otm, i enjoyed that v much
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 November 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
C'mon, almost 1% of that is fiber!
― nickn, Sunday, 30 November 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/mxrk/status/546606308385116160
― Dej & the Fommly Loaf (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 December 2014 12:28 (nine years ago) link
http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/7588/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-spornosexual/
what the fuck is this. what the fuck is this word.
― goole, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/7063/rise-of-the-spornosexual/
esquire what the fuck are you trying to do here
― goole, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
This tendency towards buffness is a cultural phenomenon defined by author and journalist Mark Simpson as “spornosexuality”. The term, denoting men who strive to look like sportsmen or porn stars, marks the next stage in the evolution of the preening, mediated “metrosexual” (a word Simpson introduced to the public consciousness in a 1994 article in The Independent, then popularised in a 2002 piece for US news site salon.com).
mark simpson, please break up
― goole, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
What a terrible word. No one is going to actually say that out loud. Esquire, pls stop trying to make spornosexual happen.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
lol @ how much better the "before" is here
http://assets.esquire.co.uk/images/uploads/fourbythree/_1080_43/Max-Olesker-promo-43.jpg
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
No one is going to actually say that out loud.
I'm not even going to click on the link from work.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Basically seems to mean "underwear ad model".
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Sportellosexualhttp://cdnbakmi.kaltura.com/p/1151292/sp/115129200/thumbnail/entry_id/0_6buo3q0a/version/100002/acv/212/width/648/height/398
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Tbh I like his face better in the "after" but the body is mildly terrifying.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
it's rather odd, like the personal trainer screwed something up
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
Mark Simpson is good imo, haven't read that esquire article
― soref, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
there must be some lipo/plastic surgery involved in the "after" jaw, right?
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
the before picture has a lot of "make your face look schlubbier please" photographer instruction going on
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't think so? It didn't seem like he was that committed to the schtick except as something to write the article about. Just what you look like with 2% body fat or whatever. xp And yeah sure.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Not exactly on all fours with this thread, but I just saw a banner ad for a document shreader that said "NOW THIS IS AUTOMATIC SHREDDING" and I got this amusing image in my head of middle-aged men calling their neighbors over to check out the horsepower on the new shredder.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 23 February 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Would also make a good Yngwie Malmsteen album title
― JRN, Monday, 23 February 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
http://www.gq.com/style/2015/04/gq-shoes-pants-tailoring-taper-jeans-sneakers
"I tie my Doc Marten laces around my ankles, with the knot in the back. Then I tuck the back of my 501s in and let the front hang over a little. I guess the idea is intensity without going full skinhead."
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 11:32 (eight years ago) link
http://zenkoyoga.com.au/real-blokes-do-yoga/
― drash, Friday, 8 May 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
‘Real Blokes Do Yoga’ is dedicated to lads, the fellas, the blokes, the athletes, the tradies and all the tough guys out there who are or might be thinking of taking up yoga.On this website, we will provide ‘blokey’ orientated advice on yoga in real world applications and try to keep it as practical and down to earth as possible. Stay tuned for interviews with real blokes doing yoga, instructional videos on yoga for all sorts of applications such as golf, surfing, soccer, AFL, rugby, tennis, boxing….and the list goes on.
On this website, we will provide ‘blokey’ orientated advice on yoga in real world applications and try to keep it as practical and down to earth as possible. Stay tuned for interviews with real blokes doing yoga, instructional videos on yoga for all sorts of applications such as golf, surfing, soccer, AFL, rugby, tennis, boxing….and the list goes on.
― drash, Friday, 8 May 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
#yogabantz
― p:s nerds know (dog latin), Friday, 8 May 2015 13:24 (eight years ago) link
#broga
― p:s nerds know (dog latin), Friday, 8 May 2015 13:26 (eight years ago) link
#piLADes
― p:s nerds know (dog latin), Friday, 8 May 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
lol
― drash, Friday, 8 May 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
dog latin did you make that #broga joke and then gradually realise how great an idea it really is https://brogayoga.com/
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 15 June 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's my company.
― hongro strulkington (dog latin), Monday, 15 June 2015 11:15 (eight years ago) link
i aim to get all my clients' chapras in line
― don't believe me, just wash (dog latin), Monday, 15 June 2015 11:20 (eight years ago) link
by doing the downward dawg
and frequent men-ditation
― don't believe me, just wash (dog latin), Monday, 15 June 2015 11:21 (eight years ago) link
Chest-bumping dog.
― nickn, Monday, 15 June 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
this just showed up in my inbox - infantilising AND comically macho!
http://www.powertext.co.uk/account/106/units/885/BH_Father%27s_Day_2015%20middel.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
Buzzfeed's take on apparently real products.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/masculinity-is-strong-and-powerful#.xy1Ndo908
― nickn, Thursday, 18 June 2015 05:10 (eight years ago) link
good lord @ "fragile masculinity" being a meme
― example (crüt), Thursday, 18 June 2015 12:21 (eight years ago) link
like I know men's products are the dumbest shit ever but after reading the words "masculinity" and "fragile" in close proximity so many times they become meaningless to me
― example (crüt), Thursday, 18 June 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
let's invert expectations by calling men fragile instead of strong. mind blown
― example (crüt), Thursday, 18 June 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
yeah. i think 'fragility' can a useful way to frame the anxieties of masculinity, but not because it subverts your expectations and blows your mind. men are weak, DO YOU SEE?
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 18 June 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link
like, masculinity brings with it many advantages except that it is vulnerable from every direction. practically anything can destabilize it and anything less than its perfect performance can be mean ridicule, shame, exclusion, violence. it's under constant existential threat to such an extent that even any passing connection to anything non-masculine can poison it.
so 'fragility' in that sense is an essential characteristic; but it's what motivates men to militate against those threats, to exploit those fears in other men, to submit each other so much heartbreaking cruelty.
but yea
"men are teacups lol"
okay
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 18 June 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Anyway, another overhead shot of a cup of coffee in that steak thing. This seems to be a thing now?
― 'come around to your house and fuck your ho' (paraphrase) (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 18 June 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
i somehow doubt that's coffee tbh
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 19 June 2015 11:56 (eight years ago) link
no coffee only "bro fuel"
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 19 June 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
from that copy it almost looks like you're supposed to sit yourself at the grill and eat your steak straight off the grill as it's grilling.
― slugbuggy, Friday, 19 June 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
i appreciate that the grill markings don't even match the grill plate that, for some reason, it's being served on??
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 19 June 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
^good eye
― Aimless, Friday, 19 June 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
shared the ridiculous buzzfeed list on facebook. a friend who shared it had someone comment that most of the marketing is supposed to be funny.
I think there's some truth, but it's a cynical ploy assuming "man humor" is dumb as hell, like "hah hah, a loofah that is for 'detailing' a man, hilarious"
yet another friend posted a link to this Coke Zero article we might have mentioned before: http://www.ajc.com/news/business/coke-zero-becomes-a-hero-for-coca-cola-co/nQkHh/
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 19 June 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
I'm trying to cut down my soda intake as much as possible, but I drink Coke Zero about once a week. Nothing to do with marketing at all; it tastes a lot better than Diet Coke, which always tastes like aluminum even when it comes out of a bottle. And regular Coke is out of the question 'cause I'm diabetic.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 19 June 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
yah, I think the fact it is a new product helped them, but tbrr the reason it is doing better among men than diet coke does is because it lacks "diet" in the name
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 19 June 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
the coke zero bottle is dimpled like a football. when i guzzle a coke zero it feels like i'm wrapping my sweaty beefy mitts around the very essence of manly sensation.
also the masculine bedroom in the buzzfeed thing has yellow and pink accent colors. wherever that comes from it's for bros who know what accent colors are.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 20 June 2015 05:04 (eight years ago) link
like the apotheosis of masculine styling is a complete disregard for styling in the most slovenly way possible; styling a masculine bedroom is a tautological impossibility.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 20 June 2015 05:22 (eight years ago) link