Patton on men

You are here to fight. This is an active theater of war. Ahead of you lies battle. That means just one thing. You can't afford to be a goddamned fool, because, in battle, fools mean dead men. It is inevitable for men to be killed and wounded in battle. But there is no reason why such losses should be increased because of the incompetence and carelessness of some stupid son-of-a-bitch. I don't tolerate such men on my staff.

There are three reasons why we are fighting this war. The first is because we are determined to preserve our traditional liberties. Some crazy German bastards decided they were supermen and that it was their holy mission to rule the world. They've been pushing people around all over the world, looting, killing, and abusing millions of innocent men, women, and children. They were getting set to do the same thing to us. We had to fight to prevent being subjugated.

The second reason we are fighting is to defeat and wipe out the Nazis who started all this goddamned son-of-bitchery. They didn't think we could or would fight, and they weren't the only ones who thought that, either. There are certain people back home who had the same idea. Both were wrong.

The third reason we are fighting is because men like to fight. They always have and they always will. Some sophists and other crackpots deny that. They don't know what they're talking about. They are either goddamned fools or cowards, or both. Men like to fight, and if they don't they're not real men.

If you don't like to fight, I don't want you around. You'd better get out before I kick you out. But there is one thing to remember. In war, it takes more than the desire to fight to win. You've got to have more than guts to lick the enemy. You must also have brains. It takes brains and guts to win wars. A man with guts but no brains is only half a soldier. We licked the Germans in Africa and Sicily because we had brains as well as guts. We're going to lick them in Europe for the same reason.

That's all and good luck.

It's a man's life...

The People Fighting the War... deserve our respect and gratitutde.

Man's Own Reading

Of course real men read books. They read 'The Count of Monte Cristo', for a start. Dumas pere wrote a rollicking adventure story that is also a man's journey to self-mastery, wealth and power before discovering the final lesson: to use that power with restraint. Turn off the TV and read it now. Don't rent any of the DVDs, they can't come close to the original.

Sir Ernest Shackleton -- the naked soul of man

1912 advertisement for willing men to join Shackleton's expedition to cross Antarctica on foot:

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success."

There were five thousand responses. He took the best twenty-seven.

As you probably know, the expedition lived up to his warning. Their ship got frozen in place just off the Antarctic coast and was later crushed by the ice. After an harrowing, two-year ordeal, all of the men returned safely.

Shackleton wrote in his diary:

"In memories we were rich. We haad pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

On your marks, get set, hunt.

Manly pursuits with AA Gill

Women adore AA Gill, in my experience. Here he is just proving once more than a man who does manly things is an attractive, active, intelligent man, not a brainless thug. Hunting is a deep human experience, requiring reserves of self-mastery, courage, strength and skill. Those who have fallen for animal rights are cutting themselves off from the full expression of their nature. And are welcome to their misery so long as they don't come after everyone else's.

Food for men

For righteous pork ribs and live sport. Love the smokehouse. Rebel against portion control. Experience the real meaning of 'finger food'.

Men who couldn't be licked...

...make peelable stamps for the Royal Mail. Read their stories.

A man at war

I sing of warfare, and a man at war...

How all ads should be

this ad for tortilla chips cuts through all the crap of those silly razor ads that have been plaguing the world of men.

Real men eat meat

and they don't apologise for it. sometimes they wear T-shirts about it.