SNOO V8 - In the bathroom smashing glasses

[Don Luigi]

Our customers miss the Araldite epoxy. We haven't been able to get it cheap enough for years. They have to make do with the shite that 151 produce.

We have such a big range of super glue though that it leaves customers perplexed. They always ask what the best one is and I say, ''the Loctite is what we use because it's the best and I'm not just saying that because it's the most expensive'', they inevitably pick Bostick

Although the Loctite is more expensive, we actually make more of a profit when they buy the cheap stuff.

 

[gardenlane]

I have a nice evening full of way too much excitement.

Now for slumber which hopefully isn't disturbed by ridiculous german dreams.

 

[Don Luigi]

Word on the street is - you're definitely getting Hitlered in your sleep.

 

[gardenlane]

Shut up, Fegelein. If my dreams contain anything german you're going down.

 

[Don Luigi]

Should that be so, it will surely be my downfall.


Eh?

Eh?

 

[gardenlane]

I hate you.

 

[felix]

Shut up, Fegelein

Wow. Reasonably obscure 1945 Berlin-era BURN.

That's you told, Don.

 

[BecomingJulie]

Although the Loctite is more expensive, we actually make more of a profit when they buy the cheap stuff.

Yeah, because they have to keep coming back and buying more of it! If they'd bought the proper stuff in the first place, the repair would have stayed together .....

 

[Don Luigi]

This is true. We have to compete with Poundland though and a lot of people don't realise that if you spend £1 on three tubes on glue, rather than £2.49 on some Loctite, they're not getting particularly good value. It's that £1 sticker that really whets their appetite. If you stick on 99p then you have a clean-up operation..

I just realised the other day how I've always thought that big corporations were immoral for the conditions in their Asian factories. I then realised that we're just as bad because of all the cheap shite we sell from China. Our tools are all cheap brands - Blackspur, Bluespot etc and the metal is usually really shite. They're ok if you're just getting them for the odd wee job but most respectable tradesmen probably wouldn't touch them. Our Draper tools are actually quite good for the price.

I won't pretend that I know what half of the tools are for though. I hate being asked by customers what the best tool for their job is. It sounds like I really shouldn't be employed there but we're not a dedicated hardware shop. The other two men I work with, and the woman, are more blokey than me though

 

[felix]

Did you think you were working for a wee family shop until the other day? :D

Every one of us is complicit in the sweatshop supply chain, no matter where we buy our stuff from.

BTW which tools don't you know about? I'll tell ye.

 

[Don Luigi]

One upside to my complicity in the suffering of the eastern proletariat is the hilarious translations on some of our toys.

This excitement vehicle toy will provide manifold happy hours.

No joke.

 

[felix]

Well, you would find that funny, SS-Gruppenführer Fegelein.

 

[Don Luigi]

How many times do I have to tell that woman that I'm Wenk, 'The Boy General' 8)

I should have never let her watch 'Downfall'. She's very impressionable..she'd be Goebbels.

Who would you be? Or do you refuse to pin down your ideal Nazi?

 

[BecomingJulie]

Things will only begin to get better once we decide to ban the importation of goods produced under conditions which would not be acceptable in the destination country. We have laws concerning employee rights and environmental protection; and if it's wrong to treat British workers, or the people who have to live near British factories, in certain ways, then what makes it O.K. to treat foreign workers in those ways?

It's literally exporting misery, and it should make anyone sick.

 

[Don Luigi]

People don't want to change centuries of Western tradition

That was a really good way to put it though and I will be using that phrase. Misery is one of the few things we do still export. I've watched most things I'm interested in on thoughtmaybe.com and there are a lot of good documentaries along this subject line.

 

[felix]

Who would you be? Or do you refuse to pin down your ideal Nazi?

:D

I'm an Albert Speer.

 

[Don Luigi]

At least you were wise enough to pick somebody who didn't get executed!

 

[Sprout]

SHM, while you're working your magic, make a thread that results in me inadvertently finding a wife.

(I tried very hard not to make a Madeleine McCann joke there...).

 

[Don Luigi]

Kind of guy who mates for life, gotta help him find a wife.

Any particular reason that you're so keen to find a wife? I'm cripplingly lonely but I wouldn't jump straight into matrimony. Unless matrimony is what they call beds in Japan.

 

[Sprout]

Kind of guy who mates for life, gotta help him find a wife.

Any particular reason that you're so keen to find a wife? I'm cripplingly lonely but I wouldn't jump straight into matrimony. Unless matrimony is what they call beds in Japan.

Because I came very close, but she left, and I'm becoming lonelier each day.
Everywhere I look; happy families with beautiful children and... I really want to be a part of that. To be happy in myself and share that with another, forever.