On the lighter side

[pecunium]

Some amusements from the web:

Adolescent Pregnancy Must Become a Priority for All Americans: I don't think that was quite what Jane Fonda wanted the headline to be.

This one was in a comment on a video:

This is the best piano player (aside from Beethoven and Mozart and well you get the point) i have ever seen.

I want to go to the venues he was visiting.


Then there was this one. I don't know quite what to make of it:

No self-respecting straight guy would ever have a mustache in a non-ironic way.

I am baffled. First, I have no idea how one has a mustache in an ironic way. Secondly I have a mustache. Apparently it is ironic, or I am lacking in self-respect, or something.

Comments

[bifemmefatale.livejournal.com]

No links?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No. The only one which really avoids being mean is the Jane Fonda one, and it's a pretty pedestrian case of poor headline writing.

If I linked I think the risk of piling on/real mockery might ensue.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

That's funny, for I know several men locally who have mustaches, who are straighter than string, and whom I'd lay even money have no idea what irony even means... My hubby has had a mustache since he was 14, and a beard pretty well constantly since he was 17. That's just a really bizarre comment.

[urox.livejournal.com]

Some people might grow it attempting to look like something they and everyone else knows they aren't.. like "porn-star" or "sleazy used car salesman" guy or "old west sheriff". But I think that is a very contorted use of the word ironic.

The mustache is perfectly fine on some gentlemen. On others, it looks quite out of place.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

May you're not as straight as you think you are! (Of course, that would imply the same for me.)

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

My husband doesn't do irony, but did have a mustache, or rather, over time, assorted mustaches. (see icon)

Thumping great generalizations are my least favorite expression of unthinking idiocy; bad headlines are so very public and I cherish that.

Julia, the musical time traveller... sometimes ones brain comes unstuck in the middle of a sentence, and I have no room to criticise

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

He looks remarkably like me.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

I want to go to the venues he was visiting.

Oh, same here.

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

Here is some ironic facial hair:

http://www.ceostylefile.com/my_weblog/2007/11/dov-charney-its.html

And I love how the mustache--symbol of cop-machismo all over the U.S., even here in Seattle--now triggers gay panic.

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

Me too, Terry.

I thought mine was simply a handlebar, not ironic.

Beside that, it's bloody cold without one.