h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You're wearing jeans AND pants? How does that work?

In UK underpants / underwaer are called knickers or thongs for females, breifs, pants, Y fronts boxer shorts, thongs, for men.

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Ah, I thought it might be a hemisphere thing. Like thongs in Oz are rubber things on feet, sandals or whatever, and the underwear type of thong is called a G-String

Yes, not quite that warm in my room, only 22° or so... Haven't been outside, but it's around 30° out there!

Yes it gets a bit confusing different name for different things.

UK Trousers, slacks, knickerbockers, bamuda shorts, shorts, hipsters, bell bottoms, jeans, joggers, track suit bottoms or trackies.

USA Pants for all the above.

UK names for underwear, pants, boxers, undies, breeks, grundies, grunts, thongs, slips, breifs, knickers, Y fronts, g strings, etc....

No Socks
Navy Blue Boxer Shorts 'clean'.
Black Hush Puppy Sandles
Navy Blue Track Suit / Jogging Bottoms cut down into shorts.
Blue and Greamy grey T Shirt with BOSTON written in blue.

Glasses
White Gold Wedding Band / Ring
Black Leather Braclet on left wrist
2 Plastic Bangles purple and black on right wrist
Arctic blue dimonti Ear Ring / Stud in left ear

E45 on my arms
FCUK Aftershave
Lynx underarm stick deoderant
A smile
My skin

blue shorts
blue sleeveless tie-dye top with a vaguely oriental print on
soft sneakers, but no socks
green pants

pants or knickers

Knickers. With a duck.

Quack pants confuses the Americans

Why do you think I say it?

Actually, for that very reason some of the translations we get are English to US English!

But I, unfortunately, automatically speak American as well, you're all helping me learn to avoid that. At least now I think of football as ...

True but why provoke conflict.

No, just practising myself... Alright, no more pants from now on.

It is up to you what you call your underware?

I don't really care what I call it, as long as I've got some...

Too true............ but commando feels good

Not for me it don't...

Different for females.

Yep. Although in the Middle ages it was exactly other way round, women weren't allowed underwear! A bishop was even excommunicated for allowing women to wear rabbit-fur underpants while travelling in winter...