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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: s.hughes on September 21, 2007, 03:58:32 pm

Title: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: s.hughes on September 21, 2007, 03:58:32 pm
Whenever I mention this site to non-w/c they laugh. People think its funny to have a forum for w/c's, they ask me what we all talk about like how many windows did you clean today etc.
Thing is, I would never have been able to build my own wfp system without this site, (Matt was a great help with that 1) I probable wouldnt even know the concept of it all.

I tend to not mention this site to much but when you do, do you also get a big smile from your customers?

Steve
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Neil_A on September 21, 2007, 04:05:23 pm
I think when people who are not W/Cers hear about the site they think we must chat about silly things like .. the weather, or who has the biggest ladders.. in some case's poles :).. And we all know this is true..

But people dont take into account how much help & advice you can get on here.. not to mention keeping your eyes on how the w/c market and how it is  going in other parts of the uk... and the world

I wonder if there is a forum for Fishermen.... i bet they talk about hooks and rods allday :D
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Pj on September 21, 2007, 04:20:56 pm
I wouldn't dream of telling clients about the forum, I have told a few I educated myself by using the WWW.

Sounds a bit more professional than "I picked up a few tips from a windowcleaner chat forum" :P
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Russell Macdonald on September 21, 2007, 04:21:01 pm
My kids, the mrs, the family & friends all take the mick out of me.  ::)

Try to explain to them how much help this forem has been to me & others.

Sometimes the mrs says she could understand more if it was a perv site,
in some ways it is, there's Squeaky & Tosh for a start.  ;D
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: simon knight on September 21, 2007, 05:01:24 pm

My Mrs is convinced it's some kind of Masonic site ;D

Funny thing is I can't now remember how i found CIU...!
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: johnny_h on September 21, 2007, 05:12:45 pm
i would not be a window cleaner if it wasnt for this site!
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Pole2pole on September 21, 2007, 05:17:04 pm
I tell punters about this place. I tell them it's like goin in a cyber pub full of window cleaners(sad i know) but it's kinda true(just no beer in sight) where you chat,ask questions, have a laugh,wind each other up and hell,now and then even learn a thing or two. Now, who's round is it?  ;D
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Davew on September 21, 2007, 05:37:34 pm
Oh I bet they really have a laugh when people post their earnings on here!
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Ian Lancaster on September 21, 2007, 05:50:02 pm
I once mentioned that I was going to a WFP course at the British Window Cleaning Academy and a friend fell about laughing at the idea that there should actually be such a thing or that anyone would need to undergo training to be a window cleaner. ::)
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Wrekin C S on September 21, 2007, 06:09:14 pm
Without this site I'd be well n truley stuffed! I have had loads of advice and help in setting up equipment and what to buy etc from you guys so a big THANKS to you all!  :D

Andy
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Kwackers on September 21, 2007, 06:17:14 pm
24 Hour suppot 7 days a week for free, and then theres the jobs you might go on together as a sub contractor when your struglling - who cares what people think
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: simon knight on September 21, 2007, 06:31:43 pm
Dino got it right. This site is the equivalent of going down the boozer with a few colleagues after work and swapping stories/bitching about work.
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: macmac on September 21, 2007, 06:46:57 pm
Laugh all they want for me dude!
I credit this forum with completely turning my working life around, reading & posting on here has done more benefit for me as a w/c than anything or anyone ever! although, you do have to ween the good advice from the not so good sometimes mind ;D

tony
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: windowwashers on September 21, 2007, 06:57:05 pm

My Mrs is convinced it's some kind of Masonic site ;D

Funny thing is I can't now remember how i found CIU...!
it was a funny handshake  ;)
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: SonOfFormby on September 21, 2007, 07:02:27 pm
My kids, the mrs, the family & friends all take the mick out of me.  ::)

Try to explain to them how much help this forem has been to me & others.

Sometimes the mrs says she could understand more if it was a perv site,
in some ways it is, there's Squeaky & Tosh for a start.  ;D

My wife reads posts on this site as much, if not more than me, she thinks you guys and your antics are hilarious  ;D

Lee
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: simon knight on September 21, 2007, 07:04:58 pm
There you go! Can't use a word even my maiden aunt (gawd rest her soul) used to use.

Another one: damn
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: simon knight on September 21, 2007, 07:07:50 pm
damned
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: simon knight on September 21, 2007, 07:08:34 pm

I think I've made my point!
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: simon knight on September 21, 2007, 07:15:34 pm

Oh Mods...the word doging doesn't exist unless it's spelt with 2 Gs...in which case it's dogging which means sex in a public place.
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: LWC on September 21, 2007, 07:41:13 pm
yes everyone i speak to laughs about it...although i never talk to any of my customers about it. just friends and family...and they all think its sad

helped me out loads...it aint sad at all
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: Pole2pole on September 21, 2007, 08:39:04 pm
Be careful what ya say Simon. Lee's misses might be watching. And we don't want him getting a thick ear for associating himself with the likes of us  ;D
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: mark dew on September 22, 2007, 02:06:20 am
Laugh all they want for me dude!
I credit this forum with completely turning my working life around, reading & posting on here has done more benefit for me as a w/c than anything or anyone ever! although, you do have to ween the good advice from the not so good sometimes mind ;D
tony

Same here. It's changed my working life. Or at least it's helped me to do it.
Title: Re: Do people laugh at this site???
Post by: gary999 on September 22, 2007, 10:11:35 am
has been great help to me ;D

although have been threatened with divorce more than
usual since have been on here