To refer casually to white men's briefs, is it Tidy Whities or Tightly Whities?
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Yeah, that word choice can unfortunately work perfectly in 2 ways. I meant white underwear in the briefs style
Sometimes context gives it off, other times you can apply an cheap version off Occam’s razor and just consider that the race version would be absurd and it’s likely the colour of the brief’s
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Huh. When I first got to Lemmy, I looked around for the no dumb questions community, look like it has grown a lot since then!
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Has nothing to do with the race of their wearer. The underwear itself is white.
The race specific version would be "uptighty honkies".
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They sound the same, which way is it spelled?
Edit, it's the underwear that is white in this question.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Are briefs segregated by skin color where you live ? /s
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A friend got pantsed back in middle school, revealing tighty whities and a brown stain. After that he was forever known as Skidmark Steve.
Oof. That's unfortunate
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*snugly. Snuggly is something different.
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They sound the same, which way is it spelled?
Edit, it's the underwear that is white in this question.
If it is tight, then you bought the wrong size.
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Tighty whities
Cause they are tight fitting and white.
If it is tight fitting, then you bought the wrong size.
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If it is tight fitting, then you bought the wrong size.
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If it is tight fitting, then you bought the wrong size.
They fit relatively tightly compared to boxers, even when the right size.
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"white, men's briefs" would indeed work.
Or "men's white briefs".
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Is that manatee in your pants or are you REALLY happy to see me?
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If it is tight, then you bought the wrong size.
Does that change the name?
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If it is tight fitting, then you bought the wrong size.
Why do you keep posting this?
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Or "men's white briefs".
You racist f—!
/s
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*snugly. Snuggly is something different.
i said what i said... lol...i'm going to leave it anyway
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They sound the same, which way is it spelled?
Edit, it's the underwear that is white in this question.
Hell son, they sure ain't tidy I'll tell you that.
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They sound the same, which way is it spelled?
Edit, it's the underwear that is white in this question.
I've always known these as the tighty whities.
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They sound the same, which way is it spelled?
Edit, it's the underwear that is white in this question.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Tighty white supremacy
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I actually read it that way and thought it was an odd choice to highlight that.
It didn't occur to me that that might not be what they meant until I read your comment.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Technically that is what they wrote since they forgot the comma. "white, men's briefs" is a list of adjectives describing briefs, the noun. "White men's briefs" makes "white" the adjective describing the men who own the briefs
Men's vs. mens was also an issue that added ambiguity
