Adjusting oneself in public

bonnie1707


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 13:51

I love the people on this island, but the men here often exhibit a behaviour that sometimes annoys me. A while ago I lived for a few years in Turkey … and have observed that the TC (and Turkish) men here behave in a similar way to those on the mainland … in that they would seem to have a constant need to adjust their genitalia ... especially it would seem, when they are approaching a woman. Someone said to me it's a Mediterranean trait. What do you think?

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 13:54

Going commando I don't have that problem. )

cooper


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 13:58

I dont have that problem either because i just strap it to me leg )

cooper


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:04

I've just got a right bollocking for posting Msg 2, so if i play me cards right i might get a left bollocking later )

sunshine22



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:08

Your brave bonnie1707......... :o)



lol at the replies :o) :o) :o) :o)

Groucho



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:18

Cooper do you tuck it in your sock?

bonnie1707


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:20

Msg 5 - Thank you Sunshine & Msg 4 - Funny Cooper



However, any at-least-half-serious comments from the other women on this forum?

simbas



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:25

Shoot me down if you like , but i always think it always shows what kind of man he is , it's sort of on par with passing wind in public , really crass

Simbas

Simhar


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:28

Simbas, if your bra was uncomfortable would you ease/adjust the straps in public? many women do, same problem with anything hanging, it can get uncomfortable and need adjusting!!!!!

simbas



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:35

Hi Simhar , adjusting a bra strap and repositioning your genitalia is a little different , but thankfully i will never have to experience it

Take care , Simbas

Simhar


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:37

lucky you! you have no idea how annoying the little blighter can be! ;-)

simbas



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:40

I think i will have to take your word on that , but if it is only a little blighter it can't get very far surely !

Simbas

Simhar


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:46

Teeb Hee As I typed that I thought I would get in trouble for it!

mollycorbin


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:46

I do see my husband and son adjust when they are at home. I do not see them do it in public which means there must be a discreet way to do it. Since you asked, I can tell you when I see a man in public adjusting for longer than a second, I think to myself, "Well he must be a disgusting, smelly, hairy funk-ball," and I feel badly for the woman in his life. Ick.

simbas



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:52

Oh god Mollycorbin , i can't stop laughing

Simbas

proger1



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:55

Strange really, if your hair gets in your eyes you just flick it out of the way, same thing really, would you prefer the old drop troos and re-adjust ??

bonnie1707


Joined: 06/06/2010
Posts: 95

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:58

Re : message 8 :

But Simbas, don't you feel this behaviour is more prevalent here than, say, in Western Europe ... maybe it's just that I have been away from the UK for too long ... and am not aware that British men are behaving in much the same way.



Re : Message 9 :

Simhar said that "If your bra was uncomfortable wouldn't you ease/adjust the straps in public."

I agree with Simbas' comment in message 10, when she states that the two behavioour are a "little different" - drawing attention to the male genitalia is considered to be more unacceptale – after all, we've never had page 3 hunks have we? ;-)

cooper


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:00

I should let it go now, its nothing to get hung up about )

the butler


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:03

Hi,



I agree that this seems to be meditterean trait as when we lived in Italy I often used to see men doing this.



It also seems to be a habit of middle eastern men as well when they are wearing suits. Maybe this is because



after wearing their normal loose fitting garbs, they find suits uncomfortable.





The butlers wife

jillyjugs


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:10

i believe it is not to do with the apendage but rather a problem with betty swollocks

proger1



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:13

Or perhaps it is because they are raised in a society that females are not so offended that males adjust body parts in public so don't feel it nescessary to worry about british womens sensibilities.



In an honest answer to your original question, it is perhaps not a mediteranean trait to do this it is perhaps a northern european trait not to.

My wife has pointed out to me that it is not nice to do this in public and my question is always, why are you looking at the mans genitalia??

When I look at another womans bits, I am sure to get into trouble

simbas



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:16

Hi Bonnie , to be honest i really can't say i've noticed

Simbas

Navek



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:19

I'm sitting here having a laugh at some, most of the comments )))

When I'm approaching someone in the street,

I'm more likely to be looking at their face,

rather than their nether regions :-(

Where's me kilt?

Navek

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:22

You've gotta have balls to discuss this subject. )

simbas



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:26

But not on a pubic board

bonnie1707


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:37

In message 23 Navek wrote "I'm more likely to be looking at their face".



But don't you feel Navek that often the purpose of the behaviour is for us to shift our gaze from the face to the to the groin area.

davedee



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:40

A cock and bull topic receives 25 posts so far.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:43

Cooper,



Well-hung Durch Technik?

bonnie1707


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:47

Re : message 27



Well this cock and bull story is smthg to do with living in northern Cyprus

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:53

I remember as a youngster being asked by a tailor "which side do you dress, Sir ?" when being fitted for a suit. I asked my mother (who to me knew the answer to everything) "why". Mother explained that the tailor factors in the cut of the trousers what the customer finds most comfortable ie hang to left or right. I thought how stupid is that until I caught my little todger in a zip and went through some of the most excruciating pain I have ever experienced. Thus I would hope that anyone who has suffered that has it taken into mitigation if they become for the rest of their lives a serial and public (not pubic) "adjuster" as it is suicidal to leave things central. The trauma still lives with me as my Wilderbeest (bless her) believes that incident must have been what caused my brain damage. Hang in there chaps left or right never the middle

bonnie1707


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Posts: 95

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 16:07

Re : msg 30



Hi DeputyDawg ... Does this problem arise if you were slips ... I well remember Kramer, from Seinfeld, saying that he didn't like wearing boxers, because he needed "a home for his boys".

Navek



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Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 16:09

Hi bonnie1707,



"But don't you feel Navek that often the purpose of the behaviour is for us to shift our gaze from the face to the to the groin area."



Never having been in a situation like that, I wouldn't know.

I'm not likely to try it either, as I may end up being slapped twice,

once by the offended party and once, at least by the wife :-(



Navek

davedee



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Posts: 479

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 16:10

Bonnie.



Tee hee.



I see that one a coming.



Dave.



P.S

bet they don't carry on like that in Holland.

Navek



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Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 16:24

Hi deputydawg,

"as it is suicidal to leave things central"

Especially if your zip goes, and your wee man pops out,

with no suncream, could get his napper burnt! )))

Ouch :-(

Navek

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 16:31

Bonnie, too painful a memory and too much information for some to discuss any further. Suffice to say that I did not think it funny but the doctor soon had me in stitches, and when I returned to school I had to suffer in History classes subjects such as Oliver Cromwell, Cavaliers and Roundheads etc. If I resort to wearing a slip it will be to cover my face instead of the cricket box I using currently

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 16:47

Navek. Please let the swelling go down first. You are as cruel as the Wildebeest (bless her), who only lets me swim in the pool, and not the sea, as I keep dredging seaweed !

mollycorbin


Joined: 12/03/2010
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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 16:57

NAVEK!!! I don't walk around staring at men's crotches. We are talking about those that go into a spastic fit adjusting their junk. I have a husband and two sons. I understand that things stick. But having a spastic seizure over it is ridiculous.



Deputydawg, you made me laugh and I hope you saw the movie "Something About Mary." If not, it is truly worth watching the beginning to see Ben Stiller zip himself up!

Tenakoutou



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 17:03

Me trouser snake's blind - it can't see to adjust itsbloodyself!

Groucho



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 17:53

Deputydawg



The tailor asking which side you dress is not so that he can make the cut of your suit accordingly, rather it is so that he can avoid touching it when measuring your inside leg! Heaven forfend...

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 17:58

Groucho, could not care less what he had in mind as long as he did not touch it !

Vidal


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 18:04

Bonnie I think its universal. They have to keep checking their 'best pal' is ok.

What about the guys who walk out of the mens...still doing up their zips and then give the leg shake.



EEeeyuk!

joandjelly


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Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 18:13

I saw a young man yesterday adjusting himself with his hand shoved right down the front of his jeans. I hate to think what he may have touched after that :((

cronos


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 18:18

Joandjelly.......the free peanuts on the bar ?

bonnie1707


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 18:35

Re : Message 41



Vidal wrote "I think its universal" - You're probably right Vidal - it's just that I haven't stayed (for more than a fortnight) in the UK for nearly ten years now ... and maybe I have forgotten what British men are like :-(

rowlo



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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 19:03

once at the dancing , i had ajusted myself in the toilets , bought some deoderant from the guy that sells it in their , went back to the dance floor for a slow dance with my missus ,said to her ,can you smell my brut , no she said , but i can feel it crawling up my leg .

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 22:36

Don't itch & drive!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJTgjjOUzsw



Richard

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 23:12

hehe Richard. Nothing worse than itchy nuts or getting them caught in the elastic of your underpants, very painfull, thats why men 'adjust' themselves ;-) Reminds me of Victor Meldrew in a solicitors waiting room.

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 23:15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i8628EYQwA

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
04/09/2010 23:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c84onEG44eQ

sienna


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 09:22

Its a MAN thing :0

Chegwin


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 10:23

deputydawg and Nav'

Whats wrong with a bit of swelling? Just take the pain away I say.

Chegs

zerochlor


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 10:26

are they adjusting or having a itch,as this part of the world most men shave,not as in western europe.

Crumpy



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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 10:46

Re : message 52



Zerochlor wrote "In this part of the world most men shave" - Are you assuming this because, compared to the UK, you have found less pubic hairs clogging up the pool filters. In any case, my TC partner told me that Turkish men don't shave any more than Western European men ... though after a pause ... she did add that she hasn't seen all that many nude Turkish men to say for certain

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 10:50

lol Crumpy

zerochlor


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 10:52

crumpy.



I dont clean the pools personally,most pools cleaned are UK owned pools,apart from maybe 6,but the pump baskets are always de-haired by us

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 10:57

zero, yuk. What a lovely job ;-)

Crumpy



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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 11:06

Re ; msg 55



Hi again Zerochlor,



Firstly let me apologise for presuming that you personally cleaned the pools.



But on the subject of hairs in pools, there is something that puzzles me - In a number of pools in the UK the men are not allowed to wear loose-fitting swimming shorts. I was told by someone that tight-fitting trunks are required so that the pubic hairs don't clog up the "pump baskets". Interestingly though, people could enter without wearing swimming caps. Any comments on this Zerochlor?

zerochlor


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 11:12

To be honest crumpy,ive only ever heard of denim shorts or cut off jeans not being able to be worn in pools back home,maybe because of the dye comming out.



But you are correct,the baskets in the pump,not so much the filter,as we never really look inside the filter,as the basket in the pump normally catches all the hair and other small particles.



i have seen some baskets when we have took over a pool and you would think some 1 had been scalped with the amount of hair inside,yukkie,im sure alot of so called pool cleaners do not know there is a basket in the pump which should be cleaned each time the pool is cleaned.

Crumpy



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Posts: 419

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 11:32

Re : msg 58



Zerochlor wrote "I've only ever heard of denim shorts or cut off jeans not being able to be worn in pools back home."



To be honest Zerochlor, the rule to not wear baggy shorts was imposed at my local swimming pool in Warsaw (where I recently lived for two years) ... and it was Polish friends that told me it was brought in because of pubic hair clogging up some part of the filters. I presumed it would be the same in the UK.

zerochlor


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 11:36

Maybe your right,i really do not know,normally the pump basket catches all the hair before if gets to the filter,if the basket is in good condition.

For me it does not matter if i wear speedos od loose trunks

cyprusairsoft



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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 11:38

you always give your best friend a hug

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
05/09/2010 11:50

Strewth. Al this hair clogging up pool filters. Are you saying that we now need to wear a filter in our pants to make tackle "adjustments" legitimate in the eyes of the offended ? Not sure I have room enough for a filter system as well as ......