CONFESSIONAL thread (ANONYMOUS so tell us the juicy stuff!)

[Koinek]

Posted by Koinek:

PS. Oh and...pick up a subscriptions to Mens Health and GQ. Wonderful, wonderful advice on making yourself look and feel top-notch.

Those magazines are good for "entertainment" reading, but I doubt they help. Besides, they're more geared toward men who are already in fine shape to begin with. I find the articles and topics shallow and unimaginative.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion but they've given me some decent focus when it comes to fitness, eating healthy, fashion and contemporary culture. You just have to know which parts don't apply to you and how to weed out the fluff.

GQ for example features some very expensive stuff but you've got to know to look at the style and not necessarily the label (although they've gotten very good in the last couple of years at highlighting the budget options in their spreads). I can find the same "fit" that Armani provides at H&M. Sure, it's not quite as well made or nice but it looks the part. Also, feel free to take a style you like to your local tailor and let 'em have a go at it.

I'll just say this in conclusion, they took me from a guy who looked sketchy to looking very, very respectable. And, I'm putting on muscle for the first time ever.

If how great Koinek is looking these days is anything to judge by, those magazines work damn well as far as fashion sense goes!

 

[Gryffindorian]

Posted by Koinek:

PS. Oh and...pick up a subscriptions to Mens Health and GQ. Wonderful, wonderful advice on making yourself look and feel top-notch.

Those magazines are good for "entertainment" reading, but I doubt they help. Besides, they're more geared toward men who are already in fine shape to begin with. I find the articles and topics shallow and unimaginative.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion but they've given me some decent focus when it comes to fitness, eating healthy, fashion and contemporary culture. You just have to know which parts don't apply to you and how to weed out the fluff.

GQ for example features some very expensive stuff but you've got to know to look at the style and not necessarily the label (although they've gotten very good in the last couple of years at highlighting the budget options in their spreads). I can find the same "fit" that Armani provides at H&M. Sure, it's not quite as well made or nice but it looks the part. Also, feel free to take a style you like to your local tailor and let 'em have a go at it.

I'll just say this in conclusion, they took me from a guy who looked sketchy to looking very, very respectable. And, I'm putting on muscle for the first time ever.

It's good that you find men's magazines useful, but you really have to attribute your success to yourself and all your efforts. To me, they're soft gay porn at best (this coming from a bi guy). Fashion magazines are not for everyone, though; for instance, it wouldn't be advisable to tell an anorexic 16-year-old girl to read Cosmopolitan.

 

[AstroSmurf]

I have to confess I'm desperately curious to see how the whole thing with AstroSmurf turns out

Ditto.

Really? I had already forgotten about it. I have no other excuse except I have been very very busy with work this week.

But if said person wants to add me to Holdfast's Cupid list that would be fine. They could also just throw caution to the wind and PM me. I am a nice mature person that can handle things. To be honest, I am completely flattered. (I think I already know who it is anyway. I am smart like that.)

 

[An Officer]

And, I'm putting on muscle for the first time ever.

Weights?

 

[Amaris]

GQ has some great articles. Maxim's not bad either. I have a subscription to them, and while I haven't applied any of it yet (I need a job first), I am learning a great deal about how men can dress up and look nice (and maintain it!) without breaking the bank.


J.

 

[Gryffindorian]

I used to subscribe to GQ as well (in fact, I may still have the back issues, which I never got to read all these years). Men's magazines are okay, IMHO, but to me they were more for entertainment than reference.

 

[siskokid888]

^Give that man a cigar. You may think me a shit, but I saw it as a challenge. And when you are young and full of testostorone, these are the kinds of things you do. And, just for the record, the sister was better in the sack.

Which one?

Probably the sister he wasn't doing at the time, the grass it always greener on the other side.

Actually, I was doing both, and the one that wasn't my "girlfriend" was a little more experienced. Now, let me duck my head, before the morality police around here blow it off.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Which one?

Probably the sister he wasn't doing at the time, the grass it always greener on the other side.

Actually, I was doing both, and the one that wasn't my "girlfriend" was a little more experienced. Now, let me duck my head, before the morality police around here blow it off.

I doubt "morality" is even an issue here. It's just common decency, that's all. This whole thread itself is very sensational, but it doesn't mean you have to be vulgar in expressing your words.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I haven't had one in a long time.
I wonder if anyone is ever able to direct what happens or where they go moreso than in a typical dream. Usually I was just so amazed that it was happening that I didn't try anything too interesting.

Yes, you can learn to control what is going on. When I was young (around 4-6) I used to have horrible night terrors. Like, screaming all night long in my sleep but not waking up. My mom went to a counselor who told her to train me in lucid dreaming...so my mom would come to my side when these episodes happened and, without waking me up, calmly tell me that I was in a dream and what I needed to do to kill the monster or get away or whatever the dream was about. It worked pretty well and now most of my dreams are lucid. Though it takes me a while to figure it out in the good ones. In bad dreams I instantly know that I am safe and that it is only a dream, that I can take control.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

some women shave themselves, some don't. I know my mother doesn't

 

[ShimmeringFacet]

I haven't had one in a long time.
I wonder if anyone is ever able to direct what happens or where they go moreso than in a typical dream. Usually I was just so amazed that it was happening that I didn't try anything too interesting.

Yes, you can learn to control what is going on. When I was young (around 4-6) I used to have horrible night terrors. Like, screaming all night long in my sleep but not waking up. My mom went to a counselor who told her to train me in lucid dreaming...so my mom would come to my side when these episodes happened and, without waking me up, calmly tell me that I was in a dream and what I needed to do to kill the monster or get away or whatever the dream was about. It worked pretty well and now most of my dreams are lucid. Though it takes me a while to figure it out in the good ones. In bad dreams I instantly know that I am safe and that it is only a dream, that I can take control.

Wow, that's fascinating. I would imagine having this ability helped give a confidence and sense of control that spilled over into your waking life as well.

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

some women shave themselves, some don't. I know my mother doesn't

What, you've never had that discussion with your parents when you were young? Knowing is a different thing then actually seeing it, you know.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

some women shave themselves, some don't. I know my mother doesn't

What, you've never had that discussion with your parents when you were young? Knowing is a different thing then actually seeing it, you know.

Look at what country you are in, then look at the country he is in...

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

Look at what country you are in, then look at the country he is in...

Good point.

 

[captcalhoun]

i know my mother doesn't. i saw her getting dressed when i was a kid.

 

[SPOCKED]

some women shave themselves, some don't. I know my mother doesn't

What, you've never had that discussion with your parents when you were young? Knowing is a different thing then actually seeing it, you know.

i know my mother doesn't. i saw her getting dressed when i was a kid.

That's nice.

"Juicy" does not equal shuddersome. And nasty.

I'm through with speeches and warnings. Infractions will follow.

 

[siskokid888]

Probably the sister he wasn't doing at the time, the grass it always greener on the other side.

Actually, I was doing both, and the one that wasn't my "girlfriend" was a little more experienced. Now, let me duck my head, before the morality police around here blow it off.

I doubt "morality" is even an issue here. It's just common decency, that's all. This whole thread itself is very sensational, but it doesn't mean you have to be vulgar in expressing your words.

I didn't know something as subjective as what is "vulgar" could be so exactly defined, especially in a medium in which people are "freely" communicating. But I guess TPTB are smarter than me. And everyone else.

 

[Deckerd]

There is a difference between cheerful vulgarity and downright unpleasantness.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

There is a difference between cheerful vulgarity and downright unpleasantness.

Surely you jest? The level of discourse is disgusting... Either that or the rules are just getting stupid now.

 

[Deckerd]

I always jest. In a confessional thread by its very nature its going to be near the knuckle.