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Hey all. Well, so far I've asked and responded to questions about music and bands, political and economic commentary on modern day Communist China, alcohol and other things. And I've decided to go a little crazy and go a little weird ass. And after careful reflection, I decided to ask you (men) this question:

How many of you have worn tights?

See? I'm off my medication. But seriously, I got the idea after hearing people at work talk about gender and society and clothing, mentioning the popularity of unisex sporting, cycling, gymnastic lycra garments. Plus how fashions and styles have changed over the centuries.

Me? A school play, dressups by my female cousins and a couple of times as a kid in the extreme cold.

So be a man!!!! Tell me when you've worn tights. I told you this would be weird ass.

I don't think I've ever worn tights. Unless you could count the long underwear that you wear under your pants as tights, winters kinda suck in here...

Fuck I wish I was manly enough to wear tights

I have never worn tights. Like LDB, I'd rock that look hard though.

Congratulations! That is an excellent example of an oxymoron. Btw, how come I get 4 quick replies to this question with a bunch of hardy men around here but as yet, not a single reply to my thread "What is your favourity whisky?"

Gentlemen.

My honest reply to that question is that I have never been into whiskey all that much to have developed a taste for it. Maybe some years later but not now...
I need to get more into alco again...

I've only ever had fireball

I've only ever sampled the (while wonderful) Jack Daniels, tbh.

I want to try that stuff sometime

Well, I seem to be derailing my own thread......but I'll return to it in a moment. Oh man, Butt and Living Dead dudes, there's a whole world of tasty whiskies out there!! All sorts of great flavours and aromas. Forget Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Rebel Yell, Johnnie Walker, The Black Douglas and the like. I'm talking about a great range of delicious single malt whiskies, as well as some really nice upper market blend whiskies like Johnnie Walker Green Label, Dimple, Ballantines 17rs etc.

I'm talking about single malts like Cragganmore,Glenfiddich, Talisker, Bowmore, Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Balvenie, Highland Park etc. So so yummy. But of course more expensive. It goes without saying.

Now, what was I saying? Oh yes, tights! In case you're wondering why I occasionally wore them as a kid, it was because I sufferred cramping in the cold. I'd even wear 2 pairs sometimes. Fast forward about 2 decades and I see a specialist (rheumatologist) as my cramping, cold intolerance and clamminess seemed to be getting worse. And the good doctor says I had an inherited vascular condition that means my peripheral (external-close to the skin) blood vessels constrict more than normal during low temperatures, making my extremities abnormally cold. Hence the cramping etc. He told me it was genetic and there was nothing I could do except keep warm and that it was degenerative. Meaning that it would continue to get worse, which I suspected, as I swear I seemed to suffer more each winter in my adulthood.

And working in a hospital, I've had 3 different people suggest tights for warmth when I cramped up. One time at the end of a night shift, my legs gave way as I felt a bizarre electrical sensation, and I fell on the floor. An emergency doctor (male) told me that his brother in law wears tights in the winter as they are warmer than anything else. And I've had a nurse and a kitchen hand suggest tights after bouts of cramping. The nice kitchen hand lady even told me that English soccer players often wore them during training in the cold weather.

But like all guys, I don't want to be a sissy, pansy etc so I do my best to avoid wearing the stuff of ballet dancers. But I have done in the past and if I'm desperate enough, I'll do it again. As I swear, cramps are fucking horrible painful things. I'm as blokey as the next guy (honestly) but cramps will have me beat. I'll resort to ballet type gear to avoid them, they are just that bad (for me anyway).

Ironically, my own wife hates the clingy nylon things with a passion. But thinks I'm a dick if I don't wear when I'm cramping up. Bizarrely enough, she doesn't have a single pair, but has bought a couple of pairs for me if I become desperate. I look at it like a visit to the dentist. Something I'll do but only as the last resort and avoid if I have to.

So there. A little unusual thing about me. Go ahead and laugh. I am. But I'll be drowning it soon in more delicious whisky!

Now, please participate in my whisky thread. Oh, and for the love of Pete, someone please rate my music collection! I spent like 20mins typing my entire collection and I'm dying to know what people think of it. Lots of classic rock in there, and a few surprises.

Lol, why the fuck should anyone laugh at that?
Cramping is a serious thing and you need to take appropriate measures if you got a condition!
If it helps you with your problem then everyone else should not have a single bad ting to say about that!

This.

Me and the Butt can't legally buy alchohol yet so that's a pretty big factor in why we haven't tried all these whiskeys