Things that you should know how to do but don't

[Farang]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: nerp
Build a fire.

Clean a fish.

Cook.

You know starting a fire is something I've been meaning to teach myself some day soon. I mean starting one from sticks and rocks. It would be such a great feeling to be able to do that.

It really isn't that hard. A lot of people get this idea that you have to sit in front of the pit with the sticks and rub them together for hours just to get barely a spark. I think they get it from movies like Castaway and whatnot. Anyway give it a shot, just follow this three step process:
1) Find a rock at least the size of a baseball, preferably larger but one you're comfortable moving quickly with only one hand.
2) Find a stick that is sturdy enough not to bend when holding a good deal of weight (~50lbs? or so).
3) Walk into a convenience store. Stab the clerk in the eye with the stick, hit him over the head with the rock, grab a bic lighter, and run out the door.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: nerp
Build a fire.

Clean a fish.

Cook.

You know starting a fire is something I've been meaning to teach myself some day soon. I mean starting one from sticks and rocks. It would be such a great feeling to be able to do that.

It really isn't that hard. A lot of people get this idea that you have to sit in front of the pit with the sticks and rub them together for hours just to get barely a spark. I think they get it from movies like Castaway and whatnot. Anyway give it a shot, just follow this three step process:
1) Find a rock at least the size of a baseball, preferably larger but one you're comfortable moving quickly with only one hand.
2) Find a stick that is sturdy enough not to bend when holding a good deal of weight (~50lbs? or so).
3) Walk into a convenience store. Stab the clerk in the eye with the stick, hit him over the head with the rock, grab a bic lighter, and run out the door.

haha lol

Course once you've mastered that ditty it quickly becomes the solution to everything.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Laundry
Telling off my IT manager instead of being intimidated by him (he's not my real boss)
Cook
Code in bash without looking online
Javascript (never bothered to learn it, I'm html/css/php old school)

Probably lot of other things that aren't coming to mind.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Laundry
Telling off my IT manager instead of being intimidated by him (he's not my real boss)
Cook
Code in bash without looking online
Javascript (never bothered to learn it, I'm html/css/php old school)

Probably lot of other things that aren't coming to mind.

Add reading and comprehension to the list.

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Tie most knots
Field dress game (who knows how to do that?)
CPR (taken a class in HS, but doubt I could do it very well years later)
Fire a rifle (taken a class, doubt I could hit anything)
Operate most power tools (anything beyond a screwdriver)
Parallel park (without having a backup camera )

 

[Whisper]

Just about anything related to home improvement and repair.

And most things related to cooking.

 

[GeekDrew]

In order that I feel I ought to learn them:

Parallel park
Swim
Ride a bike
CPR and anything medically common
Fire a gun (well)
Tie most knots

 

[guyver01]

nothing

i am god


well..

i guess being humble then

 

[Capt Caveman]

CPR
Basic First Aid
Change a Flat
Start a Fire
Heimlich Maneuver
Personal Hygiene

 

[PM650]

does nobody read the subtitles?

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: erub
Field dress game (who knows how to do that?)

I live in Mississippi.

 

[JDMnAR1]

Originally posted by: PM650
does nobody read the subtitles?

Apparently THAT should be on a lot of their lists.

 

[Mo0o]

Have never changed the oil
Never started a fire using sticks or flint+tinder
Drive stick (although if i got into one, im sure i can get from point a to point b as long as there aren't a shitload of hills)

Can do most of what eveyrone else have been listing

 

[irishScott]

Drive stick. Although I fully intend to learn it somewhere down the line.

 

[MotF Bane]

Anything involving females.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Drive stick. Although I fully intend to learn it somewhere down the line.

That's not something the general populace can do so no worries.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
Sex a man.

you most certainly do know how. you just don't want to.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: PM650
Live beyond my means, talk to women, drink heavily

:laugh:

WTF is wrong with you ? EVERYBODY knows how to do that....it's in your genes!

Hell, I don't know.

Maybe remember things (getting too old).

 

[sandorski]

Well I'm not sure. I have to find my List so I can mark off: Dispose of Body. Once I do that I can post some things.

 

[SandEagle]

i admit that i do not know how to tie a tie. no matter how many times i go through it, i just cant do it..

also, never changed a flat always had AAA come and do it lulz

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: SandEagle
i admit that i do not know how to tie a tie. no matter how many times i go through it, i just cant do it..

also, never changed a flat always had AAA come and do it lulz

Just tie a 4-in-Hand. It's by far the easiest way to tie a tie

 

[SlitheryDee]

I can't think of anything. I can't ever think of an answer for any of the "Name something (or 2 or 3) that..." threads. Everyone seems to be able to come up with lists of items easily while my mental landscape turns to indistinct fog when I am asked to name a thing that could be anything, yet falls in some sort of category. Maybe that should be my response to this thread? I should know how to rattle off "things" to meet random criteria at a moments notice. Everyone else seems to have no problem with that.

 

[CraigRT]

I can't cook worth shyte.
I also suck at folding clothes. I despise doing it because of this

I am however, pretty handy I do all my own work on my cars and pretty much anything else I own.

 

[xanis]

play beer pong well

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
I can't cook worth shyte.
I also suck at folding clothes. I despise doing it because of this

I am however, pretty handy I do all my own work on my cars and pretty much anything else I own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kacQlt7zsQY

I do this now. It's an awesome way to quickly do it