What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Suburban Plowboy]

I came here to find out which part of California you're in.

 

[ultrarunner]

I’m SF Bay Area born and raised and Oakland is home.

5 generations have called Oakland home…

The weather/climate as much of a draw today as it was 130 years ago for my forefathers…

Great Grandfather was a cartographer and geologist and traveled the world working for oil companies and provided the first maps for unmapped sections of the Amazon…

He said the SF Bay Area is truly a Garden of Eden, Center of Commerce and Gateway to the Orient…

 

[Jstpssng]

2 of mine are people calling everyone that works outside “contractors” when the vast majority of them are not licensed contractors. The other one is people having a stroke every time someone clears a piece of land to build homes. Unless you live in a hut in the woods made from reclaimed grass then you have no right to get upset when someone else tries to do the same thing you already did.

Winster's definition of an environmentalist is
"Someone who already has their place in the woods."

 

[Camofurever1]

2 of mine are people calling everyone that works outside “contractors” when the vast majority of them are not licensed contractors. The other one is people having a stroke every time someone clears a piece of land to build homes. Unless you live in a hut in the woods made from reclaimed grass then you have no right to get upset when someone else tries to do the same thing you already did.

Well, if all their projects they bid on are under $25k, they don't need to be licensed. Check State of TN licensure requirements. They are still a contractor. They are just not required to be licensed.

The problem in TN when all the trees are stripped off of the land, then the topsoil is stripped off, leaving nothing but barren clay. Then, some developer comes in, put 4 houses per acre in a high density development, with no street, water or sewer improvements to handle the density saturation of people and traffic. I understand their frustration.

 

[WinterDeere]

2 of mine are people calling everyone that works outside “contractors” when the vast majority of them are not licensed contractors.

I'd guess that's more a distinction for people working in the building trades, than other industries where a contractor is anyone who works jobs under contract, licensed or not. In my industry, you're called a "contractor" if you're billing a company for hours rather than product, but not an employee. And we work indoors!

The other one is people having a stroke every time someone clears a piece of land to build homes. Unless you live in a hut in the woods made from reclaimed grass then you have no right to get upset when someone else tries to do the same thing you already did.

My father (civil engineer) used to always say, "everyone wants to be the last new person to move into any area."

As in, "now I'm here, the rest of you stay out!"

Another old farmer I used to know would say, "you can't have your view without paying for it," admitting he had no right to prevent others from developing the land the surrounded his farm.

 

[4570Man]

Well, if all their projects they bid on are under $25k, they don't need to be licensed. Check State of TN licensure requirements. They are still a contractor. They are just not required to be licensed.

The problem in TN when all the trees are stripped off of the land, then the topsoil is stripped off, leaving nothing but barren clay. Then, some developer comes in, put 4 houses per acre in a high density development, with no street, water or sewer improvements to handle the density saturation of people and traffic. I understand their frustration.

I know it’s not a legal requirement but I see post on the local facebook group pretty much everyday of someone who hired a “contractor” to do some work on their property for the lowest bidder price and then they’re surprised about getting the lowest bidder quality.

 

[BravoXray]

Our county had eight recycling collection centers several years ago. About four years ago they closed four of them due to excessive dumping of trash, furniture, TVs, etc. Two years ago they closed all of them for the same reason, and opened a new site across the street from the sewage treatment plant, fenced in with limited hours and surveillance cameras. I caught a family dumping old bedsteads one day, told them that needs to go to the landfill. They wouldn't load it up, so I took their license plate number and turned them in. I saw in the court news a couple of weeks later that they got fined $150.
Last week, I noticed the site was closed, then read in the paper that someone had filled both large 30 containers with trash that had to be hauled to the landfill. Site is still closed, not sure if they are going to reopen it or not.
So a countywide recycling program was shut down because a few people are too lazy, cheap, or stupid to take their trash a few miles away and pay a $10 fee to get rid of it.
I hope they catch the lazy bastards.

 

[lman]

Some still get the concept and we need more of it. Good lesson to give.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1949811702238716338

I couldn't understand 90% of what was said. Could be a problem with my hearing aids.

 

[mrmikey]

I couldn't understand 90% of what was said. Could be a problem with my hearing aids.

No....no, it wasn't your hearing aids, same here.

 

[WinterDeere]

...a countywide recycling program was shut down because a few people are too lazy, cheap, or stupid to take their trash a few miles away and pay a $10 fee to get rid of it.
I hope they catch the lazy bastards.

You'd think that with a $199 Ring camera, the county could not only eliminate the expenses associated with this, but actually make money of anyone illegally dumping.