Still are in Australia. It was very confusing to my American wife for quite a while.
When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear...
Submitted 3 days ago by Jerb322@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 3 days ago
BenM2023@lemmy.world 3 days 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”)
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 3 days ago
What do they call “fanny packs” in the UK? Vagina pouches?
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Bum bags.
…but nobody wears them since a very brief stint in the 80s.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Australia: Kids wear thongs.
The US: Kids root for something.
Swap the country, and it gets super creepy.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 days 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.
gazter@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Who knows, maybe they used the same item for each definition.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’re supposed to wear them on your feet???
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Only if you’re feeling hot
Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
No they were not. I’m in my late 40s thongs have always been skimpy underwear
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Could be from down under.
HailHydra@infosec.pub 3 days ago
They are in Australia, they’re a sandal-type footwear
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 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.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 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.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sisqo’s “Thong Song” is more or less two decades old so I guess you’re old!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.