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In the tropics, everyone wears flip flops with jeans and nobody thinks they look bad. They're about the most natural combination possible, outside of short pants or swimming trunks.

Also, those shoes above don't fit my taste, nothing personal.

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I don't live in the tropics. I live in Portland, Oregon, and when a guy wears jeans and flip flops in 55 degree weather, and I have to see his pasty white, ugly ass feet, I think it looks horrible. No [censored] they look good in the tropics, flip flops (traditionally) defined a laid back, purposefully degenerate life style (e.g., Jimmy Buffett).


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Heheh, well, writing off the 50th state and all of Asia seems pretty heavy-handed.

Also, I'm not surprised you don't groove on guy's feet. Me either. And it doesn't matter if they're pasty white or not. What can I say, I'm not a fan. Then again, I don't expect them to thrill me, so I don't take it too hard at all. I don't think I'd get many comments on it from a guy who didn't want to stick his tongue in my mouth.

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I'm not even going to touch whether it's appropriate to wear flip flops to work. Unless you work in a job where such a choice is OBVIOUSLY ok, any discussion shouldn't exist at all.


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Agree there. Unless you work at a hot dog stand or something.

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Also, your taste apparently includes flip flops and jeans, so if those shoes don't fit your taste, trust me, I WON'T take it personal [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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That's good. The problem with disagreeing with people is they so often take it personally and things don't even have time to degenerate -- they immediately go right into "Well what about YOU" or "Oh yeah?" and the like. People can get so defensive and then lash out because of it that it can make it impossible just to say almost anything, unless you want to deal with a bizarre dumptruck of grief unloaded on you full force.