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Plan9 05-05-2010 07:12 AM

No Shirt, [No Shoes,] No Problem
 
And now... another useless thread from Plan9:

Got to talking to some humans yesterday at my institution of higher learning and aside from the usual whining about academic hurdles and wasted weekends, we somehow got into talk about how men have an apparent disdain for torso-covering articles of clothing. Men don't like shirts.

I think it's true. I almost never wear shirts indoors. To confirm this, I went back and looked at my photo albums. Me as a kid without a shirt, me in the barracks without a shirt, me at my parent's place without a shirt, me in dirty foreign countries without a shirt, me living with various girlfriends without a shirt, me being married without a shirt, me being divorced without a shirt, me at my current apartment without a shirt.

Really, if it wasn't for the goofy gown, I'd probably graduate from college without a shirt.

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...leThumbs_S.jpg

So, yeah, turns out I've been topless for decades.

The discussion I had with them crazy college kids (two females, in this case) involved issues surrounding exposed armpits and hairy nipples and how they weren't comfortable with those if another person was around. I didn't grow up around females nor do I have any issues with walking around indoors mostly naked since I'm scrawny and my residential AC unit is mediocre at best. The military and college have only reinforced my comfort with being less than fully clothed.


...

Here's my question:

Guys: Do you rock it like our mascot LordEden and rarely wear a shirt indoors?

Ladies: Do you think it's cool for a guy to be shirtless at home or is it somehow weird?

Thoughts?

snowy 05-05-2010 07:21 AM

SHOW ME YOUR MOOBS!!!

I think we all foresaw my response. :D Shirtless is great. I think everyone should take a page out of your book and Eden's book and go shirtless more often. It doesn't bother me at all. Hairy nips? Yes. Chest hair? Even better.

May I remind you of some great shirtless men:
http://content.artofmanliness.com/up...01/selleck.png
http://daddycatchersrealm.files.word...8/mikerowe.jpg

Baraka_Guru 05-05-2010 07:50 AM

I always wear a shirt, unless I'm showering or sleeping (in which case, I'm covered with blankets).

But I wear a shirt while sleeping if it's cold.

The_Jazz 05-05-2010 07:54 AM

My at-home attire is usually a t-shirt, boxers and dress socks. Seriously. Unless there are people over or the house is cold (when I throw on PJ bottoms), I'm as close to naked as I can get.

Why the t-shirt? I've got a hairy chest and don't want to contaminate anyone's food. Seriously. That dates back to pre-marriage when I lived with a bunch of guys and would cook. Too many complaints about chest hairs in stuff I cooked for people.

snowy 05-05-2010 07:55 AM

Baraka and Jazz...you guys make me sad. :(

Lasereth 05-05-2010 07:58 AM

I go shirt-less fairly often at home. The only reason I ever put one on is if it's too cold.

The_Jazz 05-05-2010 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowy (Post 2784328)
Baraka and Jazz...you guys make me sad. :(


I'll come visit and we can both go shirtless together. That is, once you ditch E and I ditch The_Wife. :D

Baraka_Guru 05-05-2010 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowy (Post 2784328)
Baraka and Jazz...you guys make me sad. :(

I dunno; I think clothing is a great invention.

Does it disappoint you that I'm currently wearing a cardigan over a T-shirt?

StanT 05-05-2010 08:08 AM

Indoors, I'm simply lazy. I don't put a shirt on until I have a reason, nor do I take one off without a reason.

Outdoors, my lily white flesh cooks like chicken skin under a broiler in the high altitude Colorado sun. I always wear a hat and shirt outside (fried bald spot is not fun).

LordEden 05-05-2010 08:47 AM

I love how I'm the Chubby Poster Boy (tm) of shirtless men everywhere. I'm proud, I'd ask for a metal to show my support of "Hairy Shirtless White Men Club", but I think PlanetNiner would staple it to my chest.

I don't get the wearing of a shirt when not in public. Yes, if temperatures are not in the range of shirtlessness, I understand putting a shirt on, but why have one more layer of fabric when it's hot? Friends have brought SOs and people that don't know me to my house and I'm standing around shirtless. Sometimes I get funny looks, other-times nothing. I think they were warned. I love cooking shirtless and have never seen a rogue chest hair end up anywhere.

Viva la Shirtlessness!

(I wish I had the man chest of Mike Rowe or Mr. PI)

The_Jazz 05-05-2010 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LordEden (Post 2784345)
(I wish I had the man chest of Mike Rowe or Mr. PI)

Try lifting more than 12 oz of cold, refreshing malty beverages once in a while then.

Giant Hamburger 05-05-2010 09:02 AM

Today it will get into the 90s and stay there until sometime in October.
I have always lived in a very warm climate.
I have been shirtless and hairy-chested at home since I was a baby.

snowy 05-05-2010 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru (Post 2784335)
I dunno; I think clothing is a great invention.

Does it disappoint you that I'm currently wearing a cardigan over a T-shirt?

The cardigan makes up for the shirtlessness--you know that!

Plan9 05-05-2010 09:22 AM

Hey, hey, hey... no cardigans in my thread! Shirtless or GTFO.

dlish 05-05-2010 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plan9 (Post 2784313)

me living with various girlfriends without a shirt, me being married without a shirt, me being divorced without a shirt,

so what your really trying to say is that you end up without a shirt after every relationship? :P

/end threadjack

i try to go shirtless whenever i can. unfortunately here, any public nudity can lead you in jail, so im confined to going topless only at home and at the beach.

Plan9 05-05-2010 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dlish (Post 2784375)
so what your really trying to say is that you end up without a shirt after every relationship? :P

Oooooh, good one. And true.

snowy 05-05-2010 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plan9 (Post 2784358)
Hey, hey, hey... no cardigans in my thread! Shirtless or GTFO.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that women with English degrees melt at the sight of men in cardigans.

Jove 05-05-2010 10:39 AM

Shirt stays on most of the time out of habit and comfort.

Jinn 05-05-2010 11:09 AM

I wear shirts all times except the shower; even sleeping, etc. Probably because I have moobs.

Xerxys 05-05-2010 01:38 PM

I'm shirtless, ... clothesless as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

inBOIL 05-05-2010 02:17 PM

I'm only shirtless A) When I'm in bed/showering/just woke up, and B) It's hot outside and shirtlessness is socially appropriate. I'm usually more comfortable with some kind of covering on my torso.

Shauk 05-05-2010 02:26 PM

i'm shielding your eyes from the moobs, doing you a favor. Don't dare make me take my shirt off on the beach :P

Charlatan 05-05-2010 03:42 PM

I would probably go around shirtless a lot more if we didn't have live in help. It's bloody hot here all the time and I don't like to run the aircon. On her days off or when she has gone to bed for the night, I am frequently topless.

That said, in Canada, where it's cold pretty much all the time, I was rarely without a shirt.

FelixP 05-05-2010 05:09 PM

I used to go around shirtless, and when I rejoin the First Civie Divie I probably will again, but for the time being I don't usually, unless I'm in the shower or the rack. Shirtless is more comfortable, though.

Plan9 05-05-2010 05:51 PM

I'm really kinda shocked. I expected the barbarian hordes of TFP to be far more inclined toward a naked torso.

Baraka_Guru 05-05-2010 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plan9 (Post 2784532)
I'm really kinda shocked. I expected the barbarian hordes of TFP to be far more inclined toward a naked torso.

I'm much closer to a tea party; a night at the opera; or sitting in the parlour, discussing politics over cigars and brandy. These things require covered torsos.

Jetée 05-05-2010 06:14 PM

Not that it matters, but I'm on the opposite end of the presumed OP scale, even with all the traveling that I do, here's one little fun fact about Jet:
in the past ten months, not only have I not ever been seen without a shirt, buttoned-down (dress shirts) or button-up (golf/tennis shirts)... I haven't worn a T-shirt since 1999, but that's beside the point, where was I? Oh, in the past ten months, I am on shirts-on clockwork detail plus always, always wearing a sweater / pullover / "two-times-the-size-of-my-body" kind-of coverall is on my person.

There's something about my body which doesn't store fat well anymore. I still could use some tone, but gosh-be-all-gone, I'm always friggin' cold.

spindles 05-05-2010 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowy (Post 2784379)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that women with English degrees melt at the sight of men in cardigans.

spindles leaves to go cardigan shopping :D

Plan9 05-05-2010 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2784540)
I haven't worn a T-shirt since 1999, but that's beside the point

I will buy you a t-shirt and send it to you. Seriously. I've got one in mind.

CinnamonGirl 05-05-2010 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowy (Post 2784379)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that women with English degrees melt at the sight of men in cardigans.

Also, women who are considering lit degrees, and are, in general, bookworms :D



Besides that, though... I very much approve of shirtless men. :thumbsup: For one thing, I'm touchy. Not annoyingly so (uh, I don't think), but if I reach over to rub your back or kiss your shoulder, I'd prefer contact with skin, not fabric.


But, I guess you all knew that, since Eden's apparently the Shirtless Mascot :)

spindles 05-05-2010 08:11 PM

I wear short sleeved shirts just about all the time. If I did take it off, you'd see the (sun) imprint, except the T-shirt I would have on would have a very hairy 'pattern' on the front.

drag0nmanes 05-05-2010 08:51 PM

What are these shirts you speak of? Around the house I tend to go shirtless year round mostly, I'm known to strangers as my roomies pet wookie...

Fremen 05-05-2010 11:58 PM

Heh, if only my torso were like Magnum's.
But no, you wouldn't want to see my lily-white hide all bare and glowing in the dark.

I wonder how many of us would be right at home on an episode of COPS?
I think it was a prerequisite that you had to appear shirtless on there. :thumbsup:

MrFriendly 05-06-2010 01:24 AM

If I still lived alone I'd be nude.

I don't think my flat mates would appreciate that though.

Plan9 05-06-2010 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fremen (Post 2784610)
I wonder how many of us would be right at home on an episode of COPS? I think it was a prerequisite that you had to appear shirtless on there.

Ha! Excellent observation.

ironpham 05-06-2010 10:13 AM

I'm a fan of shirtless indoors.

Iliftrocks 05-06-2010 10:55 AM

I usually wear shirts for the eye safety of others. Prefer sans-a-shirt lifestyle myself.

Jinn 05-06-2010 12:02 PM

The other downside is that I am in a computer chair the vast majority of my day, every day. Shirtless, I stick to the back of the chair. Very irritating to desperate your skin from the material of the chair every time you move or get up.

Shadowex3 05-06-2010 01:08 PM

115lbs of skin, bone, and organs of computer nerd. I need all the insulation, and protection, I can get. I'm one of the few people who doesn't actually work with fire or metal for a living that nonetheless has both launched at him fairly regularly.

MSD 05-06-2010 04:41 PM

If nobody's around whose opinion matters, I'm in boxers unless it's cold. When it's cold out I go to pick my brother up from the train or work at night, shorts, slippers, and a Snuggie with the windows down to get a nice breeze around the torso.


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