As we're going to have temperatures of around 30 degrees C today, please can I beg one thing of the male population of this great city...

DON'T WALK AROUND WITH YOUR TOP OFF!!!

1) You run the risk of sunburn and skin cancer in the long term.
2) Nobody wants to see your pasty flesh besides you and your other half.
3) If you have man boobs then you need to be wearing more, not less (why is the amount of clothing always inversely proportional to the size of the person wearing them? Wake up, you're not fooling anyone!).
4) Even if you have a chisled torso, displaying it does not impress anyone but other gym-freaks...e.g. take Peter Andre, people are laughing AT him, not with him.

Wear a t-shirt, at least wear a vest.

Don't inflict this suffering on the world at large for another summer, I beg it of you.

[EDIT]

If your female feel free to walk round topless. I think she's just hung up about seeing blokes nekkid.

P.S Forgot to add "Girls you must wear suncream!"
If this is a problem I finish work at 12.

Sorry?

Not quite getting your point there?

However if you are well built, tanned and muscly looking guy who is incredibly good looking - go for it! Give us girls something to drool over!

*Starts taking his clothes off*

lol

Originally posted by J-Blaze
*Starts taking his clothes off*

lol


If you want to chuckle and strip then that's fine by me, but I still don't see what it has to do with my point.

But if you're insinuating what I think you are then I have to tell you that I don't swing that way...Boy bands and the Village People aren't my thing, if you follow!

Originally posted by Classic Rock
However if you are well built, tanned and muscly looking guy who is incredibly good looking - go for it! Give us girls something to drool over!

Yippee!

I love summer ;)
All the fit guys in convertable cars - bring it on.

I was thinking primarily of the sweaty bilgetanks that walk about with their bellies scraping the ground...nobody wants to see that!

Ewwwwww! No!!!
(puts down sandwich that I was eating while reading this)

It's nice to know that my words can touch people so!

DON'T WALK AROUND WITH YOUR TOP OFF!!!

hahaha, and heres me thinking i live in a free country :D


Don't inflict this suffering on the world at large


people dont often go out without a t-shirt/top on, but you must understand its summer, and the sun is out, im justconfused as to why this would bother anyone?

me personally, if i dont like the look of something, 'I Dont Look'.

would you still share this oppinion if all the blokes looked the same, i mean looked like your 'ideal', goodlooking, fit, 6 pack, possably fake tan (sunbed) ect, ect?

soiry, but i dont agree :rolleyes:

i say 'Get Yer Tops Off' this summer and enjoy it (espessialy the ladies) :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Fireondaroof
Yippee!

I love summer ;)
All the fit guys in convertable cars - bring it on.


You mean all the posing gits who are obviously making up for deficiencies in other areas?

Anyone who buys a convertible car in this country is mad, a definate prima donna and more than likely a prat.

So is it the guys you like or the cars? *cough* shallow *cough*

You will note that I use the word "beg" rather than "command" here! I never said that this plea was intended as a attempt to impinge on a persons freedom to walk around looking like a prat (god knows that freedom is exercised in this city all the time with much vigour).

And while other people have posted to the effect that they would like to see guys with "perfect" torsos and tans displaying them, I am not among them.

I'd be of the same opinion if every man in Sheffield (myself included) was a latter day Adonis.

There are other options than stripping down to your pasty waist and baring your chest so that the world can watch as it turns from flour white to the angry red shade of a freshly boiled lobster.

Originally posted by Carmine
If you want to chuckle and strip then that's fine by me, but I still don't see what it has to do with my point.

But if you're insinuating what I think you are then I have to tell you that I don't swing that way...Boy bands and the Village People aren't my thing, if you follow!

I just thought I'd make your point a bit more light hearted as it wasn't much fun to start with. As for you batting for the other team thats entirely up to you.

Big beer bellies turning red in the sun aint an amusing subject for the owner of the gut in question...but then you can always play a game and guess what'll do for them first, sunstroke or cardiac arrest!

To keep a fine balance here, there are some pretty ropey looking ladies who bare flesh that really ought to be kept hidden.

If your only seein beer bellys you need to get yourself somewhere a lil better;)

Originally posted by J-Blaze
[EDIT]

If your female feel free to walk round topless. I think she's just hung up about seeing blokes nekkid.

P.S Forgot to add "Girls you must wear suncream!"
If this is a problem I finish work at 12.

Sorry, thought the "she's just hung up" was you assuming I was female...apologies for my error.

Hmmm.

The great one speaks wisely of these matters in the Great Record: We're Only In It for the Money, chapters 12 and 15.

The word of Zappa
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above

Who cares if hair is long or short
Or sprayed or partly grayed...
We know that hair ain’t where it’s at

(there will come a time when you won’t
Even be ashamed if you are fat!)

Wah wah-wah wah

There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above (rise above)

Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford
To buy a pair of modern go-go stretch-elastic pants...
There will come a time when you can even
Take your clothes off when you dance



The word of Zappa
What’s the ugliest
Part of your body?

What’s the ugliest
Part of your body?

Some say your nose

Some say your toes

But I think it’s your mind...

I think it’s your mind

You can say what you like about the human mind, but at least it can't be seen swaying over a vast waistline like a cycloptic albino walrus trying to escape a guys pants for the awful smell...

....chucking sandwich into the bin now. Ewwwww. I'm leaving this thread and not coming back.

Originally posted by Carmine
You can say what you like about the human mind, but at least it can't be seen swaying over a vast waistline like a cycloptic albino walrus trying to escape a guys pants for the awful smell...

I wasn't generalising about the human mind, but specifically angling the Great Zappa's wisdom at you personally.

You say that if all Sheffielders were Venuses and Adonises, then you would say the same - "stay covered, I dont want to see".

Yet everytime you seek to describe what it is you are pleading people to do, you always resort to describing them in the most pejorative terms possible, as if you have something against these 'offenders' personally.

Originally posted by PuressenceUK
You mean all the posing gits who are obviously making up for deficiencies in other areas?

Anyone who buys a convertible car in this country is mad, a definate prima donna and more than likely a prat.

So is it the guys you like or the cars? *cough* shallow *cough*

Both ;) Not necessarily together.

So you would turn down the use of a convertable car if offered, in this lovely weather? :loopy:

All praise to Zappa aside, this is nothing personally offensive, I just don't think you do yourself any favours by letting it all hang out and I don't like walking down the street and seeing flabby bodies on display every time the thermometer creeps into double figures. That's my opinion, but I won't hurl rocks at every person I see in the street who offends my delicate sensibilities.

I'm not talking about crop tops of plunging necklines, these I find to be pleasant to the eye and most agreeable. Neither am I asking for Victorian standards of dress. You want to sunbathe with almost nothing on, no problem. Show off whatever you want on the beach and wear whatever swimwear you please in the pool.

But would you relish sitting by a sweaty torso on public transport with all the windows shut?

Be honest!

Originally posted by Fireondaroof
Both ;) Not necessarily together.

So you would turn down the use of a convertable car if offered, in this lovely weather? :loopy:

Yeah cos people stare at you mostly thinking "what a posing ***". Rather have air con and the windows up so you can play your music loud.

Originally posted by Carmine
Sorry, thought the "she's just hung up" was you assuming I was female...apologies for my error.

YOU MEAN YOUR MALE??? :o

Originally posted by PuressenceUK
Yeah cos people stare at you mostly thinking "what a posing ***". Rather have air con and the windows up so you can play your music loud.
No.. I think that's just you that thinks that.

Originally posted by PuressenceUK
Yeah cos people stare at you mostly thinking "what a posing ***". Rather have air con and the windows up so you can play your music loud.

That's just generalising, not everyone who drives them are poser's. That remind's me of that Streets song, your fit and don't you know it.

I still have my music on load regardless, and would rather have the windows open then waste 10% of petrol.

Id rather have a motorcycle blasting loud music with no windows:P

nowt wrong wiv convertibles but what I sometimes don't understand if the baldy's driving them without a baseball cap - doesnt the skin on their head burn??? :loopy:

I thought it was abou feeling the wind in your hair? Either that of perhaps they are adding to the aerodynamics of their cars ;)

Water off a ducks back..... Wind over a baldys head...hmm

Have just been down to the local shops and seen a sight not fit for humanity, a 6ft bloke no shirt on as thin as a rail, and ginger chest hair.............ohh my eyes my poor poor eyes