pics: sweet men, sweet kisses

[lobelia321]

Look what an image-google trawl threw up:



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In case you can't see them, here are the links:

1. http://www.greatexpeditions.homestead.com/files/kissing.jpg

2.
http://belgays.gay.ru/images/magazines/health/kissing1.jpg

3.
http://www.betar.co.uk/articles/pictures/arab_men_kissing.jpg

4.
http://www.geocities.com/lobelia40/snogging.txt

5.
http://www.megacities.us/gay/pics/01.jpg

6.
http://www.geocities.com/lobelia40/rimming.txt

7.
http://www.geocities.com/lobelia40/kissingbw.txt

8.
http://erin.antabaka.net/men_kissing/dv427105.jpg

9.
http://erin.antabaka.net/men_kissing/dv427107.jpg

10.
http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v85/zeroman/Francois%20Rousseau/gay_men_-_brewer_twins_kissing.jpg



Probably unwork-safe but I left out the most blatantly commercially porny ones and the ones with actual visible erections, so the pics are probably rated R / PG-13.

Which is your favourite?

And which do you think is my favourite? Can you guess? (Heh, this is a how-well-do-you-know-your-Listfriends-quiz.)

Comments

[travelingcarrot.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't see 4, 6 or 7 and the links are, erm... interesting but not showing kissing pics - but from the others, my fave is 9 because it has nipple! and bum-thru-undies.

I would say given the little I know of you, that 3 did something for you, and also maybe 10 (a whole lot of pretty there in 10). Now, what effect did you say this selection had on you?

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've just fixed those broken links by uploading those pics to my own website and re-linking. Here they are, just for you:

4. http://www.geocities.com/lobelia40/snogging.txt

6. http://www.geocities.com/lobelia40/rimming.txt

7. http://www.geocities.com/lobelia40/kissingbw.txt

You're not a long way off with your guesses as to my favourite but not quite there, *g*. I have a first-favourite and a second-favourite, actually, but you've guessed neither so far. (Can't give away the answer as that would be spoiling it for other tiggers!)

[travelingcarrot.livejournal.com]

Oooooohhhh..... number 7.....

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

No. *gg* That's my least favourite, actually.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's been 12 hours so I can reveal now: my favourite is nr. 2 because of the suit and the way the guy in suit'n'boots has kept his hands in his pocket.

Second-favourite is nr. 8 because it's just so darn hot. It's not as pornily-posed as some of them but very nicely lit to accentuate the muscles, and although I do like the geeky kisses I'm just succumbing to the muscly and manly here. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ming/]

Oh my goodness, #3 especially!

Thank you, L. <3

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Nr. 3 I just find wonderfully interesting because it seems to be a totally candid photo and it's possibly not even gay but just one of those ways in which Arab men display affection in public. When I lived in Indonesia, the sight of young men walking hand-in-hand or with their arms round each other was totally common. I suppose that is because public affection between the sexes is rare.

Isn't it a lovely photo?? A gem among all that porn.

[mandrill.livejournal.com]

Lovely photos! Hooray!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Aren't they yummy??! *g*

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Wow, these have left me all swoony. I love #2- one in jeans, one in a suit- so very sweet. And #3 just looks so casual and affectionate- I think you may very well be right about it possibly not being gay at all. #7 jumped out at me because it looks kind of vintage-y. Like Danny and Rascal grown up and meeting in a seedy hotel somewhere. *mind wanders*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Nr. 2 is my favourite! I love the way the guy in suit'n'boots has kept his hands in his pockets.

omg, my new timer has just gone off! End of LJ time!!

*runs off to do marking*

(See, I'm trying to organise the rest of my life a la FlyLady. To keep up that constant adrenaline of something-to-do, gotta-rush.)

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Hee! your favorite is my favorite. Fancy that! And you're timing your LJ time- what an idea! I hadn't even thought of it, and here I've been tining everything else like mad.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Today I've been timing everything! I'm also using ideas from Neil Fiore's book on procrastination. I haven't actually even seen this book but based on online reviews at amazon, I am confident that I have a full grasp of his methods, *snorts*. Anyway, he seems to be saying that you can do academic and other work in chunks (very FlyLadyish!), and that you should reward yourself with a chunk of funtime after every chunk of worktime. So I timed myself to mark 2 essays and then I was allowed to run upstairs and do LJ! Whee.

I'm also (now wait for this) adapting the SavingDinner.com ideas (linked on the FlyLady page). Dinnercom actually costs money (ack!) and the sample recipes I printed out look dodgy and perhaps are of the 'southern' type you identified so astutely in FlyLady. I don't eat such foods but the idea of having weekly menus emailed to me with a printable shopping list is nice so, manic shirker that I am, I did some marking-shirking by typing up my own weekly menu and shopping list! I figure once I have about four or five weekly menus done, I can rotate them throughout the year! Whee! All spontaneity will finally have been rooted out of my existence once and for all!!

Yes, isn't nr. 2 yumptious?

I want to read your rant! But I fear my timer will prevent it.

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Well, procrastination just bit me in the ass. Expect a tearful, dramatic post shortly. :-) Maybe I need to read the reviews of Fiore's book. Sometimes all you need is the gist of the thing and you can implement it yourself.

I actually started the weekly menu and shopping list thing last week. I just did my own things that I would normally eat, although I have a few lovely cookbooks on quick and healthy meals, one of them for the crockpot, so I picked a few recipes out of each, just for some variety. I was amazed at how little time it took to make up the menu and shopping list, and how much less I spent at the grocery store. And it's wonderful to know what's for dinner and to know it will only take a few minutes to prepare. And yes, I also plan a steady rotation throughout the year. No more surprises, ever!

No. 2 strangely, and perhaps a bit squickily, makes me think of my cousin and his boyfriend. My cousin would be the one in the suit. He manages a big bookstore on the Ku'damm in your hometown. Can't remember off the top of my destroyed brain which one it is, though.

Don't worry about the rant. It's rather pathetic, I'm afraid, and I'm sure it's all been said before somewhere else.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

omg, you did the shopping lists! See, I'm a week behind you but apart from that, we seem fairly synchronised! I did not have the wonderful shopping experience that you had, however, grrrrr, mainly because instead of going to the shop in person, I insisted on doing it online and it took for fucking ever. It took about three hours. I am slowly going insane!!!! Why did I not just hop in the car and do the thing in person??

What, btw, is a crockpot? Is it what the English call a pressure cooker?

Is your cousin black? Because the man in the suit in nr. 2 is black, is he not?

Don't worry about the rant. It's rather pathetic, I'm afraid, and I'm sure it's all been said before somewhere else.
It's not the what, m'dear, it's the who of the saying.

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh, online grocery shopping can be such a pain. I did it for a while, years ago, when we lived in a third-floor walk-up and I didn't want to carry heavy things like kitty litter up the stairs. *g* Just shopping at my usual grocery store takes maybe thirty minutes, because I know exactly where everything is.

A crockpot is a slowcooker. Also known as a dutch oven. You assemble all of the ingredients in the morning, throw them all in, and let it cook very very slowly for 8-10 hours. When you come home in the evening, dinner's ready! It's wonderful for stews and any kind of meat comes out very tender and juicy.

My cousin isn't black, but he does have a rather dark complexion, so there's a very superficial similarity. All of my German side of the family can easily be mistaken for Spaniards or Italians. People constantly ask my mother if she's Native American!

It's not the what, m'dear, it's the who of the saying

*hugs you for the umpteenth time*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

We have a strand in the family like that. My uncle looks Egyptian, and there is murmuring in the family that a passing sailor may have impregnated one of our forebears in Bremerhaven...

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a rumour about someone researching the family tree and stopping when they got to the black guy. o_O I guess they really didn't want to know more!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

P.S. About knowing each other for years: Remember when we had that first email exchange? (Email exchanges!!! What a thing of the past they now seem.) And we wrote about German roots and how you had written a novel. Who'd have thought we'd still be here three years later, synchronising our dusting???!!!

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, e-mail! How quaint of us! Now the synchronized dusting I wouldn't have imagined, ever. See how surprising - if not exciting- life can be!

[angelmaye.livejournal.com]

If you squint your eyes, and sort of cock your head, the one on the right of number two kinda looks like Orlando.

If I had to guess, number six is your favorite. It's the ankles over the shoulders, right?

Not to be kinky, but the two in number ten look like twins.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*bursts out laughing*

Yeah, Orlando as a black man.... Oh, the determination of the Orli-obsessed!

And the two in nr. 10 are twins! At least according to their url which reveals them to be the 'Brewer twins'. You're amazing.

No, nr. 6 is not favourite: too porny. My favourite is nr. 2 because of the suit and the way the guy (who is Orlando-as-a-black-man) has kept his hands in his pockets. *g* Although the ankles over the shoulders has lovely ficcy potential....

[angelmaye.livejournal.com]

Well paint me colorblind. Did not realize that was a black man. Perhaps I am a little obsessed.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

But it is, isn't it? *peers at picture*

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

My bet goes on 3.

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

and *rowr*, btw. 2 is so "welcome home from work, honey! [grope] oh, what, we're still in the street? My bad." :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I love nr. 2. It's been 12 hours so I'm going to reveal that nr. 2 is my favourite. I love the way the guy in suit'n'boots is keeping his hands in his pocket.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I can see why you would think that! (Although it's not, see other tig.)

I'm going to repeat here what I said to _ming:

Nr. 3 I just find wonderfully interesting because it seems to be a totally candid photo and it's possibly not even gay but just one of those ways in which Arab men display affection in public. When I lived in Indonesia, the sight of young men walking hand-in-hand or with their arms round each other was totally common. I suppose that is because public affection between the sexes is rare.