Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 07 November, 2013, 07:55:38 pm
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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/nov/03/thigh-gap-pressure-point-women-self-esteem
Strangely, despite being at the top end of "normal" BMI (about 24) and having cyclist's legs, I have the much-sought after Toblerone tunnel. Men must be different. So, how common is it? Not bothered about sex, age or anything. It tends to be very obvious when wearing cycling shorts.
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Is a Toblerone tunnel the same as a cake hole or is it to do with Mars Bars and rock stars?
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Erm. I think if you can walk from A to B without your thighs going "WE'RE WALKING, WE'RE WALKING...", then you don't have one...
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:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :hand:
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Actually, I think the cycling shorts may be *making* the tunnel by holding everything back. So actually, it depends what you're wearing. The Guardian article didn't specify no clothes, which obviously doesn't work for men since there is stuff in the way.
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I have the much-sought after Toblerone tunnel.
What a delightful phrase - I'd not heard that before ::-)
Do you ever feel like you want other men to put anything in your Toblerone tunnel, Roger?
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I voted "yes", obv.
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Mine is between my ankles.
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Mine actually has a toblerone in it. I dropped it earlier and couldn't find it.
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I'm presuming that you have to hold your bits up in one hand and hold the mirror in the other, or have a good friend to hand?
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I have the much-sought after Toblerone tunnel.
What a delightful phrase - I'd not heard that before ::-)
Do you ever feel like you want other men to put anything in your Toblerone tunnel, Roger?
Ah, it's one of those potentially life-changing errors if you confuse your Toblerone tunnel with your Bournville boulevard.
I'm not convinced by the original article; I think it's more a function of individual hip width, and what sort of clothes yu're wearing, than body weight. I never knew it was the latest teenage fad.
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Does the Toblerone Tunnel lead to the Hershey highway?
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Ah, it's one of those potentially life-changing errors if you confuse your Toblerone tunnel with your Bournville boulevard.
Perhaps intercrural stimulation is back in fashion.
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Was it ever out of fashion?
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Not in the circles we move in, clearly :D
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The prize presented for discovering a well formed Toblerone tunnel is a delicious chocolate starfish.
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The intercrural1 gap is enhanced by tension in the thigh muscles and a posture thrusting the pelvis rearward. It's clearly a mistake to assess yours without wearing your highest heels, and moving any dangly bits aside.
1. A word much beloved of Nelly, my A-level English teacher, one of the world's natural celibates. In hindsight I think he was attempting to teach us how to indulge our homosexual urges, if any, without committing the sin of buggery. After that he went off to Wales to be a priest, not because he disapproved of the women then newly being ordained in the English church but because their very impressive CVs meant he wouldn't be able to compete in the job market. He did marry eventually, possibly for the improved catering.
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Does the Toblerone Tunnel lead to the Hershey highway?
They meet at the Rowntree Roundabout, which you can avoid by taking the Cadbury cycleway although that ends with you rolling in the mud of Fry's Field at Five Boys' Farm.
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What a load of crap. I've not had a thigh gap since puberty (and I was skinny as a rake then).
I remember one friend excitedly recounting to me that she had developed a thigh gap after taking up running a couple of years ago, so the concept has been around a while.
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One amusing comment on the original web story was "yes, because I had rickets".
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Except for bird-built ladies (the likes of Annie, perhaps), I expect the ladies of this parish to trade "thigh gap" for "dem quads". :thumbsup:
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Speaking for myself, despite not getting in the miles that I used to, I am fairly confident that my quads remain as skullcrushingly capable as they ever were :)
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I seem to have a gap but it's more pencil sized than toblerone
Must track down the pictures of Robyn Lawley wearing a corset to check what the issue is....exactly
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I don’t even have a Caramac slice.
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Ah, it's one of those potentially life-changing errors if you confuse your Toblerone tunnel with your Bournville boulevard.
You're thinking of Bournville Lane. It's the one with the big dark hole in it.
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And anyway, Toberlones are shit – not the actual chocolate but the physical shape. Billy Connolly did a routine about hurting yourself trying to eat one.
It did actually take me years to realise that you could break off each ‘alp’ section before eating them rather than try to penetrate the roof of your mouth with chocolate.
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I don’t even have a Caramac slice.
Mmmm..Caramac....
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Even when you break off a piece, you find out that Toblerone is made out of unpleasant-tasting chocolate.
And they put nuts in it! In chocolate! Can you believe? :o :o :o
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I'm sure my then boyfriend told me that he'd been told that women with a thigh gap were not virgins…
This was around 1985.
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I once bought a 4.5 kg Toblerone from Basel airport*. That was hefty enough to fill anyone's gap. To be honest, until this thread I never knew there was such a thing as a Toblerone tunnel or that it was supposedly desirable. My courting days are a long way behind me, but I was pretty happy if the object of my affection didn't apply for a restraining order. By the time you're inspecting her undercarriage for airworthiness, it's all a bit late.
It's the middle of the afternoon and I'm in an open plan office today, so I'm not moving my undercarriage to check if I've been justly blessed. Plus there's no Toblerone in the vending machine. I could try a Yorkie bar.
(*I swear there are people in our office who only ever eat when we bring stuff back from our travels, given their pirahna-like descent on any food item I lug back. The only stuff that stops them is the weird Japanese bean-paste sweets and pretty much anything I find in China.)
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Are we talking about wrapped or unwrapped Toblerones? :-\
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I went off Toblerone after discovering it contains honey. Not because I don't like honey, but because all I can think about when I'm eating it now is honey. It's just a bit too much honey, honey.
Yes, tight cycling shorts increase my thigh gap - from a Fry's Chocolate Cream tunnel to a Yorkie Bar tunnel.
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There you go - the secret to achieving a thigh gap is to take up cycling. As long as you wear tight shorts. They're the corset of the 21st century for fashion victims.
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I would have thought the risk of ostracism from misunderstood melted chocolate between the thighs makes the toblerone a very dangerous measure.
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I would have thought the risk of ostracism from misunderstood melted chocolate between the thighs makes the toblerone a very dangerous measure.
Wot? Are you mad?
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That reminds me of a fun game to be had with individual segments of a Terry's Chocolate Orange...
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That reminds me of a fun game to be had with individual segments of a Terry's Chocolate Orange...
... which annoyingly don't fit properly in the valleys of a Toblerone. They're my 2 favourite christmas treats, i soo wish they would get on :(
Glad you've found a use for the Orange.