Your "Mancomplishments"

[Puros Y Vino]

Hmm..

• Hit 90/91km / hour on my racing bike years ago. I weighed a LOT less and had to fight to keep the wheels down due to lift. (NOTE: I will never do this again)
  
• Not a fisherman, but I can clean and gut them with ease.
  
• Always the guy who ends up building the campfire because people think that a BIC lighter on high should be enough to make a piece of wood catch fire.
  
• Watched Star Wars Ep IV continuously over a 14 hour period (back in the early days of Pay TV when SW was a big deal to license)
  
• Smoked a Monte A in < 2 hours at the herf. (nubbed it too)
  

[pedromendes]

We live in an age when adolescence is celebrated and being a mature, responsible adult is ridiculed.

I take this thread as our own celebration of being a grown up instead of a man-boy. And if it encourages other men to step up, why not?

[Puros Y Vino]

We live in an age when adolescence is celebrated and being a mature, responsible adult is ridiculed.

I take this thread as our own celebration of being a grown up instead of a man-boy. And if it encourages other men to step up, why not?

Good points. It seems that men these days are being watered down. So many basic skills that are lost that most of us need to pay someone else to do. Everyone should know some basic house repair skills (minus the electrical perhaps. too risky). Food prep and cooking skills. Make your own wine, beer, etc. I think a lot of us from European cultures came over with a lot of knowledge of self sufficiency that is lost with every successive generation.

[dangolf18]

I once beat Chuck Norris in a fight.

[BrotherBear]

I once beat Chuck Norris in a fight.

Careful. .. Chuck despises lies. Fun fact: Chuck Norris never lies, whatever he says automatically becomes the truth.

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[Spartan]

I removed the tag off a mattress once.

[Skyfall]

I removed the tag off a mattress once.

not cool!

[bigfunkyg]

Smoked a Monte A in < 2 hours at the herf. (nubbed it too)

Wow! Now that's impressive!!!

[Rye]

I grew a beard

[Patric M]

- I can grow a beard just by thinking about it really hard.

- Once I made a diamond by squeezing some coal really hard.

- If I fall in the water I don't get wet. The water gets Eddy

[LGC]

I spent an entire week with my in laws.

I pissed blood while passing my first kidney stone, and kept working through my night shift.

[Skyfall]

I spent an entire week with my in laws.

I pissed blood while passing my first kidney stone, and kept working through my night shift.

For the WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rushman]

the real mancomplishments.......

(1) quit a perfectly good job/career to follow the woman I love to another country

(2) married that woman

the average every day stuff.......

(1) scraped the pegs of my harley around more corners than I care to remember

(2) after saying "I have been riding two wheeled motorized vehicles half my life" just before taking off on a new scooter in Mexico, and wrecking it before the wife could start the car and follow me

(3) spending less than $50US on two docs, two xrays and a cast for my newly broken leg

(4) spending twice as much to get the cast cut off because I was too chicken to cut it off at home

(5) taking a perfectly good 81 Honda CB750 almost completely apart to convert it to a cafe racer, and taking off one more piece than I was comfortable putting back together - bike still sits in pieces in the states

[AndrewNR]

Hmm..

I can gut and portion to western standards pretty much any animal alive..

I can shoot reasonably..

I can cure, smoke, pickle and preserve just about anything..

I can ride pretty damn well..

I've 85% finished restoring and slightly customizing my first bike..

I own a cool and modest collection of motorcycles..

Got married... then divorced.. Survived.

Poised to start making my own beer.. to be followed by wine and spirits..

Grew a beard after I got divorced..

Few other things I'm sure but those stand out.. Been a father figure to many good friends.. even though I'm just a pup myself and generally their age.. Usually my heads pretty set on my shoulders.. ignoring the divorce period..

[coblos]

I had 3 trees in my backyard that I wanted to chop down, everyone kept saying "You can't cut them down, they're natives". I proved them all wrong.

[headstand]

So Hot!! j/k

[MrDowse]

I once disarmed a knife wielding drunk on a bus. Kicked his ass a little bit and threw him off, to a rapturous round of applause from the other passengers. I am not a particularly big guy and for the most part a physical coward so this was not normal behaviour for me. Amazing what happens when fear and adrenaline kick in. It still gives me the chills when I think about how badly wrong it could have gone.

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[Lotusguy]

I cried watching Bambi

[ptrthgr8]

Hmm. I've not done any one thing that would be considered a "mancomplishment." Climbing Mt. Everest, free-falling from outer space, single handedly defeating the entire Imperial Japanese Army (my grandfather did that, or so he used to tell us), flying an F15 at Mach 2, going out on a crab boat during Opilio season. Those are all mancomplishments, I suppose.

I'm a gun guy, so there's that. Everything from .22s to .50 BMG, flintlocks to belt-fed MGs. I like to grill and drink and smoke cigars (not always at the same time, but usually at least 2 of the 3 at the same time). I like to drive fast. I like hockey (though my watching skills are far better than my playing skills - but at least I can play. Sorta. In an old-man's beer league. Against squirts.) But all of those things seem more or less normal to me. Lots of people in this part of the US do all of that, too. So I guess it's run of the mill for around here.

I'll be going on my first upland bird hunt with my first-ever bird dog next month. Dove, grouse, and partridge will be on the list starting in September and then the pheasant opener is in mid-October. I plan to add that to my list of mancomplishments when the time comes.

Cheers,

~ Greg ~

[canadianbeaver]

Certainly not a man but I smoke cigars and horrify my friends and family. Does that count?

[ptrthgr8]

Haha! I should think it does indeed count, Lisa. Most certainly.

~ Greg ~

[laficion]

My wife asked me ,'What are you doing today,I said "nothing", She said,"yeah ? Well, You did that yesterday"

I then said, Yeah, but I didn't finish.

[Dara]

I can tie my own bow tie...none of the pre tied Velcro fastening bows for me!

[jrb5783]

Here's my toys for the day. Brush cut for two days at my family's hunting cabin in preparation for deer season in November

[Hugomarink]

I partied with Vince Neil and Tommy Lee from Motley Crue at the Grand Havana Room in NYC and then rode with them in a stretch limo over to SCORES (the once-famous strip club) and pretty much every stripper in the place was flocking to our table. Granted, they weren't flocking to see me, but it wasn't a bad place to be. :-)