What is this trend amongst guys to hang out in public as a group with shirts off? It began at festivals I think, and fair enough, it's a little bit hot out there and the girls are doing it too so shirts off sort of qualifies as a correct call. But I was at a house party (an 18th, mind) a short while before I came to Canada a year ago and was witness to about four older guys at the party undressing their top half and getting onto the D-Floor. Funnily enough, not only did the fully clothed section of men disperese from the floor, but so did all the girls. It ended up just being four guys with no shirts dancing in close proximity to each other, swinging their shirts around. It's like they expect us to be surprised or pleased and react with something along the lines of "Mate, you need to see a vet...cause those pythons are SICK!".Nope; just general embarrasment is felt for them blended in with a smidgen of disgust. I mean, I'm used to seeing it around sometimes, and this general incidence wasn't the big eye opener to the trend of homo-eroticism that is going mainstream among what most bloody blokes believe to be "real men". I'm on Facebook earlier and a few profile pics pop up in the news feed sporting some old mates from school; shirts off in the pic. Now that's just wierd. The party was one thing, and I can understand; you're a little bit drunk, you don't actually intend to be around other guys, maybe you were under the impression that the chicks would love it. But these dudes actually called shirts off in the privacy of their own home and took what can only be described as 'greek adonis' style pics together and then uploaded them onto facebook.
The feel of someone elses skin against yours is a pretty intimate thing to experience. I don't care how buff you are. Either join the WWE where that kind of thing is standard (and hell, you get the delightful experience of oiling yourself up in public too), or keep it to yourself.
It's just wierd, and as the last blog has shown; you're on your way to table nine.
ya know Jesse, i really hope there isnt a Canadian version of Esh Lads.
ReplyDeletethe lads are multiplying here and its really killing my will to live. me being from the west i see men in coles of all places, walking around without a shirt on. just shopping.. gettin, some bread.. maybe some milk.. some of those chocolate covered marshmellows with the coconut sprinkles..
a large range of items that can be purchased without a shirt.
whats the deal? do i want to see your hairless body? your lame ass barbed wire tattoo?
good call josh. for the life of me a can't understand why it happens. But I watched a good episode of How I met your mother that shone some light on the situation. When Marshall's self esteem gets lower, his pants radius gets larger, I'm assuming it works for the shirt too. As your self esteem gets lower as you realise how lame you are, you start to see less need for a shirt when performing everyday tasks such as shopping, filling up petrol and even going to work!
ReplyDeleteBingo its the fucking pants radius.
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