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[-] brokenlcd@feddit.it 54 points 5 months ago

And for the actually curious; it was originally to hold pocket watches

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I always thought it was for lighters

[-] Linnce@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago
[-] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 5 months ago
[-] Banana@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Turns out, it's for whatever you put in there

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

This is the answer... But don't tell the prudes, please.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 months ago

I was a pocket watch user in the time before we all carried phones all the time and I cursed all pants without a fob pocket in those days.

[-] Junkhead@slrpnk.net 12 points 5 months ago

its actually for your lil baggie of cocaine.

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

I was always taught it was called a ‘fob pocket’, as in a pocket for your fob watch (the old name for a pocket watch) but I only knew that because my grandfather collected fob watches. I was also taught that the little pocket near the hip of the inside of a coat is called a fob pocket for the same reason.

[-] brokenlcd@feddit.it 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not really sure about it's actual name since i'm not a native speaker; i basically shoehorned the translation

[-] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

it makes for a great card holder for metros or any situation where you need to have a card in a quickly accessable place

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

"A what watch?"

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Steve Jobs said it was for the iPod shuffle

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