Deep Question for the Day

[exhumite]

Which side of your socks gets dirtier? The inside or the outside?

Which is to say, should you wash them inside out, or outside in?

Discuss.

Comments

[mightyodinn]

Depends on how dirty your shoes are?

[exhumite]

Which raises the question, how frequently do people wash their shoes? Me? Never. I dont know how. I considered washing my house slippers in the machine a couple times, but then they rotted off before i got the chance.

[yrcomplacency]

Wash em once right side out, then flip em and wash again. I mean, if you really wanna be sure.

I just wash em right side out, cos the outsides get dirtier for me. Damn hardwood.

[exhumite]

Hmm...im positing as more of an abstract. Really probing the premise...which part are we trying to get off? The shoe dander, or the foot funk? Of course, when i phrase it like that, the answer seems obvious...but what of the dangers of cumulative shoe dander to foot funk transmission!

[yrcomplacency]

My main concern is hair. Human or cat. I don't have all that much foot funk (since ditching steel toes, at any rate), but my flat is a no shoes flat, so everything sticks to socks. Human hair, SNAKE SCALES (omg she's worse than a white cat I swear) and all that jazz has got to be taken off in the wash.

Outside out FTW!

[auraphage]

I feel you're sidestepping the real issue at hand, which is the macaroni & cheese issue. To wit, the superiority or inferiority of macaroni & cheese with crunchy bread crumbs, and which type we are going to make when we hang out in L.A.

As for this straw man sock issue, I'd have to undoubtedly say the outside... though I guess it depends whether or not you walk around in your socks a lot. Are you trying to create a cultural wedge issue?

[exhumite]

Mmmhmm....mmmhmmm....hmmm...

Epic.

Well, for certain we wont be taking the Kraft Cheesey Mac path...that would be silly. I feel rather silly for bringing it up. Sidestep.

While both macs sing the song of our respective hearts...perhaps there is a divide, a compromise? There's a word in another language that means compromise, but where both sides come out ahead...why dont we have that word? That's the one i want to use.

Let us take this moment and grasp it by the short hairs and say to it "hey, you, what's yoru recipe?" and from there, we shall rise like the phoenix.

As for the sock issue, as stated in comments above, i'm approaching the sock premise purely abstractly.

It also may just be me taking the long way round asking how to clean ones shoes. Fire? Bleach? Muriatic Acid? I'm clueless. My house slippers suffer.

[auraphage]

I believe the word you're looking for is hakuna matata.

[exhumite]

What a wonderful phrase!

[iamwells]

This is a trick question because inside out and outside in would both be the same state as far as socks are concerned, both being a state of reversal from their norm.

Some talc is good for the inside of a shoe.

[auraphage]

Good point. I think that proves you are the genius in this particular comment thread. Give this man something... a keychain or beer.

[iamwells]

Keychain! Please keychain!

[exhumite]

Okay okay...i think i can manage that. Bottle opener or something stupid? Or maybe something incredibly practical?

[army_kitten]

if the inside of your socks gets dirty, that simply means you need to wash your feet.