It's outside of the tech genre but "the misc" was a famous forum for the "dude bro" 20 and 30 something crowd, whether they were into bodybuilding or not. There was a ton of activity in its heyday which included many insane threads.

Plenty of idiots posted there but oddly enough there were some smart people in the weeds and some of the content would be similar to what is posted here. That might be one of the reasons why they pulled the plug on it as there was a lot of content that wasn't "politically correct".