marketing of masculinity

187. self-administer a prostate exam

http://blog.makezine.com/beercantabarmor_cc.jpg

for a second i thought it read "pantone" and i was all who is this guy

188. self-diagnose prostate cancer

See, I thought it said "Fatone" and I was like, uhhhhh . . .

ps to brownie apparently there is a wedding scheduled for 3:30 in the muni lot amongst the idiots Browns fans

195. commandeer the vehicle of a stranger by force (non-video game)

6. Conquer an off-road obstacle

can this include alcoholism?

12. Perform hands-only CPR

Real men give mouth-to-mouth

I do believe I was roommates with beer can armor guy in college. I knew him when he was just coke can armor guy (I guess this was before he was 21). He would leave rotting meat under his bed and moldy towels in the closet. Whenever I'd bring my girlfriend around he'd glare at her like she was like some kind-of intruder by sake of her gender.

107. Glare at opposite sex

pancakes, message in ILNFL 4 u

108. Remove Bookmark from this Thread

44. Treat a burn

important ilx skill

u guys as i write this i am eating rice out of the pot i cooked (slightly burnt) it in. real men have no need for dishes.

but really i'm just in a hurry.

Not married, I assume.

I hope when you wrote "rice" you meant "squirrel you strangled with your god-damned bare hands"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RlK0Xd4c2c

44. Treat a burn

important ilx skill

genuine in-office roffles! I go to a meeting and shit turns hilarious.

Going wayyy upthread... I watched the whole series of "how to tie a tie", and not one of those knots is quite exactly the one that I tie. I keep watching the four-in-hand and half-windsor videos, but neither seem exactly like my (apparently special) knot. But neither are the results very different. I want my knot to have a NAME, damnit!

how does yr knot go

I... I can't describe it all with words and stuff. I suppose I could make a video.

But I'm not sure either myself or anyone else really cares that much.

In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't.

Ok, forget I mentioned it. :)

haah ok

Make a video and we can call it a "full kenan."

kenan maybe it is a pratt aka shelby knot? iirc there are like 85 ways to knot a tie (topologically) but there are only 5 or so that are named

double kenan

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~ym101/tie4/tie4.html

^ nerd alert

holy shit, that link is like catnip to me (and I don't wear ties that often)

Ah ha. Yeah, seems like a shelby, though I don't start the way they do in this video, with the shit all backwards and shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ4Rb_mYKS0

That would be a good bit of masculine marketing if only those were a woman's hands.

And if it were The Edge instead of a mannequin.

heh... I got that.

in defense of that popular science list (not the way it's written or every item on it), my stepdad was a popular science kinda dude. he knew his way around every imaginable tool and scientific discipline, in a knowledgeable layman's "here are the basics" sort of way. he knew all about surviving arcane emergencies and how to tie hundreds of different knots, could repair cars and household appliances and plumbing and electrical systems. had a head full of mathematical formulae and conversion tables and useful phrases in foreign languages. was not a cook, but had memorized a few favorite recipes he could execute expertly. knew the name of every plant, animal, constellation and cloud formation.

he just liked to know his way around stuff. it was definitely an ego thing for him, but one with tangible benefits. he was great to go camping or fishing with, a godsend in real emergencies of any kind, and i learned a hell of a lot from him. always kinda regretted not being more like him in that sense, but i'm not. therefore, i'm kinda cool with a lot of the stuff on that PS list and with its general intent, though yeah it's written very badly.

holy shit i forgot about fucking speed buggy until just now

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that seems like an experience one would remember forever

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especially if you're this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTiVO8kbEvc

Should we expand this to images of masculinity in pop tunes? Like, say, your top 40/young country hits about "bein' a man"? As contrasted with James Brown or Jarvis?

I think Jarvis is a little more in a grey area than James Brown or [insert male country artist here]. Jarvis is kind of the embodiment of "My dick is where? This is too rich."

^ i don't know what this means, but it's my new display name.

the dick in in a tub of creme fraîche? how is that good?

i think table is the table has already taken that one tbh xp

LOL - the Shelby is named after an incredibly cool Twin Cities anchordude.

Re: BBQ and how to eat it, from Joseph Mitchell:

It didn't take women long to corrupt the beefsteak. They forced the addition of such things as Manhattan cocktails, fruit cups, and fancy salads to the traditional menu of slices of ripened steaks, double lamb chops, kidneys, and beer by the pitcher. They insisted on dance orchestras instead of brassy German bands. The life of the party at a beefsteak used to be the man who let out the most ecstatic grunts, drank the most beer, ate the most steak, and got the most grease on his ears, but women do not esteem a glutton, and at a contemporary beefsteak it is unusual for a man to do away with more than six pounds of meat and thirty glasses of beer. Until around 1920, beefsteak etiquette was rigid. Knives, forks, napkins, and tablecloths never had been permitted; a man was supposed to eat with his hands.

When beefsteaks became bisexual, the etiquette changed. For generations men had worn their second-best suits because of the inevitability of grease spots; tuxedos and women appeared simultaneously. Most beefsteaks degenerated into polite banquets at which open-face sandwiches of grilled steak happened to be the principal dish. However, despite the frills introduced by women, two schools of traditional steak-dinner devotees still flourish. They may conveniently be called the East Side and West Side schools. They disagree over matters of menu and etiquette, and both claim that their beefsteaks are the more classical or old-fashioned.

bisexual beefsteaks, huh

I suppose this wasn't enough to set off your satire-ometer:

at a contemporary beefsteak it is unusual for a man to do away with more than six pounds of meat and thirty glasses of beer.

tbh when the dicks get to swingin' it's hard to distinguish satire from self-parody sometimes

I don't think the entire thing is full-on satire but it certainly doesn't seem like something that wants to be taken seriously; it looks like it's dressing up commentary re: East Side and West Side steak cooking methods in "rawr we were real men then" humor.

Well, it was written in 1939 about the beefsteaks of the 1920s (taken from this page on beefsteaks, but also from Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel. I don't think of it as satire, as much as reporting on the guys who missed the old beefsteaks of yore.

haha okay, that does put something of a different context on it

"remember the days before beefsteak went ac/dc?"