Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

[poliklosio via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 18:37:54 UTC, Chris wrote:
> If a woman doesn't want to program, she just doesn't want to, 
> even if it's in Python. It's the term "programming" that makes 
> them (i.e. those who are not interested) run away. "Write a 
> script" sounds nicer, but even then ... if they don't have to 
> they won't even touch it with thongs.

I'm bewildered by the use of the word "thongs" here. I'm just 
really surprised to see it here. Is it some kind of a spelling 
mistake? I'm starting to thing that my imperfect non-native 
English is the issue.