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
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.
Sisqo’s “Thong Song” is more or less two decades old so I guess you’re old!
