Things every man should have / be able to do

[KoKopeLLi]

It baffles me how whiney and clueless some men are these days. Maybe your dad didn't teach you the important things growing up but it's time to buck up and own those pubes on your sac! It's okay that you might gel your hair, wear cologne, or otherwise lean toward the metro sexual side but here's a rough guideline for all you wimps:

You don't really need much in your shower besides a bar of soap, razor, shampoo. period. Unless you share a bathroom with a woman.

Own a chainsaw or at the very least a decent hatchet

Have some knowledge in car/engine maintenance.

Know how to read a map, a paper map not a GPS

Be able to start a fire just about anytime anywhere. Bonus points for using only 1 match

Don't cry when there's no cream for the coffee. Drink it black

Have a deep fondness forJohnny Cash and Waylon Jennings

Own adecent set of tools even if its cheap crap from Home Depot

Mount your own fucking skis

[DeepHelmet]

Keep a bottle of whiskey in your house.
Know how to cook a steak without a meat thermometer.
Learn some framing skills.

[hutash]

I can agree with all but the Johnny Cash/Waylon Jennings part. Especially sense a "deep fondness" sounds a bit too much like a man crush.

[leroy jenkins]

Basic first aid, and be able to cook for oneself. I'll add at least a theoretical knowledge of firearms andhow to butcher an animal.

[KoKopeLLi]

Yes knowing how to field dress an animal or fillet a fish is important. Ordering red meat over medium or cooking it over 150 negates all manliness.

[bklyn]

Every man should know how to fuck and if they are straight, know how to eat pussy.

Space reserved for that special video posted a few years back

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[rideit]

Pretty sound logic, Tracy.

[KoKopeLLi]

You can be gay as hell if you want just know how to pound that shit proper.

Back on topic. You must love dogs or like them better than cats

[spook]

Every man should know how to fuck and if they are straight, know how to eat pussy.

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every man should be coachable. good luck.

[systemoverblow'd]

Don't cry when there's no cream for the coffee. Drink it black

You put cream in your coffee? I bet you put sugar in too. What a wuss.

[Jer]

Steak?

Shaving razors?

Cream?

Matches?

Is this one of those "man" things where you weaklings sit around a fire passing the "talking stick" and crying?

[KoKopeLLi]

Yes but first I still need help pitching my tent.


Aren't clips and magazines the same thing?

[Jer]

Every man should have at the very least two really good scars.


...and I don't mean on your soul.

[fishbenk]

Drive a stick

[Like a Boss]

A man should know that if he's changing a flat tire on a vehicle to break the lugs loose before jacking the vehicle up. He should also know that the rim might be rusted/frozen to the hub and might not budge even after removing the lugs, so he should know to bash the flat tire with the spare to break it loose.*








*Of course I knew all these things when I changed a tire a couple days ago. Of course...

[stuckathuntermtn]

A lot of these are things everyone should have/know how to do regardless of what's between your legs.
Like changing a flat tire.

Dammit, Like a Boss got to it first.

[BurnHard]

You should have been in at least one REAL fight in your life. You should know what it feels like, the fear, the adrenaline, the rush.

[HansJob]

Roll a fattie.

[leroy jenkins]

You should have been in at least one REAL fight in your life. You should know what it feels like, the fear, the adrenaline, the rush.

And you should not have started it over some stupid bullshit. Bonus points if your first was against the school bully who was both older and larger than you when you were in elementary school.

A man should be able to drive a car. I don't mean pilot one in a safe and sane respectable manner following every law, I mean he should be able to fucking drive it, not all the time, but he should at least be able to.

[leroy jenkins]

Every man should have at the very least two really good scars.


...and I don't mean on your soul.

I got trouble with this one as my skin seems to heal even very large scars completly away. 20somtehing stitches on my forehead is GONE as is the scar across my lip/jaw from getting clotheslined by a rope while skiing 40mph.

[Crock]

-Know how to give/take a punch
-Basic wilderness survival knowledge
-Tie a tie
-Push start a car
-Read a tape measure

[Hugh Conway]

Own a chainsaw or at the very least a decent hatchet

A man should know how to use an axe and a handsaw. And how to sharpen the handsaw and the axe.


And not care about cliche'd manhood

[leroy jenkins]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

Seems like a pretty good list to me.

[KoKopeLLi]

Open a beer bottle with a lighter

Make the whisky bottle whistle

How do you sharpen a hand saw?

[KoKopeLLi]

Poetry Leroy, poetry.

Put a dying animal out of misery whatever means necessary.