• TeaHands@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Came into this thread wondering “who the hell wears belts?”. Then saw everyone in here was taking belt wearage as a given. Then looked over at my husband and saw he’s wearing a belt.

    TIL, all men apparently wear belts and I just never noticed before.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Men’s pants can be a lot more loose around the waist and we typically have no butt to hold things up.

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          You know, in my jealousy about the capacious pockets in men’s pants, I never thought about how they must weigh the pants down when they’re full of keys and wallet and phone and tampons and condoms and stuff. No wonder y’all need belts!

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            Yarp. I have a pair of shorts I wear around the house, no belt no problem. The moment I put anything in a pocket, though? They’ll be 'round my knees if I don’t watch out!

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      Not just men, I’m a woman and I wear a belt regularly. It keeps my pants from drooping because I’m thin with wide hips.

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      You have probably noticed but never appreciated that men don’t usually have big hips to keep our pants up (or more specifically our waists and hips tend to be very close to the same size). Some men do, but even well fitting pants slide down on me without a belt. My wife is always amazed when we take our measurements and the hip to waist ratio is so wildly different. She’s like “I knew women’s hips were bigger but Jesus Christ”.

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        I mean I’m trans and even though I have massive hips to keep my pants on, wearing a belt still helps me pass better since they’re so ubiquitous

  • Faust223@lemmy.world
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    If you wash your belt you lose all your jiu-jitsu knowledge and have to start from white again. Everyone knows this.

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    1 year ago

    Here’s me running ass naked after pooping to wash my hands before pulling up my pants

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    Wash your hands in the bathroom, nobody bats an eye.

    Scrub down your belt buckle in the sink and people lose their minds!

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    Jokes on you, I wash my belt all the time!

    …which is definitely not because I leave it on my pants and forget to take it off before I throw them in the laundry.

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      There’s not much of a risk of getting sick by your own germs, relatively speaking. I think the primary reason for washing your hands after using the restroom is that it’s gross and you want to get it off your hands before having contact with others. That, and you ought to wash your hands for health reasons at some point anyways, so you might as well do it then. So I guess unless you’re going to be touching your belt much throughout the day, it should be fine.

      Just don’t touch anyone else’s belt.

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        Lots of food borne illnesses are spread through poop. I think it’s the most common form of food borne illnesses from restaurants, at least it was 8 years ago when I did a servsafe course.

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          Well, you wash your hands before cooking, so don’t touch your belt then either.

          Also, thanks for the information. I didn’t consider that.