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Is it considered effeminate to use a straw?
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Escape Goat
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Certainly not me!
Astral Dog
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Its like you are sucking a dick everytime you drink, so i guess its effeminate.
SmackAttack
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No, straws are the best.
OP weren't you the one who created the thread about some OCD cleaning routines you perform when you check into hotel rooms?
highrider
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Ampersands
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I don't think so although I an aware that the stigma exists.
I think unless you intentionally drink in a strange way, nobody will care or think that of you.
I think unless you intentionally drink in a strange way, nobody will care or think that of you.
charlequin
Banned
so y'all what's the deal with these restaurant glasses that are so filthy that you can't put your mouth on them but not so filthy that you won't drink a beverage that's been poured into them as long as you can use a straw to do it
Yup, I was just about to bring that up. Dude has some weird hang-ups.
Anyway, it's not effiminate unless you suck it like it's a penis. If you drink like a normal human being then no one will think you are a girl. Just don't drink beer through a straw.
Its pretty common to be offered them at restaurants, couldn't imagine them being anything other than just a straw. Not effeminate or anything like that. I use it usually since its offered, but I wouldn't mind not getting one, esp with a weird reason like thinking they aren't clean enough.
Basically
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I don't know, but my reasoning is it requires less movement to adjust my head and slide the glass over to take a sip from the straw than it does to pick up the cup. Also the ice won't bump into my teeth or block the beverage if I'm using a straw. So straws are great.
jim-jam bongs
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I dunno, I've seen some pretty manly cock-sucking in my time.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
So the guys who have a problem with straws are likely the same ones who have a problem with men carrying a nice bag instead of shoving everything into their pockets like a "real man" would do, right?
Mess
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BlitzEngineer
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I don't understand people who worry about stuff like whether their glass is really clean and crap like that.
Just embrace it, man. There's mucus seeping from every orifice in your body, oil oozing from every pore. There's a goddamn universe of bacteria in your gut, on your skin, in your mouth. You can't leave a room without leaving some trace, some dead skin or shedded hair or splattering of bodily fluid. Your mattress is gaining weight over time as it absorbs your dead skin, your oils, and as colonies of dust mites take residence to feed on said debris. You sleep on it every night, you make love on that mattress to the person you might spend the rest of your life with, who, by the way, is just as hideously alive as you are. Life is fucking disgusting.
I mean, wash your hands and shit, but for real man don't walk around in the world and think sipping from a straw is going to protect from humanity's ickyness. You are humanity's ickyness. Just learn to love it like the rest of us.
And use a goddamn straw if you feel like it man if people judge you, fuck em.
Just embrace it, man. There's mucus seeping from every orifice in your body, oil oozing from every pore. There's a goddamn universe of bacteria in your gut, on your skin, in your mouth. You can't leave a room without leaving some trace, some dead skin or shedded hair or splattering of bodily fluid. Your mattress is gaining weight over time as it absorbs your dead skin, your oils, and as colonies of dust mites take residence to feed on said debris. You sleep on it every night, you make love on that mattress to the person you might spend the rest of your life with, who, by the way, is just as hideously alive as you are. Life is fucking disgusting.
I mean, wash your hands and shit, but for real man don't walk around in the world and think sipping from a straw is going to protect from humanity's ickyness. You are humanity's ickyness. Just learn to love it like the rest of us.
And use a goddamn straw if you feel like it man if people judge you, fuck em.
way more
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Uh, no?
Straws are practical and make sense. Carrying around your own balls in a little fancie bag is for the type of men who can't do their own taxes. They type of "bro" who buys tile spacers when fixing up a bathroom. Total Cuisinart users.
william_557
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Pretty sure this is a thing
At the bar i work most guys don't use straws and a lot of the girls do but to each his own i guess
At the bar i work most guys don't use straws and a lot of the girls do but to each his own i guess
SuperEpicGuy
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Haha, that just sounds straight up stupid. I just like using straws, it's not like I am sucking a dildo or some shit.
william_557
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When i was eating at a restaurant with some friends a while ago i ordered a coke as i was driving and the lady gave me a pink bendy straw....
liliththepale
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I don't think the implication is phallic. More like using a superfluous tool is wimpy. Me not use tools. Me is man.
zeopower6
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Yup!
william_557
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Depends on the drink too though
Alsi very true
Gin and tonic for example i would always put a straw in but a scoth and coke i would not
Sakura
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Depends where you are from.
I would think it might be considered "effeminate", because you're crying about not wanting to put your lips on a glass that has been used by "potentially thousands of people", yet you will drink the contents of said glass/use utensils used by thousands of people.
I would think it might be considered "effeminate", because you're crying about not wanting to put your lips on a glass that has been used by "potentially thousands of people", yet you will drink the contents of said glass/use utensils used by thousands of people.
That's a bingo.
Souless_PJ
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Yep. Straws are for children and women.
nckillthegrimace
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I only drink beer through a straw when I'm wearing a bird mask, which seems to be happening more and more frequently.
liliththepale
Banned
Why?
Straws are for whoever wants to use a straw. Fuck outta here with this bullshit.
Souless_PJ
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It just is. I dunno I didn't make it up. I live in Australia - maybe it's a cultural thing.
Only time I ever see guys drinking with a straw is with McDonald style cups.
I live in Australia as well and I've never heard of drinking with a straw as being effiminate. I've seen plenty of guys drinking with straws and no one gives a shit that they are.
Souless_PJ
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I'm not saying that anyone cares it's just that in a restaurant setting you'd be hard pressed to order a drink as a guy and get a straw by default unless it's fast food.
PaperFlame
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I don't like using a straw, I enjoy drinking from the cup.
OrlanisWorks
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If anyone judges anyone for using a straw, they deserve to only drink from straws. Even their food. Drink a buritto, douchebag.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Personally I only request sippy cups.
andrerobot
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OP, it's only effeminate if you put the straw in your vagina. If you don't, then you're cool.
Paracelsus
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I didn't think so until I tried to remember the last time I saw a manly man using it. As for me, I use a glass, haven't drunk from a bottle in ages, if you exclude bike bottles.
LeroyPantwether
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What makes you think the plasticware or straws are any cleaner than pre-used cups/cutlery? I got news for you OP. Just because it is in wrapper does not mean it is a medical grade utensil. Most likely, your straw or spork was manufactured under the supervision of some minimum wage dip shit who just got done picking his/her nose. Not to mention using such instruments creates an enormous amount of unnecessary waste. In short, stop being weird.
Fusion Pizza
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Only by those who are insecure about their own masculinity, it's a fucking straw.
EDIT: OhI hear people who use straws also like Gatorade.
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