gorilla bars FTW when removing layers of flooring and subflooring 
flooring is not so much fun, when none of the walls in your 50 y/o house are actually square 
lol that was my problem when I rehung my garage doors. I put the left door on way straighter than the garage and it wouldn’t close. :ham:
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Never cleaned a bolt action rifle, rescued people from a capsized boat, or performed CPR, I’m certain I could though.
I grew up around both technology and the outdoors. Good mix for sure.
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I’ve done CPR…it is a lot different when shit hits the fan and you have to just take a second to collect your thoughts and do what needs to be done. You only do CPR if someone is dead…so you wont kill them by fucking it up…but you will not bring them back either. I’m sorry but I disagree with all the tv and computer shit as being in the top 25. The majorityof the rest are at least basic survival skills. Building a fire, cleaning a rifle, sharpening a knife yada yada. Those are things that if shit hits the proverbial fan, you should know how to do. Computers wont mean dick if say a terrorist takes out the power plant and there is no electricity and people have to fend for themselves and find their own food. If that were the case a good 40-50% of this country is hella fucked. It is important to have at least a basic knowlege of computers, especially in today’s society…but it is not something you HAVE to know.
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It is important to have at least a basic knowlege of computers, especially in today’s society…but it is not something you HAVE to know.
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I don’t know how to put this without it coming out as insulting so I’ll just ask it. Aren’t you unclogging sewer lines for a living and unemployed half the time jumping from dead end job to dead end job? Maybe if you put computer skills a little higher up on your list of things you NEED to know life would get a little easier. The day I saw the local delivery guy for lowes having to use a PDA to be dispatched to his next dropoff was the day I realized every level of the employment chain is going to need computer skills very soon.
Sure, post apocalypse social order may get reversed entirely, but tomorrow when you’re filling out your resume the fact that you’re proficient in basic computer usage and maintenance is going to carry a lot more weight than the majority of the items on that list.
Well, unless the apocalypse is tomorrow.
^^^ I think that’s the whole point of the list, to help guys identify their weaknesses. If you can’t do something on the list, it’s not cause the list is faulty… It also doesn’t mean that you NEED to know everything on the list to be successful.