Sorry, help me out, perhaps you should provide me with a list of expressions of approval which are acceptable in this thread, so I know, y’know...

Acceptable:

-would smash

-she made me yazoo

-tits tits tits tits tits tits tits tits tits etc

Not acceptable:

-I came

-cock cock cock cock cock cock?

Because I totally need to know the ~acceptable~ way to express that I would like to Vince Clarke all over this man’s face:

fotheringtonmaxsmom

F.ing. Thom. = best WS poster. emil.y otm.

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Fostering Thom As?

If you knew FT, you would know that she would indeed smash Mr Yorke. That’s what the thread is for, right? So how is it trolling?

― Illia Rump (emil.y), Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

^this is a valid point, also WS threads have a no judgey policy that I am violating. Post away. xp

― Mr Jimmy Mod, Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

So, y’know, read

Jimmy, I got no beef with you. I appreciate the clarification.

But, y’know, there were another couple dozen posts that I decided to respond to—not nastily, but with humour. Hence the jokes about “Vince Clarke” referencing the funnies above.

This is something that this thread has brought sharply to my attention—how differently people read my intentions from my actions. Like, when I’m being exhuberantly gleeful some people read it as trolling, (except emil.y who knows me IRL enough to know that I’m being genuinely joyfully enthusiastic) When I’m being playful like I was being to jaymc, do people read that as nasty?

I dunno. It’s *interesting* to me, to note differences and patterns. There’s a ton of stuff that, like, talking to Hoy and Milo and Mookie on this thread has made me think about WRT attraction. But it’s really kind of a bummer knowing that people are going to get defensive the moment gender even gets mentioned, and therefore get aggro towards me. Which is no fun for anyone. Because I thought this thread was just happy fun lusting and crushing, you know?

if anyone’s seriously getting aggressive towards you or anyone else in this thread they need to gtfo immediately. this right here is the ws zone, the zone for

Would smash Vince Clarke out of sheer admiration and <333 for almost all he’s ever done but I’m pretty sure I’m not exactly his type. ;_;

― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Thursday, 15 December 2011 03:06 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

I read this as Vince Cable and had a genuine WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF moment.

Thom Yorke is less trolly than Paz de la Huerta was in the troo thread.

paz dlh is amazing, it was the particular pic of her that was a little trolly

which particular pic? oh, all of them?

have you seen boardwalk empire just asking

GUYS.

HEY E WASSUP

She’s not my cup of tea either but I feel like at this point WHO CARES.

noone cares, it is just ilx and i’m bored.

Fair enough.

she is a legit discussion topic iirc

also she is not a cup of tea type of gal she is a shot of rotgut type of gal imo

But we’ve had that discussion a million times already!

I am bored too but can’t think of anyone to post. ;_; Sad.

btw i can’t view pics so it’s all acadeemc

girl from tv3 football coverage is ws but i think i’ll keep that one to myself tbh

Problem is, there are very many people who I think are v v pretty, such as the above mentioned Andrej Pejic

and ppl like Bastien Bonizec who is super hott to ridiculous extremes

and George Allen who is also off the scale physically amazing looking in every way

But I don’t want to smash any of them. I just want to look at them. Like, the aesthetics of them is just enough. I can’t even imagine speaking to them, let alone any kind of sexual interaction, it would just be too distracting. I enjoy looking at perfection, but I’m not actually ~attracted~ to perfection.

I don’t know if this is because, literally, it is the flaws that make someone beautiful as opposed to merely pretty, to me—or if it’s a question of expectations. As a person who is not actually that conventionally attractive to start with, the kind of people that I have got involved with tend towards the “clever but quite odd looking” in the way of TY and RDJ so maybe I’ve been conditioned to fancy clever but slightly odd looking men bcuz that is where my sexing has usually come from? (Or the other way around, that I expect men with TY or RDJ type looks as opposed to male model looks are more likely to settle for me?) But this gets into that weird thing about looks-based expectations that causes arguments and angst on the OKC thread and the Gurl thread so I’m just going to look at the pretty male models. Pretty.

Andrej is so like his dad

I know this is the thread for keeping it positive and all, but PLEASE get that hideous creature off the smashing thread, massive buzz-kill, ugh.

lol

relevant to my interests:

http://www.esquire.com/women/me-in-my-place/ari-graynor-pics-0111?click=top

schwinn(g)

she is breathtakingly hot

holy

HELOOOOOOOO NURSE

also she is not a cup of tea type of gal she is a shot of rotgut type of gal imo

― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:06 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

^^^actual lols

my 23 yr old self just spurted all over the county of limerick

This thread and others like it are just perpetual Sociological Images 101 in terms of the *presentation* of female sexual attractiveness vs male sexual attractiveness.

Genuinely not criticising any individuals on this thread, but just find it really strange and perplexing. Can anyone find me the equivalent of heartthrob dudes, straddling bicycles in their skivvies? I mean, seriously, not that “man pin-ups” calendar thing. Even heartthrobs I don’t find attractive, but maybe people like Mark Ruffalo or Ryan Gosling that the ladies of ILX find attractive? I am just wondering what the equivalent is, and how they are represented.

Stating again for the record, I’m not trolling and apologies in advance if I offend any men with this line of questioning, I am just interested in this. The presentation of heartthrob men in their underwear. What’s it look like?

freddie ljungberg ad that my gf uses as a bookmark!

That must make quite an indentation on the page (xp)

Well, share! x-post

The closest I can think of is...

I have an academic friend who every year gets shipped in a “men of the French Rugby team” calendar which portrays sportsmen in a very “beautiful boys” kind of way, strategically naked, romping with horses and sports equipment—but it is photographed in a very “homoerotic” gaze—i.e. we have endless arguments about whether it’s designed for women or gay men.

When I get out of this meeting I’ll try and find some photos she’s posted of it.

Great example, horseshoe!

looking up on phone is unwieldy, looking up on work pc isn’t gonna hapoen, think it was ysl campaign tho

Calvin Klein, maybe?

I am not familiar with these people, is this the right man?

That’s him. You said on another thread something about some photograph of some SEXY HUNK that it was a male idea of what an attractive man was and I thought, no, that’s like 1000% wrong!

Actually he appears to have done 40,000 pants ads so what would I know?

I’m still not feeling the smash, TBH, but it’s interesting imagery.

Damn. Anyway, meeting!

the one i’m talking bout he’s sitting thighs akimbo in boxers, ie v much a ‘lads mag’ for girls- or, as you say, maybe other guys

The underwear or the sportsmen?

Genuinely not criticising any individuals on this thread, but just find it really strange and perplexing. Can anyone find me the equivalent of heartthrob dudes, straddling bicycles in their skivvies?

― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, December 16, 2011 5:02 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

You posted a picture of a man with his legs spread, biting his shirt as he reveals his abdomen.

Indeed, an androgynous boy/man but still a man

Think Deems is on to something—is this visual vocabulary derived from “lads mag” poses (legs akimbo in knickers)? Is there a different vocabulary for “what” “women” “want” or is it just the same thing transposed?

Revealing the abdomen is definitely a ~thing~—not just for me, but loads of women...

^^^^^^total WS and also used as the splash image for lots of female oriented fan sites so this is not just a *me* thing, don’t know if it’s “look at my sixpack I am fit” or if it’s “I am revealing my vulnerable areas”

The biting the shirt thing also appears to be a ~thing~—it’s not just Ryan Gosling (though, W not S) thing, but it’s a repeated thing in the vocabulary of presentation of objects of female desire, but I think that’s a universal thing, because oral pleasure is definitely a thing for all genders—whether it’s ladies licking ice cream or men chewing at their clothing with desire.

I don’t think that Andrej Peljic is a good example for anything because he’s one of those people whose entire career is based on shaking up or transposing or dismantling the visual vocabulary of gender and Style but here he is with very female styled presenation, yet that “here is my abdomen” of male sexual presentation. Which I find fascinating.

I like people just kind of dressed in regular clothes best

How about biting regular clothes?

FT, there is such a thing as over-thinking things.

Thom Yorke is a persistent abdomen exposer. It’s really quite endearing.

There’s more recent ones, too, but I can’t be arsed to dig through 40,000 fan sites to find them right now.

Do wonder how much of Ryan Gosling’s appeal is down to *his* persistent abdomen exposing. Watching fan dialogue about him, it’s not even the abdomen but those ~lines~ that extend from hip to groin. Which seem to drive many women (OK, Jezebel commenters and ladies in my tweetstream) into a froth of sexual excitation.

FT, there is such a thing as over-thinking things.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 16 December 2011 12:04 (4 minutes ago)

Um, have you taken a look at where you ~are~? This is ILX. We have 400 post threads about whether to put 1 or 2 spaces after a fullstop. And you think questioning the pervasive and all-surrounding depictions of one of human beings’ most fundamental activities is *overthinking*?

RMDE!

It’s not but I guess this thread has a standing history of being mostly pictures and people often get up in arms when it gets too wordy. More pics, less talk was the sort of arrangement we had previously. There are tons of other threads where this sort of thing can and should be discussed.

ps—Gosling is overrated in the attractiveness dept imo. I just don’t really get the appeal.

^^ otm xp

*perplexed face*

anyway. where were we.

^^^^^ would not smash. He looks bizarre, and totally unlike himself. That photo has always freaked me out.

(sorry, too much talking again)

HAHAHAHAHAH x-post

lol

TY does look really weird there. It’s over photoshopped, right?

FT I wasn’t trying to be mean or bitchy before. I just wanted you to know why ppl might be giving you a hard time. A little talk is fine but the big discussions stuff is generally better elsewhere, I think?

I think he’s one of those people who looks better in action than still pics but I love Michael Pitt even tho in most real life pics he looks pretty gross and sort of like he smells. He’s pretty beautiful imo.

ahhh huge sorry

He looks weird because they’ve photoshopped out all the things that make him look distinctive—his freckles, his ptosis, his sticky out ears, his lizard cheekbones. I think he looks so much better like this (apart from the bad hair)

But then again, I think that *this* woman is so beautiful and amazing looking and sexy *because* of her freckles, and ppl were being nasty about them upthread (makes me feel self conscious TBH)

I have no idea how that Michael Pitt dude is, but he is ~pretty~—then again, I don’t have a problem with dudes looking like they smell, as we all know.

That woman’s freckles are amazing.

The first thing I remember seeing Pitt in was Hedwig and the Angry Inch but he’s been in a bunch of movies and is one of the main people on Boardwalk Empire.

I love Michael Pitt even tho in most real life pics he looks pretty gross and sort of like he smells. He’s pretty beautiful imo.

this is AGL, cf daniel craig, sometimes

It can be and the pic FT posted is hottt but he’s lefit shown up to some premiers in disgusting stained t shirts looking like he really hasn’t showered in months. I think he may have had some errr problems for a time. It was an unhealthy sort of gross look not a hot one.

Don’t understand how anyone could object to freckles tbh

Can we use this thread for vintage ws’s too? Because

The model Ferenc Berko used for his ‘Nude Study, Paris, 1937’ series... yes oh yes...

p much of the opinion that god invented freckles so that the ppl of the “Celtic” nations could get laid. (or maybe that’s whisky, not sure TBH)

See also exhibit A:

Now, that’s “conventionally handsome”, I’ll grant you.

Sorry, *shh*

I just realized that michael pitt and I sort of look like we could be related and not I’ve skeeved myself out.

ha ha, I have only just realised that Thommy there is totally biting the style of my No 1 Boyfriend...

I just realized that michael pitt and I sort of look like we could be related and not I’ve skeeved myself out.

This is a skeeve, why? It’s part of the appeal of No.1 Boyfriend, TBh :-P

what do ♀ilx think of ‘France’s fresh-faced finance minister, François Baroin, 46’?

Any shots of him bearing his abdomen and/or biting a shirt?

Any shots of him bearing his abdomen and/or biting a shirt?

― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 16 December 2011

^^^^^^^would be helpful in deciding

Quick GIS shows him to be alright in a smarmy blow dried Nu Labour kind of way, but he’s no Chuka Umunna that’s for sure.

that “weird” picture of Thom is from a series of photos, including the other radiohead dudes, where they were all obscenely photoshopped in the glossy fashion mag style.

by the way, i’m in the camp that’s cool with thom yorke (and anyone else) getting posted, just not 5 trillion times. it’s not like there’s a hard limit but come on

hard limit

that “weird” picture of Thom is from a series of photos, including the other radiohead dudes, where they were all obscenely photoshopped in the glossy fashion mag style.

yeah it kind of amazes me that anyone had to explain this considering that he’s HOLDING UP A SIGN WITH PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTIONS

i was gonna say

but it was a cardboard sign, so, less legit

Dear Z S, while you’re here, please can you photoshop my RMDE poster into an animated GIF where all the members of RMDE are, literally, rolling their eyes and KMT-ing?

I will curtail my Thom Yorke enthusiasm on this thread to no more than 1 Thom per day if you do this for me, and that’s a promise.

hahaha

i’m not ready to commit, but i need to ask two questions:

who are RMDE?

what is KMT-ing?

:)

i’m gonna break my self imposed salpa ban at this rate

Rolling My Damn Eyes

Kissing My Teeth

Come on, that should be a cinch for someone with your photoshop skillz!

The poster is upthread, but here it is again if you don’t feel like going back that far

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6501355643_a18c9d67a2_b.jpg

i’m gonna break my self imposed salpa ban at this rate

Now you’ve lost me, you internet kids

georgia salpa GIS imo

hmmm, Kiss My Teeth is interesting, but what if I go for the alternative KMT definition at Urban Dictionary?

KMT 52 up, 497 down

THESE 3 WORDS STAND FOR KRAZY.MEXICAN.TAGGERS A CREW IN SOUTH MPLS 612 IN MINNESOTA....

IM FROM THE TAGGIN CREW KMT FOO!

They have Sexy Models in Ireland? An outrage!

So long as there is eye-rolling involved, sure, go crazy! I have 100% faith in your inspired funnies-bringing creative skills.

I demand freckles!

salpa is iirc the only girl in ireland w/out the pigmentation speckle

Salpa is semi-imported tbf

hush now

yah i mentioned that to deems before

a neat mirroring where brazil deifies freckly cynthia dicker and ireland reps for mediterraneans

Yes, you don’t get Sexy People in Ireland

I just watched Your Highness, which wasn’t very good, but I thought the actress playing the love interest of the protagonists’ brother was pretty hot:

Sadly it was only a supporting role, while the lead female role was by Natalie Portman, who I don’t really find attractive at all.

Guys is this a ‘shop? What do you think?

lol ‘the actress’

What’s funny about that?