Aren't Dockers for middle-aged fat-asses?
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
idk but the point is to feel cool when you buy them
― sleeve, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Tuesday, December 8, 2009 7:22 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
u are the target audience
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"actually -- little known historical fact that, when men were men, prior to disco, khakis were only worny by the ruggedest of bros"
Virtually the same style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6ZAXytvjY
― Cosmic Ugg (S-), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the point at which everybody who made "ironic" lol sexism joaks in the 90s & 00s now has to pay for it by gouging their eyes out and dancing on them
ow my eyes
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
thank god i was an adolescent and actually sexist, whew
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
that khakis ad is so preposterous i cannot imagine taking it srsly on any level
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
the real question it poses--when will derisive "latte" comments become passe?
when will it be ok for men to eat salad again? how do you guys live on these all steak diets
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
just had my 17th heart attack tbh
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i had a (bison) steak AND a salad for dinner tonight i will have you know
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
so you are like 50% man now
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
killed a man, too
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
This does remind me of a thread i wanted to start, about how the only time I ever use the phrase "men" or "women" seems to involve marketing pitches for Boomers, or gay bars. It's like "Magazine for Men" or "Bars for Men" I automatically equate to "gay-targeted". I mean, almost all of the males I ever encountered above the age of 18 fall into the category of "dudes," "guys", "fellas", "bros", or "homies".
I worked with a guy who talked about how they'd go on a "men's retreat" every year, which was pretty much just a chance to head out to the Oregon deserts and bro down with buddies with dune buggies.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
stole his salad
wait so is driving dune buggies in the OR desert w/yr "bros" a gay thing????
8[
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQlSr9YjLc
here's to young white dudes and maybe firefighters can earn their way in maybe
― unforgivable Jaqness (tremendoid), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
here's to assholes
― omar little, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
lol what is that music?
― Dan S, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
gbx, what kind of fork did you eat with?
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
if its plastic you're down to 45% man
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
being a man is about being a good human being imo
Psshaww I bet you enjoy eating salads
... with a PLASTIC FORK no doubt!
― lukevalentine, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 6:04 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
i guess when derisive salad and disco comments become passe. which if judging by the durability of hairy lesbian comments = never.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
ha lol everyone already made that joke i see
xp
― lukevalentine, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
No, it's a perfectly acceptable bros thing.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
that ad at the top is a take-you-aside-and-be-serious version of a bad standup routine
― omar little, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe you're not supposed to use utensils at all.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
this IS desert season btw, no better time to throw a few cases of natty ice in the F-150, hook up the dirtbikes and roll out to glamis or gordon's well and fuckin BRO. DOWN. BRODER.
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
that sounds awesome but i guess i'm not invited
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
bro if you're heading out pick up some burreets or a double-double for the noshage
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not the activity I laughed at, it's the description of it as their "Man's Retreat"
― kingfish, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Tuesday, December 8, 2009 8:08 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you will pay for your crimes against bison btw
― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i mean ultimately "males" are going to want to get together every so often and do dumb shit. there will probably never be a good name for this.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i almost made a "u ate ilx user m bison joke!" but too meta. glad he is here tho
f-you dockers, I'm never wearing pants again
― big darn deal (Z S), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
tbf probably the worst dudes are ppl that wear kilts just like, on the street in the city or whatever
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
politics?
― lukevalentine, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently suits and beards are the new masculinity
― omar little, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
new punchline:
ILM?
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
lulz yeah
― lukevalentine, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
not really bothered by kilts, girls are allowed to walk around in skirts so y notprobably wouldn't be friends with a kilter though
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
just don't wear the suit while walking to work
― bnw, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
probably wouldn't be friends with a kilter though
right, exactly
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.goodmenbook.org/thebook.php
this thing is getting a lot of play atm and from an interview i heard w/ the filmmaker/compiler of stories it promises not to dovetail with most of the reductive trad bs above even though the trailer makes it seem like yes it will
― unforgivable Jaqness (tremendoid), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean for a lot of western men a large part of 'what is it to be a man?' is going to be a reaction to the image/'era' these ads are advancing but even within that orbit there's more interesting questions than whether to wear brut or aramis, how to make a proper toast etc
― unforgivable Jaqness (tremendoid), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I think at times the "be a MAN" schtick is kind of useful as a stand-in for "be an ADULT," -- something that's kind of useful in an era of prolonged childhood. I mean it's really fucking lame when it gets used as an excuse for retrograde attitudes or GQ-type marketing bullshit - where being a man is equated to being some kind of all around great guy with a perfect smile and a cool haircut.
But still, sometimes I find it helpful to say to myself "Be a man. Stop whining and pick yourself up," etc. even if that has hints of retrograde gender attitudes.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, that was a little redundant
and then u put on yr dockers
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55Hr8nIH_c
― precious presented by oprah and tyler perry based on a novel push b (Tape Store), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
a pharaoh beard grants immortality iirc
maybe amish beard grants barn raising skillz? pls tell us if you can raise a barn after establishing the full amish.
― I am what they call a (cat), Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
is the beard the phallus of the face?
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 20 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
Beards are reactionary. Shaving is praxis.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
"is the beard the phallus of the face?" Not unless the pubic frump is the beard of the pubic mountain!
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
I hate having to shave - not for the way it looks, but the way it feels after 3 days of growth.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
beards are reactionary *or* revolutionary - bearded moderates are phonies
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
Halfway, interesting.
I feel like I have been in a 35-year-long cycle of violence with my face. I hate shaving, yes, but I also having itchy scraggly unpleasant facial hair that abrades my wife.
Further, I don't like the way my beard grows. It isn't vigorous or consistent. I get a mustache and goatee and sideburny things pretty quickly, but my cheeks and jawline remain patchy and sparse. Because I don't like the look of the goatee (unflattering, plus possible shady GenX cultural associations), my choices are a Don Johnson-style permastubble, or shaving. It is a cruel trick of fate.
― unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 October 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
but the way it feels after 3 days of growth.
I do it in the shower every morning, never have to suffer with this unless I'm camping/road tripping
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 October 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
i hate having hair perpetually grow on my face. i'm also trapped in a horrible cycle with it. i get fed up, shave it all, and then let it grow for a couple weeks so it's in that really uncomfortable zone where people aren't sure if your life has gone wrong (it has) or if you're just being really lazy (i am) or if you're trying to go for a "beard" (sometimes i am, sort of).
i like the andy the grasshopper method of shaving in the shower every morning, but unfortunately *sad violin begins to play*, unfortunately, i just really love to take afternoon baths
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 October 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
that really uncomfortable zone where people aren't sure
Richard Ford described this facial phase as 'looking like a wretched sex offender'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 October 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
And I use an electric shaver after trying a straight razor, so shower shaving is out.
I've got dark (now greying) hair but red (now white) facial hair, so even if I could stand to grow it for a few weeks, it would take much longer to look like a beard and make me look like I'm in my 70s anyway.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 20 October 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
xp i call the top part of it the "teenstache"
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 October 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
No other great apes have to deal with moustache trouble like us. Only beards.
Yet Munkees...https://i.imgur.com/h6VKF.jpg
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
DIABEETUS
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgUr-DjXEAItiy1.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 30 October 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/tQGJHv4.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 13 November 2023 08:27 (six months ago) link
lmao
― flopson, Monday, 13 November 2023 08:30 (six months ago) link
The Gandalf™
there are some anti-abortion billboards around here that say "REAL MEN LOVE BABIES". i have thoughts. lots of them. not sure if i'll be able to get them in writing. too many thoughts.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:35 (six months ago) link
I didn't see the movies, but I don't remember a Mrs. Gandalf...
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:06 (six months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/8fsN4ff.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 13 November 2023 15:42 (six months ago) link
https://www.benchmade.com/products/4010-cstm?
Got an ad for this today, I like the new cleaver-y blade trend for chef's knifes but this is so tacticool
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0574/8041/3232/files/STATION_KNIFE_02A_768x.png
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 November 2023 10:37 (five months ago) link
Perfect for chopping carrots or doing wetwork with Seal Team 6.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 November 2023 10:38 (five months ago) link
so if marketing cooking equipment as extreme tactical military cowboy survival shit gets men to do more cooking - how do we get them to do more cleaning? light saber mops?
― Left, Friday, 24 November 2023 10:57 (five months ago) link
it won't, of course, get men to do more cooking; it'll just get them to buy more shit.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 24 November 2023 15:32 (five months ago) link
Looking at it again I really like that blade shape (and will have to look around for a non-DEVGRU approved option) but the bolster looks all wrong for properly choking up on the knife.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 November 2023 22:43 (five months ago) link
Hee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de-Yylorsow
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 1 December 2023 23:12 (five months ago) link
....i'll take the whip
what? no, no, i look like a woman but i'm actually (whispers) _transgender_
no i mean a trans _woman_, a transgender _woman_
what? no look "trans woman" doesn't mean i was afab and transitioned to being a man...
AFAB. AY-FAHB. Not ACAB. Assigned female at birth. Although also ACAB.
Let's just say yes. Yes I have a penis. If I tell you I have a penis, can I have that whip?
Look. Just... give me the whip. I'll... I'll give you the idol. You give me the whip. OK?
Um. Idol. Idol. Uh... I have a CD of Rebel Yell. Does that count? It plays fine, I swear. Don't worry about the scratches. And! It comes with an obi!
...sure. That's "Obi" as in "Obi-wan".
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 1 December 2023 23:31 (five months ago) link
Here you go, manly man-type men, Christmas is sorted.
https://www.beautifuldeer.com/products/tactical-christmas-stocking-2?variant=113484&fbclid=IwAR3L4OKB9f_DoOE3U_MlRqPQJaznw4f4CI5Vkme2sxeHk1l6jH3saCQxJ3U_aem_AUBkpF_6NnVzu1PMyRtXWZbHjKDUaK6pSoew9w8VgW9VuLPprwH0zbHmuFJ-c7rXOqzL91RSbzdw2yVFmmcA9yWt
― ; Powell (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
my axe has a smaller, sharper axe hidden in the blade
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 4 December 2023 15:52 (five months ago) link
Axe-ception
― ; Powell (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:45 (five months ago) link