New Paper And Old Flip Flop

[joggerjayne]

Jess Cartner-Morley in The Guardian today is very harsh about flip flops ... which are, of course, the best summer footwear ever created.

I might switch to a new paper in protest.

On the other hand, there's a good feature about Sex and Wagner.

Incidentally, apparently there's a 3,000 year old flippy in The British Museum, which surely makes them one of the most enduring design classics.

[Jackdaw33]

You take the Guardian? Oh, of course, you live in Brighton.

[murraymints]

is Brighton leftyland then ??

[joggerjayne]

Of course I read The Guardian.

If I stopped buying it (or getting it free when I go to Waitrose), their circulation would fall by about 20 per cent!

[joggerjayne]

Hove is where they voted for the Trots. We are Green and Blue.

[zebo]

3000 years old? That's why they're called Jesus boots in our house. Yes, I know that 3000 is way too old, before someone tells me!

[Svejk]

Are you sure the article wasn't about the 'totally unelected, flip-flopping, Bullingdon bullies who are currently r̶u̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ running the country?

[mikey4444]

JJ...flipflops are hopeless ! They don't provide any support to the foot at all
and come off far too easily.

Now Crocs are entirely different ....very comfortable indeed.

[Peter Pedant]

// 3000 years old? That's why they're called Jesus boots in our house. Yes, I know that 3000 is way too old, before someone tells me! //

sandelors ? ( the name in our house ) 3000 sounds OK to me
we were digging them up made from palm leaf in 1978 - that s not how old they were that was when we were finding them !

see

https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Veldmeijer_c.pdf

The site director and his philosopher brother even wrote a book about: if you pick up an archeological objaaay ( like a sandal ) and draw conclusions about it ( 'this is an old sandal' ), what are you really doing ? ( well the bro was a philosopher ) see

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/archaeology/archaeological-theory-and-methods/archaeological-typology-and-practical-reality-dialectical-approach-artifact-classification-and-sorting

( this is comment about sandals being called Jesus boots )

[joggerjayne]

Crocs? Inherently comedic footwear.

[Jackdaw33]

When I was in the RAF flip flops were de riguer when going to and returning from the showers.they kept your feet clean on the way back.

[Hopkirk]

Weren't they invented by the French genius Philipe Fulop?

[mikey4444]

JJ...but very, very comfortable !

[Tilly2]

Crocs are ok for gardening.

[Peter Pedant]

//Incidentally, apparently there's a 3,000 year old flippy in The British Museum, which surely makes them one of the most enduring design classics.//

blimey it might be the one we dug up -piccy anyone ?

( if you contributed mun mun to the running of an archeological dig then you got a bit of the 'spoils' erm like thrown away sandals.
every objaaay has an accession number and if it is 'ours' the beginning of the accession number is QI -1978- ....)

( this is a comment about accession numbers in current Brit Museum objaaays on display there )

[Hopkirk]

What, these things, Tilly?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8a/e9/df/8ae9df0fcbca659a573527a10f9a3d1f.jpg

[Tilly2]

Good photo, Hoppy. That made me smile.

[mikey4444]

lol Hoppy...perhaps there is a dumb Ozzie swimmer a bit further back down its gullet !