ILX missing sock log

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- black cotton sock

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― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)

- black cotton sock also lost here, logged 08.05, 28/4/06, Sydney time

Solution: wore ill matching socks today, one short and navy blue, one black.

― ratty, Friday, 21 April 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

My socks DO match. They're the same thickness.

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 21 April 2006 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Please stick to thread topic.

― ratty, Friday, 21 April 2006 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Either:

1. It accumulated so much static electricity that it made the jump to antispace.

2. It turned up in my dryer at this past weekend.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:00 (twenty years ago)

the trick is to realise that packs of 5 pairs of socks are actually just 10 identical socks that you can mix and match, they are not swans that mate for life. lost one? you still have another 9. lose 9 and you have a problem but until then...

on topic: one of mine ripped when i put it on yesterday so it went in the bin. (um, i guess that doesn't count as lost but hey, it's friday, anything goes)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

Not all sock items are purchased in five-pack. I have long called the place where the socks go 'the hozone layer' or just the hozone.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Significant debate on why socks go missing within this thread.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:40 (twenty years ago)

You need to find a pack of socks with ten, all nice, all cotton, and above all, all the same colour. Then you buy three packs - that's thirty socks - and chuck out all your old ones. Then you're fine for about 10 years. This is what I keep telling myself. But I never do it. Why? Because they're just socks.

― ratty, Friday, 21 April 2006 09:41 (twenty years ago)

yes buying socks that look the same is key, then not worrying about pairing them up. if you're left with one on its own, another one will soon be along after another wash to join it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:44 (twenty years ago)

I have done the "buy all the same style/colour of sock" thing for The Bloke, and it saves hours of fruitless sock-matching searches.

The kids however insist on pursuing this mad habit of wanting different patterns of socks, so I have ended up with a large plastic box full of odd socks. Sometimes on rainy afternoons the whole family will all sprawl together on my bed and have a sock-matching hour to try and marry up the loners, but there are still dozens of them left in the box despite our best efforts. The worst thing is the kids' white school socks - so many that are nearly matches, but with slightly different designs or lengths. They're a bugger to sort out. I should throw them all out really, as I'm sure the girls' feet have grown and most of these socks wouldn't even fit them anyway. But I keep them, just in case.

You can buy little plastic tags to join a pair of socks together before you put them in the washing machine to save them from getting separated and lost, but who has time for that sort of thing? Not me.

― C J (C J), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh sorry, I didn't close the tag

Is that better?

― C J (C J), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:08 (twenty years ago)

2. It turned up in my dryer at this past weekend.

This would have embarassing consequences

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:08 (twenty years ago)

YOUR SOCKS LOVE THE BRITISHES!!!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:09 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

not creepy at all! :D

No socks lost recently but new drop'n'wash place always balls my socks up so that ONE of them is inside out when unrolled. WTF

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

I recently rescued a newly-washed sock as it was about to fall into the primeval crack behind the machines and mutate in the muck, Swamp Thing-wise, into something that, were you ever again to try to place it on your foot, would immediately dissolve the flesh thereoff, leaving a horror movie/X-Ray glasses view of tarsus, metatarsus and phalanges.

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I made the horrible mistake of trying to wear a pair of decade old trouser socks a few months ago. The elastic was completely shot and they just fell down to my ankles. I had to make an emergency sock-buying stop or walk around looking like a character from Mama's Family. (The horror, the horror.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Worrying about sock matching is ridiculous. If people can see your socks then you have bigger fashion troubles ie your trousers are too small or you are wearing high socks and shorts.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

do you never sit down?

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

or go to people's houses at which you take off your shoes? and then sit down?

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

they're just fucking socks, ppl.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

People should always see my socks—they're the clothing (aside from undies) that I actually buy new. I love my socks. They are very femme, so my husband won't wear them and stretch them out.
C J, you throw out those odd socks NOW!!!!! I promise you, you will NOT REGRET IT!!
I bought expensive black mohair socks once, and somehow one was lost. Years ago. I still have the one, hoping...
But C J, you should still throw out those socks.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but i don't think i'll ever care enough about what people think of my socks to justify the time spent pairing them up out of the dryer.

xpost

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe i'm a Slob, but it seems as pointless to me as, say, measuring your toenails to ensure they are the same length on both feet.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I never worry about matching my socks. And if I do, it's about matching textures more than matching colors -- i.e., I wouldn't wear a white tube sock with a thin argyle. But one tan sock and one navy sock, same consistency? Sure.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Well that actually makes sense. if your socks have differing thicknesses your feet will feel funny all day. you might even fall over!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

you are guys are not girls, it's true

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've got one sock
Looking for the other
One sock
Can't find it's brother
When I find that sock
I'll tell you what I'll do
I'll put it on my foot
And I'll stick it in my shoe

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

-ralph

― 51 tyson (crüt), Friday, 5 November 2010 06:03 (fifteen years ago)

-GARU G

― 51 tyson (crüt), Friday, 5 November 2010 06:03 (fifteen years ago)

Your socks have names?

― seandalai, Friday, 5 November 2010 13:58 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

There goes my sock.

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

darn it

― carstens, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

greenish Golden Toe, we hardly knew ye

― buffandmaxsgaydad (Pillbox), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

buzza, are any socks currently missing?

― sarahell, Monday, 4 November 2013 04:22 (twelve years ago)

this would be better
Mediocre sockpuppets

― buzza, Monday, 4 November 2013 04:24 (twelve years ago)

dryers

― color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that, Monday, 4 November 2013 04:25 (twelve years ago)

xp - but that thread has been locked by an administrator

― sarahell, Monday, 4 November 2013 04:25 (twelve years ago)

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