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Dr Weems	HOUSE PAINTERS: Is there a less SKILLED profession?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 39165 (07/21/08 10:01 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Fat free Internet Remove this ad You can essentially train a monkey to paint your house.....and I think these HOUSE-PAINTER retards get off on the fumes. A carpenter, electrician, sheet rocker, concrete finisher, etc, has some training..... ... but is there ANYONE on this planet who can't do the labor of slapping paint on a wall? Is there any LOWLIER profession than house painting? :c ?
Dr Weems		#1	[-]
Posts: 39169 (07/21/08 10:17 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Oh....and I've never met a "house painter" that wasn't an addict of some kind or the other.... ....wether it was alcoholic, coke head, etc etc etc The myth of "college house painter kids" is just that.....a myth.
ObservingEgo		#2	[-]
Posts: 6275 (07/21/08 10:21 PM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Yeah...they're all akies, but the ones around here make a shitload of money. Roofers are even lowlier, however.
Snuffy Smiff		#3	[-]
Posts: 1407 (07/21/08 10:23 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I've always heard that about house painters, too... from the carpet layers I used to work with in college.
Dr Weems		#4	[-]
Posts: 39172 (07/21/08 10:26 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	OKAY OE....I'll give you that. Bigger con-jobbers than roofers are hard to find. (Actually, there's a movie about these clowns. The Grifters? Cover your asphalt shingles with old motor oil and such.) But house painters actually think they have a SKILL.....but any trained monkey can do what they do fairly quickly.
Dr Weems		#5	[-]
Posts: 39173 (07/21/08 10:29 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Snuffy Smiff wrote: I've always heard that about house painters, too... from the carpet layers I used to work with in college. Snuffy....even carpet layers have some skills. You have to know how to do carpet laying and there's special tools and tricks involved with a good carpet job..... ....but painters have few skills or tools beyond tarps, getting drunk, brushes, and slapping paint on poorly. grrrrrrr
thriving sobi	Is there a less SKILLED profession?	#6	[-]
Posts: 121 (07/21/08 10:34 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Is there a less SKILLED profession? YES!
cattymeow		#7	[-]
Posts: 14 (07/21/08 10:36 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	You would think someone would have cleaned the bird shit off of the deck before taking that photo.
Dr Weems		#8	[-]
Posts: 39176 (07/21/08 10:36 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	i DON'T KNOW HIM. Who is he? What does he do? Whatever it is....he ain't painting houses.
Kitten Gloves		#9	[-]
Posts: 9471 (07/21/08 10:37 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	All house painters are drunks. You'd have to be to do something that mindless all day.
reddotsheriff		#10	[-]
Posts: 1354 (07/21/08 10:39 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Fat free Internet Remove this ad cattymeow wrote: You would think someone would have cleaned the bird shit off of the deck before taking that photo. I think it's a poodle.
Axle the Bulldog		#11	[-]
Posts: 308 (07/21/08 10:43 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	You just dissed my dad. Take it back!
star jumper		#12	[-]
Posts: 35166 (07/21/08 10:45 PM) I'm an ugly Yeti King Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Dr Weems wrote: Is there any LOWLIER profession than house painting? :c ? Street corner newspaper salesman.
Kitten Gloves		#13	[-]
Posts: 9472 (07/21/08 10:45 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	::sorry::
goner1		#14	[-]
Posts: 5236 (07/21/08 10:47 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	HEY Buster! I just spent all day up a ladder painting my gable! I did an AWESOME job of it! True any hack crackhead can "paint", but a good painter does have skills. (I'm not saying I'm that skilled... but for an amateur doing my own house, I'm good.) You should see my lines! I used to know a pro full time painter - he worked as a full time permanent job on an estate I used to rent on, and he was skilled. His work was FLAWLESS and he did serious restoration projects on really old stuff which not just anybody could do. And he kept the work area immaculate. I asked about how he does it and he told me things - like how to get clean straight lines.
Dr Weems		#15	[-]
Posts: 39177 (07/21/08 10:53 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Kitten Gloves wrote: All house painters are drunks. You'd have to be to do something that mindless all day. NO APOLOGIES FROM ME BECAUSE THAT IS TRUE~! Deal with it!
Dr Weems		#16	[-]
Posts: 39178 (07/21/08 10:56 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	star jumper wrote: Dr Weems wrote: Is there any LOWLIER profession than house painting? :c ? Street corner newspaper salesman. I disagree! That guy has to have some selling skills. Painters just wait until someone is desperate, pop a few Percosets, then come and slap paint on. Paint trim ain't that hard once they take their downers.
Carboys Desire		#17	[-]
Posts: 2989 (07/21/08 10:57 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I have GREAT painters named Gustavo and Al. They are a father and son team and not only do they do a GREAT job but they do it sober and their quote is always a few hundred less than anyone else's AND their quote includes the paint! YAY ME!
reddotsheriff		#18	[-]
Posts: 1355 (07/21/08 10:57 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts
Dr Weems		#19	[-]
Posts: 39179 (07/21/08 11:01 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	goner1 wrote: HEY Buster! I just spent all day up a ladder painting my gable! I did an AWESOME job of it! See! YOU HAVE NO TRAINED SKILLS yet you CAN do as good a job as a professional painter. Let's see you do some electrician work....or plumbers work.... ....chances are, you won't even dare to attempt it. But ANYONE can paint a wall.
ObservingEgo		#20	[-]
Posts: 6276 (07/21/08 11:05 PM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Fat free Internet Remove this ad Here's the thing: If you live in an historic district or some upscale neighborhood, just plan on being taken to the cleaners by painters. Plus...they'll drink all your beers and spit on your latticework and railings.

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