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*in a non-sexist gender neutral way.
I was doing some stuff on the bike yesterday, and my wife brought me a cup of tea out. I left oily fingerprints all over the handle, and felt SUPER MANLY about it.
Your turn.
In typical STW style; chopping wood with my Axes and Chainsaw 🙄
Our water tank was constantly overflowing, I fixed it by fannying around with the ballcock. Now the reason that makes me feel particularily manly is, I know ****-all about plumbing. Fixing cars, fixing bikes, I'm actually fairly good at and that's just not as manly as just bending stuff on the assumption that you'll be able to avoid flooding the house. I didn't even google it, because MANLY.
Bathing in the still warm blood of my victims.
Reversing round a corner with a trailer
The OH apparently "likes watching me work", so anything plumbing, electrical, car fixing or involving the chainsaw* is clearly very manly.
*living dangerously I forego the STW general issue Stihl trousers and shoes for a frisson of danger and added manliness
Pfft! Warm baths! hah!
Passing wind like a huge German antitank gun. You know.... one of those huge rasping baritone ones that properly rattle the windows? 😀
Fannying around with the ballcock, mainly.
Large tissues.
I had to replace the diaphragm in our downstairs toilet last year, which required the complete dismantling of the toilet. Felt proper manly when I'd fixed that.
Also yesterday I replaced the bottom bracket on my commuter, when I brought the first tools out the rubber mallet came with me, looked I knew exactly what I was doing. Which is rare.
washing my hands using only the hot tap.
Sharpening a pencil with a chisel.
Hewing beams with an axe.
Chainsaw joinery.
Post-coital farts.
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washing my hands using only the hot tap.
Washing your hands? You big jessie.
Pulling the handbrake too hard for my Mrs to release
Greasing my prop shaft.
Pulling the handbrake too hard for my Mrs to release
If that isn't a euphemism, it bloody well should be.
having a penknife in my pocket for cutting twine in the garden.
My Grandad always had one, and he was a proper man - he'd been to war, dug people out of the ruin of a bombed building, all sorts. If it's what he did, it's manly enough for me.
dug people out of the ruin of a bombed building
With a penknife? Your Granda was rock!
.....and obviously, making any sort of fire.
....and owning a special stick for stirring paint.
Mostly satiated mosquitoes in my case. So mostly my blood........Bathing in the still warm blood of my victims.
actually no - he did that with his bare hands 🙁
He was stationed at Petworth with the Canadians
http://ww2today.com/29th-september-1942-lone-bomber-hits-petworth-school-32-dead
[edit] - for a manly man he was absolutely shit-scared of my Nan though. Which was sensible, she was pretty formidable.......
onanism
Any form of DIY done barefoot - although I feel less manly when I'm asking my wife to get the splinters out of my toes for me 😆
Opening a Jar that no one else can.
Cue smug face 🙂
Many food items come in packets of 6. There are 5 people in my house.
Daddy gets two because MANLY!*
* Daddy now has weight control issues.
Putting the bins out.
Having a crusty hankerchief in my pocket emblazoned with 3 day old snotters and the logo 'Daddy'
Today I have bought life into the world with my bare hands, and then within the same hour taken a life with the same pair of hands. I don't feel manly. Just rotten. 🙁
Putting the toilet seat down.
Male pattern baldness.
Fixing stuff and it actually being fixed.
Far too many times I go to fix stuff and make it worse/need to buy more stuff.
But sometimes I actually get it right. Then I spend the next 3 days reminding Mrs pocpoc that I fixed something!
Washing my beard 😳
Suturing my own head after splitting it open in the workshop.
....and owning a special stick for stirring paint.
Me and Painty McPaintstick have been together for some 20 years now. If you cut him in half you could see every shade of paint I've used in the house.
Me and Painty McPaintstick have been together for some 20 years now. If you cut him in half you could see every shade of paint I've used in the house.
I shave mine down with a Stanley knife every few years.....
For me (quite recently) taking the door off a washing machine, dismantling it to see why it wasn't closing properly, identifying the problem, putting it back together with a temporary fix, ordered the part, correct part delivered, dismantled again, fixed permanently and all without a single leak, lost part, scream in frustration.
Then just last week I ducted a bathroom vent through a very tricky and hard to access space in the loft/soffits.
pppped round to a riding buddy's the other day while he was farting about in the garage and had a great 'natter' with his wife for an hour or so. At the end of our 'natter' she made me a cuppa, then as an afterthought took one out to him in the garage....
Cheer Luke 🙂
Starting a fight in a kebab house at 3am, while someone shouts 'LEAVE IT DARREN, HE'S NOT WORTH IT!!!!'
😀
not soiling myself or crying when STW Big Hitters gang up on me.
I suppose we're just going to have to take your word for that princess
LEAVE IT, BINNERS! HE'S NOT WORTH IT!
Being naughty and still serving myself pudding .... Grrrr
My dad used to let my drive the car (under close supervision) on campsites when I was wee. To this day I feel like a proper grown up when I get to drive on grass
Getting those reports done by 2:30pm just in time for the quarterly at 3pm.
wait what
had a great 'natter' with his wife for an hour or so
haven't heard it called that before
had a great 'natter' with his wife for an hour or sohaven't heard it called that before
Me either. I'm just surprised he didn't fall off and hurt himself. 😉
^^^^ It's OK perchy, my Helmet was properly deployed ... 🙂
Glad too see you've learned your lesson and started using protection.... 🙂
🙂
Me and Painty McPaintstick have been together for some 20 years now. If you cut him in half you could see every shade of paint I've used in the house.
I shave mine down with a Stanley knife every few years.....
Pfft! Using something entirely inappropriate for the task, like the best cutlery or a broken piece of bamboo from the garden is the way forward 😉
Fixing stuff! any pansy could do that. Destroying stuff, now thats manly. Knocking down walls, ripping out kitchens, digging up trees, all very manly
Hitting things with the Hammer of Thor. This is hereditary- my grandad stole it from the RAF when he demobbed, and I stole it from him, some day I hope my child steals it from me. The head's black with age, Thor still make new ones but they don't have 70 years of weight behind them- I got a new copper face for it a while back and what could be more manly than servicing a ****ing hammer because you wore it out hammering stuff?
The correct answer is of course taking something heavy to the tip.
what could be more manly than servicing a ****ing hammer because you wore it out hammering stuff?
Northwind wins! The hammer is the only tool a real man needs
pppped round to a riding buddy's the other day while he was farting about in the garage and had a great 'natter' with his wife for an hour or so. At the end of our 'natter' she made me a cuppa, then as an afterthought took one out to him in the garage....Cheer Luke
But I was only in the garage 5 minutes before she brought me a cup of tea out - I think you might be talking "iainc hours" 😛
Helping delivery drivers back up wagons.
'Making progress'
....well it felt like an hour or so.... 🙂
Northwind wins! The hammer is the only tool a real man needs
Well, if we're talking workshops and Northwind........
😉
The hammer is the only tool a real man needs
Talking of hammers, I always felt manly when the Hanyes manual called for "a suitable drift."
"a suitable drift."
[s]Waking up with morning glory and having a pee into the bath tub.[/s]
Sitting down to pee...
Eating man food. The same as normal food except it comes in black packaging with PROTEIN somewhere on the outside.
Doing a full planche.
Being a dutiful husband and a caring father does it for me.
If "dutiful" means doing as you're told, I'm afraid you misunderstood the question. (-:
Did a 20 minute train journey stood up, without holding onto anything. Like a boss.
Doing an endo in the Manitou, nearly ending up in the slurry pit but pulling it back from the brink and riding it out in style. Dad wasn't so impressed
Things that make you feel manly*
Turning off my mobile phone when driving.
#takebackcontrol
Running up a narrow plank while pushing a wheel barrow full of old bricks.
Proper ingrained dirt on your hands, the type that won't scrub off.
When I go to hug another woman my broad shoulders make me feel manly in comparison
😀
Realizing I'm jigging along in time to thelofi earworms emitted by the Fisher Price play mat thing. Doh wrong thread.
In no particular order:
plastering walls to a good finish.
fitting my own kitchen
fitting my own bathroom
building my decking.
changing the clutch on the car
servicing the car
stripping down and rebuilding a bike
cycling down snowdon
using one of the following tools: SDS drill, impact driver, sledgehammer, club hammer, nail gun, circular saw.
drinking beer whilst doing the above.
You missed off Angle Grinder
I feel like a manly man when angle grinding some steel and creating my own mini firework display.
Love the smell of molten metal and the dust and debris that darkens the skin. Did nearly collect a 10" grinding disc in the face once whilst using the grinder as a chop saw , those guards are there for a reason...
Today I have
Chopped wood with a big axe
Made a big fire
Driven off road
Chopped a tree down
Moved a fence
Talked engine stuff with a proper old school engine repair bloke (no idea what I was talking about or what anything he said meant but I said "leaky carb" and apparently that was like a secret password)
Held a newborn baby (ok less than 24 hours old) in my arms
Grrr
Today I have
Made up hydraulic hoses
Fitted bulkhead diesel fuel filter/water seperators to our feed barge
Used & fitted new valve block on the Palfinger crane
Repaired an emergency on another landing craft crane
Had a good run in our fast boat by myself (flat calm & sunny)
Lots of power tools
Drove our Manitou Telehandler
Life is good & (Manly) 😆
Grinding, chainsawing and baking
Made a big fire
Actually, that's the canonical answer, isn't it. Fire.
Nothing says MAN quite like poking a fire with a stick and pretending that you know what you're doing.
Building something from scratch without plans aside from a vague 'feeling' about how to do it.
I put the bins out. Weakly (sic).
After single handedly? lifting a 2m length of 3x9, slipping one end deeply into the joist pocket I'd just chiseled in the wall, and finding I'd cut it to length so perfectly it slipped in place at the other end with just a thump of the hand, but was tight enough to hold itself there by friction while i trotted off to find my hanger, hammer and square twist nails. That made me feel quite pleased with myself.