Yada Yada / The Off Topic Arena

Thank you that was always my intention to suggest to the OP an alternative to Bamboo, after I told him where to find a Bamboo Builder, I think when the CHB was mentioned then it did go way off, but to be honest I liked it and was having a bit of fun with it, it would appear the OP was gone anyway and made no comment after his initial post?

 

Went a bit crazy, did I now? I was only trying to “Spring-clean” with the off-topic rating before posting my own, following the example you set and rising up to your encouraging call to off-topic rating the other day, when posts went astray albeit in a far-related way, in the thread BoI Info/NEW rules on ENTRY of FOREIGNERS.

The topic in this thread is about “finding a reputable & bonded contractor,” not about “alternative building methods.” I was about to also list independent foremen but I realized these poor workers, though in true and actual possession of years of hands-on experience and masterful skills, will not cough up hard-earned money for some bond supposed to guarantee workmanship that already created for them their niche in the local construction industry. Anyway, how would such a list assist in finding a bonded contractor when, to them, it would be like being approached with a piece of cake for the grabbing and then being asked to name names to whom to give the cake! In like manner, how can alternative building methods assist in finding a bonded contractor?

Then you come saying, here and now, that if the intent is to be useful to the OP, what looks gray remains grey. I really think we could use some consistency here.

If the gentlemen are able to understand and accept that my off-topic ratings bore no intent to offend or inconvenience them even as my post's intent was to be useful to the OP, then I hereby my give thanks to DAVE1952, to SkipJack, to Ozzyguy, to jimeve, to Notmyrealname, and to Senjenbing. If not, I leave them to their imagined misery.

May tomorrow be a clear day to see forever!

 

Sorry if this offends you but I think you are aff yer Heid, who the F,,, needs a reputable contractor to build a Bamboo hoose, yer heid is in the clouds

 

Doesn't bother me. A rating neither makes me stronger (hardiflex*) or weaker (poor quality cocolumbar*). My aim is to try to stick to the topic (so that our Mod doesn't pull his hair out and become prematurely bald) - thus, I referred to the items asterisked.

 

Personally, I think the off-topic rating should be available only to the moderator. He has only one motive in using it and applies it fairly.

 

I thought maid marian was a moderator, the way she's rating everyone.

 

You encouraged members to use the off topic rating. And then, when I followed your call to exercise it in the interest of order, coherence and clarity in the thread, you go overboard by removing my ability to do all ratings like a tyrannical king! NOT FAIR! Is it because I am a brown Filipina and you are a white American?

 

@Mom Miriam
Don't play the race card. It is beneath you. Your posts and opinions are respected and stand on their own.