# Didn't need -- or WANT -- to see your thong, thanks! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308 "2003-03-01T03:26:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/1 "2003-03-01T03:26:50Z")
I’m not having a good night… my wife is recovering from outpatient surgery, my teeth need work, and my kids are driving me slightly up a wall. We went to the store to get some supplies for the coming weekend. Near the dairy section, I spot her. She looks like Britney Spears, only about 35 or 40. Normally I think older women (I’m 30) are rather attractive, but this little walking middle-age crisis had on enough makeup to play Cleopatra, a half-shirt that really didn’t suit her one bit, and jeans that were far too tight. Then, to cap it off, she bends over to retrieve something on a bottom shelf, her tight jeans slip down, and I can see quite clearly that she’s wearing a lacy white thong. _Eeeeeewwwww…_ First of all, I think thong underwear is kind of gross in the first place. It looks unattractive on most people, and it just looks… _uncomfortable_. It makes me squirm, honestly, and I’m not a squeamish guy in general. But on this woman it just looked especially nasty. She was no prize herself, and she was obviously looking for attention. Not from me specifically, I’m sure… just from anyone who’d give it to her. In style, dress, and behavior, I dub her **attention whore**. Have a nice night, lady… I’ll be in the back, puking at the sight of you. ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/2 "2003-03-01T06:18:07Z")
Could you come give that speech at my school? Please? ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/3 "2003-03-01T06:42:45Z")
You said it, **Lynne\_kilii**! At my high school, I see about ten or eleven thongs a day. Some girls even sag their jeans to show off their thongs; I hope butt cleavage isn’t on its way in as far as trends go. It is bad enough that guys show off their underwear, must girls do it, too? Believe me, **Avalonian** , it is just as disgusting when the females in question are 17 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/4 "2003-03-01T06:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HoldenCaulfield \* > \*\*Believe me, **Avalonian** , it is just as disgusting when the females in question are 17 years old. \*\* Aye, I believe it. This… _thing_ at the grocery store just had the whole disgusting package going, you know? But yeah… any girl/woman (or boy/man for that matter) going attention-hunting is just nasty in most cases. ---
**Author:** ![Alexxandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@Alexxandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alexxandra)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/5 "2003-03-01T07:04:15Z")
One of my friends is an attention whore. She wears the lowest rise jeans possible, and finds reasons to bend over a lot, exposing her thong. She also takes 2-3 hours to get ready to go out, and she’s always dressed sexy and looks fantastic. Men are helpless under her power, I’ve seen it for myself. She really is a sweet girl, but I don’t need to see her underwear all the time. ---
**Author:** ![kp\_72110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/6 "2003-03-01T12:05:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HoldenCaulfield \* > > Believe me, **Avalonian** , it is just as disgusting when the females in question are 17 years old. \*\* Just so we’re all on the same page, perhaps some photos of the offending parties would be in order? (18 or older only) Oh the humanity! ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/7 "2003-03-01T12:31:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynne\_kilii \* > \*\*Could you come give that speech at my school? Please? \*\* I’d be happy to come inspect the disgraceful thongs and preach against the rampant sexuality. Rally the underwear! I want the forces of evil on full display for my crusade. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/8 "2003-03-01T12:36:04Z")
Somehow I think that if the “offender” was attractive we wouldn’t be seeing this thread. In fact, Im pretty certain of that. Why don’t we just re-title the thread “Damn you ugly lady stay at home with a bag on your head!”? ---
**Author:** ![kp\_72110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/9 "2003-03-01T12:39:50Z")
Oh wait, they’re busy in Iraq. I think we should form a team of inspectors to get to the “bottom” of this! ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/10 "2003-03-01T14:09:48Z")
some words of wisdom. hipster thongs. comfy and invisble, the tiniest underwear known to man. ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/11 "2003-03-01T15:53:09Z")
> [@](#): > > **pezpunk** Somehow I think that if the “offender” was attractive we wouldn’t be seeing this thread. In fact, Im pretty certain of that. Why don’t we just re-title the thread “Damn you ugly lady stay at home with a bag on your head!”? nope. plenty of attractive girls at my school run around more than half naked. It just gets irritating after a while. It’s not a matter of attractiveness, but of self-respect, and respect for my eyes. if I’m wearing a thong (which I often do) I’ll wear a long enough shirt, or keep my pants pulled up enough so that you don’t see it. > [@](#): > > **waverly** I’d be happy to come inspect the disgraceful thongs and preach against the rampant sexuality. Rally the underwear! I want the forces of evil on full display for my crusade. Funny, so I guess I’ll leave it at that and not be bitchy. But suffice it to say that’s not what I meant. Underwear and sex are fine, I just don’t want to see either. (BTW, how do you do “originally posted by”?) ---
**Author:** ![Wabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/12 "2003-03-01T16:14:06Z")
Heh–who knew that ‘plumber chique’ would ever be hip. As for underwear I don’t know squat about women’s undergarments but for men it’s boxers baybee. Everything else seems designed to crush the family jewels and lord knows we can’t have that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/13 "2003-03-01T16:24:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynne\_kilii \* > \*\* > (BTW, how do you do “originally posted by”?) \*\* Use the _Quote_ button at the bottom right of each reply. Does it automatically. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/14 "2003-03-01T16:31:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pezpunk \* > \*\*“Damn you ugly lady stay at home with a bag on your head!”? \*\* Sounds like a plan! ---
**Author:** ![Read\_Neck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Read\_Neck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Read_Neck)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/15 "2003-03-01T17:02:03Z")
I just had a mental picture of a 40 yr old Britney Spears. Can blindness caused by a mental image be permanent? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/16 "2003-03-01T17:48:01Z")
thong tha-thong thong thong! (sorry, somebody had to do it) I overheard two colleagues talking about how annoying it is when you can see the tops of people’s thongs. The next day, I happened to see one of those girls bend over and VIOLA. Big ole thong! I don’t think a lot of thong-wearers know their thongs are showing. Some–probably many–do, but then there’s a clueless contigent who know not what they do. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/17 "2003-03-01T17:48:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Use the _Quote_ button at the bottom right of each reply. Does it automatically. \*\* So THATS how you do it! I always just assumed that everyone coded the “originally posted by…” part themselves. Thats what I always did :smack: And about the thong thing - I’m a girl, and I occasionally wear thongs. I make sure that my thongs are NOT visible to others. I don’t care if the person in question is a pretty 18-year-old or a fat ugly 40-year-old, I don not want to see a piece of string riding up their ass crack. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/18 "2003-03-01T18:01:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Read\_Neck \* > \*\*I just had a mental picture of a 40 yr old Britney Spears. Can blindness caused by a mental image be permanent? \*\* Bingo! Just imagine what it was like to be there… or don’t. Blech. **pezpunk** , I can only say that you’re wrong. It wasn’t even that she was ugly… without the makeup and the half-shirt and the tight jeans (and I didn’t even mention the bleach-blonde frizzy hair) she may have been pretty, but it was difficult (read: next to impossible) to tell through all the layers. My main reason for posting this was the thing that put it over the top for me: the thong put on display. Or as **roadkiller** said: > [@](#): > > **I don’t care if the person in question is a pretty 18-year-old or a fat ugly 40-year-old, I don not want to see a piece of string riding up their ass crack.** Yeah, that pretty much summed it up for me. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/19 "2003-03-01T18:04:34Z")
pexpunk - Count me in as one guy who doesn’t find low rise jeans and thongs attractive… no matter who’s wearing them. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308/20 "2003-03-01T18:13:12Z")
Yeah, I have to agree with **monstro** about some folks just not knowing their undies are on display. I mean, drawers with a seat to them tend to move in the same way your pants do, so if the pants ride down, the panties usually ride down. Thongs are a whole different critter. They’re either totally immobile, or they’re moving _up_ when you bend over. (ow, ow, ow!) Even non-lowrises can show your butt-floss in that situation. People just tend not to think about their underwear all day, so they inadvertently put on a show for all of us who don’t want to see it. Personally, I have a much bigger problem with women who wear pants that ride so low that you can’t help hoping they waxed, or in some cases you can see the _front_ of their underpants. _Eeeeewwwwww!!!_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-need-or-want-to-see-your-thong-thanks/158308.md?page=2)