Popular Mechanics decided to compile a list of 100 Skills every man should know. Yes, men only, obviously women do not need to know any of these skills according to Popular Mechanics. The pigs.

They have conveniently divided up the tasks into different specialities. Mostly I think this is a pretty stupid list. Unlike my list of tools I can use. But I’ll play along with their lame-o list and bold the skills I have mastered - the ones I can do without consulting a book or having someone looking over my shoulder.

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout - simple, hang on and pucker up. Cuss.
2. Drive in snow - especially handy for Hawaii readers.
3. Check trouble codes - trouble code? trouble code? what the hell is a troub
4. Replace fan belt - well this is just stupid. On today’s cars you have to pull the damn engine (don’t you?)
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle - see #1
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer - if the vehicle has a trailer hitch.
9. Jump start a car

Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car - yes, the electric windows will work! No, they really will!

Home

14. Carve a turkey - I can debone a turkey or chicken too.
15. Use a sewing machine - I can run a 75 year old Singer, but not the space-age ones like Nancy has.
16. Put out a fire - whew, tough list.
17. brew beer - nobody knows how to do this unless they have a kit.
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric - blood doesn’t come out of fabric
19. Move heavy stuff - See #1
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter - the one on the house? Why do I have to know this? Like I’m going to call up and say they mis-read the meter? Meter readers don’t know how to read the meter, they just write down the numbers. Oh, is that the skill required? Then Yes.
22. Shovel the right way - See #1
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall- but I’ll use a ton of compound and have to sand forever to get it paintabe.
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line - I’m 1/4 the way through this list and it’s getting stupider and stupider.
29. Use a French knife - I don’t even know what this is.
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag

Medical Myths

43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How

48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors

51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat - skipper a boat? Is this steering a power boat or sailing. Big difference. I can do both.
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current - done it.
Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes

60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning - yes, I get struck by lightning often and know exactly what to do! Stupid, stupid list.

Teach Your Kids

65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle- whew, tough one. Take knife blade, chip off wood. Great skill needed.
75. Ride a bike

Technology

76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive
Master Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light - hw to test a light? how to test a light? spit in the socket you dorks.
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges

Congratulations if you read this far.

101. Be able to withstand dumb lists and bloggers who post them.

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