forestboy1978

Hmmm really. I guess I'll say good night end of convo for me....

It does. It says he's incapable of turning the looking glass in on himself and admitting his reasoning is flawed. He's rather hold on and say any bullshit to justify his ridiculous position!

You've got to be troll. Pensioners have to move now you idiot. Move or look over their shoulders forever. Over the next year they're probably OK. It'll be year or 5 from now they'll have to worry. Is it innocent and outright dumb and callous. Possibly. But those pensioners will NEVER know!

Nothing quite like a bit of levity to brighten the mood lol. What a chap, wow. Someone should have informed him of the stress relief of a good spanking session....

They can mourn at home or in church ffs... don't be ridiculous!

If you think it's appropriate for the associates/ family/ whatever of an armed robber to lay a reef at the home of the victim of armed robbery for the person who committed that robbery and died then your logic is ******d.

Profoundly provocative. I would say it's rare for an armed burglar not to fit a certain unpleasant typecast. I'm sure there are arrant people who just get desperate, but generally speaking.. That typecast will have a certain typecast of associates and those ***ks have no ****ing place being any where near his house. The type of coverage this has gotten it would, in anyone's eyes, have been prudent to have an officer at the premises over this week. It's easy to play god in retrospect I know, but our police force is fast becoming a joke beyond any defence.

Yep, another domino has fallen. EU's goose is cooked I reckon. And thank god.

Honestly, I think we're at the tip of the ice berg. This shit is just getting started...

I'm Irish/ Spanish.... Spent the last 20+ years learning to be less assertive!

Long enough? Got sick of the bullshit. Photographing every job before and after and an email convo confirming acceptance of the quote is sufficient if it goes to court. Used to get people to sign things but found my quote conversion dropped significantly.

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As usual wrong! I am looking to optimise conflict resolution with people who are think are decent, whilst also minimising any reputation damage to my business whilst also minimising unpaid admin time.

I have you pegged as a little bit of a prick! Pleased?

Yeah I'm fencing and landscaping and 95% domestic and yes some of the jobs people ask me to view I'm like WTF... this isn't even humanly possible. You know what I mean, I mean it's possible prorably sure, if I have a crane, a midget and 25k budget to work with. So you say no and then word gets around that you're unreasonable or too highly priced. Did a fencing job recently and they didn't read the quote properly. I did one side and x2 bays up to a hedge at the other side. They were cool but said can you quote for the fences to be joined. Couldn't cost effectively price it up due to it being ever so slightly longer than 2 bays and with concrete gravel boards meaning I had to make 3 bays out of it and bolt timber posts to concrete posts and all manner of fiddling. Needed to quote nearly 600 for 2.1 bays and just couldn't bring myself to do it.

I wasn't moaning. Mick ALWAYS interprets me in the worst possible way. You are correct. I'm looking for a way out of the admin time required for these negotiations without being rude.

Often I get asked to do things are near impossible and in these cases rather than wandering around someone's garden for an hour I generally tell them there and then I'm not interested. Goes either way. They're either clearly pissed off or they are appreciative of not wasting their time. Usually people who want a budget job done in difficult circumstance I save wasting anyone's time and say no cos there is no such thing as difficult AND budget job in fencing. What I'm struggling with is people who literally beg me to quote for a job that I'm not interested in. I've said no a lot recently due to a variety of reasons and I get "but what if we do this" and "what if we do that". I am a person who is ALWAYS civil to people who are good people and I always reply out of courtesy so I'm wondering at what point is it just better to just ignore people who wont take no for an answer? I'm talking about people I actually like btw not people who I don't like which of course I could not give the slightest shit about. Ta

I've changed almost unrecognisably to the way I was in teens and early 20s. I look back on some of things I did or ways I thought and it's shocking to me. I was entirely another person.

True! A good friend of mine died last year at 32. He was 6ft 4 and 26+ stone. Just boom, dead. He was so big he broke my toilet and my sofa. I'd watch him eat as much food I'd eat in a day in 1 hour and wash it down with 3 cans of coke and 2 litres of water in the same time. Cakes, crisps etc. I never understood how he didn't worry immensely about the reality of things.

I am getting the Husqy batter top handled as a matter of fact but not cos of fear of explosion. Bad language and smoking is not necessary on site. I have no problem with smoking on site as long as it's not every 20 mins and they have asked the customer if it's OK, even if they are in a garden. Prefer it to be out of sight though regardless. Doesn't look good.

Fat people never last long. I don't know how they live with the anxiety of probable imminent death.

Did he survive? I'll be the first then. I'll be up there and think, well, everyone seems to think I'm an idiot, they must be right, damn this is stressful. I'll have a cig. BOOM.

I think it used to be life, liberty and property and that is how it should remain IMO

I love how I'm the one being cautious and I'm the one being labelled as a liability lol I am a liability, that's the irony and even I think it's worth thinking about OMG. Surely someone in the history of tree surgery has exploded in a tree god dammit haha