#2 is packing.
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.
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.
Why does the guy on the left look like he’s wearing a collar made of skin?
They all look a little weird, like some old time photo editing was done.
That’d be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.
It’s his tan line. None of those guys ever saw the sun without wearing a suit.
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.
I don’t understand, why would you do that? Sounds lame
The oldest dude there is 23 years old
#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.
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.
I did not mean to seem aggressive if it came off that way. I do that some times
tiny wee wee included?
We prefer the term feminine penis these days
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
Second from the right is just Freddie Mercury
Who? Mr. beast?
#4 With that dazzle camouflage, ready for naval engagements
One dude without a mustache lines in a world of regrets and self loathing.
I’m surprised they even let him enter the contest.
Without a snappy stache, he’s got no shot at all.
That looks like tom hanks kid
Some of these fellows are packin’ some serious heat!
Loving the dazzle camo shorts on #4
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.
Oh nice new avatar
Wait, what?
I have the brain capacity of a dead sloth.
Gonna be honest, I forgot Lemmy had avatars. They’re hidden in whatever layout I use
Same here. Boost for lemmy.
[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.
