I saw this link on Hotair.com. 14 Basic skills that all men should possess.
I don't know that I agree with the article, but if I did I would say that there are 4 of these skills that I certainly do not possess.
1. Cook the perfect steak........... I can't really cook anything except peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. (is that cooking?)
2. Swim the breast stroke............ I can swim, but not the breast stroke.
3. Sew a button........ I've never even attempted this one
4. Do laundry properly....... Why do laundry when you can drop it off and have the chinese woman do it for 20 bucks?
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Ok, umm that was a pretty gay post. Lost me at first sentence about .... "this modern age" lol. If there was anything about cologne in there Im gonna stab you.
Donkey's Version of Man Skills.
1. Im number 1
2. The croc is number 2
Shoutout to Joe Dirt aside
Be a man
Dont read lists
(any lists - its always a trick -Michele Obama was 95 on Maxims Top Hot 100 and Bull Durham is routinely in everyTop 10 Sports Movies for fucks sake)
Men dont need lists, guys like Gary need lists for self-validation. Dont question my masculinity they say, "#26: I ordered an exotic drink for a woman I just met while on vacation" or "#58: I wore flannel and dungarees when I handed over my laminated AAA card to the mechanic"
Take that tone again and Ill stab you in the face with a soldering iron.
I didn't actually read the article. just the title and the list.
So why do you know what's usually on these lists anyway?
Research. Same reason I watch MSNBC and why you read Cosmo. Fag.
So in other words you're telling me you read all of these lists so that you can know what's on them just in case you ever have to tell someone they're a fag for reading lists?
whatever you say cupcake.
Did you just call me cupcake?
Your obviously reading off Bob Beckels list. Fagophobe!
It's you'RE.
I knew we needed an editor
Among other things...
We'll put editor at top of the list.
i personally think it is a very, very sexist list. who says a man has to do this and a woman has to do that?
i grew up in a household where my father was the "manly man" and went out and BUILT THINGS. and the ladylike woman took care of the DOMESTIC STUFF and dinner would be on the table at 5PM SHARP, table set as he liked it and, to be honest, it seems my mother was ok with that.
obviously, my parents were of that era, my father born in 1920 and my mother in 1929. so they are/were products of their age.
now it's very different and people have negotiating room in relationships. i hate cooking but i know some men love it. i hate to sew as well. but i know some men who are actually into knitting (i've seen numerous of them on the subway ... haven't you? ... well, probably not since you would have CRUSHED their sissy asses).
anyway, that's all i have to say. there is no such thing as who should do what. people learn to do what they need to do in order to survive ... and in coupledom the burdens are shared.
to me, though, a man needs to know how to change a tire on the car and put up shelves. and mow the lawn. and put together furniture that comes in a box unassembled.
sewing buttons, give me a break. that's woman's work !!
;-)
oh. and no "unseemly" jokes about mowing the lawn, please. or else i might come back at'cha with a "weed wacker" comment. and you know that's gonna hurt!
I can do some of the things on the list but not others. Anita, my father once told me that every man should be able to sew a button. He was not an Alan Alda type, he was a Marine and apparently if a Marine loses a button he damn well better sew it back on. Nonetheless I must admit that I cannot sew on a button.
Doing laundry properly? Laundry is easy: throw everything in. All this stuff about separating whites and colors, and using bleach is stuff women make up to make it look complicated.
Balance a check book? I gave up on that years ago when they came up with ATM cards. Change the oil in my car? When you can get someone else to do it for $20-$25?
Change a tire? Hell yes, every man (and woman) should be able to do that.
And shouldn't eating pussy be on the list? Most men, I'm told, don't have a clue.
I actually saw a man knitting a blanket that he was using as clothing on the subway this week. Secondly; gas, grass, or ass Anita, noone rides for free.
Gary, I bet the ladies think you're a great scissorer.
Rhino, stop mangazing.
How hard is it to sew a fucking button! It's not a matter of man or woman. It's a matter of helpless idiot and common fuckin' sense!
Getliveyaite, I agree and someday I hope to accomplish the task successfully.
well, it is true that people with large, thick fingers have trouble threading needles. (but, admittedly the men with large thick fingers are good at other things, things that require slightly less precise manual dexterity, shall we say).
Yea, and blind people have trouble too.
you need a pedicure, getliveayite. it might calm you down.
Hmmm, I've never had one. All I can picture is the Austin Powers movie where they are filing his toe nails with a rotary sander!
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