Trouser addiction, can you leave the house without a pair?

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Trousers or no trousers?

I never leave the house un-trousered
19
50%
I favour a Kilt
6
16%
Skirt or dress is preferable for me
2
5%
I never wear clothes, they are so inhibiting
10
26%
shorts most of the year
1
3%
 
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emmline wrote:Sorry...I lied and voted no clothes!
Actually, I almost invariably wear blue jeans.

at least we now know your secret dreams..
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well...they were nightmares when I was a kid. But, yes, maybe nowadays you're right.
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Oh! How can one decide?!?! I like wearing skirts AND pants/trousers (those two legged articles of clothing things.) Oh the agony of having to choose between the two! :boggle: ARGH!

Really though, I do reccommend wearing SOMETHING as it is January (oops, February rather) outside and I hear frost bite is rather unpleasent. Course, this may not apply depending on where you live. However, you might get into a bit of trouble in some parts of the world for going out in public without some sort of clothing so it's good to be careful.

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amar wrote:
emmline wrote:Sorry...I lied and voted no clothes!
Actually, I almost invariably wear blue jeans.

at least we now know your secret dreams..
Yours more like.

"You can be in my dream if I can be in yours"
Bob Dylan.

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izzarina wrote:
aderyn_du wrote:So far I am the lone preferrer of skirts... I can't be the only one, can I??
:lol: I was just hoping to find out who it was that shared my skirt preference. We just have too much in common ad...it's getting scary

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Kinda scary... it's like we share a brain. The world better watch out. ;)
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dubhlinn wrote:
amar wrote:
emmline wrote:Sorry...I lied and voted no clothes!
Actually, I almost invariably wear blue jeans.

at least we now know your secret dreams..
Yours more like.

"You can be in my dream if I can be in yours"
Bob Dylan.

Slan,
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Sunnywindo wrote:Oh! How can one decide?!?! I like wearing skirts AND pants/trousers (those two legged articles of clothing things.) Oh the agony of having to choose between the two! :boggle: ARGH!

Really though, I do reccommend wearing SOMETHING as it is January (oops, February rather) outside and I hear frost bite is rather unpleasent. Course, this may not apply depending on where you live. However, you might get into a bit of trouble in some parts of the world for going out in public without some sort of clothing so it's good to be careful.

:wink: Sara (who is currently wearing some cozy green sweatpants)
i know what sweatshirts are, but sweatpants? Is that a new thing?
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amar wrote:
i know what sweatshirts are, but sweatpants? Is that a new thing?
Umm... same material as sweatshirts but they're... pants. Err, not 'pants' as in underwear... 'pants' as in trousers. Sort of. :boggle:
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aderyn_du wrote:
amar wrote:
i know what sweatshirts are, but sweatpants? Is that a new thing?
Umm... same material as sweatshirts but they're... pants. Err, not 'pants' as in underwear... 'pants' as in trousers. Sort of. :boggle:
i see, i call those 'trainers'. no?
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amar wrote:
i know what sweatshirts are, but sweatpants? Is that a new thing?
Amar...how long have you been expatriated?
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amar wrote:
aderyn_du wrote:
amar wrote:
i know what sweatshirts are, but sweatpants? Is that a new thing?
Umm... same material as sweatshirts but they're... pants. Err, not 'pants' as in underwear... 'pants' as in trousers. Sort of. :boggle:
i see, i call those 'trainers'. no?

Alrighty, then, if you say so. Trainers here are shoes. :lol:
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avanutria wrote::roll: :lol:

Funnily enough, the subject of trousers came up in my linguistics class this morning. We were trying to figure out if there was any irregular plural that ended with "s", and came up with singulars that end in "s" instead (trousers and scissors, for some). Then I was asked if it's called a "trouser press" or a "trousers press" in America. I said we don't have trousers.

I like my classes. :D
What the heck is a trouser press?? Some kind of fancy iron?
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It's a big iron, that irons and creases the pants almost all at once, and if you do it wrong you're sorry. Kinda like a waffle iron.
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emmline wrote:
amar wrote:
i know what sweatshirts are, but sweatpants? Is that a new thing?
Amar...how long have you been expatriated?
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Can someone explain why we refer to trousers, pants, shorts, underwear... as a "pair?"

Susan
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