100 Skills Every Man Should Know

The Art of Manliness ^ | 28SEP15 | AoM Team

[vannrox]

A fun read.

[Telepathic Intruder]

#99—Make Fire Without Matches. Yeah I have a lighter.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

101. Impaling a muslim who came after your women.

[TNoldman]

Man ping

[Albion Wilde]

I’ve done 90% of these, and I’m a (conservative) woman. These are survival skills. Children today don’t learn these. They learn about deviant sexuality and how terrible their country is.

[Louis Foxwell]

The manly art of manliness, gets better with age.

[Farmer Dean]

I’ll add a couple more;
1.Know how to weld.
2.Learn to operate heavy equipment,tractors,dozers,and trackhoes.
3.Learn to move quickly and quietly in the woods.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, good additions.

The one I saw missing is “say a public prayer”.

[Vaquero]

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

Time Enough For Love
Robert A Heinlein

[HereInTheHeartland]

I get their podcasts on ITunes.
Good stuff.

[Bender2]

Robert A. Heinlein had a list of skills a man needs in his stories about Lazarus Long:

"A man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

[garyb]

http://www.angelfire.com/or/sociologyshop/lazlong.html#inter
http://www.angelfire.com/or/sociologyshop/lazlong.html#inter2

From the Notebooks of Lazarus Long:

excerpt:

And still another— See to it that she has her own desk—then keep your hands off it!

And another—In a family argument, if it turns out you are right—apologize at once!

“God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends.” This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

When the fox gnaws—smile!

A “critic” is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased—he hates all creative, people equally.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

Never frighten a little man. He’ll kill you.

Only a sadistic scoundrel—or a fool—tells the bald truth on social occasions.

Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again.

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Lazarus Long is a, perhaps, fictional character created by
Robert A. Heinlein.

[Ingtar]

Know how and when to pray.

[Vigilanteman]

Smart alec! I've done it with a bow and spindle and with a magnifying glass. One of those little cheap sewing kits which you can get at a dollar store or fabric store usually contains a magnifying glass and should be in any man's backpack.

You can also start one with your eyeglasses on a sunny day, which is why you should never leave them on your car's dashboard except in a case.

[BlackAdderess]

Why not “Sweat a pipe”?

[wally_bert]

Vaguely familiar with welding theory.

Done a bit of the second ages ago.

Good and bad days for the third.

[VanDeKoik]

#101 Improvise/invent

See MacGyver.

[ConservativeWarrior]

“Children today don’t learn these. They learn about deviant sexuality and how terrible their country is.”

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Children learn what their parents teach them. All 3 of my kids have done about 90% of these things.

The boys are never wanting for dates, and my daughter knows how to weed out the losers.

[knarf]

I never read that before .... thanx .... I've printed it out

Just might frame 'em and make Christmas presents for the males in my circle

[real saxophonist]

I can do pretty much all of those, to some extent. Foreign language, I only know a little bit of Pizza Spanish, from my time at Domino’s. Can’t play guitar because my left hand doesn’t work. I’ve taken lessons in the past and know how, I’m just physically unable to. Same thing with woodwinds now.