Double pluggers are thongs (flip flops) were the straps that run over the foot to the back part of the thong are fixed through the thong and held in place by the end of the strap which is plug shaped.
There is a bit of a saying here, ‘Never insult a man by buying him a pair of single pluggers’. 
I did not know that! I believe I have seen double-plugged flip-flops here, but never paid it much mind.
A fascinating topic, though. For those of you who can’t quite grasp the concept . . . here’s an excellent visual aid of a “single plugger.” EXPLANATION HERE
To see the double-plugged variety, click HERE.
I rather think that you’ve got yerself a screwed single plugger there deary… 
Yeah, and the elves are all called Bruce, and their pets are all named Eric.
Good press! Helps keep away the riffraff, I can imagine. The Minnesotan climate ensures that our arachnids are on the not-too-noteworthy side, so we advertise the lutefisk. You do what you can.
I saw a nature show once about the dangerous animals of Australia. The hour long show started out with Jellyfish and other animals that caused a painful sting and ended with animals that could just look at you and you were going to die a most painful agonizing death and no cure or antidote was in sight.
I saw one about their poisonous snake catchers. It was horrifying. They showed people discovering one of the most venomous creatures on earth beneath, say, the baby’s crib or in little Johnny’s Lego’s, and, standing there in flip-flops with toes dangling appetizingly two feet from the menace, these people would calmly pick up the phone and dial – they KNEW THE PHONE NUMBER already – the snake dudes – “Yes, he’s in the powder room right now, resting quietly. Should I give him a sandwich while we’re waiting?” And the snake men would trundle on over – no rush! – to casually scoop up the creature and tote it off to an improved lifestyle in some snake spa.
If we had something that ghastly here, we’d have a spray to take care of it.
I’ve been bitten on the finger by a redback spider, it didn’t feel like much when it happened but three or four minutes after realising I had been bitten it felt like someone was holding a red hot poker against my finger. Apart from the excruciating local pain, I had no other side effects.
I was also bitten by a whitetip spider, two weeks ago, and apart from a bit of local redness and soreness and two hard lumps appearing under my skin, I had no other reaction to the bite.
Most of the poisonous spiders would rather run away from humans, it’s when they are disturbed unexpectedly that they bite. The exception to the rule is the funnel web spider which protects it’s territory with aggresive behaviour.
It will not back away but advance to you, hey, they may even beat you up and take your wallet if you are unlucky enough to not see them coming. 
Either the first is an exaggeration or the second is an understatement…
Redbacks are closely related to the black widow of NA. Human males were the usual victim here until we got indoor plumbing, Minnesota probably still has a problem. The white-tailed spider is fairly innocuous and a good spider hunter and unfairly persecuted.
And still Autstralians are trying to convince us that they’re right in the head. There are enough of you around these days that we’re no longer deceived into believing you’re Austrians.
Well, not yet, anyway. Give it time!
If the spiders aren’t bad enough, there are always those ants. Brrr!
We have all kinds of lovely black widows here in California. They’re generally nice, shy, spiders whose chief function is to keep kids from searching the deepest, darkest, recesses of the house for their Christmas presents.
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No understatement about the white tip spider avanutria, some people show no effects from the bite, others get really ill.
I was just really lucky, I felt the spider on me just where my t-shirt sleeve end meets my arm, I quickly swatted it off and kept it under a glass in case I had a reaction to the bite. The white tip bite was annoyingly itchy like a mosquito bite, but the red back bite really was like some one had rested a hot poker on my finger.
My sister in-law’s ex-boyfriend got bitten by a white tip spider just above the waist line of his underpants when putting on a pair of board shorts he had just taken off the line. After about ten minutes he was in agony and had to be rushed to hospital, all they could do was wash the area and give him painkillers. For two weeks he was really ill, with fever and nausea the least of his worries, the area where he was bitten was a little bit bigger than about the size of a tennis ball and it looked like battery acid had been poured on his skin.
dwest, I was of the opinion that red backs were the nastiest of nasties when it came to spider bites, I can’t remember where I saw this (a TV doco’ I think) but the red back spider gets blamed for more bites than it really inflicts. Many bites are actually attributable to the white tip instead.
I don’t believe there is any confirmed correlation to white-tailed bites and necrotising arachnidism. A friend of mine was bitten by a brown recluse on a dig in Turkey, almost lost her lower leg, very nasty.
I don’t believe there is any confirmed correlation to white-tailed bites and necrotising arachnidism
Yeah, I know about the studies that were done where only confirmed white tail bites were investigated. But the thing was, my sister in-law’s boyfriend’s bite was a confirmed white-tip bite, (he kept the dead spider and took it with him to the hospital) plus he did have ulcerated/blistered skin after the bite.
I wonder how bad the necrotosis of the skin has to be before it is classed as such?
Maybe it is just a few unlucky souls that get the really bad reaction to white tail spider bites, I was bitten by one and I have had no prob*&a bzzzzzt urrrggggh.
Redback spider mating: another sign that being first isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Wild-Things-Life-as-We-Know-It-201001.html?c=y&page=5
I am not going to click that link. Nope. I’m not.
…but I bet you did lambchop…
No, I did not. And I won’t! 