Thread: Whats cool about being a man

Is he a local?

Perhaps we could do something for him by showing him by example - 4WDing, BBQ etc. I'd be happy to help the young chap.

In case his mother is concerned I have had the police check for working with kids.

The best thing about being a boy is having girl friends.

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

In case his mother is concerned I have had the police check for working with kids.

Is it just me who thinks it's a bit ironic that an offer to help a young bloke change his view about being a bloke, would be met with suspicion because it's a bloke that's making the offer?

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

Is he a local?

Perhaps we could do something for him by showing him by example - 4WDing, BBQ etc. I'd be happy to help the young chap.

In case his mother is concerned I have had the police check for working with kids.

Not local. I get the feeling this kid needs more than one or two BBQs and a 4wd trip.
Thanks for the offer anyway

I've suggested the "mens shed" organisation in his local area.

Originally Posted by Dan

Is it just me who thinks it's a bit ironic that an offer to help a young bloke change his view about being a bloke, would be met with suspicion because it's a bloke that's making the offer?

I think its just you. Its your world view and you are entitled to it.
That an offer such as this is made by a male is of no account. The same rules would apply if it the offer was made by a woman.
My 65 year old mother had to undergo a police check to continue delivering meals on wheels on a voluntary basis, a job shes been doing for 10 years already.
She wasn't too happy about that.

Originally Posted by munruben

The best thing about being a boy is having girl friends.

At 7 years old thats not a high priority. But thanks all the same.

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Boys get more responsibility

boys get to join cubs, scouts, Boys Brigade, Sea scouts, Air & Army Cadets
go camping
build billy carts
climb trees
mountains
ladders

Girlchild has done all of that, also a Patrol Leader in Scouts, just completed a 45km 3 day hike at Wilsons Prom in the foulest of weather with a pack that weighed more than she did, rides unbroken horses, abseils, fixes her quad bike when it stops, rock climbs and plays brass in the school senior band.
What will she be like when she turns 14

One for Rob, WWC check, did you pass, I got one of those too for Scouts, my wallet is bulging with all these crap cards that to me mean nothing.

getting him into cub scouts might be very good for him

Originally Posted by Dan

Is it just me who thinks it's a bit ironic that an offer to help a young bloke change his view about being a bloke, would be met with suspicion because it's a bloke that's making the offer?

No it's not just you.

Of course the law doesn't discriminate, but statistics don't lie. It's probably where the boy got the ideas in the first place about men behaving 'awful'.

Men are stronger and generally more dominating, and there's many more cases of men abusing their wives than vice versa. Men are more likely to be violent alcoholics, rapists, pedophiles, criminals and murderers.
And men start wars. Partly because they're more likely to gain a position of power, but possibly also because of a primitive hunter, gatherer, provider mentality that gives rise to a fiercer sense of competition amongst males. Especially for available females.

I know it doesn't help the cause of this thread much, but it's a fact of life that there are more rotten men out there than rotten women. The worst tyrants in history were all men.
But it’s mainly a few rotten eggs. The vast majority of men are decent caring people who are trying to build a better world. They'll protect, comfort, nurture and provide for their loved ones,,,

and they'd selflessly lay down their lives to defend them against attack.



In no particular order, and by no means comprehensive, but here’s just a few great men who've made the world a better place:

Hammurabi
Homer
William Shakespeare
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Euclid
Pythagoras
Socrates
Confucius
Plato
Aristotle
Karl Marx
Martin Luther King, Jr
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
James Watt
Charles Darwin
Louis Pasteur
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Alva Edison
Nicola Tesla
Alfred Nobel
Alexander Graham Bell
Samuel Morse
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
Guglielmo Marconi
Marco Polo
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
James Cook
Roald Amundsen
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Robert Falcon Scott
Winston Churchill
Mervyn Victor Richardson (I had to throw an Aussie in, and where would we be without our 'Victa' lawnmowers)

And it was a great, and humble humanitarian who said this:

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein

Hopefully, with the right guidance, this boy will look forward to becoming a good man of worth.

Originally Posted by pawnhead

Mahatma Gandhi

Alexander Graham Bell

Mervyn Victor Richardson .

If it wasn't for these three I wouldn't have to put up with telemarketers and mow the lawns on Sunday

So you'd prefer to use one of these and one of these? Good luck to you.

I'll add another Aussie to the list:

Teddy Sheehan.
He should have got the VC.
I'm sure there's lots of other Aussies to mention, but I've read a bit about the Armidale, and there's a rivetting account from a survivor here.

I get to drive if I want to, if I am too tired then I ask my wife to drive. Either way it's my choice.

Ah yeah, we have 2 cars, the one she drives is a Honda. The one I drive is a PORSCHE. Its so cool...

OK, that was a bit of a brag but kids love that.

Originally Posted by Iain

One for Rob, WWC check, did you pass, I got one of those too for Scouts, my wallet is bulging with all these crap cards that to me mean nothing.

I passed Iain.

I too have mixed feelings over getting Police Checks. I have no evil intentions other than to give kids opportunities of learning and experiencing things they normally wouldn't.

I am sure there are terrible people out there who have committed crimes against kids and other age groups but have no police record. They would probably get the thumbs up and possibly weave their evil whilst being in a "proven above board capacity".

I am a bit of a rebel when it comes to red tape soppy authority but on this topic I decided to comply otherwise it would have been the kids who would have missed out.

In the small community where we live, only a complete fool would apply for such a check if they had anything shady in their past. Merely the fact that someone applies almost qualifies them for the certificate or a spell in a nut house.

Let's know if there is anything I can do to help out this kid Dadpad.

I regard them as a joke, it serves to tell the community that I am either not a pedophile or I have yet to be caught
We are starting to get like India with bloody little bits of paper (or plastic cards in this instance) for everything.
Even to get a job as what used to be a clerk you know need a degree in business studies.
And how about a cert 4 in retail, are you being served ma'am?

You can move 7 1/2 tons of tile by hand, 50lb box by 50lb box, by yourself in an afternoon.

Then set back and survey your work

and think

gad I'm going to be sore tomorrow.

But its all good, cause you're a man, and being sore after an honest days work is one of the privileges that comes with the territory.