Comments on: What’s wrong with used knickers?

By: Stilgherrian · We have the used knickers!

Stilgherrian · We have the used knickers! — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:59:25 +0000

[...] you’ve only just joined us, I wondered aloud why we’re afraid of wearing someone else’s underwear. And the conversation has continued as a pair of used knickers made its way down the laneway and [...]

By: Stilgherrian · Knickers in the corner

Stilgherrian · Knickers in the corner — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:25:29 +0000

[...] some reason, the purple knickers (which I wrote about last month and the other day) are now wedged in the side of a garage [...]

By: Stilgherrian · Used knickers, revisited

Stilgherrian · Used knickers, revisited — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:24:41 +0000

[...] Due to popular demand, here’s a new photo of the abandoned women’s knickers I wrote about last week. [...]

By: 'Pong

'Pong — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:27:02 +0000

There you go. Here the idea of your portrait.

By: Cassie ST

Cassie ST — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:17:15 +0000

Only if you’re wearing them on your head ….

By: Zhasper

Zhasper — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:05:24 +0000

please do!

By: 'Pong

'Pong — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:10:19 +0000

Why not, I say.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:06:31 +0000

At the risk of extending this discussion even further, the knickers in question are still in the laneway — though a little less pristine after a fortnight exposed to the weather. Should I get another photograph?

By: 'Pong

'Pong — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:51:02 +0000

C’mon for the sake of entertainment

By: Cassie ST

Cassie ST — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:10:59 +0000

Well, considering the creative displays you blokes seem to make of said items during bucks nights, Xmas parties etc. …. you’d think there’d be no problem with the idea of wearing properly washed, found underwear.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:50:55 +0000

@Quatrefoil: You know when you get that feeling that you never should have started a particular conversation topic…? I think I’m having it now.

By: Quatrefoil

Quatrefoil — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:08:19 +0000

Well, if you know someone with a kink for Target cotton underwear of the kind worn by the no-longer-young, traditionally-built woman …

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:43:01 +0000

@Quatrefoil: These friends who have your used underwear… can I have their phone numbers…?

Actually, I know one young guy who makes a reasonable profit selling his once-used underwear on eBay. Maybe that’s a story for another time.

By: Quatrefoil

Quatrefoil — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:31:34 +0000

Well, yes, in theory. I have to say that with my elderly washing machine I’m not convinced that the effect is a as total as it might be. But rationality aside, I’m willing to wear second hand clothing (and frequently do), but underwear is different, because, as everyone knows, you can get pregnant from toilet seats, so surely you’re going to get some raging STD from found undies.

That said, I might make an exception if they were really nice undies. Silk for example. But I might need to disinfect them in the microwave after I’d washed them, and when my friend did that (with her own underwear) she ended up with charred ruins.

And I have given very slightly used underwear away to close personal friends, but only after asking them if they were ok with the concept first.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:25:58 +0000

@Quatrefoil: But what is the difference? Dirty cloth goes through washing machine with chemicals, becomes clean cloth.