Why Your Flip-Flops Could Kill You

nydailynews.com:

Lab tests of two reporters' flip-flops, worn for four days, revealed a potentially deadly germ - Staphylococcus aureus - lurking on the rubber.

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Comments

[TaylorRae]

Lysol. Chlorox. Soap and Water. Just don't take my flip flops from me!

[GoDogGo]

"Why fear-mongering could sell more ads and boost rates..."

[derrickhoyle]

I guess I'm doomed.

[brahdog]

flip-flops are killing people in the city with nasty diseases! bacteria is on the sidewalks and on your shoes! everybody panic!

in other breaking news, the media peddles fear-mongering and people have immune systems

[byla]

Lucky for me, I live in a beach tourist town. I don't have to worry about the ickiness of city sidewalks.

With the exception of about one month a year, we all wear flip flops year-round. And there are a few people who continue to wear them that one "cold" month, only with socks. We call them "island boots"

[brahdog]

yeah i'm sure there's no icky bacteria where you live

[byla]

Not really. I've lived in a "city" before. Here we have these nifty showers...­for your feet or your whole body.

I understand. Not everyone can live the Island life. Guess you're one of those people.

[byla]

Oh don't come down here to visit. Really, we don't need "your kind"

Go to California instead.

[GodYesOrNo]

Flip flops can kill you no more than those horrible thick/high soled shoes that all of the women were wearing a couple of years ago.
At least flip flops & shoes with little soles are sexy.
GodYesOrNo.com

[LiberalInTexas]

I live in suburban Dallas. We all wear flip flops here. I know New Yorkers frown on it (Clinton Kelly himself frowned on mine a few years ago), but New Yorkers don't have to deal with two-week stretches of 100+ degree weather throughout each summer either. Of course, people and places tend to be kinda spread out here, and we have a BOOMING pedicure spa industry .

[beachsandshuffle]

Is this about flips or New York?

[avah]

There was a test on women's purses like this. The results were just like this. Women place them on any floor and then put them on a kitchen counter or a table with food. Bleccchhhh!

[WinterParkMom]

If you are a superstitious Indian like me you would never let your pocket book touch a floor. Our superstition says you will lose money if you do. And that doesn't just mean physically losing a dollar bill, but it also means making bad financial decisions, not finding money when you need it, etc. Try it ladies. Be one part Indian.

[littlepuffycloud]

Back in the 70's, as one of those 'dirty hippie types' in HS, we used to wear 'Invisible Sandals". It was so stupid, but, it was a piece of light-weight elastic with the ends sewn together and worn around the big toe and arouond the ankle. We sewed silk flowers on the piece over the toe. Ridiculous but we all made and wore them around the 'burbs in the summer. I also had a pair of 'shoes' which consisted of a piece of rubber/plastic like a flip flop but nothing to hold them on. They came with a tube of some wierd glue that was supposed to keep the rubber on the foot. Of course it didn't stick and I knew I'd been a sucker. But what do you expect ffrom a HS dirty hippie chic?

[KarateKid]

First sushi. Now flip flops. You Caucasians are coming around....­...LMAO

[Bluejay00234]

I don't doubt this, Ive seen some people flips, and just yuck.

[SangZe]

But flip-flops are such an important sign of the leadership we supposed have. How can we give them up unless we vote the fools out.

[notconfindtweenhatnboots]

Wow.. you may be on to something. Perhaps flip-flops were so popular in the last few years because they represented the Democrat who should have been elected in 2004. Never thought of it that way before.

[Aesthete]

My toes are close together and that thong piece between the toes drives me nuts! I can't stand flip-flops or any other type of thong sandal.

[brooklyncitizen]

Well be a confessed "germphobe" I always stayed away from wearing anything like this in the city. And I never wear my city shoes in the house....e­specially after subway riding one feels the need to change clothes and footwear once you get home.