Males shaving armpits

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PsychoAndy

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Originally posted by: GirlFriday
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: GirlFriday
I don't want a guy to shave, but if you look like you have Don King in a headlock, its time to trim it up some. :p

You didn't vote though!

Oooo, how did you know? She's got pyschic abilities, or connections or something....... :Q Can I borrow your tin hat PAB?

;)

Yeeny, for shame. You have missed a day in my tenure as the PAB.

The tinFOIL hat is a PAB? exclusive. It symbolizes the metamorphasis from PAB to Linuxboy. The sheer veracity of a thread demanding the needs of a Linuxboy imitation is strong today, therefore the safe was unlocked and the hat was released.

On a related note, you believe you retain the indiosyncratic vernacular to caputure the qunitessesnce of a Linuxboy imitation? Pah! Your elegibility must be verified by an independent panel consisting of myself, HC, LB, and Zenmervolt. Simple majority wins.

Do you accept the PAB Challenge??

-PAB
 

Soybomb

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Its maintenance.....as a bonus your bottles of deodorant/antiperspirant lasts 2x as long since you don't waste as much.

edit: I think most guys would be more open to a good trim than a total shave.
 

Yeeny

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Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Originally posted by: GirlFriday
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: GirlFriday
I don't want a guy to shave, but if you look like you have Don King in a headlock, its time to trim it up some. :p

You didn't vote though!

Oooo, how did you know? She's got pyschic abilities, or connections or something....... :Q Can I borrow your tin hat PAB?

;)

Yeeny, for shame. You have missed a day in my tenure as the PAB.

The tinFOIL hat is a PAB? exclusive. It symbolizes the metamorphasis from PAB to Linuxboy. The sheer veracity of a thread demanding the needs of a Linuxboy imitation is strong today, therefore the safe was unlocked and the hat was released.

On a related note, you believe you retain the indiosyncratic vernacular to caputure the qunitessesnce of a Linuxboy imitation? Pah! Your elegibility must be verified by an independent panel consisting of myself, HC, LB, and Zenmervolt. Simple majority wins.

Do you accept the PAB Challenge??

-PAB

I assume you meant quintessence, right Mr. Smarty Pants? ;) And do you hear that wooshing sound? Thats the sound of your post flying over my head!
 

Deeko

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Jun 16, 2000
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I trimmed them for my ex....she preferred other areas shaved....that itches like a mofo.
 

PsychoAndy

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Originally posted by: GirlFriday
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Originally posted by: GirlFriday
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: GirlFriday
I don't want a guy to shave, but if you look like you have Don King in a headlock, its time to trim it up some. :p

You didn't vote though!

Oooo, how did you know? She's got pyschic abilities, or connections or something....... :Q Can I borrow your tin hat PAB?

;)

Yeeny, for shame. You have missed a day in my tenure as the PAB.

The tinFOIL hat is a PAB? exclusive. It symbolizes the metamorphasis from PAB to Linuxboy. The sheer veracity of a thread demanding the needs of a Linuxboy imitation is strong today, therefore the safe was unlocked and the hat was released.

On a related note, you believe you retain the indiosyncratic vernacular to caputure the qunitessesnce of a Linuxboy imitation? Pah! Your elegibility must be verified by an independent panel consisting of myself, HC, LB, and Zenmervolt. Simple majority wins.

Do you accept the PAB Challenge??

-PAB

I assume you meant quintessence, right Mr. Smarty Pants? ;) And do you hear that wooshing sound? Thats the sound of your post flying over my head!

Its 2AM Yeeny and I've spent the last 4 hours writing sociological BS because I'm 16 weeks behind in class. Cut me some slack. I made a spelling mistake.

I also spelled idiosyncratic wrong. I'm not reading my posts. Just typing them really quickly.

-PAB
 

This thread is cracking me up. Stoooooooooooorm Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiider, feel like taking us on a ride? :Q ;) That was really funny! LOL! :D
 

Yeeny

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Originally posted by: PsychoAndy


Its 2AM Yeeny and I've spent the last 4 hours writing sociological BS because I'm 16 weeks behind in class. Cut me some slack. I made a spelling mistake.

I also spelled idiosyncratic wrong. I'm not reading my posts. Just typing them really quickly.

-PAB

Whoa, down boy, it was a joke. You know, haha hehe? I just couldn't resist when I saw it in the middle of that oh so intelligent sounding post.

Now get back to work. ;) And good luck on catching up!
 

PsychoAndy

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Dec 31, 2000
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Originally posted by: GirlFriday
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy


Its 2AM Yeeny and I've spent the last 4 hours writing sociological BS because I'm 16 weeks behind in class. Cut me some slack. I made a spelling mistake.

I also spelled idiosyncratic wrong. I'm not reading my posts. Just typing them really quickly.

-PAB

Whoa, down boy, it was a joke. You know, haha hehe? I just couldn't resist when I saw it in the middle of that oh so intelligent sounding post.

Now get back to work. ;) And good luck on catching up!

Its a LB imitation. It has to be intelligent sounding.

-PAB
 

KGB1

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Dec 29, 2001
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I trim it with my beard trimmer. Looks neater and does not grow back "harder" if I were to totally shave it.
 

Lithium381

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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: grasshopper26
Originally posted by: HotChic
Stuff only itches the first time it begins to grow in. If you continue shaving it, no itching. I'm fairly sure that applies to all body parts, but of course, I wouldn't know firsthand.

You don't shave???

:Q

I shave. I just don't have all the body parts you guys do.

I hope not!! :Q\


So far i only shave my face.......
 

linuxboy

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Oct 9, 1999
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tinfoil hat*

The folicular debate as to wether the male species should trim armpit hair. Hmm. One must ask...


I disagree, asserting that one must not ask. I think the debate here is no more than a figmented polyessential denotation of our incapabilities as a species to settle on any sort of reason for partaking in activities started as a means to increase survival and reproductive fecundity.

Are the aestehtic defiencies mother nature gave us THAT detrimental to the female views of the human body?


Right away we begin to unravel such seemingly puerile terms as "female". Consider it, this terming of a motherly nature as that vital genetic pointe d'origine, which in turn is utilized from the reference point of (again) "female" valuations. In so doing, we relativize any merits of universal human beauty, since the unequivocal recognition of female proneness to unawareness of need and desire leads to chaos if combined with a high proclivity for shopping and other mall-chic phenomena herein dubbed 'chicamania'.


Nature does provide for us, but who are we to say that we should change? Is it a sociological factor? Perhaps the proverbial line of tolerance is shifing yet again: A movement to "anethesize" the essesnce of testosterone from withinn.


Again, your discussion of possible sturm-und-drang between social adaptivity and the will to effect one's own environments misses the point altogether. Namely, that this question should not be considered with the magnitude of scale posed herein due to chicamania and self-creation within oneself given influence by external factors.


An interesing quandry, no doubt. Perhaps this movement is a pyschological one aimed at the capitalization of the male aura, or perhaps a clandestine yearning to control it. Could such a movement be derived simply to test the bonds of commitment men everywhere have made?


I think the quandary is interesting, yet also drole, in a manner befitting a chuckle, a swilling of the martini glass, and a passing out from drunkenness. However, let us look to the underlying dynamics and causes of your entire thesis. And the testing of bonds due to shaving seems negligible. Unless, of course, one is putrid, which may necessitate the removal of hairs to proactively mitigate ossification of salts and proteins released by the sweat glands. Given, one isn't German, that is :D

Let us examine this matter. One HotChic, for reasons unbeknowst to me (for who can understands the nebulous ways of Hot Chics? Perhaps some of them suffer from chicamania?), asks whether or not armpit hair and its cutting or uncutting is somehow related to gender (and possibly sex), since her preliminary studies lead to the conclusion that most females prefer no hair, while most men seek to preserve their state of hairiness. Furthermore, this cross-section of social deviants is asked of their preference in such delicate matters as hair.

Now, prima fascie, I would conclude that HotChic is in need of distraction and seeks to continue her posting style and content while gleaning useful information about people. Yet, this is dubious and cannot be held up to scrutiny.

If I postulate, as you did partially, that males are threatened by the decline of traditional symbols of masculinity such as patriarchical dominance, social manifestations of the "bread-winner" syndrome, and come to the conclusion that a threat to selfhood posed by the clipping of armpit hair, it would bring us back to original problems of chicamania as (I'm sure the wiser, older, and prettier members of the forum will confirm; id est, the women) women control the world, so we, as people, better learn to live with it.

In short, parts are there for a reason, including hair. If people can't figure out how it all fits together, then you're not doing it right. I suggest you ask some HotChics.


Cheers ! :)

Post Scriptum: I'm male, and I'm neutral.
 

PG

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Oct 25, 1999
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Armpit hair? What do I do about back hair? Can I get a 55 gallon drum of Nair?

 

Fausto

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I guess I would if the wife suddenly deemed it desirable, but she's never mentioned it. I'm not particularly furry anyway so it's not really an issue. I shave enough of myself already anyway :p (see "leg shaving" thread).
 
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Lola

Well.....i voted neutral. I don't mind it if it is taken care of. I think that men should keep that hair, and, as long as it is kept neat and they clean, it usually isn't a problem! I thikn of men that have a nice patch of hair "manly" and rugged!:eek::D