What's the one "manly" thing you don't know how to do?

[Kenno]

For me it's mixing cement, ol man was a bricky but I never got around to learning the trade or mixing cement.

[Jim]

Concrete is three parts sand one part cement. Thats the basic mix, aggregate is added based on the use.
Most jobs you can just order the mix and have it delivered.

What project are you contemplating?

[Kenno]

Concrete is three parts sand one part cement. Thats the basic mix, aggregate is added based on the use.
Most jobs you can just order the mix and have it delivered.

What project are you contemplating?

Thanks for the help Jim. I wasn't seeking for advice just some admissions.

Boy some of you guys are very good natured, makes me feel embarrased to be here. Next thing ya know I'll have Jimbo over mixing cement for me new garage while I'm snoring away at 12 o'clock midday?

BTW Jimmy, you got any "manly" things you don't know how to do?

Thanks anyways,

[danster.shay]

I don't know when to lie and tell my wife that she's right.

[Kenno]

I don't know when to lie and tell my wife that she's right.

when it's just about bed time danster, then she's always right.

[trumpetchris]

I haven't learned how to change my car's oil or field dress a deer. The first one is a little more important than the second. But, those are two manly tasks. I've lived in an apartment since I've been driving, but when I get a hose, I'd like to be able to change my oil.

[danek]

I don't know when to lie and tell my wife that she's right.

I was at a couple's 60th wedding anniversary and when the gentle old groom was handed a microphone and asked the secret to such a long and successful marriage, he replied, "Well son, when you're wrong, admit it. And when you're right, shut the hell up."

[Biffo]

Can't ride a horse :rolleyes:

[paulboeck]

I've never learned to appreciate Scotch or any other whiskey really. Can I still be a B&B member now that I've outed myself?

[Straight Arrow]

I have never been able to produce a good, loud and shrill whistle of the kind that a real man might employ to call his dog from a mile off.

[Tolduonce]

Can't throw a baseball for distance with accuracy. It's either one or the other.

[ProphetNoir]

Here's a biggie for ya. I can't really drive a straight shift at all. I used to do OK when I was learning to drive decades and decades (and decades) ago. But now I can't get into first gear from a complete stop to save my life.

[sparkchaser]

What's the one "manly" thing you don't know how to do?

How to kill a raging grizzly bear with my bare hands.

[Kenno]

How to kill a raging grizzly bear with my bare hands.

you take the bear in an headlock and twist the neck in a fast motion like in the commando movies. once you get it in the headlock it'll be beggin for a tap out.

[KarthVader]

I've never gone hunting or fishing. I've fired a gun before, but only at targets.

[KarthVader]

Can't ride a horse :rolleyes:

One of my favorite activities. Haven't ridden in quite sometime, but would love to get back into it.

[RichGem]

Can't drive manual transmission (never learned).

[luvmysuper]

I haven't learned how to change my car's oil or field dress a deer. The first one is a little more important than the second. But, those are two manly tasks. I've lived in an apartment since I've been driving, but when I get a hose, I'd like to be able to change my oil.

:lol::lol::lol:Can't you get a hose even if you live in an apartment? Anyway, just drain it directly into a pan, you don't really need a hose.:lol::lol::lol:

[TinFish]

The ONE manly thing I don't know how to do? I wish it was only one! I guess the main thing is that I was never much of an outdoors man, and that covers a lot of manly stuff.

[ClubmanRob]

I can't whistle or swim. Come to think of it, I don't really equate either with manliness. Why whistle when you can grunt? Why swim when you can punch?

[RichGem]

I can't whistle or swim. Come to think of it, I don't really equate either with manliness. Why whistle when you can grunt? Why swim when you can punch?

Prolly 'cuz punching won't help a whole lot when you need to swim.

[sparkchaser]

you take the bear in an headlock and twist the neck in a fast motion like in the commando movies. once you get it in the headlock it'll be beggin for a tap out.

Thank you kindly, good sir.

[blackfoot]

I've never learned to appreciate Scotch or any other whiskey really. Can I still be a B&B member now that I've outed myself?

Me neither. :frown:


I have never been able to produce a good, loud and shrill whistle of the kind that a real man might employ to call his dog from a mile off.

I can't whistle at all. Watching Lauren Bacall, I so want to.

[ClubmanRob]

Prolly 'cuz punching won't help a whole lot when you need to swim.

Rich, there's no scenario on Earth that punching won't solve. :biggrin:

[blackfoot]

Rich, there's no scenario on Earth that punching won't solve. :biggrin:

Married, are you?

[ClubmanRob]

Married, are you?

:biggrin:

[Alacrity59]

I've never tried fly fishing. . . the idea has always had appeal to me.

[RichGem]

Rich, there's no scenario on Earth that punching won't solve. :biggrin:

Hmmm, well, I'm not so sure how punching would solve the problem of drowning, but I'm pretty sure the ability to swim would solve that problem.

:001_tongu

[ClubmanRob]

Hmmm, well, I'm not so sure how punching would solve the problem of drowning, but I'm pretty sure the ability to swim would solve that problem.

:001_tongu

Once I fell out of a small airplane while flying over the Pacific. (I was fighting a powerful drug lord... but anyway) and after I knocked him unconscious and sent the plane flying into a mountain, I fell in the ocean. I couldn't swim, but I punched my way to the top. And stayed afloat due to sheer willpower. And punching.

[Kratos]

Once I fell out of a small airplane while flying over the Pacific. (I was fighting a powerful drug lord... but anyway) and after I knocked him unconscious and sent the plane flying into a mountain, I fell in the ocean. I couldn't swim, but I punched my way to the top. And stayed afloat due to sheer willpower. And punching.

I punched a shark and MADE him give me a ride to the surface, then to the nearest beach. Don't laugh, Angelina Jolie punched a shark in Tomb Raider, and she only weighs as much as my leg. Besides, it was too far for me to swim. I don't float for anything.

[Mr. Scruffy]

Can't drive manual transmission (never learned).

Me neither. Or ride a motorcycle.

[aquilla]

i cant read or write :) seriously though im incapable of reading a "proper" map, without satnav i probably couldnt make it to the nearest city.

[Mr Peat]

Learned alot because mom like house that had "potential." So I learned to roofing, plumbing, and even putting in a well and an out house when we lived on the river. But never learned electrical, field dressing large game and finally, working on vehicles.

I know how to change oil and basic maintenance of a car. But when it comes to working on one, forget it. Even the shop teacher in high school saw I was not good at that while my brother was a whiz working on a vehicle.

[82R100]

Can't catch a baseball.

Or, for that matter, just about anything thrown to (or at) me. :frown:

- Chris

[Kratos]

I can't tie most of those nifty knots from that thread a while back. I also can't do the super-loud whistle. I can carry a great tune, though. Tone deaf I am not.

[sparkchaser]

I also can't field strip a M-4 blindfolded or make my own meth.

[Fnord5]

I think in general, it is not that I don't know how to do something, just that I have never been given the chance to do it.

Give me a deer and a sharp knife, I am 98% sure I can gut it, dress it, and cut it into chops:w00t:
Give me a couple hours with an M4, and I'll have it down pat.

I have stripped a 1911, and a Baby Eagle with my eyes closed, and put them back together, just to see if I could.

[chfair]

know how to do just about everything mentioned so far (not meth and probably not the bear), something i do not know how to do is replace drywall and mud it and everything.

[Fnord5]

know how to do just about everything mentioned so far (not meth and probably not the bear), something i do not know how to do is replace drywall and mud it and everything.

Can you swing a hammer?

[Cutter]

Burp the alphabet.

[chfair]

Can you swing a hammer?

last i checked yes. i have removed drywall and painted it. hanging it does not seems difficult just never done it and not sure how one does the muding.

[pablo_h]

Always had a roof above me
Always paid the rent
but I've never set foot inside a tent
Can't build a fire to save my life
I lied about being the outdoor type

i've never slept out underneath the stars,
the closest that i came to that was one time my car
broke down for an hour in the suburbs at night
i lied about being the outdoor type.

Too scared to let you know you knew what you were looking for
I lied until I fit the bill god bless the great indoors
I lied about being the outdoor type
I've never owned a sleeping bag never rode a mountain bike

i can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend
what if somethings on tv and its never shown again
its just as well i'm not invited i'm afraid of heights
i lied about being the outdoor type

Never learned to swim can't grow a beard or even fight
I lied about being the outdoor type.

:D


Guns aren't big down here, so I've never owned one, held one, maintained one, repaired one, or fired one. Never hunted either because of that and the fact that there isn't any forests to hunt for anything where I live either. Though I've been sucessful twice killing 'roos with a car so far ;)
I've been camping, fishing, climbing, motorcycling on trails, can fix my own car and house, chop down a tree, grow a vege garden and all the other mundane stuff.
I'm working on the rest, but to quote:
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

[Brodirt]

I'm bad at knots too.

I no longer am able to open a pry off beer cap without a church key. I used to be able to remove one with the power of my mind when in college, though.

I still rebel against authority. That's why I work for myself.

I am uncomfortable while flying. Not fearful, just concerned beyond what logic dictates.

[strat1117]

I don't know how to drive a Formula One race car, dag nab it!

[The Mick]

I can't have just one or two drinks enjoy them and go home. I just keep going therefor I don't drink at all anymore.

[chfair]

I can't have just one or two drinks enjoy them and go home. I just keep going therefor I don't drink at all anymore.

that sir i think is the most manly thing listed thus far. therefore you will have to come back with a manly thing you do not know how to do. :wink2:

[Bertilak]

Just watched Bear Grylls in Man vs. Wild last night. Turns out there's lots of stuff I can't do!

I always liked Survivor Man because I think I could do the things Les Stroud does, including his mistakes!

With Bear Grylls it's different. It's nice to know that a chimney climb can get you out of a cave, or jumping off of a 50 foot cliff into the pool at the base of a waterfall then body-surfing down some white-water rapids will get you home. Unfortunately I'd still be standing there wishing I could do what I knew needed to be done!

[jzono1]

Kill.

[Stubblefield]

Well, I never mastered the transmission of an 18 wheeler, nor have I ever piloted an aircraft or used C4. I also cannot walk a tightrope or cure meat. But I can:

Brew beer
Operate heavy equipment
Sail
Hunt/fish
Build/repair a house
Repair a car (former mechanic)
Write a thesis
Give a presentation

More importantly, I know my limitations.

[Whitmore]

I don't drink. Not a sip. Not even in the pubs.

[dpm802]

I am inept at most home-improvement projects ... I can handle simple repairs, but I can't build anything from scratch or paint a room or run wiring or install a garbage disposal.

I know how to do car repairs, but choose not to. I keep up with routine maintenance by myself like changing light-bulbs and wipers, adding oil and topping off trans-fluid, but I take it to the mechanic if anything needs to be changed. I draw the line at jacking it up and getting underneath the car. If I can reach it from the top of the engine compartment, then its OK.

I have no interest in sports ... the only time I pay attention to anything that athletes are doing is when it makes front-page news. Like when Cal Ripken played his 2,131st consecutive game. Or when someone gets arrested for drugs or murder or beating their wife. Other than that, I don't keep up with current scores, I don't know who plays for what team, and I'm just barely cognizant about which teams play in the Super Series and the World Bowl.

[The Knize]

Cannot for the life of me lay brick or stone. Cannot get the motar to stick. I assume that I cannot mud dry wall either. That stuff is truly best left for those that really know what they are doing and are highly experienced anyway. Like doing body work on a car. Have I done it? Was it pretty terrible looking? I would say so. Its not like the bondo fell off the car though.

On the other hand, I can stone swing a hammer, but only because that is something I did a whole lot of. Not sure I could set a door though. If I never have to field dress a deer again, I can live with that. If I had to do it again, I might need to look at some drections. I can do most of the stuff listed, but very much of it very well. I sure as heck do not have a good left jab. Probably do not have any kind of a good punch. My golf swing is erratic and awful looking. Can barely hit a baseball or even softball for some reason. Can handle a lacrosse stick though and put a spiral on a football. I guess I have never driven a semi or operated heavy equipment. I am an okay shot with a rifle, I guess. But I seem terrible at skeet.

Am a terrible, impatient, probably transparent, poker player.

[rm71]

Fishing and useless at any handyman work around the house.

[Wilpar76]

I have never been able to produce a good, loud and shrill whistle of the kind that a real man might employ to call his dog from a mile off.

My father tried and tried to teach this to me but I still could not get it. I can whistle, but not the two finger shrill whistle.

Also, I cannot climb a tree. For whatever reason I have never been good at it.

[Legion]

I have never fleaned a whale nor lit a fart.

[norman931]

I don't care for guns. I had ribbons for marksmanship while in the service, but I've never been hunting or even target shooting in the years since. I have a shotgun that belonged to my great-grandfather, but I don't even keep any shells for it.
And, I'm afraid of chainsaws. :redface:

[thatguy1807]

I want to learn how to weld.

[blackfoot]

I am hoping to learn some basic blacksmithing.

[LeFlaneur]

Apologize.

[The Nid Hog]

I can't feign modesty. But I'd like to learn.

[Blondie]

I can't whistle or swim. Come to think of it, I don't really equate either with manliness. Why whistle when you can grunt? Why swim when you can punch?

Umm, cuz if you are in 40 feet of water, try punching and see how that works out for you!:lol:

[FreezerBurns]

For the life of me I cannot but would like to be able to:

Parallel park an 18 wheeler.
Shoot a turkey with a bow and arrow.
Watch the Godfather from beginning to end in one sitting.
Eat steak tartare.
Make leather.

[ClubmanRob]

Umm, cuz if you are in 40 feet of water, try punching and see how that works out for you!:lol:

You must have missed this (http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1416691&postcount=29) post. :rolleyes:

[The Knize]

Yeah, can't weld or smith. My Grandad was a blacksmith. Can barely whistle, regular or two fingers. Can tie a bow tie, if I look at instructions.

[Kenno]

Umm, cuz if you are in 40 feet of water, try punching and see how that works out for you!:lol:

lmao.

[Kenno]

i'm pretty crappy at knots also, get myself in a knot just thinking about it.

[DanOK]

I can't tie a bow tie. I have one black clip-on for my tux and I am terrified that someone will pull it off at some function and expose me as the only person in the room that has to wear a clip-on.

[mbrooks]

Burp the alphabet.

I have been known to get to P.

[Koss]

Get lost and refuse to ask for directions. :rolleyes:

[40_Caliber]

His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows where abouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below.

[blackfoot]

I can't tie a bow tie. I have one black clip-on for my tux and I am terrified that someone will pull it off at some function and expose me as the only person in the room that has to wear a clip-on.

In my experience, most people either wear a clip on or the kind that wraps around. When I decided I wanted a real bow tie, I had trouble finding one.

[blackfoot]

His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows where abouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below.

That is one of my all-time favourite movies ever!

[40_Caliber]

That is one of my all-time favourite movies ever!

One of my favorites too. Somehow seems appropriate for this mans man post.

.40

[galopede]

I was never good at any form of sport. Football, tennis, golf, cricket etc all bore the pants off me!

Also as someone mentioned above, I've never wrestled a grizzly bear. No real opportunity for that in the UK and the zoos don't like it...

Gareth

[blackfoot]

I was never good at any form of sport. Football, tennis, golf, cricket etc all bore the pants off me!

Also as someone mentioned above, I've never wrestled a grizzly bear. No real opportunity for that in the UK and the zoos don't like it...

Gareth

Stinking zoos.

I admit, I can't play any sports. I am very fond of the outdoors and enjoy being in the wilderness, or as close as we have. In fact, I leave next weekend on a vacation canoeing into nowhere. But I don't play any sports.

[The Mick]

that sir i think is the most manly thing listed thus far. therefore you will have to come back with a manly thing you do not know how to do. :wink2:

Touché.
Well than I must give it some thought.:idea:.................................... .......................................Nope nothing

[Bertilak]

His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows where abouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below.

"Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll get you another!"

[40_Caliber]

"Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll get you another!"

Haven't seen anyone pass by recent, have you?

Nobody's gone in front of me. Can't say what's happened behind me, though.

The Injuns put you here?

T'weren't Mormons. A Chief, name of Mad Wolf. Nice fella, don't talk a hell of a lot. Say, you wouldn't have an extra hat on you, would you? Shade's getting' scarce in these parts.

[blackfoot]

I didn't know they'd be Flatheads.

[40_Caliber]

I didn't know they'd be Flatheads.

Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?

Yep. Found him froze to a tree.

Damn! He was a wild one, old Hatchet Jack. He was livin' two year in a cave up on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him.

[blackfoot]

Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?

Yep. Found him froze to a tree.

Damn! He was a wild one, old Hatchet Jack. He was livin' two year in a cave up on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him.

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

[The Nid Hog]

OK--I'll admit to welding. When I was on sea duty, one of the HTs gave me a basic lesson in welding while he was fixing something in my office. It was very cool and I wanted to learn more but I never got around to it.

[ratcheer]

There are a helluva lot more than one manly thing I don't know how to do. :rolleyes:

Tim

[jones2289]

I don't know how to weld, hang drywall, or roof a house, but want to learn all of the above.

[taprater]

Never learned how to play guitar but am in a very slow learning proccess now of learning it.

[CookieMan]

Welding, roofing a house, and drywall ain't so hard to learn. Now sports...that's a bear of another color. I can't play 'em for the life of me. I'll shoot skeet all day long and whine the next of a fetched up shoulder, but I can't throw a dang ball.

[blantyre]

Make small talk about sports and sound remotely convincing that I really give a hoot.

[mretzloff]

I cannot fix most things and I do not know anything about tools.

[The Mick]

I'm still thinking. :a52:

[Stubblefield]

Apologize.I had to look that up.

[The Knize]

Welding, roofing a house, and drywall ain't so hard to learn. Now sports...that's a bear of another color. I can't play 'em for the life of me. I'll shoot skeet all day long and whine the next of a fetched up shoulder, but I can't throw a dang ball.

Well, if you can shoot it with a shot gun, you probably are not going to have to hit it with a rock, so you are further along the manliness scale.

I seem to be able to shoot pool adequately lately for some reason. Used to utterly have the yips for that.