A bloke needs hobbies - passtimes, things to while away the time in between Rugby test matches. For this reason, the versatile Bloke has a store of equipment, carefully stashed in the appropriate place (the floor, the hallway, the shed, under the kitchen table, the wash-house, under the house, in the roof-space or whereever he last put it down) in case the need arises to take up arms against a sea of boredom.
Your average bloke can expect to have an interest in the following hobbies:
To facilitate this eventuality a good bloke is often known to
collect items bound to be of use at a later date. Less visionary
people call this sort of thing "Hoarding", a word that is mysteriously
never used when the less visionary person REALLY NEEDS that
spare ball-cock to stop their toilet cistern overflowing in the middle
of the night and when the plumber is going to charge triple time for
at least three hours to come and fix it...
Blokes expect and accept this sort of thing - so long as the two
crates of beer are on the back step the following morning as soon as the
bottle store opens. (Unless of course it's the toilet in the bottle store
that's stuffed, in which case it's THREE crates, and before the job starts).
Tools
A Bloke NEEDS Blokes tools - for most jobs this consists of three hammers
- The sledgehammer for knocking away debri (or making debri to knock away),
The claw hammer for general work, and the panelbeating hammer to threaten
the neighbours with when they complain about the noise from the previous two.
There are other tools appropriate to the passtimes above, for which the
Bloke must be prepared.
Having a backup spare tool is sometimes a good idea too. For instance you
may have a 6" diameter portable circular saw (if you're a girl) as well as
the 8", and possibly larger if the bloke in question has become tired of having
two legs and wants to give a wooden one a go.