Fun fact about Crocs.
In the movie idocracy, the costume designer chose crocs as the primary style of shoes because they considered to be so ugly only a complete idiot worluld where them.
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Submitted 7 months ago by kewwwi@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 7 months ago
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fact check: I do not wear crocs, yet I am an idiot. There is no correlation between the two.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
No, you’re good. Just because all croc wearers are idiots does not mean you cannot be an idiot without crocs.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I thought people wore them because of how comfy they are, not for the looks
mac@infosec.pub 7 months ago
So many options for comfy shoes, why choose those.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That is a fun fact! Also add another check on the list of correlations to actual society that make that movie more prophetic than satire.
Maybe I need to calm down and drink some more electrolytes.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What else have you been drinking? I hope your aren’t one of those toilet water drinkers.
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I wear Crocs because they are functional, for any other reason they’ve long since fallen out of fashion. Combines good insulation with good air flow and they are extremely durable. If being ugly makes me an idiot for wearing them, then I am a complete idiot who deserves his electrolyte laden future.
cm0002@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fuck, can we just make them extinct already? It’s probably the one thing nearly every animal on the planet is hoping we make extinct
And before anyone comes in here with their “Nooo mosquitoes a pARt oF tHe fOoD ChAIn” you’re at best a mosquito apologist, the food chain will be fine (We only need to make the blood sucking sub-species’s extinct)
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
How will far-future archeologists get blood samples encased in amber from our era?
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 7 months ago
But then how will we have a real life Quaternary Park movie, a billion years in the future?
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Unfortunately, mosquitoes are also pretty important pollinators (they only consume blood when laying eggs), and goodness knows we can’t really afford to lose more of those.
cm0002@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I see 2 possible solutions on this point. 1, most people primarily spray insecticide to control mosquitos which harms bees as a side effect. If we got rid of mosquitoes altogether, spraying would drop significantly and the bees might return
2, there’s something like 3-6 thousand different mosquito sub species and only a handful suck blood and even fewer of that target humans. We could do away with those few species and replace them with some other sub-species that are either close enough naturally or through further genetic alterations.
Leg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Man, fuck you OP.
Razzazzika@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Thanks I hate it.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I live in northern Ontario and I spend a lot of time in the summer outdoors and there are days were you can be swarmed by mosquitoes.
When my friends from the city give to visit, they look at me weird for wearing jeans and boots on a hot summer afternoon.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
time to invest in mosquito pants
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But isn’t it difficult to fashion clothing from such small insects?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
One of my favourite solutions is to just work furiously with shorts and a t-shirt. Constantly moving keeps the bugs away but you still get bitten quite a bit. Then when you’re done work, you jump into an ice cold lake which soothes all the bug bites on your skin. Then dry off, put on the jeans, boots, long sleeved shirt and sit around the fire.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
…and all this time I thought those were sun-burn spots! Arghhh!!
Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 months ago
socially distanced skeeters
Bunnylux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Gotta wear socks with your crocs
lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
My worst nightmare
jojowakaki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Anton Gudim, thr original Artist if anybody is interested
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I would have guessed Chris Simpsons…
ekZepp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I don’t know you OP but I now have hatred towards you for showing this horror. May you stub your toe today,twice!
Beebabe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Who made this comic? It’s so uncomfortable, I want to see more.
kewwwi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
no idea, but there’s a signature, I’ll try to find the artist
AEsheron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Aaaaaaaaaaa
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s why you get the fly screen edition Crocs.
lugal@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
So that’s what the holes are for, I see… it’s a huge conspiracy
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think I’ll stick to boots, thank you.
dingus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wtf I hate this why
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Trypophobia + mosquitoes
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 months ago
grte@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
18+ mosquitoes sucking my blood is pretty awful even without a phobia.
bstix@feddit.dk 7 months ago
Trypophobia in action.
dingus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean why create it!!