I am encouraged by the prominent presence of an ironing board on the cover.
I thought that was some kind of fucked-up snowboard. : (
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
YOU NEED THIS BOOK
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
You need "Snowboarding for Dummies"
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I am confused by the triangle with the exclamation mark inside it. And the two magnifying glasses on either side of that. Did the cover artist run out of things he could draw, or did the author run out of things that men need to know?
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
afaik "how to change a tire" is on every single one of these lists, forever
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Triangle represents fixing a car, "magnifying glass" looks more like a frying pan representing cooking skills, item top right is a baseball maybe?
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
xp and "how to suck a cock" is nowhere to be found. Hmmmm.
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
That'll be in the cookery section.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
lol kenan
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
item top right is a baseball maybe?
Thought it was a burger
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't be a baseball since it lacks seams. Golf ball, maybe, but no pocks.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
The guy's British, so it can't be a baseball
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Some kind of wickety stickety crickety bullshit?
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
snooker/billiard ball
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
testicle
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a hamburger, you princesses.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
A lot of people don't know how to change a tire.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
How to Order a Burger
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
At least in the case of spare tires, the instructions are included. And changing any other tire is no different. If you can't figure out not to put the jack under a piece of molded plastic that will break, I have no pity for you.
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
my 8yo loves the dangerous book for boys
it taught him how to play poker + chess
it also has a section on how to talk to girls which is probably the most guidance he's going to get tbh
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
there's also a daring book for girls
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread btw is like the inverse of itt a strange man asks etc
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
MEN WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR KHAKIS
^^doing the world a huge favor, btw
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 9:52 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
see laurel is sexually harassing us right here
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure she was thinking that the khakis would be replaced by other pants. A world of indiscriminately bare man legs is not a world any of us would want to live in.
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
ed i don't think i find objection to learning poker or chess from the dangerous book, but the fact that it's "for boys" is a bit odd to me. i'd be v surprised if the daring book for girls had a poker or chess tutorial tbh.
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
prescriptive gender roles therein are probably totally obvious but just sayin
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only skimmed those books and yeah, lol gender prescriptivism. But aren't both of them kind of Boy Scout/Girl Guide-oriented? I don't think the girls' book is all "How to Change A Diaper" or anything.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Really the boys' book should include "How to Wash Your Own Sheets (Believe me, you'll thank us)".
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the girls book is more like "here are some basic ciphers so you can trade secret gossipy messages with your girlfriends"?
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
karate moves, cartwheels, building a campfire, and yes--how to change a tire are all in the girls one
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061472573/ref=s9_simp_gw_s0_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1VVYMQVTA98H5828CRZ1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846#reader_0061472573
I think both of these books sound awesome by the way--if I was a kid, I would be all over them
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
My dog found this one to be a pandering disappointment:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E2FYZhbOL._SS500_.jpg
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxp Well, "huh" to gossip subtext but codes themselves are pretty cool. Oh look, Que confirms it. I sort of liked the books -- obv purposefully "of another time"-looking but that is kind of cool stuff even if it IS fake nostalgia about a post-war, road-tripping, outdoors-exploring, birthing-new-Americans generation.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
learning how to build a scooter is timeless, imho
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I know, my dad built one out of a bicycle frame and some small engine when he was like 15? And then went on to have Vespas and later, cars that he rebuilt. I mean, why was I not that awesome at 15? I had a dune buggy, I guess, but I didn't built it myself.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
ok u had a dune buggy???
― Richard Snorkeling (ice cr?m), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
?????
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i will remember this next time u r complaining abt something on this bord
Yeah, as my first car. Orange frame, no body panels, street legal, 4 seats. Engine & transmission out of a VW bus. I drove it spring & summer for a couple of years. And the family took it dune-running in an approved "park" nearby. Learned to drive a stick in that thing, which was awesome b/c it was geared for a whole VAN and the buggy weighed nothing, so actually it was very forgiving.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, sometimes Christians have fun too.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Just not too often, or they might get used to it.
gdamn i dreamed of dune buggies
― Richard Snorkeling (ice cr?m), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
just enough to let them know what heaven might be like
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
wife tells me her dad did similar, just sub vw bug for the bus
― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
But even w a windshield, the wind speed was BRUTAL over about 35 or 40 mph, so it was just for tooling around locally. Funny, I never tried wearing a helmet....
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
M, is your wife Midwestern/conservative in her origins, too?
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
texas, but her dad is pretty conservative
― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mjmbooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Speed-Buggy.jpg
so jealous that Laurel's first car could talk and solve mysteries
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost her dad is just a total gearhead. both her parents are bikers, and he's a wrecker driver by trade.
― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link