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Message started by Laugh till you cry on May 25th, 2019 at 3:15pm

Title: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Laugh till you cry on May 25th, 2019 at 3:15pm
The most crappy footwear I have ever seen is crocs and I can't believe people are prepared to pay the high price for this crappy footwear and even wear crappy cheap-looking rubber footwear.

https://nypost.com/2016/06/03/crocs-are-bad-for-your-health/


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Crocs are bad for your health
By Timothy Mitchell June 3, 2016 | 3:01pm

The unsightly feet of chef Mario Batali, who loves his unhealthy Crocs. AP
All arguments over Crocs — the rubber clogs that, since 2002, have somehow been sold more than 300 million times — inevitably end with “I don’t care, they’re comfortable.” Such defenders relish the tacit assumption that shoes that pamper your feet must also be good for them.

Well, sorry, moms of toddlers, hospital staff and those who have given up on life — science is now on the side of Team Style.

“Unfortunately, Crocs are not suitable for all-day use,” Dr. Megan Leahy, a Chicago-based podiatrist with the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, told the Huffington Post. “These shoes do not adequately secure the heel. When the heel is unstable, toes tend to grip which can lead to tendinitis, worsening of toe deformities, nail problems, corns and calluses. The same thing can happen with flip-flops or any backless shoes as the heel is not secured.”

And even if the back straps on classic Crocs sufficiently protect the heel, bigger problems remain.

According to Dr. Alex Kor, president of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine, the most important part of any shoe is the shank — a supportive structure that rests between the heel and toe, and runs under the arch of the foot.

“Patients are more likely to have foot pain if their shoes bend in the shank,” Kor told HuffPo, calling Crocs the “poster child” for this type of footwear. “I see patients who come into my office complaining of arch or heel pain and they are wearing Crocs.”

So Crocs are not only clunky and polarizing, but also potentially dangerous.

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Redmond Neck on May 25th, 2019 at 3:28pm
Mmmm

Funny I imagined you would be the type that wore them!

;)


Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Gordon on May 25th, 2019 at 3:29pm
You're just jealous of people who own shoes, ya dirty curry.




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Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Redmond Neck on May 25th, 2019 at 3:32pm

Gordon wrote on May 25th, 2019 at 3:29pm:
You're just jealous of people who own shoes, ya dirty curry.


Yuk!



Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Gordon on May 25th, 2019 at 3:34pm
Fair enough, I can see how Crocs would interfere with Laugh while he's working.


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Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Laugh till you cry on May 25th, 2019 at 3:57pm

Redmond Neck wrote on May 25th, 2019 at 3:28pm:
Mmmm

Funny I imagined you would be the type that wore them!

;)


Please stop fantasizing about me. Gordon is very jealous of fantasizers who mindnap his fantasies.

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Redmond Neck on May 25th, 2019 at 4:17pm
They wouldnt be much good when you had to have a crap on the footpath as Indian cabbies have to do regularly,

one could easily piss in your croc so to speak!


Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Laugh till you cry on May 25th, 2019 at 5:46pm

Redmond Neck wrote on May 25th, 2019 at 4:17pm:
They wouldnt be much good when you had to have a crap on the footpath as Indian cabbies have to do regularly,

one could easily piss in your croc so to speak!


Redneck evidently is a subscriber to Gordon's favorite defecation and watersports web sites for gay, decrepit, senile, trouserless old geriatric tossers who don't have a bucket list because they can't afford a bucket or trousers.

Enjoy.


Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Ye Grappler on May 25th, 2019 at 8:44pm
I can tell you from personal experience that they are a right bastard to step on/into when you're lugging a huge TV set through a narrow door and someone has just shed them in your path...

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Gnads on May 26th, 2019 at 7:28am

Laugh till you cry wrote on May 25th, 2019 at 3:15pm:
The most crappy footwear I have ever seen is crocs and I can't believe people are prepared to pay the high price for this crappy footwear and even wear crappy cheap-looking rubber footwear.

https://nypost.com/2016/06/03/crocs-are-bad-for-your-health/


Quote:
Crocs are bad for your health
By Timothy Mitchell June 3, 2016 | 3:01pm

The unsightly feet of chef Mario Batali, who loves his unhealthy Crocs. AP
All arguments over Crocs — the rubber clogs that, since 2002, have somehow been sold more than 300 million times — inevitably end with “I don’t care, they’re comfortable.” Such defenders relish the tacit assumption that shoes that pamper your feet must also be good for them.

Well, sorry, moms of toddlers, hospital staff and those who have given up on life — science is now on the side of Team Style.

“Unfortunately, Crocs are not suitable for all-day use,” Dr. Megan Leahy, a Chicago-based podiatrist with the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, told the Huffington Post. “These shoes do not adequately secure the heel. When the heel is unstable, toes tend to grip which can lead to tendinitis, worsening of toe deformities, nail problems, corns and calluses. The same thing can happen with flip-flops or any backless shoes as the heel is not secured.”

And even if the back straps on classic Crocs sufficiently protect the heel, bigger problems remain.

According to Dr. Alex Kor, president of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine, the most important part of any shoe is the shank — a supportive structure that rests between the heel and toe, and runs under the arch of the foot.

“Patients are more likely to have foot pain if their shoes bend in the shank,” Kor told HuffPo, calling Crocs the “poster child” for this type of footwear. “I see patients who come into my office complaining of arch or heel pain and they are wearing Crocs.”

So Crocs are not only clunky and polarizing, but also potentially dangerous.


The old double pluggers aren't that good for your feet and posture either .... but I wear them.

Around boats, the beach and yard Crocs serve a purpose.

I wear the cheap Rivers version because the brand name are definitely too expensive for what they are .... made from.

The one pair of Crocs I had went hard quicker than the cheapies.

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by PZ547 on May 26th, 2019 at 8:20am
Does the 'foot bend in the shank' and have 'unsecured heels' and do 'toes tend to grip' in those who go barefooted as do children, people walking on the beach, etc.?

Were we born with shoes attached to our feet?

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by freediver on May 26th, 2019 at 9:26am
When you wear thongs, you have to grip them a bit with your toes. It's a slightly different action to barefoot.

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Laugh till you cry on May 26th, 2019 at 12:09pm

Gnads wrote on May 26th, 2019 at 7:28am:
The one pair of Crocs I had went hard quicker than the cheapies.


Embedded in your anus?

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by AiA on May 26th, 2019 at 12:26pm
A man who goes out in public wearing Crocs has lost his last bit of self-respect.

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Laugh till you cry on May 26th, 2019 at 1:30pm

AiA wrote on May 26th, 2019 at 12:26pm:
A man who goes out in public wearing Crocs has lost his last bit of self-respect.


Gordon? Gordon had discarded his self-respect long ago. It was clashing with Gordon's bigotry and Islamophobia, not to mention Gordon's professed hate of Mexicans and Indians.

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by .JaSin. on May 26th, 2019 at 7:31pm
Apparently me wearing Oceanic Split Fins and occasionally Jet Fins, is bad for my feet. On the beach it tends to make me 'moonwalk' into the water and underwater it tends to make me swim, not walk.

The environmental-nature made us  all different.
So to will technology-knowledge, with each generation.

Maybe Crocs are just no good for 'Scientists' - because they lack the casual 'Spirituality' that 'Fashion' brings to the world.

...Scientists should just stick to their Atheism, black-skivvy's, cafe-latte's and hipster beard manicures and even more 'comfortable' shoes that can't go places where the Crocs go.
;)

Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by Gnads on May 26th, 2019 at 7:41pm

Laugh till you cry wrote on May 26th, 2019 at 12:09pm:

Gnads wrote on May 26th, 2019 at 7:28am:
The one pair of Crocs I had went hard quicker than the cheapies.


Embedded in your anus?


I could suggest that yours would now be a good resting place for them ..... I'll fit them for you for free.


Title: Re: Crocs are crappy, expensive, bad for your health
Post by The Reboot on May 26th, 2019 at 9:50pm

Gnads wrote on May 26th, 2019 at 7:41pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on May 26th, 2019 at 12:09pm:

Gnads wrote on May 26th, 2019 at 7:28am:
The one pair of Crocs I had went hard quicker than the cheapies.


Embedded in your anus?


I could suggest that yours would now be a good resting place for them ..... I'll fit them for you for free.

You'll lose them.

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