• lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    The UX is onto something tho. What caused feet to become sooooooooo much more goddam popular in the last 10 years?

    Like it’s my understanding that gays grew a condom fetish after AIDS began killing everyone in the 1900s…

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      a big group of people have always liked feet. It’s one of those kinks accidentally caused by our anatomy - the nerves going out to your feet connect to the spinal cord close to the nerves going out to your genitals, and sometimes the signal travels along both lines.

      It’s such a close connection many people, myself included, can feel a particularly strong orgasm in their feet. It’s a very distinct feeling as if electricity running down through your leg, into the foot, and “climaxing” in your ring toe, making it curl and twitch a bit (i also suspect this is the exact reason why the ring toe is associated with love [though idk how farspread this factoid is]). I don’t have a foot fetish but I can definitely see how it’d be very easy to create an association between strong arousal and feet

      and per the popularity part - people are just much more open about the kinks they have. To the point where even vanilla people start getting curious about soft kinks like spanking, blindfolds, or fluffy handcuffs

    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu
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      3 months ago

      I’m bi and I don’t know anybody with a condom fetish lmaoooo. Almost everybody is on PREP now specifically so they don’t have to use condoms lol. Maybe your understanding is poisoned by the fact that you call us “the gays” and don’t actually seem to interact with any lgbt people on the regular.

  • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol
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    3 months ago

    In Hamburgerland, we have the freedom to retardedly choose to use Freedom-units ™ like feet & inches

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        3 months ago

        Throwback to when they tried introducing the third pounder and y’all complained because you thought it was smaller.

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    3 months ago

    If I were to write a programme where it would be typical to choose between units of measurement, which I’m not, the drop down menu would have a choice of “SI units” and “fuck no, you don’t get to choose!”

    • Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      For most people the imperial system is better. Fahrenheit puts 0-100 in relation to how humans feel heat, 0 is very cold, 100 is very hot, neither will kill you if you take minor precautions. Feet are the same, most everyday objects are spread across 0-10 feet long/tall. Using celsius and meters requires using a scale between -18 and 38, and a scale between 0 and 3.3. Both are clearly inferior number ranges to use when we arent required to.