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Nice to know I'm not the only one noticing this, the phrase
"Shut up or man up" has been steadily growing in frequency of use round our way.

DutchKillsRambo wrote:Beta is the new Alpha when it comes to getting laid.

yeah cept most the girls that sleep with guys like that...

Wouldnt touch that with a 15 foot pole and a hazmat suit..

filbert wrote:As Homer says:

"I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming."

Don't recall that line in the Illiad or Oddesey

fwiw many a manly deed was done by manly man, nay DEMI-GOD, Achilles on the plains of the Meander. He still had an eye for a pretty boy shield bearer.
The two can co-exist.

Also the whole darn thing kicked off cos pretty boy Paris looked at Menalaus's bird.
Plus ca change

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

filbert wrote:As Homer says:

"I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming."

Don't recall that line in the Illiad or Oddesey

fwiw many a manly deed was done by manly man, nay DEMI-GOD, Achilles on the plains of the Meander. He still had an eye for a pretty boy shield bearer.
The two can co-exist.

Also the whole darn thing kicked off cos pretty boy Paris looked at Menalaus's bird.
Plus ca change

Actually, I think it was in the Nostoi

Greeks and such were never manly, they were weird.

Ah! that would be the more likely source Filbert

This is Ajax



He has just read wot you wrote Soladrin and is about to do a facepalm.
But he is made out of marble (cos THAT'S how hard he is!) so it just takes a bit longer to smack the forehead.

For those that like their men manly and their women even manlier

I know more then enough about the Greeks, and the god's they worshipped, to know that they were one of the weirdest, most perverted and just plain wrong people ever to walk the earth.

Awesome? Yes!
Manly? No

The two are not the same.

Just re-felted my shed roof

I AM MAN

I trim my finger nails with hedge clippers.

I AM MAN!

Oh and "women prefer effeminate men" is a ridiculous generalisation, who says that? Effeminate men?

The majority of women are like the majority of men. We both like the same stuff. If you pick a "hot" woman out, some men will find her more attractive than others, but we will still pretty much all want to bang her.

Same with girls, sure some have their types and i dont doubt there is a small percentage of women who like weird bony men with tye dye shirts and dreadlocks, but they all generally like the same stuff. You know.. Brad Pitt and Hugh Jackman or whatever. Women like handsome, well built (not too massive and not too skinny) confident men. They dont like pasty eye-liner wearing nimrods who sport Kilts and Doctor martins, have a coach bolt fired through their tongues, cry often and have a penchant for self harm.

The Royal Marines are famous lady killers, we used to turn up in towns, drink too much and shag alot of the women-folk. Sure not every guy got lucky every night, but if you turned up somewhere lots of blokes started getting laid, simple equation really. Young, fit, confident men get laid alot.

And there were no sarongs, eye-liner or man bags in sight!

I spent last Friday night playing a street corner in downtown Fort Worth with a feather boa and purple/lavender gradient eye shadow. Unless I get David Bowie points I think I'm out of this competition

Edit: I should add that I was the only guy wearing make up that I saw. Lots of cowboy hats or generic abercrombie guys. I got the most money from black guys in brightly colored polo shirts though (which is still manly for them), if that's worth anything.

Girl's who like men like that don't exist for me anyway

Soladrin wrote:I have a beard, a moustache, tattoos, a chainsaw, love beer, a girlfriend with huge knockers and I work at a factory.

Yesterday at work someone lost 2 fingers, and after 5 minutes of cursing the machine and kicking it, he was cracking jokes that this oughta get him out of pleasuring his wife. It was awesome.

Pics or it didn't... er, never mind!

mattyrm wrote:Oh and "women prefer effeminate men" is a ridiculous generalisation, who says that?

True enough, but there have been a LOT of generalizations in this thread already!

Soldarin
shaking my head in disbelief

Weird and masculine are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
I can only assume that you are referring to the sexual practices of classical greeks as be weird?

Secondly the legends were much older than the period to which you seem to be referring.

Cannerus
Think you get the Bowie points (and I don't mean anything to do with sharp knives! )

Soladrin wrote:Girl's who like men like that don't exist for me anyway

I've discovered a magical "safety zone" where women feel secure around you because they think you're completely gay, but later find out otherwise It's led to some good encounters. It's more about selling it anyway. Case in point:


Justin Tranter has a million obsessed female fans. He's obviously doing something right.

Some of you are on thin ice, pink is my old school colours.



It is a traditional male colour.

Got plenty of moth eaten rags that I wear but somehow they don't seem to have the same effect on the opposite sex.
Can't think why

Grrr...too many words original post....VLAD SMASH! I R MAN!!!

Sorry, Killkrazy.

At my high school, they basically own the joint. And the malls, and the streets, etc.

I don't complain, because if one of 'em gets uppity, I challenge them to a manly contest (Arm wrestling, regular wrestling, running, etc.) and they all squeal in fear of messing up their $150++ shirt.

squilverine wrote:What is it that makes these preening peacocks so attractive to the girls that only a few years ago would have preferred a manly man, the type of man who has a shed not a Twilight shrine, a man who wears DM's not winkle pickers, So manly men of Dakka (a possibly quite small audience I know ) here is the chance to let the world know of your manly credentials, have you ever dabled with the pastel side? Have you lost a friend to the peacock brigade? Are you going to be spending the weekend doing something suitably masculine?

Man cards will be handed out for sufficiently amusing tales of masculinity.

DM's were one of the things that attracted my wife to me. She liked mine so much, I ended up buying her a pair. After that, she was mine!

She's from Texas, so if I can handle that, I'm am one of the manliest men on this board!




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I saw a great comedy act a few years ago. A group of Emos were trying to pick a fight with some Cowboys by telling them how uncool and apish they looked.
The whole fight took about 5 seconds(literally) and ended like you would expect.

kronk wrote:Sorry, Killkrazy.

Sorry Demotivateus.com, that's just evidence of ignorance and poor layout skills.

squilverine wrote:

assultmarine wrote:ive noticede them too, spice boys we call them, i was in a shopping centre and saw a guy in kaki shorts, kaki beret and....pink shirt.

Navy recruiter?

You know what they say about the Navy: 300 Men go out on a ship and 150 couples come back!

Just kidding, Navy guys. Some of my best buds are squids. I just don't turn my back on them!

ITT nerds complain that there aren't enough men any more on the internet.

You want deeds of manly things to prove our man card?

I once did a class 2 download on a structure fire..... inside the burning house. And was pissed cause my headlamp couldn't pen the smoke enough for me to read the magazines that were sitting next to the sink.

I was summoned to kill a spider once. It was touch and go for a while until I managed to find a paper towel roll.

Last time i was asked to kill a spider the end result was a dead spider and about 200 airsoft pellets all over the house....

My wife doesnt ask me to kill spiders anymore.

ShivanAngel wrote:Last time i was asked to kill a spider the end result was a dead spider and about 200 airsoft pellets all over the house....

My wife doesnt ask me to kill spiders anymore.

I tried to kill a bug with a Ruger once, but was stopped...

I used to turn the TV off with my pistol.

Well. Just that once, really.

Relapse wrote:

squilverine wrote:What is it that makes these preening peacocks so attractive to the girls that only a few years ago would have preferred a manly man, the type of man who has a shed not a Twilight shrine, a man who wears DM's not winkle pickers, So manly men of Dakka (a possibly quite small audience I know ) here is the chance to let the world know of your manly credentials, have you ever dabled with the pastel side? Have you lost a friend to the peacock brigade? Are you going to be spending the weekend doing something suitably masculine?

Man cards will be handed out for sufficiently amusing tales of masculinity.

DM's were one of the things that attracted my wife to me. She liked mine so much, I ended up buying her a pair. After that, she was mine!

She's from Texas, so if I can handle that, I'm am one of the manliest men on this board!




Automatically Appended Next Post:
I saw a great comedy act a few years ago. A group of Emos were trying to pick a fight with some Cowboys by telling them how uncool and apish they looked.
The whole fight took about 5 seconds(literally) and ended like you would expect.

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