Originally Posted by Janszoon

The "minimum of surface contact" that you speak of is the problem. With all of the surface contact focused in a few areas it causes the socks to bunch up uncomfortably.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.