• @[email protected]
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    3410 months ago

    Let me help you younguns. Its a watch pocket. Back in the day when jeans were invented men had pocket watches,

      • @[email protected]
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        2310 months ago

        No, but I’m old enough to remember my granddad called it and have the railroad watch he used to carry there. He was an engineer and the trains ran on time. Interesting how long the design lasted.

        • LifeBandit666
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          510 months ago

          I read somewhere that Trains was the reason time ran on time.

          As in, before trains “Mid-day” was a different time wherever you went, it was just the time that the church rang the bell. Sure it was around midday because the sun was up there right at the top, but it wasn’t exactly midday.

          Then the trains came along and they had timetables. To start with they could leave one station a quarter past twelve and arrive at the next one at 5 to twelve, so they had to synchronise the time over the whole line, so that’s why time runs on time.

  • @[email protected]
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    1810 months ago

    It’s a watch pocket; in case anybody was wondering the actual answer. Pocket… watch… watch pocket…

  • @[email protected]
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    1410 months ago

    In Germany we need coins to unlock supermarket carts, so I use the coin pocket for it’s intended purpose to house my one coin.

    • Scribbd
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      810 months ago

      I thought it was meant to be a pocket watch pocket?

      Now I store my plastic cards in there.

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        Pretty sure it started as a watch pocket.

        It turned into a “coin” pocket when pocket watches went out of fashion and people didn’t know what else to use them for.

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      How does that fit in there? I feel like whenever my pants have a coin pocket, they can only fit a singular penny or one stamp. I could probably also put a singular earbud in there, but imagining the entire case in there is wild to me.

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        110 months ago

        My Guess jeans can actually fit an entire Leatherman multitool in that ‘tiny’ pocket. I think that’s pretty damn cool, 10/10 would recommend Guess jeans. 👍

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    910 months ago

    Image Transcription:

    Text at the top reads: what is that small jean pocket actually for The first image shows a hand pointing downwards and to the right and the text underneath “a safe place for my finger to hide”, the finger has a label reading “he is so nervous” The second image shows a ravioli square and the text “ravioli” underneath The third image shows a naked, balding grey-haired man with a mustache, waving and smiling from his place inside the aforementioned pocket and the text “a home for kevin”

    [I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

  • @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    In literally every pair of pants I have, I use that to store a hair elastic or two. Then whenever I need my hair up (eg, eating and hair would get in the way), I have one easily on hand.

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      110 months ago

      Watch out with that, I did it for years but eventually had to stop because I got sore skin from the gasoline in the Zippo. And I quit smoking so didn’t need it any more 🙂