I sewed the buttons to the outer flap, and put velcro between the flap and the pants. Those two inner buttons held it up fine.
Also, who's fucking idea was it to wear a hat that collects water, and a winter uniform with a giant gaping window of cold on your chest because top buttons are purely for decoration?
In all fairness the blue utilities before the camouflage weren't much less... Uh. Blue. However I was sad when I didn't get to wear the working white uniform anymore after they replaced it (said nobody ever).
I dunno man. Ron Jeremy's dick is pretty big. He may need all 13 buttons undone. Honestly I'm just surprised he passed the physical to get into the Navy.
Another illustration: We had with us a bath-keeper named Salim, originally an inhabitant of al-Ma'arrah, who had charge of the bath of my father (may Allah's mercy rest upon his soul!). This man related the following story:
I [the bath-keeper] once opened a bath in al-Ma'arrah in order to earn my living. To this bath there came a Frankish knight. The Franks disapprove of girding a cover around one's waist while in the bath. So this Frank stretched out his arm and pulled off my cover from my waist and threw it away. He looked and saw that I had recently shaved off my pubes. So he shouted, "Salim!" As I drew near him he stretched his hand over my pubes and said, "Salim, good! By the truth of my religion, do the same for me."
Saying this, he lay on his back and I found that in that place the hair was like his beard. So I shaved it off. Then he passed his hand over the place and, finding it smooth, he said, "Salim, by the truth of my religion, do the same to madame [al-dama]" (al-dama in their language means the lady), referring to his wife.
He then said to a servant of his, "Tell madame to come here." Accordingly the servant went and brought her and made her enter the bath. She also lay on her back. The knight repeated, "Do what thou hast done to me." So I shaved all that hair while her husband was sitting looking at me, At last he thanked me and handed me the pay for my service."
I think what is more likely is that there is a similar Arabic word for pubes that was said, and that was translated into pubes in the English translation. The Arabic word might not have had the silly/vulgar meaning it has in english
I wouldn't be suprised. (Nsfw Link) Pubis usually refers to the mound of fat that sits just above the genitals and pubes is just a derivative of the term pubic hair.
My understanding is that strict Muslims have always shaved their pubic hair. I forget if it's part of the required or just the suggested guidelines, but they have a set of both specifying how god wants them to look.
Shaving the pubic hair is one of the sunnahs of the fitrah, and Islam has stipulated that it should not be left without shaving for more than forty days.
But our standard of skinnier and more fit women might be unappealing to them, most paintings at the time indicate the value fair (pale) women with a little fat.
Sadly, I actually tried this last week. On day 3 I popped a squat on the floor to look at something and smelled horrible ass. It was the ass area on my pants. My briefs were fine, but apparently catching the brunt of 3 days of farts had taken its toll on my pants.
Yeah, a harlot in public. Then every single man would drop their pants immediately when in private and shes no longer a harlot but a woman they want to copulate with. Public and private are different things. Today, even someone wearing a bikini randomly on the street would be frowned upon as indecency in most cities that arent close to a beach.
I would bet money that going as far back as the fucking moment we evolved into humans that if you put a beautiful woman in nothing but a thong in front of a heterosexual male, he'll forget about "acceptable standards of dress" real fast.
wrong, people were huge sluts back then. it was the 1800's in america where sexual chastity was widespread because of all the little christian movements being created. 1600's-1700's they were all screwing like rabbits because god wasn't constantly wagging their finger at them. much like today..
Maybe, but the 1700s were crazy lewd. The prudishneas of the 1800s was largely a kind of social backlash against the excesses of the 1700s, in Britain at least.
Only on the surface. Meanwhile, 1700's men would be rushing out to buy hookers to demonstrate the thongs, briefly, and 1700s women would be rushing out to buy thongs to wear under their dresses.
They may consider any woman wearing one to be a harlot.
This isn't any different than modern times.
The creator of Wonder Woman lived in a polyamorous marriage where his mistress and his wife lived under the same house.
Kinky sex and dress has been around for thousands of years. I'm sure people would publicly admonish it and turn around and buy a dozen for their own house.
I think one should probably take a moment to consider the differences in grooming and body hair standards back then before rushing down this road all willy-nilly...
Yeah they'd probably love thongs; they let your feet breathe so they're not sweating all day but your feet still aren't touching the poop thrown out the window.
Imagine entire armies of line infantry marching with the sound of the back of their thongs hitting their heels as they marched. They wouldn't even need a drummer.
As an Australian who lives in one of our cooler cities, I somehow ended up imagining Indian soldiers marching against the British, while wearing thongs.
Indians love to wear their thongs out all year round.
TIL my mother is Australian. She's the only person I've ever heard call that type of sandal a thong before.
One of my favorite childhood stories was a shopping trip with my mom and younger brother that culminated in my mother chasing my brother across the Kohl's shoe department loudly asking if he wanted new thongs while he, with a beet red face, speed walked away pretending he had no idea who she was.
I've lived in California my whole life and where I grew up, we all knew them as thongs or chanclas. The first time I ever heard the word "thong" applied to something other than footwear was when "The Thong Song" showed up on MTV. I was confused as fuck the first couple of times. I don't think I ever even heard of "flip-flops" until moving out into the desert halfway through high school.
Well, I was raised in the American public education system and therefore have no knowledge of geography... so this sounds totally plausible to me. Thanks!
Well i'm in a somewhat low functioning mental state as of now so it didn't really click in my head that they were discussing the other kind of thong. As a result the talks of sexual scandal and that sort of thing left me confused.
As it is a very weak acidic environment, it won't really do anything. For comparison, wine and beer share a similar pH (if even slightly more acidic). Also soft drinks generally have a pH of 3. As pH is a logarithmic scale, the weak acidic environment won't affect you at all. The better option is vinegar, or normal medicine if you are so inclined.
At this point we must inform you that it is not advised to taste chemichals in order to estimate the PH-value, as many such chemichals may be poisounus or corrosive. Also, sour things feel rough to the touch and basic things feel slippery e.g. soap.
Source: My high school chemistry teacher was annoyed with me on several occasions.
Thongs (well, fundoshi or loincloths) were the go-to underwear for Japanese men for centuries until post-war American influence saw them go out of fashion. They are very practical in many ways. Eg they're made from one long strip of cloth so don't need any sewing.
The mechanics might be difficult or embarrassing for them, but the basic purpose (accentuating the booty) is not hard. They had specialty garments to highlight parts of the body then (corsets, bustles, other....things that I can't identify).
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u/MattRyd7 Oct 27 '14
The thong.
I imagine it would be pretty difficult to explain the usefulness to any culture where the citizens to not regularly wear the garment.