Socks
To me this is something that is so completely pointless yet so pervasive in society that I can only assume it's the result of a mass psychotic delusion - some kind of subconscious OCD operating on the population level.

I'm talking about wearing matching socks... making an actual conscious effort to wear matching socks!? Why?

Apparently people actually spend time pairing the fuckers up.

I can only think of the economic cost of all this futile effort.
( rofl harris, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:45, 16 replies)

Easily solved.
Just buy 15 (or however many) identical pairs of socks.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:48, closed)

well that's not what I'm getting at
What I'm getting at is there's nothing to solve - there's no problem - just stop worrying about your socks.

Free your feet.
( rofl harris, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:50, closed)

I don't even care if my socks are inside-out
that's how I roll
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:51, closed)

that's the fuckin spirit

( rofl harris, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:58, closed)

I wear odd socks most days, to the point where it feels strange to put on a matching pair.

Nothing planned, i just grab the first two socks...
(Miquaight Pew pew laser bears, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:07, closed)

Yeah
It annoys me when people think I've made a concerted effort to wear odd socks - when it's they that have the OCD.
( rofl harris, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:11, closed)

I feel I have found my fellow not-too-fussed-about-socks wearers! I'm used to the "You have odd socks on?!" reaction.

Awh, I am not alone :')
(Miquaight Pew pew laser bears, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:12, closed)

Hooray!
Odd sockers unite!
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:33, closed)

:D
Odd socks are lucky! (or at least Mrs Shamrock says so and who am I to argue?)

S
(Shamrock, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:43, closed)

mostly with you on this
I don't care about the colour, pattern, etc - but they have to reach approximately the same length up the calf, and not be too horribly different in density of weave. I don't give a rat's ass how they look, but I like my feet to *feel* symmetrical...
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:15, closed)

This^
I can never seem to purchase enough of the same type of sock that I can pick a pair out of a pile and not end up with one long and one short -- and that just feels wrong.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:59, closed)

I find it uncomfortable if one sock is higher up my leg than the other

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:50, closed)

In the words of steven wright
"I go by thickness"
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 0:15, closed)

socks
not only do they have to be a matching pair, but they have to go on the correct feet.
i.e. if i have a pair with a design or logo on just one side of the sock, then that must always go on the outside of my leg.
i have never worn a pair of odd socks. you wouldnt wear odd shoes would you?
(unciebana It's good, but it's not right., Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:19, closed)

I own only one pair of shoes

( rofl harris, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:44, closed)

nice
an appropriate, manly number of pairs of shoes.
(unciebana It's good, but it's not right., Sat 3 Jul 2010, 19:13, closed)