Well first off it's not really a "flat statement", it's an analogy
Not only that, it's an analogy that's so tired, laboured and hoary that I remember it being used as a vox pops on That's Life! twenty-odd years ago.

Not only that, but it's a fucking stupid analogy in the first place, because unless your socks differ largely in construction to mine, they're not skin-tight and waterproof. Mine are in fact rather porous, and allow the water through them, meaning that if I were to get in the bath with my socks on, my feet would get wet. As getting your feet wet is one of the expected outcomes of the whole bathing process, it doesn't really detract from the experience. Imagine if you were in the bath and the flannel came to rest on one of your feet - it would more or less be like that. Now those verucca socks that scabby kids at school had to wear before they got in the swimming pool, that might be a better analogy. Because they're, y'know, made of rubber and intended to prevent the spread of disease and all. Or wearing marigolds to do the washing up. Or surgeons who wear those skin-tight rubber gloves to prevent infection when they're performing a triple bypass. I bet they hate the "feel" of those too, eh?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:26, Reply)