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I'm not terribly familiar with the whole Birkenstock thing. Being from Florida, everybody always wore flip-flops. It's not that flip-flops have some great cultural significance. Sandals are supposed to be simple shoes you slip on and go on your way. It's not that Birks have teh ghey that would keep me away from them. It's that the designs are goofy-looking and they cost more than I've ever spent on an entire business outfit (suit, shirt, socks, and tie), whereas flip-flops are simple and can be had for ten or twenty bucks -- depending on what they're made of -- at any clothing store in the country. Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
O my gawd, gag me with a spoon! You're not seriously equating birkenstocks with flip-flops?
Valley girls wear flip-flops. Girls in Newport Beach and Venice Beach and Santa Monica and English girls out in the snow in London wear flip-flops. Maybe the Great Birkenstock/Flip-Flop divide isn't important in Florid'oh, but it is in California. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Don't bring English girls into this. That's not fair. English girls will wear anything, so long as it's wholly inappropriate to the weather. These are the girls who wear short skirts and tights, looking like they just got thrown out of the making of some '80s new wave music video, when it's 22F outside.
And you lived in Gullyvornyah. Gullyvornyah is a whole different ballgame from Florida. It's earthquakes vs hurricanes, culturally. They take fashion seriously out there, whereas the only people who care in Florida are the New Yorkers and the girls on South Beach who wish they were living in Los Angeles.
Flip-flops are the ramshackle shoe of the people in Florida, my friend. Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
Wait, if I can't bring up English girls you can't bring up the ones from South Beach. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Flip-flops can get wet, Birks can't. Flip-flops flip and flop around your feet, while Birks mold to your foot much more carefully. Birks usually have more stuff on top to keep them on, flip-flops don't. Flip-flops are cute and trendy, Birks are hippie-wear. Except in Japan, where night is day.
My arch is incredibly high, so I can't wear flip-flops. They just fall off. But Birk-clones are no problem.
English girls out in the snow in London wear flip-flops
would be appreciated. I just can't find the keywords to coerce google to spit those up. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Oh, and I didn't even go into what gay panic means for the unspoken dress code for the average American male. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Uh, that's expensive. The flip-flops I wear between the locker room and the tatami when I go to karate class cost me 2 at a local supermarket. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
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