Is the whipper-snipper the most reviled garden tool of all?

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Steve Meacham was stunned at a recent lunch when a group of former alpha males switched the conversation from sport to their own main failing in life | OPINION

Men – particularly older men – are notoriously reluctant to share their emotions or inner secrets. Thank goodness, otherwise we wouldn’t have the English literature canon from Jane Austen onwards. Or Hugh Grant’s movie career, come to that.

So I was stunned at a recent lunch when a group of former alpha males switched the conversation from sport to their own main failing in life. Impotence? Absence during the sleepless early years of parenthood? Non-attendance in budgie smugglers at school swimming carnivals?Every male around the table confessed to the same fear about their manhood they thought they would take to their grave. An abiding hatred of the humble whipper-snipper.

 

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“former alpha males”. My heart bleeds for them 😂😂😂

no.

'Men–particularly older men–are notoriously reluctant to share their emotions or inner secrets.' Sure.🤪 And the leaf-blower is the most stupid machine ever invented, followed closely by the portable Bluetooth speaker.

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