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[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 61 points 10 months ago

Thanks, now I'm gay for construction workers

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All my life I thought I was straight.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He's pretty cute, ngl. Sometimes you just gonna admire the human body. ^(and worry less about labels!)

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

Who said I am worried? Just confused :)

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about y'all, but this man's certainly erected a structure in my pants

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He works hard

And he plays hard

...... 🎵 (laser light show starts, disco ball comes down, flame bursts erupt, funky dance beat plays)... everybody dance now 🎵!!!!

[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Dad? Why did you bring me to a gay dam?

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of OSHA violations

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Works in both this context and in the original

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My great grandfather worked on that dam!

I don’t think that’s him, though.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Your possibly grandfather is fuckin sexy

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm CIS, but dang that guy turns me on. What? I'm just a man and this fella is hot

[–] kalistia@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago

He cerlainly is! But in this case the fact that you're cis is not really relevant, it's more the fact that you're heterosexual, which is not the same :)

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 16 points 10 months ago

Hehe, you can be cis and still like men/women/everything else. Gender is different than sexuality :)

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I'm about as straight as it gets but yeah that dude is impressive to look at.

[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Aww man, thats the body shape I want, not overkill, just fit and lean. Maybe this year...

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Go shovel concrete for hours/days/weeks on end and start your day with oatmeal and bacon, and end it with beef stew and a whiskey. Drink bucket water throughout.

[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

You had me at bucket water

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

bucket water

So what you're saying is that a tapeworm is essential...?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Meh the incredibly acidic diet, with a black coffee wash will clear it right out

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And all this time, I thought it was hose water that maxed gains.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Hose water is for maintaining

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

The whiskey is the most important part

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

16 tons, what'll you get?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta protect that noggin.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Hoover Dam project was one of the first (the first?) where hard hats were mandatory for workers on-site!

[–] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

'Make sure you wear the hard hats, boys. The shirts can go, though, and underwear...yeah, lets skip that as well. You should all be, uh, comfortable'

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

How about the pants as well

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’d hit it and I don’t even like dudes.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

More like you'd let him hit it.

[–] androidul@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so many ppl lost their lives trying to build that damn thing

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

Many from lowest-bid contractor fuckery, no less.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I came here fully expecting some thirst but pleasantly surprised that the dam quenched it.

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 3 points 10 months ago

"Damn" is exactly what I said upon seeing this picture

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I think you got here a little too early. The dam has ruptured and we're soaking wet. 🥵

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh my goodness great gran-daddy 🥵🤤

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Concrete zaddy

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Calvin Klein rippin’ a beeline to sign contract.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fucking hell

People need to lay off the pizza and do some exercise, any exercise.

So many people are so overweight. That's how most young guys should look!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuckin' A! My god, I'm about to be 53 and that was me most of my life. 6-months of hard work would put be back in that zone.

Kids: Y'all are fat. And yes, it's your fault. Yes, you have control over this situation. No, you are not powerless. No, that's not fat shaming.

[–] WHARRGARBL@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kids: It’s your fault for not performing grueling manual labor 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no worker protections, in the Mojave fuckin Desert, whilst contending with food scarcity, during the Great Depression.

Shame on all y’all not-willing-to-die pudgekins.

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It builds character.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm Gen X. It's amazing when I go back and watch shows and movies from my childhood that had a token fat character in them, because that character looks like an average person today. Look at Chunk from the Goonies. He was considered fat enough to have a nickname like Chunk, but he looks like the majority of kids I see now.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Have you seen Bridget Jones Diary? Rene Zellweger is supposed to represent what a fat woman in the 90s looked like. Fuckin hell.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

6 foot 4 and not an ounce of fat!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

"Baby .... I wanna burst open your dam ..... and watch your river flow"

Funky Walker, Dirty Talker

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Ever see old photos from around this era of what a muscled attractive man is supposed to look like? It's always some barrel chested fool with a mustache and piss poor muscle definition. If history is to be believed, women would have taken one look at this construction worker and (classism aside) thought "ew no thanks".

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what he's up to these days

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Patrolling the Mojave while wishing for a nuclear winter.