Ultimate Manly Feats: What Are the Top Accomplishments for Men?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the concept of "manly" accomplishments, exploring various feats that participants consider to exemplify masculinity. The scope includes adventurous activities, survival skills, and personal challenges, with a mix of serious and humorous contributions.

Discussion Character

  • Debate/contested
  • Exploratory
  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest extreme physical challenges like climbing Mount Everest, reaching the poles, and hunting dangerous animals as manly feats.
  • Others propose humorous or unconventional activities, such as running while attached to a kidney machine or attempting to establish rapport with animals.
  • Several contributions emphasize practical skills, such as replacing a tire, building a log cabin, or performing home repairs as indicators of manliness.
  • There are discussions about the ethics of hunting, with some arguing against it as a manly pursuit while others defend traditional hunting practices.
  • Participants mention survival skills, including wilderness survival trials and polar bear swimming, as significant accomplishments.
  • Some contributions highlight emotional strength, such as reading poetry and expressing vulnerability, as aspects of manliness.
  • There are suggestions to replace commonly cited feats with more obscure or challenging ones, like wrestling a crocodile or skiing down Denali.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

The discussion features multiple competing views on what constitutes a manly accomplishment, with no clear consensus on the criteria or specific activities that should be included in the list.

Contextual Notes

Some contributions reflect personal experiences or anecdotal evidence, which may not be universally applicable. The discussion also includes a mix of serious and humorous tones, leading to varying interpretations of what is considered "manly."

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What are some of the most manly things a man can do?

  • Go fishing for sharks (and catch one!)
  • Climb Mount Kill-a-man Jaro.
  • Climb mount everest
  • Reach the north or south pole
  • Go hunting for lions, tigers, or some other dangerous animal
  • Go bear hunting with a bow
  • Swim the english channel

Please help me make a longer list!
 
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.Run along the M1 attached to a kidney machine.
.Drop your trousers and wrap your shirt round your waist,then jump up on a table and mince up and down like a model in a mini skirt.
.Attempt to establish a rapport with every animal you see by blowing up its nose.
.Go to a country pub and have ten pints,then come out,find the nearest cow pat and sit down in it.
.Have a leg amputated and hop to work.:smile:
 
Know how to replace a tire on a car.

Me: "It doesn't fit because you are putting it on backwards, turn it around."

True story.
 
Any serious responses? (looking for things extraordinary)
 
To get some ideas you might want to google "dangerous sports".
 
KingNothing said:
What are some of the most manly things a man can do?

  • Go fishing for sharks (and catch one!)
  • Climb Mount Kill-a-man Jaro.
  • Climb mount everest
  • Reach the north or south pole
  • Go hunting for lions, tigers, or some other dangerous animal
  • Go bear hunting with a bow
  • Swim the english channel

Please help me make a longer list!

King,

Let's include women here as well, qualify and race in the Isle of Mann, that takes some very large stones... Just http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0gwPTwgI70&feature=related"...

Rhody...
 
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swimming the channel works better if you're a chubby woman with a more even fat distribution.

how about you build a log cabin using only an axe and your wits.

manage a stable of females and have everyone get along.

bend nature to your will.
 
KingNothing said:
  • Go fishing for sharks (and catch one!)

I don't think there's anything inherently manly about shark fishing. I've caught plenty and the only one of any real note was sort of by accident. And that's only because it happened to be with 1/4" nylon rope from 50' above the water. I was on an offshore platform fishing for something much tastier (big amberjack). From a boat, or the beach, there's nothing really manly about it. It can be a hard fight if there's any size to them, but a big tuna is much more difficult.

If I get to start spearfishing this year I'll let you know how I feel after trying to keep my catch when I'm in their playing field.

KingNothing said:
  • Go hunting for lions, tigers, or some other dangerous animal

It depends. I'd say the typical African guided dangerous game hunt is very unmanly, while how the Masai USED to hunt lions would be very manly.

KingNothing said:
  • Reach the north or south pole

The Brits did it in a Toyota! How hard can it really be? :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_Polar_Special"
 
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I agree on sharks (depending on the kind of shark and the way it's caught). Salmon sharks always come up in the net while we're salmon fishing. They're vicious little thrashers; the manly thing is to let them go (not many people do; they kill them out of spite and boil their eye balls for their marble collection).

Sleeper sharks are fat, bloated, docile sharks that sometimes get caught in long-line gear. One year, about 20 of them died in our long-lines, the other 30 or so just sat their calmly while we untangled them. It was kind of sad.

Burly accomplishments:

-wilderness survival trials (ie go out into the woods with just a knife and a set of clothes.) Of course, practice safety (bring a cell/sat phone in case you screw yourself over. dumbass attacks happen to the best of us. How you approach a survival trial depends on your flavor of wilderness (coastal, boggy, woods, mountain, desert, etc.) so you should be familiar with the climate. In fact, I wouldn't do this at all without region-specific survival training first.

-polar bear swimming (I could never do this, cold water knocks the wind out of me; I can't keep air in my lungs.)

-Get on a crab boat and do the Bering sea at least once. Don't quit halfway through the season.

-Take control of a bubble market, guide it to a safe deflation.

-Hold political office and clean a neighborhood up.

-Rehabilitate extremely dangerous prisoners, help them integrate into and synchronize with society, turning at least one of them into a monumental positive impact on society.
 
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why on Earth would you want to hunt any of those animals?! its not manly at all! especially to go searching for them and kill them for fun. Yes we know you can outsmart them, go do something better with your big brain!

I think making fire out of just sticks is pretty burly! or just being able to survive in nature for a night, live with a pack of wolves...
 
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I re-tiled my whole house by myself. I assure you, it felt quite burly.
 
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Pythagorean said:
-Hold political office and clean a neighborhood up.

-Rehabilitate extremely dangerous prisoners, help them integrate into and synchronize with society, turning at least one of them into a monumental positive impact on society.

My favorite ones!
 
  • #13
Get in a bar fight against 5 other dudes, and win. Order a drink after winning.
 
  • #14
Solve the four-color theorem... by hand.

Or posts some crackpost threads here and evade Evo's ban gun.
 
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QuarkCharmer said:
I re-tiled my whole house by myself. I assure you, it felt quite burly.

yeah, doing you own home/car maintenance, repairs, and upgrades is definitely gratifying when successful (and avoids ridiculous costs).
 
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Want to be burly? Can you kill a steer and gut and skin it while it's hanging from a tree, and butcher it? If you can't, you shouldn't eat beef.

Unless you are a sissy-boy who has to buy hamburger and steaks from a supermarket...
 
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Evo said:
Know how to replace a tire on a car.

Me: "It doesn't fit because you are putting it on backwards, turn it around."

True story.

:smile: And I suppose his reply was: "The front of the tire will just move around to the back of the tire once the car starts moving, anyway."

Burly accomplishment? Fold a piece of paper in half 12 times (that's the record, but it was accomplished by a girl in high school, so maybe it isn't such a manly accomplishment).
 
  • #18
Dig a tree root out, i dug around and under the root then heaved till i was blue in the face, but if i let go the root would have fallen on me so i found the energy to do it.

Danger would probably have used a ton of tnt.
 
  • #19
Read poetry and cry without feeling embarrassed?

Apologise when you have done something wrong?
 
  • #20
Live a day with honor, integrity and courage to do what is right without hesitation or apology. Now live every day that way.
 
  • #21
You really got to take killi and everest off your list. Replace them with Mt. Proboscis in the Cirque of the Unclimbables and Nameless Tower in the Trango Towers.

To the list I would add riding Mavericks, skiing down Denali, and wrestling a crocodile. Oh, and eating an Epicmealtime alone.
 
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turbo-1 said:
Want to be burly? Can you kill a steer and gut and skin it while it's hanging from a tree, and butcher it? If you can't, you shouldn't eat beef.

Unless you are a sissy-boy who has to buy hamburger and steaks from a supermarket...
I always ask the butcher to throw it to me so I can tell my wife I caught it. As for burly, stay in the ring with my wife for 10 minutes. I've been doing it for 22 years now.
 
  • #23
Join a volunteer fire department so that you can occasionally run into burning buildings. Nothing like a building burning all around you to get the blood pumping. Been there, done that. :devil:
 
  • #24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jYa_rJyG18
 
  • #25
Graduate Marine Corps Boot Camp.

Hunt feral hogs with only dogs and a knife.
 
  • #26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvltzwkUEEA
 
  • #27
When I was about 13 or so, my father and my uncle and I trekked around to the back side of a mountain across the river from our town. I settled in and waited, and shot a deer around 8-9am. I expected them to help drag my deer out, but it was the last day of hunting season. My father told me to start dragging (the buck weighed way more than I did). I got back to the truck about 10 minutes before they showed up at sundown. I was ready to collapse of exhaustion by the time we got home.

Instead of following the roads around the mountain, I figured that I'd drag that deer up over the main ridge, and then it would be an easy drag down the peak (downhill all the way). By the time I got to the top in deep snow, I was beat. When you are a kid, you don't always make the best choices.
 
  • #28
Getting in a roundhouse kicking match with Chuck Norris.
 
  • #29
I gave birth, sans drugs.
 
  • #30
lisab said:
I gave birth, sans drugs.

Oh there they go! Every time we men try to prop ourselves up with pseudo-accomplishments, some woman's got to bring up the childbirth thing!

That's exactly why we don't take you fishing with us.

:biggrin:
 

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