Zettai ryΕiki, the absolute territory, is the area between skirt and over the knee socks
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As a normal person i am almost too afraid to ask, but why are stockings associated with programming?
I don't think they are (strictly associated with programming itself I mean) personally, but recently there's definitely been this trend of Linux/unix people posting images of their computers and their legs with stockings, usually striped. I dunno. It's a meme.
It started with Amazon making a shot in the dark recommendation to add high socks to a c programming book.
It stuck because there's a (perceived) high prevalence of trans women in high-skill IT professions and hobbies.
I think you're forgetting femboys.
And catboys
I mean... It's been a thing in transfem circles since ~2015, where femboy didn't gain much mainstream relevance until ~2021. So yeah, it likely did stick because of transfems in IT as a profession/hobby
In turn Iβm almost afraid to ask, are you implying that people that wear high socks arenβt normal?
Iβm kinda hoping itβs just a thoughtless expression on your part which Iβd totally understand.
TBF, as someone who frequently wears high socks and stockings as part of my regular attire, I don't think they're particularly normal. In order to even be able to see that a person is wearing thigh highs as opposed to tights, it's necessary to wear a fairly short skirt or shorts, which may not be appropriate in many contexts β and if they're worn with an outfit where you can't see that you're wearing thigh highs, then wearing tights appears to be the more practical options.
Plus I have known a lot of people who wanted to be the kind of person who wore thigh-highs, but became impatient with them frequently rolling down. Wearing a suspender belt is a good solution for this, but it's surprisingly hard to find ones with clips that are robust enough to be useful and not excessively fiddly β most people I have known who have experience with suspender belts know them only as an inconvenient but sexy piece of lingerie, rather than a pragmatic undergarment (which can also be sexy, but they actually exist to serve a function rather than their entire purpose being the sexiness)
So yeah, I would say that people who wear high socks aren't normal. But I certainly don't see that as a bad thing β in fact, seeing someone wearing thigh high socks immediately makes them more attractive to me (as a friend or otherwise)
Yes, absolutely. Entirely off the rails, alien, utterly incomprehensible.
Well the feeling is mutual then. I canβt imagine holding such archaic viewpoints circa 2026. Have a good one.
I own a lot of stockings as part of my regular daily attire (they're so awesome! They're like tights, except you don't have to do the weird tights-dance every time you go for a pee, and if one of them gets a hole, you can just throw away the one stocking instead of the entire pair of tights!). However, if I'm doing programming, I'm probably at home, and in lounge wear.
I always found the "programming socks" quite funny, so one day, I decided I wanted to be even more in on the joke, so I deliberately wore some of my fancy thigh highs when sitting down to write some code. I ended up having a tremendously productive session, and it made the socks feel like magic. It was likely just that I was just having a serendipitous day where my brain decided it wanted to get shit done, but still, the prospect that they had actually helped was pretty humorous to entertain.
Because of this, I wore them again the next time I wanted to have an extended, focussed session of coding. And then the time after that. And again and again until eventually, I had created a self-fulfilling prophecy of programming socks increasing my productivity β I came to associate them with the headspace of productive focus, and so now whenever I wear them while sitting at my desk, my brain goes "oh damn, we programming now β best lock in".
I am extremely happy to have stumbled into this outcome, because it is both useful and hilarious
fuck yeah garters. not a sexual thing, a "finally these things fit right" thing
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OH!!!
So that is why I suck at programming.
All these years struggling,
Because I skipped the first step.
Man, I have no idea what this means.
I AM getting old
It's a reference to the phenomenon of "programming socks", which is the meme phenomenon of knee high socks being associated with programmers. I think the association stems from the disproportionately high number of trans women and gender non-conforming men (such as femboys) in programming.
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