This week we were presented with two quite differing visions of the future of 'mankind' with the emphasis. On the 'man' bit. Lets get the sciency one out of the way first. Stephen Hawkings the cleverest man in the world, said that 'AI' or artificial intelligence or robots to you and me will eventually take over the world! Listening to the announcer at Lime street station the other morning I think they already have.
However the far more intersting development in our evolution, is how men have moved on from being described 'Metrosexual', those being, men taking a keen interest in how they dress, and look. To a new and far more worrying level. It's being described as the age of the 'Spornosexual' man, or the dawn of the 'Mirror Man' This new age is defined by the growing trend of male self obsession with themselves and their bodies.
How they look, Their physical appearance and the search for the perfect chisseled gym body is the quest, for this new age 'spornosexual' ..let's take a breathe there, and let me ask, Is this ringing any bells?
And how you may ask is this obsession being measured? Through science? No, experts are using a far more sophisticated technique. They are monitoring the ever decreasing inside leg measurement of men's shorts as a guide, of course!
The length of a mans shorts say the experts, is one of the ways of identifying a mans confidence in his own appearance. And they have found that shorts are becoming shorter. They found that the average inside leg measurement for shorts, has in the past few years, gone from an over the knee 15 inches in length, to a just above the knee, length of about 11 inches, and shorts are continuing to become shorter and shorter. Some gym shorts are now down to a new low of 5 inches. The reason behind this tiny gym fashion trend being, amongst other things to over expose the thighs and the finely toned quadrceps.
The frightening question mankind has to ask itself is which would be worse, a world run by robots or pumped up gym bunnies.... Take me to your leader
For your information – the shorts of choice for the 'Gym Addict' are called 'chubbies', so does that make the kind of girl who likes that kind of boy a Chubby chaser?
Russell Brand won an award this week from the plain English campaign, for his bad use of the English language. They complained that he often talked in riddles, but what would you expect, he is a comedian afterall
The computer game 'Soccer Manager' may become part of the school coriculumn. Experts say it has lots of qualities to enhance life skills incluidng maths, motivation and organisational applications. If thats the case then maybe we can expect to see 'Call of Duty' becoming part of basic army training and 'Fast and Furious' to be included in the driving test.
How many of you wanted to bury your heads in the cushion whatching Take That dancing on X Factor the other week. We all think we've still got the moves but watching Gary, Mark and Jason 'dad dancing' was a very sad experience. Time to move on now boys, your men now.
Where did Lewis Hamilton get that American accent from, when he was being interviewed after winning the Formula One world championship the other week? It reminded me of ex. England coach Steve McLaren speaking with a dutch accent, when he managed in Holland. And worst of all Joey Barton doing his best Allo Allo impersanation when he played for Marseille.
'I Vill zay ziss only Vonce.... To all English men going abroad, putting on a foreign accent is not the same as learning the language, Stop it!
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