The order’s emblem is a garter circlet with the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense (Anglo-Norman for “Shame on him who thinks evil of it”) in gold script. Members of the order wear it on ceremonial occasions.
Carrying on the idea of the undergarment “garter”, this is fucking hilarious.
Further from Wikipedia:
Various legends account for the origin of the Order. The most popular involves the “Countess of Salisbury”, whose garter is said to have slipped from her leg while she was dancing at a court ball at Calais. When the surrounding courtiers sniggered, the King picked it up and returned it to her, exclaiming, “Honi soit qui mal y pense” (“Shame on him who thinks ill of it”), which phrase has become the Order’s motto. However, the earliest written version of this story dates from the 1460s, and it seems to have been conceived as a retrospective explanation for the adoption of what was then seen as an item of female underclothing as the symbol of a band of knights. In fact, at the time of the Order’s establishment in the mid-14th century, garters were predominantly an item of male attire.
I guess it is actually the undergarment. What a world.
Idk which of us’s instance censored that word but they really need to add a leading and following space to their slur filter (and then to the word removed)
What the fuck is Order of the Garter? Sounds worse than Epstein’s pedophilia island.
Wikipedia:
Carrying on the idea of the undergarment “garter”, this is fucking hilarious.
Further from Wikipedia:
I guess it is actually the undergarment. What a world.
Idk which of us’s instance censored that word but they really need to add a leading and following space to their slur filter (and then to the word removed)
Yours must have, because it’s uncensored for me.