Me, too. Sometimes I will say "He's really queer", or "That is so queer".

I'm old fashioned, PC is somethng I play games on and thats about as PC as I get. Got a girl(young lady) at work laughing when I told her you wear thongs on your feet, the damn things are not flip-flops

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I say the same thing...bloody flip flops...what sorta name is that....they're thongs dammit!!

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It wasn't officially summer when I was growing up until I had my new flip-flops so I could go creek-wading...& they're named for the sound you made walking in them, especially after they got soaking wet...plus you get that cool spray of water up the back of your legs...

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Scotz

By that logic you call toast "crunch-gulp" and your car a "broom-broom".

This is a paid defence from the Alliance for the Preservation of Correct Nomenclature for Footwear (affectionally known as APCNF).

Thongs, dammit, Thongs.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

Sorry, but I would get tossed from RedNeckLand if I actually referred to any footwear as "thongs"...

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If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone in England call them 'thongs' and it's our language, damnit, so they're FLIP-FLOPS!




By the way, I quite frequently refer to my car as a 'broom broom' too.

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Fruit flies like a banana"

M Y - N A U G H T Y - P I C T U R E S ! !

i think every phrase i use is pretty much nonPC, i find this PC stuff rubbish. in my honest option.




And there flip-flops! in many different COLOURS!!!

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its all fun and games till someone lose's a bollock!

To us they are thongs...always have been....always will be!!!

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smithy020,

I agree. Efforts to constrain freedom of speech, intolerance of figures of speech and use of this or that metaphor because it may hurt someone’s feeling, and the avoidance of discussion of social problems are indeed a waste of time.

They often serve to advance one political agenda over another by suppressing the expression of differing valid points of view.

... and yes, from a Yank who grew up in British boarding schools, they are indeed flip-flops.

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Eudaimonia

jseal, I had thought better of you.

The misnaming of the thong by poor benighted Northern Hemispherians is something to be mourned, not accepted.

The pressure to pass the name to a slip of material and some string should be resisted at all costs. It's real name is the stringy bumcrackhugging thingy.

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Well, if we're going to get funny about naming things, then by all means call flip flops 'thongs', but then call your languages 'Australian' or 'American' not ENGlish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa!

Oh apart from you, Jseal, you can still call it English.

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"Time flies like an arrow -
Fruit flies like a banana"

M Y - N A U G H T Y - P I C T U R E S ! !

Ty

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Eudaimonia

Now I'm envisioning the other type of thong.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

Excuse me!

Our language is actually Australian ENGLISH!

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