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I've got to ask a question here....This has been on my mind for some time as I'm dumbfounded by the pussification of American men. How many of you don't have the mechanical aptitude to change your own oil in a piece of machinery or learn some new skill? The skill can be anything from carpentry, welding, reloading, etc. I know of some men that have no aptitude for learning for themselves and just lean on other. I just don't get it....
Mom and Dad always taught me to learn it myself if I didn't know how to do it. This seems to be a lost art anymore. To me, it's not a question of not having the money, it's about the journey of life and learning something new.
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I'm currently working on a fourth language.
Interpreting Stick's posts.
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“Factio democratica delenda est"
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Different people have aptitudes for different skills.
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New cars these days don't have a spare. Millennials don't know how to change a tire they just call road service on their Iphone.
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Different people have aptitudes for different skills. Good way to put it.
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I make sure my stuff is really broke before I'll bring it to someone to fix.
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Different people have aptitudes for different skills. Today, I was reminded to rejoice in that fact that my aptitudes don't include the Pan Flute.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Different people have aptitudes for different skills. Very true. After your doctor has put in a long day at the clinic, do you want him spending whatever spare time he may have reading to keep up with the latest research or techniques, or out in his shop making or fixing stuff, especially when he can afford to pay somebody who needs the work to do it? Mechanical skills are worthy of respect, but no more than many other abilities. Paul
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Different people have aptitudes for different skills. Good way to put it. Well the first skills should be how to feed yourself and change a tire
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I make sure my stuff is really broke before I'll bring it to someone to fix. I have a nephew like this.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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I can put plumbing and AC in a hundred story building, weld and build all kinds of junkie cshit, operate all kinds of excavators ( can’t do much with a dozer ), but I can’t do anything with computers. I don’t like small things with little parts. I soon take a hammer to something small if it give me trouble. Wifey puts all the kids toys or anything like that together, cause she likes it and I hate that crap.
It’s a good thing some people like the things I can’t do. I liked changing brakes and clutches at one time. I won’t hardly touch an automobile now.
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The cardiologist that put in my heart stent loves to do plumbing. I walked into a Menards store, there he was laying out 4" plastic drain pipe fittings. My mouth must have fallen open, he looked, and said, "We're plumbers".
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I've got to ask a question here....This has been on my mind for some time as I'm dumbfounded by the pussification of American men. How many of you don't have the mechanical aptitude to change your own oil in a piece of machinery or learn some new skill? The skill can be anything from carpentry, welding, reloading, etc. I know of some men that have no aptitude for learning for themselves and just lean on other. I just don't get it....
Mom and Dad always taught me to learn it myself if I didn't know how to do it. This seems to be a lost art anymore. To me, it's not a question of not having the money, it's about the journey of life and learning something new. Despite all the hollering from many about "dirty jobs" that pay a lot...the oil patch comes immediately to mind as something that pays relatively high wages for blue collar skills, what jobs pay the most? Mechanicking, oil patch, carpenter, etc. pay relatively high wages until they don't. Many require quite a bit of strength as well as skills and though the skills may or may not diminish, the strength always does. Unless you can move up into management or make a helluva lot more than most and bank it away, you are screwed when you get older. The jobs that pay the most are white collar and require college, not trades. Plumbing and electric, stuff like that...always have been in demand in the modern world and pay fairly well if you can avoid getting hurt. Stuff that paid well and allowed you to have a modicum of being your own boss, like doctors and vets...even those have been herded into working for somebody else instead of yourself. We are seeing right now what the .gov and its owners think of small and medium businessmen. All that said, if you don't make much money at your day job, you can save a lot by just being handy and smart enough to figure stuff out on your own.
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Not only men, women as well.
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Doctors only have two models to work on, which haven't changed in thousands of years, and they get to bury their mistakes. I definitely don't want my doctor messing with my car! He only gets the chance to kill me on the very rare occasions I get sick enough to visit his office- - - - -I'm betting my life on my mechanic's work every time I turn the steering wheel or step on the brakes. I just hope my mechanic doesn't find out that I'm sleeping with his wife! Wait a minute- - - - -we're both the same person! I've been doing my own car repairs for over 60 years!
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Different people have aptitudes for different skills. Good way to put it. True. Some people are f.ucking idiots also.
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Every man should know how to;
Build a home
Rebuild an engine
Cook a meal
Process a deer, elk , cow etc...
Wire an outlet
Cut and chop wood
Built a fire in the rain forest
Shoot a rifle & handgun
Fix the plumbing
Treat a lady with respect
Treat a whore with little respect
Change a diaper
Read a contract
Negotiate a deal
These things aren't exclusive to the blue collar crowd.......
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PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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I've got to ask a question here....This has been on my mind for some time as I'm dumbfounded by the pussification of American men. How many of you don't have the mechanical aptitude to change your own oil in a piece of machinery or learn some new skill? The skill can be anything from carpentry, welding, reloading, etc. I know of some men that have no aptitude for learning for themselves and just lean on other. I just don't get it....
Mom and Dad always taught me to learn it myself if I didn't know how to do it. This seems to be a lost art anymore. To me, it's not a question of not having the money, it's about the journey of life and learning something new. Despite all the hollering from many about "dirty jobs" that pay a lot...the oil patch comes immediately to mind as something that pays relatively high wages for blue collar skills, what jobs pay the most? Mechanicking, oil patch, carpenter, etc. pay relatively high wages until they don't. Many require quite a bit of strength as well as skills and though the skills may or may not diminish, the strength always does. Unless you can move up into management or make a helluva lot more than most and bank it away, you are screwed when you get older. The jobs that pay the most are white collar and require college, not trades. Plumbing and electric, stuff like that...always have been in demand in the modern world and pay fairly well if you can avoid getting hurt. Stuff that paid well and allowed you to have a modicum of being your own boss, like doctors and vets...even those have been herded into working for somebody else instead of yourself. We are seeing right now what the .gov and its owners think of small and medium businessmen. All that said, if you don't make much money at your day job, you can save a lot by just being handy and smart enough to figure stuff out on your own. You sound like a girl.
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Probably like most here, I'm not dependent on others for most stuff I need to get done.
But, just because I've learned something and done it (at least well enough to get by), doesn't mean at 45 years old it's worth my time or aggravation to keep doing it.
I am NOT painting my own house exterior. Ever. Again. I have no desire to be 35 feet up on scaffold.
I also leave carpet to the professionals. Same, concrete.
Sometimes doing it myself and learning it is part of the challenge and makes a project fun. Other times, I just want it friggin' done, like, YESTERDAY, and I will pay to make the problem go away pronto.
(I do want to learn to weld though. I've never done it because I've just never had a need, but looks like fun.)
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You despair, repeatedly, constantly! daily basis?
A despair ninny.
Sack up, despire ninny.
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