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Well if you’re straight and the claims about pheromones and scents are correct – then I expect straight women to love it.
Yes, I agree; and I’m not one of those guys. And it’s an awkward social situation. How do you explain to someone that they need to use deodorant?
But a hundred years ago (and for all the millennia before that), people didnt wash with soap every day. They all had BO. And guess what? Nobody noticed.
We’ve become hyper-sensitised to the scent of other humans because that scent has become so rare.
Usually Old Spice, Gab
it’s true there’s young blokes don’t know about deoderant and have to be told, and also need some pretty strong stuff for their work in hard jobs. If mum or dad don’t tell them how will they know they pong.
Of course, Gab. No offence intended.
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Bunyip has an anecdote about Julia’s days of dirty weekends with Craig. You think she’d be more discreet about her fling with this theretofore married man.
No class.
Not just Old Spice, james.
Oh noes, it is all about the pong.
After shave? You blokes slap it on your faces after you’ve shaved?
Hahahahahaha!
Like, that shit burns!
It’s better with a bit of ice. Then it doesn’t burn the crap out of your tonsils.
But it does gives ya really funny smelling farts when ya play Dutch Ovens with the missus…
Jeez this threads over run with poofters again.
contact lenses are stored in little tiny containers provided by your optometrist, i have them. You don’t put the in a tumbler of water it degrades them and you wouldn’t know left from right.
Very few in Australia. You’d still be considered fruity if you wafted around with aftershave in the 60s.
Apparently not, Winston. However IT uses moisturiser. Scented too.
Smells of moisturiser.
Maybe, but I tend to think the dude that uses some cologne isn’t going out with his arm pits smelling like raw meat marinating in an obese person’s bum crack.
I gave ‘Cravache de Roger Piguet’ the cold shoulder Gab.
The Aqua Velva chap though does look very pleasantltly surprised by what the airhead is doing beneath the field of vision.
I’ve got this cocktail recipe that has Old Spice, Kahlua and a bit of coconut cream in it.
It has other stuff as well, but I can never remember them.
After a couple or ten of schooners of ‘em, your head feels like a bucketful of smashed crabs in the morning, but.
Perhaps this is more Yu, James?
It’s probably the coconuts that plays havoc with the system the next morning Winston.
Bitches like to get a whiff of raw milk when you move in for the kill. It sort of paralyses them.
Probably right JamesK.
It’d be all those saturated cholesterols and stuff.
Dear Doomlord
The Open Forum is loading slower than an asthmatic snail.
Might we have a new open forum thread, please?
Anyone still put talc down the y-fronts? That’s how I roll. If the ladies be smelling that, you’re home.
…and those poofy little umbrella things keep getting up your nose, or sticking you in the eye.
Sneaky buggers.
Look down, back up, where are you, Gab?
You’re on a boat with the man your man could smell like
“I’m on a horse”, Gab.
I know you’re mocking me, James, but that was funny.
Lots of OMG buzz about Warren Mundine replacing Arbib in the Senate.
40 years after Liberal Neville Bonner first sat in the Upper House.
Well done, Labor.
That wasn’t so hard, was it?
I’m assured that Neville wasn’t a proper Aboriginal by many lefties.
No. Indeed not.
I was mocking me Gab.
I love that ad.
Candy aka Phil does before (s)he posts at Graeme’s.
Thank God the 3 hour aftershave discussion is finished.
Still, at least it once again showed the extraordinary 1950′s (or maybe even 1850′s) standards of masculinity of CL.
I assume young people’s (including male’s) habits re pubic hair trimming just won’t past muster either.
pass muster…
Here’s another version, James.
FUck off Steve. Enough with the pubes, you dirty perv.
Steve
I don’t want the nitty gritty details, but just how do you go from discussing aftershave directly to pubic hair? What kind of mind thinks like that I wonder.
Oh Steve just thought he’d run it up the flagpole and see how salutes, so to speak.
Mrs Steve has gone to bed and there’s nothing that dirty old tax-dodging perv would love more than engaging the Currency Lad in a late night discussion of pubes.
how = who
“Might we have a new open forum thread, please?”
Gab I know you are powerful as evidenced by the new thread being moved up 6 hours last week but now you want it moved up one day don’t push your luck.
Very good.
“moo”
Gab, IT mentioned talcing his groin.
The conversation had headed in that direction. But it is a great example of a matter of grooming which the born-in-the-wrong-decade CL must find horrifyingly unmanly.
Gab OK I am wrong.
Steve goes straight for the groin again.
Sicko.
How was the evening stroll around the Pinkenba shit farm?
Kelly
It’s a mid week open forum. What better day than a Wednesday…it being mid (working) week.
I only ask our magnanimous and handsome DOOMLORD for such considerations, but you can also make the request.
Smelling nice but neither obnoxious nor poncy is very definitely a point in one’s favour. I’d call that an incontrovertible fact from my limited observations.
The same goes for women. Pretty is good, laughing at my jokes is better, but pretty, laughing at my jokes and smelling really good…. yeah.
“IT mentioned talcing his groin.”
What are all you people on with conversation like this soap and running water great and if you want to put some perfume or powder on then go for it.
Shut up Kel.
Typical lefty, always blaming others for his own decisions and actions.
Gab the midweek thing is coming I am sure but my earlier comment I got the timing wrong.
Steve, what did you wear to the church dance to attract the ladies? Those blind girls usually have a fearsome sense of smell, so it would have to of been subtle.
Who gives a shit. There’s a necktie bearing your name tag in the ladies’ room, Steve.
We both got out timing out, Kelly, due to the slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through mud page loading.
Kelly, we would be happy (and so would your paying passengers) if you just washed your armpits weekly. Let’s deal with perfume at a later date. And forget altogether about trimming the pubes.
Kelly, we would be happy (and so would your paying passengers) if you just washed your armpits weekly. Let’s deal with perfume at a later date. And forget altogether about trimming the pubes.
I also remember in my 20′s a guy telling us how embarrassed he was to be caught by the female cleaner entering his bedroom while he was in the middle of giving himself a groinal talcing in the nude. Still makes me laugh, actually.
A comment so nice I had to say it twice.
Steve what is it with you with groins and powder?
Towards my groin? I better tell the trouble and strife I’m expecting visitors.
I don’t think powder is the issue, Kel.
Some of Charlie Sheen’s best nights in involved groins and powder.
Fleeced, the quantitative measurement for that period of time is an ohnosecond.
“Oh no!” *facepalm*
Things that make Steve laugh:
- passenger jets flying into mountains
- horses kicking little girls
- some poor immigrant cleaner trying to earn a honest dollar and make a better life for her kids being subjected to one of Steve’s perv friends powdering his genitals.
He’s a sick, tax-dodging fuck, this Steve.
Things that make Steve laugh:
- passenger jets flying into mountains
- horses kicking little girls
- some poor immigrant cleaner trying to earn a honest dollar and make a better life for her kids being subjected to one of Steve’s perv friends powdering his genitals.
He’s a sick, tax-dodging fuck, this Steve.
Hey midweek moderater make a new forum.
Les
You’ve got the hiccups.
Hold you breath, that should make it stop.
This bears repeating.
Les has developed tourettes comments.
OK.
Could y’all please stop talking about cologne, groins and pubic hair?
I’m mean, seriously. How gay is that.
Steve especially – kindly get your head out of other blokes’ crotches. That shit’ll scare the horses.
Looks like there is no moderator because no midweek forum so can say anything without getting sensored.
hahaha Nicholson does an excellent cartoon!
Catallaxy is Austrlia’s leading bisexual and gay blog.
C&P: Henry was right.
Censored.
Or if you are a Catholic, censered. Ha ha. A joke. (I used to like lighting them up as an altar boy.)
One thing with Julia Gillard cartoons they get the nose right but what about the ear lobes because they do Abbotts ears right. Look at a few pics of her face with her ears showing if you don’t know what i mean.
Catallaxy is Australia’s leading bisexual and gay blog.
NTTWWT.
But still. I feel like talking politics, not pubes … so I’m heading back to GayPatriot.
Gab well you won’t need a midweek forum with the faster internet but you might have to pay more tax and fees for the service.
Can you believe that Gillard bungled the appointment of Bob Carr to the Senate? Apparently she wanted to parachute him in and make him Foreign Mincer.
No wonder the redheaded harpy’s eyes look like pissholes in the snow. She is having a bloody nightmare of a year.
“She is having a bloody nightmare of a year.”
Good maybe she can do an Arbib and quit.
Dude, her entire career has been like that. We are just the fuck ups now in public, that’s all.
Didn’t know what you were referring to, IT, so I looked it up:
This must be the “unity” they’ve all been sprouting about since Kill Rudd II.
Damn, and she’s such a great negociator too.
She’s baaaaaccccckkk! Doing what she does well. fuck everything single thing she touches.
“fuck every single thing she touches.”
I believe Craig Emerson was married.
I believe that’s a zinger, Prof.
Ahahahahahahaha.
She gets Clean Air and the within 24 hours the nation’s capital is again rocked by a Gillardian pong.
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Steve, if you’re asking me (it’s always me or Abbott when it comes to genitals) if it’s unmanly for a man to Brazilianise his balls etc, honestly – you need an answer? Yes. But if you want an airstrip, pops, go for it. Whatever floats your boat. Just please spare us the details.
Bad economic news from the US,
Durable goods orders fall 4% in January
This probably means that the US economy started this year weaker than expected.
Alex:’
There is a reason for that.. possibly.. a tax credit that was available expired in December and that may have had a large impact. It’s worth raising an eyebrow, but not going for the sell button just yet.
Japan dumps carbon dioxide tax.
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This is just so humiliating and hilarious.
Remember yesterday’s talk about Julia Gillard’s ‘new authority’?
What a total clown.
Interesting JC. Could be.
But even more bad news via Drudge.
House prices in 18 out of 20 U.S. cities fall to 2002 levels.
Alex.
Lol.. I know most of the news is shit. Greece was defined as a formal default today. Tomorrow evening out time (think it’s Tom or Thursday) the ECB will be announcing their 2nd 3 year unlimited lending facility and that’s expected to be huge again, showing the banks need more cash.
But the market is taking all that in stride.
As for US house prices falling.. yes it’s true, however there is a reason for that and it’s also been anticipated too.
Banks have been accelerating their foreclosure sales of late after technical slowdowns.
Also keep in mind that 2 nights ago the stat for home sales was well up, so it maybe showing stock is moving but buyers in those markets are still extracting good deals from the sellers.
Bullshit. You’ve been watching too much Mad Men, CL. Well, in a certain social classes, you may be correct, but amongst the great unwashed (as it were), the typical Aussie bloke is much more aware about grooming today than he was in the 1950s.
Er yeah – how much did they spend on that case study? I could have told them that. Anyone who buys a can of $5 spray in the hope it’s going to help them with da laydeez is either 14 or a nerd (and not a cool, savvy, discerning nerd) or a dork.
Look, some people don’t seem to want to accept that a man wearing a tasteful cologne can have a strongly favourable effect on a woman. No, it’s not pixie dust. But it helps. I have encountered this truth year after year after year – both from direct experience and also from what women who have no reason to lie have pretty much universally told me. I have NEVER heard a woman denigrate the manhood of a man wearing cologne tastefully, or compare him to Liberace. Yet intransigents on this thread are willing to do so, in the face of insurmountable evidence to the contrary, buttressed only by their narrow prejudices. That’s in spite of the fact there are women here telling these guys direct to their faces that they are wrong about what they think women want (or don’t want). OK, that’s fine, you guys keep doing what you’re doing. But please drop the faux-macho crap. The world’s moved on and sorry to say but you’re now in the minority.
Steve again dials up the icky factor to eleventy:
Steve, apart from the fact that you’re a creepy fucker of the highest order, why did you think it was an appropriate time to start discussing pubic hair trimming?
Hrm. I seem to have answered the question in the question.
It’s what he does. It’s who he is.
#OCCUPYFAIL: AgitProp hoax exposed. “Sorry, The Restaurant Receipt Left By That Nasty, Rich Banker Is A Photoshop Hoax.”
Seriously, leftoids. Stop making shit up. You’re going to get pinged.
Maybe C.L. is right. If men like perfume and women like cologne, why don’t they just but it for themselves and load up on the shit?
I smell like roses and jasmine.
Did Spot not notice the fake government surveillance camera in front of Orwell’s house that was run by Reason and Menzies House a week or two ago? It was noted here by gullible types like CL.
What the fuck are you talking about Stepford?
Gillard pulls the plug.
Not. Happy. Jules.
So will we be seeing an industry assistance package to rescue to industries in the coming months?
After all Holden, OneSteel & the aluminium industry are getting the bucket loads of public cash, why should these businesses miss out? Why won’t someone think of the children…
Does anyone track the amount of money spent by the government to cover the unpaid employee entitlements using the scheme set up by Howard? Now the bubble is going to pop and overnighters are going to go out of business, the taxpayer will have to cover another bunch of spivs.
Morons.
“Ms Gillard appeared thunderstruck.”
Good stuff.
“After all Holden, OneSteel & the aluminium industry are getting the bucket loads of public cash, why should these businesses miss out?”
Token what are you on about that is a list of big dirty polluters? I thought the government hated big dirty polluters.
It works like clockwork:
1. The Stenographers sing as a choir that the PM needed fresh air, or whatever they are told to say by the PM’s staffers
2. The Masta Negotiator has pulled another disaster out of the hat.
3. The Stenographers move into cover up mode, saying they are bored or blaming Abbott.
I forgot the link. Still agape the story was printed in the love media.
In the Age
In the SMH.
Hilarious stuff.
Kelly as you know, the warmanistas:
1. On the 1 hand implement taxes to make these businesses uncompetitive
2. Gives the same businesses buckets loads of industry assistance (tax payers money) to save the uncompetitive businesses
Simple isn’t it!
Franskton won’t be the only council to do this either.
Good stuff. Gillard.
Don’t these pathetics loser females & beta males realise how small this makes them?
When you read the article, the man said and did nothing to get this comment by this princess whose only achievement is to look pretty and present music programs:
Even better, Luvvie Negus shows what a pathetic cowardly beta-male he is:
Polling the ladies:
Cpl Roberts Smith, VC MG
http://images.smh.com.au/2012/02/29/3081464/ben-roberts-smith-swim-729-420×0.jpg
George Fungus
http://images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2010/02/17/negus_wideweb__470x373,0.jpg
lol, Dot.
Like asking to choose between
Old Spice Man II
and
Richard Simmons.
They don’t posess enough self awareness to realise they are complete tossers.
My God, I missed the scent debate (only chavs call it perfume).
Personally I hate most scents because they irritate my sinuses and cause rhinitis. After shaving I find that a good odourless moisturiser is far more effective than any alchol-based cologne. And it keeps the skin looking young.
I ave no social or moral objection to men wearing cologne. It is only when they layer it on in rich profusion and come into my air-space that I wish that we could go back to the days that CL favours, when men stank of honest sweat, not of fairy dust. But then again I feel the same about a lot of women’s scents too. My wife has discovered that Chanel No5, wore discretle dooes not irritate the sensitive nose.
Negus is massively beta male. Probably up there with Stevie and his pubic grooming
Had that experience exactly this morning while waiting for the train. This lady who’s standing next to me starts laying on the scents and applying all kinds of stuff to her hands and face and I start sneezing.
what is it with so many women doing their grooming on the train nowadays?
Gillard having he mike turned off was a sight to behold.
Seriously, it’s like the squawking of the last Dodo.
Such dignity and gravitas.
I’ve opened up a midweek forum.
Cut the public service by 10% and we will save more than just their fully costed labour rate (including rent & depr on equipment.
I’ve never watched a single episode of Mad Men and don’t even know what it’s about.
Men in the 50s of all classes certainly dressed better than today’s tattooed, unshaved, shorts-wearing, thong-loving yobbos. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply bizarre.
You’re conflating perfume with grooming again.
That’s unfair, CL.
I don’t have a tat.
And I shaved last Saturday before I went to the pub and got shitfaced. (Have to keep the standards up.)
Kenny Powers is back. This series looks freaking awesome. Kenny is now a CEO of a sportswear company that also sells cologne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI_9Yxr0blo&feature=player_embedded#!
Kenny giving a speech as CEO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtoHYGq_Oy8&feature=player_embedded
CL: if I’m conflating “perfume” with grooming, well you’re conflating (one very basic aspect of) dress sense with grooming. Men today have a far more sophisticated idea about grooming than men from the 1950s. Grooming is more than being able to tie a Windsor knot for your Sunday best because you’re off to church.
And if you don’t know anything about Mad Men, how come you’re so enamoured with one of its leading ladies?