where is ‘here’ because what
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It’s a chinelo, or a slop.
Waypoint is a waking nightmare?!
Wherever “here” is, you should probably stop being there.
oh so it’s a type of stew
i mean it sounds like it could be a rad place i just need to know because then what are slippers called there
The correct answer is obviously thongs.
As an Australian I feel under-represented. 
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What the fuck is this bullshit. Sandals. They’re called SANDALS. YA WEAR EM ON THE SAND! /angryExFloridianRant
I have never heard flip-flops called either of these things??
Is this an Australian or Canadian thing?
no, sandals have that ankle thing, thongs and jandals do not.
this thread is jandalous
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Based on a quick google it looks like everyone calls them that in Hawaii?
They go “Flip, flop.”
Call 'em flip-flops.
Those are still Sandles. if anything these things are two subcategories of sandles. But I spent most of my life where these were the primary form of footwear and have never heard either of these names.
man i was wracking my fucking brain trying to remember who i knew that called them slippers and it was totally my hawaiian friend
ok i had to google this to make sure i wasnt fucking up cross culturally.
so slippers here (or selipar) can mean both slippers or thongs. if theres a need to clarify we call thongs Japanese slippers (selipar Jepun) while slippers are simply indoor/house slippers (selipar rumah) so there ya go.
the more you know. im from brunei by the way, but im led to believe this is generally true throughout the Malay Archipelago
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Get the Fuck outta here with your Jandals damn kiwis!
this is really cool and interesting thank you, i love finding out language/cultural differences like this
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“Jandals” and “thongs” are terms from NZ and Australia, while they would be called “chinelos” where I live (Brazil).
A “chinelo” + the ankle part is called a “sandália” here, which was why I pointed out the difference. Maybe that only made sense in my language, haha.
If you are not from any of these places, you probably wouldn’t know them 
Image not saying “yeah, just gonna throw the thongs on and take the dog out to the bathroom real quick”
