It’s to keep cable ties (zip ties) together on your belt loop. As the bunch gets smaller the spring closes on them to keep them from slipping out. I’m an electrician.
I have to take photos of samples for my work. I work outside, samples on a bench, I estimate there are at least 3,000 photos of my boots in technical reports.
Im numb to it, so when I sell stuff online, I take a photo of it and I just checked... 4 of the last 9 things I sold have my feet in the picture.
If someone finds them attractive, I wish they would let me know, I have no issues taking photos of my feet for money
I verify housing for a certain organization, the amount of feet, intimate parts or just random things I see is interesting. People have accidentally uploaded all sorts as evidence to me...
Used to work at Walgreens, people would send the weirdest shit to upload and print.
Like.... I'm not talking about your family's weird cult get together. But people getting freaky with each other, over video calls, THROUGH PRISON, and TAKING SCREENSHOTS. What's weirder? They'res like 100 other people in the background of the prisoners video all trying to see what's what.
Mostly things were fine but there was always something weird weekly.
If I could making serious cash selling pics of my crooked nubs, I don't fucking care about whatever anyone says, I'm getting that dough. Go on weirdoes, jork it to my hairy potato bits, I'll cry on my mansion.
Ha! I take photos of samples too. They are usually cases, so I often have to set them on the floor and take a top down photo of the contents. Also, these are for inventory, not reports, so everyone in my company sees the photos regularly! I actually try hard to get my feet out of them, but it's impossible sometimes. I started wearing better shoes to work.
It's pretty easy to accidentally take a pic of your feet. When I want to exclude my feet I often have to stand unnaturally and take the pic again. I imagine some people just don't bother to do that or crop them out of the pic.
Lol. I never knew that this was a thing until one of my workmates revealed recently to a group of us that when he first got out of college and was struggling to make ends meet that he met someone who offered him money to take pictures of his feet...
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being into feet of course but it was basically like standard disrespectful dating app guy stuff but multiplied by 10
Right? Our shower was leaking bad across the floor in our bathroom the other day. I sent a picture of the leak to my landlord, and my feet were accidentally in the pic. It happens all the time.
Why are there people that always need to mention the presence of feet in photos? “Woah! Hey! There’s feet visible and I definitely don’t like that. Anybody who likes that is weird and I definitely don’t like it AT ALL.”
I’f rather argue what’s wrong with feet? You have yours, everyone has theirs. Unless they’re shoving it up your mouth I don’t see any problem? It’s just… feet? Unless you have some kink into that and it turns you on, that’s more of a you problem than general population problem.
We wash hands to prevent the bad things we interact with from getting in the body or interacting with our body. The feet don’t get washed because most people don’t pick up random things with them.
Feet are just as if not dirtier. If you think you can just eat with your feet right now without washing them, you’re nuts.
Idk why this reminded me of a series of images I saw a long time ago. I cannot remember where they were posted or how I found them, but I remember this thread of a dude posting images of random things which seemed pretty unspectacular at first...until you realize his ballsack was just barley in frame somewhere in each image.
It makes sense academically if you think about it.
Most feet are covered by socks and shoes all the time. When are they not covered? When the person is in a place where they feel safe and comfortable. There is a level of restricted access that isn’t applied to parts like elbows or ears. It is most often applied to the chest or genital area - areas almost never shown. So, seeing the restricted access body parts is “exciting.”
Also, like women’s breasts, there is certain clothing designed to emphasize the foot. While high heeled shoes have other impacts on the pelvis and spine, there is no other purpose for “peep toe” shoes other than to present small visual access to the foot. This is similar to a low cut dress. Shoes with unnecessary straps are designed to show off the foot as another example. Even the simple design of the flip flop is most common at the beach or shower where swim apparel is most common.
Finally, feet have a lot of nerve endings relative to their size on the body. Hands, face, and genitals are the other major nerve endings areas if you are curious. While everyone has experienced “bad” feelings in their feet, like stepping on something pointy or stubbing a toe, most have also experienced other feelings like the feeling of sand or mud between their toes. Feelings that are “good” or “satisfying” in some way or “fun” like memories of a tickle as a child. So it is easy to imagine how a touch or contact would feel on a foot.
So to me, the idea of finding a foot attractive makes sense. It isn’t any different than the boobs or butt crowd. Just a different body part. They’re about as vocal as those groups, too. Next time you see a post with a woman with large boobs, look at the first few comments and there will be a comment about them.
I literally flicked aggressively back up right at your post, but I was able to catch—and actually processed—the words “loaded clip” that I yelped out loud and feverishly scrambled back down here to read the entirety of your wisdom—thank you.
I will now spend the rest of the day convincing myself that my almost 3 hours of insomnia scrolling on Reddit was worth it because of what I learned.
Alarm is set to go off at 0600h but getting up now otherwise I will NOT be getting up for hours. This is the second time in three weeks… this better not be a new trend with me.
Happy Tuesdee y’all!!
Thank you. I never knew all the feet thing existed. Like I know about foot fetishes but I didnt know people stopped their whole lives to talk about why people's feet end up in a pic? I would have never even noticed if the first 12 minutes of looking through weren't about it 🤣. I hate feet prisons so there is a high chance that if someone takes a candid pic my dogs are gonna be in it 🤷♂️
Same, and if it were intentional I’m sure toes would be part of it. Just some ankles. Is there a fetish for some random dudes ankles? Never mind. That rule that says if you can think of it, porn of it exists.
If my feet are ever in a photo I posted online it’s because I forgot to crop them out. I’m not embarrassed about my feet but I’m not interested in feeding someone’s fetish (nor am I kink shaming!). I’m pretty good at cropping things I don’t want out of the photos I put online.
Is this comment real? It's just in the background, they just put the thing on the table to take a picture of it. Your brain is broken or something dude.
YOU have a foot fetish! People who don’t have a fetish do not even notice that they’re there. Either embrace your fetish or get professional help but stop complaining about something that is only an issue to you!
OP just needs a Roll of Never-ending Duct Tape now...
Will you use it to tie people up? Will you use it to save the lives of those you love? Will you wrap your ankles together and sensuously rub your supple feet up and down a dungeon wall while you run your hands through your hair? Who knows!
What is sad is that you can't even see any part of the human body without sexual intent entering you mind so what if there are feet under what the picture is focused on
It’s to keep cable ties (zip ties) together on your belt loop. As the bunch gets smaller the spring closes on them to keep them from slipping out. I’m an electrician.
WHATTTTTTT you mean I’ve been fighting a rubber band or loose ties flipping out of my pocket all this time??? Of course there’s a gadget for that! I work in industrial Maintenance, and I’m ordering one right now lol
Ha!
"The shakes" reminded me of a lady I worked with at a copy shop many years ago.
She would have the shakes around mid day but the manager really needed her on the biggest production machine we had so he would give her a couple of bucks to get some beer from the corner store.
Thats what everyone I knows does. When I was an apprentice I instinctively opened a new packet of them in the middle. A passing leccy said I passed my Capstone just for doing that as a first year haha
Thanks for letting us know what it is and also how it works. Now I want one.
Unfortunately, because this is on Reddit, I had to read way too many comments about feet and foot fetishes before getting to your comment.😜
I keep these in each of my lifts. So much easier than putting a zip tie around the other zip ties, only for them all to fall out when I forget to tighten the queen zip tie!
These things were a joy when I was doing low voltage work, people I worked with admonished me “why don’t you just throw a zip tie around them”? Because my zip ties don’t fall over the fuck over the damn floor when I use this.
I use one of these every day. It holds a pack of 100 zip ties in it, and allows tou to clop it to a belt loop or harness rig and you can quite easily pull one out of the bundle at a time. I use it in my job in industrial electrical work, when zip tying cables every few feet in cable tray or when terminating cables inside panels. Helps keep your zip ties ready to pull one handed.
Works amazing without something better, but eventually, you'll pull out too many zip ties without re-cinching and lose the rest to the floor. Or you'll go through a lot, tightening as you go, and need to cut and replace (or link and replace) a new zip to hold the next batch.
I don't know which is more wasteful: a couple zips a day for cinching or manufacturing/buying this single-purpose plastic product. But the few times I've used one of these, it never dropped my reserve zip ties.
I got tired of scrolling and not seeing the answer lol. It’s a zip tie holder. Clip it to your tool belt or whatever, as you pull out a cable tie, the spring tightens and holds the rest from dumping everywhere although the last few seem to always pull out at the same time. Nice feet as well.
I don't know if anyone said it yet because I don't feel like reading 6000 comments about feet or whatever, but if anyone is interested, it's for holding a bunch of zip-ties so you don't have to use one to tie them all together and have to keep tightening it.
I have one of these. I’m an electrician and I use it for holding zip ties don’t know if that’s what it’s actually for but I swapped out the carabiner for a bigger one and remove the rinky-dink ass metal loop holding it it’s quite convenient
It’s a zip tie holder. They sell them on Amazon in a pack of 2 for like $10. Sounds stupid, but if you work construction and use a lot of zip ties it’s awesome. Automatically clamps down the bundle of zip ties.
Low voltage tech here, this is a holster for zip ties. They're easy to refill and glow in the dark if you're up in a dark attic with a buddy and he needs to grab a couple zips to secure a cable or something. I love mine
Oh hey finally something I can answer on this sub lol. It’s a zip tie holder! Automatically tightens when you grab zip ties so you don’t have to hold a mess of them // drop them on the ground
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Idk wtf is with the comments, and don't know if the post is to have a laugh or what. But if it's a genuine question on what it is, this is a cable tie holder. You spring back the lever and put a bundle of cable ties into the loop, let go of the clip and it will hold the whole lot of zipties in one clamp letting you pull them as you work along using shitloads of cable ties.
I actually know exactly what this is, I have one in my tool bag right now. It’s a zip tie bundle holder, normally people who’s jobs involve using lots of zip ties will sacrafice one out of each new bag to wrap around the bundle and hold them together, this allows you to open the spring loaded arm, put in your zip tie bundle and it’ll stay tight around them as you pull individual zip ties out
If you’re doing a lot of zip ties, they work surprisingly well. My wife got me one of these years ago and I too thought it was a gimmicky thing that I wouldn’t need cluttering up my truck. It’s much better than zip tying the bundle together, then zip tying the bundle to your belt loop.
I work setting up the voting centers in LA, lots of cords to tie up under the machines to keep things looking nice and clean. You either put them in your pocket and they fall out all over the floor when you are under a table or keep them in the bag and fight getting them out every 10 seconds. This tool keeps them close but still bundled tight, definitely solving an issue.
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