Quick Tips: Tidy/Smart Casual

Quick Tips: Tidy/Smart Casual

 

Tidy casual, smart casual and business casual are loosely defined dress codes used in professional and informal circumstances. From what the internet has to offer this is what I have come up with to what they mean. You may think otherwise.

Rules and guidelines:

Dress shoes, or dressy slip-on shoes.

No trainers or skater shoes.

Dark socks to match your shoes. Please no white socks.

Suit trousers are perfect, chinos and dark slacks. Nothing baggy.

Jeans, good quality, fitted dark blue jeans. Not suitable for all occasions.

If in doubt forget about it.

No shorts, boardies or speedos please.

Wear a belt always.

Shirts, a fitted, long sleeve shirt preferably, rolled-up sleeves are ok if you like.

No t-shirts. Polo’s, maybe, it depends on the situation, avoid logos and slogans.

Ties are not needed, top button open, second button only if the venue is outside.

No loud colour’s, play it safe.

Sunglasses outside only, your just a douche if you wear sunglasses inside.

You think you're cool, everyone else thinks you're blind.

Always

·         Use an Iron. There is no excuse for having a wrinkled and creased looking tea-towel that you call a shirt.

·         Wear a belt.  Every man should have at least 2 belts. A simple black belt to go with your black pants, and a tanned leather belt for your jeans.

·         Never wear white socks. Ever. You cant go wrong with black or very, very, very dark blue socks.

Do not use Pick-up lines

Pick-up lines do not work I repeat DO NOT work.
You will only look desperate and sleazy.

You could also be highly embarresed after being smacked across the face in the middle of a busy bar.

Here are some example's of pick-up line fails.

• Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by again

She will ask you to walk away and never look her way again.

• You must be tired because you’ve been running through my head all night

Seriously, how pathetic does it sound to you?

• Great legs, what time do they open

They will open when she knee's you in the balls.

• I’m a raindrop and I’m falling for you

She will be falling to the ground with laughter.

• Remember me? Oh, that’s right, I’ve met you only in my dreams

Keep on dreaming

• My love for you is like diarrhoea. I just can’t hold it in

Wtf??

• Do you have a mirror in your kinckers? cause I can see my self in there.

No No No No No Nooooooooooooo..........

• You might not be the best looking girl here, but beauty is only a light switch away

This will make you a legend, all the guys will want to be you and all the girls will want to avoid you.

• What has 142 teeth and holds back the incredible hulk? My zipper.

Turn Off. She will also think its green and angry.

• Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?

Security!!

Avoid her like the Plague

The Type of Girl you need to Avoid

·         The Excessive Party Girl:

Also known as the Alcoholic, she parties at least 3 nights a week spends all her pay on booze and a new frock for the weekend.

Her stories on Monday morning at the water cooler are always the same,
“I got so drunk at the weekend, I don’t know what time I got home,
I don’t know how I got home, I don’t know who I went home with”

You know where I'm going with this. If this is what you are looking for in a partner then she’s your girl.

·         The Drama Queen:

Everyone knows one; she’s the one crying in the corner at the end of the
night cause somebody wore the same shoes as her. She’s the one that will argue and overreact with you over seemingly minor incidents. She’s self-centred always asking for little things to be done for her that she’s well able to do herself.

·         The Gold Digger

Ok. We definitely know this one. On a night out there is no holding back, she will look stunning in every way perfect hair (fresh out of the Saloon) extra skin on show to get the heads turning and gets maximum exposure to all possibilities of partners.

She will ignore you, give you the cold shoulder and fail to notice your existence. She will be infatuated with the tall, tanned, designer label
wearing dumb-ass with the big wallet. She’s not into conversation, intelligence or how much fun you are, just as long as you can feed her habit.

·         The Latcher

This one is some piece of work. She will be all eyes, smiles and tongue. She will be whatever you want her to be but before you know it you’ll
be sitting at home on a Saturday night just the two of you watching the fecking Notebook. You will be wearing sweater vests and matching pyjamas. You won’t have a say in a thing and if you try and leave she’ll threaten suicide. Stay away, stay well away.

·         The Stage Nine Clinger

She will sink her jagged, bear claws so deep into your ass that you will be numb with shock that you let this happen. You will get so deep so fast you will think that it’s a dream come true that you have found someone so perfect. Like the Latcher you will not see it coming. You will not be able to wipe your ass without her knowing what you are doing. She will want to know where you are, who you are with and why you aren’t with her. You’ll have texts and calls if you are not home when you said you’d be.

Basically your balls will be in a VICE and it’s either run and lose your balls or keep your balls and lose everything else.

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Talk to the face

If your lucky enough to have your own personnel barber then it won't be an issue but flaky, dry skin that's all cut up from a blunt razor is a on going problem for the modern man.

1, Buy a good quality grooming/shaving kit, you will need it for trimming nose hair, ear hair and for undoing those caveman mono brows.

2, An expensive face razor, the Gillette Mach 3 is a tried and tested razor that's worth the cash.


3, Moisturising, everybody needs to do it after a shave and every morning. Flaky skin is a huge turn off for the ladies so get some, there are plenty to choose from. My favourite is the 
Nivea for men range with the SPFs. (Sun protection factor)


4, Hair product, where to start, first of all don't have more hair product than the woman you like, no more than two minutes in front of the mirror fixing your hair please, this blog is for the modern man not the modern woman.

5, A toothbrush should be changed with the seasons and buy a soft bristle not a hard bristle unless you have dentures. Floss, brush, mouthwash in that order every night.


6, Piercings, don't even think about it. Again its the MODERN man not the goth man nor is it the self abuse man.

7, Facial tattoos I'm not going to waste my time on this. I don't think any off you are this STUPID.



Just a few easy tips to get you on your way to becoming the Modern Man.

Hassle Free Clean Undies

Let’s face it, the ladies tend to get turned off easily by things we think are perfectly fine like our awesome dance moves or our super X-box high scores , these are things that we can change in future blogs.  What we are blogging about today is clean underwear.

Firstly, there is an unwritten rule about undies, jocks, boxers, Y fronts or whatever you want to call them, and that is they should be thrown out at least 12 months, or as soon as a stain appears.

Now, I know there are guys out there that don’t like shopping or don’t know how to shop and I have found a link that is here to help you.

It’s called Man Supplies

All you have to do is click what colour, how many and how often you want to receive your supply of undies. It’s a New Zealand site and it takes the hassle out of shopping that is always put off and keeps you impressing the ladies with clean fresh undies.

Keep it Simple

A yearly subscription package for 8 pairs of the same mens undies sent to you over a 12 month period (two pairs every 3 months). That will ensure your drawer is refreshed regularly so you can start chucking out the holey undies as they get holey.

Mix it Up

Create your own one-year undies subscription package by clicking the pairs you like, telling us how many you want, and how often you want them sent, then add them to the cart. Then repeat. Keep going till you’ve got the mix that suits your man-style.

My Chocolate Raspberry Brownie Mmmm.........

Here is a little something I treat myself with, it goes well with a glass of warm or cold milk.
And trust me Chocolate is the way to a womans heart :-)
Its the easiest brownie recipie there is, try it.

• 175g Butter
• 250g Sugar
• 50g Cocoa
• 2 Eggs
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
• 175g Your best Chocolate
• 100g Frozen Raspberries
• 50g Flour
• 1/2 tsp Baking Powder                                         

First melt Butter to liquid.
On a low speed with your mixer, mix the Cocoa, Sugar and Butter until its like a glossy paint.
Mix Vanilla essence and Eggs one at a time to the Butter mixture.
Finally, Fold in roughly chopped Chocolate and frozen Raspberries, seived Flour and Baking Powder into mixture until the flour has disappered.
Any more than that and you will have a very heavy Brownie.
Bake in a long shallow tray lined with baking paper.

150'c degrees for an hour until the mix is not wet inside but check with a skewer after 40 mins.


Enjoy.

Hello to all.

Hi, so this is my first ever blog, I hope you enjoy it, for what its worth.

After many months pondering what I should blog, it has recently occurred to me that there are a lot of men out there struggling to keep up with the modern man and are getting left behind in many areas.
The modern man has come along way since the first "neanderthals" that came over on the boats back in the 1800s.
Their best suit was there working suit only dusted off with a brush.
Their speciality meal would have been a boiled piece of meat with some overcooked vegetables.
And their view on being clean was bathing in some form of water within the month previous.
I'm not going to show you how to wear eyeliner or how to paint your toenails, I'm not going to tell you to wear a silly pink frilly shirt that looks ridiculous or that you should get a blow dry for your hair because it will bring out your eye colour.
I will how ever tell you how to cook a awesome roast and how to bake a delicious brownie to impress the ladies with.
And I will show you how to look good for that first date and I will tell you the tips on how to get that first date.
Its on a need to know basis and you guys need to know.
Enjoy!!