The "Damn my socks are cute today!" thread.

[Cin]

Originally Posted by Gemme

The little hard plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets (sometimes spelled aiglets).

What?

What do you expect when you come at me with useless trivia?

It's on like Donkey Kong!

Also, speaking of DK, the music that plays during the first stage in Donkey Kong Country, in the level called "Jungle Hijinx", is actually three demo tracks pieced together.

Maybe it's called a footlet cuz it LETS the FOOT do something for which I do not know?

You know, the definition of footlet is: 'a low sock for women covering either the whole foot below the ankle or only the toes, worn for protection or warmth'. So, that means all socks that rest beneath the ankle are footlets.

Hmmm....

I love useless trivia. Although I don't believe any trivia is useless. Knowledge is power. Someday knowing what they call the plastic things on the end of shoelaces could save your life or the life of someone you love. And that information regarding the music in Donkey Kong Country...priceless.

How many socks rest beneath the ankle? And look at this:


It might be wearing a sign but in what world is that a sock?

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

I love useless trivia. Although I don't believe any trivia is useless. Knowledge is power. Someday knowing what they call the plastic things on the end of shoelaces could save your life or the life of someone you love. And that information regarding the music in Donkey Kong Country...priceless.

How many socks rest beneath the ankle? And look at this:


It might be wearing a sign but in what world is that a sock?

It's a slipper, no? Or as my mother would say, "beddie".

Which is kind of weird (to call a slipper a beddie), because you don't where slippers IN the bed.

She also calls a vaccuum cleaner a sweeper. Which of course makes no sense.

She calls taking the dog out to pee, "watering the dog".

My mother has problems.

[Cin]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

It's a slipper, no? Or as my mother would say, "beddie".

Which is kind of weird (to call a slipper a beddie), because you don't where slippers IN the bed.

She also calls a vaccuum cleaner a sweeper. Which of course makes no sense.

She calls taking the dog out to pee, "watering the dog".

My mother has problems.

LOL. Watering the dog.

Yes, it's a slipper but it's wearing a sign that claims it is a footlet, which, as we have come to understand, is a low sock covering either the whole foot below the ankle or only the toes. I think it's having an identity crisis. I could wear a sign that says i'm a rutabaga but it wouldn't make me one. Seems we always come back to this on these boards. Who gets to say how we identify? We do. If i look at that way, I guess it's a footlet. But I think it might have been coerced. And it looks like a slipper to me.

My mother called them house slippers, I guess to distinguish them from all her other slippers. Her ballet slippers, her ballroom slippers, her glass slippers and of course her ruby slippers. There's no place like home.

[candy_coated_bitch]

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

Hmm. You're right I did lump you in with other peaceable non violent individuals who have become quite combative regarding the peds issue. I jumped the gun there. You are not a peaceable non violent individual unless you are. It fluctuates if I understand correctly. You are capable of going one way or the other.

You understand perfectly.

What are peds? Peds is a brand name for what is called a footlet. I don't know who would call them that or even why. It makes no sense. Footlet. Now that angers me a bit. I guess I'm not very peaceable myself. But seriously what is a footlet? Why would someone name something that. A socklet perhaps, but a footlet?

I agree. Adding the ending "let" to the end of a word suggests that it is somehow smaller or more diminutive. So, we're really dealing here with a little sock-type-thing not a little FOOT. Just thinking about a footlet gives me the creeps.

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

How many socks rest beneath the ankle? And look at this:


It might be wearing a sign but in what world is that a sock?

What the motherfucking FUCK? WHY did you do this? That is one of the most horrifying things ever. That is NOT a sock, and I feel sorry for whoever made that sign who thinks so. I would say it qualifies more as some kind of hideous slipper. My grandmother used to wear slippers like that.

<---------feeling VERY violent over that picture

Originally Posted by DapperButch

It's a slipper, no? Or as my mother would say, "beddie".

Which is kind of weird (to call a slipper a beddie), because you don't where slippers IN the bed.

She also calls a vaccuum cleaner a sweeper. Which of course makes no sense.

She calls taking the dog out to pee, "watering the dog".

My mother has problems.

Now we know where you got your OCD tendencies with clothing. Your mother completely gave you a sense of complete disorder and confusion.

Today: bright pink fuzzy knee socks that have a green stripe at the top and a Hello Kitty face and hearts down the sides.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by candy_coated_bitch

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Now we know where you got your OCD tendencies with clothing. Your mother completely gave you a sense of complete disorder and confusion.

Damn it. To think of all the thousands of dollars I have spent for therapy over the years......

I should have known. It's ALWAYS the mother's fault!

[candy_coated_bitch]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Damn it. To think of all the thousands of dollars I have spent for therapy over the years......

I should have known. It's ALWAYS the mother's fault!

It was a very astute observation on my part, that even used the word "complete" in a completely redundant way.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by candy_coated_bitch

It was a very astute observation on my part, that even used the word "complete" in a completely redundant way.

And that is what completely impressed me.

[BullDog]

I am here in solidarity to protest the footlet.

(I have nothing to add when it comes to socks. I go barefoot or wear flip flops/sandals with my shorts and t shirts, even when going out at night in November. I could get used to this.)