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• Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  www.snopes.com/…/mens-beauty-contest-1919/

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  • Grimtuck@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What does it say? There’s no reject all and I can’t be arsed unchecking then manually.

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    • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we’ve found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest. 

      The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph’s origins.

      In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned “Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910,” which translates roughly to “men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910.”

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I fucking knew it

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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    thank you

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  #2 is packing.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    has to, as he has no beard.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So he can’t sing a shanty?

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    • CeaselessBanana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No tash = big member… That explains a lot…

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  • bizza@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was about to comment that #2 either has as raging boner or it’s just like that

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That guy is full staff.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “No, no, I don’t have a boner! It’s just like that!”

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He could fuck himself in the belly button.

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• bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The heads seem photoshopped on to the bodies. Or did the skin tone of all their faces just differ that wildly from their bodies’ back then?

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  • Zatore@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think they wore longer clothes with higher colors back then. They would have a sunt tan from being outside, but only on their head.

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    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or a dirt tan from heavy industry and coal.

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  • Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Considering historic mens clothing the latter isn’t implausible.

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  • ChanchoManco@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just asked something about this, the left one looks like he has a shirt collar.

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• Wutchilli@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Kinda shows how fucked up our beauty standarts got…

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  • shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bigorexia is a real thing nowadays. The male body standard inflation on social media is just wild… unless you’re on gear, cut down to 6% body fat and in good lighting you’d get ratio’d into oblivion

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know those words, but I don’t think they’re being used in a manner to which I’m accustomed.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wonder how well a 1950s Mr Universe Sean Connery would do today?

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    • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wish more people would be open about it. Alan Ritchson is one of the few Hollywood celebrities that has candidly spoken about his use of exogenous testosterone to prepare for his role as Reacher, but clearly so many others are getting help. I’m in my late 50s trying to add muscle mass, and it’s a huge challenge. I’d say that I’m better off than all of the men in this 1919 photo, but not by that much.

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  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If anything, it shows how naive and credulous we became. Old photos with completely made up rubbish captions are now a staple of social media.

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  • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kinda shows beauty standards are completely arbitrary and context dependent.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Every one of them looks like Gollum’s uncle, what are you saying

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    • scoobford@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re saying that our current ideas of male beauty have been warped heavily by drugs and plastic surgery such that we consider naturally attractive men to look unremarkable.

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Image

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• MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why does the guy on the left look like he’s wearing a collar made of skin?

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  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They all look a little weird, like some old time photo editing was done.

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    • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’d be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s his tan line. None of those guys ever saw the sun without wearing a suit.

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  • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People used to do this weird thing called going outside. Believe it or not, they’d spend most of their waking hours doing this weird habit and they were also typically fully dressed too. It was considered scandalous to be caught outside not fully clothed. So the deadly laser that is our Sun would fry their uncovered face much faster than the skin beneath their clothes.

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    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t understand, why would you do that? Sounds lame

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• Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They must all be named George cause they are absolutely gorg.

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• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I spend copious hours in the gym because I never ever want to look like this. I was thinking about skipping today because it’s raining, so thanks for the motivation.

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  • d7sdx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What’s wrong with them?

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They don’t look like a modern social media influencer

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    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would describe it as skinny fat but these guys are not fat, so I think the problem is that they have very little muscle all around.

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  • TL903@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, we all look the same when we are dead.

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  • owsei@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fuck it.

    today’s freezing, but I’ll go to the gym too :)

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    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hardest thing is getting there. Once you are in you kinda forget you didn’t want to go. Except when you don’t and you half ass it. But doing a little bit is better than doing nothing is what I say.

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• ChanchoManco@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why the leftmost one looks like has a shirt collar even though he’s topless?

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  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tan line from his shirt collar. Modern sunscreen wasn’t invented until the 30s.

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• HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The oldest dude there is 23 years old

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• Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  #4 With that dazzle camouflage, ready for naval engagements

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  One dude without a mustache lines in a world of regrets and self loathing.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m surprised they even let him enter the contest.

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    • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Without a snappy stache, he’s got no shot at all.

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  • 50shadesofautism@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That looks like tom hanks kid

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  #2 making a bold statement to go sans mustachio.

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• wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh nice new avatar

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  • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait, what?

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    • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Image

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• zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Second from the right is just Freddie Mercury

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  • quinkin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Who? Mr. beast?

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• electric_nan@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My wife says the guy on the right end because “he has the sexiest diaper”.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  2 from the left. The grandfather of “Bigballs” from DOGE.

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• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ll take the looker on the far left. Mmmmhmm, break me off a piece of that.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Some of these guy are packin’ some serious heat!

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• glibg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Loving the dazzle camo shorts on #4

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• FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  #2 has an obvious boner

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  • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not sure. The shape and position are weird. But so are his pants.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cover up those bellybuttons, boys

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sluts

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• Pnut@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fat Tom Hanks is the only one without a moustache. He didn’t stand a chance.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He doesn’t need a moustache when he’s sporting that gargantuan tallywhacker.

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fine young lads

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The stripes are making my brain do that thing where when the image moves ever so slightly, it appears that their pants are vibrating.

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  • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They actually do.

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  [off topic?]

  I watched a Steve McQueen movie a few weeks ago [The Thomas Crown Affair.] There’s a scene where Steve and Faye Dunaway are lounging in a steamroom. When the movie came out, McQueen was considered one of the most virile men in Hollywood. Compared to today’s standards, he looked kinda scrawny.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do they even lift?

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Enough to beat your ass in fisticuffs

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    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Feh. I could easily beat off all of these men.

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• SirQuack@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ITT: people who start screaming because they don’t realise the # at the start of a line has special meaning, and turns it into a heading.

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  • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s only supposed to turn it into a heading when there’s a space between the hashtag and the heading text. If it’s doing it immediately after the hash, that’s an issue with your client. All the comments here look fine.

    #Thisshouldjustbenormalsize

    This shouldn’t be

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    • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      *octothorp

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seems to be a problem with the app you’re using, not a general lemmy thing.

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dafuq? Why them boxers so big

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• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey, it’s the dudes from Yoshi’s island!

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