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One of my customers just got hustled by one of my competitors. Remember that wall panel job I was doin? So i somehow fucked my back up (i think it was when i snatched up the table saw like a dumbass when i was loadin it in the van) and had to cut and run. She understood and we agreed that she'd pay me x for the work I did do (one of the two walls), and she'd find someone else to complete it.

She ends up getting this guy who convinces her that the box proportions were wrong and talks her into letting him redo the wall i did.

Now check this out. Technically the proportions of my boxes were wrong in that they did not match to scale the panels in the picture she showed me (what i was supposed to match). But that was on purpose and she wanted me to do the boxes like i did.

When i was figuring the panel sizes out i pulled her aside and showed her how if i match the picture exactly, the horizontal 1x6 would be lower than the top of the couches. Even held it up there so she could see what it looked like. She then wanted me to raise the horizontal 1x6 up higher so that when everything was done and the furniture was back in place, u could still see the piece fully. So it was done that way on purpose and by her request.

When the other guy gets in there, he somehow got her to forget that she wanted me to do em like that. It totally slipped her mind somehow. So he ends up changing what i did and lowering that horizontal 1x6 to match the proportions of the panels in the pic.

Then she tells me she can't pay me what we agreed becuz the dude had to redo everything. Then i tell her 'yo u told me to do it like i did, remember? Remember when i held that 1x6 up and aksed u if u wanted it higher so it could be seen better and u said yes?'

I shoulda stayed away from that job becuz there were red flags that i ignored. Normally i size up a customer before i take a job; can this person pay me. Do they know exactly what they want. Are they competent enough to follow what's going on, etc.

Well whatever. It's only a few hunerd so it's too small to take to court. I'll let her have it.

The wall I did before it was changed.


The wall he did after he changed the proportions to match the picture. They look great, but that's not the point. The point is, the dummy wanted me to do em the way I did instead of matching the picture.

See what i mean tho? I shoulda just shut tf up and matched the proportions in the pic... but i thought it would be cool to inform her of the option to change the proportions - which she agrees to - and then i don't get paid for it.

I tryda be nice and it comes back and bites me in the ass. And u wonder why I'm a Machiavellian.

What's so dangerous about Christianity in ermerica? A lotta shit is dangerous about it but here's a special kind of dangerousness.

Take this recent kidnapping of nine year old homegirl from the new York campground. They find her in homeboy's cabinet after tracing finger prints on a random note and so on. Then those involved - family, friends and community - get together in church and thank god for her safe return and so on.

Here's a list of the ironies:

1. If this god existed, it would be as responsible for the kidnapping as it was for the rescue.

2. Pedophilia is condition that couldn't ever be effectively addressed, dealt with or even understood by Christians.

3. In fact, it is the overwhelming psychological confusion, turmoil, fear, anxiety and paranoia created by Christianity that contributes to the kinds of bizarre lines of reasoning that lead to such abnormal behavior. Look at your homeboy karesh for example. Fuckin guy's got a whole harem of girls that the fuckin parents (his followers) gave to him. Here u go, u can have my daughter becuz somehow that slippery shit u read to me from the bible made me believe u should have her.

Or what about those white nationalist assholes who've somehow gotten out of the bible the belief that they are the master race destined to rule the earth as god had intended, etc.

Just as much antisocial and abnormal human behavior is exhibited by people who believe in god as it is by those who don't... if not more.

So when your daughter gets kidnapped and put into a cabinet, please don't go to church if u wanna understand what's happening becuz jesus can do nothing for us here unless he's a neuroscientist, psychologist and behavioral therapist.

Gaetz's wanting to oust McCarthy is an example of the innocuous sideshow nature of a party that is as impotent as it is incompetent. The talking points are always the same; look at the national debt! Look at the border! Look at our government spending! We need to stop the trend and start moving the country in a responsible direction yada yada yada.

But it's the very system that Gaetz is defending that inevitably creates the problems he then employs himself to solve. And nothing could have been done differently that would have prevented the country from going into this indebtedness, or facing a border crisis, or an energy resource crisis, or needing all the social welfare services that are incredibly expensive.

This shit COMES WITH free market capitalism, numbnutts (gaetz not u).

Today the republican and conservative presence in politics consists of nothing more than incompetent politicians getting paid to make a lot of useless noise. The shit is so fomulaic it makes me wanna hurl. Listening to Gaetz yesterday and I'm thinking this kid hasn't the slightest clue what's going on but look at em go.

Question. Would Gaetz be able to squeeze his head through the collar of a pull over shirt or is he physically unable to so has to wear button up shirts?

And also one of the reasons why ermerica's government is able to waste time voting to oust a member becuz the one who thinks he's jack Nicholson doesn't personally like the other one, is becuz the government and its society is a joke. By that i mean, it's such a superfluous mass of benign nonsense that it wouldn't even matter if the country wasted weeks quibbling over some petty disagreement between two assholes. U could kick McCarthy out or keep em in the chair and it wouldn't make one fuck of a difference in this country.

When u hit 30 trillion in debt there's no turnin back. There is no MAGA. U are paying a bunch of opportunistic assholes to wear suits and run dead talking points at podiums over and over and over again.

Republicanism is the art of dressing up and getting paid to pretend to be able to stall what your own ideology ultimately brings about in the country u claim to govern.

Have u ever seen such baffoonery before in your life? These are your 'leaders', your representatives?

The first step in resolving an identity crisis is to be aware of your envy. Don Jr. and Eric have to first realize and accept that they will never be as cool as Hunter in order to begin their transition into a more authentic and apolitical concept of self that doesn't unfairly compare them to the enemy's son, the orgins of their envy.

Nothing is more tasleless than the jealous bourgeoisie. U will never see someone panic more than a rich guy who has no reason to be cool and/or is less cool than the other guy who's like him (a president's son) but cooler.

Don Jr. and Eric need to establish themselves and their political celebrity in some other way.

They need to let Hunter go.

I dunno but that young lawyer chick sitting to Don's left was fantastic looking. That's how u know Don's got style. There are always beautiful women in his company while in public.

U know he got all giddy when the firm offered her as part of the defense team. I wonder if they coached her to yawn and roll her eyes while in court like she did or if she's really that into it like John Grisham into it.

The reason why Gaetz was such a big part of the stand your ground law is becuz it let him feel that much more like a cowboy, like a jack Nicholson character. It was also a vicarious expression of his racism; white Floridians need to be armed and legally able to shoot bad guys and thieves and robbers that are always mostly black so.

For the same reasons he's soft on cannabis. Jack Nicholson wouldn't just be armed to protect himself from the n-word, he'd probably also be smoking a joint and wearing sunglasses.

"Yeah? How much u wanna bet they can't handle the truth, Tony?"

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A well executed smash 'n grab. Wasn't random or spontaneous. Some time before that those homies were hanging out at the mall food pavilion flossin. Brobro took a bite of his soft pretzel and was like 'yo look at that jewelry display case down there on the end right across from the side mall exit. Bro if we came in here at like 7:30 when the mall is just opening, we could take that shit and split down that exit hallway. And we got the car parked right there.'

Would CNN reporter Melanie Zanona have her hair like this if her last name was Williams or Peterson instead of Zanona?

If so, why?

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I hate guys that fight like this. They just press A as fast as they can and never do any combination moves.

The most horrible thing just happened to me. I have one of those black t-shirts that says ARMY in yellow letters. I found it at a thrift shop for two dollars. I buy work shirts there.

I'm sitting here in the Hardee's alone eating my breakfast in solitude like i do most mornings and this old timer walks by. 'i like your shirt', he says. I immediately sense that he's a veteran and feel obligated to inform him that I'm not in the ARMY and it's just a work shirt. He freezes in his tracks and stares at me as if I've betrayed him, abandoned him, let him down. 'Oh' he says as he turns away and continues walking to the bathroom.

I could fuckin cry right now. Fuck this shirt man. I'm throwing it away. Here he is right here on the way back from the john. He doesn't even look at me bro.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 2:44 pm The most horrible thing just happened to me. I have one of those black t-shirts that says ARMY in yellow letters. I found it at a thrift shop for two dollars. I buy work shirts there.

I'm sitting here in the Hardee's alone eating my breakfast in solitude like i do most mornings and this old timer walks by. 'i like your shirt', he says. I immediately sense that he's a veteran and feel obligated to inform him that I'm not in the ARMY and it's just a work shirt. He freezes in his tracks and stares at me as if I've betrayed him, abandoned him, let him down. 'Oh' he says as he turns away and continues walking to the bathroom.

I could fuckin cry right now. Fuck this shirt man. I'm throwing it away. Here he is right here on the way back from the john. He doesn't even look at me bro.


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Do you wish you had responded differently to the guy? If so what do you wish you would have said?

promethean75 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 2:44 pm The most horrible thing just happened to me. I have one of those black t-shirts that says ARMY in yellow letters. I found it at a thrift shop for two dollars. I buy work shirts there.

I'm sitting here in the Hardee's alone eating my breakfast in solitude like i do most mornings and this old timer walks by. 'i like your shirt', he says. I immediately sense that he's a veteran and feel obligated to inform him that I'm not in the ARMY and it's just a work shirt. He freezes in his tracks and stares at me as if I've betrayed him, abandoned him, let him down. 'Oh' he says as he turns away and continues walking to the bathroom.

I could fuckin cry right now. Fuck this shirt man. I'm throwing it away. Here he is right here on the way back from the john. He doesn't even look at me bro.


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Who cares? He's a serial killer. Fuck him. And fuck you too, for being such a shallow, self-serving phony.