My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It claimed that men’s underwear is becoming a real “growth category” for the fashion industry, with design innovation coupled with celebrity endorsement (particularly by sportsmen) creating a bigger market. The idea is that, if you can say ...
The other night, I was watching one of the many, many cooking-based shows currently broadcast, wall-to-wall and round-the-clock, on television. A group of people were cooking for another group of people – I forget why – and, as is often the case in these jeopardy-seeking productions, something went a bit wrong. A tray of ...
This weekend, Mrs Lobster and I take to the seas, in a (probably ill-advised) jaunt on the car ferry to the UK from our island home for a family wedding. When we get to the “mainland,” we’ll have a bit of a drive, cross-country, to the town where the wedding is to be held. I, ...
He looked out of the window, out of his apartment, and into the dark of the winter night outside. It was raining, faint but determined. Across the park, the grass melted away from the sodium glow of the street, into the black void under the trees. It was 3 am and not even a crepuscular ...
This week, to much eyebrow raising in the press, one of the world’s greatest living scientists revealed that he finds women “a complete mystery.” Stephen Hawking, famous across the planet for his work in theoretical cosmology and quantum gravity, made the comment recently when he was interviewed by New Scientist for his 70th birthday. The ...
Like most men, I make, and abjectly fail to keep, New Year’s Resolutions. Every year, without respite. Of course, I’m good at thinking them up. In fact, if I had an over-arching aim (as modern business-speak would have it) of simply making New Year’s Resolutions, I would count my endeavours in this field as a ...
This week, with my customary flair for timing, I thought it might be useful to say something (as ill-informed and generalized as usual) about Christmas presents for men. Not about what might be welcomed by me — I broadcast that list to the relevant people several months ago and am expecting great things. No, I ...
I read a newspaper article today about the ages in the UK at which men and women (or boys and girls, it turned out) are having sex. Its main thrust (ho,ho) was that women are tending to have sex for the first time at a younger age on average, with a recent survey revealing that ...
A recent talking point in the media, which no doubt took up your full attention and had you exercising your critical faculties to their creaking limits throughout last week, was the line-up for the BBC’s annual Sports Personality of the Year Award. Of course, I don’t mean so much that you were wondering why there ...
My attention was drawn this week to the male circumcision debate in America. Being British and from a non-circumcising religion, I’d never really had to think about that sort of thing very much. It’s certainly not a subject men talk about a great deal, in my experience. Of course, everyone knows some guy who’s had ...
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My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
