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The Commitment of Discovery
Last night I was watching an episode of Danny Baker’s Great Album Showdown on BBC4, when I realised that my mind had wandered – not because of the quality of the show, which I found fascinating, but...
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Throw It Out There
I’ve always been jealous of vets. The reason being, they can see into the future. Don’t tell me I’m full of shit, because I’ve seen it. At primary school, all the kids who said they wanted to be a vet,...
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WHAT MEN DO? Remember Why They’re Here. Happy Mother’s Day
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Not Mountains and Molehills, Potholes and Black Holes
Print by Jamie Mills @JamieMilk We’re not talking about highs here, were talking about lows; depressions. So it seems only right we throw out the old cliché of ‘Mountains and Molehills’ and replace it...
View ArticleA Rub Down For The ‘Big Player’
I’ve always had this secret desire to be a ‘big player’. Of course I realise this isn’t anything to brag about. If you want to be a ‘big player’ in the modern world you must have, or appear to have...
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The World According To Numbers
I’ve been trying to work out the difference between a tool and a machine … and in particular, how to classify a camera. Historically, the Luddites, who caused ructions against machinery way back, were...
View ArticleOne Year On
A couple of days ago one of my two fellow writers informed me that it was mid-April last year when we published the What Men Do Guide. We’d been working on it for five and a half years and I have the...
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Self Respect: The Measure Of A Man
In Life terms, we reckon there’s no better measure than Self Respect. And most guys seem to have very little of it. This lack stems from a basic unwillingness to cut themselves off from being one of...
View ArticleIt’s Grandma’s Fault
For about four months I’ve been suffering with a hernia. Two hernias actually. The one on the right is small, or so I’m told. But the leftie? I have an aversion to exclamation points but believe me...
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Is ‘Common Sense’ A Thing Of The Past
I’ve been reading a lot of historical stuff recently… and one thing which hit me was the extent to which Friendship was a part of a guy’s Life way back when. And this wasn’t merely at the level of...
View ArticleThe Sound Of Silence
It seems to me that when gauging the strength of a Friendship, what is not said is as important, if not more so, than what is said. I’m not talking about the subtext of a conversation here, although...
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Stepping up to the Plate
So ‘Stepping up to the Plate’ is obviously an Americanism, but due to the international nature of What Men Do (and Balls) we decided to go with it over, ‘Putting ‘em on the Block’, and a silly one...
View ArticleLiving Your Dash
Last week I had the pleasure of taking a trip on our wonderful public transport – or ‘the peasant wagon’ as a bus driver friend of mine calls it. Luckily, the previous occupant of my seat had left a...
View ArticleFilling Time
I had a rather puzzling experience last week which, at the time, seemed very minor – just a thing that happened – but has, over the past few days, refused to shake itself from my mind. I was at the...
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Your Tribe
A friend pointed me in the direction of a music video for Rudimental’s track, Waiting All Night. My friend has read The Guide and sent me the video as an example of togetherness: The music video...
View ArticleMales Push. Females Pull.
Three weeks ago the Labour Member of Parliament, Diane Abbott, made a major speech on what she described as the ‘crisis of masculinity’ which she claimed would lead to a generation of disaffected young...
View ArticleThe Rush To Judgement
There’s a section in the ‘What Men Do’ Guide entitled ‘The Tribe of Heroes’, the theme of which is that Heroes exist all over the world. A guy who follows the WMD Code can easily become dismayed by the...
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Why Every Guy Should Have A Copy Of What Men Do
A writer would say that about his book, wouldn’t he? But this is sincere. This week the Guide offered me a level of comfort I really needed. And that’s the point of What Men Do. We started writing it...
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A Catch-22 Taboo?
Last week the ‘youth culture’ (whatever that means) magazine, Vice, made a rather ill-advised decision to run a fashion article depicting female models recreating the suicides of famous writers. Just...
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Life’s a Buffet
I know that there’s that famous quote from Forrest Gump, that, “Life is like a box of chocolates…” but Life is actually more like a Las Vegas buffet: Endless opportunities to indulge every taste, and...
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