Funny how you came along and a thread full of good hearted ribbing shit on it. Now it will go completely to hell and more than likely into a flaming war.
"CobraJet" wrote in message news:100220050911340210% snipped-for-privacy@streetracer.sfv... | In article , Michael Johnson, PE | wrote: | | > CobraJet wrote: | > > In article , Wound Up | > > wrote: | > >
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| > >>John wrote: | > >>
| > >>>"Wound Up" wrote in message | > >>>news: snipped-for-privacy@swbell.net... | > >>>
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| > >>>>It's been a slippery slope all day long, japhar... I'm surprised it's | > >>>>been | > >>>>civil for -this- long. | > >>>>
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| > >>>Everyone knows what's at the bottom of a slope . . . . the gutter! | > >>
| > >>That's where it seems we've been headed... accelerating all the way, of | > >>course. | > >
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| > > And the slide into the gutter stops when you hit my front door. | > >
| > > Welcome. | > >
| > > I've had a few minutes to digest this thread (tastes great and less | > > filling). I'm disturbed a bit. Used to be, the woman cooked a great | > > meal and the guy would come over and enjoy. You know, bring a bottle of | > > champagne, let the belt out a notch, pretend to be interested in | > > whatever she's yakking about. | > >
| > > Now, it's the boys who go on and on about cooking this and that | > > simply fab recipes and how to impress and fer christ almighty what the | > > hell is going on? | > >
| > > Listen, incredibly as it may sound, I actually hang out with girls | > > half my age (occasionally), and I cannot for the life of me see any of | > > them able to fathom the nuances of chilled this and heated that and the | > > food prepared "just so" and all that shit. This thread's sounding like | > > a competition workout for GQ magazine. My Gaydar overloaded so bad the | > > needle snapped off. | > >
| > > It's a shame that younger females consider cooking akin to slavery | > > these days. It's frightening that there are guys willing to step into | > > their shoes. Literally. | > >
| > > Used to be a woman admired a man for doing manly things, like fixing | > > her POS car or moving the sofa a foot to the left. Now the only Real | > > Men are Duke Nukem and his binary descendants. | > >
| > > Did the world go to Hell in a handbasket when I was in the shower? | > > Why are there no tool threads in this automotive newsgroup? How come | > > "machismo" is no longer a part of the English language? Why are men | > > portrayed as doofi (doofuses?) in so many commercials these days? Why | > > is everybody so fat? Who is this guy Alfredo? Why would anybody that | > > knows me think I could actually just say "Havof e fun, Mikey" and leave it | > > at that? | > >
| > > Life is good in the gutter. K-rations with chocolate mousse. Mmmmm... | >
| > Welcome to the age of the Metrosexual Male. The young men of today have | > been fed a steady diet of propoganda from the likes of NOW (National | > Organization of Women), with the help of the liberal media, to the point | > that their balls have been sucked back up into their body. They have | > been made to think being a man requires them to act and think like a | > women. I call it castration of the mind. | | It started back when men were encouraged to get in touch with their | feminine side so they could relate to women better. Horseshit. I have | no feminine side. I can express a wide range of emotion without turning | into a sissy. | | When I was young, I was taught how to project confidence when I | spoke. I was taught that men do not bounce on the balls of their feet | when they walk. I was taught how to gap spark plugs and where the salad | fork and soup spoon were supposed to go. I was taught shoulder-straight | posture and how to pronounce Pinot Noir and Chateau Briand. I was | taught that, if a woman concedes the upper hand in the marriage to you, | The Man of the House, then it is your duty to provide and protect for | life. | | I had so much drilled into me that I assumed everyone else in my | generation was passing this on to their sons. Wrong. I am so appalled | at the Emasculation of the American Male that I'm at a loss for words | to convey my feelings. And even sadder is the fact that the young men | today have no idea that they aren't measuring up to what their fathers | were at the same age. No wonder open lesbianism is on the steady rise; | look what they have to choose from. | | This country is devolving quickly. We deserve the ridicule and scorn | heaped upon our contemptuous elitist farcical facade by the rest of the | World. That beach in Tahiti is looking better to me every day. Being a | Real Man, I'll just swim there kickin' shark booty all the way. | | -- | CobraJet | Thunder Snake #1