25 skills a guy needs to know how to do

[OceanObsessed]

. . .And to correctly anticipate & provide for every need, expectation and mood of your Girlfriend or Wife.

How is this possible when they are always changing their minds?

 

[CrabCake]

With the exception of being a good spouse and father, the only skill a man needs:

know how to use a MASTERCARD

The old saying, a fox knows many good tricks, the hedgehog one GREAT trick, still applies. So I guess, in 21st century America, the one great skill is still

1) make enough money to have other people bleed your brakes, filet your fish, unstick your car, etc

And before people criticize me for being a elitist snob, take note of some the skills listed in the OP --- hooking up your own HDTV? If you can afford an HDTV, you can spring for the nominal installation charge. And who the heck still does their own oil changes? Only someone who WANTS to... it doesn't take a Rockefeller to afford an oil change, so why is that an essential skill? Cut up a fish? Why don't we include "starting a fire with flint" "building an igloo" and "splitting logs" while we are in the Grizzly Adams paradigm.

Oh, and by the way, for the single guy---

who do you think a woman really wants, the guy who can do all this survivalist stuff or the guy who can afford to have others do it for him????????

QED

A little serious in this humorous post aren't we?

 

[OceanObsessed]

43. Buy a car without getting taken for a ride
44. Dock a boat
45. Tie a bowline
46. Kill roaches with a paper towel
47. Hotwire a car

 

[Bryan]

With the exception of being a good spouse and father, the only skill a man needs:

know how to use a MASTERCARD

The old saying, a fox knows many good tricks, the hedgehog one GREAT trick, still applies. So I guess, in 21st century America, the one great skill is still

1) make enough money to have other people bleed your brakes, filet your fish, unstick your car, etc

And before people criticize me for being a elitist snob, take note of some the skills listed in the OP --- hooking up your own HDTV? If you can afford an HDTV, you can spring for the nominal installation charge. And who the heck still does their own oil changes? Only someone who WANTS to... it doesn't take a Rockefeller to afford an oil change, so why is that an essential skill? Cut up a fish? Why don't we include "starting a fire with flint" "building an igloo" and "splitting logs" while we are in the Grizzly Adams paradigm.

Oh, and by the way, for the single guy---

who do you think a woman really wants, the guy who can do all this survivalist stuff or the guy who can afford to have others do it for him????????

QED

Kinesthetic therapy for the desk-bound-by-day.

 

[PoseidonsGirl1106]

With the exception of being a good spouse and father, the only skill a man needs:

know how to use a MASTERCARD

The old saying, a fox knows many good tricks, the hedgehog one GREAT trick, still applies. So I guess, in 21st century America, the one great skill is still

1) make enough money to have other people bleed your brakes, filet your fish, unstick your car, etc

And before people criticize me for being a elitist snob, take note of some the skills listed in the OP --- hooking up your own HDTV? If you can afford an HDTV, you can spring for the nominal installation charge. And who the heck still does their own oil changes? Only someone who WANTS to... it doesn't take a Rockefeller to afford an oil change, so why is that an essential skill? Cut up a fish? Why don't we include "starting a fire with flint" "building an igloo" and "splitting logs" while we are in the Grizzly Adams paradigm.

Oh, and by the way, for the single guy---

who do you think a woman really wants, the guy who can do all this survivalist stuff or the guy who can afford to have others do it for him????????

QED

What!

I suppose you have the Maytag man on speed dial?

C'mon......If this is true....

Then why do hear even the well to do guys complain and say....

"If you want it done right......do it yourself"

(haven't YOU ever said that?)

There is nothing worse than putting your HDTV or Mercedes in the hands of a minimum wage moron and have something go wrong. You think they care?

I think all men should have the knowledge of many skills on many levels no matter what the cost...if at the very least....you can supervise.

And besides.....even the richest men still have to make an appointment....who likes waiting....its extremely inconvienant....what is the price of THAT on your mastercard?

 

[shakeybrainsurgeon]

What!

I suppose you have the Maytag man on speed dial?

C'mon......If this is true....

Then why do hear even the well to do guys complain and say....

"If you want it done right......do it yourself"

(haven't YOU ever said that?)

There is nothing worse than putting your HDTV or Mercedes in the hands of a minimum wage moron and have something go wrong. You think they care?

I think all men should have the knowledge of many skills on many levels no matter what the cost...if at the very least....you can supervise.

I don't know who repairs your appliances and fixes your cars, but mine don't work for minimum wage. And they aren't morons. The moron is the guy who thinks he can do his own brake job once a year better than the people who do five or six of them a day.

The moron is the guy who breaks his neck putting up his own satellite dish (I've seen it) or the guy who sawed off his own arm cutting bathroom tiles with a circular saw doing his own bathroom (took care of that guy too). Both of them thought they had skills. Now they can't even cut their own steaks.

Or the boyfriend of one of our office staff who decided to do some radiator work on his truck (multiple burns) or the weekend chain saw expert (cut femoral artery) or one of our local retired sports heroes (a real he man outdoors type) who tried to do his own tree clearing (crushed to death). Accidents happen to the best of us, but my point is: these things are skills for a reason. And, like any skill, they need to be done regularly to be any good at them. For example, I have delivered about a dozen babies in my life, several in emergency situations, but I would never consider that one of my "skills". It takes many more than that, done on a regular basis, for me to list that as a skill.

Most of the "skills" cited either aren't skills at all (changing diapers...if you need to be shown that more than once, than your problems run deep) or are such true skills that the idea that one should even attempt them without training and routine practice is dangerous (and demeaning to those who do them professionally). Unless you are very experienced doing brake jobs, I don't suggest any weekend warrior get involved in something that involves violating their brake lines to the point they need to be bled. If you do, stay away from me or my kids at a stoplight.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

 

[Thalassamania]

With the exception of being a good spouse and father, the only skill a man needs:

know how to use a MASTERCARD

The old saying, a fox knows many good tricks, the hedgehog one GREAT trick, still applies. So I guess, in 21st century America, the one great skill is still

1) make enough money to have other people bleed your brakes, filet your fish, unstick your car, etc

And before people criticize me for being a elitist snob, take note of some the skills listed in the OP --- hooking up your own HDTV? If you can afford an HDTV, you can spring for the nominal installation charge. And who the heck still does their own oil changes? Only someone who WANTS to... it doesn't take a Rockefeller to afford an oil change, so why is that an essential skill? Cut up a fish? Why don't we include "starting a fire with flint" "building an igloo" and "splitting logs" while we are in the Grizzly Adams paradigm.

Oh, and by the way, for the single guy---

who do you think a woman really wants, the guy who can do all this survivalist stuff or the guy who can afford to have others do it for him????????

QED

It didn't say you had to hook up your own HDTV, or for that matter do any of the items, it said you should KNOW HOW TO. I'd put some archaic things on the list, handle, reef and steer; fence; ride a horse; and telemark ski; these are things that I find contain elements that are core to the human experience.

And if you think that money does it all, let me tell something ... when I was in college I barely had two nickels to rub together, my Dad le me live on a Highland 30 sailboat that he kept at the Bolina Bay Marina. I sailed the boat in the morning up to the Berkeley Marina and sailed back down to Alameda in the afternoon, yes ... I had a really neat car that my Uncle had helped me piece together when I graduated from high school, and yes ... just about every weekend my buddy and I flew his seaplane down to the channel islands (his folks live next door to Clint Eastwood and had more money than god) and dove our brains out, but it was clearly the romance of living aboard the boat and the ability to whip up a real [SIZE=-1]Caesars salad[/SIZE], throw together a dynamite pesto, and set it up with a good old vine Zin in that galley that wasn't six feet across that intrigued the fair sex. I don't know why, but it did ... and that when I learned that cash really did not count, women want a guy that can do.

Hes the kind of guy puts on a motorcycle jacket
And he weigh about a hundred and five
He's the kind of surfer got a ho-daddy haircut
And you wonder how he'll ever survive
He's the kind of frogman wearing twenty pounds of counterweights
And sinking in the sea like a stone
He's the kind of soldier got no sense of direction
And they send him in the jungle alone
But when the frost's on the pumpkin and the litle girls are jumpin'
He's a hard loving son of a gun
He's got them waiting down the stairs just to sample his affairs
And they call him a spoonful of fun

He's the kind of person going riding on a skateboard
And his mind's raging out of control
He's the kind of person goes to drive a Maserati
Puts his key inside the wrong little hole
He's the kind of ski bum tearing wild down the mountain
Hits a patch where there ain't any snow
He's the kind of cowboy got a hot trigger finger
Shoots his boot 'cause he's drawing kind of slow
But when it comes in for rolling, he's an expert at bowling
Sets the pins up and lays 'em right down
He's got them taking off their heels, and they like the way he feels
And they call him a carnival clown

He's got a parachute and screaming out "Geronimo!"
And makes a little hole in the ground
He's the kind of logger when the man hollers "Timber!"
Got to stop and look around for the sound
He's the kind of artist rents a groovy little attic
And discovers that he can't grow a beard
He's the human cannon ball come in for a landing
And he wonders where the net disappeared
But when he takes off his shoes, man, it won't come as news
He's got them lining up in threes and in twos
He's got them panting on the floor, got them begging for some more
And they call him whatever they choose

 

[Tigerman]

Its not like professionals dont get injuries.. the different is just that then its called a job related accident and not a tragedy..
FFS, its almost constantly at least one person from the kitchen here on sick leave because they have hurt themselves with whatever knife or appliance in the kitchen..

Thal: I telemark ski every winter. Then again im from Telemark, Norway so it would be a shame if I didnt know how, wouldnt it?

 

[PoseidonsGirl1106]

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[Thalassamania]

Its not like professionals dont get injuries.. the different is just that then its called a job related accident and not a tragedy..
FFS, its almost constantly at least one person from the kitchen here on sick leave because they have hurt themselves with whatever knife or appliance in the kitchen..

Thal: I telemark ski every winter. Then again im from Telemark, Norway so it would be a shame if I didnt know how, wouldnt it?

And don't you find that a tasty telemark turn will get you more attention for the ladies than a pocket full of cash?