How to become a badass

[Terxpahseyton]

- Be able to lift 200+ lbs so you can lift grown adults out of burning wreckage.
- Get good at carpentry. That table you're eating steak on? You built that. With measurements you know how to use.
- Do any kind of household chore and repair work. Hey look, you can cook. Oh damn, now you're washing dishes like a pro before reshingling the roof.
- You're in the habit of getting stuff done. You get up in the morning, you just do it, and then you stay disciplined.
- You stick up for people who can't be as badass as you. You help get policies enacted that help everyone be a badass.
- You drive a Prius? Why? You're saving up for a Tesla.
- You volunteer all the damn time. People aren't getting stuff done, so you have to pitch in.
- You can deescalate an armed situation with words. Damn, son.
- You train both your sons and daughters to be as buff and badass as you. Hell, they can probably kick your ass because you taught them to.

Policies, he?
And I thought communism rested on an ideal human image

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Do not care about your appearance, only wear what is at the top of the drawer, and spend all your free time drinking beer and fixing things. Oh wait this was being a bad ass not a man.
Got my masculinity stereo-types mixed up

Real men don't use a drawer, they just pile their clothes on top of the dresser.

 

[Lexicus]

Police Chief Abed knows how to be a badass.

Real men don't use a drawer, they just pile their clothes on top of the dresser.

Or on the floor.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Or on the floor.

That would be laundry.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I think a real badass has something on his or her resume that is both potentially dangerous and benevolent. Some examples:
Firefighter
War correspondent or photographer
Coast Guard rescue swimmer
Medical worker for an NGO or disaster-relief agency (immunizing children in jungle villages; helping contain an ebola outbreak; staffing a clinic in a war zone; etc)
Street-gang outreach counselor

I'm sure there are more, but you get the idea. You don't need to be doing it currently, or have done it for long, to qualify.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

List of things that can make you a badass before the age of 25:

- Moving to a martial arts monastery in China and studying there for 10 years
- Swearing revenge on the Colombian drug dealers that wiped out your family
- Finding out you have one year to live due to a fatal disease and using the year to wipe out street crime
- Simply dropping out and devoting your life to being bad

 

[Lexicus]

Become Latarian

 

[Zkribbler]

Speak with a low, slow and sharp voice

...If you must. Grunting's better.
Swagger
Wear black
Shave your head
If asked what you do for a living, grunt "sell stuff." Don't specify if it's auto parts or drugs.
Sneer

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Based on movies and comic books becoming a bad ass seems to require surviving some sort of really horrific trauma.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Based on movies and comic books becoming a bad ass seems to require surviving some sort of really horrific trauma.

...and then training in East Asia.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

...and then training in East Asia.

Or being held prisoner in a cave, with a box of scraps.

 

[Borachio]

Being able to whistle and smile at the same time, in all situations.

Seriously, though.

 

[Bill3000]

- Become me.
Also, hi.

 

[Hygro]

Probably not the thread for it but what is categorically badass is something I've given a lot of thought to. Badass is something that serves a function, unexpected or not necessarily needed-needed, taking work or skill, stylistically in a way that if you get it, you jolt in awed recognition. A badass person would then be someone who lives to do and make badassery in the world around them. Some things will be reflections of their badassitude, and some things will be the causes.

 

[Narz]

A badass person would then be someone who lives to do and make badassery in the world around them.

Nah, badass lives for their passion, a publicist is never a bad ass tho a badass will know how to capitalize on publicity.

 

[Perfection]

Be born Aug 11 1986

 

[Borachio]

I dunno.

Is this all about having the runs?

My researches have turned up these kinds of asses:
(_!_) = Normal Ass
(__!__) = Big Ass
(!) = Tight Ass
(_?_) = Dumb Ass
(_E=MC2_) = Smart Ass
(_$_) = Rich Ass
(_x_) = Kiss My Ass
(_X_) = Get Off My Ass

I wonder how to do a bad ass.

 

[Snerk]

(__

__)

Bad ass

 

[Gori the Grey]

I wonder how to do a bad ass.

This would be a bad ass:

(__)

 

[Ajidica]

Or on the floor.

Looks like I already have that box checked.

Be born Aug 11 1986

Would a year of 1993 count?