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While not pitting blue collar against white collar, this thread does exhibit the usual trend of placing manual skills above other skills. Manual skills are very valuable, as are (for want of a better term) non-manual skills. I believe that both are valuable and the world is a better place for having people who are skilled in both areas. Seems to me that there is much more snobbishness (again, for want of a better word) on the part of the manual skills side than on the non-manual skills side. If you don't agree with that assessment, please go back and read through the whole thread. Whichever skill set (manual or non-manual) in which a person is most comfortable, I think that it would benefit him to branch out and try other things both inside and outside of that skill set.

You sound like a fa gg ot. Go figure.

Admitting you have a problem is the first step. Congratulations.

Look who the cat dragged in. The guy with the water feature skill.

Reminds me of the butcher your own steer thread. Yeah, right - every real man should be able to process a beef and have it look like it just came from the meat market.

Another campfire dick measuring contest.

There is a legit gripe with a guy who lets his girlfriend change the battery in his Jeep because she doesn’t want him to pay a shop to do it. It happened to my youngest, and she dumped his sorry azz. She is still looking for a serious guy, because, as she told me, she wants a man who can fix and build things. Kid was helping me on the roof at 11, butchering chickens at 12(as well as helping with the processing on hogs, deer and cattle), learned to clean her own drains at thirteen. Damn long hair clogs them quick, and I did it once, made her watch, and she got to do it after that. Girl can fix more stuff than most of the guys she has dated and works in the operating room at the local hospital. The country is in a pitiful place, fellas.

Big problem is most folks these days see learning as work. And work as something to be avoided. Learning is opportunity. I never turned down a chance to learn something, even if it was dangerous or dirty. Had a lot of jobs, a decent amount of schooling, and done things a lot of folks have to pay through the nose to learn. Never spent much time unemployed, far more time trying to keep up with what people were asking for. Only thing ever held me back was finding help that wanted to work and was willing to learn.

That leaves you out.

Do you have to take a dump in every thread you enter outside of the Savage subforum?

If I want to I sure will.

Thanks for caring.

I haven't "inhaled" in over 30 years but know I can still twist one.

I occasionally borrow the tabacky and a paper from a friend just to keep in practice. Don't smoke them, just hand them back.

I can still roll backwards too.

It's like riding a bike.

Fugging doped up Boomers.....

Stupid premise. Did you ever consider there are skills that you don't possess, and haven't had the fortitude to learn them? It cuts both ways.

Not no more bro.

Not no mo'

Know of a couple men in there mid 60’s who lost their wives to illness recently. Neither can cook, handle a checking account or figure out how to run a household...

The simplest of tasks, going to a grocery store gave them both worries...No shît.

Women are great, but if you can’t manage the basics - feeding yourself. Then you’re an idiot.

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Pop tarts

Hot pockets

Pizza rolls

all three meals of the day...................covered.

Maybe change it up a bit with some Vee ainy sausages and some them Sketti-oes

You been hanging with Slummy??

You'll meet a LOT of guys like that in reenacting.

Applies to every era but Civil War reenactors immediately come to mind.

Fugg no, I don't eat that crap. I can cook. I even post pics in the food threads at times.

Well, perhaps the occasional Pop tart.........I have a sweet tooth. And they are convenient. I think the last one I had was on a tug, and I haven't been on a boat since summer '17.

Hot pockets suck, mystery meat filled into some sort of bad dough.

Pizza rolls???? My Sicilian grandpa would come out of his grave and travel 3000 miles to kick my ass.

I was kidding, of course. Can't blame a guy for an occasional pop-tart. I like the little gem chocolate donuts from the gas station, LOL.

For me, life is too short to eat crap food. I've got 2 big octopus legs I am sous vide'ing tomorrow that get sliced and goes into a lightly dressed celery leaf salad with marinated gigante beans and green olives. One of may favorite appetizers (discovered at "Echo and Rig" in Henderson, NV)

Leave out them beans and I'd be right over.

I love octopus.