Nominees for the uncoolest Klicky

[Lindama]

What is it with the yellow wellies? I thought black or brown would be more suitable when wading through pig poo etc.

[Alison01326]

Yellow wellies were the preserve of the yachting fraternity here in the 80s to the point that they were referred to as the "yellow wellie brigade"!

Anyway, whatever colour wellies you have bestowed upon you by the latest craze in footwear, you still need to clean them afterwards    In the UK at the moment it's really hard to get plain ladies' wellies unless you go to an agricultural supplier.  It's all dots and flowers at the moment.

Just wait till that particular fashion hits the Playmobil designers and we can have the "Klicky with the most lurid wellies" photo competition.

I'm far more likely to lose sleep over men in purple footwear, to be honest 

[bonniebeth]

Yeah, the brightly colored "wellies" (never heard that term, but figured it out) are popular here too. I like them, I think they're cute. But I don't think I'd want them on my klickys! Too permanent. Playmobil has always been pretty bad with shoe colors on modern klickys. I have so many with yellow or red or purple sneakers. Yes, even on the men. I wish they wouldn't make the sneakers brightly colored, because it isn't realistic, especially when the color doesnt come close to coordinating with the pants.

[PrimusPilus]

Wellies are boots?

[bonniebeth]

Rubber boots, I think, like rainboots or work boots.

[PrimusPilus]

Like Wellington boots?

[Alison01326]

Like Wellington boots?

Absolutely    Wellie boots being the abbreviation for Wellington boots, and further abbreviated to wellies!

I was only thinking yesterday, Luciano, that your English is better than mine.  As a German friend often says of his English "once you've got the idioms, you've got the language!" 

And as I often say on the subject of wellies .... "There's something very odd about a grown up who doesn't own a pair of wellies" (that's not nationally, or internationally  - just locally  )

[PrimusPilus]

Alison, though I first learned to speak Portuguese, I learned to read and write in English first, so sometimes I don't know if I can say which one is my 1st language. And being curious about "my" languages in general, I go out of my way to learn and understand regionalisms, slang, etc. But with British sayings I'm far from proficient, so that one goes under the "New stuff learned today" file .

[Bill Blackhurst]

That's one thing I really like about this forum! It's so diverse in cultures & language, that you are constantly learning from each other & it's like being in school in a fun way! I will confess that I'm jealous of how the members whose mother languages are not English do so well that they are understood without a problem! I wish I was proficient in another language!

[bonniebeth]

Yeah I think it's really cool to speak more than one language. My only other language is American Sign Language. I wish I spoke spanish, though.