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Offline zheer

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Metrosexual.
on: May 31, 2008, 05:51:58 PM
  Ok so this other day this girl described as metrosexual, can you be masculine and metrosexual at the same time, COL. :'(
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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 06:46:27 PM
What an ugly word. Don't utter it. It's just some kind of modern fashion, an odd blain on what should be a clear distinction between men and women. Uh, i cringe every time i hear that...
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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 07:10:22 PM
I think so too, the most metro thing I've ever done is apply cream to my face cos it gets really dry, thats it.
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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #3 on: May 31, 2008, 07:47:22 PM
https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103917

Great southpark-episode on metrosexuality ;p

It's ridiculous term though.

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #4 on: May 31, 2008, 11:26:15 PM
I tuned into the radio some time ago to hear the person who came up with the term metrosexual, it was a fashion critic or something.  He/she wanted to coin a new term 'ubersexual'.  I think it was to mean a guy who wears makeup, but shaves his head to still seem masculine...  Or some goofy crap like that.

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #5 on: May 31, 2008, 11:44:05 PM
Not crap, business. $$$$
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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #6 on: June 01, 2008, 01:02:42 AM
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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #7 on: June 01, 2008, 03:41:37 AM
I've never considered metrosexual a word. As a matter of fact, my computer has that red line under it.
It's just another term society has created to upgrade itself--that is, make itself feel "special." Another example of this would be "supervirtuoso."
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #8 on: June 01, 2008, 06:34:25 AM
"supervirtuoso."
right. Or the term 'mega-savant' i heard the other day. As if there was some kind of hierarchy: genius - savant - megasavant ( - god ??). Oh dear...
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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #9 on: June 01, 2008, 06:10:48 PM
Yesterday at the grocery store the clerk made a comment about their 'turbo-pen'...  But it really was turbo, looked like a spaceship.  I would need a new desk if I had turbo-pens because they just wouldn't fit into the drawers.

Not crap, business. $$$$

I agree, people can make a lot of money off crap.  That's what marketing is for.

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #10 on: June 01, 2008, 09:32:00 PM
I've never considered metrosexual a word. As a matter of fact, my computer has that red line under it.
It's just another term society has created to upgrade itself--that is, make itself feel "special." Another example of this would be "supervirtuoso."
But I'm quite sure that Marc-André Hamelin has never considered himself - or even been accused of being - a metrosexual either.

I always thought that a metrosexual was someone who got his/her kicks from having sex while travelling on a city metro system, but who cares...

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #11 on: June 01, 2008, 11:00:46 PM
New York. London. Paris. Hong Kong. Mumbai.

If you find yourself becoming aroused by the mere mention of these places, then you may be a metrosexual.

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #12 on: June 02, 2008, 06:49:10 AM
But I'm quite sure that Marc-André Hamelin has never considered himself - or even been accused of being - a metrosexual either.

I always thought that a metrosexual was someone who got his/her kicks from having sex while travelling on a city metro system, but who cares...

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I don't get the point of your statement about Hamelin. No one said he was metrosexual.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #13 on: June 02, 2008, 07:13:54 AM
I don't get the point of your statement about Hamelin. No one said he was metrosexual.
No, I can see that you don't. Let me help you out here. My reference to him was simply a follow-up to someone else's reference to the term "supervirtuoso".

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #14 on: June 02, 2008, 01:10:21 PM
Supermetrosexual?
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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #15 on: June 02, 2008, 02:52:05 PM
Supermetrosexual?
Heaven forfend! Whatever next? Supercalifragilisticexpialidosexual"?

Incidentally, are you petterosexual?

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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #16 on: June 02, 2008, 09:14:08 PM
Heaven forfend! Whatever next? Supercalifragilisticexpialidosexual"?

Incidentally, are you petterosexual?

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Alistair

My guess would be: only if you are AHintOnSexual  :P
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Re: Metrosexual.
Reply #17 on: June 02, 2008, 09:20:26 PM
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Incidentally, are you petterosexual?

If that´s equivalent to suppressing the urge of mating with every attractive woman you (I?) come across then yes.
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