Your Dad Was Not a Metrosexual

[Hmm]

Canadian Club Ads

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8981/metrosexualow9.jpg

Thoughts?

[Usehername]

What are you doing up at 3:45 am?!

Gah to go bed.

Lol on the ad, though.

[CaptainChick]

Lol, my dad was a total metro, actually.

He shaved his armpits and got mani/pedis bimonthly.

[Hmm]

What are you doing up at 3:45 am?!

Gah to go bed.

Lol on the ad, though.

It's 1:45 am here :P

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I hate these ads. If I were a drinker of Canadian Club, they would be enough for me to stop. That one isn't SO bad, but this one disgusts me:

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/4901/canadianclubdf1.jpg

That's supposed to make me want to buy your product? Hey, maybe if you call my mom a whore, I'll buy TWO bottles!

[Bella]

I'm not big on metrosexuals so I enjoyed the ad. The other one isn't so nice....

[Usehername]

It's 1:45 am here :P

Oh.


I was all set to finish a paper by a schedule aiming for 4 am so I could get some sleep before a full day of work and then night class after... but then eNFJ BFF came on Skype and I haven't talked to her in real time (only emailing) since she skipped over to Europe.

Now I'm going to be writing my paper until my alarm goes off to wake up for work. :doh:

[Mempy]

Yeah, the second one's lame. I thought the first one was funny, though.

Hey, maybe if you call my mom a whore, I'll buy TWO bottles!

Or three! And if you call all men arrogant players and all women objects, I might even buy the whole case!

Now I'm going to be writing my paper until my alarm goes off to wake up for work :doh:

:doh: AIIIIIEEEEE!! God. That's so familiar, and awful. I HATE when that happens! WHYYYY???

[Usehername]

:doh: AIIIIIEEEEE!! God. That's so familiar, and awful. I HATE when that happens! WHYYYY???

I don't know. I'm just not a very good xxxJ, apparently. Or maybe I know my J is so damn good that I'll meet the deadline consequences be damned... and then I forget the part where the consequences (making it through a full day of work plus a 3 hour class plus driving home until 10 pm) damn me?

It's all just very illogical. Luckily I'm still mentally alert at 4:20 am.

[heart]

Your Dad Was Not a Metrosexual

My Dad liked pink, wore slik PJs and took bubble baths!

He could also handle guns, work on any type of car or other machinery and was physically strong.

So there!

[mlittrell]

i always see these in Men's Journal and always laugh. good ad(s) i must admit

[substitute]

Bah, it's just a bit of fun, I don't think they're intended to be taken seriously. They come across to me as having a big tongue in cheek vibe, that's how I'd choose to take it. Sorta funny-kitsch.

I was just thinking the same thing about JJJ's latest avatar with the Chuck Norris Action Jeans advertisement.

I actually hate metrosexual too... when I began my transition, someone bought me a book called "The metrosexual man's guide to style", said that they were sure I didn't want to be the kind of "brainless thug" guy and this book would help me "mould myself" into their definition of a modern guy.

I read it all the way through. What it seemed to promote was the idea of a guy whose main concern in life is his image. FFS it gave advice about various interior design looks - the look that was closest to what I actually had they called the "Travelled professor" look, and advised that if you want to get it for your home then just get some bookshelves, litter them with random books from a charity shop and stick a globe or two in the corner. Get that? Books you haven't read and have no intention to read? Fill your walls with them just to create an image of being well-read?? Yeah, seemed to me the idea was to be pretty, smell nice and seem cultured whilst actually being really shallow.

It was like a twisted, horrible, gone-wrong version of the original Renaissance courtier, captured in Baldasare Castiglione's original manual :)

[Jennifer]

I hate these ads. If I were a drinker of Canadian Club, they would be enough for me to stop. ...That's supposed to make me want to buy your product? Hey, maybe if you call my mom a whore, I'll buy TWO bottles!

Thank God we are finally back to a world where men are men and metrosexuals are.... not?

(And wait, WHAT did you say about your mom??? :shock:)



...I actually thought they were both funny. :)

And one of my best friends is a metrosexual. He jokes about it all the time because the county he's from, most guys drive around in pickups with gun racks in the back, have large tractor tires in the front yard their wives use as flower gardens, and the spare vehicle is sitting on cement blocks in the back yard surrounded by weeds. He claims to be the only metrosexual from Perry County, despite his owning a jeep; and he's afraid of being beat an inch from his life if any of his boyfriend friends find out.

[Oberon]

...I actually thought they were both funny. :)


Your dad may be in one of the ads. :shock:

[Jennifer]

Your dad may be in one of the ads. :shock:

No, he'd have to actually drag his silly butt off that drunken recliner. :shock: :shock:

[InaF3157]

Lol, my dad was a total metro, actually.

He shaved his armpits and got mani/pedis bimonthly.

Your Dad Was Not a Metrosexual

My Dad liked pink, wore slik PJs and took bubble baths!

Wut in hell? You guys should write a TV show called "My Two Moms".

I liked the first ad. :thumbup: Damn straight.

[pure_mercury]

Wouldn't a real man know that you should drink your whiskey unmixed? Maybe a whiskey sour or scotch and soda at worst. Also, wouldn't a real man know that Canadian Club sucks? My dad drinks Jack Daniel's neat or on the rocks, with a beer back. He also takes foot baths. He's an oddball.

[YourLocalJesus]

Love those ads :D Anyone who watches/watched "That 70's Show" would probably agree that they remind you of Red Foreman :smile:

[booyalab]

That one isn't SO bad, but this one disgusts me:

That one's bad. I think the first one sort of works because of the realism and nostalgia. But the second doesn't really conjure either.

[sanveane]

Mwahaha I'm trying to picture my Dad as a metrosexual. Hmm no. Metro/non-metro, both are fine with me. I have a good friend who is definitely a metrosexual. I find his ways to be highly amusing, gawd he loves to primp.

[ptgatsby]

Hmmm... I have to say, they feel awfully metrosexual in the picture o_O

Least, I've never worn polo shirts and khakis to go fishing. Or a tie and vest to go out. Or had a clean shaven chest. Or posed with my friends in collared shirts and spiffy shoes, showing off my car.

Ok, that last one I have done - special events and all.

Maybe I just have a different standard of rugged <_<

[Edahn]

That's supposed to make me want to buy your product? Hey, maybe if you call my mom a whore, I'll buy TWO bottles!

You mom's a whore!

Sincerely,
Canadian Club

[6sticks]

Hmmm... I have to say, they feel awfully metrosexual in the picture o_O

Least, I've never worn polo shirts and khakis to go fishing. Or a tie and vest to go out. Or had a clean shaven chest. Or posed with my friends in collared shirts and spiffy shoes, showing off my car.

Ok, that last one I have done - special events and all.

Maybe I just have a different standard of rugged <_<
Yeah... at first I thought the pictures were supposed to look metrosexual.

[sanveane]

^I think back in the day most men would get dressed up like this for outings. They wouldn't, however, take two hours to do it because of having to cleanse, exfoliate, tone, moisturize, (<--- and know the order that that should go in), shave anything other than their face, wax anything, check the manicure, pick an outfit... who knows though, maybe if they could have they all would have been metros too.

[runvardh]

I laughed at both

[Hirsch63]

I see it as capitalizing on the nostalgia generated by AMC's "mADmen"...they do seem obviously tounge-in-cheek...

Dad came home half covered in cement and sawdust, bruised and usually in a bad mood. He built our house with his own hands, all of it after work and on the weekends. He rarely took a drink of any kind, and then didn't finish it. I think he might have drank more and been happier...

He wasn't a metrosexual...but he did care for his appearance when he went out. He does not resemble any of the men in these ads...but I remember many who did.

As for the second ad...well, that might represent my mother much closer...she managed to destroy all my father built...usually with guys that look like the one's in these ads. :violin:

[kuranes]

I see it as capitalizing on the nostalgia generated by AMC's "mADmen"...they do seem obviously tounge-in-cheek...


Yeah. That's an interesting show.

Are there degrees of Metrosexuality ?

Bruce Springsteen less metrosexual than Keith Richards wearing a satin blouse in 1969. Keith less metrosexual than Dave Navarro. Dave less metrosexual than Mick Jagger. Mick less metrosexual than * takes a big jump * Boy George.

[Grayscale]

people who have sex with trains?? what????

[sanveane]

^So not a metro, I'm guessing :D (good for you!)

[disregard]

My dad's cooler than I am. :(

[sanveane]

people who have sex with trains?? what????

http://english.chosun.com/media/photo/news/200507/200507240002_00.jpg

^This is a metrosexual, a man who is excessively concerned with his own appearance... (personally, I think it's prudent to slap on the occasional face mask, male or female.)

[Grayscale]

so what youre saying is... mimes have sex with trains

that is ridiculous, most trains dont even know how to speak mime

[sanveane]

^heh, well I can't speak to that, but it would probably make it easier to tell the difference between the metrosexuals and the
übersexuals (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ubersexual)

[6sticks]

Love is a journey, not a destination. And trains are great for journeys.

[FDG]

http://english.chosun.com/media/photo/news/200507/200507240002_00.jpg

^This is a metrosexual, a man who is excessively concerned with his own appearance... (personally I think it's prudent to slap on the occasional face mask, male or female.)

mimes are metrosexuals?

[sanveane]

^It's a face mask, it's to make you pretty... but you knew that, right?

[Jennifer]

mimes are metrosexuals?

I thought they were mimeosexual.
(And you measure their sexual response quotients with a mimeograph!)

Are there degrees of Metrosexuality ?

Ah, the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon!

[Oberon]

so what youre saying is... mimes have sex with trains

that is ridiculous, most trains dont even know how to speak mime

What, you never heard of a 'trainssexual'?

[MacGuffin]

And one of my best friends is a metrosexual. He jokes about it all the time because the county he's from, most guys drive around in pickups with gun racks in the back, have large tractor tires in the front yard their wives use as flower gardens, and the spare vehicle is sitting on cement blocks in the back yard surrounded by weeds. He claims to be the only metrosexual from Perry County, despite his owning a jeep; and he's afraid of being beat an inch from his life if any of his boyfriend friends find out.

What's a boyfriend friends?

And how could they not know he was a metrosexual? Must not be a strong one.

[Jennifer]

What's a boyfriend friends?

It means "Jennifer's brain was not functioning correctly and she can't type worth crap today." :blush:

And how could they not know he was a metrosexual? Must not be a strong one.

He's a plucky one, I'll give him that. I think he's good at beating his chest at gunpoint, despite having the cute little glasses and the neatly shaved goatee.

[Grayscale]

What, you never heard of a 'trainssexual'?

:huh: like this? (NSFW)


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/295978123_5e30eec503.jpg

[kyuuei]

Ehm. I'm not offended by either. XD

My dad is far from a meterosexual.. but he does have the one quirk of having a pride in whatever vacuum he owns. I think I wouldn't mind heart's dad's style of metro-ness.. with hygiene and comfy clothes, but not afraid to get them all dirty with manliness in the same day. But a full-blown it-takes-them-longer-to-shower-and-get-ready-than-me kill-that-spider-hunny!! sort would just drive me insane. It'd be like dating one of my girl friends.

[heart]

What's a boyfriend friends?



Is it like "husbands in-law" ?