Sock Thread

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:51 am

Lets' talik about socks. ladies and gent s, nevbies and oldvies, to bees or not two bees...SOCKES

I wanne know if yu people are the king of people who go through their washing and match up al the sock s into prpoer paires, or if yodu just chuck 'elm all in a pile and grab them as tgey come.

'cos if yout do match them up, I wannea know why ?

redman prime · Post by **redman prime** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:18 am

I think we;ve got problems.
I match mine, just cause it's a bitch to find the other one at 715 un the morning when it takes another minute for my girlfriend to just sort the damn things out.

so i guess i'm lucky.

and I'm drunk too, just trying to spell.

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:53 am

But why do you need two identical socks ? For one thing they're going to be inside your shoes, and no one's going to see them (blah blah shorts and sandals blah) What I'm interested in is this natural predilection for symetry, does wearing matching socks mean something ?

Mention the spanish royal family and I'll buy you a drink.

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:01 pm

The Spanish Royal Family.

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:34 pm

bought you your drink, it's in my fridge.

redman prime · Post by **redman prime** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:40 pm

well, in some of the suits i wear, the pants rest comfortablt atop my shoes whilst standing, but i sit and they rise up, thus revealing my mismatched socks. So i match them to avoid that.

now, two blacksocks can go together, even if one has some striping, just because they are close.

but to say a grey and a black sock could work? preposterous.

bummer about that drink, Brend, I think he's going to take it down in you honor

Lord Zarak · Post by **Lord Zarak** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:53 am

A sock is not a sock if it is not holy.

Start worshipping...

Clogs · Post by **Clogs** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:44 pm

Step 1 - go out to the shops and buy several packs of identical suitably-sized socks in one colour, preferably black.

Step 2 - go home and throw away any and all socks you can find. Do not, however, do this to socks belonging to other people with whom you share a domicile as this might prove somewhat fatal if they do not have the same sized feet as you or, indeed, are of the opposite sex and will not wear mens' socks out of principle (viz do not match the Manilo's).

Step 3 - unpack new socks and place in sock drawer.

Step 4 - wear socks at leisure

Step 5 - remember to place socks in the wash. Do try to put two in the wash pile at the same time, if you can remember that.

Step 6 - wash socks or inveigh upon family sock-washer to do so.

Step 7 - always get back socks you can pair up.

Step 7 fails if you are married to someone like my sister-in-law, however, as she has been known to stretch unshrinkable items and shrink unstretchable ones - and mangle socks.

Eventually, the socks will disappear, but there will always be one to match up with, until the final two survivors, whereupon you return to step 1. This is, believe it or not, an approved style-guru teaching, except the bit about my sister-in-law.

Post by **Sades** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:06 pm

Once they're out of the dryer I chuck them into a drawer- or on my bed. or whatever surface area I happen to not be using at the time- and pull them out as I need.

I have a lot of patterned socks however... star socks, skull socks, stripey socks, toe socks, socks with rabbits/turtles/sheep/kitties/cute insects/what have you on them... and I do lose some, so my socks don't always match.

What do I do? wear them anyway. For the most part if I'm wearing socks, I'm wearing them with trousers so no one [except possibly my boyfriend and a few close friends] will see the things anyway. The other reason is that I really just don't care who sees my socks, wearing unmatched ones amuses me.

Plasmodium · Post by **Plasmodium** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:33 pm

Poop socks?

der2 · Post by **der2** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:12 am

I find the difficulty is not in finding a pair, but in finding a clean pair, they keep disappearing!

Baxter · Post by **Baxter** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:13 am

I'm so lazy I just leave them in the dryer and pull them out as I need them or until I need to dry something else.

Then they sit in a basket until I run out, then I wash them again.

Of course they're all identical to make it easy.

White, cotton, ankle high socks.

Ice Shard · Post by **Ice Shard** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:24 pm

My mum tells me to pair the socks up.

Clogs · Post by **Clogs** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:11 pm

Originally posted by Ice Shard
My mum tells me to pair the socks up.

My husband tells me that he pairs socks up to go into the wash. He then wonders why they come back separate and need pairing up again.

...........! :\

(PS - I buy him his socks. They are all black and of the same type qv previous post.)

DrSpengler · Post by **DrSpengler** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:20 pm

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:57 pm

YAYfemlow non-matychers .!

we are witnessing a tresnd gere peoplz. it startsed with the emo cut, and ;;.. awit, i'm yalking ****,,?.. compounfred]u] vythe emo cut . nd assstymettry is in baby ! yea /§

redman, yo f&a olf school bay !!

Post by **zigzagger** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:28 am

That's it slarti, show Scorpio how drunk posting is done!

redman prime · Post by **redman prime** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:34 am

Originally posted by slartibartfast
YAYfemlow non-matychers .!

we are witnessing a tresnd gere peoplz. it startsed with the emo cut, and ;;.. awit, i'm yalking ****,,?.. compounfred]u] vythe emo cut . nd assstymettry is in baby ! yea /§

redman, yo f&a olf school bay !!

Um, er.. eh... what?

i saw redman, i think old school?

ok... It takes an extra 20 seconds to do all of my socks in a pair, then i don't have to be asked in the morning hungover to do so.

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:47 am

Originally posted by slartibartfast
YAY fellow non-matchers !

we are witnessing a trend here people. it started with the emo cut, and... wait, i'm talking ****... compounded by the emo cut. asymetry is in baby ! yea !

redman, yo da old school baby !!

legibility != sense.

My feet are emancipating. Not only do they feel the urge to not be sheathed in identical padding, they demand individuality. I use a "lucky dip" system.

They get a lot of funny looks on my way to work on the underground though, which I find a bit strange, especially if one's got one of those short black ones and the other has a long white one... I only feel a bit odd if I've got two white socks, black trousers and black shoes... reminds me of Michael Jackson.

by my calculation, I can spend about nine months of the year wearing flip-flops. I used to hate the things, now I swear by them. It's like green eggs and ham.

As for the disappearing sock mystery... Anyone got any theories ?

Post by **zigzagger** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:09 am

Static electricity could be one possible explanation, certainly not an exciting explanation, such as left socks being sucked into a blackhole or sock fetishists stealing socks out of unattended dryers at public laundromats.

Personally, I am more baffled by the mystery surrounding the mixed-matched socks that don't belong to me somehow finding their way into my sock drawer, or wherever they are being stored at that moment.

......

Sock fetishists. Hmmm.

strokes chin pensively

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