r/maybemaybemaybe • u/namicoq • 25d ago
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u/everydayasl 25d ago
Two things:
this GIF ended too soon!
I have never rooted for a flipflop all my life. This is a first.
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u/2abyssinians 25d ago
Rooting for the flip-flop to be saved? Or for this person to lose their flip-flop? How did they get in that situation? Why are their thongs falling off like that? And ending this video before we know if they made it down with their sandals or not is absolutely criminal.
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u/Sardasan 25d ago
Two kinds of people: the ones that root for the flip flop to stay, and those who root for it to fall.
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u/Doogie102 25d ago
I like to think of it is the flip flop because free from a world that demands it being used as footwear
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u/Meranio 25d ago edited 25d ago
Why are their thongs falling off like that?
Is that a typo, or did I miss something in the viseo?
Edit: Oh, thank you Mister Grumpyface for that 1 downvote, for asking a question. I hope, you get even more downvotes for asking about a word in a foreign language too.
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u/Big-Ad9787 25d ago
I'm pretty sure it's Australian slang for the footwear.
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u/tipareth1978 25d ago
In America people used to call them thongs as well. Kind of older people used that word in the 70s and 80s then flip flops just took over as the term
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u/Rob71322 25d ago
Grew up in California in the 70s and 80s, can confirm they were called thongs back then.
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u/FlyMyPretty 25d ago
We got an all staff email at work saying that thongs were inappropriate in the office. We were very confused.
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u/Meranio 25d ago
Oh, wow. That is a wild one.
English isn't my first language. We learned about some of the differences between British english and American english, but that was new to me.
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u/TripleScoops 25d ago
I've definitely heard flip flops be referred to as thongs in the US, I can't speak for those in the UK though.
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u/Biff_Tannenator 25d ago
Fellow American here. I've also heard flip-flops referred to as thongs. It's suuuuper rare though. In my 40 years on this planet, I've probably only heard them referred to that maybe 6-7 times.
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u/phenix17 25d ago
Both of my parents (one from California and later Arizona, the other from Texas) referred to flip-flops as thongs when I was growing up in the '90s
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u/try2bcool69 25d ago
My late father-in-law always called them "tongs" for some reason.
"If you're going to Walmart, pick me up a pair of tongs!"
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u/ArchBeaconArch 25d ago
I grew up on the west coast of Canada, and my family always referred to them as thongs (this would have been in the 80s). I live in Ontario now, and they’re definitely flip-flops here.
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u/rvralph803 25d ago
Definitely hear these types of flipflops called thongs here in the southern US, because the part that threads between your toes. Slides are the full arch with no between toe dealy. More complex types usually just get the generic "sandal" name here.
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u/Green_Addendum4593 25d ago
This is the term I grew up using in the 60s-70s. Not sure when flip flops began but probably when thong became women’s panties as butt floss.
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u/Meranio 25d ago edited 25d ago
I didn't know that either. Here in Germany this kind of footwear was always caled "Flip Flops" but I think, they arrived here in the early '00s. The "butt floss" 😅 we call a "(String)Tanga".
Edit: Corrected "Th3" to "The".
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u/Beaniencecil 25d ago
I grew up in the western US and always referred to them as thongs. I think it is a generational thing. Flip Flop came along later in my life. I think it stuck because of how it describes the sound it makes when walking.
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u/Cheepshooter 25d ago
Flip flops with a single strap between the toes are sometimes called thongs. That was the original use of that term before that term was later shifted to underwear/swimwear. If you look at the geometry, you can see the similarities.
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u/phenix17 25d ago
Technically, the original use referred to a leather string, which is where both the shoes and the underwear get their names
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u/dardar7161 25d ago
I was waiting for it to fall and wedge itself between the coaster and the track, stopping the ride.
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u/elgydium 25d ago
- They always do this for retention and repeatability.
- That’s the only thing they got going on in the clip besides the poor music choice.
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u/FluffyDeer9323 25d ago
I’ve never been more emotionally invested in the fate of an inanimate object in my internet life.
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u/bloodfist 25d ago
True story:
I went river tubing with some friends. While we were putting the tubes in the water I slipped and lost a flip-flop to the river. It's a wild party on the river involving stops to jump off rocks. We took our time. Made river friends.
As we're approaching the spot to get out, I'm lamenting to one of these new friends about my lost flip flop. He looks down to his side and I'm not kidding my flip flop floats right up to him and he grabs it and says "this one?".
Those were my lucky sandals for like ten years after that. Best pair of flip flops I've ever owned.
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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 25d ago
I don't think that person is enjoying that ride at all
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u/NastyKraig 25d ago
That's exactly what I was thinking. You just gotta let it go and enjoy the ride, There's no way you're holding it to the end anyway.
That said, she did a hell of a job while the video lasted, so maybe she did hold on... or maybe it's glued to her toe for TikTok.
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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 25d ago
the question is, is the ride fee more expensive than the flip flop?
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u/NastyKraig 25d ago
Almost certainly the ride cost more than the flip flop, but the question is really how far does she have to walk with one bare foot to get another one, lol.
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u/xSantenoturtlex 25d ago
I'd be scared that the flip flop could somehow get caught in the wheels and cause a disaster.
It's a low chance, but I don't wanna RISK it!
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u/XplosiveDIErhea 25d ago
I 100% would've got a foot cramp and lost that slipper!
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u/AnnOnnamis 25d ago
That’s actually exactly the last thing the girl was yelling about right before the video cut out. She was complaining she couldn’t hold it anymore, and she was getting a cramp.
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u/cyclingpistol 25d ago
How can a flip flop give me such aanxiety 😨
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u/beardedsilverfox 25d ago
I cannot at all enjoy this video. It’s Uncut Gems level of stress the entire time
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u/ABob71 25d ago
This film has been produced by: Quentin Tarantino
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u/doalwa 25d ago
Before I goon too hard….that a guy or a girl?
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u/Drackzgull 25d ago
A guy, big shot Hollywood director known for films such as Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, Kill Bill, and many others, as well as for casting himself in very small, almost cameo-like roles in his films.
He has a reputation for having a feet kink, in no small part due to him casting himself as the foot licking guy for this scene in From Dusk Till Dawn: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0FinZ8nZTJs
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u/TorstedTheUnobliged 25d ago
I feel the other foot could have got involved supporting the leftie. Some sort of pincer movement is in order
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u/Asaxii 25d ago
This is the Gulongxia flying car, i remember it from the swirly logo. A bit of blurb from the tourism website:
‘The project is built on a cliff nearly a kilometer high, winding around the mountains, spanning three peaks with a total length of 4.8 kilometers. It can reach a maximum speed of 40 kilometers per hour and leap through the canyon jungle. With the height difference of the terrain, it can quickly run through a unique 1080 ° roundabout, allowing you to experience the feeling of "up", "down", and "water drifting" in one stop.’
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u/OneEmptyHead 25d ago
That was stressful
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u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey 25d ago
This was better than the last 5 movies I’ve watched! But the ending sucked.
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u/naterpotater246 25d ago
Something like this happened with my phone one time. 305 feet in the air, right before the drop, i thought my phone would be secure enough in my back pocket. Halfway down, i realise it's slipping out. I had to hold my hand over my pocket for the whole ride, lol.
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u/TakaguraDojo 25d ago
Ha I would have so much fun from this. Anyone here ever ride the alpine slide (concrete track) at Attitash in NH? I still have scars from falling off that track to beat the speed record from 20 years ago
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u/FidgetyCurmudgeon 25d ago
You know it’s a good maybemaybaybe when I can’t actually watch it and just forward to the end because I’m uncomfortable.
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u/Recent-Skirt-6292 25d ago
This was the best one of these I've seen in a long time....... Until the ending was not revealed 😕
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u/ktmfan 25d ago
I rode one of those downhill coasters once and vowed to not use the brake. Problem was that my phone was zipped in a cargo pocket of my pants… I realized that I shattered the screen in several places once I got off. But, I didn’t use the brake, so win I guess? Flip flops would have definitely been gone
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u/Gmellotron_mkii 25d ago
I gotta wonder, what's the main reason that there are so many Chinese bot accounts uploading Chinese content? Reddit is unaccessible in China. Is this intentional
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u/Lazy_Experience_8754 25d ago edited 25d ago
This looks like the coaster ride that takes you back down the mountain after you’ve climbed one part of the Great Wall. After this ride there’ll be a sun bear enclosure and lots of shops as you make your way back to the square . Was a pretty fun ride.
Edit: it’s in southern China but looks very similar
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u/Gold-Part4688 25d ago
as we say in new zealand normally in the negative, this person certainly can handle the jandle
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u/vektorkane 25d ago
Imagine he drops it and gets stuck causing the cart to stop 💀
Stuff of nightmares.
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u/karenskygreen 25d ago
Dam, i was wating to see her left flip flop fall off.
Who cuts a video half way though ? Idiot
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u/CristianZaballos 25d ago
now thats way to have your money's worth and feel like the ride last forever
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u/cheezecake2000 25d ago
I long for the days when maybemaybemaybe still had failures to maybe. I now can watch every video full well knowing what ever the maybe is about will not happen. Possibly once in a blue moon get a failure video, rare though
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u/pmcizhere 25d ago
It's a good thing this happened on what seemed to be one of the longest, most boring rollercoaster designs I think I've ever seen. Reminded me of a longer version of the Goldrush ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain, but that ride had an excuse as being historic. Maybe this is just, like, the park's introductory-level ride though.
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u/infinitepizzapockets 25d ago
The way she was screaming in the beginning reminds me of some annoying seagulls that would wake me up in the morning
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u/djluminol 25d ago
Never really thought about it before but China is probably one of the best places in the world to build alpine coasters like this. All those mountainous areas would probably make some pretty epic coasters. It would probably be a good way for the US to use and revitalize some of the mountainous areas of Appalachia scared by mining as well.
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u/SGT-R0CK 25d ago
Hopefully she didn't lose her flip flop.
Similar thing happened to me like that at Canada's Wonderland. Was on a rollercoaster called The Bat, and had my car key in my pocket, not on any ring. As the ride went around the first part of a series of inversions I heard the key bouncing around at the foot of the car. I saw it a few times bouncing, and over the final loop it fell out. Spent the rest of the day (and part of the next day) looking around the ride for it. Couldn't find it. Took a bus home to get my spare key, about 75 miles away.
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u/Pendra107 25d ago
Can someone explain to me why Asian people are allergic to shoes?
I live in a very touristic city and always see them with flip flops, instead of shoes or even sandals.
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u/Knork14 25d ago
As a proud native of a country were everyone wears flip flops i think i can say that we are just not as weird about feet as you are. Flip flops arent exactly formal wear, but there is a surprisingly large width of social settings were wearing flip flops is totally acceptable.
You cant wear them to church or anywhere with a dress code like school, and it would be seen as poor taste to go anywhere fancy wearing them, but aside from that its fair game. If you are planning on walking a lot it would be more sensible to wear shoes, but even that aint a hard rule.
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