To hang underpants up on the washing line by the gusset?

[Salmotrutta]

Well am I?

Someone said it was odd.

YABU for using the word 'gusset' when clearly, it is a 'crutch'.

By the side, one to each peg and un the middle of the whirlygig. by the gusset would make the two sides flap together as I prefer the "shorts" style.

Don't you mean "crotch" candy?

No no no, we call it a 'crutch' in my family which got a bit confusing when I started using crutches.

A person has a crotch (or crutch), a garment has a gusset.

I've always hung my not so smalls by the gusset. Watching moist gussets flapping in the breeze seems rather indelicate

The word gusset makes me cringe, hence the change of terminology.

That's completely illogical. The gusset (eugh) is the thickest bit. It's daft to peg there. It needs the breeze blowing through it.

Well quite Annie.

Illogical is as illogical does eurochick.

My MIL pegs her giant white knickers out on the line. I cringe when I see them. Her line crosses her massive garden and is highly visible from an adjoining lane. She has no shame.

yabu, the gusset is the thickest park so needs to be exposed and not pegged.

It's science

But how does she peg them StopSquabbling?

Gusset, side or the two-peg approach?

Science Schmience.

Meh.

2 pegs each, 7 in a line every Monday. Great big white Sloggies. Next to them are 5 white gigantic bras.

We call it Big Pant Monday.

You hang them however you like, you know your pants hun.

at Big Pant Monday!

"Hun?"

Hun??

AIBU to assume that I have such deeply uninteresting underwear that no one will bother to scope it out on the line? If I was wearing pink leopardskin thongs on the other hand.... (Sighs) I used to be an interesting knicker-wearer....

I am of the circular smalls peggie thing school of thought. Enough space to peg them all by the hip (natch) and swift to whip in when it rains....

Muppet! it's a play on the 'you know your babs hun'

I know!

Sorry, that was my hasty assurances that i'm not a real life hunner.

This is how to hang laundry.

the error is not in how you hang the underwear (though you should be hanging from the waist for a neat line) but in placing underwear outside at all. outdoor clothes dry outdoors; what is hidden when worn should remain hidden from all prying eyes.

the only time i deviated from this excellent policy was as a lovely, slim young married woman. my older, fatter neighbour would hang her ugly undies on her line where we could not help but see, so I took to putting out my beautiful sets of bras, french knickers and suspenders to annoy her. it did annoy her. and i still find that satisfying, despite now being an older, fatter woman myself. and i keep my (lovely but larger) underwear indoors!