Thongs, Jandels, FlipFlops ???

If he was a 'true blue Kiwi" he would have remembered that a "Thong" is actually a very flimsy piece of female underwear.:-)))))) (I do note that he did list it in his thread heading though :-))))

Jandels is the 'real' name for them :-)) and they are even harder to wear when you go over 'judderbars' in them :-)

pmslmao,

Cheers. :)

Fencing wire works to!!

hi
try double sided tape and walk sideways usually works for japanese safety boots
thats what i have always called them but i know they are now made in china
or you could try walking like an egyption
get with it practise makes perfect
cheers

"All in all a great AUSSIE invention"

Nope not correct

You can't add this to the ever growing list of 'auusie inventions etc' stolen from us Kiwi's

From Wikipedia

"The modern design was invented in Auckland, New Zealand by Morris Yock in the 50s and patented in 1957. However, this claim has recently been contested by the children of John Cowie. John Cowie was an England-raised businessman who started a plastics manufacturing business in Hong Kong after the war. His children claim that it was Cowie that started manufacturing a plastic version of the sandals in the late 1940s and that Yock was just a New Zealand importer.[6] The children also say that their father claimed to have invented the name 'jandal' from a shortened form of 'Japanese Sandal'. John Cowie and his family emigrated to New Zealand in 1959.

Despite 'jandal' being commonly used in New Zealand to describe any manufacturer's brand, the word Jandal is actually a trademark since 1957, for a long time owned by the Skellerup company.

In countries other than New Zealand, jandals are known by other names.

In Australia they are known as thongs. The first pair were manufactured there by Skellerup rival Dunlop in 1960. Thongs became popular there after being worn by the Australian Olympic swimming team at the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956."

The dates tell it all :-)))

i need to clarify that ...Real Aussies go barefoot..etc etc....(we do have some male shielaghs amongst us)