Construction worker at the Hoover Dam, USA, 1931

Thanks, now I'm gay for construction workers

All my life I thought I was straight.

He's pretty cute, ngl. Sometimes you just gonna admire the human body. ^(and worry less about labels!)
- Who said I am worried? Just confused :)

I don't know about y'all, but this man's certainly erected a structure in my pants

He works hard
And he plays hard
...... 🎵 (laser light show starts, disco ball comes down, flame bursts erupt, funky dance beat plays)... everybody dance now 🎵!!!!
- Dad? Why did you bring me to a gay dam?

Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of OSHA violations

Works in both this context and in the original

Aww man, thats the body shape I want, not overkill, just fit and lean. Maybe this year...

Go shovel concrete for hours/days/weeks on end and start your day with oatmeal and bacon, and end it with beef stew and a whiskey. Drink bucket water throughout.
- You had me at bucket water
- bucket water
  So what you're saying is that a tapeworm is essential...?
- And all this time, I thought it was hose water that maxed gains.
- The whiskey is the most important part
16 tons, what'll you get?

My great grandfather worked on that dam!

I don’t think that’s him, though.

Your possibly grandfather is fuckin sexy

I'm CIS, but dang that guy turns me on. What? I'm just a man and this fella is hot

He cerlainly is! But in this case the fact that you're cis is not really relevant, it's more the fact that you're heterosexual, which is not the same :)
Hehe, you can be cis and still like men/women/everything else. Gender is different than sexuality :)
I'm about as straight as it gets but yeah that dude is impressive to look at.

Gotta protect that noggin.

The Hoover Dam project was one of the first (the first?) where hard hats were mandatory for workers on-site!
- 'Make sure you wear the hard hats, boys. The shirts can go, though, and underwear...yeah, lets skip that as well. You should all be, uh, comfortable'

I’d hit it and I don’t even like dudes.

More like you'd let him hit it.

so many ppl lost their lives trying to build that damn thing

Many from lowest-bid contractor fuckery, no less.

I came here fully expecting some thirst but pleasantly surprised that the dam quenched it.

"Damn" is exactly what I said upon seeing this picture
I think you got here a little too early. The dam has ruptured and we're soaking wet. 🥵

Concrete zaddy

The rizz is eternal

Oh my goodness great gran-daddy 🥵🤤

Fucking hell

People need to lay off the pizza and do some exercise, any exercise.

So many people are so overweight. That's how most young guys should look!

Fuckin' A! My god, I'm about to be 53 and that was me most of my life. 6-months of hard work would put be back in that zone.
Kids: Y'all are fat. And yes, it's your fault. Yes, you have control over this situation. No, you are not powerless. No, that's not fat shaming.
- Kids: It’s your fault for not performing grueling manual labor 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no worker protections, in the Mojave fuckin Desert, whilst contending with food scarcity, during the Great Depression.
  Shame on all y’all not-willing-to-die pudgekins.
I'm Gen X. It's amazing when I go back and watch shows and movies from my childhood that had a token fat character in them, because that character looks like an average person today. Look at Chunk from the Goonies. He was considered fat enough to have a nickname like Chunk, but he looks like the majority of kids I see now.
- Have you seen Bridget Jones Diary? Rene Zellweger is supposed to represent what a fat woman in the 90s looked like. Fuckin hell.

6 foot 4 and not an ounce of fat!

"Baby .... I wanna burst open your dam ..... and watch your river flow"

Funky Walker, Dirty Talker

I wonder what he's up to these days

Patrolling the Mojave while wishing for a nuclear winter.

Ever see old photos from around this era of what a muscled attractive man is supposed to look like? It's always some barrel chested fool with a mustache and piss poor muscle definition. If history is to be believed, women would have taken one look at this construction worker and (classism aside) thought "ew no thanks".