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[C.J.]

But suds, antiques and Brew ain't. Might as well make it a guaranteed money maker and include a shooting range.

Now you’re on to something. Some of that junk ain’t worth nothin but to be shot.

 

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Almost all of my work was from word-of-mouth referrals.

I think this were a lot of us have a real advantage. In large cities, you make money by volume. If you can make volume and still undercut everybody else, you're going to get a lot of work as you beat yourself to a pulp.
A smaller communities, word of mouth rules.
I can imagine some homeowners going for low bid on every single project they have....... Supposedly saving money on every project. Most every time they're disappointed yet they keep going for low bid.
Most of the customers that I have, have found a carpenter that they like and they stuck with him. He treats them right, he does good work and they like his personality.
Anybody that does quality work and has a great personality is going to retain customers and if you're lucky they almost become a bit like family.
If I was brought up in a large metropolitan area I would literally have sunk like a stone in my first year. Not that I'm floating very high in the water right now, but I feel pretty lucky having customers respect me and the work that I do for them.

 

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I got gutter covers for maybe $70 at Lowe’s. That leaf filter crap is a scam as far as I’m concerned. They have a running ad on CL looking for installers just like the box stores do.

Is that the one that cost you virtually nothing you just pay for installation?
If it is, it looks like it will work fantastic in a 2-in per hour rainstorm, with leaves flying right off the roof and water never even getting inside the gutter because it's flowing so fast.

 

[C.J.]

They’re the 4’ plastic pieces that I installed myself. One run of the house they wouldn’t fit on so I bought the 4’ triangle wedges of foam lookin stuff and put them in myself. I’ve heard the leaf filter deals clog up with the roof shingle grit because the mesh holes are so fine. I’m a cheap ******* and whatever Lowe’s had keeps the leaves out just fine.

 

[Floorist]

I think this were a lot of us have a real advantage. In large cities, you make money by volume. If you can make volume and still undercut everybody else, you're going to get a lot of work as you beat yourself to a pulp.
A smaller communities, word of mouth rules.
I can imagine some homeowners going for low bid on every single project they have....... Supposedly saving money on every project. Most every time they're disappointed yet they keep going for low bid.
Most of the customers that I have, have found a carpenter that they like and they stuck with him. He treats them right, he does good work and they like his personality.
Anybody that does quality work and has a great personality is going to retain customers and if you're lucky they almost become a bit like family.
If I was brought up in a large metropolitan area I would literally have sunk like a stone in my first year. Not that I'm floating very high in the water right now, but I feel pretty lucky having customers respect me and the work that I do for them.

I charged more than anyone else. Never seemed to hurt me.

 

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Okay, enough of the fun...
.......back to politics.
Can you imagine Joe Biden with this much energy and so much ability to speak coherently???!
.....me neither

Have you ever seen Joe Biden with this much intensity, this much energy and passion for our country?
Joe Biden is like a mud puppy gasping for water in a dried up puddle and he is supposedly the leader of the free world. It makes me sick to my stomach people can hate Trump so bad they want our country to go into the toilet instead. There is bad and there is worse.

I can't think of a time when I was more worried about our nation than I am right now.
Hate Donald Trump all you want, but look at what we have now. Worst border crisis ever recorded, energy prices such as gasoline on a steep rise like a dollar a gallon in the past 6 or 7 months.....

We were energy independent during a trump administration but after canceling the keystone pipeline and eliminating the ability for companies to use government land for oil drilling.......... Are we better off now??? What message are we sending to the world?
Is it that we want to sell you our oil or is it we want to buy your oil?
Explain to me in simple words why that is a benefit to our country.
Please, someone tell me how is that a benefit to our country to be less energy independent?

I'm sorry but that is as freaking stupid as you can get. Energy Independence is like the most important thing a country can have..
The Democrats don't want us to have energy Independence. Republicans do want you to have energy Independence. Wake up Americans.
Sepatate your hatred towards Trump and think about what is right and what is wrong... Just because Donald Trump is a jerk doesn't mean you have to stand against everything he ever said or did.
The Democrats want to buy your vote by giving you handouts, giving you free college tuition or pay off your student loan, then giving you free housing, and giving you covid relief checks that appear to go on for eternity or .....
I'm not going to even mention when you buy a new car the kickback you get from the government, nor the kickback that the car company gets for making an electric car. The government gave you a kick back and the government gave Tesla a kickback and who paid for that???? What is the true cost of that electric car that you bought?????
We have plenty of Americans to fill the voids left after covid. Employers are begging for workers and nobody will show up for work.
Employers have raised the prices they will pay and are begging for people to come back to work.
Nope, that's not good enough for the Democrats. They just want to keep on printing fake money and giving it to unemployed people that don't want to go back to work because they can't make $40 an hour sweeping floors.
Stop destroying our nation and vote Republican.
Better yet, vote for Donald Trump in 2024!!!!!!!!! That arrogant ass loves this country.
...fess up and admit it Democrats in power are just trying to buy your vote. I mean that is so obvious. Do you think if the Democrats legalized the immigration status of 8 million alien aliens that they will not gain, at the most extreme minimum, 8 million more votes?
Really? Really??

 

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Okay, enough of the fun...
.......back to politics.
Can you imagine Joe Biden with this much energy and so much ability to speak coherently???!
.....me neither

Have you ever seen Joe Biden with this much intensity, this much energy and passion for our country?
Joe Biden is like a mud puppy gasping for water in a dried up puddle and he is supposedly the leader of the free world. It makes me sick to my stomach people can hate Trump so bad they want our country to go into the toilet instead. There is bad and there is worse.

I can't think of a time when I was more worried about our nation than I am right now.
Hate Donald Trump all you want, but look at what we have now. Worst border crisis ever recorded, energy prices such as gasoline on a steep rise like a dollar a gallon in the past 6 or 7 months.....

We were energy independent during a trump administration but after canceling the keystone pipeline and eliminating the ability for companies to use government land for oil drilling.......... Are we better off now??? What message are we sending to the world?
Is it that we want to sell you our oil or is it we want to buy your oil?
Explain to me in simple words why that is a benefit to our country.
Please, someone tell me how is that a benefit to our country to be less energy independent?

I'm sorry but that is as freaking stupid as you can get. Energy Independence is like the most important thing a country can have..
The Democrats don't want us to have energy Independence. Republicans do want you to have energy Independence. Wake up Americans.
Sepatate your hatred towards Trump and think about what is right and what is wrong... Just because Donald Trump is a jerk doesn't mean you have to stand against everything he ever said or did.
The Democrats want to buy your vote by giving you handouts, giving you free college tuition or pay off your student loan, then giving you free housing, and giving you covid relief checks that appear to go on for eternity or .....
I'm not going to even mention when you buy a new car the kickback you get from the government, nor the kickback that the car company gets for making an electric car. The government gave you a kick back and the government gave Tesla a kickback and who paid for that???? What is the true cost of that electric car that you bought?????
We have plenty of Americans to fill the voids left after covid. Employers are begging for workers and nobody will show up for work.
Employers have raised the prices they will pay and are begging for people to come back to work.
Nope, that's not good enough for the Democrats. They just want to keep on printing fake money and giving it to unemployed people that don't want to go back to work because they can't make $40 an hour sweeping floors.
Stop destroying our nation and vote Republican.
Better yet, vote for Donald Trump in 2024!!!!!!!!! That arrogant ass loves this country.
...fess up and admit it Democrats in power are just trying to buy your vote. I mean that is so obvious. Do you think if the Democrats legalized the immigration status of 8 million people, that well over 8 million thankful people will vote for Democrats?
Really? Really?? Wake up, the Democrats are buying votes. It's everywhere.

 

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Sorry for my long run but....
.... I what other countries to be fearful of the leader of the Free world, not to think he's an easy pushover. Like it or not power is power. Those with the most have an advantage that can be used for the good of mankind.
Those with the most power can also be used to destroy mankind.
Trump, 2024!
......
I'd be very happy to vote for someone who is not Donald Trump. That person must obviously have the same vision as Trump.

 

[Floorist]

 

[Floorist]

 

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What I'd like to hear is how many times and what year people said: if we don't do something, in 20 years the ocean levels are going to be 3 ft higher. Didn't they start saying stuff like that about 40 years ago?

 

[Floorist]

What I'd like to hear is how many times and what year people said: if we don't do something, in 20 years the ocean levels are going to be 3 ft higher. Didn't they start saying stuff like that about 40 years ago?

And yet they have been much higher in the Earth's past. Kansas was an inland sea at one time.

 

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And yet they have been much higher in the Earth's past. Kansas was an inland sea at one time.

They've been one hell of a lot lower also.
I never knew about the salt caves under lake Michigan until I saw a video recently.
Wowza. I had no idea they mind most of the salt we use from underneath the lakes.
You might start close to the 2-minute mark.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Looks like SkyNews is temp. Banned on YouTube for misinformation. Amazing that people don’t care about their fellow Republicans that they shame you if you get a vaccine.

CNN stated almost zero hospitalizations or deaths of the vaccinated. Sad part is kids under 12 can’t get vaccine.

 

[Floorist]

The viral tests that are used to determine if a person has COVID-19 are not designed to tell you what variant is causing the infection. Detecting the Delta variant, or other variants, requires a special type of testing called genomic sequencing. Due to the volume of COVID-19 cases, sequencing is not performed on all viral samples. However, because the Delta variant now accounts for the majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States, there is a strong likelihood that a positive test result indicates infection with the Delta variant.

Delta Variant FAQs

Can we say "guesstimate"?

 

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Misinformation is a brand new word designed to stop freedom of the speech. It's legitimacy is about equal to anyone that voted for Trump is a white supremacist.
Misinformation is another word for I don't want anyone to hear what you said because I don't like you.
Problem is the person saying that can pretty much shut up anyone at any time and not even give a reason.
They have a comment section below sky News just like everywhere.
If I think that they're full of s*** I can type your full of s***.
If I'm not allowed to hear them then I can't disagree with them.
The design is to put people out of business whom Facebook and YouTube disagree with.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

more conspiracy’s

 

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Name liberals they've suspended the name conservatives they suspended.
Count the numbers on each side.
The point is the government's in cahoots with them doing this they're pointing out for collaborating to get rid of what they consider speech not worthy of being spoken. That's not the job of YouTube or the government.
Remember part of the reason Donald Trump was suspended for "misinformation" when he said the virus likely came from the Wuhan lab?
Is that misinformation now?
I don't think so cuz everybody on both sides knows that's where it came from.
I wish there was a way for Trump to sue YouTube because of that.
First sky News and others I wish they could sue The living daylights out of YouTube also. They said something YouTube doesn't like and whether they remove them or demonetize them it means they received no revenue. I wouldn't like it if something I said or something you said was deemed misinformation by one of our customers and they refuse to pay us because of that.
This takeover of the right to free speech is actually becoming accepted by the populace these days. YouTube doesn't always give reasons to people on YouTube why they were demonetized. They just call it inappropriate without pinpointing which part was inappropriate.
Unless somebody is speaking or threatening violence or showing naked children, stuff like that.... This needs to come to a stop.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I had no idea they mind most of the salt we use from underneath the lakes.

And a lot of those mines are under the city of Detroit.

 

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YouTube would always have the option of putting a small disclaimer of something they do not agree with.
"This has not been proven"