They are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
Uncultured
Submitted 10 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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GaMEChld@lemmy.world 10 months ago
klemptor@startrek.website 10 months ago
Wait, what’s their true purpose?
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Haha, sorry, just a reference to this scene: youtu.be/QkEBvqaXXHc?t=26s
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To slowly disperse neurotoxin when you chew on them.
MicKet@swiss.social 10 months ago
@ObviouslyNotBanana
Pinke (Danke Phineas und Ferb)sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Fadenendstücke
PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Telomeres, right? Then why is nobody saying telomeres?
Gustephan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Telomeres are a structure on DNA. These things, aglets, are a common metaphor used to describe the function of telomeres as aglets basically do for shoelaces what telomeres do for DNA
PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Reverse the metaphor.
Sudomeapizza@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Whappers
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Baby pigs 🐖 😋
raoulduke85@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Shoelace boners.
Pnut@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And so it was written. Well done.
Edward@lemmy.4d2.org 10 months ago
I have no idea.
Ansis100@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve spent hours looking for them so I could finally craft the Lightning boots.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
Do I get a pass if English is not my first language?
No, before now I did not know the name for it in my first language either.
Etterra@discuss.online 10 months ago
Those are shoe laces. They help keep your shoes on your feet.
frunch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Floogelbinders
Art3sian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You are correct. Everyone else is wrong.
Acidbath@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It don fuckin matter what its called, it better have teeth marks on it brother.
MITM0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Aglets & I got to know this from Phineas & Ferb
Belgdore@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Jimmy Neutron taught me
MTK@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lace nipples
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Yet another example of the US being under the thumb of big agletculture.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I don’t remember, but I know for a fact that cats are their natural predators
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah, I have heard the name of those before.
Egrets, right?
fedev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Get that AI slop out of my face before I block you.
Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
That’s easy: they are the Tube nipples of the tube titties
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Thanks. This is what I was looking for
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Is it worth noting that I only know this because of the spoof horror movie Repossessed?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 months ago
Education takes many forms
bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I don’t know the name but I can tell you how sad they make me when they break and tear off and you have to use a lighter on the now extremely frayed end of your shoelace for just a few seconds, and then pinch off the flame just lightly burning your fingies while molding the shoelace end into a cohesive black carcinogen.
Source: I am cheap
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Aglets. Now you know.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Are you kidding me? Has usb D dropped already??
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 10 months ago
2000 ways to orient it, neat.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Ah, but once you know of the aglets, do you know what you put the aglets through? Maybe you should be friends with people who don’t know aglets but do know the word for the holes
tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 10 months ago
Ooiiieee not my eyelet holes.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m the only one that can have eyeholes
Whack
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I used to know what those were, but then I got zapped by a laser
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Aglet gang, rise up
potpotato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ferrule
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“The plastic tips at the end of shoe laces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.”
rockerface@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Their purpose is to be a component for Hermes Boots
bss03@infosec.pub 10 months ago
^ This ^ is where I learned the word “aglet” and (looked up) what they were. First time I found them in Terraria, I thought surely it was a typo for “anklet” or something, since that was back in the beta days.
dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz 10 months ago
@ObviouslyNotBanana Aglets, BTW, are precisely the right size to go into a seat belt buckle, jam, and not come out again. That cost me a couple of hundred dollars and it turns out I'm not the only one...
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Perfectly mildly interesting fact