Why Do Socks Disappear In Thailand?

[joe strummer]

Dualist and nondualist explanations welcomed!

I do believe that the manufacturers embed something in the sock's fibers that cause them to attempt to get away from one another. It is like when you turn a magnet around, and it repels, rather than attracts.

The purpose of this manufacturing technique is to enable the makers of the socks to create an open ended market for their products, obliging people to purchase more and more socks.

If one is REALLY clever, you can avoid this shameless ploy of excessive consumerism. BUY ALL THE SAME SOCKS. There are certain downsides to this strategy, like having your white cotton athletic socks seen under the hem of your slacks or pants, but that is a small price to pay for intelligent frugality!

[Thetyim]

I think it is a conspiracy between the sock makers and the washing machine manufacturers.

My machine obviously has a small waste disposal attachment that shreds every sock to tiny fibres and then silently flushes them down the drain.

I will write to my MP and complain.

[Lourens]

Socks are a conspiricy by the establishment to frustrate the masses into submission. I walked in the field the other day and came upon a heap of socks of which none matched the other. There is no "Big Sock Drawer in the Sky" as Garry Larson suggested but each government has a Department of Inland Hosery who's job it is to institute measures set up by the Illuminati to make socks vanish by evil and mysterious means. One day this will be proven and all the sock manufacturers will go out of business and weaken the world economy to such an extend that matched pairs of socks will replace gold as the major world currency.

(I have too much time to think about these things )

[SK1972]

Funny........mine has never disappeared unless they drop from the balcony when the maid is doing the laundry!!! Maybe it only has to do with male socks?

[Explorer]

Why do socks Disappear in Thailand?

Don't know about you guys but in my case it got alot to do with my dog.

Explorer

[dugdig]

Male socks? How do you tell? Look beween.....wait a minute....they don't have....

[astral]

I recommend practicing Safe Sox.

[p1p]

What is a sock?

[mbkudu]

When there is no water or toilet paper around they come in handy, at least one of them does, but then once one is gone the other isn't much use.

[Lung Ling]

Wore them exactly one time during the whole six months I was in Thailand recently, so I didn't experience this vexing problem. Stateside, I blame the Bush administration for it.

[toastwars]

The thais use them to keep their mobile phones in!

[mbkudu]

Never buy socks in Patpong unless you like them with holes.

[Gazza]

Sorry, but there's three things I don't like to discuss; Religion, Politics and Sox.

[TizMe]

I have 5 unpaired socks in my sock drawer. My son has 5 unpaired socks in his drawer that look just the same. Coincidence, or what?

[toklong]

Disappearing socks? I'd check out the guy making ice coffee down the street.

[Thetyim]

Thanks Toklong, I now have a good use for all my odd socks

[muenwai2]

I don't believe this problem is restricted to Thailand.

Call me paranoid but I believe there exists an international conspiracy and somewhere in the Nevada desert there is a secret warehouse full of unmatched socks. Nothing is allowed to exist within a 20 mile radius (mind you the smell would be enough to keep any living thing away).

There is a cover up (except for feet).

Or maybe they are sold on and the odour extracted and used in the Thai counterfeit perfume industry.

Actually I think my wife sells them to the neighbours to enhance their cooking judging by the smells that sometimes waft on the evening breeze. I need to point out the neighbours are Chinese not Thai so as not to offend those farangs who insist Thai food is wonderful.

Anyway enough for now -I'll put a sock in it - if I can find one.

[Thetyim]

Maybe there is a secret organisation that comes and steals your socks and then delivers them to the north pole and then Father Christmas

gives them all back again.

[muenwai2]

Now we're getting silly. Father Christmas doesn't exist.

[toastwars]

Now we're getting silly. Father Christmas doesn't exist.

What?

[Gazza]

Never buy socks in Patpong unless you like them with holes.

But they've all got holes in them. It's where you put your foot into them to put them on.

I nearly bought a pair from Patpong but the girl was still wearing them. She had holes though.

[PeaceBlondie]

It's an alien conspiracy. Once you wear a sock, it activates the alien fertilized egg that are imbedded between the fibers, and the alien eats the fibers in its pupa stage.

Half the people you've ever met (or had sex with) were once foot ova.

[Phil Conners]

It's the sockmonster eating them, that's what sockmonsters do.

What do you need socks and shoes for in Thailand anyway?

[Thetyim]

Father Christmas is the sock monster, you silly boy

[Simbo]

My socks all have spuds in em.

[RDN]

Last time I wore socks was 25 months ago after getting off the plane and going to the hotel. They're in the "doo" somewhere. I think.

[joe strummer]

Socks disappear. It's a fact of life. Men lose socks, women lose socks. Women lose men's socks, men lose women's socks. Do statisticians know whether or not right socks really do disappear more often than left?

With pantyhose it's different. You can't lose one leg of a "pair" of pantyhose, the waistband serves much like the plastic ring. There is still a need to match their tennis and knee-high socks, so there is the potential women's need for these rings. There isn't too much need for these rings with sexy decorated nylons, since it is unlikely the woman would own two similar pairs.

Is it legal and moral to marry two male socks or two female socks? Well, probably not on those terms. If you think instead of two men's socks or two women's socks, the same-gender issue is less of an issue. Yes, I know that's really reaching, but this whole concept is a stretch of a perverse imagination don't you think.

[cojones]

The answer is , girls taken back home for the night swipe a sock or 2 to use as panty liners .

[muenwai2]

Ravisher,

How can you tell the difference between left and right socks? I randomly swap the socks over to equalise wear and reduce risk of holes because for some reason my right big toenail grows at a faster rate than the left.

Who is this "agent" they put in the fibres. Someone like James Bond, you mean, with a licence to smell.

What is really sinister is that sometimes, maybe 6 months later, the sock reappears. Maybe it escaped from wherever it was incacerated after pining for it's partner and like some dogs, by some instinct, found it's way home. Dogs smell too. Maybe there is connecion here.

Or maybe they are beamed up into a UFO, the aliens assuming socks to be he highest level of life form and after months of fiendish experimentation are returned to whence they came.

A previous correspondent asked why we need socks and shoes in Thailand.

I ask him wouldn't it look rather silly walking in you 3 piece pure italian merino wool suit, cashmere overcoat and hat set at a jaunty angle without shoes and socks. You would attract unwelcome attention.

[Thetyim]

"I ask him wouldn't it look rather silly walking in you 3 piece pure italian merino wool suit, cashmere overcoat and hat set at a jaunty angle without shoes and socks."

Most Thais would wear green flipflops with that lot