dirty blokes

[James]

(Resisting urge to continue Carry On-style banter)

Have to admit, the "metrosexual" is a marketeer's dream. But I really do think there's some truth in it. These days if you go into a gay bar the men are mostly unshaven, in baggy clothes and punky/raffish hairstyles. Whereas the straight men often look tanned, dapper and immaculate, not a hair out of place.

[Polly D]

Seriously, I go along with the later part of Huguenot's entry from Wikipedia. I'd always understood a metrosexual to be a nice bloke who listened to women and maybe even thought like them - not necessarily feminine themselves but could put themselves in gals' shoes. Not cross-dressers you understand.

Before I get beaten down with roars from the men for suggesting that they don't normally listen, I don't agree with the thought that blokes are dirty. I know lots of clean ones.

[Ant]

Eh, did someone say something? Sorry, I wasn't listening ;)

Actually, I think I can see where you're coming from Polly. But a lot of stuff that seems to be identified with metrosexual seems to me to be just... well... what you'd expect from any decent sort of chap. It's as if it's being used to point to a lack of other, negative labels: slobby, dirty, selfish, boorish etc.

Am I right?

[Huguenot]

Exactly, I always thought Mockers was a wee bit Metro, but I couldn't call him an effeminate dresser - or a welsh one for that matter.

[*Bob*]

Polly, you wait 'till he gets that ring on your finger.

From then on it'll be wee on the bathroom floor and 'dutch ovens' for you.

[Jah Lush]

With you there Polly, thanks for sticking up for us straights. I'm fortunate in having lots of "girlfriends". I'm in touch with my feminine side and I'm always there if a friend needs to talk as I'm a good listener but I'm definitely not a metro or a gay, although I can camp it up with the best of them. I'm a man, I'm clean shaven, don't wear aftershave unless someone buys it for me, which is rare, and I certainly don't moisteurise. I'll leave that to the vain and narcissistic amongst us.

[mockney piers]

Cheeky. I'll have you know I haven't shaved in a week and there are socks all over the bedroom floor.

Of course I'll be shaved and tidy by the time Mairead gets back, but as she's in Ireland this weekend I reckon I can make a sock pile a foot high first.

[Polly D]

Yes Ant - I am inclined to agree. 'Men Behaving Badly' type programmes and annoying ads like that one where the bloke is cooking and the woman is on the phone saying she'll probably die thanks to his cuisine don't help with stereotypes.

*Bob* - ring is on the finger and Mr is very neat and tidy - I don't want to know what Dutch ovens are ...

[James]

i want to know what a Dutch Oven is!

Jah Lush, I am confused! Wearing moisturiser is narcissistic, as is wearing aftershave. Unless someone buys it for you. "Camping it up" is acceptable though. Um....why?

[*Bob*]

James - just had a look on Wikipedia, which has plenty on 'traditional dutch ovens' - but not kind I'm talking about.

There's also a section called 'Dutch ovens and the Boy Scouts' - I can't stop laughing.

[*Bob*]

eh voila!

http://www.londonslang.com/db/d/

[*Bob*]

Yes, Jah.. I am confused too.

I have been known to occasionally apply moisturiser so my FACE DOESN'T HURT but it seems you're happy to occasionally wear PERFUME so that you SMELL NICER.

Mmmm... where lies the vanity here?!

[James]

Good point Bob. I think Jah secretly wants to wear sarongs and paint his nails. It's all right Jah, I will support you in this!

[batdog]

Hey Bob,

A website without the definition for Golddigger / Golddigga is worth NOTHING (td)

[louisiana]

I talked Mr L into wearing a white wedding dress for our 'festival wedding' at Glade last year (both bride and groom wore white). Does that make him metrosexual? :)

[Keef]

No, it proves that the guy is very very in love with you! Not sure I could take that plunge for Mrs Keef ;)

[Jah Lush]

James and Bob. I seemed to have touched a bit of a raw nerve with you two yesterday. If you feel I have in someway offended you then I apologise sincerely it's just that I've never felt the need to wear "perfume" as you put it (I'm fragrant enough as it is, thanks) and moisturiser just doesn't enter my vocabulary. And, I'm confused too, why does your face hurt Bob?

[*Bob*]

Hee hee.. Not offended...

But Jah, you do wear perfume - sorry - aftershave. You said so. It's up there in black and white.

It seems that, whilst gruffly denouncing those that have fallen prey to the current metrosexual marketing push, you've conveniently ignored how you yourself were suckered by the previous one: when 'Enry said it woz ok to 'splash it on all over'. (Despite the fact that you ended-up smelling like a tart's underwear drawer and that people standing near to you in the pub found it difficult to breathe.)

[Jah Lush]

Bob you're such a bitch. I smell lovely thanks. I've certainly never had any complaints. And I think I'd remember if I'd ever been suckered in by "Our Enery". Splash it all over indeed! How very dare you.

[Huguenot]

:))

[James]

No offence taken Jah. And I bet you smell lovely. Yardley Gold is it? Or Hai Karate?;-)

[Jah Lush]

Escape by Calvin Klein if you must know.

[James]

Nice. A bit 90s but nice...

[Keef]

I'm an Eternity by CK man... Also a bit 90's :-S

[mockney piers]

Brut 66.

What? Where's everyone gone?