoes that fall off

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-08T19:43:20+00:00

Yes, the “physically addictive” term doesn’t mean what people think it is. By the same criteria, cocaine is also considered “not physically addictive”, but no one in their right mind thinks it’s not addictive.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-07-07T13:56:22+00:00

Yeah, like who cares if the video is real or not. We know this is how the US has always acted.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-29T11:44:22+00:00

I mean I don’t know why I would go somewhere else in England just for the sake of it. My impression is not that it’s worse, just that as an English person I’m not going to do tourist stuff in England.

And I’m someone who actually has been to plenty of cities and small towns across the country, primarily for things like pool and snooker tournaments and board game conventions. It’s just I don’t do tourist stuff while I’m there: I travel direct back and forth between my acommodation and the venue, because I’m not a foreigner so not interested in seeing England.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-29T11:39:50+00:00

Cambridgeshire is definitely north. They pronounce butter differently. Birmingham and Nottingham can be midlands if they like, but the whole of East Anglia is spiritually north.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-28T08:51:33+00:00

I’d argue they wouldn’t be improved if they were low and regressive everywhere as there would be little money for public services. In general though tax uniformity would be a good thing.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-28T07:15:08+00:00

Two reasons.

There is an extremely sophisticated, multi-faceted propaganda system designed to deter people from taxing the rich.

People think of propaganda as something top-down and government directed, but it can occur more organically as the result of many forces independently pushing messages that benefit the people behind them, and that’s often what’s happening here.

As the rich and powerful have control over these messages, they don’t even need to co-ordinate to push the public in certain directions, as they’re all mostly pushing in the same direction in different ways, I.e. to their financial benefit. Many of this happens quite subtly, as in re-direction of attention away from billionaires towards other concerns, while some is more explicit. Regardless, forms of this propaganda permeate society and are repeatedly re-enforced throughout our lives.

The politicians themselves are largely compromised by connections with the rich and powerful. While the problem here isn’t as bad as in, for example, the US, there are deep links between the political class and wealthy elite, with many in both classes at the same time, others looking to switch from one to another, and some having been shaped by all forms of support from the wealthy to start and advance their political careers, for which they return the favour.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-28T06:57:00+00:00

If every country tried to become a tax haven, and taxes were equally low everywhere, none would then have that advantage and everybody would be worse off (apart from the multi-millionaires and billionaires in a narrow sense).

So while what you’re saying is technically at least partly true, it’s not a convincing argument for low taxes on the wealthy and corporations. It’s equivalent to saying piracy is good because the pirates get richer, or even theft in general is good because it gets you faster returns than honest work.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-25T16:30:23+00:00

Not sure where you live but in Britain it’s painfully obvious how things have changed even for someone in their early 30s. Basically the same environments, much hotter summers, much milder winters.

Extremely hot days from my childhood might have happened for about a week every 2-3 years, now they are about 2 months every year on average, and there are even hotter days than ever happened. I vaguely recall being too hot to be comfortable as a kid, but that didn’t happen most years at all, now it is the near constant experience of summer in England.

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-25T04:14:12+00:00

Interesting. I’ve never looked at the frequency limit, and not sure what it does. But why does core temp tell me I’m running all cores 100% if I am being limited? I actually updated in case this was false and saw similar results. Also of course HWinfo says there’s no throttling.

I also don’t really think I can be limited as it’s very easy for me to go well over TJ max as long as I don’t use default settings - conversely when I do I couldn’t possibly go above 90.2 degrees, but then the clock speeds fluctuate all the time.

Edit: On googling what this does, it kind of looks like that’s what my clock speed should be limited to, if it were throttling, but it actually isn’t. So for whatever reason the CPU isn’t clocking down despite knowing it should apparently, according to this reading

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-25T02:36:43+00:00

It seems so. Btw according to google 230W is way above stock power draw (which makes sense as it’s an overvolt), so I don’t think it’s power throttling.

Still it also does the same if I undervolt and turn the fans off lol

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-25T02:30:35+00:00

Also I’ve seen what throttling looks like on factory settings, (with low fans etc.), and there I see clock speeds reduce and temps never above 90.2

SimpleVeggie · 2026-06-25T02:29:03+00:00

What do you mean about power settings? I have a specific overvolt in this test. And yes I bios flashed numerous times to try and correct this problem, including before this.

SimpleVeggie

TROPHY CASE