marketing of masculinity

Does Europe have drywall?

We call it plasterboard in the UK, afaik. Here's Keith showing us how to style it out:

https://i.redd.it/eu7b8mf11ni11.jpg

when i was in the UK electrical installations biz they were called stud walls. I hated them tbh because you often would end up wearing out 3 spade bits drilling holes into wooden joists for the cables to go through and then you'd have plate every bit of wood the cable passes through and the less said about them horrible fast-fix boxes the better. And some people seemed to think this was much easier than chasing out plaster/brick and you'd be expected to finish it twice as fast.

in baseball it’s always very angry pitchers who punch walls and often they break their hand

I remember this happening in the 2004 NLCS, Julian Tavarez gave up a home run to Carlos Beltran and then went to the dugout and tried to beat up a telephone, breaking his hand in the process.

kinder <3

If I wanted to punch drywall I'd have to go buy some drywall first

Bringing this back around to the thread topic, who wants to invest in my theme pub for men that has big sports on TVs and punchable walls replaced daily?

Kevin Brown was a very good example, I remember this happening during his ill-fated 2004 season w/the Yankees:

In 2004, he posted a 10–6 record with a 4.09 ERA, but experienced health problems during the season. Toward the end of the season, he punched a wall in frustration,[7] injuring his hand.

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You might want to wait until the ax-throwing bar craze dies down.

it's sort of amazing how often this happens in baseball, and it's always pitchers

every once in a while there'll be a guy who at least remembered to use his non-pitching hand

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjbavx/dumb-pitchers-punching-shit-and-getting-injured-a-selected-history

doesn't even mention Alex Reyes or Drew Pomeranz

There is a wealth of google search returns for punching a hole in drywall. sigh.

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/53b2d1cba923ddc669000060/master/w_768,c_limit/415744_pa_leftovers_poster_v5-1.jpg

dudes get equally angry at the burgers being overdone, a bad pitching performance, and the rapture

the silver lining is the low-key color commentary as they show some player demolishing the dugout phone with a bat... "don't think that phone's gonna work anymore" "they're giving him some space"

https://i.imgur.com/dB7Jt2Y.jpg

just want to point out that leftovers poster shows a white man punching a plaster wall, not drywall. ok?

FUUUCK. *punches drywall* Somebody beat me to my great idea.

"Break Bar New York City is the cool bar in NYC where you can break stuff, smash stuff, and join our wrecking club!"

FAP?

Fancy A Punch?

got an idea for a monthly subscription service of sustainably sourced breakable shit.

the thrift stores of the usa salute you with their wide array of unwanted breakables

The pics at that bar make me itchy.

Meanwhile I saw an ad for ROSES FOR MEN. They aren't like some wimpy-ass tea roses favored by girls and betas. I mean these suckers are the size of baseballs.

Www.roseclubformen.com

Thought it was an SNL parody ad, apparently it is not.

Broses.com was taken?

once worked with this very damaged + "eccentric" steroid pumping badly aging ex-footie hooligan type who stone-faced reckoned he could chop a breeze block in half with his hand. Never mind punching a fucking bit of egg-box!

tried to get him to do a demonstration once, but the disorderly feng shui and noise of site was disrupting his flow!

Lol @ mick s.

Disappointed that roseclubformen.com doesn't actually market the flowers for men.

https://i.imgur.com/0SBeZ7T.png

got an order in from newegg recently and there's an ad for another one of those mail-order razorblade outfits. in fairness i do shave quite a bit more than men typically do but how many fucking mail-order razorblade outfits does one need, and why are they still writing their marketing material as if they're all competing exclusively with gillette?

how....often do you shave

how....often do men shave

many of yr statements intrigue me

I shave once a month, so this box sounds perfect.

some of their business comes from heavy cocaine users

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/24/20696487/everyday-carry-reddit-knife-wallet-gun

heh heh

BRB, gotta go drop 'carry' (n.) in the 'words that annoy the shit out of you' thread

Though not everyone in the community is interested in firearms — Diale in particular was turned off at first by all the talk of carrying guns before realizing that the community was more about general-purpose tools — some members take it to extremes. For example, Frank says he often sees some gun enthusiasts in EDC spaces repeat the refrain “one is none,” which reflects their belief that carrying at least two firearms at once is the only way to ensure their personal safety.

walking around with guns and pouches strapped all over you like an imperial-phase rob liefeld drawing is the only way to be safe

“At the end of the day, we just really like having stuff, you know?” he says, laughing. “And if it looks good and it’s functional, that’s all the better.”

this exact attitude is why the world is ending fyi

At the end of the day, I just really like having a cart. And if a horse comes along to actually pull it somewhere, that's all the better.

I have all kinds of “useful*” crap in my bag and I like having it there but the EDC “community” is totally execrable

*my wife got new sneakers while we were on vacation but she didn’t like the laces. She asked if I had some laces and of course I did, in the pocket with the lint brush, the flashlight, the eyeglass repair kit and the tailor’s tape

pictured: tombot modelling his vacation apparel

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F78.media.tumblr.com%2F462e34418b75e31e3580828eb28c13c5%2Ftumblr_o8ioq27YtJ1qjztgpo1_400.gif&f=1

And women regularly “EDC” about 20-30 functional items in their bag; I guess the masculinization of the practice is at least pretty funny in that respect. Men started carrying more than just a wallet and keys with them so all of a sudden putting stuff in a bag gets an acronym and a “culture” that embraces knives and guns

No one dares to call it a 'murse' when there's a camo print involved.

I've carried bags full of crap around with me my entire life, some of them explicitly ladies bags. Dudes be insecure af that their machismo might ever be in doubt.

Also velcro is noisy as hell when you’re trying to get something out during a meeting.

lol every day meeting

Where's the article about the substitute teacher who had both a gun and a knife in his pocket AT THE SAME TIME and the knife went through the trigger guard and accidentally discharged the weapon IN THE CLASSROOM? My top candidate for EDC super secret atom detector ring club.

I hadn’t heard that one. Funny not funny

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2019/07/74-year-old-substitute-teacher-convicted-in-discharge-of-gun-in-1st-grade-blount-county-classroom.html

holy crap

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2019/03/why-did-74-year-old-substitute-teachers-gun-discharge-in-alabama-1st-grade-classroom.html

“I completely forgot about the pistol in my pocket”

74-year-old substitute teacher

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZXQR-cPXlmY/hqdefault.jpg

My first thought when reading the article was that these are dudes who excitedly rush forward when the opportunity to, say, help someone get their keys out of their locked car arises and who manage at least half the time to inexplicably shoot a couple of their toes off in the process.

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2019/03/why-did-74-year-old-substitute-teachers-gun-discharge-in-alabama-1st-grade-classroom.html

“I completely forgot about the pistol in my pocket”

― El Tomboto, Thursday, July 25, 2019 4:34 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Last I checked BWI had just caught it's 20th passenger of the year attempting to fly with a loaded pistol in their carry-on.

I managed to fly across the country and back in early 2002 (so like 4-5 months after 9/11) with one of my bags full of crap as a carry-on and only realized upon returning home that I had an X-Acto tucked in one of the pockets the whole time.

wonder how many more actually made it through security theatre without having their weapon confiscated