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Originally posted by RPM:
possibly deadly!

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What is a life with out Flip Flops?
 

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Posted by Lyrical (Member # 6603) on :
 
yeah I vote for flip flops too. At least on women ....;-0
 

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Posted by sanitysdoor (Member # 37304) on :
 
I love female feet in flipflops.
 

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Posted by Elvzz (Member # 14178) on :
 
Only on women, bro! Only!
 

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Posted by feetluvr (Member # 1570) on :
 
Interesting (and a bit scary). Fortunately we all know that few girls will read this, out of those that do even fewer will really consider what it says, and because it's such a social thing- very few will stop wearing them.
 

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Posted by Salvy_Mic (Member # 13384) on :
 
*patiently waiting for the breaking news story that Crocs are hazardous to your health and cause back degeneration and emphysema.
 

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Posted by Ben Del Amitri (Member # 2724) on :
 
Every few months, mainstream media puts out a new attack piece on flip flops, they do this also with heels.

If you believe what's been written (about a billion times over the past ten years, for example): all women who wear heels will end up crippled, mangled, deformed and incubating a range of ailments from sciatica and stroke, to outright death (death by heels?) ... all by the age of fifty. Funny, but of the hundreds (thousands?) of girls I've met to date, I haven't encountered any of these Heel victims / fatalities yet.

I've read "studies" on Flip Flops that claimed they were just as bad, even worse than Heels. They are trying to make Flip Flops the next "big tobacco", just as they've tried to do with Heels. It will never work.

You can get any result you want, in any unverified, uncontrolled "study" of any topic. Want to prove cyclamates from pre-sweetened kool aid cause cancer? Easy - just inject a human equivalent of about 700 gallons a day into lab rats for about two or three years and guess what? "Traces of potential cancerous activity" can be found "if left untreated". You can do this with peanut butter as well (it's actually been done).

Put Flip Flops on girls then run them through filthy public bathrooms (on the subway system, no less) and guess what? Traces of deadly fecal matter! And because these results are neither verified nor verifiable, for all we know they may have specifically trapsed THROUGH human waste, specifically to obtain the INTENDED results.

I am sick and tired of "studies" that attempt to persuade on the dangers of Flip Flops. This link is a recent one but it is just the latest of a long long series of similar attempts to demonize them. The next time Stacy, Malory or anybody else brings me the newspaper and says "Hey they've got flip flops on sale at Fred Meyers. Two for $5.99" ... I'm going to take her down there myself, round up as many styles / colors as she like and foot the bill to boot!

[ November 22, 2009, 10:05 PM: Message edited by: Ben Del Amitri ]
 

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