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

Consider the question.
If you were a unidexter do you wear a trouser

Isn't a skirt just one very wide trouser?

Pants, (pantaloons) were worn in in ancient Persia, prior to the Alexandrian era.

Now I can't get "Donald where's yer troosers" out of my mind. I thought I'd forgotten that song 40 years ago.

Who put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder?

You would use it in the singular to say "Let's go trouser shopping" or "I have lost my trouser button" or "There's a hole in my trouser pocket" or "I found a florin in my trouser turnup" or "Where are my trouser clips? or "Pass me that trouser hanger" or "Does my bum look big in this trouser suit? or "I don't like that trouser pattern".

That sounds reasonable.

Cor! A florin! They must be VERY old trousers! (I suppose the turnup is the giveaway

{Does anyone use the word "britch" in the singular?}

Only when I need to give my britch a slap.

Must be the Tyrolean in me.

I feel all trousered out at the moment and... why don't trousers have velcro front-openings/flys on them? It'd make so much more sense... and... just think of all the time it'd save...

No shenanigans in silence any more. Everyone will know what you're up to when they hear that "rip" sound.

I was more thinking... for my benifit.... other people's trousers having the velcro fastenings

Actually, I prefer buttons to zippers, though the front flap system is then more complicated, less prone to failure.

Sometimes its easier to undo button flys, than zip ones, but it depends on how overly complicated the 'flaps' are, around/over the buttons etc, and how tight the person's trousers are in that area... I mean... really, they could be an aweful lot easier designed I think, afterall, I've had quite a lot of practise at undoing other peoples button and zip flys hmm. I would say that sounds an aweful lot worse than it should, but, that would, really, just be a lie Maybe kilts really ar ejust the way to go for men Well, either that, or just dresses and skirts in my case although.... having said which... I really love soem of these Indian style err, things, not sure what they're called now.... sort of tunic/shirt, that comes down, quite far (past knee, I think), and for males as much as females.... I just can't ever make my mind up, as to whether I could get away with wearing such in public, without looking odd... (more odd than useual anyhow), or, indeed, people believing I was taking the mic or something wearing I guess what you'd call a particular clothing associated with a differnt culture... I like the way they're more or less androgenous, although the male/female ones do seem to differ in colours etc, and pattunrs they're as far as I can tell, basically exactly the same items of clothing, really


which reminds me.

We saw a gent, this afternoon, just as we were coming out of the shop, he was coming in.... wearing a caftan... and carrying a large, utterly unidentifiable vegetable of some description. Pity we didn't get a photo

Large vegetables are not that common. Pumpkins, squashes, watermelons, maybe the odd turnip. That about exhausts the possibilities.

Trees?

It was something quite exotic... the shop in question, my little local open all hours, general shop/newsagents, seems to sell more on the somewhat exotic side, than ordinary mundane potatos, and suchlike... actually they've got more sweetpotato space on the veg bit, than for ordinary spuds but this wasn't a sweetpotato so no idea waht it was

I believe that Regency style trousers would meet you access requirements in a more satisfactory manner 2legs.

Regency style? you say? That sounds just 'our' sort of period... EBay and some gifts for William, here I come