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What do you call them?
Pantyhose, nylons, hosiery, or silk stockings?
I call them pantyhose, although I don't know if I like the sound of that, it sounds like the word panty which I think sounds gross, it kind of sounds like you are going to say panty liners or something. Nylons I am sort of neutral about although I think thats what my Nana might call them. Which I don't like talking like an older lady. Hosiery sounds like one of those proper terms that only geeks use, kind of like the word menstration people always say period. sAnd Silk Stockings is the name of a girly strip club or something like that where we live. Maybe you call yours "pantyhose" or something different. What is it?
To me tights are something completely different, they are the thicker ones you wear in the winter that are not sheer.
I call them pantyhose. Partly because this is the "correct" term, partly because I find pantyhose sexy, and partly because I grew up during the transition from two-piece stockings to pantyhose, when differentiation was essential.
I consider "nylons" a cop-out. Too prissy and proper, and too vague as well; not descriptive enough. I also think that "pantyhose" is much a hipper term than "nylons".
Hosiery, as a another poster pointed out, is any kind leg covering garment, from sheer to thick, from jock to elegant lady, or from one piece to two pieces. Also not descriptive enough for me.
Stockings are sheer legs of hosiery in two pieces. Before pantyhose became dominant, stockings ruled the day. Stockings were/are held up by a garter belt or girdle with garter straps attached, or elastic at the top of each stocking, period, the end. I also find stockings very un-sexy, so it drives me crazy when someone says "stockings" when I know darn well that they are REALLY talking about pantyhose!
If you are more comfortable with the word pantyhose, stick with it. No one will ever mistake your meaning, since pantyhose is the correct term for the garment. Nevermind the "panty" part of it. It is a completely different garment. If you went out in public without wearing pantyhose, no biggie. If you went out in public without wearing a pair of panties, well, yikes, that's just a whole different ball game.
The confusion between pantyhose and stockings began after the early 1970's. Before pantyhose became dominant, a woman wanting to buy full length sheer hosiery for her legs between 1965 and 1975 HAD to specifiy either "pantyhose" or "stockings". Both products were popular and widespread, both served a similar purpose (sheer, elegant leg coverings for grown women), and yet they were distinctly different. After stockings virtually disappeared from the mainstream hosiery scene, there was no need to differentiate between the two.
Sometime after the early 1970's, some American women began to refer to "pantyhose" as "stockings". Despite being techincally incorrect, other women with a similar mindset know that "stockings" mean "pantyhose", because two piece stockings had vanished from the everyday life of most women. For many women, "stockings" simply equal/refer to "pantyhose", and for these ladies, that is that. Many, many women who wear pantyhose, but have never, and will never, wear two piece stockings with a garter belt, continue to call pantyhose "stockings".
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ARCTIC CAT FLEX NYLON SNOWMOBILE JACKET LINER SIZE 5XL | |
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Koi Pond: Water Chemistry
The most basic conditions of your koi pond water chemistry are the pH factor (which stands for potential Hydrogen) and water hardness. These factors alone can determine the life or death of your koi pond’s inhabitants (I call them the “Fam Fam”).
The pH of the koi pond water is measured on a scale of 1-14, with a reading of 7 considered “neutral.” Any reading above 7 is alkaline; anything below 7 is acidic. Most fish prefer a pH value of 7.2 to 7.6, or just slightly on the alkaline side of the scale. However, koi and goldfish can adjust to gradual changes in pH from as low as 7 to as high as 8.5 and still remain healthy and flourish.
Hardness or buffers in the koi pond water can raise the pH levels. Even though hardness is a separate measure from pH, the two respond to each other chemically. Pure or “distilled” water has a pH of 7 and an absence of buffers or hardness. Neutral pH is unstable, however, and if it has no buffers or hardness, it can quickly drop to the lower (acidic) end of the pH scale – as low as 4.2 to 4.8. At this level of acidity the fish’s gills become burned and eventually become unable to extract oxygen from the water, ultimately suffocating.
Should the pH in your koi pond ever drop to these levels, never try to raise the pH too quickly. By placing coral gravel, dolomite, or oyster shell gravel in a nylon filter bag inside your filter or directly in the waterfall, moving water can pass through it and the pH will rise to 7.0 or 7.3 in less than two days.
To prevent the drastic fluctuation in hardness buffers affecting pH, you should include one or more of these gravels in your filter system at all times – especially if you are replenishing your pond with soft water. The gravel should be replaced every 9 to 12 months since all the buffers will be leached out by that time. If the buffers are used up and the pH level drops to 6.0 or lower, the nitrifying bacteria that break down the toxic fish waste, ammonia, and nitrite will stop functioning. At a low pH, highly toxic ammonia chemically changes to relatively non-toxic ammonium. If you raise the pH rapidly, the ammonium will also quickly return to ammonia, which could be fatal to your fish.
Please invest in the health of your fish. Purchase a koi pond test kit from any pet or pond store. Invest the time to read the directions and start regularly testing your koi pond. Remember, clear water does not mean clean! As in the water we drink, just because the water looks clear, smells good, and tastes good does not mean it is clean.
Most of the most toxic, cancer-causing priority pollutants listed by the E.P.A are colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Do not ever forget the simple facts: You have a toilet in a separate room of your house. Your scaly friend’s living room is their toilet, and they have to swim in it. Keep it flushed and clean.
If you do not presently have a bio-filter, please purchase one, or at no cost to you, download instructions and a parts list of simple items you can purchase from any home improvement store for less then $65 and build one yourself using an electric drill and a hand saw. download with no oblication or log in required at - http://www.askdoughoover.com
Happy koi, peace and joy.
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