SBBC Vol 1 - Corona is a can

[Poon Goon]

You: tattoos and guns
Poon: lawn care and yogurt

Imagine if me and Champ combined forces. The world would never be the same

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Also, I dropped out of high school

 

[therealdope]

Read the following in the spirit of Poon:

Why is Lowes so much better than Home Depot. Home Depot must look for the most useless fucking people they can find. None of them have ever used a tool, none of them are helpful (IME). When you ask what Aisle some item is it always seems like you are annoying them.

I like to go in when the store opens to avoid crowds. Why in the fuck do they do their stupid morning stand up meeting like a cult gathering in the middle of the main aisle blocking the cash registers. You can't go to the cash register without weaving through 17 slow witted people that seem shocked that someone would want to take their stuff and check out.

Lowes has none of these problems. The people that run Home Depot must have gone to a Lowes at some point, could they not figure this shit out?

 

[Poon Goon]

Read the following in the spirit of Poon:

Why is Lowes so much better than Home Depot. Home Depot must look for the most useless fucking people they can find. None of them have ever used a tool, none of them are helpful (IME). When you ask what Aisle some item is it always seems like you are annoying them.

I like to go in when the store opens to avoid crowds. Why in the fuck do they do their stupid morning stand up meeting like a cult gathering in the middle of the main aisle blocking the cash registers. You can't go to the cash register without weaving through 17 slow witted people that seem shocked that someone would want to take their stuff and check out.

Lowes has none of these problems. The people that run Home Depot must have gone to a Lowes at some point, could they not figure this shit out?

A hispanic lady I worked with drew racial lines with the big box home improvement stores. Told me that Lowe's was for my white people and Home Depot was for her hispanics. I rejected that theory and I go with Home Depot. Main reason is the Lowe's website is bullshit. It will tell me an item is in stock and can be found on a certain aisle, more often than not they didn't have the shit I was looking for. A few times the aisle itself didn't fucking exist in the store and I always confirmed that the site was listing my local store.

 

[El Chimpo]

You: tattoos and guns
Poon: lawn care and yogurt

I recently bought a top of the line carpet cleaner

 

[therealdope]

I recently bought a top of the line carpet cleaner

The Nexus awaits.

@senri

 

[therealdope]

As a tribute to Poon, I'll post a lawncare item.

We have a late 1960s built house in a bucolic neighborhood. The guy that had the house before us didn't take very good care of it and we did a complete renovation. I'm now tackling the lawn. But being the science nerd that I've always been, the lawn is just a vehicle for real world evolutionary biology at work. I've looked at the competition factor between clover, rye grass and dandelions. I've also tinkered with sympatric speciation by employing a physical barrier between weeded and non-weeded areas of the yard.

I'm currently experimenting with pre-germination of grass seed before spreading it.

 

[Poon Goon]

As a tribute to Poon, I'll post a lawncare item.

We have a late 1960s built house in a bucolic neighborhood. The guy that had the house before us didn't take very good care of it and we did a complete renovation. I'm now tackling the lawn. But being the science nerd that I've always been, the lawn is just a vehicle for real world evolutionary biology at work. I've looked at the competition factor between clover, rye grass and dandelions. I've also tinkered with sympatric speciation by employing a physical barrier between weeded and non-weeded areas of the yard.

I'm currently experimenting with pre-germination of grass seed before spreading it.

I understand your need to nerd out on this, but sometimes the correct answer is staring you right in the face. Plant Kentucky Bluegrass and then buy at least 7 of these shirts.

 

[therealdope]

I understand your need to nerd out on this, but sometimes the correct answer is staring you right in the face. Plant Kentucky Bluegrass and then buy at least 7 of these shirts.

 

[Revolver]

If you want nice grass just hire some Mexican to do it. They’re the goat in lawn care.

 

[therealdope]

TBH I like moving dirt and doing honest work (physical labor). Good change from work.

 

[Jonathan Utah]

I’m in an apartment, so I don’t have to worry about that. This thread has been very helpful for the future. Home Depot is the way to go.

 

[Revolver]

TBH I like moving dirt and doing honest work (physical labor). Good change from work.

I did enough manual labor growing up that I never want to do it again.

 

[Corona]

I did enough manual labor growing up that I never want to do it again.

don’t wanna pull a Larry turd and throw out your back landscaping. You’d never survive the goat 80s era.

 

[therealdope]

I did enough manual labor growing up that I never want to do it again.

(for me) nothing was worse than working industrial construction. Busting up an entire parking lot and then adding an extension onto a Valvoline plant was absolutely bonkers level hot.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

I’m in an apartment, so I don’t have to worry about that. This thread has been very helpful for the future. Home Depot is the way to go.

The Lowe's is fucking horrible but the Home Depot in San Ramon is chill.
Tons of parking, very helpful employees and hands down best lumber and plant quality around.
I do all the maintenance on my house, (except electrical, fuck that) landscaping,etc.
but I'm retired so I'm not a wage slave no more and I have lots of spare time.

 

[therealdope]

Hmmmm. In Ann Arbor, the Lowes was much better than the Home Depot. In the valley, I used the Home Depot in Sunnyvale but that's 20+ yrs ago.

I used to work for a company headquartered in Wisconsin and my colleagues there always pointed me to Lowes over HD. I wonder if it's a regional thing.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Only manual labor I do is lay pipe. Anything other than that I hire someone.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

Oof

 

[My Spot]

@therealdope Did you ever go to a Stanford baseball game?