I want knickers..
03-17-09 | 02:01 PM
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Like you said, whatever. Tomato vs. Tomahto... although I'm not about to start referring to my trousers as "capris" or "manpris".
03-17-09 | 06:11 PM
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03-17-09 | 07:33 PM
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03-18-09 | 06:46 AM
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03-18-09 | 08:13 AM
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Listen to your wife if your over 25ish. Otherwise, it's like putting on a sports team shirt with some young kids name on it. (not your kid)
Foot tapping in the men's room territory. You know.
03-18-09 | 11:24 AM
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03-18-09 | 02:32 PM
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It seems to be an American-only usage. I knew it meant women's underpants in the UK, but I didn't know it means that also in Canada. Interesting. I'm not surprised to learn that the British meaning is the same in Australia.
Anyway, in the US, knickers means trousers that end just below the knee. What do you call them?
Also, in the US, the word "pants" means trousers. I understand that in the UK, it means men's underpants.
Anyway, in the US, knickers means trousers that end just below the knee. What do you call them?
Also, in the US, the word "pants" means trousers. I understand that in the UK, it means men's underpants.
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03-18-09 | 03:10 PM
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"Pants" can mean any form of trousers, or, well, pants, male of female, but it is most commonly used for womens trousers. Underwear is often called underpants.
Last edited by Abacus; 03-18-09 at 03:14 PM.
03-19-09 | 03:31 AM
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The correct term is Manpris
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
