MOST Salford lads think they are pretty manly, but one has officially been crowned the manliest man in Britain.
With a macho job as a builder and the masculine hobby of climbing, Jason Pickles was a shoe-in for the title.
He was entered into the competition, organised by burger brand Rustlers, by girlfriend Anna Victoria although Jason admits his manliness prevents him from buying her flowers to say thanks.
Jason, of Barff Road, Weaste said: “I’m definitely not a metrosexual man, I’m not by any means backwards but men moisturising and going on sunbeds is not really my scene - although I’ve got nothing against it.
“Real men don’t wear pink. I’m not good at buying flowers and things like that but I never lie.
“Honesty is a manly thing and I’m not one to cover my tracks, I will front it out.”
The 31-year-old spends six months of the year building climbing walls and the other half travelling around the world proving how fearlessly macho he is by scaling huge heights.
As well as climbing mountains in Africa, South America and the Himalayas he, along with a friend, became the first person to do a free ascent of The Leaning Tower in the Yosemite National Park in California.
Jason added: “The Leaning Tower is 1,500 feet high cliff slightly overhanging and there’s a big waterfall to the left. It’s an old glacial island that’s been drained.
“Me and a friend climbed it using just our hands and feet and didn’t rest on anything else.
“There were ropes but they were just there as a back up.”
As a reward for his efforts in the quest for manliness Jason was officially crowned Britain’s Manliest Man by page three glamour girl Lucy Pinder.
Jason said: “The whole page three girl thing is not my thing at all. But she was very nice and down-to-earth.”
Lucy said: “Forget the metrosexual man who spends more time in the mirror than us, enjoys soppy films and loves to go shopping. What a girl really wants is a manly man like Jason.”

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Since we're still waiting, I decided to contact Lucy Pinder herself [via her management agency] to see if she would like to comment on this thread in defence of her career as a photographic-prostitute.
We'll all just have to watch this space to see if Lucy decides to 'trade licks' of Licence Vs Liberty, Lust Vs Love and Holiness Vs Harlotry with me. But let's just hope and pray that she renounces prostitution, not least for her own sake.
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I'm sure Lucy's an avid reader of the Salford Advertiser website so I'd like to extend to her an open invitation to come to Salford again to meet with the one who is truly the manliest man of all time. It would be a privilege to introduce Lucy to Him.
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And when Lucy comes I'll give her a good ticking off for her pornographic activities. I don't want to see her naked but I would in the future like to see her in the beauty of holiness. Lucy has the potential to be a very beautiful woman one day... and that would be a sight to behold indeed.
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You'd probably be interested in the stuff I submit which doesn't get published - such as what I wrote about the civil partnership article currently on this website - but as I say it doesn't get past the censor. Ask yourself why when all my facts are correct and what I post is legal... could it be that the Salford Advertiser isn't the innocent apolitical local rag with no agenda that it claims?
I've previously been criticised on this website for 'grandstanding' and advised to take my talents to 'bigger' national websites. Now you're accusing me of 'hiding' on this website as though I can't face the heat in other forums! My 'enemies' can't have it both ways! I eat little argumentative scrotes like you for breakfast! You can come to me here if you want to 'take me on'.
This one's about pornography. If you've got something good to say about pornography then say it here and we'll have the debate here (if the website will allow me freedom of speech). I don't need to go to silly argument websites for those who argue for the sake of it because that's not what I'm doing. When I speak on moral issues like this one I know I'm right and I don't need to debate that fact. On this website I'm effectively standing up in the local community and speaking a simple truth to the people. Since you want to take me on - not the other way round (and I don't need to take you on because I'm unquestionably right) - you'll have to come to me because I'm not going to waste my time on silly websites such as you frequent.
I'm well aware that the presence of a Christian writer blowing away all the postmodern secular humanist orthodoxy that this paper stands for causes the paper and people like you distress but it's not my fault if I'm right and you're all wrong every time about moral issues. This paper has already proved to me that it doesn't allow true freedom of speech but it will keep up the pretence and allow me through with some posts. Eventually it'll probably ban me from the website because that's its best option: it can't beat me in a fair fight so it will just silence me - just like it does with an awful lot of voices and causes in Salford which never get any airtime in this paper.
Go and get your little army of left-wingers, atheists, wishy-washy liberals etcetera from arguing amongst each other on websites for fools and come and take me on here if you want to take me on. Me versus you and your army. You've got nothing to say when it comes to the big issues of the day - only Christianity has the solutions to today's problems. You've had your secular humanist experiment the last fifty years and the results speak for themselves that this country has gone to the dogs. Pornography and its consequences is just one example.
If you want to debate pornography we'll do it here. I promise you you'll be blown away though. I know that and you know that. And if I don't appear with a reply you'll know it's not because I'm running scared but that I've been censored by Stalin who won't allow the truth through.
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See Richard, you can write any old tosh about anything if you want. Why not bang your drum of irrelevance on Comment Is Free? Scared someone might actually read it?
GO ON JASE!
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