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Sunday, January 6. 2019

A missed Christmas post: Cool guys like fun socks

Adult males rarely want much for Christmas other than the company of family and friends and a glass or two of eggnog, but one material thing they always welcome are fun socks. It takes a serious male to wear fun socks. Trust me. Black socks are to make you appear serious. They do not make you serious.


The reason for black socks is No Sock Sorting. But that is just laziness.  Black socks are for mens' job interviews.


OK, let's discuss socks. In our house, we have work-out socks, tennis socks, skiing socks, hiking socks, dress socks (male), yard-work socks, etc. So do you, probably.


Nowadays, fun socks are always great for gals, and for guys they signal that you are confident enough to show some sense of fun.  


Here's one site: Fun Socks 

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:23 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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So if I don't like "fun" socks I'm lazy, insecure and not serious. Sounds like an appeal to emotion a professor would use to get her students to vote Democratic...Are you a shareholder in Fun Company Doctor?
/sarc
#1 Talnik on 2019-01-06 14:53 (Reply)
I wore fun socks, too - until I read, and saw images, of Justin Trudeau wearing them. Now, I've got to move on to something else...
#2 nellborg on 2019-01-06 14:56 (Reply)
The wife gave her putative son-in-law Star Wars socks for Christmas and he loved 'em.

My thinking was, what's next? Getting him Star Wars pajamas?

Seems a little juvenile to me, but what do I know?
#3 feeblemind on 2019-01-06 16:50 (Reply)
Can you spell infantilization?
#4 Andrew Stanton on 2019-01-06 17:19 (Reply)
They're cotton. I wear wool.
#5 Sam L. on 2019-01-06 20:40 (Reply)
I guess this must be a thing now in the US. My multinational corporation just gave us socks with the (colorful) company logo as a fun holiday gift. My wife will use them when she does her Pilates.

Here in Israel many people wear sandals for 9 months of the year. And then colorful socks are distractingly present rather than a cute peekaboo.
#6 Ben david on 2019-01-07 03:06 (Reply)
I'm very serious about spending as little time on unnecessary household chores (in which category sorting socks nearly tops the list) as possible. Thus, I buy Hanes white socks a dozen pairs at a time, and US Army surplus officer's black wool blend socks a dozen at a time. So my sock drawer has a pile of unpaired white socks, and a pile of unpaired black socks.
#7 Bruce Anderson on 2019-01-07 08:55 (Reply)
Screw that. Over the last 12 years, I've purchased 6 pair of lifetime warranty heavy wool socks from Bass Pro Shops. The first pair cost $5.99 and presently, I believe they are priced at around $7.99. Of course they wear out, but you only have to return the old pair and exchange them for a new pair. I've worn them every day, for every occasion, and they work well as house slippers too. No worries about miss-matched pairs and for what I estimate is a cost average sum of $45.00, I have warm, comfortable socks and I'll never have to buy another pair.
#8 LWS on 2019-01-07 10:33 (Reply)

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