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There’s one that I should have married… it still burns me to this day.
Men don’t age like fine wine.
speak for yourself. I’m only getting better… minus the thinning hair
Many men get increasingly strange, rigid, and neurotic when living single for a long time.
This is true thankfully I always tend to have a female complaining in my ear
What is peculiar about men in the current day is heavy focus on their looks, which is why we see men freaking out about hair loss and partaking in hefty grooming, hefty tattooing, and gym-maxing. (I gym-maxed for much of my life obviously.)
Yeah this is true.
I also think the nonchalant attitude for the seriousness of courting and holding onto a woman works in the cases of very attractive men, who can sort of afford such stalling and have the matching callous and aloof personality that allows them to discard women. As said, I don’t think it works for average warm-hearted men.
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Also, related, but just a fun story: I had a work dinner and drinks Friday night. Casual dress. Employees, manager, sales guys, and area manager. Well I only had an hour to lift, so I busted fucking ass for 45 minutes, hopped in the truck, and left.
Show up, everyone except one employee were in button down shirts and jeans. Here I am, sleeveless shirt, ballouts, knee high deadlift socks, boots, “defend death metal” on my hat. covered in chalk, and still visibly damp.
Whoooops
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So, ‘casual’ means something different in a work setting, haha.
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Also, my area manager is a big ass farm boy. So the night ended in everyone being hammered and me and him arm wrestling for dominance. That farm boy strength is no fucking joke.
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Lol I didnt plan on lifting that long. Oh well, they expect no less of me. I spend 10 hours a day as a robot at work, if they say casual, my ass is going casual lol.
What a doofus. 
I used to listen to a lot of DM. Death and Morbid Angel were my favorites.
Have you observed the same with excessive grooming? I started noticing in the late 90s while living in Queens, NY, in the guido heyday, when some young guys started taking longer to get ready than women. My own friend would flip on another to get the hell out of the house for plans!
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Oh yeah, its wild. Even when I had long hair, at most i would brush it and jump out the door. Now that my hair is short, I pretty much sleep with a hat on. And… that’s it. Meanwhile my best friend needs a shower, daily trim, beard oil, exfoliating…
Like… arguably the best part of being a guy is being able to own 1 pair of pants, a good hat, some good shit kickers, and a couple of shirts, and being attractive to the opposite sex. Why anyone would ever complicate this is beyond me.
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And little grime and grease makes you look “masculine” and add to the effect lol.
This would not work where I’m from. Any grime or grease is an immediate libido kill.
Men have our own fashion stylists! Whatever’s at the top of the drawer, all day, every day. Boom.
Yeah, working with heavy machinery all day does give a certain rugged look. Although, I do scrub the fuck out of my hands with a brush at home for like 10 minutes every day after work, because my wife is not a fan of machine grease and copper shavings on the hands during sex, for some strange reason.
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Bummer. Granted I live in a tourist town, so most guys here are just like Brick is referring to. I guess I probably stand out. Dont get me wrong, I’ve gotten noses turned up at me, but if a pretty boy or otherwise well groomed guy isnt a girls thing, I usually am.
Understandably, I handle a lot of machinery with oil and fertilizers all day at a supply house, so I can come home a bit tainted. But that’s a far cry from these dudes moisturizing twice a day. Which, is fine, just to be clear. Just a wild left turn from the 90’s action movies we all grew up on.
When I say most of my old fellow gym goers of the 90’s and 00’s looked like this, I mean it. The look worked though.
Most were nice guys who were simply hooked on partying.
Google “Sound Factory NYC” or “Neptune’s Hamptons” for related nostalgia.
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Growing up on Long Island with my brother being a gym bro in the early 2000s, I can confirm that when I visited his frat at Stonybrook, this was half of the guys. Zero exaggeration.
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That picture is literal cancer.
I actually had a very good friend many years ago. I always took “Guido” as a derogatory term. Well a year or so into the friendship. It hit me. He was absolutely a stereotypical guido. Shook me to my core.
It’s worth noting, not that my view is correct, but I always viewed gym goers and built dudes were the apex of man. Big emotionally mute strong as fuck dudes. 100% self sufficient, powerful, able to turn heads, it was just the thing I aspired to be (until i turned into a hermit and got obsessed with moving heavy weight above my physical appearance).
And the whole Guido wave just… completely crushed that view lol. These dudes are always so emotional.
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I remember that friend literally getting teary eyed and red in the face because he had the lowest bench of three of us… at 315lbs. Like… dude you’re strong… but he just wasnt having it.
Can we get a 2007 throwback? (original poster doesn’t have the video, but this video was awesome when it first came out)
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