100 Skills Every Man Should Know

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So how many of you male wordforgians can say that you know how to do every single one of these things?


Seriously, some of these are just ridiculous. If a man has to know how to do all 100 of these things to be a real competant man.....i'm pretty sure that I don't know any real men.....

I think my SO can do most of them.....except sew on a button, but I can do that. Me personally, even though I'm a girl and not what you're looking for, know about half of them.

I see no mention of the ability to locate and manipulate the clitoris on this list!!! What's up with that?

OH! That's important too. And I vote that he MUST know how to locate the G-spot and know what to do with it.

It strikes me how few of those I know. Our generation has certainly lost a lot of the manual skill that our parents had.

Okay I'm good except for:

• Use a sewing machine
• Sew a button on a shirt
• Treat frostbite
• Run rapids in a canoe
• Whittle
• Take the perfect portrait
• Coolant hydrometer
• Infrared thermometer
• Feeler gauges

Out of those I wouldn't mind giving the canoe in the rapids thing a try.

Of course the list was missing a few:

• Gut a fish
• Be a wingman
• Drive a 6 inch spike through a 2x4 with your penis
• Shoot pool
• Kick ass
• Kill bugs
• Ride a motorcycle
• Bowl

C'mon man most of the stuff on the list is basic man skills. What category are you having trouble with?

All except "technology" and "teach your kids".

Well, when you get your first house prepare for a crash course in the "home" and "tools" categories.

Learned that in cub scouts...

Can't say I've escaped a sinking car or a tornado though.

Wait....Cub Scouts? You're kidding right?

I can do around half of them. Most of the ones I can't do fall under Automotive, Workshop, and Home.

Also, I have no idea what this means:

For some reason I'm thinking it means with a webcam or something, but that's just stupid and has nothing to do with technology.

And I found an awesome website while googling what a bowline is: http://www.animatedknots.com

You don't have to have actually done everything to know what to do. Sinking car? Don't panic, take off your seat belt then roll down the window or break the window (having a glass punch makes it much easier) or wait until the water pressure equalizes and open the door and swim to the surface. Not sure which way is up? Blow a bubble and follow it up.

Tornado? Open the windows in your house, get to the lowest point possible, typically the basement and wait.

Or with a tornado, if you don't have a basement, get to the most centralized part of your house. I have a phobia of tornadoes so I always check out where that part of the house is when I first enter it.

^Do you live in a tornado area?

Well, sort of. We don't have them all that often but maybe 2 or 3 a year, sometimes a couple more. My senior year in high school we had a warning of one every Friday afternoon for a few months.

I can remember seeing a couple tornadoes from our deck years ago. Scary and awesome at the same time. Scariest part is they're so unpredictable, rows of houses wiped out but then it will skip a house or two, leaving them completely intact.

When I lived in Nebraska we lived in a motel, so we were pretty much screwed if a tornado hit us. And if I was at work when we got a warning we had to all go hide in the womens bathroom....

I hate tornados....so glad i'm not in NE anymore.

I think that's part of what scares me. I don't know where my phobia came from or why....it's just been there for as long as I can remember.

Southern Ontario isn't known for getting tornadoes...

Anyways, I can over compensate by being able to take the portrait with a pencil and sweating gold and silver (together!!!)

Other than the automotive and military, I can do about three quarters of those. Not especially well as I'm somewhat clunky... You do not want me doing CPR on you!

The military stuff? You can't do a push-up? Or shine your shoes?

Just because you were raised as a pussy doesn't mean you have to stay that way. Now that you have a list, go and learn how to do those things and if you should have kids, make sure they learn them too.

Over here we call it a spoon.

Been there. Done that.

Or, when in doubt, hire it out.