You Wore Flip-flops To The White House?!

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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Depot+Jul 19 2005, 07:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Depot @ Jul 19 2005, 07:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Mullet+Jul 19 2005, 08:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mullet @ Jul 19 2005, 08:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Depot+Jul 19 2005, 03:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Depot @ Jul 19 2005, 03:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Narfwak+Jul 19 2005, 06:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Narfwak @ Jul 19 2005, 06:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> So . . . Rovegate has been replaced by Flip-Flopgate?  GG. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Flip-Flopgate is more fun, no? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Good god you post more than anyone I know. Stop it my brain is gonna esplode!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That's "asplode" fewl. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    <span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>Who loves ya baby?</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's Mullet.

    <span style='font-size:5pt;line-height:100%'>His brain "works" differently than the other children.</span>
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    edited July 2005
    My hispanic accent rubs off on my typing...estupido
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Mullet+Jul 19 2005, 11:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mullet @ Jul 19 2005, 11:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> My hispanic accent rubs off on my typing...estupido <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    But mullets aren't Hispanic, they're generic! <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    edited July 2005
    I don't know what's more amazing - that this is considered [edit]<s>nes</s> news [whoops - haven't done <i>that</i> in a while][/edit], or that this thread has as many pages as it does.

    Oh, and random trivia: in Australia we call them "thongs". <a href='http://www.letssingit.com/sisqo-thong-song-3khkghk.html' target='_blank'>Imagine my confusion</a>.
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    BTW, my flip-flops > theirs.

    <img src='http://xs38.xs.to/pics/05293/feet.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

    Wee!
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    edited July 2005
    Man is your big toe's nail like, something you avoid cleaning at all costs? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    Im sorry. This is where the reporter jumps out the the trees, and says:

    "You've just been caught on the new reality TV show where we show how argumentative people can get over totally pointless things!" and then the crowd laughs.

    I'm sorry, but I was laughing reading this, thanks <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    GOD, CABOOSE, SHAVE TEH LEGZ!


    On a more serious note, just saw on the news two officials from some middle-east country (I hate the news... and I had the mute on) wearing turbans in the whitehouse... No one gets on their case and we're AT WAR with people who wear turbans (Please no political stuff, and no Not everyone Who wears turbans is bad! The point is, I know who's our enemy... And turbans is ugly, so there.) Some girls wear SANDALS, which have been a staple of footwear since biblical (Way way back, before roos kids.) times, and everyone and their mother jumps on them.
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    Do you wear t-shirts to go see the President? I doubt you would! It's formality, and it's a very old tradition. You dress nicely when you go see someone important. Even thought the flip-flops are nice, they aren't considered formal wear. That is why if you wore a t-shirt to go see the President they would be like "wth nub."

    You guys could argue "omg it is just flip-flops lol!!!!111!1!!" but why would you have to wear something nice to a job interview? Even though the articles you wear might look nice, if you don't wear the right clothing to a job interview, your risking your chance to be hired...

    The point is, it doesn't matter if the clothing look nice, or wearing clothing doesn't effect your personality, it is a tradition that alot of people adhere too...
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    Wear a white T-Shirt with meat stains on it and have some ranch dressing on your face when you go.
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Depot+Jul 19 2005, 08:36 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Depot @ Jul 19 2005, 08:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Mullet+Jul 19 2005, 11:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mullet @ Jul 19 2005, 11:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> My hispanic accent rubs off on my typing...estupido <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    But mullets aren't Hispanic, they're generic! <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Actually I'm not hispanic, I just felt like saying that <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    edited July 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Wear a white T-Shirt with meat stains on it and have some ranch dressing on your face when you go. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/Tsaiyao/TSA.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

    The TSA get cool power-armour with breathing helmets, cool night vision lenses, and a sweet 7.62mm double barrelled assault gun, very useful for aircraft boarding assault techniques in case of a terrorist hi-jacking. It can punch holes straight through the terrorists and cause the neccessary collateral damage to kill the terrorist behind him. The armour also has "loss of cabin pressure" breathing systems...
  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Crotalus+Jul 20 2005, 03:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Crotalus @ Jul 20 2005, 03:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Do you wear t-shirts to go see the President? I doubt you would! It's formality, and it's a very old tradition. You dress nicely when you go see someone important. Even thought the flip-flops are nice, they aren't considered formal wear. That is why if you wore a t-shirt to go see the President they would be like "wth nub." <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Sure. If the President doesn't like me showing up the way I am, then that's his own damned problem. I'm not gonna go out and buy a suit just to meet this guy, because in the end: The only difference between me and him is that he wipes his **** with like 8-ply toilet paper while the rest of us use regular old 2-ply. He's nothing special, he's just got a special job.

    (In the case of a job interview, it's different. Half of the interview is impressing the person doing the hiring with your looks. Meeting the President is meeting the President, not trying to get hired by the President.)
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->(In the case of a job interview, it's different. Half of the interview is impressing the person doing the hiring with your looks. Meeting the President is meeting the President, not trying to get hired by the President.)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Depends on the President. Clinton may have wanted to pay some of them for services.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Caboose+Jul 20 2005, 02:07 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Caboose @ Jul 20 2005, 02:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> BTW, my flip-flops > theirs.

    <img src='http://xs38.xs.to/pics/05293/feet.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

    Wee! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Sure looks like there's fungi amongi ...
  • SpacerSpacer Invented dogs Join Date: 2003-05-02 Member: 16008Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Depot+Jul 19 2005, 03:37 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Depot @ Jul 19 2005, 03:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I shall agree to disagree on this topic. Granted I am old school <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Old, old, OLD school.
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    Then again, feet<i> are</i> pretty ugly. I know that if someone showed me their feet, I would reach for the nearest heavy, blunt object and beat them. Beat them until they take their hideous, twisted appendages out of my sight. Begone!
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Jul 20 2005, 06:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Jul 20 2005, 06:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Then again, feet<i> are</i> pretty ugly. I know that if someone showed me their feet, I would reach for the nearest heavy, blunt object and beat them. Beat them until they take their hideous, twisted appendages out of my sight. Begone! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Looks like someone did exactly that to bewsey .... ... .. .
  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    I find it ironic that a country (and an outlet of media) that promotes freedom (freedom of speech, freedom of choice etc...) above all else, is slating some poor girl because she chose to wear flip flops to meet the president. He doesn't care. I don't care. I could have stared at that picture for hours and not even noticed. Even if I did notice, I wouldn't care. He's the president, so what, he's only human. Hell, he'd probably appreciate meeting someone who's somewhat human, rather than a load of machines doing their best not to offend him in any way.

    Anyway, I call hypocrosy (spelling? I DON'T CARE! MUAHAHA!) on the whole of the U.S.A and it's media, for promoting freedom as the one true option, then smashing down on some girl's head because she used that freedom.


    By the way, I hate flip flops. I hate feet in general, but especially flip flops. And sandles. Especially sandles, but the guy wears knee high socks. I want to hurt those guys.
    And I'd probably wear what I normally wear, were I to meet Tony Blair (and my family didn't try and squeeze me into a suit. You seen me in a suit? I look like a very large hitman, or possibly a bear squeezed into a human suit squeezed into a suit. Just plain wrong) and I'd fart and burp in his presence. And I think he'd be cool with it.
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    It's not hypocritical, really. Free speech works both ways; people are free to slag her off about it if they want.
  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    Ah we're opening a whole other can of worms there, stick. The problem I really see here, is that every thinks you dress up "for" the person you're meeting. Not the case. You dress for the occasion itself, because traditionally the meeting of two equals, two un equals, two anythings for a special reason like an honoring, a photo shoot, or whatever, is an event to be regarded with respect. It matters not how much you like or dislike the guy/gal you're meeting. And when it's an important person like the President, and media are around, you're just setting yourself up for disaster if you don't follow ever etiquette law to the letter. Just look what's already happened to this poor girl.

    About freedom of speech. People sometimes confuse Freedom of Speech, with Freedom from Consequence.

    You can say or do whatever the hell you want so long as it's not criminal or slanderous. You can't expect to not face any consequences from those words or actions. It's action, reaction, here now and forever. John Romero was free to say that he would "make us his b*tch," but he was not free from our hatred and malcontent over not only that statement, but his inability to follow through with it.

    This girl is free to wear flip-flops to the White House. She is not free from the hordes of angry southern gentlemen who berate her for doing so.
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    edited July 2005
    Teh Individual has no meaning, morals come from the masses...majority pwns also. It means you don't count, they do. That being said, what the girl thinks or the President thinks doesn't matter at this point, what everyone thinks (Which might be that flip-flops aren't formal) wins. That might be why this seemingly meaningless event got into the news. Even though most of us in these forums think it's a crock of ****, the majority says that wearing flip-flops to the Whitehouse is nub.

    Rob, are you talking about John, the Doom II designer that invented smack talk??

    EDIT: Homeland Security TSA Assault Units ftw.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    I've requested this thread be moved to Discussion Forums, as I feel some valid issues have been raised that could be more inteligently discussed there. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    I'd rather you made a new thread. There's too much garbage in this one.
  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    . . .

    You're still posting in this thread?
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Rob+Jul 20 2005, 09:33 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rob @ Jul 20 2005, 09:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'd rather you made a new thread. There's too much garbage in this one. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    /me nods

    Understood.
  • OlmyOlmy Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16142Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, NS2 Developer, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Diamond
    <!--QuoteBegin-Depot+Jul 20 2005, 01:21 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Depot @ Jul 20 2005, 01:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I've requested this thread be moved to Discussion Forums, as I feel some valid issues have been raised that could be more inteligently discussed there. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Oh now that HAS to be sarcasm. I dunno about anyone else but i consider things like 'more than 90 civilians killed in iraq in fuel truck explosion' a slightly more disturbing event than people wearing flipflops to the white house.
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    You obviously haven't read all the posts. This is getting moved not
    soley because of girls wearing flip-flops, more with why the news is
    doing this, the rules of ettiqute, and majority thoughts...
  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Crotalus+Jul 20 2005, 02:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Crotalus @ Jul 20 2005, 02:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You obviously haven't read all the posts. This is getting moved not
    soley because of girls wearing flip-flops, more with why the news is
    doing this, the rules of ettiqute, and majority thoughts... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yeah, compared to that, the deaths of innocents hardly matter at all!
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    So no-one can discuss anything but the most important matters?

    As for the media - what do you expect? They probably think that most people are bored with Iraq. They're probably right.
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