Two guys walk into a bar. One of them orders a cosmo…
Have you ever had one of those moments? Either you buy a “girlie” drink and your friends laugh, or your friend buys one and you laugh.
Sam Killerman reveals what might be going on in the head of the guys mocking your sweet, sweet libation.
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So what do you think? Have we gotten past caring what our friends or co-workers (or bosses!) think about our drink choices?
Originally published at itspronouncedmetrosexual.com.
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My usual response to these sorts of silliness
You have someone who thinks drinking a Cosmo utterly trashes one’s manliness
and someone who doesn’t
And it’s the latter who’s supposed to be failing as a man? ^_^
If your drink choice ruins your masculinity then *your* masculinity ain’t worth shit.
(that line would probably sound better if I were holding a French martini)
I like Cosmo’s. Until recently I didn’t even know it’s supposed to be a girl’s drink. I still don’t understand why people care about these things, much less why anyone would worry about it. I don’t go to bars to perform a gender. I will order the drink I like.
Ah, that takes me back to my French martini days ^_^
What I will say annoyed me was when I was with a friend of mine at the bar and we both ordered the same drink at the same time, to the same barmaid. Who put a straw in my drink but not in my friend’s drink -_-
I don’t look that metro, honest O_o
Straws are not my friends. I would be putting it in any of my buddies’ drinks, unless they were drinking something so highly revered that I would be forever ridiculed, not for my pretty drink, but for ruining their _____ (insert beverage here).