BREAKING STORY AT TURBINE!!

[Reg]

Also, unrelated to your post, metrosexuals are homosexuals who haven't worked up the nerve to go to a bathhouse or roadstop yet. No self-respecting real man is aware of crap like ear hairs, let alone goes to the bother of plucking them and using "product". Unless the product is some sort of rubber to avoid unwanted pregnancy beacuse the do it with chicks so much.

Every once in a while I'll reach up to scratch my ear (in a manly way) and discover a two foot ear hair has grown there - usually right out of the earlobe. It's bizarre and annoying and I don't hesitate to wrap it around my finger and pull it out. I don't think this makes me a mincing metrosexual. I have the same kinds of hairs growing from my eyebrows these days. I leave them alone though as they are useful for judging the width of doorways.

[angry.bob]

Every once in a while I'll reach up to scratch my ear (in a manly way) and discover a two foot ear hair has grown there - usually right out of the earlobe. It's bizarre and annoying and I don't hesitate to wrap it around my finger and pull it out. I don't think this makes me a mincing metrosexual. I have the same kinds of hairs growing from my eyebrows these days. I leave them alone though as they are useful for judging the width of doorways.

Plucking implies some sort of feminine device is involved, like tweezers for example. What you're describing is discovering something on your body you dislike and ripping it off with your bare hands. That's very manly. Not as manly as when I remove my own warts and skin tags with nail clippers, x-acto knife, or box cutters, but it's a good start.

[ahoythematey]

I remove my unwanted body growths with harsh language.

[stray]

Also, unrelated to your post, metrosexuals are homosexuals who haven't worked up the nerve to go to a bathhouse or roadstop yet.

I don't think they're closet homosexuals as much as they are just guys who have somehow been affected by the importance of "image" and "style" that has largely been marketed towards women for the past 50 years (Note that I said "marketed", because I'm only talking about a certain kind of emphasis on "image" -- that which has been propogated by fashion magazines, makeup product companies, "Red Carpet" type celebrity TV shows, and the like. It's one thing to consider personal appearance to be important, another to obsess about it like some women have been convinced to do.).

For some reason, the marketing is targeting men as well these days. But I don't know what came first: The marketing or the metrosexual?

edit:

/shrug

I blame Maxim (male Cosmo)....and Vin Diesel.

[schild]

Maxim isn't the male Cosmo. Maxim is for Joe Sixpack.

European GQ and to a lesser extent GQ America is the male Cosmo.

Get your shitty rags right.

[stray]

Maxim has made body spraying, golden locked frat boys out of an entire generation of American males. Whatever GQ is doing, it's not guilty of that.

[schild]

Maxim has made body spraying, golden locked frat boys out of an entire generation of American males. Whatever GQ is doing, it's not guilty of that.

I can't believe I'm about to have this argument.

You're confusing your magazines. Maxim is about titties, beer, football, and the american dream - which happens to be titties, beer, and football. Once in a while they have a 5-6 page spread that was most certainly bought and paid for by a clothing designer. I'm pretty sure they've never had the man behind Diesel, Liz Clairborne, H&M, etc, etc. on the cover of their mag and I know for a fact they don't have little blocks of text next to pictures telling you where women/men got their clothing (short of those paid for sections mentioned earlier).

GQ on the other hand does everything Cosmo does. But for men.

I'd know. I've read both extensively.

You read Maxim on the crapper. You read GQ in a hair salon. Does that clear it up for you? 

[Signe]

What the hell are you people talking about???

[Jayce]

What the hell are you people talking about???

All I know is that it in no way involves Turbine or WoLoTR (or whatever it's called these days).

OR DOES IT??

[stray]

What the hell are you people talking about???

Hey, don't back out now. You started it  :-D

[ahoythematey]

What the hell are you people talking about???

Well, it was Middle Earth and LotR, then somehow it became about closet homosexuals and unwanted body hair, and now it's firmly back to arguments over what makes a man gay, which I guess is the internet endgame.

[Paelos]

What the hell are you people talking about???

Well, it was Middle Earth and LotR, then somehow it became about closet homosexuals and unwanted body hair, and now it's firmly back to arguments over what makes a man gay, which I guess is the internet endgame.

Gay Nazis is endgame.

[Pococurante]

I remove my unwanted body growths with harsh language.

I watch a Vin Diesel movie and my excess appendage hairs disintegrate into lemon-scented ash.

[schild]

I remove my unwanted body growths with harsh language.

I watch a Vin Diesel movie and my excess appendage hairs disintegrate into lemon-scented ash.

I take off my robe and my wizard hat.

[Signe]

What the hell are you people talking about???

Hey, don't back out now. You started it  :-D

I know I started something but I have no idea what it's turned into!  I'm not sure I can be blamed for this one!

Oh... and for everyone's general information... when schild removes his robe and wizard hat that means he's finished and has gone off for his post gratification smoke.   I'm guessing Pococurante's post finished him off.  Either that or the Nazi reference.

[Furiously]

No "LIGHTNING BOLT...."

[Pococurante]

I'm guessing Pococurante's post finished him off.  Either that or the Nazi reference.

I am TEH WINNAR!  No Schild not yet!!! A DERAIL IS AT STEAK!1!!11

[Yegolev]

Well, it was Middle Earth and LotR, then somehow it became about closet homosexuals and unwanted body hair,

These concepts are far from mutually exclusive.  One might say they are, in fact, intertwined.

[Hoax]

These concepts are far from mutually exclusive.  One might say they are, in fact, intertwined.

Case in point?  Elves.  Esp ones named Legoleet, Leggomyeggo, Logollaas, ect.

[ahoythematey]

These concepts are far from mutually exclusive.  One might say they are, in fact, intertwined.

So what you're saying is...if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood...

[Shockeye]

These concepts are far from mutually exclusive.  One might say they are, in fact, intertwined.

So what you're saying is...if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood...

then she's probably really Strazos in drag.

[Strazos]

HEY! I find that to be very Insu....

Wait, that doesn't even make sense.

Shockeye's hate for me is great. Maybe I need to take up his offer to face me while I use only my offhand, hmm...

[Shockeye]

I was pointing out the fact that you like to pretend you're a woman in games.

[Strazos]

I only play a woman when I don't play a Rogue....it's more amusing that way.

Though I will NEVER do it in PnP again. I believe the experience has scarred me for life.

EDIT: Oh, to kinda stay on thread topic....

Um...Turbine...eh...Yay?

[Signe]

Every time I start a thread, it ends up this way.   

I think I'll just shut up.

[stray]

Every time I start a thread, it ends up this way.   

I think I'll just shut up.

No, please don't. You need to be ahead of me in postcount. 

[HaemishM]

Every time I start a thread, it ends up this way.   

I think I'll just shut up.

That would be a sad day for all of us.

Perhaps the derailment of the thread is owing to just how little information we have on the actual gameplay of Lord of the Rings online, as well as a decidedly skeptical view that well-established licenses make bad games.

[Hoax]

I attribute it directly to we're trying to be nice, but there is nothing nice to say about the game.  Its going to suck, plain and simple.

They've painted themselves into a storyline corner where nothing interesting can really happen in the game.  The world they are trying to re-create will undoubtedly be destroyed by some "suits" pie chart that says gamers like to cast spells and be elves.  Oh and there is no pvp, so you can't even kill the pansy elves... 

*edit on, no, whats the diff*

[Xuri]

*My first and only re-rail attempt. Ever*

So, they've ditched "Middle Earth - Living, breathing Virtual World" and replaced it with.... "Lord of the Rings Online - Kill Orcs/Balrogs/<insert creature> With Your Friends!" (Alongside your friends, not using them to kill <creature>)? Sounds interesting, but unfortunately (for me) not the "LOTR Online" I want. Though there's not really that much information out on it, so I could be wrong.

[Yegolev]

These concepts are far from mutually exclusive.  One might say they are, in fact, intertwined.

So what you're saying is...if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood...

I'm actually being semi-serious.  I mean, if you think there are no homosexual overtones in LOTR, well... I won't be able to convince you in this post.  Re-read the books if the movies weren't clear.  Better yet, read up on Tolkien and his friends.

Secondly, I would imagine that hobbit women shave/pluck their feet, at the very least.

[Signe]

I found the books very gay.

Seriously.

[HaemishM]

Samwise looking wistfully into Frodo's eyes is very gay.

But in the end, he banged the hotty Rose. So it was a faux gay.

[WayAbvPar]

Samwise looking wistfully into Frodo's eyes is very gay.

But in the end, he banged the hotty Rose. So it was a faux gay.

Are you saying Samwise Gamgee was Middle Earth's first metrosexual?

[HaemishM]

I'm saying that it got mighty cold and lonely in those Orc suits on the barren plains of Mordor.

[Jayce]

Re-read the books if the movies weren't clear.  Better yet, read up on Tolkien and his friends.

I've read up on Tolkein and his friends, and I don't see what you're seeing.  It's good (if a bit juvenile) comedy to imagine it, but that was a different time.  It was possible to be affectionate and loving with your good friends back then and not be subject to hoots of "homo lol lolz!!!1one"