See Alpha Male Ape pose!
― jel --, Monday, 23 March 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ps. I got a D in science.
http://i41.tinypic.com/2yvnuv7.jpg
http://www.clicket.com/images_med/pe40018.jpg
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Monday, 23 March 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Now I'm wondering how closely this is related to the masculine posture of hooking your thumb under your waistband right around the line between abdomen and thigh
I don't know how masculine this is. I do this. I think it's just a pants-wearing posture.
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
hook my thumb under the waistband, not lounge around with my hand down my pants, that is.
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, I've done 2 minutes of hard thinking on this, and I think we should rule out the "keep the hand warm" hypothesis. See exhibit A (Al Bundy). Only ONE hand is in the pants. This is typical man behavior - it is very rare, even unsettling, to see someone with both hands down their pants at the same time. Furthermore, field observations indicate that most men who stick their hands down their pants consistently choose the same hand. Unless only one hand is cold at any given time, the hypothesis is not supported.
Exhibit A: Al Bundy
― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess there's a unisex normal-person version and then a John Wayneish masculine gunbelt version, depending on what you do with your hips
― nabisco, Monday, 23 March 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
If anyone will fund my research for a few years, I guarantee I will find the answer.
― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, I've done 2 minutes of hard thinking on this
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
it's a matter of practicality. if you warmed both hands at the same time you couldn't drink a beer or operate a remote control, so you have to make compromises and alternate.
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
the beer is crucial, actually, because the hand holding the beer will get colder as the hand in your pants warms up, bringing you to a natural switching ppoint
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
But that's the thing. No one ever alternates.
― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i disagree but this is the point where we need lab research
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I do this all the time but I'm not sure that I didn't pick it up from emulating Al Bundy. I kinda hope that's the only thing I picked up from that show.
Yeah, I don't alternate.
― Euler, Monday, 23 March 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i never do this, never even think about the possibility of doing it, so i'm waiting for the findings of this thread with "bated" breath.
― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if truly ambidextrous men alternate. Exhibit A is using his right hand, which I imagine is his dominant hand. Do left-handed men use their left hands?
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Uh I just found some Married With Children fan-fiction:
http://www.bundyology.com/fs1.htmlhttp://www.bundyology.com/fs2.html
― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
really though, why dudes? not a single good reason so far. it's weird and gross.
― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to mention the ambidextrous thing too. I hear the point about drinking beer leading to a cold hand and then a switching of the hand that goes down the pants, but when I think about it, I always drink with my right hand. Drinking with my left hand just doesn't happen.
― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Come to think of it, I routinely keep one hand (alternating subconsciously) in some socially acceptable warmer place, like resting on my knee or thigh (or kind of under my knee toward the edge of a chair cushion, which is less awkward than it sounds when described).
― nabisco, Monday, 23 March 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Do left-handed men use their left hands?
speaking as a left-handed man, i think this might very well be true.
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
If you are looking for a reason to put your hands down your pants when lounging around, you are doing it wrong.
xp: I often stick a hand underneath one of my legs to keep it warm.
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i put my hands under my legs/ass when i'm sitting all the time. maybe this is a top / bottom divide.
― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
haha whew, Dan, I was worried I was going to be found weird for doing that
― nabisco, Monday, 23 March 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
oddest thing I probably do is, when stretching, putting a hand down the collar of my shirt behind my head (I mention it because I subconsciously just did it now)
xp: I was going to recopy yr post and substitute "between the asscheeks" in it for lols but (for once!) figured I might as well not go there
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it's weird that someone would put their hand in such a position that I'd think would be painful/cause hand to fall asleep.
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
that is under the legs while seated.
― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Monday, March 23, 2009 2:10 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
besides dan otm, i've been doing this since i was a teenager, dunno why it started. just figured it was a dude thing
― Hoos Passansteeno (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i'm realizing that me putting hands under my legs is just as irrational so w/e
― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
to challenge the middle-aged gut pressure-relief hypothesis: I think the gut pressure-relief is more easily accomplished by unbuttoning or unzipping the pants to the point where the gut can comfortably emerge.
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
ew
― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
clearly it is much more socially acceptable to unzip your pants in public than it is to put a hand in your pants
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
The implausible option:http://i44.tinypic.com/2j0fe6q.jpg
― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks to Z S's photoshop skills, my workload has been cut by 90%!
― WmC, Monday, 23 March 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
xp Hi Dere: when lounging around. That is, sitting at home in front of the television set then eventually falling asleep. My dad does this.
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ew Dad!
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I just think it feels relaxing. I don't have a better reason for it than that, and certainly don't do it when people are around.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
the untucked shirt covers anything untoward. I'd be more "ew" if he sat around with his hand down his pants.
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link