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they all live in apartments where you can lose $1300 if you put a nail in the wall you dumb shits
i remember the last time i lived in an apartment i bought some cordless power tools to assemble a simple wooden stand out of 2x4s and i could actually feel my neighbors hating me
neighbors: <extremely loud screaming matches in foreign languages every day>
me: i should start hammering and sawing every day. that wouldn't have any chance of driving these poor people to the brink of sanity because they barely speak english and are terrified to ask me to stop
me: i should start hammering and sawing every day. that wouldn't have any chance of driving these poor people to the brink of sanity because they barely speak english and are terrified to ask me to stop
who fucking knew people who rent don't learn how to hang a door. who fucking knew people who live in 1br apartments with 4 people don't see a reason to own a wood shop. who fucking knew people who have never lived in a place they had any agency in don't know how to paint a wall
but sure let's just. let's just run a story like this is some kind of fucking generational failing and not people not having the money to do anything they want, or being - god forbid - not concerned with their environs as much as their actual hobbies
i just spent several weeks unable to do anything in my office because i was building new workbenches for my office. i could have bought four ikea tables and it would be functionally identical except i would have been able to do the shit i actually wanted to do, immediately
you know what a ton of DIYers do? it, themselves. constantly. they're doing *it*. the house *is* the hobby, it *is* the goal. and that's fine, but a lot of them ended up with beautiful houses and absolutely no hobbies to do when the house was done
you know what a ton of "handy" boomers with electric drills do? ruin shit. get the 45s wrong and snarl "it's FINE" at their wives who can see the huge gap in the miter and have to watch while they nail it down, and then have to look at it for years
not speaking from EXPERIENCE here, not like my dad once broke five sheets of drywall in a row because he ignored his family telling him there were still nails sticking out of the studs, because he wanted to look slick and rush through it
not like i watched my dad tilt the drywall up, watch it run into something and stop, and then just hit it with his fist until the nail punched through the wall and broke the entire corner of the board off.
not like i watched my dad burn the shit out of the edges of the stuff he routed because he didn't test first to get a feel for the router, so now there's stuff hanging up in the house with burned, ragged edges he didn't even bother sanding down because he was too embarrassed
half of boomers were cowardly incompetents who fucked up everything they did and were too prideful to admit it. half my cohort is smart to not buy a drill and i'm glad they haven't. not everyone has the patience and, christ, the domain knowledge to Do It Themselves
go ask any tradesman what they think about DIYers. go ask an electrician, a drywaller, a plumber, they'll all tell you DIYers mostly ruin their own houses and then call them to come remediate the shit they ruined
i do actually do it myself and could use money for drywall to carefully install (my first corner tape looks fantastic)
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oops that's too many faves, but anyway
I'd like to be perfectly clear: my comment about neighbors speaking non-english was about the fact that language barriers make it difficult for people to resolve disputes, a situation I've been in many times
I'd like to be perfectly clear: my comment about neighbors speaking non-english was about the fact that language barriers make it difficult for people to resolve disputes, a situation I've been in many times
as a result of being in this situation frequently I started asking myself "if i do this, do I think my neighbors will feel like they can ask me to stop if it bothers them" and if I don't think they can, I don't do it.
someone got angry at me over that post and called me a liar, which was weird, but I assure you my point was that speaking only English makes you unapproachable and you should be extra thoughtful about your actions in this situation
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