now considered useless traits

I can arbitrage and bond credit enhancements like nobody's business. Pretty useless now that I'm retired and not much good in the mountains.
 
EYJONAS! said:
Making friends on a internet forum and actually going on a hunting trip with em without ever even meeting them before hand sometimes...... my wife thinks I'm weird AF and says I'm asking for a problem. I told her she's crazy and that you can't believe everyone on this world is a psychopath.

I guess if I sit back and look at it more..... I'd still what I'm doing. Been lots of fun some great people on here!
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I knew my bow hunting buddies for at least a year before I ever met them at a 3D shoot! Guess we're alike in that respect.

Say... want to go hunt something? :ROFLMAO:
 
It's been a while since I made beer money doing it, but I can sink a 16d nail in two hits. I grew up working for a grandpa that was thoroughly convinced that hand driven nails held better than those from a nail gun.
 
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my grandparents also dont understand "hooking up" and "living together without being married" but like April they still remember what they call "the good old days"
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Stole my wife's heart with a nokia....
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:ROFLMAO: Will, this reminded me of when I was in college and after a date a fellow was upset because I resisted his advances and he said. "what the hell I brought you flowers and paid for dinner" I offered to reimburse him. Maybe if he had offered to give me phone it might have turned out completely different;)
 
belshawelk said:
The post on "best advice" got me thinking about specific traits or specialties you posses that most people either laugh at or consider useless.

For me its working an Axe. I don't brag on myself much, but I can absolutely equivalently handle an axe.

My dad and I had a logging company growing up. We sold firewood. All hand cut, hand split and delivered. We cut, split and delivered well over 5,000 cord of wood. I split every one of them. I when I say a cord of wood, I mean real cord of wood, not today's math.

I cant for the life of me understand a log splitter. Our neighbors got one when I was about 15. My dad bet them a few cases of beer i could beat him and his son with it. I did and it wasn't even close. I cannot confirm nor deny that the ol man may have shared the beer with me.

Seems like now everyone has to have a damn log splitter. I am 52 and to this day will still out split anyone, anytime, anyplace, especially a damn log splitter.

Like I said useless trait. But if your ever stuck in woods trying to build a fire, I am your guy!
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That was my job growing up, too (not for a business, but for the family). My dad told me to envision each log as a teacher I didn't like. He'd walk by and say, "You've got Mrs. Penny worried now! Hit her again!" A tad disturbing in retrospect, but he was a teacher...
 
Knowing how to replace a bike tire on your kids bike. I can't believe the amount of working bikes I see and know of that have been thrown away because of bald/flat tires.

Two screwdrivers and a couple wrenches to remove from the frame. 10 minutes later new tire on rim. I can't tell you now many times the neighborhood kids have come over asking me to fix their bike. " my dad doesn't have any tools"... .What?????
 
Panda Bear said:
my grandparents also dont understand "hooking up" and "living together without being married" but like April they still remember what they call "the good old days"
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Sometimes you just gotta wait for the right time to have a big party ;)
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Maybe if he had offered to give me phone it might have turned out completely different;)
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* I wooed her with my witty banter (not a gift)... really had to think it through at 10 cents a message.
 
Living in interior Alaska for over 30 years, I have a high tolerance for mosquitoes.
Typically they do not bother me if I wear a hat and long sleeve shirt.
I don't like DEET base repellents and their ability to melt plastic, remove paint, etc.
so I typically do not use insect repellent unless the skeeters are absolutely horrendous.
So far this summer I have not yet used DEET repellent.
We don't have heartworm or any mosquito-vector diseases or lymes disease or poison ivy or fire ants,
but we do have lots of skeeters.
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EYJONAS! said:
Making friends on a internet forum and actually going on a hunting trip with em without ever even meeting them before hand sometimes...... my wife thinks I'm weird AF and says I'm asking for a problem. I told her she's crazy and that you can't believe everyone on this world is a psychopath.

I guess if I sit back and look at it more..... I'd still what I'm doing. Been lots of fun some great people on here!
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Not saying you should stop (I have done a bit of the same), but we have to agree if you watch the nightly news, your wife has a point . . . .
 
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