This is good in how it shows some nice bear upkeep/trimming before and after. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevinsmith/17-shocking-transformations-that-prove-a-good-beard-is
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
yikes i posted the wrong link. There are no bears in that.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
idk a couple of them might be
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
that URL is the stuff of nightmares
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
Too much facial hair or too much buzzfeed?
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
beard say hi to me
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
Before > after in at least half of those side-by-side comparisons.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
"kevinsmith" is the primary source of dread, I expect
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
I was imagining an article that's just all pictures of film director kevin smith with different levels of beard
also he would be wearing huge shorts in every pic
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
While driving me to work this morning my wife saw this stuff being advertised on the electronic billboard on the football stadium and was flabbergasted at how stupid it is. Not the existence of "wine in a can" per se, but this branding and marketing. Because, you know, drinking from a glass is so fucking girly.
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBnppR6.img?m=1&b=black&w=412&h=232&f=jpeg&q=60
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
Wine is made for shotgunning after all
― jmm, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
Last week I tried to explain to some of my French friends that drinking wine is a girly habit according to a certain contingent of the anglophone population and they struggled to wrap their minds around it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
Incidentally, it seems like every culture has some bullshit about how their traditional rivals are 'effeminate'.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
The only ones that are somewhat better in the before pic are the ones that were already ridiculously hot.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
lol putting it in a can isn't enough, it has to *say* "MAN" on it in big bold letters, jfc
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
tbh if someone told me they were going to the bar to get some mancan my first thought would not go to wine
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
I always figure men in the US think drinking wine is effeminate because they know nothing about wine.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
Dunno, is #1 ridiculously hot? The shaggier look suits him better imho.
3xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
Since moving to the UK I've noted with some amusement that women almost systematically order a glass of wine at the pub. I've yet to see a man do it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
part of my brain has apparently been polluted by an old roommate who is in fact a bear who loves man can
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
xpost That beard (1) looks dry and scraggly as f.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
finally opened the buzzfeed thing and too many of the "after" photos look like Proud Boys
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
the garbage mancan
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
Yeah I would say the same goes for the UK. The wine in regular UK pubs is often super boring too.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
USAians thinking wine is for women is a recent thing then? When I was in uni there, you’d commonly see guys at frat parties with bottles or jugs of wine. Not just talking about mad dog or Boone’s either
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
neckbeard vs proudboy.
I think the weirdest stereotype re: alcoholic drinks I had at some point is that cognac is an effeminate drink... unless you're rapping about it?
like idk where this even came from, some sort of weird received stereotype. maybe because brandy is distilled from wine? cognac is fine
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
― Yerac, Friday, January 18, 2019 10:35 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
FWIW the received stereotype I always got is that red wine ok but white wine is effeminate? Which I always thought was dumb anyway because white wine is delicious and much better on a hot day than red wine.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
bottles or jugs of wine, sure. but would you ever see those guys enjoying a single glass or having a bottle?
it's one of those things where it's perceived as one way with normal consumption, and completely differently when it's in a form meant for binge drinking
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
FWIW I think in the US the reason for the stereotype is that wine is seen as "high class" and things that are "high class" are also associated with being effeminate. Whereas in France wine is just what everyone drinks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
xpost, I don't think it's a recent thing and it's not anywhere in my solar system of people but there is a definite proliferation of "mommy needs wine" types of products, drinking of wine by female morning hosts, terms like cougar juice etc.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I think that's the reason. French culture tends to be perceived as altogether high class abroad (not just in English-speaking countries), which is really confusing to the French.
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― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah, people seem to not like white wine because they think they shouldn't like white wine. It's weird. Or they assume everything is overoaked chardonnay or sweet riesling. There are hundreds of white wine grape varieties. It usually goes better with food too.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
xpost oh yeah and it's definitely a classist thing, plus wine labels are hard to decipher so the snobbery is packed in.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
Not a huge fan of white but I couldn't live without a glass of Alsatian Gewürztraminer every now and then.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
tbf north american stores really love stocking overoaked chardonnay and sweet riesling
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
there was no substantial culture of wine-drinking in the uk until fairly recently. find an old person and ask them about pre 70s wine. the US obv in large part derived from beer boys. there is no mystery.
― ogmor, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
The alt-right ruined a perfectly good haircut imo.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
^^^ they did. Poor David Beckham.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
I've become a big fan of sancerre and alsatian pinot gris
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
I've had contentious exchanges with bro servers before who were aghast about my being a dude and ordering "girly" drinks. I can get a bartender being disappointed I asked for a vodka tonic when they've got the skill to make much fancier drinks that will net higher tips, but the waiter getting mad because I want a strawberry-banana daiquiri makes no sense. They are both expensive and delicious, everybody wins.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
xpost yeah I was about to say when I lived in London no one really drank wine but I see recently that a lot of people are drinking, like prosecco. And I've had some decent sparkling UK wine. Nyetimber.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
You should always start your drinking evening with a nice cava or prosecco, it's like drinking a baby cloud.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
So, to summarize: a 'masculine' relationship with alcohol is founded on unfussiness and sloshedness, whereas a 'feminine' one aims to please an aesthetically sophisticated palate. Or something. Doesn't account for craft beer, although you could view the entire phenomenon with masculinist suspicion and just continue chugging your Coors Light or Molson Canadian or whatever.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
post If you like sancerre and alsace pinot gris, you will like Pouilly Fume, alsace riesling and italian vermentino, verdicchio, pigato.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
Oh my thing about wine above and men thinking it's effeminate because they don't know about it is more about the knee jerk reaction of men to poo poo stuff they have no knowledge about.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
what abt yr beard-oil applying single malt connoisseur with his expensive cigar cutter and many many opinions?
― ogmor, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
I remember being advised once that any wine with an animal on the label is for girls.
― jmm, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
I guess if you add power (whether real or merely performed) to the equation, it suddenly becomes legitimate. But it works better with whiskey and cigars than it does with cognac or wine.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:53 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dont think that holds true when you consider eg whiskey either tbh
the type of man this thread is comfortable making yknow broadly negative handwavey comment on is just i guess a dumb man who wants uncomplex stuff that everyone else wants idk its hard to parse rly
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link