F Minus by Tony Carrillo for September 19, 2024

They seem close-knit…

me too

Siamese twins by proxy.

A new form of mind melding (Spock)

Those things people in the West call “beanies” are not beanies. Beanies are a different kind of hat entirely.

They are toques or tuques or knit caps or watch caps or ski caps, or stocking caps or various other things, but not beanies.

Beanies are a kind of multi-panel skullcap.

… and before people start chiming in about “language is mutable; a beautiful poetic living thing”… it shouldn’t be, when it reduces clarity and impedes communication. Calling a kind of hat that already has a dozen perfectly good names by the name of a completely different hat makes nothing better.

Shared warmth! I could see friend groups buying these off Etsy. What is the maximum number that such a hat style could accommodate?

The Giant from the beanie stalk is going to be livid about its missing leg warmer

This originally happened as a knitting error but it got out of control and became some kind of “togetherness” meme, instead of a “really awkward and not at all practical” meme. :)

Those are toques. Beanies are rainbow caps with propellers.