• over_clox@lemmy.world
        211·
        5 days ago

        Just look up ‘History of Crocs’

        Do note, Crocs are not insane asylum socks, Crocs are genuine shoes, beach friendly, and distinctly different products.

        So, if you’re accusing anyone that wears Crocs as being mentally deficient, well you need to go fuck yourself.

        There’s nothing wrong with Crocs.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        112·
        5 days ago

        Umm, you don’t realize where Crocs came from then.

        Ever seen the movies Fight Club or Idiocracy?

        Yeah, go do some homework…

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          2·
          5 days ago

          Are you divergent, by any chance? Nothing wrong with it, btw, NT seems quickly becoming yesteryear’s divergent.

          Fwiw, I was agreeing with you: https://kbin.earth/m/comicstrips@lemmy.world/t/2519438/-/comment/12557085

          I can also laugh at the joke, agree it’s sometimes true, and wear mine without gaf.

          • over_clox@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 days ago

            Okay, we’re cool, I hope…

            I got 5 pairs of shoes, none are Crocs, because I don’t visit the beach. At least I got firefighter boots…

    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      5 days ago

      The original fairytale involves even more self harm: when the prince is getting women to try on the slipper one of the stepsisters, on the advice of her mother, cuts off her heels to make her foot fit, having been told when she’s married to a prince she won’t have to worry about walking. But the birds call out to him and make him notice the blood seeping out of the shoes as they head back towards the castle. I think the other sister cut off her toes or something and the same thing happens before Cinderella is found.

      The original story involved fur slippers, not glass ones, which is why he didn’t see their horribly mutilated feet immediately. Also fur slippers may or may not be a euphemism for hairy pussy.

      • St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        5 days ago

        I think I mentally blocked the memory of the original story as the image of a woman with a thoroughly mutilated foot horrifically stuffed into, essentially, a traveling display case makes me deeply uncomfortable.

        However, now learning that it was an opaque fur slipper, it somehow makes me less uncomfortable. I don’t know what any of this says about me

        • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          5 days ago

          May I offer instead to replace it with the new discomfort of contemplating Cinderella standing in furry, wet, squishy shoes filled with her stepsisters’ blood? 😇

          • St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            5 days ago

            That’s really not that bad. Gross? Absolutely. But I can tolerate gross sensations. The grossest of which you didn’t hit on. The sharp, pebbly prickling in the heel and toe. I don’t imagine the stepsisters were particularly adept surgeons. They would almost assuredly leave some fragments of bone embedded within the slipper’s soft lining.

            Which, even more horrifically, makes me realize that this did not take place in modern times and these women split open their feet to invite pathogens from literally hundreds, if not thousands of other women inside themselves. If I remember correctly, they were blinded, weren’t they? That feels almost merciful. They didn’t have to watch their legs percolate and putrefy in pre-antibiotic Europe.

      • limonade@jlai.lu
        1·
        5 days ago

        Actually it is not fur but glass indeed. The idea that it was fur was thought out by some modern(ish) french authors who thought they understand the meaning of the tale better than anyone but ancien versions of the tale do mention a glass shoe. A shoe made in a precious, fragile and impratical material showing the magic infuse in the setup.

  • Velypso@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    5 days ago

    The costume designer for idiocracy had people in the movie where crocs because they thought they were some of the ugliest shoes they’d ever seen, and only an idiot would wear them lmao.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      21·
      4 days ago

      Now now, they do have legit applications. For example, they’re good for kids in daycare who are potty training. Kid has an accident? Crocs are easier to clean the pee out of than socks and regular shoes.

      But that’s the extent to which I can give Crocs credit.

  • potustheplant@feddit.nl
    51·
    5 days ago

    So she’s inside the palace and getting away from him while going down a flight of stairs but he’s outside going up.

    This reeks of low effort AI.

      • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
        5·
        4 days ago

        It’s also from his time at Buzzfeed. He got consistent, unrelenting flack for crap he had to produce in extremely short timeframes to keep up with expectations for site content.

        It’s older than AI, and also it’s not that weird. Steps down into the foyer of the palace, steps leading to grander areas. He’s not exactly following her precisely behind. It’s just to recount the usual tale of Cinderella

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 days ago

    I’m sorry to tell you this but… Crocs made a come back in a lot of places. At least that’s what it was like a couple years ago. Everyone was wearing crocs.