To refer casually to white men's briefs, is it Tidy Whities or Tightly Whities?
They sound the same, which way is it spelled?
Edit, it's the underwear that is white in this question.
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Tighty whities
Cause they are tight fitting and white.
And mine are never tidy 😭
Get this dude a bidet
Stenchy winchies
Yellow fellows
Itchy britchies
And in some unfortunate cases, not tidy.
If it is tight fitting, then you bought the wrong size.
They fit relatively tightly compared to boxers, even when the right size.
Tighty
The race specific version would be "uptighty honkies".
And nobody mentioned race but you...
"White men's briefs." I assume there's a term for when meaning can be misconstrued for humorous reasons like this. I think you're responding to a joke.
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.
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
OP writes «white men’s briefs» while it’s clearly about white men’s briefs
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
Damn, if only we had some sort of way to symbolize things like this. Maybe small characters we could add to sentences to, i dunno, indicate the way things are related. lol
There are like a trillion ways to word this:
Move the hypen to start trouble...
"white, men's briefs" would indeed work.
Or "men's white briefs".
You racist f—!
/s
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
Tighty whitey because they fit snuggly and they are overwhelmingly white in color...
*snugly. Snuggly is something different.
i said what i said... lol...i'm going to leave it anyway
If it is tight fitting, then you bought the wrong size.
Why do you keep posting this?
Hell son, they sure ain't tidy I'll tell you that.
Not with that attitude they aren't
Man-panties
Manties, if you will
The only danger there is someone may misunderstand and think you have a manatee in your pants.
On second thought, that’s not a danger. It’s an opportunity for hilarity.
Is that manatee in your pants or are you REALLY happy to see me?
https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions
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!
Are briefs segregated by skin color where you live ? /s
Hi diddly ho, my friendly Lemmy-writo!
This might also depend on how much you want to sound like Ned Flanders... So take your pick carefully!
Tighty white supremacy
If it is tight, then you bought the wrong size.
Does that change the name?