BenjaminBier
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There are some pretty manly DIY communication skills out there... Bar fight resolution, lie detection, best-man speech giving, and so on. "Don't call in the hostage negotiator honey, I'm going to do it myself."
bottlebomber said:As a machinist of 12 years, I know in our shop (modern cnc) we can scarcely find anyone willing to train. Oh, and, half of my friends went through various universities around the country, and are still struggling to pay their loans off meanwhile making significantly less than I do. If there's a real legitimate reason for going to school, such as a particular career to be pursued, that's great. But most of these people just went to college because their HS counselors/parents told them its the thing to do, but now they are drifiting around doing stuff like teaching developmentaly disabled kids, or working for Social Servicies. There degrees are earning them nothing.
Great_Neck_Brewer said:If you're not a vet, you wouldn't understand
47 posts in and still no mention of manly virtues such as being supportive and loving to family, reliable and trustworthy to friends, chivalrous or any of that other good stuff that anyone can be while holding a purse.
I blame the parents
I had this neighbor years ago who used to get his mom (and her friends) to drive down from a neighboring state to paint his condo. I actually painted one of the rooms for him.
Does he not know how to paint? I dunno. I just think he couldn't be bothered.
My current boyfriend is a fairly lazy guy. He'll do the mechanical things that he enjoys doing like tinkering with his car and motorcycle, but it takes a lot of nagging to get him to do the small repairs around here that the landlord doesn't take care of.
Hell, I ended up replacing the latch on the back screen door because I got tired of waiting for him to do it.
Can't fathom one of the metro guys incapable or unwilling to change their own light bulbs. I'd probably laugh at them.
Basic skills every adult should have (in my opinion) - change light bulbs, replace the air filter on your car, replace a shower head, replace a toilet seat, connect basic home electronic components, paint a room without getting paint everywhere else but on the walls, hang pictures on the wall(s), assemble cheap particle board furniture... and be able to boil water (basic stove usage 101) or use a barbeque grill to cook meat to where it is no longer dangerous to eat. I would also say that it's extremely useful in this day and age to know how to obtain, install, and use anti-virus software for your computer (but then again, I'm a tech so it doesn't really count).
I'm not sure if that was a general jab or one more locally aimed towards me.
Thank you. I'm not a vet but a do appreciate what they have done. A fellow mechanic is a 1st Sergeant Army NG. Twenty some odd years of service. 2 tours in Iraq. A kid two doors down grew up into a young man who would guard the tomb of the unknown before doing a tour in Afghanistan. Add in the many guys that I went through high school with that have been or are currently overseas and you get a man who cries during the national anthem and appreciates a tightly folded flag.
But it's also SOOOO easy to do... Much easier than say, tying your shoe laces...
OK, I had to go read the list and happy to say I got 98 out of 100, then found I am a complete failure because I can't bench press my own weight. Thats actually because I trashed both shoulders loading a 150 lb battery into a cabinet, so maybe not that bad. I can still handle the dead lift and squat well beyond the requirements so I am ok.
I do own a sewing machine and will someday learn to use it,
WTF is a French Knife?
i was wondering the same thing. googled it, apparently it's snob for "chef's knife"
So is picking your nose and wiping your ass but it's not something that needs to make it on a list.
apparently it's snob for "chef's knife"
GuldTuborg said:Not exactly. Different types of chef's knives will be different in shape, balance, and blade angle from one another. The French variety is just one of them. They aren't terribly popular in the US, at least in their traditional form. German knives are most widely used here, and probably Japanese interpretations of western knives after that.
Yup. Henkel and Wüstof (sp) are 2 popular German knives in the US. My henkels were made in Italy though.
I wonder how many of the items on the list people think they get, but really don't.
The French chef's knife is a really good example... very few people know how to "properly" use one (for instance... it's not even really supposed to be gripped by the handle), but I'd wager that almost everybody thinks they do.
I wonder how many of the items on the list people think they get, but really don't.
The French chef's knife is a really good example... very few people know how to "properly" use one (for instance... it's not even really supposed to be gripped by the handle), but I'd wager that almost everybody thinks they do.
rycov said:who cares? a real man would be eating **** off of a knife that looks like crocodile dundee's knife
rycov said:not the thread, but the list. things a man should know. also i was kidding, don't take it personally. i actually enjoy cooking and i don't think its unmanly, and sadly don't eat **** off a knife like croc dundee's
emjay said:I wonder how many of the items on the list people think they get, but really don't.
The French chef's knife is a really good example... very few people know how to "properly" use one (for instance... it's not even really supposed to be gripped by the handle), but I'd wager that almost everybody thinks they do.
bad coffee said:http://0.tqn.com/d/culinaryarts/1/0/g/8/-/-/back0.jpg
That's the way I hold it, and believe it or not, I do use the handle!
Isch, if you're not holding the knife that way, try it sometime. You'll be amazed at how much more control you have.
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http://0.tqn.com/d/culinaryarts/1/0/g/8/-/-/back0.jpg
That's the way I hold it, and believe it or not, I do use the handle!
Isch, if you're not holding the knife that way, try it sometime. You'll be amazed at how much more control you have.
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Its interesting that 40-50 years ago, men didn't step foot in the kitchen and cooking was woman's work.
Fast forward to today and we have a discussion (by whom I presume to be men) on how to correctly hold a chefs knife and how they like to keep their kitchens organized in a certain way.
How times change. Interesting that we still like to draw lines in the sand about what makes a man (what type of bag a man carries, how many check-offs on the popular mechanics list), but give it 40-50 years and we can't even find the patch of sand, let alone the line we drew.
Laughing_Gnome_Invisible said:If it will put an end to this thread, I'll just go ahead and admit that I'm a 12 year old girly with a crush on Beiber.
I decided it was time to step into the kitchen the day I got tired of eating b!tch rabbit food . . . enjoy your salad and dont forget your satchel
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