Comment on When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear...

HailHydra@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I always assumed you called them thongs because the bit that goes between your toes looks like the underwear going up a butt-crack.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You got it backwards. Think about it. Beachwear has been a thing since around 1900, while visible underwear wasn’t a thing until recently.

    Easy way to remember is to think that necrosis usually starts at the extremities.

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