Eat the Wimps

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George Hill

Staff Alumnus
We have been living in “THE AGE OF THE WIMP” for some time now.
But I am detecting signs that we are nearing the FALL OF THE WIMP.
It’s no longer cool to be just a geek anymore…
With martial arts based exercise and movies like FIGHT CLUB and GLADIATOR out… and the success of DREW CARRY… its becoming fashionable for a guy to be a normal guy. A guy can now brawl, swear, and drink beer with out fear of ridicule. You can drink Beer flavored Beer stick your tongue out and say WAAAAASUP – if you like. You can eat steak and eggs and not fear the health food people jumping on you – because its official… EVERYTHING causes cancer and food won’t help or hurt that.
You can skip shaving… Goatees are popular thanks to no one in particular – they just look cool. You can just go scruffy if you like… stubble is in. Not the manicured George Michael type stubble – but the “I just climbed off the mountain” type stubble. You can show your muscles with a High Powered car and short sleeve shirts again because women will no longer complain about you being juvenile. Why? Cause they actually dig that and are no longer afraid to admit it.
That’s another reason… Women no longer want men that are NON THREATENING… They want REAL MEN again… It’s a fact that women are faster thinkers, probably smarter (my wife is!) and are more successful in business… Guys had been relegated to geekdom and afraid to flex a muscle because that’s just SO MALE and sexually harassing… Well – not anymore! Its OKAY to be a foreboding icon of male stature… You can put tabasco on your eggs and beer in your cereal and you can get sweaty with out rushing to a shower… Testosterone is no longer a bad thing!
It’s even no longer TABOO to talk about guns! With Gun Control being the topic of debate like no other time before – Some are against it… but some are for it as well. Mostly women are against guns – at least around here… and expect a guy to be into that kinda thing. So its okay… women wont mind you being a low brow knuckle dragger – because YOU’RE A GUY.
It’s no just about general women’s opinion… Guys are tired of being in a cubicle – tired of being dot-com’d and are wanting to unplug and get out…
So go ahead and be manly and beat your chest – talk guns because the Age of the Wimp is dying out!


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George wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>So go ahead and be manly and beat your chest – talk guns because the Age of the Wimp is dying out![/quote]

Not fast enough to suit me, thank you. It needs to be long dead, buried, and turned to dust.

I am MAN, hear me roar, and if you don't like it, then I'll kick your effin' teeth down your throat so far you'll have to sit on the toilet to brush 'em. :rolleyes: (Say, we need a hairy, testosterone filled emoticon.)

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Shoot straight & make big holes, regards, Richard at The Shottist's Center
 
Cool post.

I yam what I yam - man. Me like women and guns, sometimes guns and women, usually just guns, unfortunately.
 
Drew Carry, over weight, beer drinking football fan... He looks nothing like a guy off 90210, Friends, or any other show... He's just a normal former US Marine GUY.
Thats why I mentioned him. He's average - like you or me, and a gun nut, yet on TV with 2 shows and a Disney movie for TV. A far cry from Tom Selleck. Kinda cool huh?
 
Isn't country music considered the Special Olympics of the entertainment industry?

No offense to the Special Olympics, those guys actually do have plenty of talent.

Flame away :p

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Longshot:
Isn't country music considered the Special Olympics of the entertainment industry?
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Actually Longshot, not anymore. Some years ago your assertion would have been correct, However recently pop-Hollywood has de-clawed Nashville.

About a year ago, I read a piece (for the life of me I can not remember where...sorry)that analyzied country music: the people...the song lyrics....the lifestyles...all had taken on a gentler, softer hue.

No more "momma got drunk the day she got out of prison". It's more like "let me love you before the global warming comes".

No more George Jones getting in a bar fight after a concert. Today, it's Clint Black (or maybe it was George Strait) spewing drivel at the earth day gabfest in DC.

It's now sipping bottled water between takes rather than sneaking out the back door for a snoot of Jack Daniels at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge.

It used to be Hank Williams Jr. just about killing mimself on a mountain rather than Garth Brooks wearing a bicycle helmet.

The old country music was indeed corny and crude. But it had a soul and was unique.

Regards
 
Can't die out fast enough for me!

Now, when I leave home to go to my deer camp for a week or two, I just tell my wife, "Now honey, if you keep the house nice and clean while I'm gone, wash all my clothes, and have a good, hot meal waiting for me, then I'll reward you with some good, hard lovin when I return."

Oh yeah, works like a charm ;)

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"Life is a comedy for those who think; a tragedy for those who feel."--Tacitus
 
Good Country Music:

Ernest Tubb
Gary Wills and the Texas Playboys
Hank Williams Sr.
Flatt and Scruggs (bluegrass)
Woodie Guthrie (folk)
Johnny Cash
Loretta Lynn
PATSY CLINE

Bad Country Music:
Electronic Pop Crossover Crap

Just MHO.
 
Quoteth George: "Oh - yeah Dennis... Very manly at the Million Mom March!"

Big talk, George. You'll be resting your cajones at home in front of Dan Blather while I'm trying to walk around in red hi heels and pink capri pants. And why does this danged blouse button up backwards! JeeZ! :mad:

Oh, yeah, talk BIG. All hat and no cattle, George! (And you better have a Shiner ready for me when I come home, Honey!) :D :D
 
There are positive signs even in country music. I can't remember the group, but remember "Hillbilly Shoes?"
Basically a song about how you shouldn't judge old-fashioned hillbilly men drinkin' whiskey by the fire until you've walked a mile in their boots--because if you do, they'll stomp the crap out of ya.

Or the new one, something about a "five dollar fine for whining?" Just a song about this bar where they love everybody and the only rule is if you whine about something, you pay five bucks--in the video, they express their love by having a huge bar brawl which forces Garth Brooks (the wimp! :) ) out the door.

And Garth Brooks may not be a warrior, but he sings a pretty good warrior song--listen to "Ireland" sometime. For a long time it was the only Garth Brooks song I'd listen to, but my fiancee has been working on me.

On the other hand, metal and thrash were NEVER wimp music. :D
 
Bam Bam

That would be Bob Wills--best damn music ever played IMHO. If you could see fit to add Merle Haggard to your list, I would agree with you 110%!!

Mr. Eatman:

I pretty much live there. The little woman (she really is) lets me out for meals and the occasional conjugal visit. Most of the time I'm scratchin fleas...

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"Life is a comedy for those who think; a tragedy for those who feel."--Tacitus
 
Even Country music is beginning to support a manly revival (if you can stop looking at Shania's belly button and the Dixie Chicks' butts for a second...):

Johnny Cash is still pumping out music (better than ever), Robert Earl Keen is bigger than ever (every other song involves a man with a gun), a new format called Americana doesn't even play sissy country, and more. I used to not care for country. Now I think my horizons have expanded, for the better. Now, if only I can find a cobbler who'll hand-make me a pair of size-18 boots, I'll be the full-fledged Texan I've been born and raised to be!

Dennis, care to do a little boot-scootin' then? :)
 
Great post George!
I quit bein' a wimp around sixth grade, and it was the best decision I ever made. My ex-wife got me close to being back to "wimp-status", and when I refused to go that route, divorce was the second best decision I ever made. ;)
I'm just proud to say I refuse to buy a car with air-bags, or anything that is supposed to be "safe" or "good for me", and I like to eat my meat bloody.
And yes, I DO eat road-kill! :D

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Here's a cool song for you boys, but I don't remember the name of it or who sings it, but...this guy has a fight w/his SO, goes to a bar he used to go to all the time, walks in and there's a maitre de looking down his nose at him. Chorus (as sung to said maitre de):

"What'd ya do with those swingin' doors?
Where's the sawdust on the floor?
Why's everybody wearin suits and ties?
From where I stand I can't believe my eyes!
And whose idea was it to hang them ferns?
This brand new bar don't have a single burn.
I guess I'm somewhere that I don't belong.
I need a juke box with a country song."

(Almost as good as "I was drunk the day my mom got outta prison") :cool: !!!!

PS How can anyone NOT like country with stuff like that? ;)
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>On the other hand, metal and thrash were NEVER wimp music[/quote]

Thats right Don!! You can't be a wimp and expect to get flung around in a mosh pit! :D
 
Well, I confess. I like sushi. I like some dance music. I listen to the Cranberries, on occasion. I've been known to go to meditation seminars, and take yoga classes. I like to get to know women, instead of just trying to get them in bed. I often use baby talk with my dog. I have begun to really enjoy red wine with some foods. I stretch daily. I obsess about my weight.


...but then, as I walk into my bedroom, spy the mounds of dirty clothes, the scattered ammo and magazines, and the 6 guns and 1 1/2 foot long knife beside my bed, I have the hope that someday, somehow, I'll be a real man! :D
 
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