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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on January 08, 2010, 07:58:16 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=287x8236
Oh my.
The sparkling husband primitive, being cheap again:
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-08-10 01:25 AM
#05 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Original message
How to allow your contractor to make minor purchases for your project with little financial risk
Buy a gift card for the hardware store of your choice - probably Home Depot or Lowes. Buy one for maybe $75 or $100. Ask him to get you receipts. This allows him to go buy minor supplies without digging into his pocket and saves you from having to go get the stuff yourself at the cost of time and the risk of getting the wrong stuff. At the end of the project, you get the card back.
Always trying to stint the union-card-carrying working man, who otherwise could probably add 10% or something onto the cost, like mechanics do with automotive parts.
Damn, the primitives are hypocrites.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=287x8236
Oh my.
The sparkling husband primitive, being cheap again:
Always trying to stint the union-card-carrying working man, who otherwise could probably add 10% or something onto the cost, like mechanics do with automotive parts.
Damn, the primitives are hypocrites.
I understand your beef, the Clown's point is that he obviously doesn't trust his contractor, and he sounds like a guy who tries to finagle his way out of a tip. ( IOW: :loser2: )
That being said, allow me to make a case for his idea based on a different POV...They add the 10% for their inconvenience, gas, whatnot. Most good contractors & mechanics don't mind if you buy the parts or supplies (or a gift card). They are more concerned with their clients' best interests. My mechanic encourages me to buy my own parts whenever possible to save me money. A contractor or mechanic would do better to please the customer then to worry about being able to tack on 10% of $75, don't you think? At least, my mechanic would - and his reward, instead of a measly 10%, is my continued & loyal patronage through the years. My son's dad is a carpenter and always tries to save the customer money
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The repulsive clown doesn't trust his contractors because he's not trustworthy himself. He imagines being cheated as he tries to cheat others. For us to try to lower our costs is one thing, but this clown supposedly is all about unions and "living wage", all the while trying to shortcut around paying others their fair share.
I really have an aversion to the sparkling husband. Not sure what it is, probably the sum of the package, the know nothing, know-it-all attitude. Being banished to the basement because of bodily functions probably doesn't add to his, ahem, appeal either.
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That being said, allow me to make a case for his idea based on a different POV...They add the 10% for their inconvenience, gas, whatnot. Most good contractors & mechanics don't mind if you buy the parts or supplies (or a gift card). They are more concerned with their clients' best interests. My mechanic encourages me to buy my own parts whenever possible to save me money.
A contractor or mechanic would do better to please the customer then to worry about being able to tack on 10% of $75, don't you think? At least, my mechanic would - and his reward, instead of a measly 10%, is my continued & loyal patronage through the years. My son's dad is a carpenter and always tries to save the customer money.
Why yes, of course.
There have been times--in either automotive repairs or home repair--that the mechanic or other expert has advised me to just go ahead and get certain parts, and no big deal.
However, the sparkling husband primitive has a track record on Skins's island of trying to be devious and clever, as if to forestall someone "cheating" him.
I've always found that people obsessed with being cheated, are those who cheat.
And however too, the sparkling husband primitive is a Democrat, a liberal, and a primitive, and at least vocally supportive of those in the union-card-carrying manual trades; the working man.
But then the sparkling husband primitive goes out of his way to do things himself rather than hiring one of these working men, and those rare times he does hire an honest working man, the sparkling husband primitive keeps tabs on him as if the guy's going to cheat him.
Is the sparkling husband primitive a hypocrite, or what? He says one thing, and does the exact opposite thing.
I think the Democrats, liberals, and primitives need to be challenged more, regarding their crass hypocrisy.
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Not only is DUmmy Husb2Sparkly trying to undercut union workers, I'll wager his contractor is a guy running a crew of illegal Mexicans, who work for slave wages. That's about the only kind of contractor there is these days, and they do at least help keep down the cost of home improvements. The Mexicans always show up, and work like dogs, and I may just be lucky, but my experience has been pretty good as far as quality.
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Is the sparkling husband primitive a hypocrite, or what?
Yes, as I said, he comes off as a guy who finds reasons not to leave tips. bleah
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Wow! How cheap can you get?
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what is he remodeling/building?
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what is he remodeling/building?
Basement toilet. He's changing from the camp type, with a white plastic bag, the kind Doug's stupid ex-wife has to use out there in the California desert, to a flush type. The cat insisted on it.
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what is he remodeling/building?
Probably a new dummie litter box in the basement. I'm sure he's already fouled up his current one.
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what is he remodeling/building?
The sparkling husband primitive is a greedy landlord, a slumlord, remember.
I think he rents out a couple of rowhouses in Baltimore.
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Probably a new dummie litter box in the basement. I'm sure he's already fouled up his current one.
None of the comments are signed "Sparkly", but I'm sure she's in there somewhere:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Human_20Litterbox
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Well, Gobucks, I hit your link to the unfortunate website and I'll never have that 5 minutes back. Did you notice that a lot of the commenters take the ideas seriously?
It reminded me of a regular feature at Moonbattery, "Moonbat Tech" where you find sustainable, green solutions to every day problems. The ideas don't work unfortunately, usually due to physics and other inconvenient truths. One invention was a printer for computer documents. You put your used coffee grounds in the receptacle, then wind your paper in, and manually move the lever back and forth, with the grounds acting as the "ink." This was followed by lots of comments at the original site, saying "I WANT ONE NOW!!!" Only we noticed there was no connection between the PC and the "printer." It works via telepathy and unicorn farts.