A Conversation for Preventing Sock Loss
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Frankie Roberto Started conversation Jun 7, 2001
I have a huge odd sock problem, and I'm failry certain it's not just due to this washing machine factor. It's an unsolveable problem, but I have found one solution... Wear sandels.
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jun 7, 2001
All my socks (well the 5 pairs I have) look the same. So even if I'm wearing an odd pair (sometimes the pairs _feel_ different - don't ask why, I haven't a clue) nobody else will know.
I take it you're totally against wearing socks with sandles then?
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Ste Posted Jun 7, 2001
you only have 5 pairs? aww, you poor, poor soul. How do you manage?
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Ashley Posted Jun 7, 2001
Turn them inside out and then you have ten pairs... 
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Peregrin Posted Jun 7, 2001
Hey, I wrote a long rambling entry on how sock loss is all to do with evil gremlins, and it wasn't included in this article 
I've occasionally gone walking with three socks (not three pairs - three socks). Every day I take off the left one, move the right one to the left foot, put on the spare one and wash the ex-left one. This rotation system works fine except that one foot always has a slightly older sock than the other.
Oh and I have a huge bunch of uniformly grey socks; I've long forgotten which belong to which.
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Frankie Roberto Posted Jun 7, 2001
Socks and sandels? Noooo....
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Peregrin Posted Jun 7, 2001
No? I thought it was the height of fashion.
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Frankie Roberto Posted Jun 7, 2001
When it's too cold for sandels, long trousers work, then you can just forget about the whole concept of wearing pairs altogether (so Victorian don't u think?)...
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jun 7, 2001
I hate socks. In fact I hate anything on my feet apart from shoes. So I tend to have way too many with the 5 pairs. (which means, that living in rainy Europe, I often have cold feet)
I like the sock rotation thing, a bit like the sheet rotation thing we did at school (boarding).
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Tube Boy Posted Jun 7, 2001
This is quite possibly the funniest guide in h2g2!
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Frankie Roberto Posted Jun 7, 2001
Odd socks have constantly been a major source of stress and anxiety in my house. It's an unmanageable problem. The odd sock pile just grows and grows... Buying more socks (even if they are all the same) jsut seems to feed it.
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Zack9, Keeper of The Lost Pies Posted Jun 8, 2001
*Hates wearing shoes* It... uhh makes me feel closterphobic!
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Almighty Rob - mourning the old h2g2 Posted Jun 8, 2001
Surely this owes something to BistroMath? Maybe someone more technically minded could work out the complex paradigm that is the mathematics of sock loss...
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Ste Posted Jun 8, 2001
I heard somewhere that at the back of the washing machine there is a wormhole that branches and leads to every single belly button of everyone in the world: belly button fluff.
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Beeblefish Posted Jun 11, 2001
aHA! it all makes sense now!!
~Beeblefish
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Ste Posted Jun 14, 2001
AAAhhhhhh, now you know. Trust me, I'm a scientist.
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Ioreth (on hiatus) Posted Sep 8, 2001
It's intersting... I greatly enjoy both barefootedness and the fresh warm feel of a fluffy, clean, brand new pair of socks - but also don't mind shoes with no socks, sandals with socks , etc. Easy to please in the footwear department I suppose.
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- 1: Frankie Roberto (Jun 7, 2001)
- 2: Sho - employed again! (Jun 7, 2001)
- 3: Ste (Jun 7, 2001)
- 4: Ashley (Jun 7, 2001)
- 5: Peregrin (Jun 7, 2001)
- 6: Frankie Roberto (Jun 7, 2001)
- 7: Peregrin (Jun 7, 2001)
- 8: Frankie Roberto (Jun 7, 2001)
- 9: Sho - employed again! (Jun 7, 2001)
- 10: Tube Boy (Jun 7, 2001)
- 11: Frankie Roberto (Jun 7, 2001)
- 12: Zack9, Keeper of The Lost Pies (Jun 8, 2001)
- 13: Almighty Rob - mourning the old h2g2 (Jun 8, 2001)
- 14: Ste (Jun 8, 2001)
- 15: Beeblefish (Jun 11, 2001)
- 16: Ste (Jun 14, 2001)
- 17: Ioreth (on hiatus) (Sep 8, 2001)
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