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2004-07-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by GK 2004-07-30 11:43:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There's still hope I can go to a retirement home instead of a museum...

Yes! I confess!
I smoke (cigarettes at work, a pipe at home).
I drink whiskey.
I look at pretty girls.
I own both a chainsaw and a .38!

Posted by Fred 2004-07-30 11:57:43 AM|| 2004-07-30 11:57:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ha! Jennifer forgot something....everyone knows you're supposed to sniff after you scratch.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-07-30 12:17:35 PM|| 2004-07-30 12:17:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Guilty as charged:
Dip Skoal
Drink beer, only to excess
Look at pretty women
Own ax
Lost count of number of guns I own
Drive F-150 with V8 engine
Hunt & fish, eat same
Garage full of tools I know how to use
Hair moving from head to other areas, don't care
Closet full of camo gear
Favorite movies - Zulu, Kill Bill, Outlaw Josey Wales, Patton, Destination Tokyo

Posted by Steve 2004-07-30 12:29:15 PM|| 2004-07-30 12:29:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Dip Skoal...Phef...lightwieght!

Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-07-30 12:31:01 PM|| 2004-07-30 12:31:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ha, gotcha beat, Steve. I own a Dodge 2500 with a V-10! I live in a house with no AC, cook on a wood cookstove, ride a horse in reenactments. I can't help it, I like to watch women. I want to see a man on TV whos not a bumbling idiot or a raving homosexual.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-07-30 12:47:04 PM|| 2004-07-30 12:47:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ok, Father Confessor:

I drink (20 pack's about right), smoke, smoke some more, love big tits, have gas powered tools, fart like a racehorse, belches that can be heard from 100 feet, curse like Whoopi Goldberg, drive like Richard Petty, try to ride my bike like him, too, have a double-sided ax, love grilling, and Billy Jack's my role model.

(note to self - pick up chainsaw & a handgun soon...)

Posted by Raj 2004-07-30 1:15:52 PM|| 2004-07-30 1:15:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 This is why I like hanging with you folks. I'll admit that I still push my mower, A cal-trimer when wet and a Honda mulcher when dry, buts thats as PC as I want to get and keeps me buff. When I pour two fingers worth, it's one, one and a half, almost there, twoooo. I like my beer ICE cold, of the Lager style, gulped! My Silverado stays clean and has a throaty growl. I clean up my own messes but I don't do laundry or make beds (usually).

As an artist, I paint manly scenes of conflict as beautifuly as I can. Rich, colorful, landscapes with all hell breaking loose.

Posted by Lucky 2004-07-30 1:53:28 PM|| 2004-07-30 1:53:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 note my handle, enough said.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-07-30 1:59:43 PM|| 2004-07-30 1:59:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 My chainsaw's electric. I guess that makes me confused.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-07-30 2:02:17 PM|| 2004-07-30 2:02:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Red neck, white socks and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-07-30 5:01:22 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:01:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 While I don't fancy smoking products past my occasional cigar, I do have a S&W 686, and have both gas and electric chain saws. At this very moment I am looking at a "pretty member" of the opposite sex, and not the Pretty One I am married to... I also can snore loud enough to wake myself up...

Posted by Capsu78 2004-07-30 5:13:41 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:13:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 *coming out of Rantburg closet*

-I'm a girl.
-I like to hang tuff with the retrosexual crowd here at Rantburg, then go work on my embroidery.
-I'll be entering my alphabet sampler in the County Fair "home arts" competition next month.
-I like men.
-I like the smell of sweat.
-Well, most of the time.
-Don't like tobacco products...I lke my wine red and Australian.
-Now you know.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-07-30 5:21:12 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:21:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't smoke or drink whisky, and I am sometimes seen hanging out at the faculty club. Otoh, I am 55 and my youngest child just turned a year old. Do I qualify?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-07-30 5:25:43 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:25:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm a lady who loves her Retrosexual men like Fred and the RB gang, my boyfriend, President Bush, Rummy and Cheney.
Metrosexuals can just go to the kitchen and make tofu "meat"loaf, then they have EAT it!

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-07-30 5:27:16 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-07-30 5:27:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 My apologies to you,Em,and the several other fair ladies who regularly post on Rantburg.
I should have been more sensitive in selecting a title, but I was in a hurry because I had to go walk my poodle. :)

Posted by GK 2004-07-30 5:28:31 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:28:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 GK, retrosexuals don't apologize, cause they are DEALING WITH IT. (Even if IT is poodle pee...)

Posted by Seafarious 2004-07-30 5:33:08 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:33:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Speaking of Zulu, I own a nice Martini-Henry .455/.577 and it is my favorite. It was made in 1882 so is not a veteran of the famous campaign.
Somebody or other is making ammo for it again, but it costs about a hundred and twenty bucks for a box of twenty. I have some 1950 vintage Kynoch brass that a friend reloads for me at modest cost. This will not last forever so I shoot the old cannon sparingly.
It is very accurate, the recoil is not completely obnoxious, and it leaves a satisfying if indiscrete cloud of powder smoke.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-07-30 5:33:29 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:33:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Capsu78--I also own a S&W 686, and it is sweeeeeet! I've never fired a more accurate pistol. Too bulky to carry, unfortunately, but I do have a spurless SP101 for that so I can still stay true to the .357.

Posted by Dar 2004-07-30 5:40:35 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:40:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I like my beer ICE cold, of the Lager style, gulped! Amen-brother. I got myself a simple metal bucket with Beer stencled on the side. I fill it full of ice and Lagers (Karl Strauss Endless Summer Gold is the fav) and barbeque away. The one thing decent to come out of Tijuana was the bucket of beer.

Posted by Yank 2004-07-30 5:41:17 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-07-30 5:41:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Ex-smoker (of various substances)
whiskey: Maker's Mark (straight, heh)ooggle pretty women: check
guns: check
The Outlaw Josey Wales is good, but my favorite is Unforgiven (best exchange:
You just shot an unarmed man!
He should have armed himself.)

Posted by Spot 2004-07-30 5:46:36 PM|| 2004-07-30 5:46:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 oooh! ooooh! ima play to. ima like woman but no fat woman allower. unless she is know some good tricks. ima like my guns and favorite in ruger mini14 ranch rifel with em 50 round clip. :)

ima have a 90 round drum bit it in get jam alot. ima like beer and am prefer cheap beer to em guines crap. ima smoke cigaretes and am likein tofu. ima watch hockey and football. real football not em soccer crap. and like raj im like big titty but am like litle perky one to. ima like most tity cept for saggy and hairy ones. and ima like women like em .com pichure ysterday. she in my typre to te. and im liking action movie to long as no animal in get hurt and ima hate my ex-wife! that in purdy retro ima thinking. and im like kittens to. :)

Posted by muck4doo 2004-07-30 6:07:58 PM|| [http://www.meatismurder.blogspot.com] 2004-07-30 6:07:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Proof positive: Women don't want to be impressed by men.

They want to kill men.

If every swinging dick follows these rules, there will be a lot of dead/injured men.

Posted by badanov 2004-07-30 6:47:20 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-07-30 6:47:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Nah. Real mean deal with it. Heh.

Hey, GK, I'm of the female persuasion too and this was okay -- I knew what you meant. Although it's my experience that really retro men are cool with women who can DEAL WITH IT themselves when the guys aren't around, if they have to. At least, my guy was happy to buy the Sig Sauer I wanted for me for XMAS. And to offer time on his military surplus rifle if I wanted that too.

He doesn't hunt or fish, tho. An urban boy originally. He does manage to win the combat shooting league award most seasons at his gun club and brings home the meat very reliably, albeit wrapped and trimmed.

Atomic Con, you sound okay to me too. ;-)

Posted by rkb 2004-07-30 7:17:27 PM|| 2004-07-30 7:17:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 jarhead wins

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-30 7:34:23 PM|| 2004-07-30 7:34:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 I agree. Jarhead wins.

badanov,
We are just trying to eliminate the stupid ones from the gene pool.

Posted by Kathy K 2004-07-30 7:57:27 PM|| [site-essential.com/] 2004-07-30 7:57:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Shipman - I agree, but I think there are quite a few of us that are in the pack, including Fred (who very wisely refrained from commenting).

I'm an old Louisiana country boy from the 50's. I'm very comfortable with who I am, and what I am. I've dug outhouses, milked cows by hand, and plowed a half-dozen acres with a pair of matched black mules. I don't have a gun in my house, but anybody breaking in had better watch out for the axehandle (it's real, and it's beside my bed every night). I don't drink or smoke, and I've been married to the same lovely woman for 38 years. I like classical music and back-country hiking. I've been on the ground, shooting and being shot at, in Vietnam, and I've given intelligence briefings to several general officers and one vice-president. I live in the city, but prefer wide-open spaces. I can cook a 7-course meal, knit a sweater, tear down an engine, and build a stream-spanning bridge. I don't really care what other people think about me, but I don't like #$?%$@&! labels!

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-07-30 7:59:08 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-07-30 7:59:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 55 here. Married twice, didn't take either time. Flat broke. Two kids, one out of college and one in the Army NG in Iraq.

Beretta 92FS 9mm, Browning Buckmark .22, only shoot occasionally. Beer. Coffee. Cigs. Single. Retro, and old-fashioned.

Recovering Democrat.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-07-30 8:29:40 PM|| 2004-07-30 8:29:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Folks like this are the reason that, as I am fond of putting it, the combined armies and police forces of Eurabia could not fight their way from Galveston to Crawford in a hundred years even if civilians were the only resistance.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-07-30 8:44:17 PM|| 2004-07-30 8:44:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Thick steaks and a good Australian Red Wine - or a Guiness if I want a brew.

Desert: Vodka, straight, ice cold & Good cigars.

Tools:

5 different PCs, and a Sun Unix workstation
Deluxe mechanics rolling tool set
Aircompresser and air wrench set (Present from my wife - so she could airbrush paint).
SPlit maul and a wedge, chainsaw (Poulan, gas).
Glock 23 (.40S&W),
Kimber Custom Carry (.45) concealed (backup)
No-name .308
Weatherby Winmag for Elk/Bear
Remington 870 12 gauge pump, with folding stock, front handle and light, 18 inch barrel, choek and loaded with #8 birdshot (so I dont overpenetrate the walls in home defence).
a weapon that looks a lot like an AK 47 and fires 7.62 that I swear I didnt come from overseas, and it doesn have anything special with the trigger group and select fire switch...
And those are not A/N PVS, NVGs in the closet behind the shotgun and the not-an-AK-47, they're just really wierd binoculars I got from, umm, Walmart.

Transport:

Car: Saab Turbo. So sue me for wanting a bit of luxury after driving my other car. Power everything, solid acceleration, reliable, durable, and doesnt stand out like a Mercedes.

Other Car: Jeep CJ-5. Beat to hell from offroading and hunting. More plates welded to to (to replace rust) than original body anymore.

Main mode of fair-wather transport: Classic Honda V65 Magna for town, Goldwing for country.

Cooking:

Bread and cakes from scratch (Grandma's recipes), best cornbread outside the south, and the only real Carolina (vinegar based) BBQ west of the Smokies.

I own a custom fitted tux, a ghillie suit, at home in either. Refuse to wear speedo - surfer shorts do it (plus they have more room for my gun and my concealed carry pistol).

Need to know more? Too friken bad.

Posted by Oldspook 2004-07-30 8:54:01 PM|| 2004-07-30 8:54:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 The Kimber's a nice handgun, Oldspook.

Posted by rkb 2004-07-30 9:31:27 PM|| 2004-07-30 9:31:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 I like 151 Rum and Coke,Steaks,and beautiful women.For Home defense Double barrel 12 gauge shotgun and I have a nice Axe.:)

Posted by djohn66 2004-07-30 10:06:59 PM|| 2004-07-30 10:06:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 Don't want to miss the party -

Have 50 annual rings on me - not as lean, not as mean.
Raised Pennsylvania Dutch/Italian Mennonite/Lutheran/Catholic household. Oldest of eight sibs. Pizza and scrapple. I'm still trying to sort all that out. Worked in a cement plant, steel mill - cube farms after that.

Joined the Navy after HS to beat the draft and score good duty - you know, always a bunk and hot meals. After hospital school assigned to 1st Marine Div. Became expert on mud by very close inspection during my all expense paid, four year trip that Uncle Sam paid for. Never did set foot on a ship. Jarhead, quit laughing.

I can stitch you up faster than Big Daddy Garlits - it won't be pretty but you won't bleed out either. Women dig scars.

Motor around in a completely rusted out F150 and a decadantly cushy 940 Turbo Volvo wagon. Do the heavy wrenching on both of them.

Springfield .45 sidearm, Springfield .4570 Trapdoor carbine, Springfield M1. Notice a theme here? The Model 700 Remington is Momma's. I ~~don't~~ wouldn't dare touch it. Only take them out for gardening. See below.

Developer after college - software project manager now. Wish I was back in the mill.

Five sons, one great wife (retired shrink) who can't cook, one former Mrs. Doc, no girlfriends.

Drink of choice - Yuengling but I'll settle for Shaffer. Lean towards the tee shirt/jeans but have a closet full of suits.

My flower gardens are doing just fine thank you now that the late Mr. Raccoon has gone to a better place.

Cry at some weddings and all funerals. Voted Dem until Jimma did his thing in Iran. Enough of that!

Just finished my rehabing my kitchen (see above) so I can throw nourishment at the five utes.

Seafarious - 10 years ago took a third in the county fair's quilt comp. (Ohio Star) Good luck! There's not much difference between sutures and sewing except the quilt doesn't jump when you stick it.

OP - Could you stand the label of "good man"? I knew you could.

I've picked up on Barbara's philosophy that she shared a while back; I try to do at least one non PC thing a day. It's the least I can do for my kids.

Posted by Doc8404 2004-07-30 10:10:57 PM|| 2004-07-30 10:10:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 WTF?

Posted by .Abu Alley Oop 2004-07-30 11:09:07 PM|| 2004-07-30 11:09:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 This might be one of the the best threads ever!

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