MMA and beard care and creative street tacos and craft beer as mainstream American male culture in 2019

https://i.imgur.com/cyiMBg6.png

I was taught that if your sunglasses aren't on your eyes, they should be resting on your larynx.

Grilling seems like a pretty "manly" thing, though tbh I prefer when my wife grills, she does a better job. I mix drinks.

When it gets hot out I dgaf, almost all bets all off. Shorts, flip-flops, whatever. It's hot.

Grilling always seems like a "whoever didn't get to play with fire enough as a kid" thing.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j1ztYwWXi5E/hqdefault.jpg

I have been wearing a messenger bag since I was 12 yrs old. I think It's starting to annoy my one hip so I was thinking of switching to a small backpack maybe. I can't decide. I just think of that Kids in the Hal sketch "I'm in the middle of a big bike race." xpost

― Yerac, Monday, May 20, 2019 6:13 PM (forty-three minutes ago)

I think about these sketches all the time. And I wear glasses and a green Celtics cap and carry a red backpack and I'm basically Gavin now.

Gavin looks like half the twenty-somethings out there! You’re very youthful.

I was insanely a “no shorts” guy from my teens through early 20s and doing that while ever venturing outside in a town with 90+ degree weather with 70%+ humidity in the summer is just silly.

NFL is gross, gtfo

burgers are gross too but nothing's grosser to me than the essentialist capital-d Doctrine at the root of "The Right Way to Do Maleness" pap

mh otm. unfortunately my shorts collection has dwindled down to a) gym shorts and b) three paint-splattered pairs of cargo shorts. if i weren't recovering from surgery i'd go clothes shopping.

burgers are gross too but nothing's grosser to me than the essentialist capital-d Doctrine at the root of "The Right Way to Do Maleness" pap

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi)

Not a fan of burgers these days. I ate a flounder with capers and butter sauce tonight. Does this compensate?

i don't think it was intrinsically bad for the internet to remind men that personal grooming is a good idea or teach them how clothes fit. as with all things there was useful stuff to take and dumb stuff to leave behind.

also feels like we're on the tail end of this trend so i guess i can wait in dread for whatever comes next.

Hmmm maybe a fanny pack is the answer to all my problems

― change display name (Jordan), Monday, May 20, 2019 5:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

except looking like a dork, that problem

― j., Monday, May 20, 2019 5:18 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought fanny packs were a good look now, although that's the problem with normcore, I'm probably too old and dorky to make it a 'look'.

Toss yer shit in a well-worn Walgreens bag and you're good to go. Make it into a bindle if you need to.

i don't really have a stake in most of this shit these days but i would like to congratulate dollar shave club for somehow convincing men to change out their razorblades more often than once every six fucking months

good job

Jordan no — you’ll never be Pockets!! I think about Pockets every time I see someone on stage with tons of stuff in their pockets. Lol!

i dont care abt this but this is a really good thread title thx

Apparently on Lyft/Uber I'm mentioned as "the sweet guy who talks for a few minutes then disappears behind a book."

I aspire to be more like you!

the least pleasant person I’ve met recently is an MMA fighter.... he thinks that everybody is either a wolf or a sheep. I tried to tell him I’m a raccoon but he was too busy waiting to resume talking

presumably he kills whatever he eats using only his bare hands and devours it raw

xxp would really be something if riders were officially rated by Uber/Lyft drivers

clearly you should procure a wolf and next time you see him, he can fight the wolf for the wolf title

George Méliès - MMA Man Walks through Door (1901)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqoF4dgm6MY

xxp would really be something if riders were officially rated by Uber/Lyft drivers

― Dan S, Monday

I think they are?

everybody is either a wolf or a door

and it's up to thom yorke to keep them apart

how much are we trimming pubic hair on average these days my dudes

xxxp I didn't know that! I certainly don't know what my rating is, although I like the drivers in general and always leave them a tip. One time I gave a fantastic driver a one star rating in a horrible mistake because I thought I was rating the previous driver who didn't want to pick me up (it turns out they don't allow you to rate those assholes). I contacted Uber to see if I could retract that rating, they said no. I feel really bad about that

Rating passengers seems like overkill, would it not be more useful to just straight up flag problem passengers

There was a Portlandia episode where Carrie rides around trying to raise her uber rating after finding out that hers is the lowest among her friends.

xpost, i'm not a dude but my only advice is to not trim pubes so short you end up being a prickly pear to someone you are trying to smash.

I once heard someone female describe totally shaved (flaccid) male genitalia as looking like a newborn puppy.

lol

xp agree, although pubes (and all other body hair) should be trimmed to some extent is my opinion

everyone's pubes are either a wolf or a sheep

^^^ first line in an Isherwood memoir iirc

ha ha!

all otm

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-14-art-bad-boys-macho-work-impossible-ignore

not sure playing with your own shit is macho

FWIW this was all prompted by me attending a "craft beer and art" festival this weekend in an ex-factory turned art studio center that also has a brewery, yoga studio etc. in it and noticing that the area and crowd were a bit more, IDK, trump country than I expected (although maybe not actual trump supporters, I really have no idea?).

Guessing you were in Garnerville based on that description? Rockland County generally skews Democratic, but Trump won the areas immediately north (and some just to the south) of Garnerville.

correct!

The art center itself was pretty cool, but tasting beer is boring after 3 or 4 tastes, and the whole tasting room was being blasted out by a very loud (although admittedly tight) reggae band.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-14-art-bad-boys-macho-work-impossible-ignore

― Trϵϵship, Monday, May 20, 2019 9:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This almost reads like a reductress piece