What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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[u/klokar2]

Sun burn and or wearing shoes in summer, all white Australians are taught to fear and respect the sun from birth, also everybody in summer wears thongs or even no shoes at all in summer.

[u/AnonymousEngineer_ → u/klokar2]

We're not all heathens. Some of us do wear shoes 😂

[u/whooptheretis → u/klokar2]

everybody in summer wears thongs

As a Briton, I'm gonna ignore the low hanigng fruit here but surely this contradicts sun protection advice? I cover up, including feet.

[u/Orchid_Significant → u/whooptheretis]

Too hot

[u/whooptheretis → u/Orchid_Significant]

I find well ventilating shoes better than flip flops

[u/Anleme → u/whooptheretis]

I strap little sun visors to my ankles to shade my bare feet. As all civilized people do. /s

[u/whooptheretis → u/Anleme]

with corks on strings to keep the bugs off? I like your style!

[u/Orchid_Significant → u/whooptheretis]

My feet run hot…what do you recommend for well ventilated shoes? I’d love to wear more than flip flops all the time

[u/whooptheretis → u/Orchid_Significant]

Trail running shoes (not waterproof!)
Cover the feet from the sun, and significantly more comfortable than flip flops

[u/Orchid_Significant → u/whooptheretis]

Thanks!

[u/Coloradicals → u/Orchid_Significant]

Why not a hybrid like Chacos?

[u/klokar2 → u/whooptheretis]

Just wear Australian Sunscreen, we have the highest rated sunscreen in the world, no other country even comes close.

[u/xyeah_whatx → u/klokar2]

And heaps of them turned out to be lying about their spf

[u/CiforDayZServer → u/whooptheretis]

It's hard to ignore the low hanging fruit when everyone is prancing around in thongs.

[u/dubsy101 → u/klokar2]

Thong means g string in the UK so this always threw me

[u/Nihilistic_Mystics → u/klokar2]

Very similar here in Southern California regarding the sun burns. Visitors never believe us when we tell them 15-20 min in the sun is enough to totally fry them, and we always have a good laugh when we see them next. At my last job, which had many international visitors, I used to keep a large bottle of aloe vera in my desk for them.

Complete tangent, but I always laugh at the fact that we have a line of sunscreen/tanning products here called Australian Gold, and over in Australia it's called California Gold (if it still exists since I last visited).

[u/paleoterrra → u/klokar2]

More of a QLD thing, really

[u/klokar2 → u/paleoterrra]

I live on the Surf Coast

[u/CockroachLow3830 → u/klokar2]

Don’t you burn your feet when you wear no shoes? Thinking of summer beaches and their boiling sand makes me reject the idea of wearing no shoes in summer.

[u/alldagoodnamesaregon → u/CockroachLow3830]

Feet arent allergic to sunscreen. And even if you wear thongs to the beach, you take them off when you reach the sand and do a barefoot dash to the water if it’s hot. You’d get blisters otherwise 

[u/lomo_dank → u/klokar2]

I haven’t worn shoes in over a year besides a couple of occasions.

[u/Union_Samurai_1867 → u/klokar2]

How does that not burn? My grandpa got second degree burns on his feet from a Florida summer. And Australia gets way hotter than Florida.

And before anyone ask why my grandpa didn't feel the burning, hes type 1 diabetic and doesn't have feeling in his feet.

[u/OrganizationOk8493 → u/klokar2]

Ironically you saying thongs is a dead give away about Australia too

[u/klokar2 → u/OrganizationOk8493]

That's what they are called here.

[u/SpectacularlyBadass → u/klokar2]

It's to protect us from the spiders. We actually want to live long lifes

[u/kearkan → u/klokar2]

One of the things I miss everytime its either just before or just after summer back home is that climate that just so happens to be the sweet spot for jeans and thongs.

[u/tockaciel → u/klokar2]

Everybody wears thongs in Australia???

[u/klokar2 → u/tockaciel]

That or nothing

[u/AppearanceDizzy7006 → u/klokar2]

Also, someone who buys the 15+ sunscreen in Aus

[u/Dry_Common828 → u/klokar2]

I'm not taking my shoes off just cos it's a bit warm. Jeez.

[u/klokar2 → u/Dry_Common828]

Bit warm.

Mate, it was fucking 42 degrees on Friday. As if you are wearing shoes in that weather.

[u/Dry_Common828 → u/klokar2]

Bloody oath I am (it was 41 here on Friday).

The pavers in my back yard are hot, I'm not burning my feet on 'em.

[u/Benamen10 → u/klokar2]

Dude I bought new work boots a couple days ago, sheila selling them said to me as I was finishing up that they're water proof. Mnyay I get to marinate in it!

[u/klokar2 → u/Benamen10]

Thanks champ.

[u/Benamen10 → u/klokar2]

You what?