Ode to the flip flop.

[Bkeela]

Flip flops? WTF? Is that what you weirdos call a pair of thongs?

[Dinner]

Flip flops are what civilized Californians wear to all but the most formal of occasions.

Thongs mean something higher class which has leather straps. We're talking crap nylon here and if it is over $3 then you've been ripped off.

[Drake Tungsten]

I hate flip flops. But not as much as I hate the fact that Americans think it's okay to wear flip flops pretty much everywhere. Just like sweatpants. We've become a nation of ill-dressed pigs, and I'm just glad my always-sartorial-correct dad didn't live to see it.

QFT

[Dinner]

Up yours with a rubber hose. Wearing flip flops is a sign that you have given up on social pretensions and decided to simply wear what is comfortable. Screw you people who are still stuck on conformity.

[Drake Tungsten]

A well-tailored suit is just as comfortable as shorts and a t-shirt. You Americans are just using comfort and an aversion to "pretension" as an excuse for your lack of class...

[Dis]

flip flops suck. only useful at home when you are too lazy to put on shoes. I would never wear them out in public.

[Jon Miller]

I agree. Birkenstocks on the other hand
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JM

[b etor]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I hate the fact that Americans think it's okay to wear flip flops pretty much everywhere.

QFT! gahhhh

[Bkeela]

I would rather sit in a cinema next to someone wearing flip flops than someone wearing a smelly pair of shoes. Bacteria love the fetid atmosphere inside your shoes.

[b etor]

what if they had gross feet??????? ewwwww.

[Bkeela]

I don't care if they have odd looking feet, it is the smell that counts - and bacteria don't thrive in the open environment of a flip flop.

[Patroklos]

Not my work. We get cost plus contracts from the government. Just last week I was "talked to" for working to fast. It seems they want me to take my time and run up the costs a bit since their profits are determined by cost + 20% so they want me to work slower and run up the costs. Sometimes it is good to be a government contractor. I made sure to "work from home" twice in the lat week where I didn't actually do any work.

You probably shouldn't have told me that, as my bonuses come from finding/turn in people for stuff like that

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Bkeela
I don't care if they have odd looking feet, it is the smell that counts - and bacteria don't thrive in the open environment of a flip flop.

Soap and water are available.

Flip-flops.

[Richelieu]

Lots of people voted for the war Oerdin. They just changed their opinion that's all.

[Dinner]

And what does that have to do with my old flip flops?