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I can't be the only one to be bemused - please help me

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UnquietDad · 11/05/2007 17:29

...by all the "crocs" stuff on here. I had to look them up to see what they were. They're sort of plasticky-looking shoes with holes in, right? Why do they provoke so many comments??

...by how people who are middle-class but not huge earners (can you be middle-class and improverished? I think you can) manage to live in nice areas. E.g. if you are working in voluntary sector or a creative industry where they pay peanuts. How do you avoid living in some area with a Lidl and a sink-estate comp?

...by the food fad/dieting obsessions.

...by the obsession with celebrities and their doings, and the magazines which celebrate their vacuous culture.

... by the way so many DHs get away with doing nothing relating to the kids during the week and then absconding for football/rugby/golf on a Saturday, or even a weekend away with the lads, when I have to get a bloody form signed in my own blood in triplicate if I want to have my first night away in several months.

I know I'm probably repeating myself, though. And covering too many bases for one thread!

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Lio · 11/05/2007 20:56

I know a couple of couples with not a huge income and nice house in good area. Both inherited money. I have some crocs that I was given as a present. I think they are ugly and my big toenail gets caught in the hole. I haven't heard of lots of celebrties.

Lio · 11/05/2007 20:58

And my pizza just arrived - shloo!

MrMariella · 11/05/2007 21:21

A fave acronym from the "Lawson boom and bust" 1980's years about too much cash swilling around was 'Lombard'.
"Loads of money but a right dick".

ChocolateFace · 11/05/2007 21:26

Ahem, Unquiet Dad, I live in a rather nice area of town - no sink estate near here, and there is a Lidl within walking distance. I even, (yes me), went in last week .

Pruni · 11/05/2007 21:28

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MrMariella · 11/05/2007 21:33

UQD - yep..all about " not with them all the time" - too true. I too like chat and insights of women's company, and that HAS been an 'issue' with dps before...
it may be how it is expressed at times, like "god, I need to get away.."

MrsDiorKeanuReeves · 11/05/2007 23:03

Bilblio - I've been with my h since I was 18 too (19 years ). Maybe that is why I appreciate some time on my own?

UnquietDad · 11/05/2007 23:33

Pruni - agree in theory. But some people can work their arses off with no correlation between that and the amount of money they earn. Writers ans artists are a prime example, and people in other creative industries; also people in charity/nont-for-profit sector.

(I appear to have started a multi-headed Hydra of a thread here. It would have been far more sensibke to have started 5 different ones, but I didn't have the courage...)

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SoapOnARope · 11/05/2007 23:36

yes but men get such enjoyment discussing routes from A to B

and they forget to put the washing in the dryer but can remember who scored the first goal in the 1954 Cup Final

VeniVidiVickiQV · 11/05/2007 23:39

I'm bemused alot of the time.

It's how i keep ending up wandering into The Men's Room

Nikki76 · 12/05/2007 00:12

lol at form signed in triplicate!

Thing is, a lot of people lead what seems to be a nice lifestyle - Waitrose etc and then a few years down the line, you can find (not always I must stress!) that it was all on credit, second mortgages taken out etc!

MrMariella · 12/05/2007 10:22

Soapy - it was Ronnie Allen.

SoapOnARope · 12/05/2007 12:45

ShockGrin

Kevlarhead · 14/05/2007 17:07

I don't do route finding and I can't be bothered at all with footbal.

I'm begining to question whether I'm actually male...

I do share the aforementioned general bemusment though...

UnquietDad · 14/05/2007 17:13

Football, no, except England. What's the point when nobody plays for the place they come from?

Route-finding, no - many's the time I have bee collared by a well-meaning male relative with Road Atlas in hand ready to talk about the best route home, and I have quaked in fear.

DIY - am learning.

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DrDaddy · 14/05/2007 17:18

UQD - all I can say is crocs fucking irritate the hell out of me. Brilliant marketing on someone's part to get all these suckers buying them though

UnquietDad · 14/05/2007 17:19

They're really odd! I don't get people's obsession with them at all.

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DrDaddy · 14/05/2007 17:21

Yes, I really want to be seen wearing shoes like the ones people used to wear in swimming pools to protect against verucas....not

Kathyis6incheshigh · 14/05/2007 17:25

Let me explain about Crocs. What you have to remember is that most of the shoes women are expected to wear are bloody uncomfortable. They have silly little heels and you wobble around in them, or nasty pointy toes that pinch you.
So when a shoe comes on the market that is fashionable (arbitrarily, because the fashion people say it is) and yet you can run in it and it wipes clean and doesn't give you bunions it's going to be taken up with great enthusiasm by lots of women. I felt the same about my Doc Martens in 1986.

And then the people who haven't actually tried them don't get it so the people who like them are busy trying to defend themselves.

That's the main reason but there also things like the price - sort of price where lots of people can afford several but not so low as to be negligible, so people are trying to make up their mind whether to buy lots, etc.

UnquietDad · 14/05/2007 17:28

But what did people wear before the fashion industry suddenly decreed that verucca-shoes were the New Thing because Kate Moss or soemone had started wearing them? Don't you have trainers, or sandals, or plimsolls?

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 14/05/2007 17:51

Yes of course, all the above, but for any given activity you would have to decide which one to wear, and esp. with them being in fashion Crocs will do for more different types of thing so you're less likely to have to keep changing your shoes.

lou33 · 14/05/2007 18:02

bemused by all of that too

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