#99—Make Fire Without Matches. Yeah I have a lighter.
101. Impaling a muslim who came after your women.
Man ping
I’ve done 90% of these, and I’m a (conservative) woman. These are survival skills. Children today don’t learn these. They learn about deviant sexuality and how terrible their country is.
The manly art of manliness, gets better with age.
I’ll add a couple more;
1.Know how to weld.
2.Learn to operate heavy equipment,tractors,dozers,and trackhoes.
3.Learn to move quickly and quietly in the woods.
“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.”
Time Enough For Love
Robert A Heinlein
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Good stuff.
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From the Notebooks of Lazarus Long:
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And still another— See to it that she has her own desk—then keep your hands off it!
And another—In a family argument, if it turns out you are right—apologize at once!
“God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends.” This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
When the fox gnaws—smile!
A “critic” is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased—he hates all creative, people equally.
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
Never frighten a little man. He’ll kill you.
Only a sadistic scoundrel—or a fool—tells the bald truth on social occasions.
Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again.
Know how and when to pray.
Why not “Sweat a pipe”?
#101 Improvise/invent
See MacGyver.
I can do pretty much all of those, to some extent. Foreign language, I only know a little bit of Pizza Spanish, from my time at Domino’s. Can’t play guitar because my left hand doesn’t work. I’ve taken lessons in the past and know how, I’m just physically unable to. Same thing with woodwinds now.
I’ve actually done, not merely know how to do— but DONE, all but three of these (including survive bear attack; he was a smallish one, but it still counts). The three I haven’t actually done are: #19 CPR (certified, but never had to do), #76 Whistle with fingers, #80 Ride a horse
I would add to that list “Sharpen a knife and your tools.”
I can do so on my Dad's truck but my wife's new car didn't even have a spare tire and I am told changing oil on some new cars is an exercise in frustration due to design features that make it a real chore.
Agree with the list except for two:
Sew a button (that’s what a tailor, or your wife, is for), and calm a crying baby (for the wife again).
Tried my hand at both, and i can truthfully say that they are not manly skills. If they were, I would have mastered them.
Lots of great reads at artofmanliness.com
I’m lacking the Y-chrom and I have trouble with #3, hanging a picture. Got some very heavy paintings and no drywall, just old plaster. I’ve noticed it doesn’t appreciate hammer activity and I can’t locate the studs.
Then if I do get the nails in, I need help lifting the painting anyway.