In other words, "slip on" shoes; no laces, buckles, or other closure fasteners to deal with. Yeah, I can go along with that. But I do wonder what the motivation is. Comfort? Convenience? Laziness? Arthritic pain avoidance? Sudden Onset Knot Phobias?...you learn to appreciate all sorts of Loafers, Chelseas, Birkenstocks...
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But will you wear these technically unhealthy outside your home?
I mean, generations of the older Germans wrecked their feet with the classic Birkenstock style pantolettes.
Anyone remember Earth Shoes from back in the 70s?
In other words, "slip on" shoes; no laces, buckles, or other closure fasteners to deal with. Yeah, I can go along with that. But I do wonder what the motivation is. Comfort? Convenience? Laziness? Arthritic pain avoidance? Sudden Onset Knot Phobias?
Bah, humbug. They are sandals. I will die of liver disease or heart disease or skin cancer LONG before I die of fallen arches. Go away. Birkenstocks are so damned comfortable.
Yes! I had a pair in high school. I think it was during my John Denver phase. For a brief moment, it was cool to be a geek.
Not so sure....as Boomers we still control much of the world's wealth so they might still be living in our world. But what ever....I ignore them and they ignore me....we get along great....when you realize that the reason so much of the world no longer seems to make sense is not that there's something wrong with the world, but that the world is no longer about *you.* I was talking the other day to an associate in her mid-forties who was expressing puzzlement at the doings of "zoomers," and grumbling how she "doesn't get these kids today." Well, of course you don't. Their culture isn't intended for you. Their marketing isn't intended for you. The world today isn't intended for you.
There comes a time, usually around the time you hit your late forties or early fifties, when you notice that people of your own age cohort are no longer the focus of popular culture, mass marketing, or mainstream politics, and you have only two options -- you can resent this, and spend the rest of your life sinking into a morass of impotent cloud-shouting about "KIDS TODAY" or you can simply acknowledge that the same thing has happened to and will happen to every generation in its own turn. The world is going to move on, whether you want it to or not, and the same thing will happen, in time, to all the Kids Today. Realizing and accepting that, I find, can save a lot of frustration. They're not living in your world, after all. You're living in theirs.
Damn, I never realized it was ever a 'thing'54 years and 18 days. How long it took me to read the phrase "my John Denver phase"...
;-{ )
There comes a time, usually around the time you hit your late forties or early fifties, when you notice that people of your own age cohort are no longer the focus of popular culture, mass marketing, or mainstream politics, and you have only two options -- you can resent this, and spend the rest of your life sinking into a morass of impotent cloud-shouting about "KIDS TODAY" or you can simply acknowledge that the same thing has happened to and will happen to every generation in its own turn. The world is going to move on, whether you want it to or not, and the same thing will happen, in time, to all the Kids Today. Realizing and accepting that, I find, can save a lot of frustration. They're not living in your world, after all. You're living in theirs.