Socks Rant?

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I know it's not Friday (in this particular dimension) but we've had kex and shoelace rants so why not socks?

Why do even identical socks that get washed at the same time in the same loads end up different? I could almost understand it if the pairs were washed at different temperatures or dried differently but how the seem to be able to mutate at different rates is beyond me!

(And yes, I do do some of my own laundry and sort the dried stuff!)
 
Now, I have about ten pairs of (supposedly) identical black socks, bought at several different times and I can always pair them up correctly, BUT they have to go with their original partner not just any other sock! :rolleyes:
 
My weirdos are all from the same pack and have been through the same cycle of wear, wash, dry, repeat the same number of times. They showed differences after the first wash.

Not that it really matters since I usually wear boots or go barefoot!
 
Nod said:
Not that it really matters since I usually wear boots or go barefoot!
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You're not very good at this rant thing are you? :lol:
 
Not really - waste of energy!!!
 
Answer is very simple really wear tights. Always in pairs. problem sorted. :)
 
Socks have an unerring desire to un-pair either by one disappearing to an alternative universe or by emphasising their individuality with the very act of discolouration, nothing can be done,just wear boots.
Gloves, on the other hand(ahem),seem much more amenable.
 
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Underwear gnomes branching out?
 
Nod said:
My weirdos are all from the same pack and have been through the same cycle of wear, wash, dry, repeat the same number of times. They showed differences after the first wash.
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munch said:
Answer is very simple really wear tights. Always in pairs. problem sorted. :)
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There you go Nod, sorted :thumbs:
 
SarahLee said:
<lightbulb moment> Did anyone else's mum put their gloves on a string when they were kids to stop them un-pairing and getting lost?

Hmmmm could this be the invention that revolutionises sock wearing?
<Off to take out a patent it now>
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PMSL but if you tie your feet together you fall over :ROFLMAO:
 
And you'd run a risk of garrotting your nuts!!!

We keep threatening to do the gloves on string to the MiL - she's forever losing "A" glove...
 
Careful, or I'll post a video of some nuts with string wrapped around them...

And just that threat should mean that sales of mind bleach rocket once again!
 
SarahLee said:
Did anyone else's mum put their gloves on a string when they were kids to stop them un-pairing and getting lost?
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Ah yes idiot mittens, The ones that went up the sleeve s of the coat and down the other one.
You pull one glove and they smacked themselves around the face with the other hand :D
 
Would I get into trouble for offering it for sale here rather than in the classifieds section - purely for speed of delivery, mind... You'll need to speak to my stockbroker about the shares though - I'm doing rather well from mine!!!
 
SarahLee said:
I want to know why I seem to have a collection of random odd socks with no partners.
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When I moved house a few years ago, I emptied out my sock drawer and found twenty three socks from which I couldn't make up a single pair.


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
When I moved house a few years ago, I emptied out my sock drawer and found twenty three socks from which I couldn't make up a single pair.


Steve.
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Is that some kind of record I wonder?
:D
 
SarahLee said:
Count yourself lucky that when a pair of socks goes into your machine, two socks still come out.
I want to know why I seem to have a collection of random odd socks with no partners. :thinking:
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Exactly this, i have loads of odd socks.
 
SarahLee said:
<lightbulb moment> Did anyone else's mum put their gloves on a string when they were kids to stop them un-pairing and getting lost?

Hmmmm could this be the invention that revolutionises sock wearing?
<Off to take out a patent it now>
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Ah yes....idiot mittens.
And if the string was too short you'd punch your own face when you pointed at something.

Can't remember the comedian who had a whole routine about that :lol:
 
If you remember the various laws of physics from school. The one that goes: "Like socks repel."

Anyway I never have a problem. I wear any old socks together regardless of colour or anything. So from my perspective you look a right fussy dandy worrying about that. There are bigger issues in life to worry about. Try mixing your socks for a while. After you've got through the first few weeks, you'll find how much better life looks, and how much more relaxed you are about lots of subjects.
 
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ianp5a said:
I wear any old socks together regardless of colour or anything
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IIRC it used to be fashionable to wear odd socks not so long back.
But then maybe that was started by people that kept losing them, who knows? :D
 
ianp5a said:
If you remember the various laws of physics from school. The one that goes: "Like socks repel."

Anyway I never have a problem. I wear any old socks together regardless of colour or anything. So from my perspective you look a right fussy dandy worrying about that. There are bigger issues in life to worry about. Try mixing your socks for a while. After you've got through the first few weeks, you'll find how much better life looks, and how much more relaxed you are about lots of subjects.
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Which is great, but to others perspectives, you look like you are incapable of dressing yourself :lol: :lol:
 
I used to have a theory that it was teenage daughters creating the odd socks by the mere act of deliberately wearing them way because it was fashionable to do so at the time. Except now one daughter is not at home and the other has got beyond such teenage angst, yet still I can only ever find odd socks even when I know they have gone into the laundry as a pair.

Mind you, I am trying to imagine Sarahs string idea on ladies wearing skirts.... pass it through your knickers I guess, not so much G-String as S-String :exit:
 
munch said:
Answer is very simple really wear tights. Always in pairs. problem sorted. :)
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A good idea for winter maybe, but come summer I revert back to stockings and suspenders, much more air flow and comfort.
 
Yv said:
pass it through your knickers I guess, not so much G-String as S-String
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The mind boggles at the logistics of that (with "every step you take") :D
 
Would put a whole new slant on the expression "Tie a knot in it"!!!
 
Yv said:
pass it through your knickers I guess, not so much G-String as S-String
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Or tie it to the bit of string that's on the end of the tam

No, on second thoughts I'll stop this train of thought.
 
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DorsetDude said:
Or tie it to the bit of string that's on the end of the tam.....
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I (very) briefly considered starting a rant thread on that very topic just to even things up a bit. :LOL:
I decided "best not" :LOL:
 
DorsetDude said:
Yes. So no jokes about this subject. Period.
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I was gonna say "oh do shut up and put a sock in it",
but then that'd only be encouraging you (and Ruth) :p
 
Cobra said:
I was gonna say "oh do shut up and put a sock in it",
but then that'd only be encouraging you (and Ruth) :p
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True and then there'd be all sorts of derogatory remarks about what sort of socks? Football socks? Wind socks? Etc.
 
Most of my socks are golfing socks, there's a hole in one :D
I normally buy loads the same so I always have at least one matching pair
 
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