As usual, fashion displays the absurdity of humanity. Flip flops are indeed all the rage among the male 20 something set. On a trip to the liquor store in Charlottetown on holiday weekend, they are practically de rigeur. Unfortunately, they are bad for your feet for anything other than padding around poolside. Those boys may be pretty, but they will soon have fallen arches, club toes and callouses in weird places.

Crikey, what decade is this again??

Yes, the glasses make me think that the young thinks might be sitting around discussing their new discoveries of Devo and Kraftwerk.

I like the long coat, flowered pants and sandals. Is that for days when it is just above freezing, but you really really want to pretend it is summer?
Flip flops have their place. It is soaking rain again here, but warm, therefore: wet shoes or maybe flip flops instead?
Nice telestration, oh master of doodles.

HEY ALAN.. don't be mentioning two of my favorite bands in a negative tone in the same breath as the possability of flip flobs being acceptable in the workplace. :)

I come from this frame of mind:

1. never wear shoes that you cannot chase a purse snatcher in
2. never intentionally buy shoes that your spouse may choose to wear when you aren't
3. never wear shoes that demasculate you in the eyes of people that may wish to sucker punch you in a bar.

2 and 3 work for any clothing really.

sean

Don't even joke about flipflops in the workplace. It's bad enough that the other day I spotted a man here wearing birkenstock sandals and socks.

Be clear. We are pro Devo and Kraftwerk as anthems in the nuclear fear teen years of Gen-Xers. It is only the pups and their unawareness of anything prior to the 90s that I comment upon.

As for Birks and socks, that is clearly better than flip flips. Neither is good for the workplace but I do not want to see any man's toes without a swimming opportunity being involved as well.

Ahh, point made. My apologies for misunderstanding.

I also think that if your work requires a tennis hat brim thing or a golf shirt be worn, yet you are not a professional tennis player or PGA golfer, you are too old for your job, but thats just me.

My collection is full of Kraftwerk, Devo and New Order CDs should you run out BTW.

So then why do you wear bowling shirts to work Sean?

Not sure I want to see dressing gowns and speedos at work but at least I don't have to HEAR THEM ALL THE WAY DOWN THE HALL the way one does with slapping flip flops.
BTW, in my day they were called thongs. Did the republicans have something to do with the name change?

My wife is onto something here. Sure, it is a vast right wing, republican conspiracy. Take some scissors to the back of a speedo and you have a.....THONG! Tiny little undies and swimming suits. ALSO, of course, the republicans had to wave something around during the name calling in '04, and the name 'flip flop' suited their purposes better than 'thongs'. Therefore, 2 reasons why the republicans changed the name of little pool sandals permanantly to flip flops.

Good, no one is going on and on about thongs in any sense. I was really afraid of that when I started typing. My credit card said that I could have a gift and all I had to do was type a prize number in on this website and the website demanded a VALID prize number so I checked it and typed it in three times. Then I went onto the credit card's website but they wanted me to type in my account number--isn't my name and my problem enough to be taken seriously?--and I just decided that I would go to Yahoo Answers to ask why I had to give up all my information and privacy at the prize site when I noticed one of the rules was no ranting. But I'm not ranting, I'm just asking a question. Are we not men?

Gen x at 40 is a good place to rant. Some of us, nudge nudge, have ranted a little too much about Speedos, thongs and Queen.
Speaking of those rants: cm, the wife and I saw what you said about doritos and it may sometime become a reality. Stay tuned.

We are Devo.

Are we not men?

Hello, Alan! Nighty night.

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Sweet. But have you seen the blasphemy? Devo2.0? At first I thought it funny but now I fear it.

Watch out, it has music when you open it:

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