[jjm2111]

This is quite old, but I didn't see it posted here on FR. It's amazing how out of touch the people are at State and it's a good thing that the most contact Arabs have is with our military. Real men who actually share some cultural values with them; not sissified metros.

I'm a reservist and served overseas in Kuwait. I also work in NYC and know quite a few metros. The very thought of them trying to relate on any level with a grizzled desert bedouin or even a modern city-dwelling Arab is so laughable.

In Afghansistan, Army SF has to fight the brass to wear beards because the locals only respect men with beards. A 'man' who exfoliates and can tell a brand of shoe by looking at it would be as alien to them as a Martian to us. They would think he was gay and try to stone him.

[Welsh Rabbit]

"In fact, some of them, like Michael Gustman, a 25-year-old public relations account executive from Boca Raton, Fla., even have separate moisturizers for the face and body.

Yeah, you know how wrinkled skin gets at 25... What a poof.

[MadManDan]

Metros are sissies, sissies are not real men, and any woman who only likes sissies is either a pain in the ass or is a closet dyke. And either way, I don't like women like that because I am a real man! (The only thing a chick like that is good for is at 4 in the morning when the bar closes and you're drunk and bored...)

[glock rocks]

90 weight gear lube.

[Jim Noble]

Real men moisturize their women - if you know what I mean...

[Eagle Eye]

Kuwaitis and Qataris are Metros themselves!

C'mon...meticulously groomed beards...pedicures with TOENAIL POLISH!.....

It is quite possible that most all Emeratis are Metro, too, but I don't know enough to be sure.

[TexanToTheCore]

I can't believe how this thread has deteriorated. Now were counting the number of angels that can dance on the head of "Madame Oma's Rosemary Exfoliant".

For guys, putting cornhusker on the face to protect it is just our way of not having to locate bear grease. It is not moisturizing.

And any exfoliation that we wish to do will be done with "Agent Orange"

[proud_yank]

The only 'exfoliation' I need, The GoJo that smells like gasoline is even better but I couldn't find an image.

Haven't had a razor to my face since about June, so no razor exfoliation for this guy! But I'm sure all female FReepers will agree with me that gals dig beards! LOL

[Tunehead54]

I like to exfoliate after a long hot shower. I go out on the porch with the dog and cat and grab a Dr. Scholl's doohickey that looks like a cheese grater on a stick and with a newspaper underneath I exfoliate the calluses off my heels. If I don't I end up with cracks in my heels (painful) reminiscent of the Grand Canyon.

After I get down to where I start to bleed I usually apply a liberal application of bag balm (cows swear by it) and then I'm done for another month. I prefer to moistureize with a Heineken during the process.

If I really want to treat myself I'll grab my toenail clippers and clip them the (toenails) over the toilet - my wife taught me that trick (the over the toilet trick).

I do have one metrosexual tip that even a lumberjack might appreciate. Aside from shampoo we have "face soap" - non-deodorant and for use nowhere else and then whatever else soap you want. I could toss out a couple more tips but I suspect this is more than anyone really wanted to know already - although I do swear by the cheese grater thing from Dr. Scholl's. ;-)

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[Cacique]

There was a time when shaving was the apex of civilization. The Romans differentiated themselves that way. The term Barbarian comes from the Latin Barba, the word for beard. Of course shaving, took a lot more guts in Roman times. However, I find it rather interesting that most of our current "Barbarian" enemies all sport beards.

[Sonny M]

The only times I moisturized, is when I am playing sports.

Football, baseball, softball, hockey.

Pretty much it, unless I get seriously dry skin from something, but pretty much sports only usage.

FWIW, Playing football, softball, and baseball, its better to have soft hands (to catch and to hit) and skin lotion does that.

But to use it for some kind of consemetic thing?

Nope.

Besides its better then those players who piss on their hands to keep them soft.

[rdb3]

Being a real man myself, I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with a man who takes pride in his appearance. The Left may love metrosexuals, whatever that is, but a man doesn't have to be one of those to care about his cleanliness, grooming, and clothing.

[familyop]

The SNAGs (sensitive new age guys) of our State Dept. must protect their "precious bodily fluids" (re. to Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove).

[Fierce Allegiance]

This is my favorite moisturizer. Lovely scent, too:

[beezdotcom]

"Do you moisturize?"

"You know, I've tried all sorts of moisturizers. I even went fragrance free for a whole year. Now my sister, she uses some kind of uh... uh... uh... uh... aloe vera with a little sunscreen in it, and ideally, we should all wear gloves when going to bed, but I found out that that creates a kind of an interference with my... social agenda, you know what I mean."

[gilor]

"He gets facials."

I don't doubt that at all.

[absolootezer0]

wow.. the hostility against metros..
can someone explain to me what's wrong with being metro? so what if i want to look nice, or if i can match clothes and tell you the difference between scarlet and vermillion, or if i have 8 different cleansers in my shower and i know how to use them? does it make a difference that i can also gut and butcher my own deer, or that i'm rebuilding a jeep myself?

[dalereed]

I guess I moisturize, I sweat when working hard and get wet in the shower when I come home filthy after working all day.