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Round these parts, "thongs" go on a totally different body area and aren't normally seen in public ...
It's flip-flops for us. But please, not with socks.
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Yeah - thongs in Oz, too. Always scares the North American tourists.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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And the Oz version of Durex doesn't do the same job either!
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...or rubbers
My first naive trip to the US office (early 70s) I learned the hard way about asking for an eraser.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If you're a British smoker, don't even think about asking a USian if you can "bum a fag".
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- Homer
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Birkenstocks (brand of flip flop) with socks is a standard fashion statement in Boulder, CO.
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Remind me never to go there ...
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Quote: Round these parts, "thongs" go on a totally different body area and aren't normally seen in public ... Unsure |
Except maybe in Essex!
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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Red Neck Wing Tips
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
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Teenslippers
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It's called "Hawaii chappal" over here - no specific idea why, though
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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It used to be thongs years ago, but flip-flops has largely replaced it because of the other meaning for thong.
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Either "flip flops" or "things I refuse to wear".
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What? The type of logic circuit?
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In the days of vacuum tubes (valves for you right ponders) we called them triggers.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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D? JK? RS?
(I'm showing my sordid TTL past here: 7474)
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Always knew them as flip flops. First time I wore them was in the 50's in Okinawa where my Father was stationed at the time. No socks. Rains a lot there so flip-flops for kids was a no-brainer.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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As a kid growing up in Northern Minnesota they were thongs or less often flip flops. Later, when thongs covered different anatomy, they were called flip flops almost exclusively.
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Message Closed
modified 24-Jun-22 16:58pm.
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Highways, sidewalks, driveways etc. were all cement when I was growing up too. But, to build something that needed real strength, like bridge supports, high rise buildings and such you used concrete - a much stronger material, at least in my mind back then. For some reason I thought of them as two distinct products. Similar to the difference between cardboard and wood.
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i agree. it was just something I noticed as a kid. Didn't know the real difference.
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Badfinger
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Uncomfortable. Don't like things between my toes. Flip-flops here in Michigan, BTW.
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isn't that sandals? I think the spanish name for it is chanclas, some people I know call it sliders, I am not sure if that is just a nickname they gave.
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In New Zealand they are jandals.
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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The hosting company is migrating servers, and for some reason it turns out they didn't migrate any of the email passwords so they need to be reset manually.
I'll deal with that when I've waded through the 642 emails currently sitting in my inbox so see if I missed anything important ...
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