One for the manly men (and manly women) of b3ta...
How many of these can you do? I count 13 that I can do competently, but I'd have no idea of how to change a tire shamefully enough.

www.bspcn.com/2009/07/08/14-basic-skills-all-men-should-possess/

For some reason it's only showing the comments, so you have to MTFU and scroll up.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:36, 39 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

hmmm
apart from sewing a button and dressing for the occasion i reckon i'm alright there...

except you got 13 so you're a better man than me. dammit.
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:42, Reply)

giggles

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:42, Reply)

Woo!
I count a perfect 14 for me! Some would obviously be better than others, but I could actually do them all.

Plus that makes me more manly than a woman! Yeah!
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:44, Reply)

12/14
Its easy. Get the jack out of your boot, and find whereabouts on the underside of your car it should go. Most cars have a strengthened place near the wheel arch.

Raise the car so the tire is only lightly touching the road so it wont spin when you start to undo the nuts.

Loosen the nuts at first, when all of them are lose then unscrew them and keep somwhere safe. PROTIP: if your car has alloys one nut on each wheel will need a key to unlock it. If you don't have your key the wheel are staying put.

Pull the wheel towards you, sporting it so as not to drag it across the striations on the bolts. Put the spare wheel in its place and screw all nuts on gently before tightening them.

Lower the jack and remove it, before checking the pressure of the spare tire. Drive at no more than 50mph for a short distance then stop and check the bolts are still tight.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:46, Reply)

I just cant dress my self smartly
or write without a spell checker
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:49, Reply)

Well thank you Will
I could have looked it up admittedly, but I thought I'd be truthful and admit to being flawed as a manly woman
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:53, Reply)

No problem
I had a blowout at 80 on the A1. scary when it happen
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:55, Reply)

Let's see
I can sew on a button, do laundry properly, write, dress for the occasion, drive stick and wire an entertainment centre. Not bad.
( Maladicta, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:47, Reply)

12
I've never fixed a toilet, doesn't mean I can't though, and I loathe maps.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:50, Reply)

All of them
Piece of piss, the lot. The only one I struggle with is dressing decently, as I always end up looking like I was dragged through the nearest Oxfam shop and then the local chav watering hole. Go me.


(also, remove the #comments from your url and it will display properly)
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:50, Reply)

So 13 out of 14 then if you can't dress properly
but thanks for the link fixing.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:54, Reply)

I can when forced to
Most of the time I'm too lazy. Call it thirteen and a half.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:55, Reply)

it's not difficult to dress well
hygiene is the most important factor
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:56, Reply)

Hygiene is easy
Picking out clothes, I find much harder! Got my sister to put together some sets for me for when I need em - "These shirts with these trousers and this jacket". So if it all goes wrong, I can blame her.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:00, Reply)

Ah, but
can you effectively kill spiders?
( Maladicta, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 19:57, Reply)

Real men don't kill them
They have ingenious means of shooing them outside.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:00, Reply)

That was going to be my reply!
I never kill them, just let them out the window.

Mice, on the other hand if I catch them...
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:01, Reply)

Why?

( thealternativefact, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:03, Reply)

But mice are fluffeh!

( Maladicta, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:07, Reply)

There is NOTHING manly about this.

( thealternativefact, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:00, Reply)

No, but I won't go within ten feet of them
so I need someone to dispose of them for me by any means necessary.
( Maladicta, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:07, Reply)

9? 9? I feel like much less of a man :(
I can't cook steak, drive anything, change oil, handle roadside emergancies or swim (at all). Oooohhh dear :D
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:08, Reply)

You look nice in a skirt though.
Fetch me a drink, there's a good girl.
( thealternativefact, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:19, Reply)

Heh
You wouldn't want what I'm drinking. Its apparently white wine, but I have my suspicions.... Tastes like a heady mix of turpentine and antifreeze
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:27, Reply)

Did you get it from Poundland?

( Cawl, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 22:40, Reply)

I am officialy 50% All Man!
Not bad considering the lack of male influence in my upbringing...
(bill, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:18, Reply)

Your beard is worth 10 points.

( thealternativefact, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 20:19, Reply)

Aww!
Thanks!
(bill, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 22:43, Reply)

I can't drive. Anything.
Otherwise it's all good. 13\14.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 9 Jul 2009, 22:18, Reply)

Balance a Checkbook?
That can fuck right off.
Although I get double points for my awesome fire-making skills.
So...
14! Woo!
( Cawl, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 22:37, Reply)

Who even has Checkbooks?
This is bullshit.
( Cawl, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 22:38, Reply)

14/14
easy.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 9 Jul 2009, 22:56, Reply)

You have Checkbooks?

( Cawl, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 22:57, Reply)

i have 2 chequebooks, 1 personal and 1 business...
haven't used the personal one in about 2 years but use the business one to pay trade accounts every month.
the ONLY reason the banks don't want us to use them is cos they cost them more in time. which means money. but the system suits me (and many other small/medium businesses) just fine...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 9 Jul 2009, 23:11, Reply)

:\
Do you balance them?
( Cawl, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 23:34, Reply)

not the personal one, for obvious reasons...
but 3 or 4 cheques a month is pretty easy to keep track of!
even for someone who didn't start a business for the love of paperwork ;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 9 Jul 2009, 23:38, Reply)

Oh...
This still doesn't make me understand what "balancing" means.
( Cawl, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 23:40, Reply)

you deduct the value of the cheque you just wrote from the balance of the account...
on the page inside the front/back cover of the chequebook, thus keeping a real-time running total for the account. so when your bank statement arrives you can mutter WTF cos cheques you wrote 5 days ago haven't yet registered with the bank but you have already accounted for it yourself, leaving a discrepancy and sometimes much confusion and hilarity!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 10 Jul 2009, 0:01, Reply)

I'm going to say all of them
I don't really know what it means by balance a chequebook, but I'm pretty sure I could do it if I knew. It's only going to be some kind of simple maths and I'm an engineer ffs.

*reads comment above*

yeah, I can manage that
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Jul 2009, 8:24, Reply)