• @Plastic_Ramses
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    768 months ago

    Fun fact about Crocs.

    In the movie idocracy, the costume designer chose crocs as the primary style of shoes because they considered to be so ugly only a complete idiot worluld where them.

    • @helpImTrappedOnline
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      358 months ago

      Fact check: I do not wear crocs, yet I am an idiot. There is no correlation between the two.

      • @[email protected]
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        188 months ago

        No, you’re good. Just because all croc wearers are idiots does not mean you cannot be an idiot without crocs.

      • mac
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        178 months ago

        So many options for comfy shoes, why choose those.

        • Marighost
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          128 months ago

          I used to be a big hater of Crocs. Ugly, rubbery, cheap looking things that anyone should be ashamed of wearing.

          I needed a new pair of shoes for a new little garden patio we did up. On a whim, I tried a pair of Crocs (with semi-ironic weed leaf print), and honestly? They’re pretty good shoes. I wear em when I do other various chores that might have me going outside.

          • mac
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            28 months ago

            Hey man if you like them, as I said somewhere else I don’t like shoes that aren’t attached to my feet, they make me really uncomfortable.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          Because they’re cheap as hell, easy to slip on, comfy and you don’t really have to worry about them getting wet and whatnot. What would in your opinion be better for summer cabin, for example? Or just taking out the trash?

          • @[email protected]
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            88 months ago

            My flip-flops, which have the added bonus of not looking stupid as all hell

            Also they were $2 cheaper than the Crocs right next to them

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              Flip flops imo are much less comfortable and usable. So that’s a definite no from me. Crocs are much more like actual shoes but comfier and easy to slip on. And really cheap too unless you’re buying the actual Crocs brand stuff, which, well I guess some do that.

              which have the added bonus of not looking stupid as all hell

              Oh the horror, what will I do now if someone thinks my shoes I use to throw out the trash or walk around on my summer cabin are stupid looking?? Better put on my fancy flip flops lmao.

              Come on now, friend. Who gives a fuck lol

              • @[email protected]
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                48 months ago

                They’re just as ugly as the LV monogram luggage or 20 pound Rimowa carryons and yet nobody gives a shit about those and Crocs have a utility value of being comfortable.

                (Side tangent in case anyone tries to convert me to Rimowa. There’s a reason flight crews don’t use them.)

                Here’s a hint dear reader: it’s class war. Really weird how it’s always class war.

            • @arin
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              108 months ago

              Tbh flipflops looks stupid to me just my opinion tho

          • mac
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            8 months ago

            I just wear skate shoes and walking boots all year round. The extra 5 seconds to put them on is fine, I don’t need to save 5 seconds with a pair of slip ones just to take the trash out, I just relax and make a journey out of it.

            Plus I find any shoes that aren’t attached to the feet I guess, things like flip flops and crocs where your feet kinda just sit in them, wildly uncomfortable.

            • @[email protected]
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              48 months ago

              If you’re going outside and inside a lot, like on a summer cabin or something, I just don’t want to be do that extra five seconds. Easier when you can kick them off.

              • mac
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                18 months ago

                At a summer cabin the weather and location should be good enough that feeling your feet on the warm pavement or grass should outweigh the convenience of shoes. Or just leave the shoes on if you know you’ll be in and out for a while.

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                  Summer cabin

                  Pavement

                  wat

                  feeling your feet on the warm pavement or grass should outweigh the convenience of shoes

                  You’ll dirty up your feet and be dragging in that dirt. Not to mention cleaning your feet is going to be even more trouble for not much benefit. And blueberry bushes and such really aren’t something you want to step on without shoes. Not to mention stepping on bees. That sucks

                  Or just leave the shoes on if you know you’ll be in and out for a while.

                  Don’t want to dirty up the house

                  • mac
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                    18 months ago

                    So you’re telling me you’ve never seen a cabin that has a stretch of pavement outside it? Even if just for cars to drive up?

                    Dude you’re feet will not get that dirty from some grass.

          • @[email protected]
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            38 months ago

            They’re like $60. I wouldn’t call them cheap as hell, I actually think they’re massively overpriced. But the rest is 100% true.

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              I don’t think I’ve ever seen people paying for the actual Crocs, just knockoffs that are like few bucks. My pair was 3€

    • MeatPilot
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      98 months ago

      That is a fun fact! Also add another check on the list of correlations to actual society that make that movie more prophetic than satire.

      Maybe I need to calm down and drink some more electrolytes.

      • @MehBlah
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        58 months ago

        What else have you been drinking? I hope your aren’t one of those toilet water drinkers.

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      I wear Crocs because they are functional, for any other reason they’ve long since fallen out of fashion. Combines good insulation with good air flow and they are extremely durable. If being ugly makes me an idiot for wearing them, then I am a complete idiot who deserves his electrolyte laden future.