Posted on 05/02/2014 8:59:22 PM PDT by MNDude
Great list if you live in the sticks.
What kind of an office do you work at that’s full of helpless ladyboys?
Know how to train a dog
Be able to throw a ball (this rules Obama out)
Probably some darn place which is profitable. Darn them.
How to not mistake poison ivy for bay leaves.
decline the verb to be in Latin.
1. if you really have to get married, marrying the right girl.
knowing who to stop and change a tire for and who not to. some good samaritans were robbed/murdered doing this.
Worth waiting for.
don’t buy a lot, but buy quality when you buy.
die gallantly...maye. dying with a purpose...yes. much of the time they could overlap.
Heck, I’m still trying to figure out how a Human Being equipped with Testicles could ever Vote for a Democrat.
How to apologize to their wife or if unmarried their girlfriend.
But NEVER try to apologize to both of them at the same time!
Every man should at least know the basics:
1. How to swim
2. How to ride a bicycle
3. How to drive a stick-shift
4. How to ride a horse
5. How to fish
6. How to hunt
7. How to trap
8. How to track
9. How to fight
10.How to prevent most fights
11.How to change a tire, fuel up a car, check and change the oil
12. How to evaluate a neighborhood
13. How to read a contract
14. How to negotiate
15. How to shake hands
16. How to speak in public
17. How to win an audience
18. How to lead
19. How to pan for gold
20. How to repair pvc, copper pipes, and windows
21. How to throw a football and baseball and shoot a basketball
22. How to run properly, evade, climb a tree, and camouflage
23. How to use a knife to carve and to fight
24. Proper firearms skills
25. How to sail, snowski, iceskate, and surf
Popular Mechanics 100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008’s Ultimate DIY List
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/skills/4281414
Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car
Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car
Home
14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag
Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick
Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup
Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current
Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water
Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning
Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike
Technology
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive
Master Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges
When my son was a H.S. sophomore (more than a dozen years ago now) two other parents and I taught a Saturday class on roadside safety and basic auto maintenance. Things like changing a tire, checking your tire pressure (we were way ahead of Obama), checking your oil, coolant, washer fluid, etc., and basics like that.
The level of ignorance was astounding, even among the macho, football-playing, pickup-truck-driving boys. I had mothers come up to me after the classes (we took two Saturday AMs) and thank me profusely because “my husband couldn’t teach that”.
I tell this story, because youve obviously encountered grown up versions of some of the kids who *didn’t* take our class.
“How to use bay leaves as toilet paper and how to wad them up and
clean your hands with them.”
How not to use the same bay leaves to clean your hands as you
used as toilet paper.
Abstinence
Discernment (how to figure out the real crazies)
Self control
Healthy dose of cynicism
These skills pay off more than others I’ve seen on this list:
1. Designing and compensating a switching regulator
2. Designing and compensating an LDO
3. Designing and compensating a Bandgap Reference
4. Designing and compensating an amplifier
5. Designing a comparator
6. Computer hacking skills
7. Bowstaff skills
8. Baking a cake
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