t-shirts: the new handkerchief?

[blackbeltninja]

Arb question, guys

So a handful of guys I know to be particularly cruisy down at my local gym have taken to wandering around the locker room/pool/shower area in towels and t-shirts, both before and after using the facilities. All the times before it's just been towels, but my (very straight) gym partner pointed out last night that the guys have been in t-shirts as well the last couple times we've been there. Ironically, I didn't notice and me a trained scientist who's supposed to be observant and pick up anomalous behaviour.

So I was wondering... is this some sort of new hanky/bandanna code? Anyone notice anything similar in their neck of the woods?

I've seen it before with heavier guys who are embarrassed about their lack of abs and who don't like taking their shirts off, but it's definitely a new trend amongst the three guys I recognised.

-d-

 

[treanir]

After the hanky code and the bear code, now the t-shirt code?

I'm stepping out of the game.

 

[Lukeee]

People should write down what they want on a post it note and stick it to there face - much simpler!

 

[tingaling]

Hahahaha..I thought the thread was going to be about guys using their shirts as snot rags

 

[Yooper]

Hiding their Nipple Rings?

 

[cocktales]

I have NOT observed such; but seems strange to me in this time of futuristic electronics...........why not just say hello to the guy and forget the cat/mouse type of cruising????

I guess I'll never get it; whereas to me making simple conversation will break the ice and determine if he/you are at all on the same page or just continue on with the surveillance.......

Hmmmmmmmmm? lol

 

[blackbeltninja]

^^No, not hiding nipple rings.

^I actually chatted to a dude there last night who did the t-shirt bit and asked him - he said it was something he always did, no reasons. Not sure if he was cruising or not, however - he didn't seem to be, at least not like the other guys do.

I'm waiting to run into one of the guys I've been chatting to for ages who is a regular cruiser there. My gym partner noticed it on him first, actually, so I suppose he's as likely to know if anyone is.

Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice.

-d-

 

[pigface]

Arb question, guys

I know that word (arb)! But everytime I use it in a chat, no-one knows what I'm talking about!
Is it a quaintly unique small-part-of-RSA dialect?

Variation - also never understood:
Q:"What are you up to?"
A: "Arbing."

 

[blackbeltninja]

^I haven't heard arbing since I was an undergrad at UCT in the mid-90s, but all my old mates around my age still use arb quite a lot to this day.

I encountered it first at UCT as well - one of the guys was forced to take a course in Greek classics when he fell out of Chemistry just to get credits for the year, and described it as an "arb filler course."

-d-

 

[treanir]

I thought it was short for arbitrary?

 

[blackbeltninja]

^yup.

But still some people don't know it or use it.