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“iam a window cleaner and ur a tit”
February 19th, 2007 at 01:14
Something insane has happened. I seem to have upset the UK’s window cleaners. I mean, all of them.
Ages ago, I wrote about an encounter I had with some window cleaners (this is the link you need to click for the backstory). Tonight, it seems that the people from the Clean It Up forum, apparently a forum full of industry professionals, found that post, and as a consequence, I’ve received about double the number of hits I usually get. Unfortunately, I can’t read the thread on their forum to see what they’re saying about me, as you have to be registered and manually approved by an administrator. Presumably they don’t want their secret window cleaning chat to be read by us mere mortals. It’s why no one outside of the window cleaning profession knows what the perfect mixture of soap and water is.
The only other time I’ve encountered a forum set up like this is when a Nazi website linked to me.
I like how window cleaners have banded together- you’d think they’d all be sole traders, self assessing their tax, aggressively protecting their home turf and not wanting to share their tips with the competition. The fact this forum exists suggests otherwise. In fact, I’m going to make the assertion that “window cleaners = Marxists”.
This forum existing also makes me wonder if they’re operating a cartel, keeping prices unreasonably high. After all, we all need someone to clean our windows if the rain doesn’t do it, or we’re too lazy to do it ourselves.
Anyway, Several window cleaners left comments on my blog post. They don’t seem to like me very much.
Two of the commentators recommended “Water fed pole technology” as a solution to my problem, whilst others were less, er, helpful: “iam a window cleaner and ur a tit”.
One thing I love is the that one of the comments refers to “WFP” as if I should know what it stands for- as the comments are on full moderation, this person wouldn’t have known that it was helpfully explained six minutes prior.
Several of the comments seem to dwell on my closing remarks: “I hate window cleaners”. I’d like to readdress this and point out that I don’t hate window cleaners, despite clearly writing the opposite six months ago. I just wish they’d all use water fed pole tech, obviously.
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