@Hood1@Kyeh the thing about shirt pockets is they’re useless. Anything you put in them, the moment you bend slightly they all fall out.
I have a few shirts with pockets that other people have bought me as gifts, but I won’t buy them myself as I personally think they look a bit scruffy. (Or at least not as classy/flattering). Also seems very 20th Century.
@OnionSoup Shirt pockets can be useful if the pocket is deep enough and the shirt isn’t a knit. But a pocket on a knit shirt is inevitably next to useless, seldom deep enough to hold what I would want to use it for, and never easy to clip a screwdriver into.
@OnionSoup@werehatrack Most of my shirts that have pockets are flannel (or similar) and the pocket often has a button, which helps keep things in it.
Misc items commonly kept in my shirt pocket: a paper list or receipt, a floss/pick, a cough lozenge (in wrapper), work ID badge, etc.
@macromeh@OnionSoup@werehatrack I found a shirt pocket to be very useful 20 some years ago when I was handed a 10 day old kitten (who died a few years ago at 3 weeks shy of 20) who needed bottle fed. She lived in my pocket to keep her warm.
@Hood1
I really just want them in my work shirts both to clip my pen onto and to hold the [legally mandated] magnetically attached name tag issued by my employer.
Other than that, they’re pretty much as useless as teats on a boar. [or whatever metaphor or simile you can come up with…]
Some other options:
As useless as tits on a nun
As useless as tits on a bull
As worthless as tits on a combine
As useless as a chocolate teapot
As useless as an ashtray on a motorbike
As useless as the Pope’s penis
As useless as an elephant in a mine field
As useless as a screen door on a submarine
As useless as a hog roast at a bar mitzvah
As useless as a condom machine in the Vatican [From Rimmer in Red Dwarf]
As useless as one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest
As useless as a plumber in a cemetery
As useless as a glass hammer
As useless as a nun at an orgy
As useless as fireproof kindling
As useless as invisible paint
As useless as a lighthouse in the desert
Some of these were obviously in questionable taste, but I really I found this one to be in particularly bad taste:
As useless as Anne Frank’s drum kit
@troy small things that I need to hang on to for a bit and have access to that don’t work getting shoved in the pants pockets: notes, receipts, tissues, little pieces of whatever I’m futzing with that I don’t want to get lost, the rare check that I need to take to the bank, my glasses (only pockets with a flap to keep them from falling out), pens, sharpies, little notebook, a half eaten granola bar, wallet sometimes, id card when I would need to show it without digging it out of my wallet, cough drops, my phone if the pocket’s big enough, small tools, magnifier, gps unit, samples of plants that I want to ID later if I remember to take them out, excess cord of my earbuds that’s flapping around (or cordless earbuds), flagging tape, that little screw-on cap from the tire pressure valve, face mask, and once, a baby garter snake that I had to move out of a construction area.
When I worked as a mechanic the shirt pocket was great for the small tools that had clips to hold them in place. Other than that shirt pockets can burn in heck.
No shirt, Sherlock?
Shirt looked good but, No Pocket,NO Deal!
@Hood1 Ahh. That’s how a lot of us women feel about most dresses.
@Hood1 @Kyeh the thing about shirt pockets is they’re useless. Anything you put in them, the moment you bend slightly they all fall out.
I have a few shirts with pockets that other people have bought me as gifts, but I won’t buy them myself as I personally think they look a bit scruffy. (Or at least not as classy/flattering). Also seems very 20th Century.
@OnionSoup Shirt pockets can be useful if the pocket is deep enough and the shirt isn’t a knit. But a pocket on a knit shirt is inevitably next to useless, seldom deep enough to hold what I would want to use it for, and never easy to clip a screwdriver into.
@OnionSoup @werehatrack Most of my shirts that have pockets are flannel (or similar) and the pocket often has a button, which helps keep things in it.
Misc items commonly kept in my shirt pocket: a paper list or receipt, a floss/pick, a cough lozenge (in wrapper), work ID badge, etc.
@macromeh @OnionSoup @werehatrack I found a shirt pocket to be very useful 20 some years ago when I was handed a 10 day old kitten (who died a few years ago at 3 weeks shy of 20) who needed bottle fed. She lived in my pocket to keep her warm.
@Hood1
I really just want them in my work shirts both to clip my pen onto and to hold the [legally mandated] magnetically attached name tag issued by my employer.
Other than that, they’re pretty much as useless as teats on a boar. [or whatever metaphor or simile you can come up with…]
Some other options:
As useless as tits on a nun
As useless as tits on a bull
As worthless as tits on a combine
As useless as a chocolate teapot
As useless as an ashtray on a motorbike
As useless as the Pope’s penis
As useless as an elephant in a mine field
As useless as a screen door on a submarine
As useless as a hog roast at a bar mitzvah
As useless as a condom machine in the Vatican [From Rimmer in Red Dwarf]
As useless as one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest
As useless as a plumber in a cemetery
As useless as a glass hammer
As useless as a nun at an orgy
As useless as fireproof kindling
As useless as invisible paint
As useless as a lighthouse in the desert
Some of these were obviously in questionable taste, but I really I found this one to be in particularly bad taste:
As useless as Anne Frank’s drum kit
I personally hate shirt pockets. You guys actually still use those things? Whatcha stick in there, pens? Tissue?
@troy small things that I need to hang on to for a bit and have access to that don’t work getting shoved in the pants pockets: notes, receipts, tissues, little pieces of whatever I’m futzing with that I don’t want to get lost, the rare check that I need to take to the bank, my glasses (only pockets with a flap to keep them from falling out), pens, sharpies, little notebook, a half eaten granola bar, wallet sometimes, id card when I would need to show it without digging it out of my wallet, cough drops, my phone if the pocket’s big enough, small tools, magnifier, gps unit, samples of plants that I want to ID later if I remember to take them out, excess cord of my earbuds that’s flapping around (or cordless earbuds), flagging tape, that little screw-on cap from the tire pressure valve, face mask, and once, a baby garter snake that I had to move out of a construction area.
@stolicat @Kidsandliz So best use = shirt pockets are for carrying baby animals.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh
@Kidsandliz @stolicat YES!
Shirt Pockets in T-Shirts went away many years ago…when people stopped smoking with such abandon.
What hasss it got in itsss nasssty little pocketesesss?
When I worked as a mechanic the shirt pocket was great for the small tools that had clips to hold them in place. Other than that shirt pockets can burn in heck.