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So has anyone else ever had to deal with the weed/tree called Rose of Sharon (or Rose of Althea)? They are a hoot. The previous owner of our house had several and let them go to seed all over the property.
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Lt. Chips posted:My only regret is that I have but one lawn to mow.
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Apr 18, 2016 11:28
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Then don't buy a loving McMansion on a 2 acre lot of grass. Get a smaller more manageable yard, trees and have a garden and poo poo. Or, if you hate having sun on your skin, but a townhouse you'd commute to a computer janitor job, and live like those blind cave rats
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Apr 18, 2016 11:53
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What's with you fuckups who equate lawnmowing with the only quality outside time you can get. You can go for a stroll or jog or grow some vegetables without having to push or ride a contraption in circles on some boring grass like the worlds shittiest parade. Unimaginative motherfuckers in here.
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Apr 18, 2016 12:14
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Two words: landscape gravel.
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Apr 18, 2016 12:15
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Lawns are really dumb! Plant some native grasses or plants, or some food-producing plants.
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Apr 18, 2016 12:19
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sudonim posted:What's with you fuckups who equate lawnmowing with the only quality outside time you can get. You can go for a stroll or jog or grow some vegetables without having to push or ride a contraption in circles on some boring grass like the worlds shittiest parade. Unimaginative motherfuckers in here. Thank you! There are so many recreational outdoor activities, mowing the lawn should be way down on anybody's list of "fun outdoor things to do."
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Apr 18, 2016 12:58
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Volume posted:I've been saying this poo poo my entire life. And that's not even getting into the massive waste of fresh water that goes into lawn care nor the chemical run off that poisons the oceans and lakes Once a couple years ago it hadn't rained in a few weeks and I began to think about the possibility of watering my lawn, but then it rained so I didn't care. When your new laws about banning lawns because people water them go into affect, will they affect EVERYONE or just the people you personally don't like? If not a blanket ban, will you have a list of people affected? If so, can one donate to your reelection campaign for favorable treatment? That's how things usually work, I just wonder how it will be under your dictatorship.
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Apr 18, 2016 13:04
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i live in a cave
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Apr 18, 2016 13:04
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I pay some dude from Honduras $60 a month to come cut and edge my yard. He trims the bushes too. I am a job creator, I am the 1%
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Apr 18, 2016 13:08
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dad gay. so what posted:i live in a cave got any good paintings in there? im talking cave paintings here.
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Apr 18, 2016 13:11
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:I pay some dude from Honduras $60 a month to come cut and edge my yard. He trims the bushes too. I never understood this--like, all the people who complain about illegal immigration, do they not understand that people wouldn't come here if there weren't jobs? So shouldn't they be angry and pass laws that make it illegal or at least super punishable to hire illegal immigrants? Instead of building a wall or whatever?
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Apr 18, 2016 13:18
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A Strange Aeon posted:I never understood this--like, all the people who complain about illegal immigration, do they not understand that people wouldn't come here if there weren't jobs? So shouldn't they be angry and pass laws that make it illegal or at least super punishable to hire illegal immigrants? Instead of building a wall or whatever? I think the point is that I'm paying this dude basically $12/hr. If there wasn't a flood of unskilled labor (though I pay this guy to do it because I don't care to know how) the price would be higher as some domestic worker would do it.
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Apr 18, 2016 13:22
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Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that adding to the labor pool is bad for wages and unemployment.
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Apr 18, 2016 13:24
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I live in an apartment so I don't have a lawn. However, my mother in law asked me to come mow the lawn at her house because my father in law has to go on a business trip and the lawn can't go 2 weeks without mowing I guess? So she owned me pretty hard and now I can spend my Saturday mowing someone else's lawn. Also typing lawn a lot makes me realize it's a weird word. Lawn lawn lawn.
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Apr 18, 2016 14:25
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beedeebee posted:I live in an apartment so I don't have a lawn. However, my mother in law asked me to come mow the lawn at her house because my father in law has to go on a business trip and the lawn can't go 2 weeks without mowing I guess? So she owned me pretty hard and now I can spend my Saturday mowing someone else's lawn. It's just a nice lazy old celtic word, like flannel, or hooligan, or corgi.
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Apr 18, 2016 14:32
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My lawn is where my meat smoker lives and I just hung nice outdoor lights on the patio so it suits my needs pretty well.
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Apr 18, 2016 15:16
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Yodzilla posted:My lawn is where my meat smoker lives and I just hung nice outdoor lights on the patio so it suits my needs pretty well. You should let your wife sleep inside the house.
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Apr 18, 2016 15:17
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The only people who appreciate them are tasteless Middle Class. The suburbanites who want to dominate their own little plot of the wild. Their material lives are filled with wall to wall carpet, new cars, synthetic fleece, multi-color plastic childs-brickabrak, cliche art and a kitchen filled with colorful packages of foamed corn. They have TV rooms in their empty homes cluttered with consumer electronics and new furniture. Life is soft, fluffy, buzzing and meaningless. They watch Good Morning America. Wake at home, drive to work, drive to the store, drive back, repeat. The past a sleepwalk of hoops walked though at the proper time. The lawn is the most avant-garde thing these people will ever engage in. In life styles centered around consumption and collection, building to a nauseating color orgy of various loudly branded goods, only the lawn is both minimalist and the product of individual work. Lawns are indeed prideful flags of conformity and waste, the same as baggy clothing is in times of scarcity. The problem is that there is no scarcity. America is a baren, empty land and reducing it to lawn merely points out how worthless space is in most of the country. The idea that freedom can exist when it takes an hour to drive to the nearest store is laughable. The Russians did not send people to Siberia so they could enjoy the fresh air and lack of inner city ruffians. So lawns are lame but if you are anywhere with them, its good to know your in a lame place that wont be valuable until there are at least a billion americans to properly take up with wasted hinterlands. You should go away from that place as fast as you can!
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Apr 18, 2016 15:37
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Our neighbors get their lawn mowed by this old drunk english dude they are friends with. His wife passed a year or so ago and he likes to keep busy, and day-drink, and ride a mower around shirtless. It's a pretty sweet arrangement and I want to start leaving a bottle of wine out and see if he will do our lawn as well.
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Apr 18, 2016 15:39
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I had to mow both my lawn and my parents lawn today (dad-only-has-one-leg, so what?). I hate lawns and everything to do with them.
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Apr 18, 2016 20:14
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Applewhite posted:Lawns are bullshit For the record: renting one of those machines that takes up the grass and forcing it across your rock-strewn topsoil for an entire weekend, then covering the entire area with weedproof barriers, then trying to figure out what to do with a half ton of dandelion-filled sod while you're out dropping a grand on groundcover plants and fill gravel is also bullshit.
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Apr 18, 2016 20:43
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sudonim posted:What's with you fuckups who equate lawnmowing with the only quality outside time you can get. You can go for a stroll or jog or grow some vegetables without having to push or ride a contraption in circles on some boring grass like the worlds shittiest parade. Unimaginative motherfuckers in here. on the contrary, goons are equating mowing the loving lawn to Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill for eternity, when it's actually pretty relaxing
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Apr 18, 2016 21:01
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Ditch your lawnmower
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symbolic posted:no one's saying that you dumb gently caress Yes because toiling in the hot sun is what I do to relax.
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Apr 18, 2016 21:58
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Hey symbolicshut up netface posted:Or, if you hate having sun on your skin, but a townhouse you'd commute to a computer janitor job, and live like those blind cave rats
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Apr 18, 2016 22:01
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There is freedom in adversity
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I moved into an apartment last year after living in a house for 12 years and let me tell you I don't miss mowing the lawn and shovelling snow one bit
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Apr 18, 2016 22:09
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Applewhite posted:Yes because toiling in the hot sun is what I do to relax. sudonim posted:Hey symbolic show me where someone seriously said "the only outdoor work you need is mowing the lawn", since what you've showed me is someone making a quip about how goons are basement dwellers
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sudonim posted:What's with you fuckups who equate lawnmowing with the only quality outside time you can get. You can go for a stroll or jog or grow some vegetables without having to push or ride a contraption in circles on some boring grass like the worlds shittiest parade. Unimaginative motherfuckers in here. Mowing is one of the many outdoor activities I enjoy. Sorry this upsets you.
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symbolic posted:and people say millennials are the lazy ones I am a millennial, although barely. And what part about working enough to pay someone to do those things is lazy? Real post: I work full time and paying my way through full time semesters at university which doesn't leave me with much time to do much else most days. I don't have a lawn because I rent an apartment right now, but I'll gladly pay someone to do my laundry just to free up time. I'm not lazy I am just otherwise occupied.
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Apr 18, 2016 22:24
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Applewhite posted:You should let your wife sleep inside the house. Haha sounds like the wife does not work from (within) the OP's home, eh.
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Apr 18, 2016 22:32
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I want to replace my front lawn with a bunch of fake rocks and dirt so that I can reenact epeosodes of Disney/Hensons' televison show "Dinosaurs" for thenjoyment of passeers by.
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Apr 18, 2016 22:34
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symbolic posted:the concept of "humor" was lost on you as you read that post, apparently
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Apr 18, 2016 22:44
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sudonim posted:Spend less time licking the grass out of your lawnmower and spend more time on your jokes and maybe you'll finally become funny Don't turn on each other! Don't you see this is just what the lawns want??
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Apr 18, 2016 22:46
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sudonim posted:Spend less time licking the grass out of your lawnmower and spend more time on your jokes and maybe you'll finally become funny
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Apr 18, 2016 22:47
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symbolic posted:i wasn't talking about my post Applewhite posted:Don't turn on each other! Don't you see this is just what the lawns want??
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one house we rented had a ridiculous little 5' x 4' lawnlet and no mower we* had to cut it with hedge clippers *i
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Clipperton posted:one house we rented had a ridiculous little 5' x 4' lawnlet lol I would have just paved over an area that small with asphalt.
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