Too right: in my BCO days one customer was more than pleased with the worst extension I'd ever seen and was far from appreciative of my efforts to try and get it up to some sort of minimum standard, whilst another sent a builder who had done a very fair job *18* pages of alleged defects.
As previously pointed out word of mouth recommendation is best ... unless you are English and building a holiday home, in that case best to avoid any Meibion Glynd?r builders or very good fire Insurance could be necessary.
Absolutely. The builder I used here had a brilliant chippie and brickie. All the builder did was drive the van and look after the ordering, etc. The brickie died and the chippie left. The builder then ceased trading.
Why do they always have to do that? It really, really gets up my nose [1].
I have an intense dislike of racists, or people who have a thing about particular countries or national groups, but my God the Welsh really try my patience on that score.
Because humans have evolved to be tribal for very good reasons of survival. Distrust of the 'outsider' is in every race, and attempts to suppress is to be politically correct are doomed to failure in the long term. Prejudice is another inbuilt defense mechanism - acting now based on prior experience. My previous dog was prejudiced against Black Labradors for the very good reason he'd had a bad experience of an aggressive one. Any other colour of Labrador, or black dogs of another breed he was fine with.
If we introduce a new batch of chicken into the chicken run, the new ones will flock together and stay apart from the original ones - this persists for days, even weeks until they integrate. (As an aside, to avoid a massive fight they get introduced to the coop when they are settling down for the night and old and new are sprayed with orange scent so they all smell the same, otherwise they would fight.)
Likewise. In fact, I'm about to pop over the border to my nearest shop. Which is quite probably nearer to Llandrindod Wells than the nearest Welsh-speaking pub is.
B'sides, why on _earth_ do some people apparently believe they have some kind of a right to be able to eavesdrop on everybody else's conversation in a public place?
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