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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9503052" data-attributes="member: 7026594">In the 90s a friend of mine mail ordered a sometimes-hilarious book of advice for dudes on basically How to be Cool and Manly.Some of it genuinely useful like (paradoxically) not worrying too much about what other people thought of you, or studying hard at how to do things so you were actually competent at them.  (So you both had skills to show off and naturally developed confidence).  Or at-the-time pragmatic advice like buying an old used Corvette, because it and parts for it would be cheap compared to a new sports car, and you could learn to maintain and repair it yourself.Some of the advice for how to conduct yourself at parties was a few good excuses if someone offered you cocaine and you didn't want it, including "No, sorry, the doc says I can't anymore with the skin grafts."</blockquote>