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For all my life until recently, I thought a carpenter was someone who installed carpets.
I hear or read the word and I know it means something different now, but I still can't shake what it used to mean to me.

>> No.1881335

>>1881324
Dude no. Hes the guy that puts paint on cars. Everyone spells it wrong.

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>>1881324

>For all my life until recently, I thought a carpenter was someone who installed carpets.

How is this even possible? Did you think Jesus installed carpets?

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>>1881324
>hey anon, that girl is a carpenters dream! You know, flat as a board and easy to nail, get it?

>> No.1881360

>>1881356
Kinda. When I was a kid, I heard what I thought was "carpetner".

>> No.1881363

>called plumbers
>never even been to an orchard

>> No.1881493

>>1881324
Did you know a barrel maker is called a "cooper"?
Or a window-maker is a "Glazier"?

I always thought the variety of trade-based surnames were interesting.

>> No.1881516

>>1881363
>trade named after plumbus (lead) formerly used to make pipes

>> No.1881518

>>1881363
>trade named after plumbum (lead) formerly used to make pipes

>> No.1881535

>called a mason
>don’t even perform secret rituals in the basements of central banks

>> No.1881541

>>1881324
You think Jesus used to lay down olive green shag carpet in his temples?

>> No.1881591

>>1881493
No I did not.

>>1881541
See
>>1881360

>> No.1881675

Jesus anon, everyone knows the proper term for the guys that install carpet is “meth addicts”

>> No.1881707

>>1881516

I've always wondered how plumbuses got made

>> No.1882325

>>1881324
>electrician
>busy advertising political campaigns

>> No.1882329

>>1881324
>millwright
>grinding up grain into flour

>> No.1882341

>tinknocker
>I sell fake metal breasts and fake metal breast accessories

>> No.1882408

>hire landscaper
>won't build sea vessel to help me escape the land, just tries to sell me flowers

>> No.1882562

>hire a drywaller
>he’s a fucking wetback

>> No.1882582

> hire a computer scientist
> he doesn't know shit

>> No.1882593

>>1882582
>hire an upholsterer
>he doesn’t even have a gun

>> No.1882596

>hire a tailor
>he doesn't have a tail

>> No.1882601

>hire a train conductor
>he can't make them perform

>> No.1882602

>hire a handyman
>refuses to jack me off

>> No.1882610

>hire a cobbler
>dessert tastes like fucking leather

>> No.1882621

>hire a mechanic
>shows up without his Gundam suit

>> No.1882641

>go to lumberyard
>everyone walking at a fairly brisk pace

>> No.1882645
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thread literally made me laugh out loud

>> No.1882657

>Hire an electronic engineer
>Doesn't have a single circuit board in his body

>> No.1882664

>>1882641
Best post ITT

>> No.1882683

>call a wrecker
>carefully moves my car

>> No.1882808

>hire a blacksmith
>he's white

>> No.1882826

>hire foreman
>there's only one of him

>> No.1882830

>hire doorman
>doesn't know shit about doors

>> No.1882833

>hire therapist
>rapes me

>> No.1882839

>grab a hand full of washers
>hands are even dirtier than before

>> No.1882850

>hire an exterminator
>that bitch is still alive

>> No.1882852

>>1882808
>same problem
>plus his name is Peterson

>> No.1882853

>>1881324
For most of my childhood I thought Ozzy Osbourne was both the lead singer of Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden.

>> No.1882861

>visit a tannery
>everyone is pale

>> No.1882863

>>1882839
kek

>> No.1882871

This thread is hilarious, thanks Chan

>> No.1882873 [DELETED] 

>Hire a drywaller
>He doesn't even how how to help me with me flood damage

>> No.1882874

>Hire a drywaller
>He doesn't know how to help me with flood damage

>> No.1882875

>pop open a manhole cover
>it’s just a a stupid concrete pit with a couple storm drains inside

>> No.1882876

>>1882826
ha

>> No.1882879

>Boss asks me for a screw
>Have to report to HR tomorrow morning

>> No.1882881

>excited to use my new band saw
>it doesn’t play music

>> No.1882891

>Go to hardware store
>They don't have any graphics cards or RAM

>> No.1882897

>Hire a civil engineer
>He raises his voice at me

>> No.1882898

>Hire a laborer
>He doesn't even know anything about British politics

>> No.1882902

>Hire an oil driller
>Wtf he is a racist

>> No.1882903

>buy a plane
Only thing that flies is wood curls

>> No.1882905

>buy router
>No WiFi

>> No.1882906

>buy an angle grinder
>it cuts in a straight line

>> No.1882907

>buy jackhammer
>Jacking off hurts

>> No.1882908

>Buy lathe
>Be early

>> No.1882909

>buy nail gun
>Toes are pierced

>> No.1882910

>Hire carpenter to lay down carpet
>Wtf I have wood floors now

>> No.1882913

>be in Poland
>Need my car shiny
>Hire soomeone to do it
>They use local product
>The polish polishes with polish polish.

>> No.1882980

>Machinists are just racists against humans.
>break lathes constantly need repair.
>a cobbler makes desserts with fruit.
>an arborist can repair one piece of a saw.

>> No.1883019

>ask for a waiter
>he won't wait for me

>> No.1883022

>>1881324
So u never had a dad?

>> No.1883028

>>1883019
I was at a restaurant in Greece once and asked a waiter if he would take a picture of my friends and I for me. He replied, "I can't, I'm waiting." My friends were embarassed that I even asked, but at least got a kick out of it.

>> No.1883110

>buy ruler
>has no subjects

>> No.1883114

>tape measure
>it doesn't stick to anything

>> No.1883118

>install curtains
>they're actually quite long

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>>1881324
>>1881356
>mfw too scared to make this joke to my religious relatives

>> No.1883154

>buy a 2x4
>it's 1 1/2" x 3 1/2"

>> No.1883180

>>1882853
fucking kek

>> No.1883201

>>1883022
He didnt grow up with an alcoholic dad who couldnt routinely pay the bills, no.

>> No.1883203

>>1883122
Being religious, im sure they have a great sense of humor

Hit em with the old
Who was the fastest runner in the race?
>adam, he was the first in the race!

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>I hired a roofer and he didn't even bother slipping something into my drink before raped me.

>> No.1883286

>hire astrologist
>he refuses to perform a rectal exam

>> No.1883321

>>1882657
Kek

>> No.1883413

>take my car to the grease monkeys
>absolutely no surprises

>> No.1883507

>buy a Penny Nial
>it cost a dime

>> No.1883513

>>1883154
Top shelf

>> No.1884164

>buy hammer
>doesn't taste like pork

>> No.1884242
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>visit /diy/
>it’s an Amelia Bedelia forum

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Holy shit I'm dying laughing at this thread

>> No.1886604

>>1881356
Who is Jesus?

>> No.1886608

Something something tap and die, help me out here.

>> No.1886628

>>1886608
>Order tap and die
>Didnt come until I was 80

>> No.1886638

>buy nail set
>not even enough to finish one hand

>> No.1886675

>>1881493
my favourite is chandler for candle maker

>> No.1886690

>>1886608
>Why are there no machinists in the military?
>because tap and die means something completely different when you work with explosives

>> No.1886692

>Order manifold gauges
>No service ports on my car's exhaust

>> No.1886709

>hire a lineman
>he’s completely three dimensional

>> No.1886768

>order some black nipples
>they're just little pieces of pipe

>> No.1887865

>>1881324
Makes sense I suppose.

>Rest of this thread.
Quality shit.

>> No.1887921

> masonry wall
> no jews hanging

>> No.1888171

>>1881356
Hes a kid, probably looked at a trade school.

>> No.1888390

>>1882641
I had to ask my wife's son what this one meant

>> No.1888423

>>1881324
>Buy hair dye
>Hair still very much alive

>> No.1888649

>>1881516
i though it was cause they need to make pipes plum.

>> No.1888651

>>1882905
Router are not suppose to have WiFi I don't get it.

>> No.1888744

>Jack of all trades
>Name's Steven

>> No.1888941

>>1882826
>hire foreman
>check 'em

>> No.1888948

>>1888941
>hire foreman
>its not a jamaican golfer

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>>1882562
>>1882582
>>1882325
>>1882641
>>1882808
>>1882826
>>1882839
>>1887921
Thank god this thread was on the front page

>> No.1889001

>>1882850
>hire an exterminator
>it's not Arnold Schwarzenegger, just some dude in a hazmat suit
>:(

>> No.1889009

>>1888423
If for some reason I ever got unbelievably stupid rich, I would start a company that makes off-brand Nair and name it "hair die" just for the chaos and hilarity that would ensue

>> No.1889011

>>1882562
Premium kek

>> No.1889560

>Find the correct pipe thread
>for no reason its 100 posts longer than it needs to be

>> No.1889743

>>1881356
Wtf? He didn't install yours?

>> No.1890401

>>1881518
>when Jesus was a carpenter there were Roman plumbers laying lead pipe

>> No.1890547

What the actual fuck is up with this reddit-tier pun faggotry?

>> No.1890607

>order blind installation
>the cheating fuckers use their eyes

>> No.1890615

>>1890547
> complains about reddit-tier
> "actual"

>> No.1890695

>>1881335
hilarious

>> No.1891541

>>1881360

same. but in my defence english is not my first language. So as a kid i thought a carpenter was somebody that made carpets. L