walking along the beach... two pairs of footprints

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Can I just say a quick thanks for referring them as flips flops ?

I got told the other day by all my friends they're called slides and I'm wrong for calling them flip flops. They told me flip flops go between your toes and I said no, those are thongs. Then they said no, those go between your ass checks. I quit arguing at that point.

Wait, those aren't thongs?

Outside of Australia and maybe NZ, a thong is a particularly revealing piece of underwear. A g-string. Thongs are called flip-flops.

Kiwis call them jandals and a g string goes on a guitar, we call them g bangers. Also the whole thong thing is nearly as hilarious as rooting

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