tomato sauce or ketchup? a matter of national pride

[luv2fly]

So are you Ken are going to tell me that flip flops are thongs?  What do you call tennis shoes.  Here they cover a wide variety of footwear.

Just stirring the pot my friend.

 

[prodigy]

I wonder, if thongs are flip flops, what do they call women's underwear?

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[Ken Gargett]

5 hours ago, luv2fly said:

So are you Ken are going to tell me that flip flops are thongs?  What do you call tennis shoes.  Here they cover a wide variety of footwear.

Just stirring the pot my friend.

 

tennis shoes are indeed an acceptable form of nomenclature.

on the other hand, in respect of thongs/ff's, i am not going to tell you anything. never would i be so presumptuous. i will, however, merely point out that as we invented the things, thongs is the correct name. flip flops are what politicians do. although i have an inkling that kiwis call them flip flops and do you really want to be aligned with kiwis rather than aussies?

if i may, why is there a little sperm at the end of your post? am i missing something or were you hoping for the proverbial pregnant pause?

[gweilgi]

10 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

tennis shoes are indeed an acceptable form of nomenclature.

As are sneakers, trainers, sand shoes and plimsolls...

 

10 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

on the other hand, in respect of thongs/ff's, i am not going to tell you anything. never would i be so presumptuous. i will, however, merely point out that as we invented the things, thongs is the correct name. flip flops are what politicians do. although i have an inkling that kiwis call them flip flops and do you really want to be aligned with kiwis rather than aussies?

National pride aside -- whether footwear or politicians, I leave up to the reader -- the internet, font of all things infallible, informs me that thongs have been worn by Egyptians as early as 1,500BC, that the modern version hails from Japan and became popular with occupying US forces who then introduced them to America.  The biggest brand, Havaianas, started to make them back in 1962.  So where is Australia?  Were you perhaps thinking of Ugg boots?

 

[Ken Gargett]

13 minutes ago, gweilgi said:

National pride aside -- whether footwear or politicians, I leave up to the reader -- the internet, font of all things infallible, informs me that thongs have been worn by Egyptians as early as 1,500BC, that the modern version hails from Japan and became popular with occupying US forces who then introduced them to America.  The biggest brand, Havaianas, started to make them back in 1962.  So where is Australia?  Were you perhaps thinking of Ugg boots?

 

i refer, of course, to their current popular form. not sure that you'll find many of them packed away in king tut's resting place.

and we have been around since before 1962.

actually, and now you have forced me into an apology to nz, i believe that things were invented (i am talking your basic cheapo convenient rubber version) in nz back in the fifties and then almost immediately produced here en masse. and called thongs. lord knows why. in nz, they are called jandals. again, lord knows why.

ugg boots just one more great aussie invention.

[Fuzz]

3 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

if i may, why is there a little sperm at the end of your post? am i missing something or were you hoping for the proverbial pregnant pause?

That's a "whip" emoticon, not a sperm!

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, Fuzz said:

That's a "whip" emoticon, not a sperm!

whatever let's you sleep at night, fuzz.