TOAK- Thread Of All Knowledge- Part VI
09-09-2016 | 07:59 PM
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Nice! Day started like ****. First, we had a customers vehicle leaking diesel in the yard all night. Probably dropped 15-20 gallons. Lucky enough he is a great guy, got a mini track hoe and dug up the spill to haul it away.
Then we did a quad ramp for the Govt. No big deal. Except when he dropped it off, it was noon and we lock up for lunch. So instead of leaving it on the ground, leans it agains the building. We don't lean anything on the building. So when he came to pick it up, he was talking about bringing another one in to get repaired. Told him no problem, but please don't lean it on the building. He gave me this look and said, "Why, is the building going to fall down?" I looked at him and said "No, but I don't lean anything against your $60,000 truck, why lean anything against my million dollar building?" Then he turned snotty... Unbelievable. No fing respect anymore.
Then we did a quad ramp for the Govt. No big deal. Except when he dropped it off, it was noon and we lock up for lunch. So instead of leaving it on the ground, leans it agains the building. We don't lean anything on the building. So when he came to pick it up, he was talking about bringing another one in to get repaired. Told him no problem, but please don't lean it on the building. He gave me this look and said, "Why, is the building going to fall down?" I looked at him and said "No, but I don't lean anything against your $60,000 truck, why lean anything against my million dollar building?" Then he turned snotty... Unbelievable. No fing respect anymore.
09-09-2016 | 08:00 PM
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Yup, putting this in my keepsakes!
09-09-2016 | 08:02 PM
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Looking for a place like in The Big Labowski?
09-09-2016 | 08:11 PM
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Watching the news here at the "lounge" and there are Millenials protesting "White Supremacy" in downtown Portland right now. There are also active protests against landlords raising rents in their buildings. If they were at work instead of protesting they'd be able to afford a house instead of renting an apartment. That supposes they have a degree in something other than Liberal BS.
09-09-2016 | 08:16 PM
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As far as the protesting and ongoing fueling of resentment toward white folks, I have always been a lover of literature. How about a little Rudyard Kipling...
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.