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[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 90 points 4 days ago

Do you realise that cats consider themselves to be god? That's their religion. Cats are the diety.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

And God doesn't get stockings? What's even the point, then? God...

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

When did stockings go from being large wool sock like things, to being tights without a waist/crotch area?

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A "stok" or "stocc" was there lower part of a post or tree trunk in middle/old English. It became the name for any close-fitting garment that covered the foot and lower leg (stok of a person). So really it's not that the name went from being one thing to being another, it's that both the things you mention fit the definition.

The other part of the answer to your question is the development of knitting machines able to create stockings from fine cotton or silk thread made the second type of thing more attainable.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

No, the gods get cream and salmon on holidays

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

A cream sauce, or just straight milk fat?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

straight milk fat the gods enjoy diarrhea

this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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