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# serious?
Whereabouts in the UK? I've only ever heard it used to mean underwear.
(pygmy giraffe, Sun 14 Apr 2002, 18:23, archived)
# I always understood it thus:
if(( now > dawn_of_time ) && ( location == UK )) pants = underwear;
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Sun 14 Apr 2002, 18:35, archived)
# perhaps it needs revising:
if (( now > dawn_of_time ) && ( location == UK ) && ( name <> "Darren Wolfe") pants = underwear
else if (( now > dawn_of_time ) && ( location == UK ) && ( name = "Darren Wolfe") pants.usage.confusion = yes;
(I helped save b3ta! DaWolfey, Sun 14 Apr 2002, 18:42, archived)
# Mr. Pedantic says


You've missed some brackets, and used the BASIC non-equals operator in a C program. I think you really meant:

if(( now > dawn_of_time ) && ( location == UK ))
{
  if( name != "Darren Wolfe" ) pants = underwear; else pants.usage.confusion = yes;
}
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Sun 14 Apr 2002, 19:03, archived)
# mmm
i thought it was javascript you were writing in :)
I get so confused over programing syntax these days - too may languages around...
asp, vb, delphi, c++, java, javascript, php..
(I helped save b3ta! DaWolfey, Sun 14 Apr 2002, 19:09, archived)
# Heh
I can program in more languages than I can even think of in one go, but not getting confused between them is a knack that you pick up eventually...
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Sun 14 Apr 2002, 19:13, archived)
# surely you mean
(strcmp(name,"Darren Wolfe")==0)
(I helped save b3ta! pHile, Mon 15 Apr 2002, 1:07, archived)
# well im in blackpool
but i dont know if its a regional thing, but I have always referred to trousers as pants and underwear as, well, underwear..
It could be due to my parents, or rather it's my brain interpreting things differently than most people because i miss a vital piece of information.

For example, I have always made a sandwhich by buttering one piece of bread only (the other being dry). It is the way I have ALWAYS done it for as long as I can remember.
One day, I was in the kitchen making a sandwhich and I was talking to a friend, he saw me butter only one piece of bread and commented "why?". I said "what do you mean why?".
He explained that no one butters one piece of bread. I said "well my parents must do it".
When I asked my parents, they said that they always buttered both pieces. I asked my grandparents... they did the same.
In fact, there is no one I know, family or otherwise, who butters one piece of bread only.
It is something I have done on my own. I assume that when I was being "taught" to make a sandwhich (or watched a sandwhiches construction) in my very early years, I got distracted and didnt see the second piece being buttered..

Use this information as you see fit.....
(I helped save b3ta! DaWolfey, Sun 14 Apr 2002, 18:35, archived)