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White pants anyone?

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  • #32
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Was hoping to never have to post this again, however...

    f88c65ed02092b8966b87f58ab9c1a31.jpg


  • #33
    MrMiata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭MrMiata


    I've seen them on lads my age (22), usually after Love Island finishes up.
    The only people who can pull them off are tanned people on their holidays in hot countries.. Ireland on it's one good weekend doesn't count.


  • #34
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    who calls them pants ?
    pants are jocks !!


  • #35
    Tunsil
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭Tunsil


    connundrum wrote: »

    *please note that this post took 15 minutes to write, I had to stop midway for a dump. I feel it added extra emotion to the whole episode :(

    Seems like a good reason to steer clear of white pants.


  • #36
    shockwave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭shockwave


    syngindub wrote: »
    who calls them pants ?
    pants are jocks !!

    No they're not only people in the UK say that, the rest of the world pants = trousers


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  • #37
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    shockwave wrote: »
    No they're not only people in the UK say that, the rest of the world pants = trousers

    UK and Ireland, at the very least. Also remember, that most of the rest of the world doesn't speak English natively.

    Absolutely nobody in Ireland will assume "pants" = "trousers" unless they've been infected with Americanisms.


  • #38
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Apparently the Irish did indeed invent trousers...

    https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=trousers
    trousers (n.)
    "garment for men, covering the lower body and each leg separately," 1610s, earlier trouzes (1580s), extended from trouse (1570s), with plural ending typical of things in pairs, from Gaelic or Middle Irish triubhas "close-fitting shorts," of uncertain origin. Early recorded use of the word indicates the garment was regarded as Celtic: "A jellous wife was like an Irish trouze, alwayes close to a mans tayle" [1630]. The unexplained, unetymological second -r- is perhaps by influence of drawers or other words in pairs ending in -ers.


  • #39
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    White pants and Guinness don't mix.


  • #40
    maccored
    Registered Users Posts: 10,660 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/114533934#Comment_114533934

    people in the UK? I dont think ive ever heard an irish person call trousers 'pants'



  • #41
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    I have never called trousers, pants in my life

    Pants are jocks or pantaloons



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  • #42
    nick.kohl
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭nick.kohl


    I have



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