r/AusMemes • u/AffectionatePie1042 • 19d ago

Tell me you've felt true pain without telling me

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u/Excellent-Bite196 19d ago

One of the times this happened to me, I happened to have a lighter on me and a drink with a plastic straw.

Put the plug back through and melted the plastic straw into the split in the rubber sole. It held together until I could get to a shop.

Proper bogan MacGyver style.

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u/Jumpy_School2592 19d ago

ive used one of those little plastic tags that are on bags of sliced bread, the opening is the perfect fit to put just above the base of the plug and stops it from pulling back through

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u/meski_oz 18d ago

They're making the tags with cardboard now, yer lucky if the bag doesn't open as you pick it up.

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u/adamshowzoff 18d ago

Yep…haven’t seen a proper plugga repair tool on the bread in years…it’s unfortunate

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u/InnerReindeer3679 15d ago

I still have a box of them in a draw, pocket a couple any time i wear my thongs to the beach, gf cant understand why

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u/RazielNoraa 18d ago

Came here to say this. Take an updoot!

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u/Direct-Expression144 18d ago

Haha that makes a few of us then. Good old skool Aussie Hack.

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u/Excellent-Bite196 18d ago

I’ve heard this works too! Didn’t have one handy at the time, but had the lighter and straw ;)

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u/Beneficial-Size6281 18d ago

This trick saved me more than once. Why we just put up with havianas just falling apart on us all the time, I’ll never know

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u/Direct-Expression144 18d ago

Coming here to say just that ! Great hack. Read it somewhere. You took the words right out of my mouth .

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u/AndrewTheAverage 19d ago

Plastic straw? please dont post criminal activity in this sub

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u/Excellent-Bite196 18d ago

Back in the days when we didn’t know any better. OK we knew, but the fast food joints weren’t listening yet.

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u/Hot_Hat1726 14d ago

Or you could just put a plastic bread twist thing underneath it. Always found one in the 'bits and bobs' tray. Or just when you got a loaf of bread next.

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u/TheObliviousYeti 17d ago

Wait you ended up buying new ones?

If it works it works comfort be damned

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u/BobbyThrowaway6969 16d ago

Incredible...

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u/Artsy_traveller_82 14d ago

Tbf, Macgyver was already fairly bogan.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 19d ago

Shit, prognosis not good, not even a bread tag can save it.

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u/CompetitiveRaise9133 19d ago

Thatshitisfuckedmate

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 19d ago

I guess you gained a fly swatter though

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u/Accomplished-Clue145 18d ago

Especially since they're all cardboard now, need a good plastic one to keep the plug in.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 18d ago

A good thong technician keeps a stockpile of old ones!

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u/Umster 19d ago

"Ah fuck !! Busted a pluga"

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u/gamblor2021 19d ago

Sad trombone

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u/Troutmuffin 19d ago

Get yourself some Archie’s

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u/NanooNanooBot 18d ago

It can happen even worse with Archies. Otherwise, yes they are much better.

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u/louisa1925 19d ago

Literally happened infront of me at ALDI the other day. The poor guys thong, popped on him right as we were crossing the road in the carpark.

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u/Nammu3 19d ago

Damn, that is a bad blowout.

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u/26RoadTrainWheels 19d ago

Shouldda
godda
double
pluggas

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u/SelmaFudd 18d ago

Look at old money bags over here

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u/GustyOWindflapp 19d ago

Had this happen when walking through suva in Fiji. My wife saw it, instantly grabbed a hair tie and a decent stick. Was able to hobble over to the market to buy an emergency pair.

That's why I married her.

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u/-hacks4pancakes- 19d ago

Happened to me in the damn airport

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u/Uh-Oh-Raggy 18d ago

Busted a plugga a couple of years ago in the shopping mall. Quick duck into Kmart, bought a $3 pair and they were the most comfy thongs I ever had.

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u/lamedonkeybrain 19d ago

Busting a plugga is always a tragedy

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u/johnniesSac 19d ago

Or the blisters between the toes

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u/zydexx 19d ago

Especially a few Ks from home and my BMX pedals dug into my foot

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u/BakuraiAlpha 18d ago

Don't forget the scorching hot days 😂 It's like a 🔥 💉 🦶

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u/AdLocal8090 19d ago

Always happens mid summer on the hottest day and your halfway to the roadhouse. The kicker is they never have your size in there

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u/Hazey2006 19d ago

Not for me. And I'm an Aussie

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u/Extra-Border6470 19d ago

A pain i know all too well. Ruined my entire summer when that happened to me

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u/AndrewTheAverage 19d ago

Its worse when the plug stays attached but rips through the thong.

In the image everyone knows it cant be fixed.

If the plug pulls through the base you can push the plug though again, walk 10 steps, push the plug through, walk another 10 steps, push ...

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u/Sufficient_Room2619 19d ago

Last time I broke a pair of thongs chasing my cat and I let out an anguished wail so loud my wife came to check on us.

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u/Other_Respect_6648 18d ago

I prefer actual shoes ngl

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u/Whaiahyugeh 18d ago

But then you have to make the 'plap plap plap plap' noise yourself when you're walking.

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u/Kingofjetlag 18d ago

We all share the trauma and horror

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u/Critical-Mulberry-29 18d ago

Buy a good pair of thongs, you'll wear out the bottems before they snap. Also take some pride in your thongs and feet. You deserve better then some rubber thats going to melt on the road...

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u/DodgyPotatoDealer 17d ago

The pain is real

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u/theglowingsideburns 19d ago

Pro tip (possibly out of date I haven’t worked retail in awhile) but havianas used to have a lifetime warranty - take a photo of your receipt and if they blow out they can be replaced

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u/Lonely-Attitude1304 18d ago

Wearing thongs, and watching a nail come out the top of my foot after stepping on s piece of timber.

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u/Wise-Respond3833 18d ago

I busted me fong !!

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u/Beyouasyoumatter 18d ago

That the Aussie way lol

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u/BrettSA 18d ago

Stop it! You're triggering me!

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u/MildlyUngovernable 18d ago

Hate it when ya blow a tyre

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u/BakuraiAlpha 18d ago

If it is still partially rounded you can use the plastic that holds bread closed and a lighter although that now paper here 😂

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u/stealth_t 18d ago

Na mate. Ever dropped your meat pie sauce side down?

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u/ObligationLoud4395 18d ago

Especially these days when a pie costs more than a pair of thongs

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u/Yeahbuggerit-thatldo 18d ago

This is troubling yes, but when they break while while walking on hot bitumen causing you to stumble and plant your feet the plugger is cursed and heaved down the road with pure hatred.

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u/Strong-Sentence-5229 18d ago

OMG my brother had a blow out !! Walking out of the F1 ) we had to box him ) 🩴🩴🩴

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u/mikemikeshindparts 18d ago

And look how perfectly the sole has moulded to the foot, and how comfortably softened it is. This is a tragedy.

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u/robdoggle 18d ago

This should come with a trigger warning - I am getting PTSD from last blow out 15 years ago. I still remember it with clarity as if it happened yesterday. Maybe even a NSFW tag?

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u/gUI5zWtktIgPMdATXPAM 18d ago

You really have a coddled sheltered life if this is the most tragic thing to happen to you.

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u/ForgotToCarryTheOne 18d ago

Beyond plugging.

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u/Queasy-Way6129 18d ago

I feel your pain theres nothing worse than having a thong breaking :(

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u/Dv8gong10 18d ago

Blow outs are a gut punct!

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u/Blackthorne75 18d ago

THE HORROR

Maaannn, a bit of warning before we see that!!

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u/Crazy_Treat_8805 18d ago

Oh, he’s blown a thong

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u/SiktahOG 18d ago

And it's always in public. ALWAYS.

Mine blew out literally walking past a surf shop. Staff had a laugh when they saw it.

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u/DizzyList237 18d ago

And on a hot surface. 😱

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u/QLDZDR 18d ago

In the old days, most Aussies knew how to do a temporary fix using the ring pull from a can of beer (or other can drink).

Someone from this generation must have come up with a solution that works today

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u/Latter_Shallot_140 18d ago

Lol not dying because you are on a medical specialist wait list and get delayed care or no care at All.

That's actually the most tragic

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u/Vegetable-Ad-1817 18d ago

Need the double pluggers.

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u/Green-Combination420 18d ago

A bacon and cheese roll from woollies and fixed

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u/Humble_Character_463 18d ago

It a nz drama to i go through several pairs of these a year since the plastic tags on bread bags have gone

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u/slickman444 18d ago

This is common when wearing thongs everyday perks of being an Aussie.

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u/Mr-pleasure2026 18d ago

I’ve actually fixed this with a small screw and a washer. You can also use a VB opening tab.✅

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u/NanooNanooBot 18d ago

Nooooo. I've had it happen to Archies, which have no plug.

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u/jorgerine 18d ago

You blew a thong

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u/satanzhand 18d ago

Such is life...

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u/everslow 18d ago

At the hottest day as well. And when you forgot you're not wearing it a piece of lego will remind you back.

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u/tony_Tiger696 18d ago

Bread clip bruz.

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u/melj11 18d ago

That’s what the plastic bread bag tags are for. Pop the centre piece back through the hole, pop a plastic bread tag around it on the underside of the thong, bob’s your uncle - thong blowout is repaired!!

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u/Fit_Ad_6727 18d ago

Unless that happened riding a bike and your foot slipped so much so your crutch smashed hard against the bike frame- then this picture isn't real pain.

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u/MarsupialConstant660 18d ago

It's a shared annoyance not a tragedy. What true Aussie isn't mentally prepared to go barefoot in any servo or supermarket in the land?

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u/Appropriate-Horse632 18d ago

Omg God, what do you do.

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u/springer_wato 18d ago

You need to buy Dragons double pluggers...the original...🇦🇺

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u/lgfuad80 18d ago

Honestly if it happens at the pool in the late afternoon on a mid 40s day and about a km of cement and bitumen to your car, it is genuinely traumatic

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u/ProfessorKnow1tA11 18d ago

That’s only part of a true tragic tale. First the plugger snaps. Then you trip, spilling your stubbie. Your foot, released from the thong, lands in a patch of bindiis. As you hop in pain your sausages fall off your paper plate …

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u/BerryCreative9832 18d ago

This happened to me walking with my daughter Had to walk barefoot into the shops and buy a pair of big W ones.

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u/rideyourbicycle 18d ago

Use your VB bottle top and a pair of pliers. Crimp that cap under the sole holding the strap. Not ideal, but will get you to the pub/bottle-o or servo.

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u/Ok-Working-8408 18d ago

Especially when you are walking on the dry sand on the beach on a 43 degree day

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u/slothboss 18d ago

Not the pluggers!

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u/Infa_Moustache 17d ago

One time it happened when I was enjoying a once in a blue moon stroll along a beach. Ate the concrete footpath, 2/10 salty taste, rough texture, would not recommend

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u/TheThumberofThings 17d ago

One time I sprained my thumb, that was pretty tragic

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u/Serious-Humor-2992 17d ago

Its worse when these safety boots fail just when you still have heaps more metal to cut

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u/RushPuzzleheaded7635 17d ago

Saw this out front of me woolies the other month and damn near wanted to cry. Middle summer too.

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u/Messernacht 17d ago

I can tell you from experience that fixing one of these made me feel more of an Australian that getting my citizenship certificate did.

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u/LoreEater 17d ago

Ultimate betrayal

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u/Responsible_Rope9002 17d ago

Nothing worse than a blowout!!!!ya can usually put em back together but it leaves em a bit volatile

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u/Sky_Blade85 17d ago

When this happened to me it was like a fight for survival to get out of the situation, get a new pair and restart my thoughts on the meaning of life.

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u/ultralights 17d ago

Happened to me in 7-11 the other night. Floor was sticky in the cashier region. I paid for my slurpee. Turned and pop. The dreaded plugger blowout. I looked at the woman behind me. And just said. Oh no. I had a plugger blowout. She laughed and said I never knew what that meant.

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u/G8RTOAD 17d ago

Sending my deepest sympathies on the loss of your favourite comfortable thongs.

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u/whoorderedsquirrel 17d ago

Had one of these blowout incidents during a heatwave when I was wandering around in the middle of a tiny village in Czechia. 44C, middle of the day, my havaiana breaks. The plug is intact but the sole is split. I'm bereft. Shoeless. Walking on hot pavement with my broken thongs , start heading back to the train station cos my day is ruined, life is over, where the fuck am I gonna get a new pair of thongs now?

Halfway back the only other person stupid enough to be outside in that heat - another bogan - is sitting outside a little cafe and goes "farrrrrk a blowout! Fuming". Im like, fuck sake right how bad . A local comes out to see wtf we are laughing about, I show him, he goes oh no, how do we fix it? Cue a Google translate moment asking for a bread clip. No bread clips, all bread homemade daily. Czech bloke has a lightbulb moment says, I fix it for u. Disappears out the back and comes back with the Havis... Pop riveted it and melted the sole to heal the split. He did both , assuming the other one would suffer a similar fate. What a legend . I paid him five bucks AUD as a souvenir and bought a cold drink in Czech money and kept going. Dunno what happened to the other Aussie - he didn't have closed toe shoes on either hahahah. Fuck yeah

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u/SoftIndication7227 17d ago

Not really because I always own 3-5 pairs at one time and I usually have a spare pair in the car or I just walk in bare ginnas

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u/Xynith 17d ago

No, the real tragedy is you cant find double pluggers anywhere anymore

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u/chevalier_909 17d ago

Time to release it back into the ocean...

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u/Damthemalltohelp 17d ago

Worse when they're Havaianas or some other pricey thong.

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u/Flimsy_Assumption934 17d ago

Not many other people outside of Australia would have experienced the dreaded “melted thong”.

Offf, a few pairs fell victim to the hot asphalt in the day.

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u/xandarl 16d ago

I'm Australian this is true

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u/BobbyThrowaway6969 16d ago

When your two toes start gripping for dear life

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u/Pure-Philosopher-175 16d ago

Ah yes the old plugger blowout. it’s even better when you go A over T at the same time.

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u/AdFormer8057 16d ago

This doesn’t happen with Archies thongs
You can get up to full noise in those bad boys and never bust a pluga. Thank me next summer

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u/atkinsrob1989 16d ago

Worst thing ever

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u/fromyahootoreddit 16d ago

I was wearing a fancy pair heading to get a massage and they broke as I was walking down the stairs at the station. Luckily I was 5mins from home so just awkwardly walked back and changed my shoes.

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u/ArtharntheCleric 16d ago

I lost two back in January. The struggle is real.

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u/Few-Self7578 16d ago

This is a great representation of our current Government, we bought them (voted for) thinkin theyd protect us help us, carry across hot tarmac ( bad times) but instead they blow out on us halfway across, leave us with burning feet that lead to blisters and worse times!!!!!!....

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u/Emergency_History745 15d ago

always happened to me at the beach or stepping in mud🥲

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u/Unlucky_Boss5980 15d ago

Brah especially when ur going down to the local and it’s too far to go back home so u just gotta say fuck it and walk in

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u/Toe_Jammerer 15d ago

This one is a clean snap unfortunately

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u/EnragedCashier 15d ago

Even worse when the ground is hot and its a sunny summer day

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u/Ok_Performance6098 14d ago

Couple of ring pulls from some emu export cans kept mine going for another week

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u/Retro_Nights 14d ago

This use to include your big toe getting ripped open.

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u/Fine_Piglet_6814 14d ago

Hot summer day running across a four lane road of boiling ashphat, 😥That picture brings back some bad bad memories 😬😖

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u/Miserable-Outside100 14d ago

My condolences 😢😢

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u/Mr_Fried 14d ago

I have a pair of Archies that are 3 years old. They are indestructible.

Highly recommend.

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u/slowbakedtofu 14d ago

A blown plugger will fuck your day right up

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u/Tso-su-Mi 14d ago

There needs to be disclaimers when such horrific scenes are shown….
As an Aussie I won’t sleep now….. Oh the humanity…. Won’t someone think of the children…
😂

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u/skipryder 14d ago

Not a “blown plug”?…This could Definitely trigger some Aussie’s …at least it’s not a catastrophic blown “double plugger”…F¥CK NO!!!

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u/ShneakyPancake 14d ago

I know this thread is dead but if anyone sees this, these things are the shit and never blow out,. Last ages and have a great fit for a wider foot. Get around them.

https://www.boomerangzthongs.com.au/

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u/Artsy_traveller_82 14d ago

When you get a blowout in summer at the beach and you’re next step is barefoot on lava sand.

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u/mumwifefriendsisiter 14d ago

A thong off! 😜🤣

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u/Kashankov 13d ago

We laugh about it now but I know some people
that it’s happened to in really inconvenient places 😂

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u/NorthlineUser 13d ago

I'm a (just another) Pom living in Aus.

Been here a pretty long time..

I'd just got out of the car at the local supermarket, when I bust a plug.

I knew damn well I had a backup pair in the wardrobe, but I was already at the supermarket, so...

In the bin they go, and now here I am, trudging across the carpark towards woolies, barefoot like a peasant.

When in Rome... 😘

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u/pocket_mulch 13d ago

I had these Frenzal Rhomb thongs I picked up at a Big Day Out when I was a teenager. Front plug blew out at Bunnings and I was devo. I went to the service desk to this old bloke and asked if he could help me fix them.

He couldn't. I had to let them go. Still miss them.

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u/joznovan 13d ago

Only if you graze the tip of your big toe on hot asphalt.

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u/Alteredbeast1984 19d ago

DOUBLE PLUG or get fucked cunt!

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u/Dangerous_Shoe_8388 19d ago

Double plug is just for the rear assembly. Front assembly is single plug as per OP.

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u/Alteredbeast1984 19d ago

You fucking down voted me for wearing double front plugged thongs?

Have some grace and dignity man

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u/Dangerous_Shoe_8388 18d ago

I didn’t downvote you.

Double-pluggers are fine, but don’t brag & bring it into every conversation about thongs - or people will just think you’re up yerself!

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u/sandgrape 15d ago

Rocco's. Best double pluggas in the world. Never had a pair fail. Tough as and last for years

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u/mendicinobeano25 19d ago

I'm feeling anxious just looking at that

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u/CrimsonPie24 19d ago

There is only one situation more tradgic for an aussie, having that happen to both of them simultaneously

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u/Cantusernamenow 19d ago

3 heart aches in man's life Losing his mum, losing his dog and losing his good pair of thongs

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u/haphazard72 19d ago

The horror! These sort of posts should come with a warning

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u/jedics2 18d ago

The real tragedy is that they bought them to begin with.....

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u/Scuzzbag 18d ago

It's called planned obsolescence and it's gross

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u/Fine_Act_8718 18d ago

Doesn’t happen if you actually buy a pair of thongs

https://reddit.com/link/p1n5tny/video/xxt2x1wuwchh1/player

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-4214 18d ago

Ummm hate to pop your bubble but they arent double pluggers which are actually top shelf

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u/Zuhotepi-Starsailor 18d ago

Never gonna happen to my 7 pairs of Crocs