Okay, I've come up with a new term...'nigger down!'

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Originally Posted by End Times

So he claimed. I can claim to be a neurosurgeon, too...

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Spare me! ;D

I heard he is now collecting funds for Hillary’s pre-election campaign...

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Originally Posted by Neuro

I met this Polish lady in Goa India, she was working as a barber in this fancy place in London, she charged £55 for “fixing” the beard of lumbersexuals.

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I learned a new word today. GSUS is so enlightening. I live in timber country and never heard of a lumbersexual.

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Originally Posted by hoarder

I learned a new word today. GSUS is so enlightening. I live in timber country and never heard of a lumbersexual.

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They may fly in for a photo op for a few minutes in a helicopter, but generally you’ll find them hanging around coffee shops in liberal shit holes on the coasts...

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They may fly in for a photo op for a few minutes in a helicopter, but generally you’ll find them hanging around coffee shops in liberal shit holes on the coasts...

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I've never been to a coffee shop. I don't think I will start now.

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I learned a new word today. GSUS is so enlightening. I live in timber country and never heard of a lumbersexual.

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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/de...n/lumbersexual

noun

A young urban man who cultivates an appearance and style of dress (typified by a beard and check shirt) suggestive of a rugged outdoor lifestyle.
‘the baristas are all lumbersexuals’

‘I just saw a lumbersexual with a man-bun and a waxed handlebar mustache.’
‘A lumbersexual may appear to be a tough guy, but you can bet he put lots of thought into his outfit.’
‘BuzzFeed unearthed some recent photos of the 30-year-old and dubbed him a "lumbersexual," due to his long, full beard and possible ability to build a cabin with his bare hands.’
‘The campaign is focused on bringing the outdoor, active lifestyle back into fashion, which caters directly to the lumbersexual trend.’
‘Nick, with his lumbersexual beard and hipster clothes, is, physically speaking, a modern male ideal.’

Origin

Early 21st century: from lumberjack + sexual, on the model of metrosexual.

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Originally Posted by hoarder

I've never been to a coffee shop. I don't think I will start now.

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Yes, don't.

This accurately describes what your experience would be if you did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9BRgjvOlk

my younger bro is a couple years into a 5y electrician apprenticeship; dropped his former main profession in the grocery biz (diff positions through mgmt), when he was 43yo. :) Oh yeah, has a BA in biz/marketing. :rolleyes:

I had an electrician roommate in CO for a few winter months-- he'd layer up & work new construction in < freezing daytime temps, outdoors or in totally unheated half-baked new structures.

Not sure if it's my unfortunate experience, or if it's some epidemic in the elec/plumbing/painting/drywall etc trades, but... the alcoholism?! Ended up having to kick that electrician roommate out (was my house) for his drunken antics after only a few months. Plus have met a number of others in these trades who I judged to be problem drinkers!

I know it's most often not "the work" which drives them mad, but the 'personalities/politics' which enrage them. IE their job site foreman (or whatever they call it) doing little to no "real work", lazy, God-complex, just bark orders in between cigs & chatting on their smartphones or whatever. It seems these "cushy union gigs", esp during boom-times, bring out the worst in some ppl! :(

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Originally Posted by PatColo

my younger bro is a couple years into a 5y electrician apprenticeship; dropped his former main profession in the grocery biz (diff positions through mgmt), when he was 43yo. :) Oh yeah, has a BA in biz/marketing. :rolleyes:

I had an electrician roommate in CO for a few winter months-- he'd layer up & work new construction in < freezing daytime temps, outdoors or in totally unheated half-baked new structures.

Not sure if it's my unfortunate experience, or if it's some epidemic in the elec/plumbing/painting/drywall etc trades, but... the alcoholism?! Ended up having to kick that electrician roommate out (was my house) for his drunken antics after only a few months. Plus have met a number of others in these trades who I judged to be problem drinkers!

I know it's most often not "the work" which drives them mad, but the 'personalities/politics' which enrage them. IE their job site foreman (or whatever they call it) doing little to no "real work", lazy, God-complex, just bark orders in between cigs & chatting on their smartphones or whatever. It seems these "cushy union gigs", esp during boom-times, bring out the worst in some ppl! :(

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7th Trump!

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Originally Posted by End Times

man who cultivates an appearance and style of dress (typified by a beard and check shirt) suggestive of a rugged outdoor lifestyle.

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Sounds like most guys around here, except they ain't fags.

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Originally Posted by PatColo

my younger bro is a couple years into a 5y electrician apprenticeship; dropped his former main profession in the grocery biz (diff positions through mgmt), when he was 43yo. :) Oh yeah, has a BA in biz/marketing. :rolleyes:

I had an electrician roommate in CO for a few winter months-- he'd layer up & work new construction in < freezing daytime temps, outdoors or in totally unheated half-baked new structures.

Not sure if it's my unfortunate experience, or if it's some epidemic in the elec/plumbing/painting/drywall etc trades, but... the alcoholism?! Ended up having to kick that electrician roommate out (was my house) for his drunken antics after only a few months. Plus have met a number of others in these trades who I judged to be problem drinkers!

I know it's most often not "the work" which drives them mad, but the 'personalities/politics' which enrage them. IE their job site foreman (or whatever they call it) doing little to no "real work", lazy, God-complex, just bark orders in between cigs & chatting on their smartphones or whatever. It seems these "cushy union gigs", esp during boom-times, bring out the worst in some ppl! :(

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Many tradesmen are alcoholics, but many other professions are notorious also. Lawyers are some of the worst from what I hear. Things have been going down in the construction trades for many years. I worked rough carpentry for quite awhile and it is brutal, thankless work, especially in the winter. Hands and feet freeze all day long. Some bosses are 'Screamers' but some are decent. The respect and decency among the different trades for each other has dwindled remarkably. This is in some manner due to the unrealistic expectations handed down from the upper levels, to adhere to unrealistic schedules. Everyone ends up bumping into each other and it goes worse than if there were no rush at all. Haste makes waste. I worked with masons for awhile as a tender and it was kind of hilarious the way they would treat the electricians. Electricians tend to be pre-madonnas and think they are better than the other guys on jobs. Someone who feels they are superior and exudes this attitude is not likely to be treated any better than they treat others. Some electricians are cool as hell also.

All in all there is simply less decency and respect on jobs anymore and it wears a man down.