Mid-fogey
Practically Family
- Messages
- 720
- Location
- The Virginia Peninsula
Two words...
...self control.
...self control.
The only goal of advertising is to sell product.psugrad98 said:I think we are starting to see a throwback to regular man's men in advertising. the new Miller Lite commercial making fun of men who wear purses and the such are pretty funny.
Tango Yankee said:Interesting thought, that. But what about the aftermath of WWI? Same thing? Korea, Viet Nam, too. My father was a Korean War vet. I'd known he was in the Army at some point before I was born, but the only time he talked about it was one evening when I was in high school and even then didn't talk about anything that wasn't humorous.
My wife (who is also retired USAF) said our son, a while after coming back from a tour with the Army in Iraq (he was National Guard) asked her why no one had asked him about his time there. She explained that none of us who had been in the service would; it was up to him to bring it up. Civilians, on the other hand, seem to have no hesitation in asking "Didja kill anyone there?"
Cheers,
Tom
Feraud said:The only goal of advertising is to sell product.
Do not view advertising as a social moral compass.
1961MJS said:Hi
My Dad was in WW2 (17th Weather Squadron), and he discusses it a lot, but he didn't get shot at. My parent's next door neighbor on the other hand, has 2 and 1 Silver Star (s?) and Purple Heart (s?) from the Central Pacific. I didn't get to talk to him much. He DID kill people and does discuss it with some people. Anyway, he went on the honor flight to the WW2 monument and was very emotional over our town's greeting when he came back. My parents, the neighbors, and several other vets were downtown to meet him when he came back home. He said that no one greeted him when he came back from overseas and I found that comment surprising. I know that there were ticker tape parades etc, I've seen the pictures. I take it that if you missed the parade in NYC or LA you missed out all around? I remember hearing about the VN Vets getting spit on when they came back, but the WW2 lack of any local recognition REALLY surprised me.
My Dad came back to the US from Panama in November 1945, and no parades that I was aware of, but that was months after the war was over and he wasn't in a combat position. I guess I don't know when everyone from the European theater and Pacific Theater came home, and what happened when they did.
Later
Miss Neecerie said:Would you not want your wife to keep her head about her when doing rough things..or in emergencies ....etc?
And 'self control'?
Miss Neecerie said:Other then that last line.... those are the characteristics of a good -human-
Would you not want your wife to keep her head about her when doing rough things..or in emergencies ....etc?
And 'self control'?
again...a great quality in both sexes of the human species....
Nothing -unique- to men.....and if you honestly think it is.....
Mr Vim said:I think the original idea of this forum is that in terms of marketing, personal/public perception and fashion in general men are now leaning towards a style that has been dormant for some years... a style to include the fedora, the suit, traditional shaving, heavier colgone and any combination thereof which was a sort of stamp of recognition of a time when men were, well manlier.
Smithy said:The words to "If" posted above are words for anyone to live by irrespective of gender. And the world would be a better place if people did.
I'll have to post The Good Wife article again.
:arated:Flyboy said:Obligatory cross-board rant: real men carry .45's!
jamespowers said:What he hated most were those that served and bragged about their service. They were still here and the heros were left on the battlefield. That was just the way it was.
Widebrim said:I have said more than once: Be wary of those who "brag" about their service; it is very likely that most of what they say is pure fiction.