75 skills men must learn

I like articles like this which offer a much more concise worldview than a book. A book like the SAS Survival Handbook will provide you with a lot of information but never in one sitting the way a solid magazine article will.

I like how a fair amount of emergency preparedness has worked its way in. This is a continuing trend. 34, 35, 51, 55, 68, 69, 72 are the clear ones in this list, but to a lesser degree a lot more would fit... I would count 7, 11, 14, 18, 20, 25, 26, 43, 45 as being preparedness related. There are a few others which are weakly related, and as much as 1/3 of the 75 are skills that are related to survival in some fashion... IMO.

I would love to see a short, concise article on this topic for the sole purpose of typical urban survival, with an emphasis on preparedness. Somewhere between 50 and 100 items you should know. A brochure and not a pamphlet.

If anyone who writes aricles is listening...

Properly on the list? Critical but left off the list? Too cultutally biased? Let the debate rage!

A real man makes his own list. A skills list and a bucket list. Anything else is fashion following foppery.

One skill a woman must have: finding a man with the seventy-five skills.

And then teaching him to unlearn them so she can teach him what he really needs to know.

Ok, that list is terrible. Was it really written by a guy? A jump shot in pool? That's not a skill, that's a clown trick. Playing gin? I just don't get it. Any skill not used in the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales is not required, with the possible exceptions of driving a car and welding.

All I need now is a list of seventy-five skills a female geek must have.

Jeanette Isabelle

The list is silly, if not moronic.

It would appear it was written by Professor Tom Chiarella who even appears to be a grown up. Academics specialising in creative English writing, well what more can you say.

BTW do folks actually still purchase Esquire Magazine? Judging by the websites journalistic articles the target demographic must still be 16-22 year old males. I thought Esquire magazine would have died out along time ago along with Gordon Gekko, Crockett and Tubbs.

I aggree with some of the items. In fact, I've got some catching up to do!

But I do think these should be added...

Know how to solder, properly.
Know how to weld (MIG counts, barely. TIG gets you extra points).

Know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle. Ownership required.
Know how to ride a motorcycle. Ownership required.
(I know these two are controversial, but why deny yourself the simple pleasure?)

Know how to sharpen a knife.
Know how to explain that a sharp knife is safer than a dull knife.
Know how to tie a bowline.
Know how to measure with calipers and micrometers.
Know that some women have their own list that's as valid as yours.

And my personal credo...Know how to fix things WITHOUT resorting to duct tape
if it's not an emergency.