As a note- I wrote this post while I listened to Thin Lizzy’s song “The Boys Are Back In Town” except I totally sang “The Bros are back” instead. Because I’m hilarious.
Yesterday, I had another encounter with the “bros”, I was waiting at a cross walk when two guys walked up behind me and I was able to overhear (because I am scandalously nosy) their conversation.
Bro 1: I killed my triceps at the gym yesterday bro. Killed. Them.
Bro 2: Bro- you need to focus more on using your own body weight to tone up- it’s, like, better than free weights.
Bro 1: I feel ya. That’s solid advice bro.
Bro 2: What do you listen to when you work out?
Bro 1: Obvs (I swear he really said that) Metallica bro. They get me so amped. I’m just like “Let’s do this thing!” when I listen to them.
Bro 2: Me too dude. Me too. It’s like, I could fight a war when I listen to them!
At this point, we were able to safely cross the street and their conversation faded. I wanted to tell them that I frequently listen to showtunes and Beyonce when I work-out and that I’ve found both to be very motivating but I wasn’t sure how well received that suggestion would be. Although, I can’t imagine anything better amping you up for a fight then listening to “Cool” from West Side Story. But, um, why should working out make you want to fight? I think they might be doing it wrong.
erm when I listen to music when working out, Metallica is on my list. It does kinda amp me up to. >.>
No judgement here, I was just relating the conversation I overheard. My fiance listens to Metallica when he works out too.
Whatever, it’s a great song!
Bro, the last time I hit the gym it was totally harsh on my core. I totes meant to put my car in reverse but I went all the way to drive ran right into the side of a 24 hour fitness.
Despite silly covers, people’s true inner grit can sometimes be quite surprising.
Dumbed waaaay down.
It’s funny, I wrote a whole post about gym-bros and how frustrating I find them (http://letsgetmilkshakes.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/note-to-self-never-go-to-the-gym-after-work/) but reading this, I just found yours kind of charming! Maybe they are like lions… fine if they are in a zoo and I don’t have to go near them, but if I have to fight them I’m not happy!
Ah the bros… I like to think that Mario and Luigi were once like that in their younger days.
No. Nooooo. Don’t tell me this. Don’t tell me The Bros exist outside my college campus. Do they have no mercy? Is there no end to their supply of obnoxious neon bro-tanks or self-tanner?
I’m going to go wallow in self pity now.
Please tell me you are making up these ‘bro’ conversations. I don’t want to accept that these people actually exist…
Come to think of it, I think I might have stumbled on one of the bros’ blog earlier – so pathetic, it would explain a lot !
If my fifteen-year old sister makes fun of people her age for saying “obvs,” grownish men certain shouldn’t say it. Take note, bros.
Also, if you tell me this encounter was after we had lunch yesterday, I’m going to be very upset that I missed such spectacular eavesdropping.
I’m very glad I have never met these “bros” im pretty sure if I did I would have a foot in mouth moment.
I agree with Go Jules Go…. posers fade pretty quickly when its not like it is in a video game.
That aside, I chuckled even harder reading the exchange because in my head their voices were like Hans and Franz from the old Saturday Night Live skit
Can you imagine these two fighting in an actual war? Like, how many seconds would you give them on a battlefield? Two? Seven, maybe, if one of them hid behind the other?
My guess is they wouldn’t even make it to the battlefield…
They’d be too busy sucking down protein shakes and hitting on underage girls at the gym…… The war will have to be fought without these tough bros, for sure.
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition…” -Henry V, Shakespeare.
Yeah, these guys are like the dumbed down version of that.