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Is that to make them seem personable or something? It just makes me think some dingus waddled into the position, which is probably accurate.
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My sheriff in High School was nicknamed Butter.
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Someone running for auditor here has signs with the tagline "I'll show up" Which apparently has been a problem, I guess
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DarkHorse posted:Someone running for auditor here has signs with the tagline "I'll show up" Are you in the Cincinnati area, or are there multiple people using that? After seeing those signs, I just assumed there was some scandal where a previous auditor just never came to work.
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May 19, 2022 05:49
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 From the generation that can't figure out a printer
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Medullah posted:
I love it because it comes from the same mentality as participation trophies. "Here, we insist on giving you these pointless trophies. Haha, look at the snowflakes who had to have trophies for showing up." "We will not teach you these life skills that we have arbitrarily decided are of the utmost importance to know, now we shall laugh at your inability to perform a task you were never shown how to do and convince ourselves that this speaks to your character."
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I'd be stunned if anyone posting that actually owns a gas mower or actually mows their own lawn. The number of guys I know who would post something like that who have actually used a gas mower or taken care of their own lawn is so drat slim, I know maybe 4 people past myself who actually do their own yardwork.
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TGG posted:I'd be stunned if anyone posting that actually owns a gas mower or actually mows their own lawn. The number of guys I know who would post something like that who have actually used a gas mower or taken care of their own lawn is so drat slim, I know maybe 4 people past myself who actually do their own yardwork. Nah, I'm sure there are more than a few who'd post that who also use riding mowers (started with a key in the ignition, of course) on a postage-stamp-sized lawn, and pretends that's a reason to feel superior to their imagined foe, "Anyone Younger Than Me Faced With A Pullcord."
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Medullah posted:
There's also the  of them freaking out over my/the next generation burning Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle "to the ground" and doing $2BB of damage to the country during the George Floyd protests.
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darthbob88 posted:There's also the Some time ago I overheard some Fox News shithead lamenting how no one had the guts to do something like the Boston Tea Party, and 
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Dr Christmas posted:Some time ago I overheard some Fox News shithead lamenting how no one had the guts to do something like the Boston Tea Party, and Fox News loves an anti-government protest, as long as it's done by the
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Nobody chooses to start a lawnmower, it chooses whether to start.
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Gas lawnmowers and leafblowers are boomer poo poo that should be banned anyways.
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My dad got an electric lawn mower that plugged into a utility box on the side of the garage so I had to hoist an extension cord over my shoulder while I mowed There were still a couple times I mowed over that cord and rugged as it was it didn't make it
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I used a battery powered electric mower for 4ish years and it worked fine except for the battery eventually losing capacity and I wasn't able to get a replacement. I replaced it with a gas mower because I can do small engine repair and I don't have to worry about parts obsolescence. I also tried to use an electric snowthrower but it just didn't have the power when we had more then 4 inches of snow.
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Lawns are bad and so is mowing them. Suck on that, Boomers.
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While agree that the idea of having a perfectly manicured lawn is bad, like what are you going to do about lawns? Replace them with artificial grass? That's even worse. Just encase it all in concrete? And if you have grass, you're probably going to want to mow it so that you don't get ticks all over you when you walk out into it.
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Just don't cut it and don't walk through it. Appreciate it from nearby. Plant flowers instead of just grass that insects can live in. Just don't make a million identikit lawns.
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There's nothing wrong with wanting an open space to play, socialize, and work on stuff. "Appreciate it from nearby" doesn't take into account things like children and pets. And if you're raising animals like chickens then keeping the grass short is basically necessary unless you want to give predators an incredibly easy opportunity to pick off your animals from hiding. "Just don't" isn't actually useful.
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Chickens will turn any area of vegetation into a WWI battlefield in short order, so that would solve itself
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Long grass is where mosquitoes hang out and breed so if everyone keeps their grass short the whole neighborhood benefits Also replace grass with clover. Plant fuckloads of clover
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Brawnfire posted:Chickens will turn any area of vegetation into a WWI battlefield in short order, so that would solve itself You need a lot of chickens to do that to much of any size, not just like a hobbyist flock of a dozen or two. Their presence doesn't immediately despoil everything in a three meter radius per bird.
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You need geese to do that.
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disposablewords posted:You need a lot of chickens to do that to much of any size, not just like a hobbyist flock of a dozen or two. Their presence doesn't immediately despoil everything in a three meter radius per bird. Man I had like six and there's still pits where their run used to be, idk
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Brawnfire posted:Man I had like six and there's still pits where their run used to be, idk A run's gonna get like that because it's where they're going to have a lot of concentrated activity. Ours looks like poo poo too because it sees people and birds there a lot, mostly because that's where we feed them. Get outside the run, even with two dozen allowed to range most of the day, and the most damage is still where the humans walk to attend to stuff at and around their coop.
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Guavanaut posted:You need geese to do that. My grandparents lived on a lake and when my siblings and I were little we would race to the water and whoever didn't step in goose poo poo won.
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disposablewords posted:A run's gonna get like that because it's where they're going to have a lot of concentrated activity. Ours looks like poo poo too because it sees people and birds there a lot, mostly because that's where we feed them. Get outside the run, even with two dozen allowed to range most of the day, and the most damage is still where the humans walk to attend to stuff at and around their coop. yeah that's fair I wasn't really being super serious tbh
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Brawnfire posted:yeah that's fair I wasn't really being super serious tbh Fair enough, I've got to be a bit serious about it because leaving the grass untrimmed demonstrably encourages raccoons and foxes to come pick at the flock at their leisure.
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Please tell me where I can buy chickens that don't destroy the yard. I have 3 and it's close to a desert after a year.
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Twelve by Pies posted:While agree that the idea of having a perfectly manicured lawn is bad, like what are you going to do about lawns? Replace them with artificial grass? That's even worse. Just encase it all in concrete? And if you have grass, you're probably going to want to mow it so that you don't get ticks all over you when you walk out into it. clover lawns work amazingly well too
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Just a hive o bees please
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Me, I've mostly got creeping thyme, mint, clover, wild strawberries, and violets. There's grass in there, I've been told...
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Upsidads posted:Just a hive o bees please I am now thinking about a "lawn" that is covered in honey, where the house is just a giant wasp's nest.
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Twelve by Pies posted:While agree that the idea of having a perfectly manicured lawn is bad, like what are you going to do about lawns? Replace them with artificial grass? That's even worse. Just encase it all in concrete? And if you have grass, you're probably going to want to mow it so that you don't get ticks all over you when you walk out into it. Replace it with native species of grass, flowers and plants that attract pollinators. Plant a vegetable garden. Aesthetically pleasing rock gardens. The list of things that you could do with that space that aren't "plant an alien species of grass that gives virtually nothing back but still drains the soil of nutrients and wastes water because your grandparents were programmed to do so by anti-communist propaganda" is virtually endless.
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I think the problem is that people are misunderstanding what I mean when I say "lawn." Maybe I should say "yard" instead? Like, my house has a front yard. There is grass there, but it isn't "lawn grass." It's regular grass native to this area, we've never planted anything or seeded it in any way. Lots of buttercups, actually. But that grass gets tall, and we have dogs, and we have to walk through the yard to get to things like the gardens, the wellhouse, etc. So we gotta cut it. Not cutting it isn't really an option. There's ticks to worry about, and mice like to hide in tall grass too, plus walking through tall grass is kind of an irritant to skin and makes your legs itchy. I hate the whole lawn culture thing too, planting non-native grass is stupid and lovely, but even if you just have a patch of land with some grass there's reasons to cut it that aren't "anti-communist propaganda."
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Yards in Arizona are just scorpion rock gardens
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Just use a scythe to mow your yard: 1) Good exercise 2) Zero emissions/noise 3) Preserves traditional skills 4) Now you own a scythe for a badass reaper costume at Halloween
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Ashcans posted:Just use a scythe to mow your yard: This is true, and I've seen several threads come to this conclusion eventually. If only there were some way to make this information more prominently centralized!
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