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

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• TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still are in Australia. It was very confusing to my American wife for quite a while.

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• BenM2023@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hmmm there are quite a few of these… Ok these are UK/us mostly.

  America: fanny - backside UK: fanny - the other side (!)

  America: rubber - condom UK: rubber - something you use to erase pencil marks.

  UK and others: Durex - Condom brand Others: Durex - sticky tape

  US: Suspenders - things for holding trousers up UK: Suspenders - things for holding stockings up. Used with a suspender belt and with, or without, other underwear…

  USA: Pants - leg coverings e.g. blue jeans Most of the UK: Pants - things you wear under your blue jeans (unless ”going commando”)

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do they call “fanny packs” in the UK? Vagina pouches?

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bum bags.

      …but nobody wears them since a very brief stint in the 80s.

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• nonentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Australia: Kids wear thongs.

  The US: Kids root for something.

  Swap the country, and it gets super creepy.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When you were a kid thongs were footwear and underwear, as well as the material for fastening the lash of a whip. You just used one definition.

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  • gazter@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who knows, maybe they used the same item for each definition.

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• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re supposed to wear them on your feet???

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only if you’re feeling hot

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• Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No they were not. I’m in my late 40s thongs have always been skimpy underwear

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  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Could be from down under.

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• HailHydra@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are in Australia, they’re a sandal-type footwear

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sisqo’s “Thong Song” is more or less two decades old so I guess you’re old!

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  LOL about a month after a trip to Maui some people from work were discussing how long tans lasted and I announced that I still had a “thong tan” - meaning the Y-shaped tan lines on my feet. After a few seconds of silence I heard it in my head and clarified, to everyone’s relief.

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