this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If anon wasn't a painter he could've 100% salvaged that and been the funniest guy at the gym

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

Exactly, dude adlibbed the perfect apropos question than bails when it hits the bell.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Where did painter come from? That's the second time I've seen that used in this context.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Its what people who think they're clever use as a word for people who are autistic. The "joke" is that autistic sounds like artistic, thus calling them painters like a coward.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Man that is some reaching.

Painters breath fumes all day, not that they are all that dangerous or anything, but leads to stereotypes. It’s also an inside joke among constructions workers, there is a “hierarchy” of trades and the painters are near the bottom, therefor the butt of most jokes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

If not, you’re welcome for the out.

I honestly never even thought of that angle before now, but damn. Is that no longer politically correct? It is being taken derogatory?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Painters are also notorious for using drugs, in particular weed.

The stereotype exists for all the "wet" trades, plasterers etc, but painters get it the worst.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

IDK, sheet rockers get it pretty bad with the piss jars, mudders (your plasterers?) smoke crack. They all get it pretty bad.

But fuck what they do is a damn art form. It takes a special talent to be able to get a decent lvl4, no mind a lvl5 and have it paint nicely.

[–] can 2 points 10 months ago

Like a mad hatter?

[–] can 10 points 10 months ago

That's regarded

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I don't think I'm clever, I know I'm retarded

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Other trades like use them as the butt of jokes since it’s not an “educated” trade.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Sniffing paint for 8 hours a day is more than enough education for me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

If I had to guess, iterations on the word "autist". Autist->artist->painter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where did painter come from?

Depends on which painter you're asking about.

Hopefully, not the Austrian one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Fritzl wasn't a painter, he was a builder!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

Should have laughed along them say he'd swing back around in five and remind him to wipe off the equipment. His embarrassment blinded him of his opportunity.