What Is Your Main Manliness

[Ducatiboy stu]

I drive a ute.

Me too

I wore a tool belt for an hour today.

I have worn tool belts to many times to count

I own a .308 calibre rifle, which has despatched numerous feral pigs from grateful farmers' properties.

Dont own, but have dispatched various furry creatures with .17 ( fox's ) .22 .22-250, .243 ( very nice rifle on Roo's, ) .30-30 lever action Winchester

I have driven a car at over 220kph.

My old VH 308 Commy ex HWY Patrol car, but 220 on a bike is way more fun

I have ben a passenger in a car at over 240kph (calibrated speedo stops around there).

I have driven ambulances.

Yet to do that, but the work truck did have a first aid kit

I used to carry a gun around all day for four days a week. (Until last December)

Damn

I have fired an M4, an M1, an uzi, an AK-47, a Glock 45, a Glock 22, a H&K .45 rifle, a .44 Magnum and solid slugs from a pump action shotgun.

Handled ( but not fired police glocks, used to do Pistol shootign with .22 .38 & .44 ( bit of a waste )

I have been to the FBI academy at Quantico.

I know a bloke who trained with the FBI

I wish I had many of the skills you guys are all talking about. I would love to be able to do handy stuff, but have never really been taught or had the balls to risk doing things myself. For this reason, I have never had the proper tools to do much either.

My main manliness these days is making (badly) and drinking beer.

Have also

Walked Sydney Harbour Bridge on the railway side ( slightly scary at the time )

Sat above the clock at Central Station in Sydney and ate lunch

Sat in the front of a few train locomotives

Looked at Dave70's solution for the left hand mouse

 

[Mardoo]

Massive. Next song on the soundtrack is yours to choose Mardoo...


Not sure which song is next, but this has long been one of my favourite movies that touches on some man stuff - The Princess and the Warrior:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UITtZu82-z8

EDIT: OK, found the next song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4

 

[Zorco]

An everlasting tune like that is locked in to the playlist mate.

Definitely depth to that movie from that brief 10 minutes. I'm going to find a copy.

 

[Zorco]

I've just noticed Ducatiboy Stu's footer image is not working. And the filename is Touched_By_His_Noodly_Appendage!

Hahahaa

 

[Mardoo]

An everlasting tune like that is locked in to the playlist mate.

Definitely depth to that movie from that brief 10 minutes. I'm going to find a copy.

Re: tune - sorry Manticle In truth it wasn't an ironic choice. Wish I had known some of those things as a young man, but then I was a young punk rocker when that song came out, and hearing it about 12,000 times didn't help endear it to me. Now, though...

That person's Youtube channel has the full movie in 10 minute segments. It's kind of hard to find now. There are torrents around. I think I have a copy on my hard drive.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I've just noticed Ducatiboy Stu's footer image is not working. And the filename is Touched_By_His_Noodly_Appendage!

Hahahaa

And dont you be forgetting that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwI2NrVYqIE

 

[Florian]

Massive.
Not sure which song is next, but this has long been one of my favourite movies that touches on some man stuff - The Princess and the Warrior:

Great stuff Mardoo, I still remember watching that one in the movies when it first came out.
It's also the first and only movie I ever converted to play on the 2.5 inch display of my Blackberry 8820 years later.

Also one of the first German movies I made the inlaws watch...

I still have the DVD just in case it can't be found online anymore.
Also, some other great movies being pruduced by Tom Tykwer(with Run Lola Run probably being the best known over here).

By the way, that suspension railway is still in full operation (since 1901) and is by far the coolest public transport I've ever used.

 

[Dave70]

I remind myself I must balance my manliness with sensitivity by watching Johnny Cash perform duets with wispy folk singers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aql_T-1W3NU

 

[Zorco]

Hey sp0rk and Wardcliff, you guys up for song selection?

sp0rk, possibly something to exercise my latissimus dorsi - epic reps till I'm toned and tanked. Will provide evidence!

 

[wide eyed and legless]

After just visiting Strawberry Fields NYC was thinking Woman by John Lennon would be apt, but decided to go with Respect by Aretha Franklin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0

 

[Dave70]

Wise choice.
Lennon was a vastly overrated wife beating ivory tower *******.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I never did like Areobics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiHdpAVIHgo

 

[sp0rk]

Hey sp0rk and Wardcliff, you guys up for song selection?

sp0rk, possibly something to exercise my latissimus dorsi - epic reps till I'm toned and tanked. Will provide evidence!

Uhhhh...
This is my go to heavy set track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei5hEyBnRF4

Also been listening to a bit of Rollins Band while lifting this week
Wish I could find a track of Henry reciting The Iron

 

[Wardcliff]

Hey sp0rk and Wardcliff, you guys up for song selection?


My girls are about the best thing left of me, so these may not be everybody's cup of tea, (or seem very "manly), but they remind me of my purpose as a man. (The second one talks about a son, but I relate it to my girls).

http://youtu.be/SwlAdEnT-do

http://youtu.be/WtS4XwJZWgg

 

[Zorco]

sp0rk / Wardcliff: Well that's got to be the genre bookends to the Main Manliness sountrack

 

[Zorco]

I never did like Areobics

Please tell me this is footage of Winkle's AHB X-mas in July.

 

[barls]

all those that are posting the guns till you have fired one of these suckers you are all well behind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGudnVQsnLw
im talk of the big ****** in the back as well.
thats what i use to look after in the military.

 

[sp0rk]

I was a Navy Cadet when I was growing up (most of the men on my Dad's side were cadets then in the RAN when old enough) and I got to shoot a LOT of stuff civilians would never touch, even before I was 16.
Did a few sea trips and fired off 12mm and 25mm mounted guns, a few bigger pieces as well.
Plus did a few drum corps courses at Singleton & Holsworthy with Army cadets and did range days with them, shooting most things they had on base, only precision rifle we got to touch was the SR-98 tho.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Please tell me this is footage of Winkle's AHB X-mas in July.

Pretty much any AHB X-mas party :lol:

 

[Dave70]

I can feel my testosterone spike just looking ant the manly SR-71.