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"Manly" stuff you can't/don't do (1 Viewer)

belljr said:
I will trouble shoot and may figure out what is wrong but don't necessarily always fix the problem myself
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Ditto -- this can save you some money. You can call and ask a repairman to fix a specific thing instead of opening yourself up to potentially expensive troubleshooting.

 
Ranethe said:
Hate these things. They invade our house every fall, to the point where every time you have to walk out into the foyer you have to stop and do a visual sweep. These things seem to have an uncanny intelligence too; when you spot one they freeze until-as if they can read your mind-you make the decision to kill it. In that exact instant they take off, faster than hell. Some of those are huge too. The million little babies jumping off the backs just adds to the freakiness. We probably kill 50-75 every fall.
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Spiders or babies?  :shock:

 
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Ranethe said:
Hate these things. They invade our house every fall, to the point where every time you have to walk out into the foyer you have to stop and do a visual sweep. These things seem to have an uncanny intelligence too; when you spot one they freeze until-as if they can read your mind-you make the decision to kill it. In that exact instant they take off, faster than hell. Some of those are huge too. The million little babies jumping off the backs just adds to the freakiness. We probably kill 50-75 every fall.
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What?!?!!

I hate spiders

 
ShamrockPride said:
Spiders or babies?  :shock:
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Ranethe said:
Spiders
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Yeah, there’s probably 50 babies per spider if they’re carrying.  After you’ve killed a couple with babies and had them spray out from under your shoe like a cloud of dust that never settles, you learn to approach the kill like a sniper rather than hulk smash.  And like Ranethe said, they can get pretty big (in the shadows they’re damn tarantulas!)

 
cockroach said:
I think it's funny that driving a manual is considered "manly". 
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Would you prefer "skillful"?

On that same topic, I can't believe how many people want to tell me that faux paddle shifters are the same thing.

Pickups, sports cars, Jeeps, and tractors should only be available with manual transmissions.  I've given up getting them on pickups anymore but I was able to order a new Jeep with a manual.  

 
Ron Swanson said:
Would you prefer "skillful"?

On that same topic, I can't believe how many people want to tell me that faux paddle shifters are the same thing.

Pickups, sports cars, Jeeps, and tractors should only be available with manual transmissions.  I've given up getting them on pickups anymore but I was able to order a new Jeep with a manual.  
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It's funny, I can play drums... which utilizes a lot of the same skillset in terms of footwork.  Just never learned how to drive on a manual.  :shrug:   

 
Bull Dozier said:
I will kill ants, flies, asian beatles, whatever.  But, if that ####er has 8 legs, I'm not going near it.
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I'm the exact opposite. Spiders don't bother me at all. But I hate other bugs. It's my phobia. Especially flying insects, and in particular, stinging flying insects. I turn into a 5 year old girl if a bee seems to even be remotely interested in me within a 20 foot radius.

 
Bull Dozier said:
I'm generally worthless at fixing things.  Small things, sure.  But anything requiring tools other than a hammer, screwdriver, or drill and I'm out.
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I've learned this over time, but working on a car, or a small engine just as a lawn mower... I stand no chance. 

ETA - not much into hunting although I have fired a gun. 

 
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gianmarco said:
I'm the exact opposite. Spiders don't bother me at all. But I hate other bugs. It's my phobia. Especially flying insects, and in particular, stinging flying insects. I turn into a 5 year old girl if a bee seems to even be remotely interested in me within a 20 foot radius.
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Same here. I don't particularly care for spiders but I can deal with them. My Achilles heel is buzzing stinging flying insects, particularly wasps and hornets but also these giant 1.5 inch long horseflies. We get them from a farm next door and these things are freaky too, fangs that can pierce leather. At least you can hear them coming, they buzz so loudly it's like an alarm, I immediately go on high alert.

 
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My husband is the same as a lot of you.

  1. He loves to fish, but he doesn't keep anything.
  2. He used to go hunting all the time, because his whole family and a lot of friends would go. He even went hunting with my uncles and has never killed anything and *admitted* to me that he shot and missed on purpose. So every year he would go hunting and I would laugh and make fun of him and say have fun wasting your ammo. Finally, after 5 or so years of doing that he took me to the range one day just because I had never shot before and he peppered the center of the target. He has only went hunting a couple times since, but I never make fun of him before he goes anymore.
  3. He is trying to do a bathroom in the basement in our house right now and it is kicking his ###. Over the weekend he actually asked me to look up contractors to finish it. He claims work is about to get busy and in his defense he did work last Saturday and is supposed to work 7 days this week, but he set himself this deadline to finish the bathroom of September 15th for no reason.
  4. He doesn't mind cleaning, like all the time. He always does the dishes, mops floors, cleans the windows, vacuums.
  5. We own a boat and he can't back up a trailer to save his life, neither can I. It is probably why we don't take the boat to other lakes.
  6. He has a weak stomach when it comes to smells and blood, he actually vomited when he walked in and I was watching an episode of House and they were doing surgery.
I think his main problem is his father is so handy and they are so close, but they are so different as people. So he tries so hard to do things around the house because according to his dad it is how it should be done and it saves money. Over the years I have noticed this, if we have a project to do and my husband is in charge and my father in-law helps him it is a disaster. His father is always trying to teach and not take over, so he lets him make the mistakes on his own and it takes forever and costs more money. If it is a project my father in-law is doing and my husband is helping it is perfect. My father in-law is 60 and has bad knees, ankles and a shoulder, but he will tell my husband what to do and he will do it. I still remember watching them put a metal roof on my father in-laws new garage. My father in-law sat at the top of the roof the whole day and just moved a few feet with each piece. My husband would climb down prop the piece on the garage, climb up and pull the piece up, then slide it to my father in-law, he would then set the piece and put one screw in and my husband would climb back down and move the piece until it was square, then my father in-law would set the top row of screws and my husband would climb around and do the rest. They did a whole 2.5 car garage in like 2 hours.

 
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I forgot my favorite one. When we moved into our house the dock for the boat was messed up. It looked like a wooden roller coaster. So my husband got in the water and pulled the whole dock out, replaced some wood, got new poles that had bent and put the whole dock back in the water. It looked great, he was so proud and I was actually impressed.

HOWEVER, here we are 3 years later and he has done this every year, and of the 7 other neighbors you can see from our back porch not one of them has ever pulled their dock out. He tries so hard to get it level and fix it and every year I watch him take an entire weekend going into the water on Saturday to pull the dock and poles out and then go buy parts. Sunday comes and he is back in the water trying to set it and level the whole thing out. It looks great every year and then the winter comes and destroys everything he has done.

 
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I can plow a field all day long
I can catch catfish from dusk 'til dawn
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too

 
Ok, I posted a few un-manly things about me up-thread, but on the manual transmission topic...

i not only CAN drive a stick (though I haven’t owned one in 20 years), last summer I rented a car with manual transmission for our family vacation in the UK.

Yes, so not only manual transmission, but driving on the wrong side of the road!   Man card, re-activated!

 
That one guy said:
Yeah, this for me as well.  2 days without shaving and I’ve got this lovely combo of molester mustache and mange ridden cheeks.  
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Ditto.  I was on a weeklong vacation and one hour in to the driving trip I said "shoot, I forgot my razor."  My 20 year old step daughter quickly chimed in "don't worry, no one will notice."

The said thing was that, now at 45, I have a lot of gray in my beard, so half of what little bit actually grows is now white, so it is even less visible.

 
nirad3 said:
:oldunsure:   Probably opening myself - and others that dare reply - to mockery, but thought about this the other day...

Any "manly" types of things that you can't do?  Or just don't do?

For me, I can't drive stick.  Never learned.  My Dad had a stick when I was 13-14 but once I was of learning age, it was always automatic.

There are more, but I think I'll start with that.   :bag:
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Never learned? I taught myself.

 
I have gone hunting, fishing, camping, etc.  I have shot guns and fixed/built all sorts of stuff.  There isn't an alcohol out there that I'm afraid to drink.  I make my own beer and have dabbled with wine and liquor. I am a purple belt in jiu-jitsu and have sparred with professional MMA fighters.  I can change my own oil (but don't because it's a PITA).  I learned how to drive on a stick shift.  I cut my own grass, and have built a deck from scratch.  I have a lot of tools and know how to use them all.  I can back up a trailer and rebuild an engine. 

but my beard sucks.  Also, I don't grill or BBQ.

 
My first thought was auto mechanics. I know next to nothing about a cars engine. I can change a flat. That's about it. I don't hunt or fish. never caught a fish ion my life, tried a couple times and it's not my thing.  Never held or shot any firearm. I've never really thought of driving a stick as "manly", but if that's the case then that applies to me too. I'm good with tools so at least have that going for me.

 
I can't back a trailer up.  Just scares the hell out of me.  

My wife wants a boat someday, but the thought of backing it down a boat ramp into the water is terrifying.  

 
Would be easier for me to come up a list of manly things I can do. Mow the law, drink beer, sex stuff with ladies...that might be about it. 

 
Zow said:
2. I don't think farts are funny.  Like at all. 
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Ditto for me, never found any "toilet humor" funny.  I beat a kid up when I was in high school because he gestured his fart in my direction while in the lunch room.  I felt bad after because I found out some other kids that bullied him put him up to it.

 
Zow said:
2. I don't think farts are funny.  Like at all. 
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Ditto for me, never found any "toilet humor" funny.  I beat a kid up when I was in high school because he gestured his fart in my direction while in the lunch room.  I felt bad after because I found out some other kids that bullied him put him up to it.

 
jb1020 said:
I can't back a trailer up.  Just scares the hell out of me.  

My wife wants a boat someday, but the thought of backing it down a boat ramp into the water is terrifying.  
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look in rear view mirror, put hands at bottome of steering wheel. move hands in direction you want boat to travel.

 
I had a manly day last Sunday.

-Woke up, banged girlfriend

-played 18 holes of golf

-drag raced some punk with my 600hp Jaguar

-Got drunk at a friend's house

-Fired a pistol in the backyard

-Blew the engine on my 600hp Jaguar

-Called 911

Interesting day 

ETA: Tonight I'm mopping the floors and doing laundry

 
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jb1020 said:
I can't back a trailer up.  Just scares the hell out of me.  

My wife wants a boat someday, but the thought of backing it down a boat ramp into the water is terrifying.  
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Agreed I suck at it.  If no one else was around it wouldn't be a big deal but there is always someone else waiting to use the ramp so it's a lot of pressure to do it right the first time.

 
I don't know how to change a flat tire

I don't like the taste of beer

I don't know how to maintain and clean our pool

I am not sure how our sprinkler system works

 
I'm the only person in my family who can't drive stick. People have offered to teach me many times, I just don't care to learn. I view driving mostly as a hassle and generally don't get any enjoyment out of it. Manual just seems like an extra annoyance I don't want to deal with.

 
moleculo said:
I have gone hunting, fishing, camping, etc.  I have shot guns and fixed/built all sorts of stuff.  There isn't an alcohol out there that I'm afraid to drink.  I make my own beer and have dabbled with wine and liquor. I am a purple belt in jiu-jitsu and have sparred with professional MMA fighters.  I can change my own oil (but don't because it's a PITA).  I learned how to drive on a stick shift.  I cut my own grass, and have built a deck from scratch.  I have a lot of tools and know how to use them all.  I can back up a trailer and rebuild an engine. 

but my beard sucks.  Also, I don't grill or BBQ.
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Yea but can you speak Russian in French?

 
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