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My back is fucking killing me and I'm only 25% of the way through it.
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Leisher wrote: My back is fucking killing me and I'm only 25% of the way through it.
I was going to make a "What? From cracking the whip on your children?" But you can't make whip jokes any more.
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Leisher wrote: My back is fucking killing me and I'm only 25% of the way through it.
You using 5 gal buckets or wheelbarrows?
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I've been trying to rent a bobcat to move 10 tons of dirt, but they want me to carry commercial insurance.
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TheCatt wrote: I was going to make a "What? From cracking the whip on your children?"
The kids are worthless when it comes to work like this.
Troy wrote: You using 5 gal buckets or wheelbarrows?
Wheelbarrows, but my back's been fucked lately. I think our mattress sucks.
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Leisher wrote:
TheCatt wrote: I was going to make a "What? From cracking the whip on your children?"
The kids are worthless when it comes to work like this.
Troy wrote: You using 5 gal buckets or wheelbarrows?
Wheelbarrows, but my back's been fucked lately. I think our mattress sucks.
Depending on your fluency with Spanish, you could get it done very quickly and cheaply with a few dudes and some buckets :)
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Troy wrote: few dudes and some buckets
This is Leisher, not Cake.
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TheCatt wrote:
Troy wrote: few dudes and some buckets
This is Leisher, not Cake.
Ha!

I don't live in California. We don't have migrant workers hanging out near Home Depot or Lowe's here.
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Leisher wrote: We don't have migrant workers hanging out near Home Depot or Lowe's here.
Really? I just figured that was everywhere. Although, I also used to think that everyone that worked at fast food restaurants was black until I went up North... (until Chick-fil-a arrived)
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TheCatt wrote: Really? I just figured that was everywhere.
This is why the Electoral College is a thing. Not every place is the same. We here in the Midwest don't treat immigrants as slaves. :D
TheCatt wrote: Although, I also used to think that everyone that worked at fast food restaurants was black until I went up North... (until Chick-fil-a arrived)
I could dig deep into that topic. The differences in hiring, the differences in services, and so on.
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Leisher wrote: We here in the Midwest don't treat immigrants as slaves.
We hire all people? Or something?
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Ethnic makeup is.100% based on location, in my experience.
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