Laundry

[calandale]

I remember a friend of mine, getting laid,
after a long drought, coming downstairs and
bragging about "nothing makes you feel so
much like a man, as getting some."

I beg to differ.

However, there is SOMETHING that makes
me feel that way. I'm doing laundry right now,
and I forgot how absolutely virile and manly it
makes me feel.

Sometimes, I wonder if I'm right in the head.

 

[Trooper5445]

Somehow?

I figured you got past that stage.

I don't like laundry. Besides my dog claims it all.

 

[MountainBlade]

Did someone say mantage?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvltzwkUEEA

 

[your nightmare]

Laundry , we have a laundry thingy that has as many buttons as a space craft has , when I touch it , alarms go of and lights begin to shine.

 

[Morbo]

Laundry is pretty ugh, but I did however feel pretty damn manly when I was making a large batch of potato and leek soup earlier! Mmmm.

 

[Worbah]

Back in the school I was in I used to drink a bottle of medium sweet red wine (Melnik 13 to be precise) whenever I did the laundry. Well, I and a friend each drank, and the cleaning ladies gave us these odd looks (could be due to the toplessness as well, dunno)

 

[Sulibres]

I remember the previous times I did laundry in the old apartment my family stayed in temporarily. The laundry room was shared by all the tenants in the apartment and during winter, I'd scramble downstairs as thickly layered as possible, fumble with my keys at the door trying to get in as quickly as possible.

It was not exactly warm inside the laundry room mind you, it was in fact rather chilly due to the cheap concrete floors retaining much of the cold and the fact that there were barely any windows. Florescent tubes were the only source of light in the rather dingy and squalid room and I do remember many a lonely hour spent reading whatever novel I ad brought with me to the rumbling of the ancient laundry machine and the smell of detergent.

 

[Cleaning agent]

You want to feel like a man? Look at your penis, guaranteed to prove your maleness.

If you don't have a penis, doing laundry is a suitable alternative.

 

[Buxton]

I hate it, the **** iron jettisons some brown crap when I'm ironing white things.

 

[okiN]

Doing laundry is a pain, but chopping wood is pretty manly when it comes to chores. It almost feels more like a pastime than actual work, unless you have to do a huge lot of it in a short stretch of time.

I mean, you raise the axe, strike with all your might, see the wood split and shatter, feel the blade hit the chopping block... what's not to like?

 

[Buxton]

Doing laundry is a pain, but chopping wood is pretty manly when it comes to chores. It almost feels more like a pastime than actual work, unless you have to do a huge lot of it in a short stretch of time.

I mean, you raise the axe, strike with all your might, see the wood split and shatter, feel the blade hit the chopping block... what's not to like?

That and smashing rocks with sledgehammers and picks (I was making gravel btw). The man feeling is a good one.

 

[Kobrag]

What about cooking? Is that pretty manly? Cutting raw meat an' all? Blood puddings good.

 

[okiN]

Barbecuing is manly. Massive slabs of dead animal cooked (Barely) on an open flame - gotta love that.

Cooking in general? Not so much. Still, it's lost the stigma of being unmanly, except maybe in the most extreme bastions of redneck misogyny, and is a pretty cool hobby IMO.

 

[Cleaning agent]

Cutting grass (or fields of brambles and nettles) with those big spinny machines.

Whacking the cement out of joints with a hammer.

Jumping into a freezing cold lake without testing the water.

Carrying logs back and forth.

Carving a snake out of a block of wood, then cutting yourself and using the blood to give it eyes and a pattern on its back.


All things I do while on holiday. You could say it's my "man time".

 

[okiN]

Jumping into a freezing cold lake without testing the water.

You using "freezing" figuratively, here? If not, then yeah, definitely good and manly. Swimming in a lake that's been frozen over is bliss.

 

[Cleaning agent]

Hah, nah. The lake was cold, but I doubt it was anywhere below zero. I'd guess at about eight degrees, since we had some hot weather the week before.

(And yes Naridill, I know you sleep naked in a glacier pool to get warm, but I'm not a crazy bastard like you.)

 

[Cleaning agent]

Because you're really a worried little boy behind those yards of norse muscle, and all you really need is a bit of love from uncle CA.

 

[Worbah]

Doing laundry is a pain, but chopping wood is pretty manly when it comes to chores. It almost feels more like a pastime than actual work, unless you have to do a huge lot of it in a short stretch of time.

Aye, used to claim dibs on it in the army. Pitching a tent with a load of hairy men... Sorry, not my thing.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

I think giving blood is pretty manly, but it's probably derived from my view of overcoming the innate fear of people inserting foreign objects into me.

 

[Trooper5445]

I think giving blood is pretty manly, but it's probably derived from my view of overcoming the innate fear of people inserting foreign objects into me.

So being raped is manly?

Have it your way.