This was sick....

[Maggi]

oh ... you mean tanga underwear or a string panty ?

my first thought was something like a vibrator ...

Thanx for insight, Greg !

[magog]

Hi Maggi!

Originally posted by Maggi
oh ... you mean tanga underwear or a string panty ?
my first thought was something like a vibrator ...

ROTFL
For questions like your one try this link:

http://dict.leo.org/?search=thong&searchLoc=0&relink=on&spellToler=standard&sectHdr=on&tableBorder=1&cmpType=relaxed&lang=en

[Maggi]

Well, I tried

http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html

and they translated "thong" as "Zapfen" ...

hence my association to a vibrator

btw, translating "Zapfen" back to English, using the same link I posted above, resulted in "tap", go figure

[agallag]

Alternate translations of "thong" include "G-String", "Butt Floss", or my favourite "Not for old fat italian men on the beach"

[Gurm]

A thong is a pair of underwear (USUALLY for women) which consists of a fairly brief panel in front, and a thinner strip of material in the back, which... for lack of a better way to describe it, generally comes to reside between the butt cheeks.

A G-String, on the other hand, is string all the way around, with nothing but a small triangle of material in the front - even skimpier than a thong.

Yeah, I'm a dork for knowing all of this, right? Or a perv? Whatever. Either way, it's mostly inappropriate for ANYONE to wear one of these things, ESPECIALLY young girls.

And I agree - it's pointless to try to pick an age after which it's appropriate. If you're a grown-up and you want to wear slutty underwear, that's fine. It's NEVER fine to show off that slutty underwear (as is the trend now... to hike up the top of the thong ABOVE the waistline of the pants so that EVERYONE KNOWS that you're wearing a thong) in public.

Now, what you want to do in the privacy of your own home with your significant other... that's another story entirely.

- Gurm

[Muad'Dib]

I can understand wearing them when you're wearing somewhat tighter clothing because apperantly women don't like people to see the line of their underwear - at least this is what my woman tells me - but it is HIGHLY inappropriate for children.

I think the age when it becomes appropriate is at the point when the girl/woman is no longer dependant on the parents. I like to think that if you're livin at home, plain and simple, you're parents still can exert a level of control. Unless the parents themselves are total sluts, then they should not allow it. However I realize that probably the parents themselves are ****ed up.

I would actually like to hear some opinions from the women about what THEY feel appropriate ages are. Maybe there is some strange reason that a parent would let their kid wear that stuff (slutty aside) that we men don't understand!?!

However showing it off by hicking the things up like Gurm mentioned or any other means is just plain wrong to do to the public in my not so humble opinion!

[Wulfman]

Originally posted by Gurm
. Either way, it's mostly inappropriate for ANYONE to wear one of these things, ESPECIALLY young girls.

It's NEVER fine to show off that slutty underwear (as is the trend now... to hike up the top of the thong ABOVE the waistline of the pants so that EVERYONE KNOWS that you're wearing a thong) in public.

I assume now that we are talking about underwear, not beach fashion here.

I have to object and defend several friends of mine (late teens ++). what do you want to hide? it's UNDERWEAR, you usually wear something above it. if parts of it are shown - so what? you also see the straps of a bra quite often...

and why do you seem to connect a thong with slutty? sorry, but just because some people are wearing / have worn this kind of underwear who are/were like that... that's no reason - just a generalisation.

but I agree - girls should be above a certain age!

lipstick, bikinis - there were always some people who got offended.

mfg
wulfman

[edit] shortened the quote to make clear to what passages I was referring.

[KvHagedorn]

Well.. I was basically referring to the t-shirts that said "I'm a slut and damn proud to be one!" or whatever such nonsense.

If a thong is worn to prevent panty lines, maybe the pants are too tight in the first place? 6yos with camel toes hanging out are asking for it too. If it really is just underwear, what's the difference? If that's the case why not dress them in normal panties? Does daddy want his little girl to wear a thong under her skirt so he can feel up her butt when he picks her up? I don't really wanna know.. :x

[Muad'Dib]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
6yos with camel toes hanging out are asking for it too. If it really is just underwear, what's the difference? If that's the case why not dress them in normal panties? Does daddy want his little girl to wear a thong under her skirt so he can feel up her butt when he picks her up? I don't really wanna know.. :x

That just makes me wanna puke man!

But I agree with you. A lot of the pants are too tight to begin with, and 6 year olds should under no circumstances be allowed to wear them.

[az]

Actually, a thong is not as unpleasant to wear as one might believe..

(OK, some female friends of mine got me one for my 18th birthday, OK?)

They're not exactly the height of comfort either, though. And they're really usually worn because they're sexy, IMHO.

I think it's OK to wear whatever you want (including nothing, but that's just me) in public if you know what you're doing, and a preteen girl simply CANNOT know. Parents <s>do</s> should know and should buy their children decent clothes until they are old enough to decide themselves (16-18 yrs, though you can of course not generalize this).

AZ

[Byock]

WTF? People have no morals at all anymore.

[RhinoZ]

Do you know what gets me... why does society want our kids to act so grown up? And at such a young age?
I'm stuck, I really don't have an answer. But stuff like this just makes you wonder what they might do next.

[Gurm]

Wulfman,

I have to say a couple of things.

1. Thongs do little in the way of what underwear is traditionally supposed to do - vis a vis COVERING the private parts. This is the objection to young girls and string bikinis as well. Nobody under a certain age (and I personally feel that age is well into the late teens) should be "advertising" their privates. I'm not suggesting that we cover our daughters in a burlap sack. But no, no 10 year old NEEDS to wear makeup, and no 12-year-old should be wearing a string bikini on the beach. I'm sorry.

2. Showing off your underwear is tacky and trashy... and slutty. I don't care if it's the current fashion trend. It makes you look like a whore. "Lookit me! I don't have anything covering my ass! LOOK AT MY ASS!" C'mon. It's just crude and draws unwanted attention. Maybe the attention isn't that unwanted, but I bet that they're NOT looking for the kind of attention they're going to get.

- Gurm

[Wulfman]

Originally posted by Gurm
Nobody under a certain age (and I personally feel that age is well into the late teens) should be "advertising" their privates. I'm not suggesting that we cover our daughters in a burlap sack. But no, no 10 year old NEEDS to wear makeup, and no 12-year-old should be wearing a string bikini on the beach. I'm sorry.

I agree, thongs/strings are nothing for people at the age you mention here.

1. Thongs do little in the way of what underwear is traditionally supposed to do - vis a vis COVERING the private parts.

are you trying to tell me that you feel better if you know that the buttocks of a woman are covered by 2 layers of cloth instead of one? again, talking about underwear here, not about bathing clothes.

2. Showing off your underwear is tacky and trashy... and slutty. I don't care if it's the current fashion trend. It makes you look like a whore. "Lookit me! I don't have anything covering my ass! LOOK AT MY ASS!" C'mon. It's just crude and draws unwanted attention. Maybe the attention isn't that unwanted, but I bet that they're NOT looking for the kind of attention they're going to get.

so does that make a skater (ya know what I mean ) whose boxer shorts are showing a slutty person?

what you think if you see someone like that is, to be honest, your "problem" and not the womans one.

mfg
wulfman

[Gurm]

When I see a "skater" whose boxer shorts are showing, yeah I think they're a trashy person. Sorry.

And the current trend is for both men AND women to pull their underwear up over the tops of their trousers... it's trashy for both.

It's not that I feel that a woman's ass should be covered by anything in particular (*evil grin*), but rather that if you're going to wear underwear at all...

It's like people who go into a coffee shop, and order a cappucino made with decaffeinated espresso and fat-free milk... and then add nutrasweet to it. I say "why bother"?

- Gurm