A sock is just a foot bag.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s still a pretty advanced sock…

  For a disturbingly long time “socks” were just two long strips of cloth. While “foot bags” existed for a long time, they were just for the wealthy until less than a century ago in some places.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Russian conscripts were being sent to the front with foot wraps instead of socks in 2023.

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Be careful with such analogies!

  The topologists might discover this post and then flock here, discussing how many holes there are in a pair of pants or so…

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A sock is topologically just a doiley

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• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Foot bag = hackey sack

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• bryndos@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  kitten mittens

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re shitty footbags then. I can’t play hackey sack with a sock!

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• ICCrawler@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Great, then, now we have another kind of hand bag.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A handbag?!?

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  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As opposed to the kind made of actual hands?

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• zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Brave

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