This is why you pick up nice stuff from expensive suburbs - the kind of suburbs where housewives have far too much money and like to replace 'out-of-season' furniture regularly.
I never imagined that there would be people stupid enough to treat furniture as "seasonal."
Every day I underestimate humanity's capacity for stupid.
You'd be surprised. People sometimes throw out what is basically good furniture just because they have purchased new furniture and they either have no room for the old, or it does not match etc etc. We scored some sweet bed-side tables and lamps for my parents' bedroom that way.
Wait, like, literal knots with rope? or is this some metaphor I'm not hip to?
I always wanted to learn how to tie a few good knots. Maybe keep a coil of rope in the car in case I have to do some MacGuyver shit.
I was surprised to learn that furniture has yearly fashion trends. Many of the Uni students around where I live furnish their apartments with stuff from kerb pickups in the rich suburbs. Our coffee table is off the side of the road...
We're talking about furniture? I know a dude who got so drunk, he took off one of his sofa cushions and his pants and basically took a dump inside his couch. The best part of it was that a girl at the party wanted to stop him but she was actually stopped from doing so by everyone else. "Nooooo its gotta happen!" etc. Good times.
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lesson of the day yesterday is that carrying two loveseats and three full-size bookshelves worth of books up three flights of stairs is hard. On the plus side, should be completely moved in to my new place tonight. Hooray.
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Even though this was discussed pages ago, a comment on the machinist apprenticeship thing: you have to do a four-year apprenticeship up here to even be able to call yourself a machinist. They hand that title out like candy down in Wyoming it seems.
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Even though this was discussed pages ago, a comment on the machinist apprenticeship thing: you have to do a four-year apprenticeship up here to even be able to call yourself a machinist. They hand that title out like candy down in Wyoming it seems.
Like I said, my father has like 40 years in the industry and can only call himself a machine hand because nobody has done the true journeyman apprentice thing in well over 60 years in PA. He gets a kick out of it when young guys fresh out of VoTech schools call themselves machinists.
Even though this was discussed pages ago, a comment on the machinist apprenticeship thing: you have to do a four-year apprenticeship up here to even be able to call yourself a machinist. They hand that title out like candy down in Wyoming it seems.
Like I said, my father has like 40 years in the industry and can only call himself a machine hand because nobody has done the true journeyman apprentice thing in well over 60 years in PA. He gets a kick out of it when young guys fresh out of VoTech schools call themselves machinists.
Yea, I have a good friend from high school who did the four-year apprenticeship (which apparently had some incredibly stress-inducing written tests and several courses on metallurgy, advanced algebra and trigonmetry) before he was given his journeyman ticket. You can't even get hired as a machinist up here without your journeyman ticket.
The pay is nice from what I hear. 70 to 90 dollars an hour, wutwut.
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“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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Even though this was discussed pages ago, a comment on the machinist apprenticeship thing: you have to do a four-year apprenticeship up here to even be able to call yourself a machinist. They hand that title out like candy down in Wyoming it seems.
Like I said, my father has like 40 years in the industry and can only call himself a machine hand because nobody has done the true journeyman apprentice thing in well over 60 years in PA. He gets a kick out of it when young guys fresh out of VoTech schools call themselves machinists.
Yea, I have a good friend from high school who did the four-year apprenticeship (which apparently had some incredibly stress-inducing written tests and several courses on metallurgy, advanced algebra and trigonmetry) before he was given his journeyman ticket. You can't even get hired as a machinist up here without your journeyman ticket.
The pay is nice from what I hear. 70 dollars an hour, wutwut.
70 bucks an hour but remember you have either union dues or you're paying into some kind of job finding service or company. You're still making good money though.
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but as far as bookshelves and tv stands and such go they are aces
Oops, sorry, curb. I thought you were English for some weird reason.
I am
the only problem with it is the cushions don't stay put all that well but i don't mind
i think they stopped making this line though (varnamo)
I like firm things
(oh ho ho ho)
Because "it's a perfectly good chair, no sense wasting it!"
And it is a nice chair
mmmm
that's where you make the dude sit that never brings his own refreshments but insists on partaking in your lovely refreshments
This is why you pick up nice stuff from expensive suburbs - the kind of suburbs where housewives have far too much money and like to replace 'out-of-season' furniture regularly.
Every day I underestimate humanity's capacity for stupid.
You'd be surprised. People sometimes throw out what is basically good furniture just because they have purchased new furniture and they either have no room for the old, or it does not match etc etc. We scored some sweet bed-side tables and lamps for my parents' bedroom that way.
Wait, like, literal knots with rope? or is this some metaphor I'm not hip to?
I always wanted to learn how to tie a few good knots. Maybe keep a coil of rope in the car in case I have to do some MacGuyver shit.
I have a bed and a table
You don't want to work there though, they suck and shit.
I was surprised to learn that furniture has yearly fashion trends. Many of the Uni students around where I live furnish their apartments with stuff from kerb pickups in the rich suburbs. Our coffee table is off the side of the road...
Edit: Oops, quoted the wrong post...
My Kitchen table was a roadside table that just needed some new nuts, bolts and a refinishing.
I'm tempted to go out looking for road chairs tomorrow.
Get yourself some bolt cutters and go to one of those self storage places. You wouldn't believe the stuff people leave there.
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lesson of the day yesterday is that carrying two loveseats and three full-size bookshelves worth of books up three flights of stairs is hard. On the plus side, should be completely moved in to my new place tonight. Hooray.
Like I said, my father has like 40 years in the industry and can only call himself a machine hand because nobody has done the true journeyman apprentice thing in well over 60 years in PA. He gets a kick out of it when young guys fresh out of VoTech schools call themselves machinists.
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Yea, I have a good friend from high school who did the four-year apprenticeship (which apparently had some incredibly stress-inducing written tests and several courses on metallurgy, advanced algebra and trigonmetry) before he was given his journeyman ticket. You can't even get hired as a machinist up here without your journeyman ticket.
The pay is nice from what I hear. 70 to 90 dollars an hour, wutwut.
70 bucks an hour but remember you have either union dues or you're paying into some kind of job finding service or company. You're still making good money though.
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