100 things every guy should know how to do

[KyleMayket]

This is from Popular Mechanics, how many CAN'T you do?

Brains and charm are fine, but a real guy needs to know how to do real stuff. After months of debate among PM’s expert editors, here’s our lineup of essential skills for the competent man.

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

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
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

Survival
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 These 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

[Feelgood]

Well, I'm fucked.

At least I'm stacked in the Technology field.

[Rich]

... Fly a stunt kite! WTF!! WHY???

[Colton]

And if your woman's a bitch, you only need to know these three.....


25. Split firewood (swing an axe)
22. Shovel the right way (bury the body)
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric (lose any evidence)

[J Michaels]

Only ones I canNOT do:


Automotive
7. Use a stick welder

Home
15. Use a sewing machine

23. Solder wire

29. Use a French knife (is this different than "use a knife"?

35. Replace a broken windowpane (not sure about this one - it would depend on the window, I think)

38. Sweat copper tubing

41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag (I think there is a very specific way to do this, and I don't know it)

Medical
43. Treat frostbite (never thought about this, frankly... is it just "put the affected area in warm (not hot) water"?)

45. Help a seizure victim (towel between the teeth is all I know - and not sure that's even correct
)
46. Treat a snakebite (I may know but it doesn't mean I'll do it)


Outdoors
54. Shoot straight (only shot a gun once in my life)
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike (yeah - got off and slide down on my ass with the bike in my hand)
56. Escape a rip current (no clue)

Survival
57. Build a fire in the wilderness (I think I know, but in honesty I bet I couldn't do it)

59. Find potable water (what, like with a dowling rod?)

Surviving Extremes (this whole category is too vague to make any sense - I can swim, so can I survive a flood? Or is there some trick? Cold? Put on more clothes? WTF?)



Teach Your Kids
69. Fly a stunt kite (yeah - wtf?)

72. Tie a bowline

74. Whittle (uhh... not really)


Master These Key Workshop Tools
85. Test light (never used one - can't be that hard, tho)

87. Framing hammer (like the knife, is there something unique about this?)

95. Infrared thermometer (again, never used one, but how hard can this be?)

96. Sand blaster

100. Feeler gauges (Feeler gauges, I've never even SEEN her gauges...)

[Banned]

It was a pretty good list until "give a killer blowjob". What the heck?

[VENTGtr]

Only ones I canNOT do:

56. Escape a rip current (no clue)

Can help with this one. To escape a rip current (AKA riptide....not as in "Riptide"...in that
eventuality, quickly avert eyes, change the channel), swim parallel to the shore until you're
beyond the current's pull (A riptide pulls things...including anyone swimming in its area,
away from the shore and out to sea).

DO NOT try to swim against it back to shore....You'll just get tired and watch allllll those
people on the beach get muuuucccccch smaller.

After you get out of its pull (They're not usually all that wide), swim to shore... Oh...before
all that...the obligatory "Stay clam". This goes for the "Riptide" scenario as well, though, if
I am remembering correctly, it last for an hour.

[Dark Soul]

I must actually be kinda useful! lol! These are the only ones I don't know how to do:

3. Check trouble codes
29. Use a French knife (I'm good with knives but never heard of a "French knife" before...wtf is that?)
51. Run rapids in a canoe
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
83. Coolant hydrometer
95. Infrared thermometer

[ZappasXWife]

If those are the only things you can't do Dark Soul, you must give a killer blow job! Not that there's anything wrong with that...
I just can't believe they printed that in Popular Mechanics magazine!

[bassist_25]

1. Handle a blowout

I had a minor blowout happen between Ashville and Cresson this summer (broken pin spring punctured the tire), but the craziest thing I've had happen is my driver's side front tire come right off while traveling full speed down I-80. Let me tell you that it's a surreal experience to finally get your car pulled off on the shouler and then watch your tire go rolling past you down the highway.

[Banned]

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout -y
2. Drive in snow -y
3. Check trouble codes - huh?
4. Replace fan belt -y
5. Wax a car -y
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle -y
7. Use a stick welder -y
8. Hitch up a trailer -y
9. Jump-start a car -y

Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich -y
11. Reverse hypothermia - I'd be dead
12. Perform hands-only CPR -you'd be dead
13. Escape a sinking car -Hope so, or we all be dead

Home
14. Carve a turkey -y
15. Use a sewing machine -y
16. Put out a fire -y
17. Home-brew beer - I wish
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric -hehehehe
19. Move heavy stuff - not willingly, but yes
20. Grow food - among other things
21. Read an electric meter-y
22. Shovel the right way -y
23. Solder wire -y
24. Tape drywall -y
25. Split firewood -y
26. Replace a faucet washer -y
27. Mix concrete -y
28. Paint a straight line -ahh, yes
29. Use a French knife - I'm with Darl Soul on this one
30. Prune bushes and small trees -y
31. Iron a shirt -y
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper - y
33. Change a single-pole switch -no
34. Fell a tree -y
35. Replace a broken windowpane -y
36. Set up a ladder, safely -y
37. Fix a faucet cartridge -never did it
38. Sweat copper tubing -no
39. Change a diaper -yes
40. Grill with charcoal - OH YEAH!
41. Sew a button on a shirt -y
42. Fold a flag -y

Medical
43. Treat frostbite - I'd be digitless
44. Treat a burn -y
45. Help a seizure victim - no
46. Treat a snakebite -yes
47. Remove a tick - only if I like ya

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes -Sir! Yes Sir!
49. Make a drum-tight bed -Sir! Yes Sir!
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup -Sir! Yes Sir!


Outdoors

51. Run rapids in a canoe -never did it, so No
52. Hang food in the wild -y
53. Skipper a boat -I'm Gilligan
54. Shoot straight - y
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike -Hell no
56. Escape a rip current - nope

Survival
57. Build a fire in the wilderness -y
58. Build a shelter -y
59. Find potable water -y

Surviving Extremes

60. Floods -y
61. Tornados -nope
62. Cold -y
63. Heat -y
64. Lightning -y

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 } Not Yet, But I will
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike

Technology
76. Install a graphics card -y
77. Take the perfect portrait -y
78. Calibrate HDTV settings -nope
79. Shoot a home movie-oh yeah, oh home movies..nevermind
80. Ditch your hard drive - I don't know about ditching, kickin' the hell outta, YES!!

Master These 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 } Yes to All these Workshop Tools
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....................Except fot this one.

[RFBuck]

bassist_25:

Scared the crap outta you, didn't it? Now, you wanna amplify that by ten?

I was traveling on I-70 in my tri-axle dump truck when the tach dropped for just a second. I looked out my window only to see the ENTIRE AXLE with the dual tires go zipping by!! As I pulled over, I watched the axle/tires veer off to the right - and I thought all was well. Suddenly it veered hard left, across 2 lanes of eastbound traffic and slammed into the Jersey barrier. Not finished yet, it jumped the barrier and into oncoming westbound traffic where it was narrowly missed by a flatbed rig and a car. It rolled up the bank and flopped over for good.

When inspected, it was found someone forgot to tighten the locking nut that keeps the axle in the rear housing. Needless to say, someone lost their job - and was handed a copy of Popular Mechanics on the way out.

Okay, the very last part was a joke.

[Dark Soul]

If those are the only things you can't do Dark Soul, you must give a killer blow job! Not that there's anything wrong with that...
I just can't believe they printed that in Popular Mechanics magazine!

Uh....they DIDN'T! LOL! I don't remember seeing anything about blowjobs on the list!

Now cunnilingus...that's a field I have extensively researched and studied. Maybe I'll write a book on it...

[HarleyRo1]

101. How to put the toilet seat down.