Crocs: You Wouldn't Listen!

Me and the soup-dragon are all for them. Comfy, float, washable (even used sump oil!), no smell or stubbed toes.
Other colours are available....
Did have a 'blow-out' ascending a steep slope with sweaty feet, but have never been injured due to them.
I am not reknowned for sartorial elegance, and it's some years since I saw my feet, so WTF?
 
Don't buy copies!

Use the real thing

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dmmbruce said:
Otherwise I am crippled by 'false gout' resulting from diuretics. Mike
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A bit of a wander, but gout resulting from diuretics is real gout, caused by a raised blood urate (= uric acid). Pseudogout is a different condition caused by pyrophosphate crystals deposited in the joints. If a thiazide diuretic is necessary the gout can be treated with the usual drugs.
 
I have been wearing £3.50 croc copies off the market for the last few years.

Positives;
1. Cheap
2. Dry out in seconds
3. Cheap
4. Comfortable
5. Cheap
6. Good thick soles
7. Cheap
8. Require no looking after.
9. Cheap
10. Hygenic
11. They float

Oh, and they're cheap.

Negatives;
1. Looks (don't care)
2. Soles not very tough (careful what I walk on)
3. Slippery when wet. (as above)


Erm...................


No contest, really
 
peterdenning said:
I would also like to know how they are dangerous.
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There may be other reasons - this is the one I know about: they get trapped in the most unexpected places because they are wider and much stickier than normal footwear.

I use mine for knocking about in at home, and there are stone steps up to my den in the granary. My near miss after getting a foot stuck near the top of these steps convinces me that they are unsafe, if not potential deathtraps on a boat.

I don't imagine that many people die from a stubbed toe, but there a many who have died after falling overboard.
 
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Lakesailor said:
I have the answer! Buy Crocs.
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I wear out 2 pairs of these a year. Actually the copies, although I have a real pair on at the moment and they last exactly 3 months, the same time as the copies. I wear them every day for six months of the year. The tread disappears and suddenly they are slippery on wet concrete, pavers etc. Still perfect on the yacht deck though. Notice a new style has appeared which looks much more attractive.

Any ideas on how to refurbish the soles? I have plenty of old pairs laying around.
 
Crocs do indeed float, as I can attest.

Son No.2 fell off the boat on a mooring in Plymouth, MA (why is a long story involving some dubious behaviour by Son No. 1...) and once hauled out of the briny using a boathook etc etc the main cause of his distress was that one of his precious crocs was floating out to sea on the tide like a bright blue barge. Quick thinking by the Plymouth SC launchman and we soon recovered the highly visible and eminently seaworthy footwear.

To be honest we could probably have left the next day and still have been able to find it and recover it, although I was concerned at the time it may have been considered a hazard to navigation.
 
See, I believe that if one lives in a glass house....
There are two broad distinctions of people: 'em as what wears Crocs, and 'em as what don't. Now it's the Non-Croc people who I worry about...
If they're not wearing Crocs, then by default they're either wearing boots and shorts, or worse yet sandals and socks, or dockies and socks, or even more egregiously, little white captains caps... WHICH IS IT??? 'FESS UP- WE'RE WAITING!!!!
We, the sartorially attired wearers-of-loud-plastic-slippers, refrain from expressing our judgement of these "other" people!
I'd like to propose that the Non-Crocced of us STFU until they can post pics of their beCrocced feet with some weeping blisters or other evidence that Crocs are bad things or do a better job of preaching style and practicality to the converted!
 
Escalators

Not a fan myself (I am well beyond my teens now!) but my kids love them.

However as someone who manages several buildings with escalators, this has been a concern for some while, http://blogs.consumerreports.org/safety/2008/05/crocs-escalator.html Never seen it myself mind but I have been witness to an escalator removing a couple of fingers from a toddler's hand without even breaking pace! :(:(

You have been warned!!
 
although I was concerned at the time it may have been considered a hazard to navigation.
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LOL!

Jonic, look forward to catching up with you. It sounds like you'll be easy to spot ;)

Thanks for your replies. Like legwarmers I'm sure those who wear them can argue the benefits of doing so until the cows come home. Still, as you trundle down the pontoon in your bright purple rubber slippers just remember you look like a ridiculous clown :D:p

I'll end on a pro though: my mum recently had a foot operation and the surgeon recommended that she wear Crocs. She's had them on her feet for the last three months. I still think she should be juggling custard pies.
 
I own 3 pairs...all cheap less than £5 versions......I find them the best sailing shoes I have ever had especially for grip on the deck....I recently paid £60 for a pair of Timberland super sticky grippy trainer type boating shoe and they are not as goos as the Crocs!!

Great to for flinging in the dinghy when you have to wade ashore!!
 
Freestyle....

[QUOTE my den in the granary.[/QUOTE]

Why don't you use your granary for storing grain,like all the other forumites.
 
I don't wear them routinely but they're excellent in the Med, because they're lightweight and grippy. I, too, am a member of the "Can't-see-my-feet-anyway" school.

I found them superb for swimming because (a) they're feather light so they don't drag you down and (b) they form an interface between your feet and things like sea urchins and stone fish :)
 
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