What is the manliest thing you have ever done?

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Miramonti

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probably when I jumped in an ice cold lake in the high sierras and swam out to save someone from drowning. That was when I was 14 tho...it's been all estrogen from there. :oops:
 
MagnusTheBrewer

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I get up, go to work and, pay my bills. Not manly enough for ya? Check back with me in thirty or forty years.
 
kage69

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I saved two dumb bitches from drowning 4 miles off the Florida shore when I was 17. They somehow thought a 13ft rental with a 6HP engine would be fine beyond the reef on a day when a tropical depression was approaching. I was out in my boat looking for grouper and mutton snapper and saw them waving and screaming. My neighborhood friend and I motored over to help, and that's when I discovered dude could hardly swim. I swim over, help them bail out the boat, and while I'm telling them to stop complaining about wet cigarettes and cel phones a big wave slammed their boat on top of me. Swam back to my boat feeling dizzy and out of breath, climbed in, threw them a line, and towed them about 2 miles until SeaTow showed up. Those bitches never even said thank you.

Folks were out of town and I was already kinda on probation with them, so I wrapped a cold towel around my neck and took it easy for the rest of the weekend. Monday came around and I knew I had to go to the hospital. After xrays were taken, Doc said I had a compression fracture in one of my vertebrae and that I was lucky I hadn't been paralyzed and then drown.


My sister thinks I'm superman because I chased a black bear away from her house with fruit from her kitchen table. Didn't have a gun with me so I figured some Granny Smiths and naval oranges doing about 70 might do the trick. She hasn't seen a bear since.


Not sure if this rates as manly or just stupid, but I saw my step-dad get fed up with a cyst on his left pec (almost a boil, poor guy had a hard time with cystic acne when he was a kid, still kinda haunts him) so he grabbed a Ruger Single Six in .22LR and basically used a bullet to lance it. He put two Bandaids over it and went back to work.
 
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Howard

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kage69 said:
Not sure if this rates as manly or just stupid, but I saw my step-dad get fed up with a cyst on his left pec (almost a boil, poor guy had a hard time with cystic acne when he was a kid, still kinda haunts him) so he grabbed a Ruger Single Six in .22LR and basically used a bullet to lance it. He put two Bandaids over it and went back to work.
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gothamhunter

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Came home from school one day when I was 15 and my dad was beating on my mom again like usual. I finally got tired of it later that night and kneed him in the groin, grabbed him by the throat, slammed him against the wall, and punched him in the face repeatedly until he was knocked out. I checked that he was still breathing (I didn't want to kill the man, just teach him a lesson), and then dragged his body outside and locked the door.

Neither my mom nor my sisters said a word and we just went on with our evening, not wanting to address the white elephant in the room. When I woke up for school the next morning he was sitting in a chair right outside the garage smoking a cigarette with blood crusted down his face and a swollen nose and black eyes. He told me and my sisters to have a good day at school.

Since then he's never touched her like that again, and he still has a slightly crooked nose.
 
Fayd

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I was once hiking up a big hill / small mountain when I really really had to crap. I dropped down some boulders in front of something that, in retrospect, closely resembled a cave. I was about to drop my pants when I heard something that sounded suspiciously like a cougar's roar so, with a tight sphincter, I started to swear loudly and run/climb over 5ft. boulders faster than I thought I could run on flat ground. Wait, manly... :hmm:

In highschool I gave myself what would be a 2nd degree burn in our metal shop. I looked at it, cursed my stupidity, finished what I was doing, ran it under some water for a while, and walked to the nurse, in that order. It was on the upper arm by my elbow, so I couldn't see it, but the slacker teachers' pets hanging out in the office seemed to think it was a big deal.
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high school gym class, we were on rotation, that month was wrestling.

had a guy almost in pin, was just about to complete, when he pushed out and rotated my arm with him. it pulled a muscle in my left arm.

completed the pin with my right and a leg.
 
DrPizza

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I raised two boys to also be manly. They were both operating power tools before their fifth birthdays. By ages 6 and 7, they were "cliff" diving from about 35 feet up. Both could operate a motorboat, and both could cast a fishing pole to within about a 2 foot circle 50 feet away. By ten, I had taught them all there is to know about household wiring & plumbing. By 10, they could both shoot a gun more accurately than most adults. They both race motocross - one "sucked it up" and ran 3 races on a broke leg before heading to the ER for x-rays. He cut half the cast off a week later so he could continue riding, and the following week, cut the rest of it off & wore one of those hard plastic braces instead. By 16 years of age, both could do most routine repairs on a car - brakes, etc. One of them completely tore down a dirt bike, by himself, and rebuilt it in just a couple hours - just for something to do. The younger son got a fix-it ticket for a loud exhaust this weekend, so he put the car up on jack stands, and got busy, welding the whole exhaust system back together.

The manliest thing I did was be a father to my sons and raise them to be hard working men.

And, by 10 years of age, they both knew that you don't take cheap shots with a bottle (or anything else) during a fight. That's something that a pansy/loser would do.
 
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Sliced open my hand with a sushi knife while we were super busy on a Friday. Didn't have time to deal with it so i put on a latex glove and taped it around the wrist to stop the blood from dripping out.

3 hours later things slowed down and i was able to deal with it. The amount of blood inside was pretty surprising.

Also, iGas wins by far.
 
WelshBloke

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iGas said:
Din't know what the manliest thing that I ever done, but there are a few:

At 5 or 6 years old I ran out from my grand parents bomb shelter in the middle of a bombing raid (shells were falling all around my grand parents farm) to save my grand parents talking black bird (got into a lot of trouble from my aunt for it).

At 6 or 7 years old I cleaned a 3 or 4 years old wound with iodine and bandage it up for her (it was a really bad cut, she lost 1/2 of the first digit of her finger).

At around 8 years old I sew my self up after a bad cut with my mom sewing kit and used iodine to clean up the wound (gave myself 3 stitches).

At 12, I was drafted into the army to stop Pol Pot from killing innocent people.

At 12 years old my family and friends escaped the communist in a 27' wooden boat (19 people, adult and children) that wasn't completed. the deck was open and storm/waves water was rapidly coming in. I was the only one that was brave enough to climbed out on the deck and sealed it with rope and tar (my dad was too busy with the steering, the young captain was useless because he feared for his life and his family).
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This guy wins.


Me? I've got to go get a prostate check, hey you have to be a man to get one. It counts!
 
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