A fetching oil painting of a young Bond-in-Waiting Sean Connery from 1952 in a posing pouch showing off his muscles has just gone on display in the UK. As you can see, wartime rationing didn’t end in the UK until 1954. The latest Bond, Daniel Craig, born in the 1960s,… Read More »James Bond’s Original Skimpy Speedos
111 men descend on Abercrombie and Fitch’s giant 5th Avenue store in New York, and, taking their cue from the grinning topless model greeter, not to mention the plethora of pictures of topless men and a giant topless bronze statue in the store, peel their shirts off. Apparently management were… Read More »Abercrombie and Fitch crackdown on topless punters
What a carry on in the dark! The very widely-reported story of the Avon firemen disciplined for bringing the Fire Brigade into disrepute and unauthorised use of their fire engine (and torches) is both fnarrr funny and funny peculiar. But the most peculiar aspect of it, and certainly the most serious,… Read More »Dogging Firemen: The Naked Truth About That ‘Disturbing Gay Orgy’
Retrosexuality Islamic style – which until recently was possibly the only un-ironic or non-fashion-accessorised kind of retrosexuality left – seems to be in a bad way in the Islamic heartland. Medievalism just isn’t what it used to be. Yesterday’s London Times carries a news feature on what’s termed “Pakistan’s metrosexual… Read More »Bin Laden’s Metro Makeover Betrays His Whereabouts
To paraphrase the world’s most famously dissatisfied customer Mr Praline (played by an eloquently irate Python, John Cleese), I know a dead parrot when I see one and I’m looking at one now. The retrosexual is dead. He has ceased to be. If marketers hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up… Read More »The Death of the Retrosexual