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March 28, 2013 at 6:30 pm #786754
FionaEnzoParticipantKumbaya, m’lord. Kumbaya.
March 28, 2013 at 6:37 pm #786755
DBPMember♪ Oh Lo-oh-rd . . . Kum-ba-YAH ♪♪
Hi, Enzie Baby. How ya? [Big Sugar Smacks]
Did you know the following:
“Kumbaya” or “Kumbayah” (Gullah, “Come By Here” — “Kum ba yah”) — is a spiritual song from the 1930s. It became a standard campfire song in Scouting and summer camps, and enjoyed broader popularity during the folk revival of the 1960s.
The song was originally associated with human and spiritual unity, closeness and compassion, and it still is, but more recently it is also cited or alluded to in satirical or cynical ways which suggest false moralizing, hypocrisy, or naively optimistic views of the world and human nature.
I copied that from Wiki-ma-pedia.
Umm . . . That’s not stealing, is it?
March 28, 2013 at 7:10 pm #786756
JanSParticipantDon’t most men just look in the mirror, anyway? That’s when they think they see a real man…
or see Chuck Norris ;-) Get a Total Gym, and you could even look like him ;-)
March 28, 2013 at 7:26 pm #786757
JiggersMemberNobody disagreed with post #20, so it must be right…:)
March 28, 2013 at 8:25 pm #786758
JanSParticipanthahahaha…so do you consider a man staying home with the kids while wife works to be demeaning? or is that something you approve ? And…jiggers….do you consider that the only trait of a “real man” these days?
March 29, 2013 at 1:03 am #786759
JiggersMemberA real man has to sign a legal document so that you women are assured that he really loves you…:)
March 29, 2013 at 1:15 am #786760
JoBParticipantAwwwww Jiggers..
and we were going along so well…
guys don’t sign that document to assure their women they are loved..
most women won’t sign unless unless they are pretty sure of that already
they sign to lay claim…
i will admit it’s not quite the deal you fellas once got
but it isn’t nearly what we want yet either
so i guess it’s either a win win or a lose lose depending upon how you look at it..
i don’t care if my glass is half full or half empty..
i am just tickled to find anything in it at all
March 29, 2013 at 2:20 am #786761March 29, 2013 at 2:39 am #786762
charlabobParticipantJiggers, are you talking about a pre-nup? or a Marriage license — smart women ask for both. :-)
March 29, 2013 at 5:57 am #786763
PibalParticipantA real man is a fighter pilot…
And you don’t have to fly fighters to be a fighter pilot, but it helps…
Excerpts from
What is a Fighter Pilot? by Ford Smart
A fighter jock is quite a phenomenon. He likes flying – single seat only – and especially gunnery, acrobatics and cross countries. He has a strange fascination for flying boots, gambling, smoking and breaking glasses. He can usually be found in sports cars, at parties or happy hour…
…A fighter pilot is a composite. He has the nerves of a robot, the audacity of Dennis the Menace, the lungs of a platoon sergeant, the vitality of an atomic bonb, the imagination of a science fiction writer, glib as a diplomat, impervious to suggestion and is a paragon of wisdom with a wealth of unassorted, completely unrelated and irrelevant facts…
…At home with his wife he is docile, sweet, tender, loving, amiable, just a helluva nice guy to have around the house, straight arrow all the way, except when they are fighting, then he becomes a beast who is tyrannical, suspicious, diabolical and a masochistic sex fiend who just ain’t got no couth [these symptoms may also appear after beer call].
As a father he is tough but oh so gentle, kind, just, protective, far sighted, ambitious and really proud of that young fighter pilot [he’ll never admit it, and it’s never displayed in public, but that goes for the little girl too]…
…A fighter jock is magic, a master imposter, Houdini with the top of his blouse unbuttoned. Sometimes he’s old, sometimes he’s young. Immature yet sage. He is instant fear and lasting bravery. The original metamorphosis. He hovers between play and business, and can make your date vanish right before your eyes. He is present, past and future rolled into one. But most of all he’s got wings and with a throttle in his left hand and a stick in his right, shackled to a million dollar blowtorch and always ready to get the maximum out of every minute of every hour of every day.
March 29, 2013 at 3:11 pm #786764
JoBParticipantPibal..
that’s not a real man
that’s a warrior
and some of them are women
What’s a REAL man anyway?
i have long suspected some are little more than animated puppets
but i believe in the existence of stepford wives too
are there impostors among us?
March 29, 2013 at 4:07 pm #786765
JiggersMember“Honey,sweety” “Pick me up my normal 18ct regular Kotex box when you go to Bartells.” Now there’s a real man…
March 29, 2013 at 4:30 pm #786766
JoBParticipantjiggers..
i didn’t know guys had a use for kotex …
my imagination runs rampant….
but i do know guys who say honey and sweetie
March 29, 2013 at 4:40 pm #786767
LindseyParticipantI agree with #20! Certainly one aspect of a “real” man is making sacrifices to meet the needs of his family. I’d actually say that applies to all “real” adults in general.
March 29, 2013 at 4:44 pm #786768
DBPMemberJiggers, I have some thoughts on this nuclear-tipped warhead of a topic. But this is your thread, buddy, and I hesitate to get it blown up. So it’s only right that I should ask you first, before I risk it.
If you give me your blessing, I’ll speak. And when I do, I promise to observe the following rules:
–I won’t use foul language.
–I won’t respond to taunts.
–I won’t trash anyone or even mention anyone by name.
Finally, and most important, I promise to speak the truth without flinching, because I’m really going for the Nobel here.
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First I will explain why no one has yet answered your question. And then I will answer it myself.
Now then. Do I have your permission to proceed, sir?
–David
March 29, 2013 at 5:57 pm #786769
JiggersMemberYou’re welcome to proceed DBP..Oh, but be entertaining.
March 29, 2013 at 6:58 pm #786770
skeeterParticipantInteresting thread.
My definition of a real man is the same as my definition of a real woman. One who puts the needs of the family before the wants of self.
March 29, 2013 at 7:16 pm #786771
GinaParticipantIf a small piece of wood made a real boy, (Pinocchio)would a real man need a big piece of…I had better not follow up that thought.
March 29, 2013 at 7:53 pm #786772
JiggersMemberGina, want to meet me up for happy hour drinks and tell me what that thought was?…lol
March 29, 2013 at 8:42 pm #786773
GinaParticipantJiggers–it doesn’t involve carving driftwood. Because that could hurt the poor, dead old wood.
March 29, 2013 at 8:48 pm #786774
DBPMemberOK, I’ll be entertaining.
And you know what YOU must do, Jiggers. Right?
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I’ll break it up into bite-sized pieces for the masses. But don’t let that stop any of you masses from talking among yourselves.
It never does anyway, does it? ;-)
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Let me start by explaining that a man defines himself according to roughly four things.
♂ What women think of him.
♂ What his friends and family think of him.
♂ What everyone ELSE thinks of him.
And, most importantly . . .
♂ What he thinks of himself.
You can assign whatever I say from here on out to one of those four categories.
For example, you could say, But what about what God thinks of him? That should be the most important thing to a man.
To which I say: Yeah, maybe. But since God is really just a big question mark as far as the Blog is concerned, I’m gonna haffta to go ahead and assign God to someplace between #2 (what a man’s friends think of him) and #4 (what a man thinks of himself).
And that’s all I’m gonna say about that . . . for now.
March 29, 2013 at 8:51 pm #786775
JanSParticipantso…Mr. P…what do you think of yourself? (knowing full well that I probably won’t get a straight answer)
March 29, 2013 at 10:59 pm #786776
SonomaParticipantDBP summed it up nicely. I believe Jiggers is buying into the stereotype (as seen on TV commercials) that the typical American male is a p-whipped dunderhead with a smarter, more attractive wife. The kind of arrested-development schmuck who says “yes, dear” and runs out to Bartell’s when the wife runs out of personal feminine products. Look at the recent hit “comedies,” where the guys are just 12-year-olds in men’s bodies. Don’t let the media trick you into thinking “real men” are extinct.
March 29, 2013 at 11:28 pm #786777
waynsterParticipantA real Man believes in him self his family, kind, good hearted, respects others never puts down others based on race or religion or politics…. most of all doesn’t run out on his wife and kids….
March 30, 2013 at 1:56 am #786778
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