Flip-Flops: Please Complete the Sentence....

Lafont · Aug 7, 2009

Any male who considers it appropriate to be seen wearing flip-flops in such venues as a general business district or shopping mall, a public building, a serious office, a decent restaurant, or a museum, is saying to everyone who has to look at it:

- A full view of my toes is so beautiful
- The hell with it....
- Screw you....
- I'm so juvenile....

- Taste be damned....
- Isn't this the beach?
- Oh, is there someone else there?
- ?????????????????????

TRINI · Aug 7, 2009

Should've made this a poll.

Douglas · Aug 7, 2009

Escalator safety is not a top priority for me.

sho'nuff · Aug 7, 2009

im a flip flopper

NMW1982 · Aug 7, 2009

+1

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

im a flip flopper

greekonomist · Aug 7, 2009

It's hot, Sherlock.

rogerm · Aug 7, 2009

...are great for the home. I've seem dressy flip flops and I just don't get that. I think it's a different store in the Caribbean though. Different life style and probably appropriate there.

luftvier · Aug 7, 2009

...should be relegated to the home, beach, or pool. Period.

Sui Generis · Aug 7, 2009

Totally ubiquitous in Southern Cal, especially OC. I went to a nighttime wedding last Fall at a restaurant in Laguna Beach and one of the guests wore a short sleeve Tommy Bahama-type shirt, chinos and flip-flops. Nobody batted an eyelash.

Wes Bourne · Aug 7, 2009

-Who cares if I wear flip-flops; I don't spend my time agonizing over the proper way of wearing a polo shirt

Butterfly · Aug 7, 2009

Originally Posted by luftvier

...should be relegated to the home, beach, or pool. Period.

...yes, that is the last word.

Long-term wear of flip-flops for anything more than very brief walking can cause damage to the feet. This is because the foot has to perform an unnatural toe-gripping action to keep them on while walking. Like anything else, one "gets used to it", but it's not something one should get used to. It's the most nasty, counter-intuitive footwear imaginable.

Complete the sentence? "Flip-flops.... are rendered obsolete by espadrilles".

Wes Bourne · Aug 7, 2009

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Complete the sentence? "Flip-flops.... are rendered obsolete by espadrilles".

Yet espadrilles are obsolete everywhere except perhaps the South of France?

stylesmurf · Aug 7, 2009

Flip Flops:

because my feet stink and I need to air them out in front of you.
because ugly menfeet are in
because I think my swollen gnarled girlfeet are dainty and pretty
because I am a rebel and do not conform to traditional outfits and shoes (like my wolfshirt?)
because I want you to step on my toes so I can sue you
because dirt, dust, and sand being kicked onto my feet feels like I'm on the beach, even though I end up in a pointless meaningless job in a cube somewhere everyday.

Butterfly · Aug 7, 2009

Originally Posted by Wes Bourne

Yet espadrilles are obsolete everywhere except perhaps the South of France?
...no more than neckties are obsolete outside of Wall Street. Flip-flops, being cheaply produced in bulk from cheap rubber. Espadrilles, despite an equally simple appearance have a complex and unique construction that requires some hand work. Not difficult to see why flip-flops won out in America.

BryanHarig · Aug 7, 2009

Flip flops: because I am ******* lazy.

(And I do own a pair, I just dont like them too much due to the aforementioned toe gripping needed to walk in them)

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