They are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.

Telomeres, right? Then why is nobody saying telomeres?

Do I get a pass if English is not my first language?

No, before now I did not know the name for it in my first language either.

I have no idea.

Shoelace boners.

Yet another example of the US being under the thumb of big agletculture.

Fadenendstücke

Are you kidding me? Has usb D dropped already??

Whappers

Really?! No one posted it?

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Shoelace foreskins.

A-G-L-E-T

It don fuckin matter what its called, it better have teeth marks on it brother.

I've spent hours looking for them so I could finally craft the Lightning boots.

I don't know the name but I can tell you how sad they make me when they break and tear off and you have to use a lighter on the now extremely frayed end(s) of your shoelace for just a few seconds, and then pinch off the flame just lightly burning your fingies while molding the shoelace end into a cohesive black carcinogen.

Source: I am cheap

"The plastic tips at the end of shoe laces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister."

Those are the ends of what are called shoelaces, friend.

food. given how much i chew on them

I don't remember, but I know for a fact that cats are their natural predators

That's easy: they are the Tube nipples of the tube titties

Ah, but once you know of the aglets, do you know what you put the aglets through? Maybe you should be friends with people who don't know aglets but do know the word for the holes

Ah, I have heard the name of those before.

Egrets, right?

The Simpsons told me what an aglet is years ago.

The question is, do you know what this is?

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