Hmmm there are quite a few of these… Ok these are UK/us mostly.
America: fanny - backside
UK: fanny - the other side (!)
America: rubber - condom
UK: rubber - something you use to erase pencil marks.
UK and others: Durex - Condom brand
Others: Durex - sticky tape
US: Suspenders - things for holding trousers up
UK: Suspenders - things for holding stockings up. Used with a suspender belt and with, or without, other underwear…
USA: Pants - leg coverings e.g. blue jeans
Most of the UK: Pants - things you wear under your blue jeans (unless ”going commando”)
What do they call “fanny packs” in the UK? Vagina pouches?
Bum bags.
…but nobody wears them since a very brief stint in the 80s.
Oh, they’re coming round in popularity, particularly among Gen Z.
When you were a kid thongs were footwear and underwear, as well as the material for fastening the lash of a whip. You just used one definition.
Australia: Kids wear thongs.
The US: Kids root for something.
Swap the country, and it gets super creepy.
You’re supposed to wear them on your feet???
Only if you’re feeling hot
Sisqo’s “Thong Song” is more or less two decades old so I guess you’re old!
They are in Australia, they’re a sandal-type footwear
I always assumed you called them thongs because the bit that goes between your toes looks like the underwear going up a butt-crack.
You got it backwards. Think about it. Beachwear has been a thing since around 1900, while visible underwear wasn’t a thing until recently.
Easy way to remember is to think that necrosis usually starts at the extremities.
