Movie: Avengers: Age of Ultron (5-01-15)

[E.H. Ruddock]

lenny, it is actually really good. I like how they are setting things up in this movie for the Marvel Universe storyline. The robot mouth was my only complaint.

That, and my wife and I saw it with two g*y friends, so the three of them kept making comments whenever Cap or Thor were shirtless, etc. That got annoying. I could look like that if I wanted to.

did the pronunciation of ultron bother you at all?

i didn't really care for the first one and am just not excited in the least about this one

you can't really screw up "ultron" lenny

[lennytheweedwhacker]

lenny, it is actually really good. I like how they are setting things up in this movie for the Marvel Universe storyline. The robot mouth was my only complaint.

That, and my wife and I saw it with two g*y friends, so the three of them kept making comments whenever Cap or Thor were shirtless, etc. That got annoying. I could look like that if I wanted to.

did the pronunciation of ultron bother you at all?

i didn't really care for the first one and am just not excited in the least about this one

you can't really screw up "ultron" lenny

i say it like: ewel-tron...is that wrong?

[E.H. Ruddock]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

[E.H. Ruddock]

lenny, it is actually really good. I like how they are setting things up in this movie for the Marvel Universe storyline. The robot mouth was my only complaint.

That, and my wife and I saw it with two g*y friends, so the three of them kept making comments whenever Cap or Thor were shirtless, etc. That got annoying. I could look like that if I wanted to.

did the pronunciation of ultron bother you at all?

i didn't really care for the first one and am just not excited in the least about this one

you can't really screw up "ultron" lenny

i say it like: ewel-tron...is that wrong?

probably not

[LoathedVermin72]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

i feel like i would have had a lot more fun watching this dreck if i were sitting by two guys commenting on physiques

[Kaius]

Let's get ripped, Ruddo.

Let's do it. Just like our NHL tournament last minute decision, one of us will probably be successful.

[E.H. Ruddock]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

i feel like i would have had a lot more fun watching this dreck if i were sitting by two guys commenting on physiques

when that lady in the falling car was saved by Cap and Thor, the three of them were drooling.

After the movie I made a muscle with my bicep hoping they would be impressed. They weren't.

[LoathedVermin72]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

i feel like i would have had a lot more fun watching this dreck if i were sitting by two guys commenting on physiques

when that lady in the falling car was saved by Cap and Thor, the three of them were drooling.

After the movie I made a muscle with my bicep hoping they would be impressed. They weren't.

i'm sorry to hear that

[lennytheweedwhacker]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

i feel like i would have had a lot more fun watching this dreck if i were sitting by two guys commenting on physiques

what are your thoughts on the first one?

[LoathedVermin72]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

i feel like i would have had a lot more fun watching this dreck if i were sitting by two guys commenting on physiques

what are your thoughts on the first one?

only slightly better because the cast seems to be having more fun. i hate them both, though

[E.H. Ruddock]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

i feel like i would have had a lot more fun watching this dreck if i were sitting by two guys commenting on physiques

when that lady in the falling car was saved by Cap and Thor, the three of them were drooling.

After the movie I made a muscle with my bicep hoping they would be impressed. They weren't.

i'm sorry to hear that

yeah, but I'm ok being Hawkeye, yanno?

[LoathedVermin72]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

i feel like i would have had a lot more fun watching this dreck if i were sitting by two guys commenting on physiques

when that lady in the falling car was saved by Cap and Thor, the three of them were drooling.

After the movie I made a muscle with my bicep hoping they would be impressed. They weren't.

i'm sorry to hear that

yeah, but I'm ok being Hawkeye, yanno?

yes, yes i do

[doone]

Ultron's mouth bothered me, though.

Ditto.

That, and my wife and I saw it with two g*y friends, so the three of them kept making comments whenever Cap or Thor were shirtless, etc. That got annoying. I could look like that if I wanted to.

this made my day!

[Mecca]

lenny, it is actually really good. I like how they are setting things up in this movie for the Marvel Universe storyline. The robot mouth was my only complaint.

That, and my wife and I saw it with two g*y friends, so the three of them kept making comments whenever Cap or Thor were shirtless, etc. That got annoying. I could look like that if I wanted to.

Why do you hate g*y people?

[E.H. Ruddock]

lenny, it is actually really good. I like how they are setting things up in this movie for the Marvel Universe storyline. The robot mouth was my only complaint.

That, and my wife and I saw it with two g*y friends, so the three of them kept making comments whenever Cap or Thor were shirtless, etc. That got annoying. I could look like that if I wanted to.

Why do you hate g*y people?

Don't be dumb mecca, I didn't say that.

[stip]

were you thinking it?

[Self]

I found it difficult to care about anything when watching this. Superhero overload.

[spike]

ruddo can i please start going to movies with your wife's g*y friends

only if they aren't going with me.

i feel like i would have had a lot more fun watching this dreck if i were sitting by two guys commenting on physiques

when that lady in the falling car was saved by Cap and Thor, the three of them were drooling.

After the movie I made a muscle with my bicep hoping they would be impressed. They weren't.

i'm sorry to hear that

yeah, but I'm ok being Hawkeye, yanno?

Spoiler: show

A little over a week ago, a Clemson University student made an innocuous declaration on a web site that nobody has ever heard of.

"Girls," Mackenzie Pearson wrote, "are all about that dad bod."

The Internet subsequently freaked out, vomiting up frenzied deconstructions of the phenomenon that all seemed to arrive at the same angst-filled question: "Do we really like the dad bod?"

Allow me — a shirtless, soft-bellied swain north of 30 who is currently lounging on his couch dipping lightly salted tortilla chips into a kiddie pool of guacamole — to do some good ol' fashion mansplaining.

Yes, ladies, you do like dad bods. You like them a lot, in fact.

Make love to a dad bod and afterward a dad bod will make waffles for your belly.
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Men — and by that I mean male humans above the age of 25 whose testosterone levels no longer burn with irrational desire — have long known women like dad bods. The Internet, it seems, has just figured it out.

How do I know?

Because over the last decade, I have inhabited both types of male physiques — the kind sporting six-pack abs and, more recently, the kind that looks like it should be pushing a stroller and Googling high-blood pressure medications. And yet, the latter physique has always proved more successful for me with the opposite sex. Much more.

In my early 20s, when I spent hours in the weight room each week, my body belied a confidence that wasn't yet there. A woman at a bar might grab my biceps. A fling might comment on that manly pelvic muscle where ab leads to hip. But my physique only occasionally led to more than flirty ogling, and rarely created the heartfelt connection that humans — yes, even young male ones — really want from a love interest. Chiseled abs don't put women at ease or get them to open up. At times, it even made them distrustful or unwittingly revealed me to be the insecure boy that I was.

Of course, those mansplainers in the science labs and marketing offices say otherwise. Abercrombie & Fitch has used half-naked men with rock-hard bodies to hawk all-American cutoff jean shorts and peasant tops (not so successfully lately). And researchers have insisted that testosterone-infused masculine features — tall with strong upper bodies and deep voices — are most likely to capture a woman's attention.

Traditional gender roles are the reason, they say. Primordial women needed brutes who could slaughter wild beasts for food and stiff-arm competing tribes that wanted to kill their offspring. More recently, our great-grandmothers needed partners who could toil in factories, plow fields and protect the home from intruders.

But today, more people are working in offices instead of farms and factories. And women themselves are working — often more efficiently than their male colleagues. That independence means they can pay people to move their furniture and protect their homes, or do it themselves. A lot has been written about this deconstruction of gender roles and "the end of men." But the truth is, women do still need men — they just don't need the macho ones.

Instead, many women are looking for guys who have good careers, love kids, and offer a soft tummy to lay on after a long day of working harder than us — all things that dad bods promise. Tight torsos and thick biceps are too busy at the gym to own businesses and keep the kitchen clean. To put it another way, a dad bod isn't attractive because of what it looks like, but because what it says.

And what is that, you ask?

A dad bod says I have a job, responsibilities and enough money to nod approvingly when someone says "guacamole is extra."

A dad bod owns a suit, makes car payments on a fuel-efficient vehicle and applies tasteful amounts of cologne before heading out the door. Send him a YouTube compilation of puppies doing cute stuff and afterward he'll happily discuss which cute stuff was his favorite cute stuff.

Make love to a dad bod and afterward a dad bod will make waffles for your belly.

Women love dad bods, and even scientific evidence is starting to bear this out.

Take, for example, a recent study from the University of Aberdeen that presented 4,800 women with pictures of men's faces. Each picture showed a pair of faces that were largely identical, except one had more masculine features, like thicker jaw lines and stronger eyebrows. The researchers found that women from wealthier countries, such as the United States — where there were fewer threats like early mortality and disease — were less likely to prefer the manly faces than those from countries with lower GDPs. The implication? When women don't have to worry so much about threats to their survival, they instinctually go for softer and more cuddly types.

In this era, free of toothy predators and murderous caravans, dad bods have never been a barrier to love and sex, and guys know it. One of my best friends, for instance, recently re-entered the dating pool after a couple of years focused on advancing his career in higher education. In that time, his formerly thin frame filled out considerably. He plays basketball from time to time, but not as consistently as he goes out for drinks and dinner with friends. He's nowhere near fat, but a gentle bulge — one that might be compared to a woman in her first trimester — has begun to emerge from his softening midsection. He proudly flaunts his 32-year-old dad bod each summer at the pool, slapping his masculine baby bump and saying, "It's for the ladies." But deep down, he wasn't sure how potential dates would react.

That insecurity didn't last long. He soon met a promising 26-year-old woman, with her own career, who loves going out for beers but is in great shape.

"She keeps telling me she loves my body," he told me over the phone after things with his new woman started getting serious. "She says it turns her on!"

Six months later, they're official, and, from what he tells me, she can't get enough of his dad bod.

Washington Post

Holley is a general assignment reporter at The Washington Post. He can be reached at peter.holley@washpost.com.

[B]

When Thor had a vision of Asgard - which was supposed to include Loki before Tom Hiddleston was cut - a lot of very strange and trippy imagery could be seen, including three strange masked characters standing in doorways. On closer inspection, you can see that they're wearing wolf, ram, and hart/stag masks.

As it turns out, this is actually a very clever nod to Joss Whedon's old series, Angel (which was of course a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff). The site points out, "On Angel, The Wolf, The Ram and The Hart were an ancient trio of true demons who, in present day Earth, are 'senior partners' at the Los Angeles law firm Wolfram & Hart. Through this organization, they enact their evil will, representing murderers and other demonic individuals."

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... /?a=124947

[Peeps]

When Thor had a vision of Asgard - which was supposed to include Loki before Tom Hiddleston was cut - a lot of very strange and trippy imagery could be seen, including three strange masked characters standing in doorways. On closer inspection, you can see that they're wearing wolf, ram, and hart/stag masks.

As it turns out, this is actually a very clever nod to Joss Whedon's old series, Angel (which was of course a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff). The site points out, "On Angel, The Wolf, The Ram and The Hart were an ancient trio of true demons who, in present day Earth, are 'senior partners' at the Los Angeles law firm Wolfram & Hart. Through this organization, they enact their evil will, representing murderers and other demonic individuals."

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... /?a=124947

that is a great nod and i never would have picked up on that