65 degrees. That’s the temperature where I start wearing flip flops. Maybe 60 if it’s sunny and I’m desperate. As a former Californian and lifelong lazy bastard, flip flops are the ideal footwear, in that I can put them on in two seconds with zero effort. Even laceless Converse All-Stars, bless their hearts, involve the exhausting and time-consuming act of bending over.
And yet there are always naysayers. People who give flip flops the misnomer “mandals” (check out the downvotes on Urban Dictionary). Marine Corps Staff NCO’s, who insist on calling them “shower shoes” (these people also tend to iron their jeans). Many Type A personalities. And the most insidious breed: those who like flip flops, but would never wear them in New York City. Longtime KSK commenter TheStarterWife expressed amazement that I would brave these dirty streets in open-toed shoes, and I read an article in GQ or Esquire sometime last year that touted the wonders of low-top Chucks in lieu of flip flops for navigating the Big Apple.
Now, I get it. New York is not a clean place in the summer (or ever). Garbage collection can make the smell less than ideal. The pollution is sometimes palpable. But it’s not like there are streams of liquid refuse running through every gutter in the five boroughs. This isn’t Bangladesh. I’m not navigating the fishmongers of Chinatown in flip flops, or someplace even grosser, like Staten Island. There is, you know, a definitive layer of rubber or whatnot between my soles and the ground. But if they do happen to get a little more grime on them than my exposed arms or face, so what? THEY’RE JUST FEET. I’m not cooking a five-course meal with them later on. I’m not offering them to you as a greeting in lieu of shaking hands.
So lay off already. I’m comfortable.
This week’s ass-tastic bonus sexy comes from (a) the American Apparel Best Bottom in the World competition…
…and (b) a rare SFW entry from the magnificently NSFW Fuck Yeah Brazilian Girls.
Enjoy your weekend.
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If you want to look like a trailer park inhabitant, then please, by all means, wear your skanky flip flops. With impunity. Say they’re ok all you want to make yourself feel like you’re not a lazy slacker. They’re not ok, except to you and maggots of your kind. And no, you don’t close million dollar deals in them, except when you’re posting anonymously on some fuckin chat board. You wear flip flops to work in my world asshole, and you’re going home and changing, on your dime.
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What about flip-flops with those ninja tabi socks? I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned that
/can’t believe I mentioned that
//foot fetish – dick joke
I have said that jobs can force men to wear proper shoes. One of the most demanding jobs for women is sexuality, for which the proper footwear is high heels. The informal summertime substitutes for these are flip-flops. Some women may believe that high heels and flip-flops are functionally equivalent, since they both show skin. Flip-flops may even seem more effective, because they alone show toenail polish. This belief is deeply mistaken. High heels give you legs like Angelina Jolie in the Mr. & Mrs. Smith poster. Flip-flops give you legs like a Steinway. High heels make the compelling, aggressive tattoo of castanets. Flip-flops sound like water belching from a fire hydrant. Following a woman in high heels up out of the subway is like discovering America. Following a woman in flip-flops up out of the subway is like riding the subway.
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Well, since San Diego isn’t overrun with garbage and urine-filled streets, and the homeless here are better dressed than most working class in Detroit, I’ll enjoy wearing my flip flops impunitively 8 months out of the year, bitches.
Fuckin’ ostrich skin only, for the million dollar deals. Ask Fatsis.
“…I do not wear them to weddings, funerals, or to close million-dollar deals.”
GTFO of here Pat Bowlen!
I live in Denver…one of the more, shall we say, casually attired major cities in America. I wear flip-flops when not at work as the weather permits, which this time of year often means 50+ degrees and sunny, but with runoff from the day before yesterday’s blizzard. I do not wear them to weddings, funerals, or to close million-dollar deals.
I like seeing well-kept women’s feet in flip-flops. Especially Leighton Meester’s.
This concludes my thoughts on the subject.
I believe, in featuring Edward’s love-whore, that GQ lost any real credibility they had left.
ARGH I mean flip flops and socks. God fucking dammit.
I’m not a fashionista so flip flops with sandals are ok with me as the flesh between my toes is sensitive.
/still get laid with flip flops + sandals so fuck you if you don’t like it
Flip flops with socks. Discuss. I personally don’t mind it, some people think it’s terrible. I think it’s a good solution to both flip flop wearers and toe haters.
You guys care too much about other dudes’ footwear.
Cute women in flip flops/open toe shoes in the summer is the best in NYC, but if they don’t wash their feet after being outside all day long then…guuhhhhhhhhh.
Flip flops only work for me with shorts at the beach or pool. IMHO, any man that wears them with jeans is gayer than Liberversacehudson, but with shorts near water, OK you’re cool with me.
@Rex Ryans Long Lost Penis: you are doing the Lord’s work my man. Unlimited pictures of ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
I assume it’s because I’m from Florida, but fuck sandals. Flip-flops are the ramshackle shoes of the people. Sandals are douchey flip-flops.
(ducks)
I don’t like flip flops. Sandals are alright. Though, I usually only wear those on, or around the beach and near my neighborhood. Otherwise, it’s shoes for me.
None of you would enjoy Hawaii then, because all that is worn is slippers – their name for flip flops, because you slip them on. Go to any house, you’ll find at least 3 pairs of slippers – for different occasions – at the front door.
@ City of Industry Football Corporation
At least the East Coast has good football! BIIIIIITTTTTTCCCCCCCHHHHHHHH
Though I do like me some flip flops
You know you’re kinda feeding to the foot fetishes with the whole flip flop thing…..Not that I’m complaining of course
I’ll wear any kind of footwear that you can just slide into.
fuck NYC and your urine and garbage filled streets (your description, not mine). I’ll take my 6 months of sunshine every summer and walk around impunitively with flip flops on.
@shootme
Tawmy knows Massholes. You sir, do not.
things that smell like pee around LA.
You mean Andy Dick?
I stand by my statement. Sandals, flip-flops, and open-toed shoes are gamble anytime you wear them no matter where you live, but after living in NYC for a few years there is no way you could get me to walk around with my feet at least 80% covered. (Mostly because there is so much walking, not to mention whatever is caked onto the subway platforms.)
Then again, I’m just weird about icky stuff on the ground. I have been known to ask my husband to pick me up and carry me over puddles and things that smell like pee around LA.
Man, I love me some pretty girls with black/dirty feet…….no shoes at all is best. But I’m quite rural.
Awwww yeah baby…..
God bless you for defending flip flops. As a Californian who also reads GQ, I hate their NYC-centric bashing of flip flops. I am a professional, and 50% of my company wears flip flops daily. That is how we roll. We go to meetings in flip flops, we sign multi-million dollar deals in flip flops, we do sales presentations in flip flops. You East coast suckers can quibble all you want about bare feet and all that bullshit, while I’ll slip into my comfy flip flops and head over to the jobby job after a mid-day surf session.
p.s. great ass.
PS – Fucc you, Spiccoli.
flip-flops are only worn by douche knuckles. This is a widely known fact. If you want to wear them, cool… but know you’re going to be viewed as such. You’re wearing a striped shirt, khaki shorts, a bluetooth ear piece, and sunglasses that are likely on your forehead. You’re the prototypical masshole (or cali surfer…), you just don’t live there. sry to be the bearer of bad news.
On a side note… how can you wear that shyt without your feet sweating like mad?
Californian here, and I love my flip flops. I’d wear them to work if they’d let me.
It’s true that flip flops are called thongs here in Australia. But that’s not the only reason I don’t wear thongs. The thing between your toes is annoying and feet take about a minute to get filthy
Where I live, Berlin, is also a big dirty city. But flip flops when it’s warm is the best. The element of danger only makes it more exciting, like skinny dipping.
I switched to boat shoes over flip flops a few years ago. much preferred.
What a treat, I go to comment on flip flops and when I click on the jump, I’m greeted by a perfect ass! Anyway, I have no problem wearing flip flops in NYC during the summer. I do it in the most disgusting parts of Brooklyn and Flushing. But only when the weather’s nice. There is nothing nastier than having your bare feet in garbage water when it rains though, especially if you’re going someplace and not planning on being home for a while!
Fully understand the “They’re Just Feet” angle, and do in fact own a pair or two of the flips and the flops.
However, I’m also a subscriber to the “Time and Place” logic. Not too opinionated about city use…
But, hate seeing ‘em at the fucking airport. Just finished a DEN><MIA round-trip to reinforce my loathing of dudes wearing these as they travel.
On a lighter, less ranty-note "best-ass" above, is in fact, just that. Was that taken with lomographic fisheye camera?
It’s cute to think that the “No Flip Flops in NYC” meme has your best interests in mind, however, take a second to consider the following:
Female feet: cute, dainty, well manicured
Male feet: fucking ugly
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That has got to be one of the finests Sexy Fridays ever! Maybe it’s because I’m an ass-man, but dang! Excellent excellent work!
Also, how can a former Californian put flip flops on when it’s 65 degrees? That’s sweater weather over here!
Yeah, I used to wear mandals in NYC all the time.
Until the August afternoon I stepped off a curb at 6th Ave and 14th St., and stepped right into a puddle of hot, steamy street juice that was probably equal parts homeless piss, kabob stand runoff, and CHUD bacteria. I wanted to boil my foot.
timmy
February 20, 2010
“is that green or turquoise? “
I believe that color is called “bŏner.”
Footsteps Falco is a happily married man, and does not approve of your smut.
Cap’n, between your love for a full ass and your hatred for tortured sentence constructions, you seem like a swell guy.
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oh, and a double post. sweetness.
I am a huge fan of boat shoes or leather sandals in summer which here in Jawja lasts from about the middle of next week until Halloween, but then I went to a snooty NE prep school and Emory.
/what the hell is going on–Firefox is asking me to save my comments as a Dreamweaver file?
I am a huge fan of boat shoes or leather sandals in summer which here in Jawja lasts from about the middle of next week until Halloween, but then I went to a snooty NE prep school and Emory.
I don’t understand the flip-flop hate. I mean, yeah, don’t wear them to church or a nice restaurant or a wedding (and sadly, some people do have to be told these things), but what’s the fucking deal about wearing them as you walk around in, you know, heat? I wait until about 85-90 to wear them, but to each his own.
And the “no man should wear sandals” thing, I’ll never understand. What, having exposed feet is feminine somehow? Try wearing closed shoes in Dallas in fucking July or August, you’ll see the light.
I will agree that wearing of sandals requires some basic foot maintenance. For men and women. Women think it’s OK to have grown-out toenails. It’s not. Cut those things, they’re goddam creepy-looking. And you know, wash your feet if they look grimy.
I’m completely indifferent to the ass pictures…
ah, the first good thing about living in Australia – you can actually wear thongs (as we call them) practically year round. I do.
@Maj
Careful, she might slap back.
(Warning: Here be (marble) titties)
Ironing jeans is also an Air Force staple for anyone E-5 and above (including all officers). F-15 pilots iron their socks.
Your immune system has to have something to do!
…somebody has some kind of weird toenail thing happening…
We’re sitting there, you know, and she’s got her bare feet up on the couch, and l notice that her second toe is, like,
half an inch longer than her big toe.
- That’s it? You’re breaking up over that?
- Hey, l don’t need that circus shit.
Ummm, first set of photos, I hadn’t scrolled down yet… guuuhhh / drool
I wear flip flops in New York City too. Fuck all the haters.
I’d rather eat the damn flip-flops after passing through a Chinatown fishmongers shop than so much as cast an eye over the harbor to that Verrazano anchor.
The interesting photos do prompt a question though… Since everyone claims dating / screwing nothing less than a eight, what does the KSK tribe rate the normally attractive normal women in said photos?
Flip-flops are evil for the sole reason that open-toed shoes are evil. Toes should never be seen in public.
@Unsilent: Come on. That would be just down right mean. The poor thing.
@synapticmisfires – that’s funny to read because i’m the guy you hate. My big toes’ nails are blue/dead nearly year round due to sports but i still rock flipflops all the time.
Flip Flops are fine for the beach and the pool but that’s it. Check out the blackness on the soles of the feet of people who wear them all the time to realize how dirty these things are. Croc’s too. Feh!
Black feet bottoms are as much a turn-off as these two fine fannies are a turn on.
Even these are great keesters ain’t gettin’ in my bed if the feet at the end of their legs have been wearing flip flops and the feet haven’t been washed.
/ok fine, they’re never getting in my bed anyways
My problem with flipflops is that people should have to pass a basic personal hygiene class in order to get permission to wear them. I know feet aren’t exactly of vital importance but it is pretty fucking distracting when somebody has some kind of weird toenail thing happening down there and I happen to be unfortunate enough to catch a glimpse of it.
Flip flops are a gift from the heavens. Much like that turd cutter in the teal up there. I wore some sandals for the first time this year to work today and my feet are pretty happy about it.
Ass in teal is beautiful.
As a current Californian, I have no desire to wear flip flops at all. Not because some people think they’re not masculine (like all the gay guys I “hang out” with at the local bathouse), but because they’re uncomfortable. The slight advantage in cool feet is canceled out by the lack of insoles and padding.
Any sandals I’ve worn in the past feel like a a piece of cardboard strapped to the bottom of my feet. I couldn’t imagine walking more than 2 blocks in a pair without foot pain.
Hey! I resent that characterization of Bangladesh!
//remembers open streams of liquid refuse on every street
No wait, I take that back. It is very dirty there. But even they wear flip-flops.
I’d slap her ass with a flip flop.