goober

[pianistimo]

ok.  on the radio this morning they were explaining the difference between a metro-sexual and a goober-sexual.  this is how it is.  a metro-sexual doesn't want to get his hair messed up, doesn't want dirt under his fingernails.  the goober-sexual is the man that doesn't care about his hair - and mows his own lawn.  is this true?  i mean, is this a term?

[thalbergmad]

Submitted for the thread of the year award.

[rc]

hahah! Hasn't she already got a few awards for thread of the year?

...Well, it looks like everyone I know is a 'goober-sexual'. But I won't tell them that .

Hmmmmm... I actually think I know what you're talking about! I read an article on the net one day about 'uber-sexual'. Something about a guy who took care of his looks, but wasn't such a fairy as the metrosexual.

I think the same fashion designer came up with this one as 'metrosexual'. Looks like the term might have caught on, poor misguided world we live in.

[ahinton]

hahah! Hasn't she already got a few awards for thread of the year?

...Well, it looks like everyone I know is a 'goober-sexual'. But I won't tell them that .

Hmmmmm... I actually think I know what you're talking about! I read an article on the net one day about 'uber-sexual'. Something about a guy who took care of his looks, but wasn't such a fairy as the metrosexual.

I think the same fashion designer came up with this one as 'metrosexual'. Looks like the term might have caught on, poor misguided world we live in.

I suspect that it, and others like it, are indeed all "terms", at least to the extent that - and as long as - someone somewhere contrives to make money out of selling something as a direct consequence of its invention...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

thanks, rc, for clearing this up (i knew my hearing was going). 
'uber' is the word.  i was sure at the time it was 'goober' but i never found it on the internet.

[jas]

thanks, rc, for clearing this up (i knew my hearing was going). 
'uber' is the word.  i was sure at the time it was 'goober' but i never found it on the internet.

That's the funniest mishearing ever.

I can't stand metrosexual men. They look hideous. I have seen so many men poncing around with pink t-shirts, fake tans and highlighted spiky hair, and they all look like crap. How can they think women find girly men attractive?

Jas

[pianistimo]

the only ones that can pull it off are the very masculine looking ones because they look downright funny - like mel gibson in ?what movie was that...where he puts on nylons.  he's got these really muscular legs so it looked funny.  thankfully he doesn't do that in most movies.

fashion designers can be responsible for a lot of silliness.  guess it keeps people laughing if nothing else (crying).

[rc]

That's the funniest mishearing ever.

I can't stand metrosexual men. They look hideous. I have seen so many men poncing around with pink t-shirts, fake tans and highlighted spiky hair, and they all look like crap. How can they think women find girly men attractive?

Jas

hahah, well if I ever come across someone who considers himself one, and I hope I don't, I'll have to make sure he knows what a goober he is .

That's what they get for blindly following a trend w/o thinking! The only way metrosexual can work is if it's a joke poking fun, like Mel Gibson, heh. Was that 'What Women Want?', haven't seen the movie, but seems familiar from previews.