Popular Mechanics has a list to equate your manhood. It would be interesting to see the list women would provide to equate manhood!!

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home...09.html?page=1

Nice article ...

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For real? These people know NOTHING of manhood.

A real man, must

Be adaptable
--beableto think fast
--beableto remember operations
--beableto troubleshoot everything
Be healthy
--don't smoke
--don't treat self animal //avoids self-abuse
Be honest
--don't abuse trust
--don't withold opinion //it helps to add -valuable
Be honorable
--don't destroy world
--don't destroy humanity
Be passionate
--do care idea
--do express idea
Be responsible
--don't screw people
--don't cheat people


You can throw this man into the jungles of Vietnam, and he will bring peace.

You can throw this man into an ocean and he will swim to safety.

You can throw this man into a burning building and he will resolve the issue effectively.

but chances are, you didn't even have to throw anything.. the man did it all himself. That's good programming =)

When these situations don't exist the program defaults to innovation, and we come up with computers, airplanes, and everything else we ever come up with.

There where a lot of me in the jungles of Vietnam that had qualities like that. There still is no peace there. Not sure where this comment came from, but I was named after a man who died there. My father and an uncle served there. I also had four other uncles that server during the war. You should be very careful on how you word things when blood has been spilled. Some of us actually do appreciate what they have done and what they have gave.

I don't understand what you mean, exactly.

I will, however, state that I have a great respect for the men and women who enlist to contribute to the idea of defending their families, the beliefs of their families, and their own ways of life, and I never wish to indicate otherwise.

One of my dear friends came back from Vietnam and tried to kill his wife with a Bible. They confined him to one of the top floors at a Veterans Administration Hospital to finish out his life. I never knew my father because he died during World War II. I am 65 years old with a terrible phobia about wearing suits.

I got this phobia as a youngster being dressed in a suit to go to another funeral of which there were many. Going to war destroys families and friendships; Going to war over trivialities is just plain stupid.

Defending your country from Invades is one thing; going to war for a corporation is another.

The drug pushers use the line; You are not a man if you don't take these drugs and many a teenagers listens to that bull----.

A woman's estimation of a man is stated many times as someone strong enough to support and discipline their children when it is necessary!!

Hmm, not the list I would have come up with at all - most seemed to do with being a good mechanic, regardless of sex, which of course makes sense in Popular Mechanics. Duh. What next, a list of things Every Manly Slackware User can do?

yeah,very interesting,it seems to train a man to be a mechanic,some of these skills are not very necessary in our daily life.
but if one can learn all of the skills,he might be perfect!

I've seen a lot of people I cared about get buried, but that's life. These things help to reinforce the fact that at any moment it can all be gone with no explanation, and with little regard to how you might feel about it, but that can't stop you, because you, and everyone else, are designed to be that way. You gotta push past everything that comes in your way, and not hold anything back. You're not here long enough to do everything you want to, and at the same time, you're here too long to simply float through it all without ever considering making it better.

It's ok, though. That's neither here nor there. My reference to manliness details a man, man=1. A man, thrown into Vietnam with little choice in the matter outside of being branded a traitor of course, can go there and bring peace to another individual, or group of individuals, regardless of who these people might be.

War is hell, certainly, but so are a lot of other things, and usually.. It's the people you're worried most about their ability to handle a situation that turn around and laugh at you as their organs fail.

This is humanity. We're born to die, and what we do between these two points is what makes life worth it, kinda not so much but a little bit worth it, and not worth it.

A good man understands that things.. inventions, and the like, are all very much temporary, and fixating on one particular subject will invariably lead to disappointment with ones self with regard to his ability to adapt. You're awesome at car mechanics? Good.. can you work on this brand new, completely different vehicle? You should be able to, the concept is the same.. The only thing that's changed is you've never even heard of this technology before, and everything looks different.

Will you say, "Nuh uh, I can't do that." or will you mount your knowledge of similar subjects and begin breaking down the new technology to achieve the goal of "The guy, who instead of only working on cars, is now labeled the one who fixes, rather than the one who fixes the car."

You can leave that one open to interpretation.

"The man who fixes"

will contain everything a man can fix.