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Dark n Stormy Knight

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9. I'm guessing it is around here, too. Say with Amish construction crews working far enough away from

Reply to concreteblue (Reply #7)

Mon May 18, 2020, 12:39 PM

May 2020

their home base that using horse-drawn conveyances isn't feasible. I just know that among my friends who live close to Amish people it's a know issue that they're often imposed upon to drive them for free. Of course, maybe they're just complaining, as people tend to do, and making it sound more of a problem than it really is.

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RW assholes in the plant nursery. [View all] Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 OP

I don't know. I worked with Amish for years. They are conservative but really doubt they'd support a captain queeg May 2020 #1

Wow, that's totally different from what my friend who works with them says. Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #5

Wow that is totally different. Never knew them to lie LakeArenal May 2020 #8

So true. I started with a very unrealistic view of them as kind of hippies living off the land. Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #10

Generators too. LakeArenal May 2020 #11

I have Amish friends who tended to say things like: LakeArenal May 2020 #2

In PA, where I live the Amish are not nearly as isolated and unaware. Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #6

Seems like they avoid what could be their fair share of taxes. mobeau69 May 2020 #3

Precisely. Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #4

Where my wife is from is western KY concreteblue May 2020 #7

I'm guessing it is around here, too. Say with Amish construction crews working far enough away from Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #9

They pay property tax, income tax and sales tax inWI. LakeArenal May 2020 #12

It's been many years since I worked with the Amish in Ohio captain queeg May 2020 #13