15 Things Men Say That They Would Do If They Could
But then they will most likely chicken out when they are given just that opportunity. What do you say you would do if you could but then wouldn’t because you would just have to roll over and play chicken? Mix your metaphors? Let’s go for some of the usual suspects – and don’t forget to have your say too.
You’ve heard it all before, the testosterone fuelled boast that, hell yeah, if they were just given the chance they could do that. Plus they would make a great job of it too – much better than most. Of course it is mostly to impress women but does it?
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Go to War
You may have heard some of the guys at work say how they would love to just get over to Afghanistan and kick some Taliban butt. Well, guys, there is thing called the army. A few clicks of the mouse and you can find their website. The pay is really good and you get to meet all sorts of interesting people too. No? Good job that conscription is a thing of the past in most countries! So, perhaps not then, after all. Men may play the game, but women know the score.
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Become a Stunt Man
There you are watching the TV and he says that looks easy enough, I bet I could do that. Well, given the opportunity, would he? After a few years of training and a good look at the fatality list would he really become a stunt man? Unlikely. The words of Kathleen Mifsud resonate here – ‘Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it’s our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you’d like to have dinner with.’
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Be an Arborist
Things look easy enough when experts do it because, well, they are the experts. Many men, however, see an expert doing something with ease and assume that it is easy. Men and skills are diametrically opposed. Skills are hard to get but easy to keep. Remember, ladies, that you cannot teach a man anything. You have to help him to discover it in himself. And sometimes it is good to fail. Or is that fall? Pride usually comes before both.
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Execute a Criminal
The death penalty is outlawed in many countries. In those in which it is – and even those that it isn’t to be honest – there are many men of the hand ‘em high persuasion who say that they would not flinch to execute a criminal. Would they, however, if given the chance to pull the lever or the switch, swing the axe or let loose the blade? Possibly not. Perhaps men just like to see justice done swiftly. After all, a man will forget but never forgive – a woman will do the opposite. What men sometimes forget though, is that when they point a finger at someone else, the four other digits are pointing right back at themselves.
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Sky Dive
A lot of men would do this, to be fair. But from this high? Joseph Kittinger did it and set the record for a skydive from 102,800 feet. Some men might say yes to this, but ultimately a great many would chicken out. And who could blame them? A philosopher once said that a wise man does not grieve for the things that he cannot do but rejoices in those things that he can.
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Use an Ejector Seat
There is a little bit of James Bond in every man (mostly the alcohol related activities) but the likelihoods are that anyone would be both shaken and stirred if they had a go at ejecting out of a car. File under ‘would love to have a go but have far too much sense’ perhaps?
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Go for a Space Walk
No, no, no, no, no. No!
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Deploy Vertically
God gave man a penis and a brain. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough blood to work both organs at the same time. Most men would deploy their brain if offered the opportunity to do this. It looks a good a way as any to commit suicide and men have a propensity for the foolhardy. After all as Linda Ellerbee once said ‘If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?’
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Go Over a Waterfall in a Barrel
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Get in the Ring with a Professional Boxer
‘Knocked out in the first round, he was. I could have done better myself.’ So, go on then. Mr Tyson, could you come over here for a second please?
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Breathe Fire
Leave this one to the ladies, gentlemen.
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Work Up High
Again, some people make things look terribly easy but when you have to do it yourself, it seems to get a lot more difficult. Isn’t it strange how you often see smart men with dumb women but hardly ever the other way around? Go figure!
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Chase a Tornado
It seems pretty easy in all of those Hollywood films. You just find a bridge, get under it, strap yourself down and the twister will pass over, leaving you unscathed. Or possibly not. Only the most foolhardy would ever do this, surely? Some men thing they are indestructible. Take it away, Roseanne. She once said ‘A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there’s my personal favorite, the male ego.’
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Free Run
You thought he was real for a second, didn’t you?
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Run With the Bulls
The real reason that I wrote this article was in response to a fellow online writer. They maintained they copyright free images were necessarily of lesser quality that those that were copyright their owners. I wanted to prove him wrong. All but two of these pictures are from Wikipedia Commons, the other two from Flickr Creative Commons. Do I win? Do I win?
Men, huh?
OK, guys. Over to you – and be honest. What have you said that you would do but then would play chicken if given the opportunity? Remember, keep it clean (right!).
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User Comments
athena goodlight
On August 26, 2009 at 11:18 am
Wow! This article is indeed testosterone loaded. Very well written and illustrated. I loved the guillotine photo.
raman13
On August 26, 2009 at 11:20 am
Very very interesting.
Very Informative
Best Regards
pengirl M Burdick
On August 26, 2009 at 11:25 am
Men really want to do these things? OK, guys, we may PRETEND to be impressed when you say that, but believe me, we are SO not. And I don’t think any woman dreams of her husband (boyfriend, lover, etc) getting up one morning and saying, “Honey, I decided to finally do it! Yes, I will risk life and limb, leave my family and be an arborist out in the woods.”
Mr Ghaz
On August 26, 2009 at 11:28 am
Excellent post!..wonderful article as always. extremely well presented..loved it..thanx for sharing.
papaleng
On August 26, 2009 at 11:29 am
Great post and very interesting picks.
orlandoJP
On August 26, 2009 at 11:44 am
Very nice article! thanks hehe
Katien
On August 26, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Good article. I had a friend who desperately wanted to be a stuntman. After he got a splinter and was practically in tears, I pointed out that this might not be a good career choice!
chris73
On August 26, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Funny but i guess a word i missing from your title:
“15 Things (stupid) Men Say That They Would Do If They Could”.
I prefer to run away from such persons that most time are talking about how they can do everything…
Uma Shankari
On August 26, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Oh, really? I didn’t know men say such things. Or may be, I don’t know enough.
Diverseblogger
On August 26, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Really? Out of the 15 thing I have read, I would say I want to do.. ummmm… ALL 15
Great article
Jamie Myles
On August 26, 2009 at 2:58 pm
What a fun article. I liked it.
cebuanaeyez
On August 26, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I must be hanging out with the wrong men! Great article and photography.
B Nelson
On August 26, 2009 at 8:03 pm
My husband hasnt said too many of these things – mostly cause he has a fear of heights!
your first one was great – if half the guys who said they wanted to kick taliban butt actually did something about it..well… and yes the pics are great.
Chris Stonecipher
On August 26, 2009 at 8:15 pm
RJ,
I think I am too much of a wimp as I am growing older to try most of these. Lucky you can only see me by internet:) LOL!
Chris
Bill M. Tracer
On August 26, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Well, I’m a man, and there is only one of these things that would interest me, number 7 Go for a Space Walk. None of the rest appeal to me.
Juancav
On August 26, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Very truth, Whenever we are led by our imagination, here are some of them
lanne
On August 26, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I wouldn`t do one of them although I have always been a big fan of boxing
JK Kristie
On August 27, 2009 at 2:34 am
I would like to try #5 and 8 and maybe also #13. =D
Keirt
On August 27, 2009 at 7:42 am
I’ve always said I wanted to be a soldier
I really don’t anymore 
I would NEVER go over a waterfall in a barrel, that’s suicidal!
BeauX
On August 27, 2009 at 9:40 am
I willingly admit, even as a man, that I would never voluntarily do any of those things. Accept use an ejector seat, you know, if I really had to.
Joe Dorish
On August 27, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Always wanted to drive straight across the US from NYC to SF only stopping for gas, food and nature calls. Asked a former GF if she wanted to do this with me and she just looked at me. Have driven straight through from NYC to Minneapolis and St. Louis at different times and drove around Alaska for 18 hours straight hours one summer when the sun wouldn’t set but as you get older you get less inclined to do crazy things.
Liz Sapphire
On August 27, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Very interesting! ^-^
SlyTresmarie
On August 27, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Really interesting..well written!..hehehehe..thanks for sharing..makes you stop and think..hehehehe
N. Lloyd Andrews
On August 27, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Well…I once thought it would be cool to go into space.
But after a ride on a roller coaster this summer, I got to thinking I probably wouldn’t want to.
Skydiving too. I’ve wanted to do that for a long time. But I like being firmly on the ground.
Leonardo davinci Evans
On August 27, 2009 at 4:47 pm
A real man is one who infuses the right mix of Justice and fairness in his mind and actions. I’d bet none of the people you might have interviewed can accomplish that!
Rana Sinha
On August 27, 2009 at 5:03 pm
NIce read. I’ve done three of those and still can write semi-idiotic comments.
sunshine926
On August 27, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Great article and images!
Earl Schmegley
On August 27, 2009 at 6:32 pm
A lot of that stuff isn’t stuff a man would say he’d do – it’s stuff an idiotic man would say he’d do. I don’t consider myself to be an idiot, so a lot of that stuff I would never say I would do in the first place. As you can see from your pictures though, a lot of men do participate in those asenine activities. In addition to being men, those people are also idiots! But keep in mind there are plenty of female idiots as well. Idiocy does not discriminate based on gender.
dharokowns
On August 28, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Wow, great article, but it has always been my dream to sky dive!
Janet Meyer
On August 28, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Wow! You want to live dangerously, it seems. Some great pics though. Will you really try these one day? Janet
Stephen J. Ardent
On August 28, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Misandrist tendencies?
mzmax100
On August 28, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Oh man, I couldn’t stop laughing! “Falling down a waterfall while in a barrel!” – that be the day alright. Middle age Crisis here I come!
Liane Schmidt
On August 28, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Very cool!!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
RJ Chamberlain
On August 29, 2009 at 2:13 am
I have often talked to my mates about chasing storms and getting in the ring with certain pro boxers and have decided upon tactics and the like. So yeah I think I could take Lennox Lewis no probs. Haha.
RJ
ducroisjosef
On August 29, 2009 at 6:03 am
Man, I want to chase a tornado, I’d chicken out on the rest. Great pic’s.
AppleDuck
On August 29, 2009 at 6:25 am
Nice (: Made me laugh!
overwings
On August 29, 2009 at 7:23 am
We are so brave… I might one day run with the bulls. Sky diving is definitely in my list of things to do.
oldster
On August 29, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Great suggestions.
Wanted to score the winning goal at wembly.
Still trying to figure out why I was born.
long619
On August 29, 2009 at 5:10 pm
These are amazing things, one of the thing I might do is become a stunt man!
jackhammer800
On August 29, 2009 at 7:45 pm
very good
But one correction under the Execution section
When you point a finger at someone its sort of hard to have the other 4 digits pointing back at you.
otherwise good work
jwcents
On August 29, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Good article. I enjoyed this read. Thanks for taking the time to post it.
Ron Fields
On August 30, 2009 at 12:22 am
Definitely would some of them; free running looks like the most fun, although being a stuntman would be cool. Probably great with the women too. What about being the casting director for a movie on the Ford modeling agency?
Cool pictures too.
HelloSiti
On August 30, 2009 at 1:29 am
lindalulu
On August 30, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Interesting article, but I bet there are also a few woman out there that might like to do some of the above too!
Storm Jackson
On August 30, 2009 at 8:25 pm
I’ve never wanted to do any of this things except for maybe chase a Tornado. That would be an adrenaline rush.
LC Sanders
On August 30, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I asked my husband how many of them he would do and he said he would do 7 out of the 15.
http://www.triond.com/lcsthewriter
Sourav
On August 31, 2009 at 6:43 am
I think all your photos show us that Only Men Are Doing Those Stuff! So what’s the point?
Babyface Jam
On August 31, 2009 at 8:45 am
Good article. Can’t say I’d thought about anything except the boxing one though. Building on JackHammer’s sentence, only 3 fingers would be pointing at you, unless you have some very strange fingers.
wolffe
On August 31, 2009 at 11:37 am
Funny article. I’ve found myself in predicaments but came away unscathed in the most part. I’ve done foolish things but none like the ones above. So I think you may have won the round.
Andrew Davies
On August 31, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Most of these things I would not do. Go to war, yes, if my counrty needed me. I did enlist during a war BTW. Become a stuntman, arborist (insert the rest of the “exciting jobs”) Not interested. I would absolutley 100% love to go on a space walk! Work up high been there and done that. Go over a falls in a barrell? Why? Ring with a boxer, what would that prove, he would beat my ass like nothing, Run with the bulls? Again why?
An ecclectic list of “macho” things.
MichelleAsiaee
On August 31, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Interesting,,, very good..
Mark Bentley
On August 31, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Hee, Hee, Hee. Yeah, I have to admit that I tried sky diving and have a metal plate to prove it. Some of the others look like a lot of fun, but I am getting way to old to seriously think that I would do them any more! It is amazing how as you get older, the sense of self-preservation starts to kick in a bit more.
Hodag
On August 31, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I have done 6 of those things…
Wide eyes
On August 31, 2009 at 6:26 pm
haahhah love it!
Yovita Siswati
On August 31, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Funny and interesting! but seriously… do men really want to do this?
Emily
On August 31, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Run with the Bulls? I think those men are the biggest pussies
syedaziz
On September 1, 2009 at 8:58 am
nice arlicle.i realy like it.its very very interesting.excellent
skittlekat2008
On September 1, 2009 at 12:16 pm
My ex husband actually stated he wanted to chase tornadoes. We knew he was all talk! lol He did watch the weather channel a lot but got chicken living in trailer when the wind blew too hard lol!!!!
martie
On September 1, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Loved this and I am passing it around to all the men I work with who think they are real he men but can’t carry out the garbage!
ellenhart
On September 1, 2009 at 1:50 pm
this was very intersting to read i look forward to reading more of your work
alc
On September 1, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Very interesting article found it quite funny! Thanks for the share
michael p hutter
On September 1, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I would only do 2 of the 15 things but alot of people are just big talkers. so you cant take everyones word to heart.
peace!!
RoxyGirl
On September 1, 2009 at 6:50 pm
great writing – funny too! So many guys have said several on the list – and shhhh none of them have done even one.
simplyoj
On September 2, 2009 at 6:58 am
Thanks for this unique article, great images too!
Aktoastmaster
On September 2, 2009 at 10:58 am
I wouldn’t want to do any of those things
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Netty net
On September 2, 2009 at 11:13 pm
My like the space walker the best.
jman129
On September 3, 2009 at 5:44 am
Great M4 carbine pic
DA Cournean
On September 4, 2009 at 9:09 am
Very interesting
Nosa
On September 9, 2009 at 5:29 am
Great!Guilty as charged;I use to boast I could do stunts but when almost broke my waist,I QUITED! Gyz will say anything to impress women anyway-we only hope the particular woman is stupid enough to believe us. Great article and outstanding pics as usual.
Thanks.
Cheryl Malloy
On September 22, 2009 at 5:11 am
Ha ha. This is my 2 sons to a T! Gunna, Gunna, Gunna!
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