If someone tells you how to do your job, you are inefficient or lazy.
There was a guy like that near where I live.
Turns out he had Alzheimers
We have them too!
Last year across the road from my office they were fixing up a public square, and one of the granddads was obsessed that when they finished their day they didn’t store the materials and machinery safely enough and that someone was going to steal them, you could hear him arguing with the workmen.
I went by there one afternoon, and there was the grandpa walking around the site like *”not on my watch, you bastards”*
How are they called in Dutch?
It truly is the core of European culture
I’m afraid we observe an advanced form of this autism here and it is reaching critical mass on the SkyscraperCity forum
I can’t wait to be retired and do the same, no joke
That’s Manolo and Paco!
François writes it Oumaireau
That’s probably an universal thing. When I lived in Portugal, every time I would go out to sand some piece of wood or cut it. Old guys in the street would stop to watch and comment on that. And I wasn’t even doing anything interesting.
If you don’t do that here you don’t get your pension.
I wonder… is there a competition in this activity? A sort of Umarell Tournament?
I actually can’t remember ever seeing it here. Maybe it’s too cold for them, I see tons of old people in malls during the day.
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If someone tells you how to do your job, you are inefficient or lazy.
There was a guy like that near where I live.
Turns out he had Alzheimers
We have them too!
Last year across the road from my office they were fixing up a public square, and one of the granddads was obsessed that when they finished their day they didn’t store the materials and machinery safely enough and that someone was going to steal them, you could hear him arguing with the workmen.
I went by there one afternoon, and there was the grandpa walking around the site like *”not on my watch, you bastards”*
How are they called in Dutch?
It truly is the core of European culture
I’m afraid we observe an advanced form of this autism here and it is reaching critical mass on the SkyscraperCity forum
[Velhos nas Obras](https://www.instagram.com/velhosnasobras?igsh=bzhhZHIzdm9ibjh1)
Umaril? The unfeathered?
https://preview.redd.it/xvzx7kjerswc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2d7f3dc2ea8e692db58b30c87cafa0668a9c64a
Men at work
TIL I aspire to become a Umarell someday.
We have a Instagram account that specifically posts only about this. [Velhos Nas Obras](https://www.instagram.com/velhosnasobras/)
There’s even a [Song ](https://youtu.be/oDqBtUkHSCY?si=-JMorsblZK9s0ilq) about it
Nice discussion you’re having here, mind if I take a look?
https://preview.redd.it/zt5m23npuswc1.jpeg?width=593&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19dca67d85eb0ec213a13fadcbab7f57333b14d8
I can’t wait to be retired and do the same, no joke
That’s Manolo and Paco!
François writes it Oumaireau
That’s probably an universal thing. When I lived in Portugal, every time I would go out to sand some piece of wood or cut it. Old guys in the street would stop to watch and comment on that. And I wasn’t even doing anything interesting.
If you don’t do that here you don’t get your pension.
I wonder… is there a competition in this activity? A sort of Umarell Tournament?
I actually can’t remember ever seeing it here. Maybe it’s too cold for them, I see tons of old people in malls during the day.