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[heebiejeebies]

I’m all for men acting like men and women acting like women, but then on the other hand I also believe that blokes who obsess too much about being a man or those who go out of their way to posture a macho image are more likely to be insecure about their own manhood. Whenever I see a bloke with tattoos and a bone-crunching handshake driving a 25 litre-W16 Commodore, going from 0 – 60 in the bat of an eyelid and breaking several noise codes in the process, all I can think is:

Well, at least Sigmund Freud was right about one thing! [8D]

If blokes choose to do certain things that are slightly less than blokey such as knitting scarves or baking cakes, that’s fine if they’re already secure about their manhood. But painting your car pink? Wow. Now, I don’t know quite what message he’s trying to send out by doing that. Is he trying to tell the world ‘Hey everyone, I am a complete girly-man’ or what? Is the car a Barina, by any chance? I can’t make heads nor tails of that but anyway, whatever revs his engine.

 

[LCGuy]

Yeah well i have a bone-crunching handshake and i WISH i drove a 25 litre W16 Commodore going from 0 - 60 in the bat of an eyelid and breaking several noisecodes in the process, but i am fine with my manly-ness/girly-ness.

Btw, that dude's car is a Magna...i don't think he's a great fan of sewing machines. I call the Barina a sewing machine because it has:

- A name similar to that of a sewing machine

- Is normally driven to Sewing classes by old ladies

- Is about the size of a sewing machine

- Has the same engine capacity as a sewing machine

- Has about enough boot space to carry exactly one, and only one sewing machine

 

[Patrickool93]

So the Barina is like a Buick, except that Buick's (used to be) are huge land yachts with V8s?

 

[LCGuy]

Holden Barina

(also sold in Europe as the Opel/Vauxhall Corsa)

 

[heebiejeebies]

I’ll make sure I never shake your hand then! You don’t wear flannelette do you? One bloke I know who’s a bit of a bogan wears flannies absolutely everywhere except Church…He wears flanny pyjamas too and sometimes I reckon he’s been too lazy to change out of ‘em and is just wearing ‘em during the day! :

I’m thinking of getting one of those novelty latex hands and inserting some sort of hydraulic wrench device in it for dealing with the bonecrunchers. It will be fun watching Joe Macho wince in pain whilst refusing to concede that he’s been outdone!

Is normally driven to Sewing classes by old ladies

Or bouncy 18 year old ‘independent women’ with personalised number plates like ‘BEC-85’ and R&B ringtones who probably watch Big Brother.

Personally I think you’d have to be a plonker to drive anything bigger than a sewing machine with petrol prices the way they are. I hear Janome overlockers are quite economical.

Glad my bike doesn't take petrol!!

 

[LCGuy]

LOL, no i don't wear flanellette, i am not a bogan!!! LOL at the "independant women" comment btw.

Btw, my bike doesn't take petrol either, thank God, but sometimes i wonder if its worth it riding it seeing as though Australia sucks for cycling. Its illegal to ride on the footpaths, but its too dangerous to ride on the road, seeing as though 95% of motorists seem to get vehicle size confused with private-bit size...you can't win!

 

[heebiejeebies]

Oh sorry mate, didn’t mean to insult you. Just that my natural prejudices lead me to expect that everyone from Queensland is a bundy-swilling ute-driving sugar cane farmer, everyone from Sydney is either a yuppie or gay, everyone from Canberra is a public servant and everyone from Melbourne is a bohemian who listens to community radio.

Melbourne doesn’t seem to be too bad for bikes. We have quite a few roads with bike lanes, and most people seem to respect that they’re for bikes only. My Mum doesn’t, but then she’s a Volvo driver. There are definitely a few idiots on the road, but I’ve never come close to being skittled on my bike. And that includes doing some really dodgy things in the past like riding out in the country at night with no lights on. : People are too lazy these days – stuff your remote controls and your cars and get back to doing things the real way, I say!

 

[LCGuy]

LOL nah you didn't insult me. Although you should've added "whinging" to the beginning of your opinion on cane farmers. Seriously, they are. When we dont' get rain they complain "OMFG NO RAIN!!!!" and then when it rains they go "OMFG TOO MUCH RAIN TOO MUCH RAIN POOR US POOR US HELP", pretty much. We don't have many bike lanes here, which sucks. But ah well. All i know is that i've had more than a few close calls on my bike with motorists on an ego trip who think that they're somehow superior to me because they have a car and i don't. And then there's the tools who think that the bike ways that we do have are their own personal car parks. :-/

 

[equill]

Q. Jeez, mates. Life is 'ard in the boondocks. Why don't we all just decamp to Noo Zulland and enjoy a nice, large, empty playground?

A. Because there's prolly no Macs there.

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[heebiejeebies]

They do have one advantage - at least there are fewer Kiwis there!

 

[Patrickool93]

I'm trying to understand if this is racist, or mean to a city's residents (or fruit?!?) and I can't even understand a word you guy's are saying...

 

[heebiejeebies]

It's racist.

 

[Patrickool93]

ahh Thanks lol.

 

[heebiejeebies]

Any time

Kiwis and Aussies don’t genuinely hate each other, by the way. Except when we’re in the middle of a test match.

If I may return to the previous subject, I found a quote from that very, very great poet and philosopher, Wynyard, which sums up my thoughts on the matter. Wynyard was a devotee of the classical Greek philosopher of some stature, Aesophagus.

“As for how a man is made, through vanity it is not. Should a man be measured by his stature, or by the tone of his voice when he doth speak, then all concept of manhood is lost, like that wretched word ‘hero’ which overuse in our age hath rendered meaningless.

Thus it mattereth not what gauge of cigar a man smoketh, nor the length of the chariot he doth ride in. For all such are happened upon, whereas a man’s worth doth not come from fate nor fortune but from the sweat of his own brow.

The most wretched man is the most outwardly tenacious, for the absence of inner strength createth a void that can only be filled by such a masquerade; and like a proud child he shall flee when true danger approacheth. Similarly, the man who flaunteth his virtue careth not for the beneficiaries of such acts of benevolence, but only for the adulation he may receive for such acts.

Yea, a man is judged a man not by the bravado in his words but by the courage in his actions. Likewise judge him not by the number who worship him, as the world doth judge, but by the strength he doth employ in resisting sycophants.

Such a man desireth no worldly accolade, for his selflessness and duty to those around him rewardeth him enough. His integrity is treasure greater than a thousand titles and medals. This alone doth a man make – the selfless and courageous duty he showeth to those to whom his care hath been given.

Verily, the greatest of men art meeker than lambs, but hide the fierceness of fifty tigers within.”

I think basically he’s saying ‘macho is gay’! :

I read that to a friend of mine who’s pretty macho and all he said was “bet he was a wimping Peter Weir!” [] ]'>

I agree with most of what Wynyard says – being a man is not about looking or sounding like a man, but acting like one. One of the greatest acts of manliness in the whole of history is the martyrdom of St. Lawrence. He was burnt to death by the Romans on a barbecue, and with his last breath he said to his executioners: “You can turn me over now, this side is done!” Now that is a man – being able to retain his sense of humour right to the end and stick two fingers up to his executioners!

I loved the line about “the length of his chariot” by the way – who’d have thought an Elizabethan philosopher could have foreseen V8 drivers? :

 

[LCGuy]

There's a guy i used to know who used to act all macho and stuff...he was about as masculine and strong as a big ol' bag of fairy floss. *laughs*

 

[MultiFinder]

They do have one advantage - at least there are fewer Kiwis there!

You're an odd one heebs. You add a lot of colour to the forums :I

 

[heebiejeebies]

Always glad to add something. I think my purpose in life is to make dejected outcasts feel normal!

Did you see what I wrote about the dream you were in? I was actually not taking the Mick about that one, for once... :