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[Misc] I'm a real man. Simple things you've done that makes you feel like a god



drew

Drew
NSC Patron
Oct 3, 2006
23,609
Burgess Hill
I used to work in New York in law enforcement. One time, in a futile attempt to save my marriage, I flew to LA to join my ex-wife for a Christmas party at her company offices. I arrived just at the moment that heavily armed international terrorists stormed the building and took everyone hostage. To cut a long story short, I managed to save the day but sadly not the marriage.

I think I saw you biopic. Did you play yourself?
 














vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
28,272
Catching 3 stone of Herring then brining and smoking them. And yes, they taste bloody marvellous !
 


StonehamPark

#Brighton-Nil
Oct 30, 2010
10,133
BC, Canada
Fixed a leaking something from the engine of my old car.
Never knew what it was, but it apparently solved the problem...

Pure stubbornness and a bit of luck, no actual ability on my part.
 






Weststander

Well-known member
Aug 25, 2011
69,271
Withdean area
I used to work in New York in law enforcement. One time, in a futile attempt to save my marriage, I flew to LA to join my ex-wife for a Christmas party at her company offices. I arrived just at the moment that heavily armed international terrorists stormed the building and took everyone hostage. To cut a long story short, I managed to save the day but sadly not the marriage.

Very modest of you.

You failed to mention the time you single handedly defeated a large group of terrorists (ex Navy SEAL’s) who’d taken over the last US battleship and a nuclear submarine. All with kitchen knives, karate and a microwave.
 








lawros left foot

Glory hunting since 1969
NSC Patron
Jun 11, 2011
14,071
Worthing
If—




IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
 


Cian

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
Replaced the drain hose on my dishwasher - connected internally and an absolute bollox to get out/get the new one in.

I do have an engineering degree of sorts but now nearly entirely do non-physical or managerial gubbins work so it felt far more important than it really was.
 


Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,404
Location Location
Changed my front wheel (driver side) this morning, after getting a puncture on the A23. I made it to a small layby and got over as far as possible, but still had a stream of cars and lorries whistling just a few feet past me ‘arris at 70mph+ as I jacked the car up and fiddled with the nuts. The WIND nearly bowled me over a couple of times.

Got back in the car and gave myself a high-five. Well, a little clap.
 






Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
32,468
Brighton
Know how to succesfully re-pressurise a boiler.
Fixed my washing machine with a flat-edge screwdriver when it was stuck.
Re-felted my shed roof.

MAN.
 




Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,504
Worthing
Took up my Victorian wooden floor, repaired the joists, put in the pipe for a new water main, got some reclaimed boards to repair some damaged Ives, relaid / nailed the lot back down, sanded & stained it - no squeaks

I'm an accountant by trade

Do you qualify for a tax break there then as ‘Using home as office’ ?
 




Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
32,468
Brighton
Do you mean turn the little tap round until the pressure guage goes up to the right level? Or something that's actually MANLY? [emoji23]

I assumed this thread was a bit tongue-in-cheek...the point being I'm not manly at all.

However, you put What We Do In The Shadows in your top 12 films EVER, so I'm not sure we can have a sensible debate. :wink:
 


LlcoolJ

Mama said knock you out.
Oct 14, 2009
12,982
Sheffield
I assumed this thread was a bit tongue-in-cheek...the point being I'm not manly at all.

However, you put What We Do In The Shadows in your top 12 films EVER, so I'm not sure we can have a sensible debate. :wink:
It was only because I showed my wife how to increase the pressure the other day so that I don't have to do it every time our boiler (it's old) stops working. Maybe I should have continued with the charade that it was a manly task, too complicated for women. I've probably shot myself in the foot there.[emoji23]

Fake news re the films as I wrote on the thread that they weren't my definitive top 12, but you know that already....... [emoji14]
 


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