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I wish they would stop changing the designs of socks

  • 29-08-2012 9:37am
    #1
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭


    ...I mean people dont go out and buy the latest trends, do they? All that happens is that you have to spend time matching them up.

    I always get similar styles and colours from the same places, but the new ones never match older ones enough to form pairs. I want to just have a pile of identical socks I can grab two out of and not need to worry about anything apart from holes.


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  • #2
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    If you want a pile of identical socks, then buy plain black socks in Pennies, they cost fcuk all and they stand up to around 20 washes. When you are running low, just buy more.


  • #3
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    tl;dr?


  • #4
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    ...I mean people dont go out and buy the latest trends, do they? All that happens is that you have to spend time matching them up.

    I always get similar styles and colours from the same places, but the new ones never match older ones enough to form pairs. I want to just have a pile of identical socks I can grab two out of and not need to worry about anything apart from holes.

    Eh, how much time do you need to match your bloody socks?!


  • #5
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    minidazzler wrote: »
    If you want a pile of identical socks, then buy plain black socks in Pennies, they cost fcuk all and they stand up to around 20 washes. When you are running low, just buy more.
    I thought that was what I'd already been doing.
    Still lots of variations.
    Maybe it's the influence of getting many in tesco.


  • #6
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    I hate it too. The fecken hole should be in the same place on all socks. I find after washing them it often moves, making it impossible to wear them again.


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  • #7
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I just wear gloves on my feet


  • #8
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I just wear gloves on my feet
    oh you cheeky monkey..


  • #9
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    Bad Panda wrote: »
    Eh, how much time do you need to match your bloody socks?!
    Many, many seconds; sometimes as much as a minute. Probably an easy 3 hours a year. A good week taken out of my life overall - out of the best parts of it too - not going to bother wearing matching socks when I'm properly old. It's a serious issue


  • #10
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    The worst socks are the ones that have the sewn seal right along your toes. If you wear them inside out they end up digging into your toes, so you have to turn them the other way, so the ridge is then sticking into your shoe upwards, as oppose to downwards into your toes.

    Just means you can only get one days wear out of them. None of this turning them inside out business.

    Pesky toes in the wrong place.


  • #11
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Where can I get those nice thick Wilson socks?

    I used always get them in Penney's but haven't seen them recently.

    They last ages but I'm due a few replacement pairs at this stage.


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  • #12
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Ffs just get into Penneys and buy a load of identical jet black socks! However good luck getting in and out of Penneys alive, you'd want danger money trying to thread your way thru all them ould wans in that place, one minute you are thinking you've avoided them all and "Boom!" it's a renegade handbag to the head :eek:


  • #13
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    hardCopy wrote: »
    Where can I get those nice thick Wilson socks?

    I used always get them in Penney's but haven't seen them recently.

    They last ages but I'm due a few replacement pairs at this stage.

    They still have shitloads of them in Penneys tho they may now be Umbro (basically the same sock tho!) Pretty sure I saw them in Champion Sports the other day and Lifestyle were selling the Kappa version of them, 3 pairs for a fiver!


  • #14
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    But the problem is, if you look really closely, theyre just very very very very very very dark navy.

    Do you know any priests OP?


  • #15
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I just wear gloves on my feet

    But don't you have an awful time trying to find a pair of matching gloves first thing in the morning ?


  • #16
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Lapin wrote: »
    But don't you have an awful time trying to find a pair of matching gloves first thing in the morning ?

    True, at that point I just use blue plastic bags.


  • #17
    mathstalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭mathstalk


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    ...I mean people dont go out and buy the latest trends, do they? All that happens is that you have to spend time matching them up.

    I always get similar styles and colours from the same places, but the new ones never match older ones enough to form pairs. I want to just have a pile of identical socks I can grab two out of and not need to worry about anything apart from holes.

    black or wwhite. Don't pay much attention to those new trendy socks. However, if you're getting a pair of black ones, get them plain. There's nothing worse than seeing a suited man's trouser leg accidentally rise above the ankle, allowing an Umbro logo to be seen in full view.


  • #18
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    I used to wear white socks with pink pigs on them. I was going through my flamboyant stage.


  • #19
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    old hippy wrote: »
    I used to wear white socks with pink pigs on them. I was going through my flamboyant raging homosexual stage.

    FYP ;)

    :p


  • #20
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    ...I mean people dont go out and buy the latest trends, do they? All that happens is that you have to spend time matching them up.

    I always get similar styles and colours from the same places, but the new ones never match older ones enough to form pairs. I want to just have a pile of identical socks I can grab two out of and not need to worry about anything apart from holes.

    I don't even bother doing this. I wear runners and jeans that go over my ankles. No one can see my socks unless I take my Runners off. If anyone makes comment, I say "no they aren't odd, one's for the left and the other the right."


  • #21
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    kfallon wrote: »
    FYP ;)

    :p

    I regret nothing!


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  • #22
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    minidazzler wrote: »
    If you want a pile of identical socks, then buy plain black socks in Pennies, they cost fcuk all and they stand up to around 20 washes. When you are running low, just buy more.
    kfallon wrote: »
    Ffs just get into Penneys and buy a load of identical jet black socks! However good luck getting in and out of Penneys alive, you'd want danger money trying to thread your way thru all them ould wans in that place, one minute you are thinking you've avoided them all and "Boom!" it's a renegade handbag to the head


    you have to go to Habit-Hat for the black socks, Penny's or anywhere else are just very very very very very very dark blue.


  • #23
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Wear odd socks

    sorted


  • #24
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    The simple solution is to become incredably rich and never have to wear the same socks twice.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Bitches dont know about my 100 pairs of interchangable black Wilson socks


  • #26
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    ...II wish they would stop changing the designs of socks...
    :mad:

    I would never have my Winnie The Pooh ones if they did that! :o

    Boring grey! :(


  • #27
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Todays socks are navy blue and purple with "Friday" written on them :D


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