Peak male form
Peak male form
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Kinda shows how fucked up our beauty standarts got...
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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
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I know those words, but I don't think they're being used in a manner to which I'm accustomed.
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I wonder how well a 1950s Mr Universe Sean Connery would do today?
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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.
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Kinda shows beauty standards are completely arbitrary and context dependent.
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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.
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thank you
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I fucking knew it
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What does it say? There's no reject all and I can't be arsed unchecking then manually.
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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.
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Why does the guy on the left look like he's wearing a collar made of skin?
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They all look a little weird, like some old time photo editing was done.
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That'd be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.
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It's his tan line. None of those guys ever saw the sun without wearing a suit.
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People used to do this weird thing called going outside. Believe it or not, they'd spend most of their waking hours doing this weird habit and they were also typically fully dressed too. It was considered scandalous to be caught outside not fully clothed. So the deadly laser that is our Sun would fry their uncovered face much faster than the skin beneath their clothes.
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I don't understand, why would you do that? Sounds lame
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The oldest dude there is 23 years old
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#2 making a bold statement to go sans mustachio.
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His apparent boner is making a statement of its own.
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He's gonna put someones eye out with that thing.
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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.
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Fuck it.
today's freezing, but I'll go to the gym too :)
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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.
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Second from the right is just Freddie Mercury
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Who? Mr. beast?
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#4 With that dazzle camouflage, ready for naval engagements
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One dude without a mustache lines in a world of regrets and self loathing.
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I'm surprised they even let him enter the contest.
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Without a snappy stache, he's got no shot at all.
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That looks like tom hanks kid
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Some of these fellows are packin' some serious heat!
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Loving the dazzle camo shorts on #4
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The stripes are making my brain do that thing where when the image moves ever so slightly, it appears that their pants are vibrating.
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They actually do.
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[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.
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#2 has an obvious boner
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"Hey, my eyes are up here!"
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I'm not sure. The shape and position are weird. But so are his pants.
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That's a wiener
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I see the sausage vendor is in town this week!
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#5 is either stoned or participating ironically, possibly both. #3 was talked into this, and is now regretting his choice.
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I thought 5 was the best looking guy there, why do you think he is participating ironically?
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I'd have voted for 5 as well
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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.
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#5 is Paul Rudd and this is a poster for their new movie coming out. No one can tell me differently.
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Fat Tom Hanks is the only one without a moustache. He didn't stand a chance.
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He doesn't need a moustache when he's sporting that gargantuan tallywhacker.
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#4 is on the bleeding edge of fashion, while #6 doesn't give a damn.
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Fine young lads
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Cover up those bellybuttons, boys
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Sluts
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Do they even lift?
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Enough to beat your ass in fisticuffs
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Feh. I could easily beat off all of these men.
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You guys said no mustaches! Oh come on!
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Who won?
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Whoever #2 was thinking about.
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The heads seem photoshopped on to the bodies. Or did the skin tone of all their faces just differ that wildly from their bodies' back then?
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I think they wore longer clothes with higher colors back then. They would have a sunt tan from being outside, but only on their head.
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Or a dirt tan from heavy industry and coal.
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Just asked something about this, the left one looks like he has a shirt collar.
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Considering historic mens clothing the latter isn’t implausible.
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They must all be named George cause they are absolutely gorg.
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Dafuq? Why them boxers so big
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Those are swim trunks
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OH OK 💀
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ITT: people who start screaming because they don't realise the
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It's only supposed to turn it into a heading when there's a space between the hashtag and the heading text. If it's doing it immediately after the hash, that's an issue with your client. All the comments here look fine for me on Alexandria, base Lemmy, and Boost.
#This should just be normal size
This shouldn't be
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*octothorp
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Seems to be a problem with the app you're using, not a general lemmy thing.
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They've got those horizontal lines to accentuate the boys.
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Why the leftmost one looks like has a shirt collar even though he is topless?
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Tan line from his shirt collar. Modern sunscreen wasn't invented until the 30s.
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Someone there went to the wrong contest
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They all just seem to be advertising.
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Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
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good to know I'd be in peak form in 1919, all I need is to let the stache grow
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Well now I have a new insecurity because I can't grow a mustache.
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I feel awesome, because I'm no oil painting but I reckon I'd win in this field. Born too late, me.
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2 from the left. The grandfather of “Bigballs” from DOGE.
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Hey, it's the dudes from Yoshi's island!
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I’ll take the looker on the far left. Mmmmhmm, break me off a piece of that.
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My wife says the guy on the right end because "he has the sexiest diaper".
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#2 is packing.
has to, as he has no beard.
So he can't sing a shanty?
No tash = big member... That explains a lot......
I was about to comment that #2 either has as raging boner or it's just like that
That guy is full staff.
"No, no, I don't have a boner! It's just like that!"
He could fuck himself in the belly button.