Check for yourself by measuring yourself against this Popular Mechanics list of 100 skills every man should know.
Of course they left out “ability to man-up and apologize when you are proven utterly and disastrously wrong.” So, by that measure – our wingnut readers are mostly frail little wussy-girls even if they can solder a wire or do a perfect push up.
Good news, I’m only 11% man! There’s probably some others that I do know but never tried (like surviving a flood, tornado, etc.). I can do a perfect push-up though.
Good to know that “girl” still means “inferior.”
Delaware Girl:
Jason has gone a bit addled ever since he drank Mike Castle’s Kool Aid. Hopefully the effect will wear off soon.
Jesus, A1. I pity the person who has to live with you. You are humorless and unforgiving.
So, with me it’s Leo. Now, with Jason, it’s his meeting with Castle. You’re quickly coming undone, my anonymous friend.
Delaware Girl,
There there little missy. Don’t worry your pretty little head over this silly man stuff.
I pity the person who has to live with you.
Yeah, me too. Well, not really. But she’d be furious if I called her a “girl” in a condescending kind of way. 🙂
I guess I shoulda put a smiley face at the end of my last post.
And you’re the one who complains I am never critical of anybody on DelLib. 🙂
Well, I guess you had to start some time! Smiley back atcha! This time, with a wink! 😉
I am sure if we had a 100 point list to see if you really are a woman, there would be much uproar from the female contingent…
…as well as from the men who would want to add sexual tasks on the list.
I’m glad to see that the list includes such “girl” tasks as ironing a shirt. But shouldn’t it really be a list of what every competent adult – guy or girl – should know how to do?? I’m proud that the spouse and I have taught both our son and our daughter how to do those things.
Good for you andy1 — for knowing that both genders should know this stuff.
Do I get any points for having phone numbers for guys who can do what I can’t?
Auto: 9 – 9
Handle emergencies: 3 – 4 (I’ve never tried to escape from a sinking car)
Home: 26 – 29: Never used a sweing machine, never brewed beer, and bloodstains give fabric manly character. I can knock down a tree, but I’ve done it with a loader!
Medical: I married a nurse, so I have outsourced all of these.
Military: 1 – 3 I don’t shine my workboots, and making beds is women’s work
Outdoor: 6 – 6
Primitive survival: 3 – 3
Survival: 2 – 5 I’ve never been in a flood, a tornado or struck by lightning
Teach kids: 11 – 11
Tech: 5 – 5
Workshop: 19 – 20 I’ve never used a sandblaster.
Of course, Jason added:
Knowing what Jason means, I can tell you, right now, that if I had a time machime and could go back and cast my votes again in the 2000 and 2004 elections, I’d cast them for George W Bush again.
There’s only one presidential vote I’d ever change, only one of which I am utterly ashamed, for Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Dana,
We get it. You are a total fucking American hating nit wit. There is no need to keep coming here to prove that.
Re this: “I’ve never tried to escape from a sinking car”
Please try it as soon as possible.
Why, Jason, surely, surely! a liberal, one of the compassionate people, isn’t actively wishing harm on someone!
Man with a Girl’s Name,
If you were a real man you would try it.
Taking the 15 question quiz, it tells me I shouldn’t be taking the quiz. I should be out building something.
Out of the three I got wrong, one I didn’t know and the two others, I was confused by the terms they used.
Maybe I should stay close to the computer….
Oh hell, I’ll go rebuild something.
If you can rebuild a carburetor, it means you are an OLD man.
Keep your skills list, I barter baby! A short list of those who perform well, in exchange for……
We have fresh eggs, pottery, some art work, and not a car repair bill in at least 10 years. That’s off the top of my head.
I’ve got a chainsaw and I know how to use it!
Plus, Bill’s right – Real Men don’t take quizzes, not even in Popular Mechanics.
Former Gov. Minner stopped counting at 110.
That too LeeAnn…I let people with chainsaws take half of any wood that comes down at my place–wood splitters too!
I always figured I was half woman anyway. My mother was a woman.
Jason wrote:
Man, what issues you have! 🙂 First you want to wish harm on someone, simply because you don’t like his views — and votes — and then you try to hurt my feelings by saying I have a girl’s name. Are liberals even allowed to be that sexist? 🙂
Well, you needn’t worry: I did my fighting about it in elementary and junior high school; that was a long time ago. Somehow, some way, I learned to bear the cross and not feel insulted, even when people try.
Now, then, can we address this bitterness in your soul that you are facing? After all, your preferred candidates won, so one would think you’d be happy now, yet, consumed with bitterness you still seem to be.