Crocs - wearers look like escapees from insane asylum

[Idreamofdaleks]

stop kidding yourselves they look funky

they look institutionalised

Insane asylum is the One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest place

I wasn't trying to say anything about current treatments for mental health. Anyhow, thanks for bothering to explain WHY it offended you.

The 'one flew over the cuckoos nest place' is a psychiatric hospital

No it isn't. It's a fictional place based on outdated treatments.

So the 'plot' behind this fictional story then is not about a prisoner pretending to be mentally ill to get out of serving time in a jail, to serve his sentence in a mental institute? Thats not the story then?

Crocs are comfy. That's why I wear them. And I have had people staring, pointing, falling over and tking me to one side for a 'quiet word' about my sartorial choices since my mother stopped dressing me. So frankly I don't give a fuck.

whether it is outdated, real or not, you chose really poor analogy

psychiatrict units and hospitals and secure units do still exist

and they used to be called insane asylums

My point is simply that it's fictional and set in the past, so I am not commenting on modern day mental health treatments. Have you got crocs too?

who me? no- I think they are bloody horrible- But I dont think that you have to appear to be mentally ill to wear them

and just to clarify- It wasnt set 'in the past' - it is an old film now, but when it was made - those types of psychiatric hosps did still exist.

oh well ds1 must be getting in practice for the future.....

It's not about crocs fgs

It's about your thread title, and youre continued ignorance about it.

It is offensive. And has pissed me off TBH

I think it is hard for people who have not been through the mental health sytem to understand how memories of being in the system can stay with you and haunt you for life.

I was in the Bethlem for four months and recently I was given by my head of department some pictures of what she called a "mental asylum" to use in a lesson. These pictures were of the Bethlem and the minute I saw them I almost reverted immediatly into a quivering wreck and went home shaking in tears.

I hate the phrase lunatic asylum or the phrase luntacic and you thread title wince although I would not like to curb yourfreedom of speech. I live in a town that has a well known psychitraic ward and people often take the piss out of people in there or talk about lunatics and I will say to them " actually you are talking about me, if I had cancer would you find still find it acceptable to mock my illness"

BTW I also wear crocs which I don't think is linked to my past history as an institutionalised lunatic,

So can't I call anyone "mad" or "crazy" without insulting anyone who has ever had mental health problems?

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sorry awful typing the cat is on the keyboard

I like em.

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Bovvered

Who IS Idreamofdaleks btw

over-reaction to insane asylum I think - it's just a stereotype - a tad tastleless but hardly horrific (and I speak as someone who has spent time in psychiatric care)

Not really, no.

I am not into fashion but have seen alot of people (inc my sister) who wear crocs. I have to admit, I first saw them on a middle age woman and thought they were some sort of 'bunion shoe.' I wouldn't say they look like they are from an 'insane asylum' though, just they want to wear funny looking shoes. My sister often tries to wear non leather shoes which may be a factor for some.

BTW I also was not offended by the title, and I also have friends/family with MH issues.

MP, i suppose its like saying "Size 0 women look like victims".

But you didn't use those words you said insane and institutionalised.

Would you stop someone ion the street with a head scarf and shout out "Oi don't wearthatyou look like a cancer victim" I think not.

agree hatrick. it's about as interesting as a breast and bottle thread