do you like "flip-flops"?

[sammyg2]

Today's selection: casual flojos leather.

[aigel]

I don't like open toed shoes for safety reasons. There are many occasions even during spare time where something may hit your toes! Also want to be able to walk significant distance and run at any time to get out of an emergency situation. This is especially true when in a car and airplane and in public places. SoCal is super laid back ... Until the next good shaker ...

I remember passing a wreck on the interstate where a little dog had jumped out of the car and was running down the median along oncoming traffic - and a guy several hundred feet behind it "running" after it in his flip flops ... Not sure if he was able to fetch the dog before it got run over ... I remind my family of this when we travel and everyone wears shoes ...

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[Craig T]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

With these, All you need is a powder blue cashmere sweater to tie around your neck.

[rusnak]

I think subconsciously, I look down on old grown men who walk around with shorts, t-shirt and filp flops.

They look like they never grew up, have some sort of chemical imbalance, or are not to be trusted with important things.

Part of this is because I am an employer I think, and I spot things that suggest a person is lazy or sloppy, and going out in public without shoes or at least more sophisticated version of flip flops, like those action sandals or Addidas slip on sandals is just one of those superficial things that sort of say "lazy slob".

I think another is that my sloppy Hakujin fat-ass brother in law always looks like Chris Farley with flip flops, shorts, and t-shirt. And he's really sort of an arrogant loser. I find that sooner or later, I let my disdain for these types to show.

[winders]

Originally Posted by rusnak

I think subconsciously, I look down on old grown men who walk around with shorts, t-shirt and filp flops.

They look like they never grew up, have some sort of chemical imbalance, or are not to be trusted with important things.

Part of this is because I am an employer I think, and I spot things that suggest a person is lazy or sloppy, and going out in public without shoes or at least more sophisticated version of flip flops, like those action sandals or Addidas slip on sandals is just one of those superficial things that sort of say "lazy slob".

I think another is that my sloppy Hakujin fat-ass brother in law always looks like Chris Farley with flip flops, shorts, and t-shirt. And he's really sort of an arrogant loser. I find that sooner or later, I let my disdain for these types to show.

Sounds like a personal problem........

I learned a long time ago not to judge someone by what shoes they wear. Some of the most driven and successful people I know you would judge as a "lazy slob".

[bivenator]

Here are my favorites, I wear these to travel, cut the grass, pretty much wherever I please. I always catch the ladies checking me out on elevators. I hadn't really considered the sexiness factor until reading this thread and then it dawned on me as to what was going down.

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by rusnak

I think subconsciously, I look down on old grown men who walk around with shorts, t-shirt and filp flops.

They look like they never grew up, have some sort of chemical imbalance, or are not to be trusted with important things.

Part of this is because I am an employer I think, and I spot things that suggest a person is lazy or sloppy, and going out in public without shoes or at least more sophisticated version of flip flops, like those action sandals or Addidas slip on sandals is just one of those superficial things that sort of say "lazy slob".

I think another is that my sloppy Hakujin fat-ass brother in law always looks like Chris Farley with flip flops, shorts, and t-shirt. And he's really sort of an arrogant loser. I find that sooner or later, I let my disdain for these types to show.

WOW! That is a significant prejudgement (aka prejudice). Let's turn this around. Some of the flakiest and most insecure people I know never leave the house without designer jeans and Prada loafers. Most of which, in my experience, live with a high-level of insecurity about their appearance or debt due to the need to be fashion current or to appear successful.

When I see a 50+ guy walk into a restaurant, or pull up in a Porsche wearing flip-flops and cargo shorts, I assume he must be extremely confident, secure with himself, and could not care less what others think of him.

I run in a pack of early retired guys. Every one of us dresses in cargo shorts and flip flops, so much so that my wife calls it the "Retired Guy's Uniform".

I hardly think a retired surgeon, retired nephrologist, and a cashed out Clinical Laboratory owner with a Ph.D could be called "lazy slob".

[gacook]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

Can't stand them or the annoying 'slap, slap" sound they make. I swear the people who wear them enjoy that sound and try to annoy everyone else around them with it.

My daughter wears them but somehow manages to NOT make that sound.

Guilty. But, in my defense, I only do it occasionally, and with the express intent to annoy my wife

I do wear flip flops; more so recently than in the past. I guess all those years of keeping my feet cramped up in combat boots, and now in dress shoes every day...it's kinda liberating. Like someone else mentioned, I have the type that goes between the toes, and the kind that go over the toes. The over the toes ones, I use for the drive to/from softball games so I don't have to wear my cleats in the car.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by Craig T

WOW! That is a significant prejudgement (aka prejudice). Let's turn this around. Some of the flakiest and most insecure people I know never leave the house without designer jeans and Prada loafers. Most of which, in my experience, live with a high-level of insecurity about their appearance or debt due to the need to be fashion current or to appear successful.

When I see a 50+ guy walk into a restaurant, or pull up in a Porsche wearing flip-flops and cargo shorts, I assume he must be extremely confident, secure with himself, and could not care less what others think of him.

I run in a pack of early retired guys. Every one of us dresses in cargo shorts and flip flops, so much so that my wife calls it the "Retired Guy's Uniform".

I hardly think a retired surgeon, retired nephrologist, a cashed out Clinical Laboratory owner with a Ph.D, and a retired investment banker with an MS in cytogenetics from Cambridge could be called "lazy slob".

Actually, your group sounds like lazy slobs. No, they were not lazy slobs to get where they are, but yes, they are lazy slobs now. Your MS cytogenetics investment banker dresses LIKE. A. LAZY. SLOB.

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by rusnak

Actually, your group sounds like lazy slobs. No, they were not lazy slobs to get where they are, but yes, they are lazy slobs now. Your MS cytogenetics investment banker dresses LIKE. A. LAZY. SLOB.

LOL…I know he sure as heck ain't trying to impress you.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by rusnak

Actually, your group sounds like lazy slobs. No, they were not lazy slobs to get where they are, but yes, they are lazy slobs now. Your MS cytogenetics investment banker dresses LIKE. A. LAZY. SLOB.

If I dress well at work (business casual most days where I'm at), why would my attire after work lead one to believe I'm lazy? FWIW, I'm 38, live in Arizona, and thus spend most of the summer (during my off time) wearing shorts, T-shirts, and flip flops.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by winders

Sounds like a personal problem........

I learned a long time ago not to judge someone by what shoes they wear. Some of the most driven and successful people I know you would judge as a "lazy slob".

I used to know a multimillionaire entrepreneur/ doctor. They guy is by far the most driven, ballsy, and cunning individual who I think I will ever meet, even if I live another 40+ years.

He was notorious for wearing old dress shoes that were covered in dust, a 1980s Members Only jacket (well into the 2000s) and an old calculator wrist watch. What I think held him back, and ultimately led to many failures, was too much ambition, too much drive. But his attire was not "lazy slob". More I would say "out of touch geek". If you walked into his office, and he's got to be in his 90s now, with flip flops, you'd never hear the end of it. Let's say he'd judge you for sure.

Most businesspeople I know, especially sharp ones, size people up instantly.

Yeah, people DO judge books by their covers. Yes it IS superficial.

But that's the way it is. If you want to try to succeed despite being a lazy slob, have at it. Go right ahead.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by Craig T

LOL…I know he sure as heck ain't trying to impress you.

Oh, I am so depressed now. Let me compose myself.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by gacook

If I dress well at work (business casual most days where I'm at), why would my attire after work lead one to believe I'm lazy? FWIW, I'm 38, live in Arizona, and thus spend most of the summer (during my off time) wearing shorts, T-shirts, and flip flops.

I'm gonna say.....because you look like you live outside and steal shopping carts? I dunno, what am I a mind reader?

[A930Rocket]

I wear my flip flops just about every weekend here along the coast.

Going on 36 years with the same pair. Bought them around '79 when I was visiting a friend in San Diego. They're Lighting Bolt flip flops.

[winders]

Originally Posted by rusnak

Most businesspeople I know, especially sharp ones, size people up instantly.

Well, you can't size people up instantly. If you are, you are making mistakes and being foolish.....

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by rusnak

I think subconsciously, I look down on old grown men who walk around with shorts, t-shirt and filp flops.

They look like they never grew up, have some sort of chemical imbalance, or are not to be trusted with important things.

Part of this is because I am an employer I think, and I spot things that suggest a person is lazy or sloppy, and going out in public without shoes or at least more sophisticated version of flip flops, like those action sandals or Addidas slip on sandals is just one of those superficial things that sort of say "lazy slob".

I think another is that my sloppy Hakujin fat-ass brother in law always looks like Chris Farley with flip flops, shorts, and t-shirt. And he's really sort of an arrogant loser. I find that sooner or later, I let my disdain for these types to show.

Please tell us this was supposed to be in green...

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[rusnak]

Originally Posted by winders

Well, you can't size people up instantly. If you are, you are making mistakes and being foolish.....

Or you can pretend to be daft, gullible, impressionable, and ignorant to the ways of the world.

If you don't want to be looked at as a lazy slob, then don't appear to be one. If you don't care that people may think of you that way, then that's another subject entirely.

[JavaBrewer]

Originally Posted by rusnak

They look like they never grew up, have some sort of chemical imbalance, or are not to be trusted with important things.

Nailed me, 2 out of 3

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Please tell us this was supposed to be in green...

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Please tell me that you don't scratch your balls at home. Actually, forget it. I don't care what you do at home. This is about how people look at you in public. Sorry to burst your bubble and all, but people will judge you based on how you look. I know this is a surprise to you but....