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 so

haven’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…. 🙂

🙂

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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.”

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Waking up with morning glory and having a pee into the bath tub.

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 3×9, 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.