Masculinity Appreciation Thread

As far as the football argument goes...

Please note that compromising is not always the manliest thing to do, but this little high-school-girl slap fight over rugby vs. American football (vs. European football, once they join in) is extremely unmanly. We should simply agree that playing while hurt is manly in any test of wills.

With that in mind, Ricky Rudd taping his eyes open to race in the Daytona 500 after this nasty crash beats any broken bone story:

Link to video.
 
Irish Caesar said:
We should simply agree that playing while hurt is manly in any test of wills.
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IDK, sometimes it's manlier to accept injuries have a heal rate to miminize the long term damage. I think it's manly to commit to the long fight, as much as it is to push one's limits.


And it's definitely manly to bear the weight of appropriate protective gear.
 
GoodGame said:
IDK, sometimes it's manlier to accept injuries have a heal rate to miminize the long term damage. I think it's manly to commit to the long fight, as much as it is to push one's limits.

And it's definitely manly to bear the weight of appropriate protective gear.
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Certainly it's not manly to take more risk than necessary...

...but it's manly to put away the pain for a few hours if the team really needs you:

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holy king said:
who the hell let the guy with the broken foot kick it instead of someone else?????
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I think it was more a case of; "oh, there's three seconds left on the clock, and the ball has somehow ended up in my hands. What the hell, I'll kick it instinctively as I normally would, then scream in pain and fall to the ground because I've forgotten my foot is broken."

Regarding manliness, Johnny Valentine once wrestled in Brazil and had several of his fingers ripped off. He stitched them back on himself. Then, because the promoter had skipped out without paying him, he wrestled his way through Latin America until he made it back to the US. Unfortunately there's no video I can link for this, but it's true. Valentine was an arsehole, but he a tough one.
 
No man should be complete without a large bottle of drink (1.5l+), unless it is alcoholic (though you get double points for both).
 
In glass ideally or even more manly, stainless steel. Drinking out of plastic disrupts your hormones.
 
Playing Edward 40 hands while doing something else that's manly is the manliest way to drink possible.
 
Narz said:
In glass ideally or even more manly, stainless steel. Drinking out of plastic disrupts your hormones.
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Word. And for men, that makes us androgynous.
 
Well if we are going to go down that path then Clarkson's father in law knocking out a Tiger tank firing a mortar from the hip. Which involved walking out directly in front of it since the mortar was impossible to aim. Keep in mind that, given how mortars load he had to fire it one handed. For bonus man points he won the VC and never bothered to mention it to even his wife, who only discovered it clearing out his desk after he died. Man just went back to work at the bank and had to ask people to speak up a lot.

However I would contend that we are delving into the realm of macho rather than manly.
 
Henry Jones, Sr taking out German fighters by harassing seagulls is very manly. He killed Nazis, which is manly. He defeated a machine of death with his mind, which is manly. And he's INDIANA JONES' EFFING FATHER! Very manly.
 
Is it manly to be unafraid of a pandemic?
 
But it's boyish to be cavalier about it.
 
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