Posted on 05/02/2014 8:59:22 PM PDT by MNDude
Today a young guy at the office got a flat tire. A bunch of young guys gathered around in the parking lot and I was amazed how none knew how to change a flat.
I commented this had to be one of the top things all men should know.
What would be some of the things you would include on a list that all men should know how to do? (Like change oil, etc)
Come on, we’re Americans!
A chainsaw, too. Nothing says American like raw carbon-belching power! Knowing how to use a chainsaw without dropping a tree on yourself or a house is always a good skill. Sharpening, tightening and resetting the chain is also part of this.
Right on! BUT WHICH type of ‘flour’?
Bread Flour?
Cake Flour?
All purpose flour?
To be safe, choose the all purpose flour to cover everything.
As to Flowers - Roses are not the only flower on the plant. Iris, Tulips, Hyacinth, Bird of Paradise are only a few of the others.
I can do that last one real good.
It is from the Broadway musical “Man of La Mancha” about Don Quixote.
He sings these lyrics(some Freepers may be unfamiliar with this), which reminds me of Freepers who have and continue to fight the good fight:
“To dream ... the impossible dream ...
To fight ... the unbeatable foe ...
To bear ... with unbearable sorrow ...
To run ... where the brave dare not go ...
To right ... the unrightable wrong ...
To love ... pure and chaste from afar ...
To try ... when your arms are too weary ...
To reach ... the unreachable star ...
This is my quest, to follow that star ...
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far ...
To fight for the right, without question or pause ...
To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause ...
And I know if I’ll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie will lie peaceful and calm,
when I’m laid to my rest ...
And the world will be better for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach ... the unreachable star ...”
I strive to be that man.
Ouch. Well, you can't get good at it if nobody lets you practice.
The same bay leaves?
How about knowing how to read and use a Haynes manual.
I just shared a lot of this with my Trail Life USA troop last week. A few things men must do.
Step right up-—lol
A thousand Freeper guys read that and just said: "She's not talking about ME..."
I guess my previous answer was too obtuse. So I say one valuable skill a man needs to know is how to correctly use a Trojan in a pitch dark room.
An inside bowline, an outside bowline,
running bowline, French, Spanish, and bowline on the bight.
I know some tricks for using half an upset or a full upset to form the entire bend rapidly, and without using those "tricks" can otherwise tie the bend facing away from me or towards me, and either way if I was hanging upside down.
But none of those are the full meaning of tie a bowline, for that has been lost to square-rigger days.
It also meant to rig square rig sails to function [enough] as fore-and-aft rig to go to weather, at least enough to claw one's way off a lee shore or otherwise make headway towards a destination, provided one could find a clear run without be blocked by protruding headlands.
That's the trouble with guys like Obama. Politically, all they can do and all they want to do is sail "progressively" with the prevailing downwind easy tack which is taking us to the hard of lee shores.
Once I was in Ireland a'digging turf and taties.
Way, haul away, we'll haul away for Rosie, Oh.
But now I'm on a Yankee ship a'hauling on the braces.
Way haul away, we'll haul away Joe.Way haul away, we'll haul for better weather.
You call yerself a second mate, an' cannot tie a bowline;
Way haul away, we'll haul away Joe.
Way haul away, we'll haul away together.
Way haul away, we'll haul away Joe.
Way, haul away, we'll haul away for Rosie, Oh.
You cannot even stand up straight when the packet she's a rollin'.
Way haul away, we'll haul away Joe.
Excellent suggestions.
1.Don’t forget nothing.
2.Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute’s warning.
3.When you’re on the march, act the way you would if you was sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first.
4.Tell the truth about what you see and what you do. There is an army depending on us for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the Rangers, but don’t never lie to a Ranger or officer.
5.Don’t never take a chance you don’t have to.
6.When we’re on the march we march single file, far enough apart so one shot can’t go through two men.
7.If we strike swamps, or soft ground, we spread out abreast, so it’s hard to track us.
8.When we march, we keep moving till dark, so as to give the enemy the least possible chance at us.
9.When we camp, half the party stays awake while the other half sleeps.
10.If we take prisoners, we keep ‘em separate till we have had time to examine them, so they can’t cook up a story between ‘em.
11.Don’t ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won’t be ambushed.
12.No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout 20 yards ahead, 20 yards on each flank, and 20 yards in the rear so the main body can’t be surprised and wiped out.
13.Every night you’ll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.
14.Don’t sit down to eat without posting sentries.
15.Don’t sleep beyond dawn. Dawn’s when the French and Indians attack.
16.Don’t cross a river by a regular ford.
17.If somebody’s trailing you, make a circle, come back onto your own tracks, and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you.
18.Don’t stand up when the enemy’s coming against you. Kneel down, lie down, hide behind a tree.
19.Let the enemy come till he’s almost close enough to touch, then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet.
20.Don’t use your musket if you can kill ‘em with your hatchet.
Doesn't have the same impact when delivered by Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine.
My best friend in HS bought a VW bug. First thing his dad did was tell him to change the oil and flush the radiator.
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