'If your blokes play like that next week, they'll get belted,' one said in reference to England's next World Cup assignment, against Australia in Melbourne on Sunday, after they were given the fright of their lives by a Papua New Guinea team inspired by the Hull KR veteran Stanley Gene.
If your dream cuisine involves liquid nitrogen and a rotary evaporator, Blumenthal's your bloke.
If your a skinny bloke, this doesn't matter too much, however minimize sugar intake and fat nonetheless, you will gain what bodybuilders refer to as dirty bulk if you eat without knowledge.
"If it's your professor bloke's disappearance, think nothing of it," Hemingway sneers, in Stephen Koch's retelling.
A lot of generalised machismo seems to be about asserting your superiority over that bloke over there; maybe if your entire aesthetic conveys "I could pummel the average human being into a stain on a gym floor" there is just less to prove.
And while you're at it, see if the bloke to your left is trying to flirt: the same survey found female bar staff were likely to ignore flirtatious male customers for the entire evening.
In 2005, when he first ran a Conservative campaign, his electioneering themes – "How would you feel if a bloke on early release attacked your daughter?" shouted one poster – were widely considered too crude, too foreign.
In this case probably the latter, since it appeared alongside slogans like, "It's not racist to impose limits on immigration," and "How would you feel if a bloke on early release attacked your daughter?" Not that Labour's own 2005 battle cry, Forward, Not Back, made much more sense.
But slogans like: "How would you feel if a bloke on early release attacked your daughter?" were blamed for giving the Tories the reputation of the "nasty party".
