Why the strongest blokes I know aren't the loudest ones.You already know why you are on this page.You are sick of being spoken to like a problem that has to be managed. Sick of the ads. Sick of some bloke on the news who has never hung a door in his life explaining what a real man is supposed to be now. Sick of walking into your own kitchen and feeling like you have already lost a conversation that started before you got home.This is not a book that will ask you to put your hand up and apologise for having a pair.It is not a dummy spit either.If you came here looking for a permission slip to be a pig, keep walking. There are whole corners of the internet that will rub your back and tell you every woman is a scam. Those pages will make you feel bigger for twenty minutes and smaller by Thursday.This is a book for blokes who still think a man should be useful, stand up straight, do what he said he would do, and not burst into tears because someone looked at him wrong.It is also for the bloke who can feel the country has gone strange, who is not imagining all of it, and who is one bad year away from becoming a worse version of himself without noticing.What it isNinety-four pages. Stories from jobs, kitchens, cars, sheds, a front step on a Tuesday night, a slab that should not have been poured, an apprentice I had already written off, a FIFO swing, a flooded street, a pub Friday that went looking for someone to blame.I am not going to dress them up as lessons while they are happening. You can make of them what you want. If a story makes you nod, fine. If a story gets your back up, that is usually the one worth sitting with.What it is not Not a workbook Not a 12-week program Not a morning routine Not therapy Not a lecture from someone who has never stood in a pre-start Who it is forMen who work. Men who have a house that gets quiet when they walk in. Men who are good on the tools and sloppy in the first ten minutes after they get home. Men who are tired of being the weather in their own kitchen.Who it is not forAnyone looking for a villain. Anyone who wants a slogan they can post. Anyone who needs the country explained to them by a stranger on the internet.What's inside 24 chapters plus a last word Hand-drawn illustrations throughout A designed PDF, not a Word export in a costume Instant download after payment The titleYou already use that line. So do I. Read the thing before you decide who it is pointing at.Written by Daz Brennan. Carpenter. Site supervisor. Melbourne. Still on the tools.$24. One file. Yours to keep.