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Things that make you feel like a man.
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1. OPENING JARS - nnng, she's struggling. You take it from her hands, open it effortlessly and pretend she loosened it for you. She didn't. Jars are men's work.
2. CALLING SOMEONE 'SON' - Especially policeman but even saying it to kids makes you the man.
3. DOING A PROPER SLIDE TACKLE - Beckham free kicks? Gay. A Stuart Pearce tackle is the pinnacle of the game, simultaneously winning the ball and crippling the man. Magic.
4. SHARPENING A PENCIL WITH A STANLEY KNIFE - Blunt, is it? Hand it here love. No, I don't need a sharpener, you think I can't whittle.
5. GOING TO THE TIP - A manly act which combines driving, lifting and - as you thrillingly drop your rubbish into another huge pile of other rubbish, noisy destruction.
6. DRINKING UP - Specifically, rising from the table, slinging your coat on and downing two thirds of a pint in one fluid movement. Then nodding towards the door, saying, "Let's go" and striding out while everyone else struggles to catch up with you. God, you're hard.
7. HAVING A THIN BIT OF WOOD - in the shed, solely to stir paint with.
8. HAVING A SCAR - Ideally it'll be a facial knife wound, but even an iron burn on the wrist is good. "Ooh, did it hurt". "Nah".
9. HAVING A HANGOVER AND THICK STUBBLE - When birds have been partying they just whinge. You, on the other hand have physical
evidence of your hardness, sprouting from your face. "Big
night?" Grr, what does it look like.
10. NODDING AT COPPERS - A moments eye contact is all it takes
for you to share the unspoken bond. "We've not seen eye to eye in
the past", it says, "but someone's got to keep the little scrotes
in line".
11. USING POWER TOOLS - slightly more powerful than you need or
can safely handle. Pneumatic drilling while smoking a fag? Superb.
12. KICKING A FOOTY AGAINST A GARAGE DOOR - Clang-g-g-g-g-g-!
Stitch that Becks, I kick so hard I set off car alarms.
13. ARRIVING IN A PUB LATE... and everyone cheers you. It
doesn't mean you're popular, it just means your mates are ****ed.
However, the rest of the pub doesn't know that.
14. NOT WATCHING YOUR WEIGHT - fat is a feminist issue,
apparently. Brilliant. Pass the pork scratchings.
15. CARVING THE ROAST - and saying "are you a leg or breast
man" to the blokes and "do you want stuffing" to the women.
Congratulations, you are now your dad.
16. WINKING - turns women to putty. Doesn't it?
17. TEST SWINGING HAMMERS - ideally, B&Q would have little
changing rooms with mirrors so you could see how rugged you look with
any DIY item. Until then, we'll make do with the aisles.
18. TAKING OUT £200 FROM A CASHPOINT - okay, so its for paying
the plumber later but with that much cash you feel like a mafia don.
The only thing better is peeling notes off the roll later.
19. PHONE CALLS THAT LAST LESS THAN A MINUTE - unlike birds, we
get straight to the point. "alright? Yep. Drink? Red lion? George,
it is then. Seven. See ya."
20. PARALLEL PARKING - bosh, straight in. first time. Can
Schumacher do that? No, because his cars got no reverse gear which,
technically, makes you the worlds best driver.
21. HAVING EARNED THAT PINT - Since the dawn of time, men have
toiled in the fields in blistering heat. Why? So, when it's over we
can stand there in silence, surveying our work with one hand
resting on the beer gut while the other nurses a foaming jug of ale.
Aaaah.
22. HAVING SOMETHING PROPERLY WRONG WITH YOU - especially if
you didn't make a fuss, like Roy Keane playing two games with
broken ribs. Proper hard.
23. KNOWING WHICH SCREWDRIVER IS WHICH - "a Phillips? For that?
Are you mad, bint?"
24. TAKING A NEWSPAPER INTO THE LOO - a visual code that says "Yeah, that's right, I'm going for a ****"
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Reminded me so much of mi dad 
Originally Posted by Blitzen
