I am not alone in getting a bit peed off with the sweeping generalisations made about "builders" - that we are all (as you seem to think) bent or on the make, that we are all incompetent and that any half-wit could do our job, and that we are all somehow the less bright or able in society. These views seem to be common currency these days amongst a certain sort of middle-class person, who considers themselves as some sort of intellectual (you know, the sort of tosser who refers to themselves in the third person), and who routinely talk down to and about any of the "Untermenschen" who happen to wear a hi-viz. We aren't all thick, nor are we all bent bastards. That particular soubriquet seems to fit some of the white collar classes to a far greater degree in my experience. As to "if the cap fits..." (which BTW it doesn't) - that is a particularly weak retort from someone who considers it alright to pidgeon-hole and then insult an entire segment of the working population with a throwaway. Or in site terms, a tosser
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