Make. It. Stop.

What a crock!

I think you need to get a real job if your boss is letting you waste your time on such an article. You could have written something respectable and worthwhile in the time it took you to come up with this rediculous rubbish! They are shoes for heaven's sake... shoes! You have way too much time on your hands, I don't know what this world must be coming to if someone can sit at their desk and write nonsense about someone else's ideas and wardrobe, and get paid for it.

I thought this crocs travesty was just an American thing, but sadly, on my honeymoon in Italy, I saw crocs being sold in several stores in cities that are supposed to be fashion capitals of the world. It was a sad, sad day for me....and the world.

Broc, you know what else rhymes with Croc? Broc! And pot really doesn't support terrorism, world leaders do so they can laundry money and keep people scared= under control. Now, i hate the bloody, Crocs, because they are butt ugly, certainly a turn off; and I actually thought tyey were a Dutch invention becaue they look like the local wooden shoes( and walk just as weird>). Comfortable or not, would you wear a loose woven paper ??bag because it was comfy too? Ypud look like a potato sack- ant crocs have the saeeffect. yes, i am a fashoin person;and I do have right to criticise; and so far hasn'tbeen off the point. Now, if you wanna cross a wetland, or hideaway in the country- where potatoes are welcome- go for it. But they guy is right- you might just wear slippers to work- its too comfotable!

i think that crocs are very comforable especially the mammoth ones!!!!!!!!!

Some people obviously have too much time on their hands and need to get real jobs if their bosses are going to let them rant and rave about a pair of shoes for heavens sake! People will wear what people want to wear and I hardly think you are close to perfect if you sit and judge people by the shoes on their feet. Rediculous!! I am trying not to break out in a fit of laughter at the immaturity and foolishness of this ad. You could have written something highly respectable and worthwhile in the time it took you to come up with this nonsense.

who cares? seriously you must be lacking in imagination to have such a trivial and meaningless topic occupy any amount of your time. I do not care what people wear on their feet, but the fact that you teach your son to hate people he doesn't even know gives me a good basis for judgement about you and even doesn't even involve the shoes you are wearing.

I, too, thought they were ugly until I got a heel spur. Now all I can say is, thank you, Crocs. What's really ugly in more ways than one are SUVs, but somehow the auto industry convinced people to buy them. Wouldn't be caught dead in one....and they ARE killers -- unsafe (re roll-over problem in many models), unsafe to other cars on the road, more polluting (local, acid rain, global warming).

i completely agree, my mother and i have been known to make fun of the croc families as well. i think your artical hit home, and was a laugh a minute! thanks for brightening my day

as said before, i couldnt agree with you more on this subject. to me, crocs seem...well....pointless. as you said in your article, they're dutch bubbles with swiss cheese holes in it. you might as well put swiss cheese on your feet! i have a pair that i wear to work. they are comfortable, i will admit. but they're ugly! cmon people! wake up! save yourself some embarrassment! this was a great article. thank you for posting it.

Wow. Who has the energy to care so much what other people wear? I mean, I know they're not the most attractive things, but seriously, why does it matter so much?

Croc haters are like Ipod haters. They hate a good product without ever trying it. I dont see Crocs as a "trend" nor do I see them as a fasion statement. The shoes are comfortable, you dont ever sweat in them, and they dont smell. Steve points all these facts in the article but for some reason makes it sound like these are bad qualities in a shoe. Someone send him and and his son a pair of Crocs so he can stop his hating.

I have to say this was the most brilliant piece of writing I have read in a very long time!! Finally, someone put all of my delicious hatred for crocs into words. I honestly couldn't have said it any better myself! I don't have the time to skim through every single comment that has been posted thus far, but I have to say that reading through all the bitter croc lovers rants just made today that much better for me. What a freaking laugh.

Despite the author???s opinion (which every individual is entitled to an OPINION, by the way), numerous people just had to stick in their two cents about how ???comfortable" the crocs really are, and how they "save your joints," and ???you have no right to knock them until you have tried them!??? Wow. Didn???t the author even predict that he would get such a response? Way to be predictable, people! Just skimming through the remarks like these has been hysterical to me! One of my very favorites out of the bunch so far has got to be: ???Since when did Newsweek post the opinion of rednecks???? Well, honey, in response to this, I would politely tell you to turn around and look in the mirror and at the rest of America, because the people wearing the crocs are the freaking rednecks.

And it cracks me up to see so many people get SO defensive about the shoes they wear. If you like the shoes: great. grand. wonderful!!! That doesn???t make you any better of a person than the author. In fact, the masses are asses, and any fad (one that is high in fashion or as pathetic as wearing crocs), deserves people who will stand opposite the crowd and have the guts to tell 99% of Americans that they are stupid, ugly, pathetic dorks.

And I believe that this man teaching his son to not just follow the crowd (whether it???s wearing ugly shoes, or whatever!) and to do his own thing, is freaking brilliant! America needs more people who will start using their God-given minds to THINK instead of letting fads, companies, politicians, celebrities, and so called educators, etc, make their (poor) choices for them!

Before I got a heel spur I, too, thought they were ugly. Now I just say, thank goodness for Crocs. What's really ugly, though, are SUVs. But somehow the auto industry was able to convince quite a few people to buy them. And they can kill people in more ways than one -- unsafe re roll-over (for some), unsafe to other cars on the road, more polluting (causing local pollution, acid rain, and global warming, all which harm and kill people).

I have to say this was the most brilliant piece of writing I have read in a very long time!! Finally, someone put all of my delicious hatred for crocs into words. I honestly couldn't have said it any better myself! I don't have the time to skim through every single comment that has been posted thus far, but I have to say that reading through all the bitter croc lovers rants just made today that much better for me. What a freaking laugh.

Despite the author???s opinion (which every individual is entitled to an OPINION, by the way), numerous people just had to stick in their two cents about how ???comfortable" the crocs really are, and how they "save your joints," and ???you have no right to knock them until you have tried them!??? Wow. Didn???t the author even predict that he would get such a response? Way to be predictable, people! Just skimming through the remarks like these has been hysterical to me! One of my very favorites out of the bunch so far has got to be: ???Since when did Newsweek post the opinion of rednecks???? Well, honey, in response to this, I would politely tell you to turn around and look in the mirror and at the rest of America, because the people wearing the crocs are the freaking rednecks.

And it cracks me up to see so many people get SO defensive about the shoes they wear. If you like the shoes: great. grand. wonderful!!! That doesn???t make you any better of a person than the author. In fact, the masses are asses, and any fad (one that is high in fashion or as pathetic as wearing crocs), deserves people who will stand opposite the crowd and have the guts to tell 99% of Americans that they are stupid, ugly, pathetic dorks.

And I believe that this man teaching his son to not just follow the crowd (whether it???s wearing ugly shoes, or whatever!) and to do his own thing, is freaking brilliant! America needs more people who will start using their God-given minds to THINK instead of letting fads, companies, politicians, celebrities, and so called educators, etc, make their (poor) choices for them!

Get a grip - it's supposed to be funny.

Okay...I think I may have as much love for crocks as you have hate. I doubt I can make any argument for them that you haven't heard already and dismissed, so I'll just have to say that I believe they are the greatest thing to have come along since shoes were invented. If you want evidence of what is the most comfortable footwear on earth - check a hospital...any hospital in the U.S. and I guarantee you will find multiple pairs of Crocks upon the feet of doctors and nursing staff. I hope they become a staple...like milk & eggs. Every citizen who must walk the earth should have a pair of Crocks. Nasa should rocket a pair out into the universe in hopes they'll be found as evidence of intelligent life on this planet. They are a natural step in our advancement as a species...like the wheel or tools. I feel very strongly that Crocks are a good thing.