Today at work I needed the help of another journeyman because I had a boatload of plumbing to run and just needed the help of someone who I could get up to speed quickly by just handing a set of building plans and just sort of saying ‘here, go over there and plumb this in according to these plans’ and leave them be, while I am over here doing the exact same thing.
The guys I have a pretty good working relationship with were all tied up, with their own issues to deal with. So I got the guy who just started at the shop I’m at. He is a j-man, just new at work.
Today, I got about 20 minutes into a casual conversation about what the upcoming weekend’s plans were (Im going camping at a nearby state park, and I understood him to be of a similar vein - we are both avid hammock campers) and came to the realization that he is a fucking TRAD CATH. He got married right out of highschool 25 years ago to his sweetheart. She is not allowed to work. She is not allowed to drive. I dont even think is on the bank account or the title to the home they have. She is to have his lunch ready when he leaves for work in the morning. She is the one to take care of their son. And he explained to me in great detail about how his is teaching his 6 year old son the ‘proper husband/wife dynamic instead of the sissy liberal shit on TV’. She is to make dinner every evening. And not just any dinner, either. He wants a culinary masterpiece every day. He drinks raw milk. He is an anti-vaxxer. He listens to Gavin Mcguiness (or however the fuck you spell it, i dont give a fuck how he spells his shitty racist name) daily or weekly, and has even hung out with him multiple times. He is a proud western chauvinist. He is a volunteerist, whatever the fuck it is. According to him he donates money monthly to Alex Jones. He buys the supplements AJ hawks. He firmly believes in the globalist agenda to blah blah blah….. By then I’d had enough.
jesus fucking christ.
This isnt the first time ive had other white guys signal what they are, or what their beliefs are. I hate to say it, but I probably fit a visual mold that makes them think Im of the same mind. I wear overalls, my beard is too long and going grey. I have long hair. i carry a pistol in my service truck. I am more and more disgusted by those in my profession. At least in my neck of the woods, plumbers are awful fucking people. Im glad that at the least, I dont socialize with any plumbers after work.
I ended up having him pack up his tools and call the office for a different assignment. Then I spent a half hour explaining to the office manager, and then the owner, why I ran another jman off the jobsite.
I just wanted to talk about going camping in a hammock this weekend.
As someone who is ethnically catholic, it's always fun to out-catholic practicing catholics. Just full-blown fire and brimstone shit. Someone makes a comment about having a literal interpretation of the Old Testament and thinks evolution is fake news?
"That's fucking protestant bullshit! The fuck outta here with your Satanic influences! We all know evolution is God's process of creation. That's what the Pope says!"
Oh yeah, it was fun having a Jesuit in high school theology class who took the tradcath mean girls and tore their faith apart piece by piece.
What? Like, how? What kind of religious nerd is able to bully people instead of being bullied?
Old Money Catholic School Girls in a same sex Catholic School.
Most are what I'd call conservative Catholics rather than trads proper (and that type fucking hate the trads) but the richer they are the more radtrad they get.
Yeah, a lot of these self-described “trad caths” aren’t really trad caths in the pre-Vatican II, service in Latin no meat on Fridays sense. They’re just Amerikkkans who have this ahistorical notion that old school Catholicism is synonymous with the mid-20th century nuclear family ideal.