Is this guy talking about us?

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thechimneysweep

thechimneysweep

Minister of Fire
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Nov 19, 2005
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Bellingham, WA
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I get a lot of E-mails every day, generated by visitors to my hearth product website. Most are written by folks with hearth-related questions, some are purchase orders, a few are compliments about the site. The ones that don't fall into any of those categories tend to be my favorites. Received this one today, and thought I'd share it with the forum. This is actually just an exerpt from a very long rant, but here you go:

"Wood smoke stinks and is "hillbilly heating" from caveman days. Where I live I have never met an intelligent wood burner - they are backwards, ignorant (education wise), they drive pickup trucks, and smoke cigarettes. I was a former by-law officer in our area and 75% of the unsightly properties were wood burners with their collection of railway ties, pallets, milled wood , treated wood and garbage and of course the derelict vehicles. Their properties are breeding grounds for rats, weasels and termites."

- gere

I finished this letter and said to myself, "Why, this extraordinarily perceptive individual has described me to a tee!" I wonder how many other members of the forum might be similarly amazed.
 
Mike Wilson said:
Nice rant...

I'm now going to rip up my doctorate and go get the washing machine off the front lawn :grrr:

-- Mike

Ahhh crap, the porch collapsed and 4 of my dogs just died... dammit.
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good thing I am only 2 years into doctoral work- glad this guy opened my eyes (hiccup)
 
Goes to show you the ignorance of some people -- When I first started burning i didnt relise how much technology is involved with all of it.
Well im off to feed my 27 kids and their 12 kids.
 
Canada? Well, at least he's not PO'd about us burnin' up all his natural gas. :)

BTW: I come from a long line of hillbillies and don't think there'd be one among my family that couldn't look down on this chump. Maybe he just had a hard week, or maybe one of his ignorant, woodburning, hillbilly neighbors recently bee atch slapped him 'fer gittin' finger prints on his pick up, or complainin' about his cigarette smoke?
 
I can't figure out if he was talking about me, my brother Daryl or my other brother Daryl.
 
ROTFLOL, that was a good-one Tom. The responses are equally up to the post. I expected him to go off on a Deliverance theme. Y'all want to be sure you don't bend over near one of us yokels.
 
Yup, I gotta go git that thar old Camaro offin them cinderblocks one of these days....

O.k., I wish I had a pickup and a hound dog... I did at one time. a Nissan and a Hoaggie dog.

Yup, gotta go toss the masters degree...never did me much good for all that thar work on them Operating systems I been working on all these years. Still can't pronounce that latest one...Line ax...Lime ox..Linux...what ever.
 
H'mm I can heat my home for less money even buying wood cut and split, never mind those of us who get our wood for little or no money not to mention the environmental benefits as well. Yup sounds pretty dang ignorant to me! But what the heck do I know I am just a dumb wood choppin hillbilly and I wouldn't wnat it any other way!

People like that is why I go to work in the woods!

Craig
 
I think that guy is a closet wood burner, and is feeling guilty for coming over to the dark side.
 
awh ship tha plins why themla married billey joe bob her cucccin the wood burner and distiller
 
all my cars are broke down ...there sittin in my front yard ...i outta get one together lord ..but the work seems just to hard
 
Hillbilly heating, tell that to the guy with a couple million dollar house burning two FPX wood fireplaces. Myself yeah, white trash, redneck, hillbilly whatever you can come up with. When I was a kid I sported a mullet, and there's been a broken down vehicle or two in my yard, so what?
 
Dada DA DA DA da da daaaaah. Jeez, I'm just burning those planet friendly pellet doohickeys. Dada DA DA DA daaaah. Um, ok if I er toss in some of those there doggy food in that there stove o' yers? Ain't gotz no pellets. Daddy did back some time 'er go. Hows about some bird food? Cat litter? Darn it be cold in here, let's go noodling for sum o' those old catfish instead.

Southern boys don't be offended, we're still recovering from the Fargo movie up here in MN. You betcha.... Cheers all, have a warm, blessed eve.

Bee
 
Hell I wish I had a few of those neighbors. Mine ( while I can't even see em just the way I like it) all are building monolithic Mc Mansions honoring the greater glory that is themselves in celebration of low interest rates. I could use a few of those old Caddy's just to keep the damned tax guy away. I don't know which one is more dangerous to bend over in front of though. Off hand I have to say its the tax guy, but thats just me.......................... Banjo's anyone???? Burt, please shoot straight....... Sewweeeeeeeee
 
Aw , He is just mad because his wife said no last night , again . Gots 2 take er out de angry man on som body ya no . I can see him finishing his email and going back to sit his a$$ on the lazy-boy. Now lets see, how many bills do i have this month ? hummm
 
Driz said:
Banjo's anyone????
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I dont get it, Thats not funny . We get the hot coals going in the back yard pit , throw on some road kill with some bbq and play the banjo when we take turns chopping the wood. u dont do that in your part of the woods ?
 
Them there cars in lthe front yard are not broken down vehicles. Thay get pushed over the hill and become deer hunting blinds.
 
He just doesn't understand the advantages of being a wood burner:

1- wood is an environmentally friendly heat source,

2- wood is an economical heat source,

3- a wood burner can get a divorce from his wife and she's still his little sister.

With benefits like these, who needs oil???

-- Mike
 
Hmmmm

Wood burning is 100% renewable
Studies show that the solids dispersed through chimney smoke are actually beneficial to green growth
Wood burning provides exercise in varying degrees (if you cut down, split and stack all your wood and burn all season you know what I mean)
Wood burning was done by our ancestors and from what I can gather the human animal has been pretty successful
Wood burning is a constant chess match that tickles the brain daily

That said we really are a buncha hillbillys
 
Come listen to my story bout a man named Jed
Poor mountaineer hardly kept his family fed
Then one day he was chopping up some wood
When up to his block
Walked some snotty Canuck dude
Slick feller. Tasseled loafers. Ascot.

Well the next thing you know old Jed's installed forced air
Kin folks said "Jed it's freezing cold in there"
They said renewable heat is where you oughta be
So he dusted off the saw and went lookin for a tree
Bore cut. Hand split. Stacked in a Holtz Hausen.
 
^

That should win a Grammy LMAO
 
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