Does anyone own a sewing machine?

wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
I just wondered if anyone on here is a seamstress or uses a sewing machine at home that likes to do little cash jobs?

I have a 2 meter length of velcro which needs attaching along the top of a 2m wide cotton muslin using green thread. I'd happily pay someone to have this done and could drop it off etc.
 
kyoto49

kyoto49

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Withnail said:
Goddam them foreigners and their 2-meter-length-of-velcro-which-needs-attaching-along-the-top-of-a-2m-wide-cotton-muslin-using-green-thread job stealing ways :grr:
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Is foreign an inaccurate description of them?? or do you have nothing better to do with your day than to infer some sort of casual racism that isn't there? Go get a life.
 
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Sir BoD

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kyoto49 said:
Is foreign an inaccurate description of them?? or do you have nothing better to do with your day than to infer some sort of casual racism that isn't there? Go get a life.
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It's not inaccurate but it is lazy and 'could' be be misconstrued (via text without intonation) as such. I thought Withnail was just trying to be funny with his reply, although I suppose it's hard to tell without intonation! :) I would just prefer to say the men in the market that do alterations are good - but then I might be challenged for being sexist. Where's that (man)hole........
 
littleme

littleme

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kyoto49 said:
Is foreign an inaccurate description of them?? or do you have nothing better to do with your day than to infer some sort of casual racism that isn't there? Go get a life.
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Harsh. Simply stating "those nice Men with the alterations stall in the market would assist" would of done...

....& before you ask, no, I've got nothing better to do with my day! ;)
 
kyoto49

kyoto49

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When did people get so sensitive over the word 'foreign(ers)?? They are clearly men who have only recently arrived in this country having lived overseas all their lives. I used the term to differentiate from any other alterations people who may or may not be in the market, I haven't been in since last August so can't consider myself up to date with the current stallholders occupations. Foreigners was an attempt to differentiate from any other alteration stalls that may/may not be in the market.

I'll make sure I don't try and help other forumites in future for fear of offending lunatics who appear to have taken over the asylum :(. And we wonder why our country went to rat.........
 
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Sir BoD

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kyoto49 said:
And we wonder why our country went to rat.........
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Ratist!!!!
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wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
@Gramaisc I've already tried the stuff and it was useless - possibly that the fabric I'm using is too absorbent of the adhesive / possibly I used too much heat. Not sure.

@kyoto49 I'm certain that @Withnail was purely offering a funny response of how the people might "think" about the job that I need doing. It was based on myself being foreign to them the same as they are foreign to us - that isn't racist. I'm as confident that if you had used the term "those blokes in the market" then his response would of been "those blokes with their velcro" etc. He wasn't digging at your use of the term foreigner. Anyone else that has also commented saying that the word didn't need to be used, I mean really??! A foreigner is a person from a foreign country isn't it? I swear sometimes that the world has gone mad. How long before being called a Staffordian causes offence. ;)
 
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Sir BoD

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wmrcomputers said:
@Gramaisc I've already tried the stuff and it was useless - possibly that the fabric I'm using is too absorbent of the adhesive / possibly I used too much heat. Not sure.

@kyoto49 I'm certain that @Withnail was purely offering a funny response of how the people might "think" about the job that I need doing. It was based on myself being foreign to them the same as they are foreign to us - that isn't racist. I'm as confident that if you had used the term "those blokes in the market" then his response would of been "those blokes with their velcro" etc. He wasn't digging at your use of the term foreigner. Anyone else that has also commented saying that the word didn't need to be used, I mean really??! A foreigner is a person from a foreign country isn't it? I swear sometimes that the world has gone mad. How long before being called a Staffordian causes offence. ;)
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Some terms / words start off without prejudice but get hijacked further down the line. In a world that is ever shrinking and populations mixing with each other on scales greater than ever before, the word foreigner is / has been used as a way to marginalise people and its usage is definitely on the wane. As I said before, it isn't necessarily offensive, but it is lazy. A Paki is somebody who comes from Pakistan, but only people who didn't really get 'Til Death us do Part' still use that term - or Australians.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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But, you can call an Australian an Aussie - a lot of it is about context and intention, or even just perceived intention.


I was always a little uncomfortable about the name of Spaggo's Italian restaurant.
 
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