To find the Corporate Dad in the Med look kinda attractive?

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You know the type - past the tiny kids era, so maybe 40 plus. Moans about choosing the holiday but once here's there he loves it.
wheels out a straw trilby that he thinks is beachy, crew clothing polo - collar popped , and patterned swim shorts (maybe featuring a lobster design)
slight paunch. Good legs.
Will be prevailed upon by his 12-year-old daughter to get an ill advised bracelet from the place they're in. Was given a leather one for 40th but can't remember where it went.
retires to the beach bar at 12 to check his work emails without the family seeing. Gets a beer as soon as is respectable

I love this guy. He's so predictable

Shorts faded Coral. Polo navy blue …

I was wondering how my boss's holiday in the Algarve was going, and I think I've just found out.

Ha ha. They're everywhere

.. ah yes Mumsnet royalty. Something made me think of LaQueen the other day. Never seen in the same room as Amanda from AmandaLand. Also where has WorraLiberty gone?

Do we think corporate dad in the med is missing his gilet? He knows there’s a pair of bright orange/pink/maroon cords waiting for him in the years to come. Not for summer obviously.

Just a thought of cords makes me feel like sweaty

Fancy Giles Coren ? You should have gone to Specsavers..

You are basically describing my husband and i’m here for it!

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Snap, but yachting in Croatia in my case.

I fancy the pants off this guy. He’s likely to be Italian or Spanish and when at work wears a very smart suit that’s impeccable.

My DH is a bit young for Crew Clothing - he is mid 40s but I imagine that as older, no hat but similarities, yesterday was on bloody work phone calls when visiting a historical site!

My DH is a bit young for Crew Clothing - he is mid 40s but I imagine that as older, no hat but similarities, yesterday was on bloody work phone calls when visiting a historical site!

Oops ☝️

The poster with the 'early runs' is spot on IMO.

Checks himself out in mirrors and glass occassionally and tells himself he's still got it? 🤣

I work with loads of these guys.

It’s so bloody cringe isn’t it !

@Goldenbear without the modesty to think they might just cope? 😃

OMG this is DP but he has TWO Garmins, one for every day and one for Golf. Shoot me now

This is literally every man we know.

AI man needs a bigger belly and less pretty face. Also a friendship bracelet his daughter made him but that secretly makes him feel quite the rebel. Horrible toes too.

I've done research on the feet today
they're ok

😂 yes this is why. Although you’ll be sorry for that rudeness when the robots take over…

I wasn’t being entirely serious anyway.

LinkedIn is not a serious place.

Is this why I fancy Miles Jupp a bit?

Jesus wept. Performative human-ing is the worst. Tying hair up, closing a laptop, stepping up to parent your own actual child are not objectives or achievements. I hate LinkedIn. Forced to use it. Would chew my typing fingers off before posting that shite.

On my holiday on a French campsite OP- might be different demographic, I - a woman for my in my 50s - as we walked around. I did a double take at a dad on the deck of their chalet, shirtless, wearing normal chino shorts and serving some sort of barbecued meat to small children.

No mum in sight but the guy was ripped. Hence the double take, I’m veggie and the meat was a turn off - but the rest of the picture- wow, it was like an ad. Beautiful children but utterly perfect, slightly tired looking dad. I recovered myself and stopped rubbernecking and my DH wryly said, yeah I wondered when you’d notice Mr Hench-dad. We had a good laugh. Holidays provide the opportunity to have a glimpse into people’s lives outside of their normal contexts. I imagine hench dad normally feeds his children fully clothed and unobserved. Or is perhaps self absorbed normally and Mrs hench has taken herself off to the pool or spa and the only thing he knows how to cook is steak and he’s failed to give them any veg. And this incompetence makes him far less attractive in my eyes.