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Orks aren't immune from fashionable desires. They sometimes wear hair squigs, paint their weapons and vehicles in colours that appeal to them and, indeed, wear pants and belts.

But that means if the orks pants grow from wagghh if they got lost in the middle of an ork camp they would get massive

There are too common theories when it comes to the topic of ork pants.
1st. Along with tanks, pants are looted from defeated enemies.
2nd. That the pants are actually elaborate squids that have placed over the orks nether reagions. SUffice to say the squig doesn't last long.

ChocolateGork wrote:Its a bit silly but i just dont get where savage alien beasts get these pants and how they keep them up to such great standards. I mean they must suck at sewing and what not so its ridiculous that billions of them have pants!.

I see why the models have them but its silly as i don't think fungus has a giant dong.

Those aren't actual pant, they're a special kind of squig.

When in any doubt about the the minor day-to-day details of the Orks, always defer to the squigs.

hmmm wouldnt the orks eat them or they would drop off in battle if shot?

Hmmm...very interesting question. I think that pants are most likely looted. Orks tend to follow the broad-at-the-shoulder-narrow-at-the-hip musculature of most cartoon characters (and the most intimidating physique, in my opinion) so I don't think looting the pants of other races would pose too much difficulty. I think they appear in such good repair because players paint them as such. Just like Space Marine armor is almost never depicted with bullet holes, burns, rents, or other damages. It could easily be modeled or painted as such.

As to WHY orks wear pants, I don't know that it was ever established that they DON'T have genitals. A) If they do have man-bits then wearing pants only makes sense. B) If they don't then I suggest the possibility that they wear them for comfort. I know I prefer pants to nudity strictly for a comfort basis.

And oh, this just hit me! Best reason for orks to wear pants: Pockets! Pants have pockets, and orks love to carry stuff around. The more pockets, the better. Teef, spare bullets, loot, bits of string, shiny rocks, and any other thing that an ork could and would conceivably carry necessitates pockets!

Course it could be some other reason.

Well thats a new take on it but surely they could just carry bags? and not many of the pants o the models have pockets.

Also ho wcan their be billions of undamaged pants that happen to fit orks and happen to be where they loot?

Is ther just like a size whatever pants warehouse on every planeta?

Okay, consider this: orks do have organs, obviously. (They have eyes, and teeth, and something approximating lungs.)

First, I see no reason they might not have genitals. They wouldn't be used for sex, necessarily, but that's not all I use mine for. And since orks do drink (at least alcohol, in any event) I presume that they exude waste. So if they got 'em, they might be as sensitive or vulnerable as ours, and thus require pants.

What's more, since orks are alien life forms, perhaps they have some kind of alien organ (like a vent for gasses or something) on their legs that they are covering up for some reason (so they don't get mud in them).

Finally, consider this. With all the upper body strength they have, their legs look disproportionate. Perhaps they wear pants to hide their (comparatively) scrawny legs.

All possibilities.

Just a quick point:

These guys build firearms, not everything is looted.

Is it so hard to believe they managed to stitch together some rags during early life?

Pantboyz. Hilarious!

They pay lots of teef to the pantboyz to make snazzy pants with lots of pockets

Jimsolo wrote:

First, I see no reason they might not have genitals. They wouldn't be used for sex, necessarily, but that's not all I use mine for. And since orks do drink (at least alcohol, in any event) I presume that they exude waste. So if they got 'em, they might be as sensitive or vulnerable as ours, and thus require pants.

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yes.

Orks do exude liquid waste from that general area(SW omnibus, Ragnar gets hosed while hiding in a bush )

They get them from WAAAAgh-Mart

Where else are they going to place their ammo? no ammo = no dakka.

Well they are fond of ammo belts.

But there is just no way that many pants could be made or looted succesfully on that scale

The pants are painted on, and ammo is stapled to the 'pockets'

S_P

no its stapled to the zipper

ChocolateGork wrote: i don't think fungus has a giant dong.

You could not be further from the truth.

Anyways, I think the opportune thing to remember with the orks is their racial latent psychic ability. They pick up weapons that don't have bullets, and they believe that there are bullets in the gun, and lo and behold, it fires. Likewise, they believe that red makes them faster, and they believe this hard enough that it does, in fact make them faster.

Orks need proper gear for stompin, and if they believe in this need hard enough, and collectively enough, then they all just get pants, for the same reason a piece of plumbing simply becomes a big shoota.

They didn't always wear pants, but the sight of pantsless Orks charging into battle with their urinary organs dangling and flapping in the wind was so disconcerting that Eldrad took a century out from being a dick to implant the meme that pants = Orky into the entire species. And thus the grimdark galaxy breathed a sigh of relief.

themocaw wrote:They didn't always wear pants, but the sight of pantsless Orks charging into battle with their urinary organs dangling and flapping in the wind was so disconcerting that Eldrad took a century out from being a dick to implant the meme that pants = Orky into the entire species. And thus the grimdark galaxy breathed a sigh of relief.

I think Themocaw just won this thread

Grey Templar wrote:

themocaw wrote:They didn't always wear pants, but the sight of pantsless Orks charging into battle with their urinary organs dangling and flapping in the wind was so disconcerting that Eldrad took a century out from being a dick to implant the meme that pants = Orky into the entire species. And thus the grimdark galaxy breathed a sigh of relief.

I think Themocaw just won this thread

Thread was won a long time ago, but this is definatly a close second

Most orks are naked except for clothes that give a protective advantage, the more advanced orks wear them in imitation of the advanced species such as Eldar and Humans. Obviously having an army of naked orks wouldn't look good and would not fit in with their ode to blue collar workers so we don't get models of them.

Orks are fungus and do not have wangs, there is however a wang squig but it's more decorative than practical as squigs are not naturally inclined to behave as such. This has not stopped however the illicit trade in such squigs amongst Ogryn women, a problem the Inquisition is keen to get on top of.

Never thought about ogryn woman but really how big could this "SQUIG" be to interest ogryn women

This big:



Squiggoths are actual animals, right, not fungus?

We know that wealthy orks have squigskin upholstery in their vehicles - why not have that for trousers also?

Durable, wipe clean, good for fighin', lootin' and rockin'!

Ummm Well that would just like squish an ogryn woman unless they are also the size of a titan. and... WTF MATE

Grots probably sew them out of squig skin


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Grots probably sew them out of squig skin

Everyone's assuming Orks have genitalia! They reproduce by just being somewhere, so I don't think they'd have any!

Pantz.....



There's a Squig Fer Dat!!!


its calld a Pants'Squig.....

pantboyz rofl