#2 is packing.
has to, as he has no beard.
No tash = big member… That explains a lot…
So that’s why my wife’s member is so big!
So he can’t sing a shanty?
Cant sing shanty if you got no beard.
He also has both legs
It is unclear what vehicles he owns and operates, as well as how his wife feels about potentially derogatory words.
I was about to comment that #2 either has as raging boner or it’s just like that
“No, no, I don’t have a boner! It’s just like that!”
That guy is full staff.
He could fuck himself in the belly button.
#4 With that dazzle camouflage, ready for naval engagements
thank you
I fucking knew it
What does it say? There’s no reject all and I can’t be arsed unchecking then manually.
This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we’ve found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest.
The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph’s origins.
In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned “Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910,” which translates roughly to “men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910.”
The anecdote in question:
Last evening over an early dinner in New York a dear old friend visiting from Australia gave me this postcard which he found lately in a museum bookshop in Germany. The caption reads Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910. The first phrase is difficult to translate with equal concision, but surely means [men made more] beautiful by stripes, and presumably therefore drips with irony.
One dude without a mustache lines in a world of regrets and self loathing.
That looks like tom hanks kid
I’m surprised they even let him enter the contest.
Without a snappy stache, he’s got no shot at all.
Kinda shows how fucked up our beauty standarts got…
Kinda shows beauty standards are completely arbitrary and context dependent.
Every one of them looks like Gollum’s uncle, what are you saying
They’re saying that our current ideas of male beauty have been warped heavily by drugs and plastic surgery such that we consider naturally attractive men to look unremarkable.
I’m all for a low bar on male attractiveness - handsome is as handsome does. But, these fellas look barely this side of healthy
You may have spent too much time online.
We’re getting into the body positivity discourse of a century old photo of dudes dressed like Beetlejuice’s day at the beach, so it pretty much goes without saying that we could all do with a gasp of fresh air.
Let the Lemmings have their dreams and misinformation
Lol, fair.
If anything, it shows how naive and credulous we became. Old photos with completely made up rubbish captions are now a staple of social media.
Bigorexia is a real thing nowadays. The male body standard inflation on social media is just wild… unless you’re on gear, cut down to 6% body fat and in good lighting you’d get ratio’d into oblivion
I know those words, but I don’t think they’re being used in a manner to which I’m accustomed.
Steroids or nobody likes you
I was able to ascertain the meaning, but I enjoyed your summary regardless!
I’d rather have my 3% body fat “skinny arms” then synth arms.
It’s not one or the other. You can lift heavy things, not do steroids and not have skinny arms. You can also have skinny arms if you don’t want to lift heavy things and are perfectly content with them. But let’s not frame this as a binary choice because it isn’t.
My point was that I’m able to lift heavier things than most people would assume because I’m low body fat but I’m the same weight as someone who does have 15%bodyfat for my height.
Oh the 3% was not an expression… Al I can say is that I seriously doubt you really are 3% bf. If you are I hope you have all your affairs in order because you’re probably not long for the world.
Exactly. The order is important.
How can you form coherent thoughts at 3%? I would only be able to think about food
I just don’t eat sugar for the most part. Plenty of carbs and protein for slow metabolism but no sodas etc. for sugar crashes so I just have constant energy. I normally fast through breakfast and lunch eat a snack eat dinner eat another snack
And do you get good muscle recovery from this diet? I do a lot of running and cycling, eating (high carb) during my activities has really helped faster recovery and helped control cravings later.
You know what? I’m gonna not take steroids even harder.
They can tell just by looking that I don’t take steroids right? Like I don’t have to actually talk to them?
Yeah you can generally tell, the neck and shoulders have more androgen receptors so they will typically have bulbous shoulders, oversized traps and a thick neck. Other giveaways are early balding, back acne, and rapid muscle gain. And huge mass monsters are pretty obvious. If you were really interested you could take a look at Jesse James West on YouTube. He’s about the peak muscularity someone can reasonably achieve without steroids outside of genetically gifted individuals. He interviews gym girls often and they rate him so low haha.
Well, Mr. JJW’S results are more work than I want to do, so I don’t have to worry.
Stereo?
I wonder how well a 1950s Mr Universe Sean Connery would do today?
That was… surprising.
what in the fuck is that. I look better and I never workout. I work desk job 50+ hrs/week. I’m supposed to be mr universe :(
Do you look better than that, or do you look like you suck off a dude for discount tren?
I wish more people would be open about it. Alan Ritchson is one of the few Hollywood celebrities that has candidly spoken about his use of exogenous testosterone to prepare for his role as Reacher, but clearly so many others are getting help. I’m in my late 50s trying to add muscle mass, and it’s a huge challenge. I’d say that I’m better off than all of the men in this 1919 photo, but not by that much.
I spend copious hours in the gym because I never ever want to look like this. I was thinking about skipping today because it’s raining, so thanks for the motivation.
What’s wrong with them?
They don’t look like a modern social media influencer
It’s not at all about that. I guarantee you that if these guys maintained whatever diet they had at the time and added three hours a week of doing something with their muscles, they would look very different.
The point is that you wouldn’t find muscle mass like that as attractive without those people. These men were considered beautiful then and they aren’t now because the culture of what is considered beautiful has changed. They didn’t need to work out in order to be beautiful and they shouldn’t now either. They would look different yes, but not inherently better or more beautiful.
Oh well I never made any objection to the beauty standards so I agree I guess? I only said I don’t want to look like that, I’m a little old school, I want to look like all those Greek statues.
tiny wee wee included?
We prefer the term feminine penis these days
I did not mean to seem aggressive if it came off that way. I do that some times
Right, before power tools were common. I bet these guys were on average stronger than current average men.
You are asuming they do physical work and aren’t just white collar.
They probably did physical work in a white collar though.
Absolutely a possibility
I would describe it as skinny fat but these guys are not fat, so I think the problem is that they have very little muscle all around.
Yeah, most of those guys look like they have a lot of visceral fat (they don’t have waists). Only the two on the right look healthy
Everyone of them has more muscle than the average man today. They don’t have the relatively low body fat most men today have. The strangest thing about them is the barrel chest and swollen gut thing that each of them has going on.
To me they look totally normal, average. Beauty standards changed a lot and continue so do since the dawn of time.
Checkout https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf :)
Sure. But also we know what an active body looks like and it’s not like this. They look like normal guys who don’t get much excercise. Look at people living in pre industrial tribes, Greco Roman beauty standards etc. not saying it’s wrong to look like that, but I personally do not want to look like that. I think we look best with a little bit of muscle on.
It’s totally fine for me if you want to look like one of those Roman or greek statues but I don’t think the (above) average greek or todays indigenous people look(ed) much different from the guys in the post, eg Yanomami for reference: https://images.app.goo.gl/xR5KMPCo6XMwnQne6
Cmon that photo you linked makes my point exactly. The tribesmen clearly have better muscle mass. Just look at the man in the far right, that dude has fairly developed biceps and shoulders. Guy on the far left, I think I even see some vascularity.
I think you might be looking at the chest only, which is actually pretty hard to build without weightlifting so it makes sense that neither would look like what our idea of muscular is in the modern day. Even the first bodybuilders had “underdeveloped “ chests.
I think working out and eating healthy is a good trend and blood work is happy for it, and don’t need some super crazy work out plan to look better.
But the whole cosmetic surgeries and steroids which aren’t needed to be healthy is definitely overboard for the regular person who aren’t making living off their looks or athletic performance is overboard.
I remember discussing this in private school, I suggested its possible use was for portable masturbation on long trips lol.
Fuck it.
today’s freezing, but I’ll go to the gym too :)
Hardest thing is getting there. Once you are in you kinda forget you didn’t want to go. Except when you don’t and you half ass it. But doing a little bit is better than doing nothing is what I say.
2 from the left. The grandfather of “Bigballs” from DOGE.
[off topic?]
I watched a Steve McQueen movie a few weeks ago [The Thomas Crown Affair.] There’s a scene where Steve and Faye Dunaway are lounging in a steamroom. When the movie came out, McQueen was considered one of the most virile men in Hollywood. Compared to today’s standards, he looked kinda scrawny.
#5 is either stoned or participating ironically, possibly both. #3 was talked into this, and is now regretting his choice.
#5 is Paul Rudd and this is a poster for their new movie coming out. No one can tell me differently.
I thought 5 was the best looking guy there, why do you think he is participating ironically?
I’d have voted for 5 as well
I agree. Perhaps it’s because he’s looking at the camera? I’m not sure.
EDIT: yeah, that’s it! He’s doing a low-key version of that Jim Halpert smirk from The Office.
You guys said no mustaches! Oh come on!
#2 making a bold statement to go sans mustachio.
His apparent boner is making a statement of its own.
He’s gonna put someones eye out with that thing.
Why the leftmost one looks like has a shirt collar even though he is topless?
Tan line from his shirt collar. Modern sunscreen wasn’t invented until the 30s.
good to know I’d be in peak form in 1919, all I need is to let the stache grow
Dafuq? Why them boxers so big
Those are swim trunks
OH OK 💀
The stripes are making my brain do that thing where when the image moves ever so slightly, it appears that their pants are vibrating.
They actually do.
