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Title: How do you like your socks
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on December 15, 2010, 06:33:06 PM
With thise sock meme going strong for years now on this forum, and the fact that the ordinary men who cannot but watch the Order of the Sock members in their ivory tower and thereby never be able to share their sock adventures, I thought it was time to give a reachout for all those unfortunate.
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 15, 2010, 06:35:52 PM
I generally prefer it when they still bend.
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on December 15, 2010, 06:40:22 PM
Quote from: Karlos;598974
I generally prefer it when they still bend.


Eh, I wasn't yet ready with the poll. I guess that's felt-ish then. :)
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: whabang on December 15, 2010, 06:40:55 PM
Stiff from dried sweat. Yummy!

Edit: Speel, old lad! How are you?
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on December 15, 2010, 06:45:05 PM
Quote from: whabang;598979
Stiff from dried sweat. Yummy!

Edit: Speel, old lad! How are you?
Hey Whabang,
I'm doing quite well. Finished my study finally a year ago, and working since, and recently stumbled across a great career opportunity :)
Still single though..

How are you?
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Franko on December 15, 2010, 06:45:57 PM
Hang on a minute that other poll about the accelerator board must be the shortest lived poll ever, what happened to it... :confused:

Anyway on the subject of socks I never wash mine I just throw them away each day and wear a new pair each day so I don't know which box to tick... :)
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: whabang on December 15, 2010, 06:54:52 PM
Quote from: Speelgoedmannetje;598980
Hey Whabang,
I'm doing quite well. Finished my study finally a year ago, and working since, and recently stumbled across a great career opportunity :)
Still single though..

How are you?


Same old, same old. Happily divorced, working my arse off to have somehting to do with my time, and drinking like a sponge to cope with the work. ;)
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on December 15, 2010, 06:59:15 PM
Quote from: whabang;598983
Same old, same old. Happily divorced, working my arse off to have somehting to do with my time, and drinking like a sponge to cope with the work. ;)
Oh dear, I hope you don´t drink too much..
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: whabang on December 15, 2010, 07:13:11 PM
Real men die from liver or heart conditions. Or gunshot wounds.
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: SamuraiCrow on December 15, 2010, 09:50:30 PM
Quote from: Franko;598981
Hang on a minute that other poll about the accelerator board must be the shortest lived poll ever, what happened to it... :confused:


The '060 wasn't really in stock at Software Hut.  He may have to go with an '030 instead.
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 16, 2010, 07:09:41 PM
I like my socks matching, clean, and always with the right foot put on first. I've actually become so obsessed with putting them on in the right order that if I ever forget and do it wrong, I have to put them on correctly twice to cancel out the error :-/
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 07:16:28 PM
Quote from: whabang;598990
Real men die from liver or heart conditions. Or gunshot wounds.


How about gunshot wounds through the heart / liver? Does that earn double masculinity experience points?
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 07:22:35 PM
Quote from: motorollin;599237
I like my socks matching, clean, and always with the right foot put on first. I've actually become so obsessed with putting them on in the right order that if I ever forget and do it wrong, I have to put them on correctly twice to cancel out the error :-/


Sounds a bit OCD. I mean CDO, the letters have to be in ascending order, after all...
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 16, 2010, 07:24:43 PM
Quote from: Karlos;599242
How about gunshot wounds through the heart / liver? Does that earn double masculinity experience points?


Or a bullet through a cirrhotic liver or a fat-lined artery?
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 07:25:46 PM
Quote from: motorollin;599245
Or a bullet through a cirrhotic liver or a fat-lined artery?


Maybe the fat would deflect the bullet slightly, thus preventing an arterial rupture?
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 16, 2010, 07:28:20 PM
Quote from: Karlos;599244
Sounds a bit OCD. I mean CDO, the letters have to be in ascending order, after all...


Yep, very much OCD. People at work laugh at the way everything on my desk is parallel, and how I can't touch taps :-/
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 16, 2010, 07:29:38 PM
Quote from: Karlos;599247
Maybe the fat would deflect the bullet slightly, thus preventing an arterial rupture?


Hmm maybe. However, surely the impact would cause some of the fat deposit to become dislodged, resulting either in a heart attack, a stroke, or a fatal embolism in some other part of the body. Either way, a glorious death is inevitable!
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 07:30:16 PM
Quote from: motorollin;599249
Yep, very much OCD. People at work laugh at the way everything on my desk is parallel, and how I can't touch taps :-/


What would you do if confronted with a curved desk? I had one of those in a previous job, it was highly asymmetric.
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 07:35:51 PM
I think the poll is fairly conclusive so far; most people would seem to prefer theirs not stiffened to the point of brittleness by the repeated soaking up of unwanted seed and being left to dry.
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 16, 2010, 07:42:53 PM
Quote from: Karlos;599251
What would you do if confronted with a curved desk? I had one of those in a previous job, it was highly asymmetric.


Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 08:05:18 PM
Quote from: motorollin;599260


Resignation fodder, eh?
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 16, 2010, 08:14:04 PM
Quote from: Karlos;599264
Resignation fodder, eh?


Actually my current employer is very understanding and wouldn't dream of imposing such asymmetry on me! I did once have to ask my boss to cover up a velvet scarf she had on her desk as the texture was a bit disturbing...
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 08:34:52 PM
Quote from: motorollin;599267
Actually my current employer is very understanding and wouldn't dream of imposing such asymmetry on me! I did once have to ask my boss to cover up a velvet scarf she had on her desk as the texture was a bit disturbing...


How so?
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 16, 2010, 08:56:52 PM
Quote from: Karlos;599270
How so?


I'm averse to a multitude of textures, and seeing things made of materials of those textures reminds me of what the texture feels like, and it's almost as bad as actually touching the object.

I once had to hide a lamp under a chair and cover it with a shirt because it had a velvet shade. However, I also had to put shoes on the edges and sleeves of the shirt so it wouldn't touch the shade, as even the thought of the shirt touching the velvet made me uncomfortable. Even writing about it now is making me feel rather unwell!
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Franko on December 16, 2010, 09:33:48 PM
Quote from: motorollin;599283
I'm averse to a multitude of textures, and seeing things made of materials of those textures reminds me of what the texture feels like, and it's almost as bad as actually touching the object.

I once had to hide a lamp under a chair and cover it with a shirt because it had a velvet shade. However, I also had to put shoes on the edges and sleeves of the shirt so it wouldn't touch the shade, as even the thought of the shirt touching the velvet made me uncomfortable. Even writing about it now is making me feel rather unwell!


I hope you don't mind me saying, but your friggin weird... :)
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 09:36:36 PM
Quote from: motorollin;599283
I'm averse to a multitude of textures, and seeing things made of materials of those textures reminds me of what the texture feels like, and it's almost as bad as actually touching the object.

How are you with Mars Bars? :lol:
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: whabang on December 16, 2010, 10:01:26 PM
Quote from: Karlos;599300
How are you with Mars Bars? :lol:


Dammit, now I had to throw away a perfectly good Snickers bar! :(
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2010, 10:02:36 PM
Quote from: whabang;599310
Dammit, now I had to throw away a perfectly good Snickers bar! :(


Problem?
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: adz on December 17, 2010, 12:09:59 AM
I know I'll probably be nailed to a board for heresy...but the only part of my anatomy that has ever been adorned by a sock is my feet...

/me runs...
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 17, 2010, 05:58:15 AM
Quote from: Karlos;599300
How are you with Mars Bars? :lol:


I don't get it :confused:
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 17, 2010, 06:00:55 AM
Quote from: Franko;599298
I hope you don't mind me saying, but your friggin weird... :)


Nope, I don't mind at all. I've embraced my OCD and I find it helps me a lot. The textural aversion is probably not OCD, and is much less helpful, particularly on a day when I'm so sensitive that I can't stand the feel of putting socks on my feet or to touch toilet paper :-/
Title: Re: How do you like your socks
Post by: motorollin on December 17, 2010, 06:02:45 AM
Quote from: adz;599338
I know I'll probably be nailed to a board for heresy...but the only part of my anatomy that has ever been adorned by a sock is my feet...

/me runs...


Me neither - I have never partaken of the pleasures of the sock.

(Amusing iPad Freudian autocorrect: "me neither" -> "me mother")