Current Events > Idea for a thing Millennials can kill next: lawns

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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Bio1590 posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

it's really weird how some people want us to live in concrete jungles with no green anywhere and houses being two feet away from other houses

No one's arguing for that.

Stop being disingenuous

oh then what does your topic title mean?

treewojima posted...

it's almost like you can have your yard be something other than a perfectly manicured golf green

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FLUFFYGERM posted...

treewojima posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

it's really weird how some people want us to live in concrete jungles with no green anywhere and houses being two feet away from other houses

it's almost like you can have your yard be something other than a perfectly manicured golf green

and it's almost like what someone else does with their lawn is none of ya business lol

This is hilarious coming from you.
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Im guessing the people who love mowing lawns either dont have a large lawn or have oversized equipment. Before I got a literal 15000$ lawnmower my yard took 5 hours a week to mow. Not fun at all. Now it takes an hour and a half. But still 15000$ lawnmower
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josifrees posted...

Im guessing the people who love mowing lawns either dont have a large lawn or have oversized equipment. Before I got a literal 15000$ lawnmower my yard took 5 hours a week to mow. Not fun at all. Now it takes an hour and a half. But still 15000$ lawnmower

... pics of $15k lawnmower

Bio1590 posted...

Lawns are you know them are largely an American concept and planting things like native plant species and wildflowers would require far less maintenance and be significantly better for the environment.

Not a bad idea actually.

eston posted...

Actually it seems like the lawn care industry is booming right now because literally no one gets out and mows their own lawn anymore. So it's sort of a lawn renaissance

...That's an actual industry?
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Funkydog posted...

eston posted...

Actually it seems like the lawn care industry is booming right now because literally no one gets out and mows their own lawn anymore. So it's sort of a lawn renaissance

...That's an actual industry?

I've been seeing a rise in small lawncare businesses in my city.
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Funkydog posted...

eston posted...

Actually it seems like the lawn care industry is booming right now because literally no one gets out and mows their own lawn anymore. So it's sort of a lawn renaissance

...That's an actual industry?

Yeah

According to this:
https://uslawnsfranchise.com/the-opportunity/the-industry/

It grew from $61B to $78B in just 4 years from 2012-2016.
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America you crazy.

Wouldn't surprise me if was a thing in the UK as well though, in the richer places.
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treewojima posted...

josifrees posted...

Im guessing the people who love mowing lawns either dont have a large lawn or have oversized equipment. Before I got a literal 15000$ lawnmower my yard took 5 hours a week to mow. Not fun at all. Now it takes an hour and a half. But still 15000$ lawnmower

... pics of $15k lawnmower

72 babyyyyyy
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Funkydog posted...

eston posted...

Actually it seems like the lawn care industry is booming right now because literally no one gets out and mows their own lawn anymore. So it's sort of a lawn renaissance

...That's an actual industry?

literally saw a pickup truck yesterday with big branding on the side that said "Jim Bob's Lawn Service", hauling a trailer full of mowers

yes, that was the actual name of their company

AzureAnihilator posted...

I'm not surprised the boys of CE don't understand such a simple thing. You're not men. A man, a real man, enjoys taking care of his lawn while you sit inside watching Gilmore Girls and eating pizza rolls.

This site is fucking pathetic.

We should have ended the thread here.
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Bio1590 posted...

NinjaBreakfast posted...

millenials can't afford big houses so probably already doing this inadvertently

Lol true, I've seen condos and apartment buildings with tons of lawn surrounding them that no one uses for anything and it's just such a waste

Green space is good for you. People take it too far. Though obviously much less, some do try to maintain such things in places without enough water, which is bad. And I think people go way too far maintaining lawns sometimes. But green space is still good for people.
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Also the only nice thing about a lawn is i can put my kid out in the middle of it and the only thing she can do is eat grass
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I'm in the country so I don't have a choice in keeping a lawn or not.

Well I mean I do have a choice but it's either "pay tens of thousands to get your property paved or lockstoned", "let the wilderness reclaim up to your deck", or "maintain the lawn that was here when you moved in."

I'd get it all replaced with clovers tbh. Clover lawns look better
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Less noise, no superman mowing @ 8am on a Saturday.
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josifrees posted...

Also the only nice thing about a lawn is i can put my kid out in the middle of it and the only thing she can do is eat grass

Do you eat bugs?
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josifrees posted...

treewojima posted...

josifrees posted...

Im guessing the people who love mowing lawns either dont have a large lawn or have oversized equipment. Before I got a literal 15000$ lawnmower my yard took 5 hours a week to mow. Not fun at all. Now it takes an hour and a half. But still 15000$ lawnmower

... pics of $15k lawnmower

Feel bad for the sucker that has to weedwhack that post and rail fence in the background every week

damn, that's a beast. my friend picked something like this up at an equipment sale for like $350:
http://www.sunshinecoastmowers.com.au/walker-mowers-ms14-nc

same brand but different and older model, and it was clearly well used, but you can't beat that price point for a working zero turn

as for string trimmers, I'm always extremely annoyed when going up against chain link fence or chicken wire. tends to eat through thin string and just tangles up anything thicker

Bio1590 posted...

Lawns are you know them are largely an American concept and planting things like native plant species and wildflowers would require far less maintenance and be significantly better for the environment.

yeah i agree completely lawns suck ass, more trouble than they're worth and they don't even look that nice

The lawn around josi's lawnmower in fact looks really nice
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treewojima posted...

josifrees posted...

treewojima posted...

josifrees posted...

Im guessing the people who love mowing lawns either dont have a large lawn or have oversized equipment. Before I got a literal 15000$ lawnmower my yard took 5 hours a week to mow. Not fun at all. Now it takes an hour and a half. But still 15000$ lawnmower

... pics of $15k lawnmower

Feel bad for the sucker that has to weedwhack that post and rail fence in the background every week

damn, that's a beast. my friend picked something like this up at an equipment sale for like $350:
http://www.sunshinecoastmowers.com.au/walker-mowers-ms14-nc

same brand but different and older model, and it was clearly well used, but you can't beat that price point for a working zero turn

as for string trimmers, I'm always extremely annoyed when going up against chain link fence or chicken wire. tends to eat through thin string and just tangles up anything thicker

Thats definitely a nice deal and I like the mower setup that way.

Weed whacking in general is just a huge dirty pain in the ass. One of the nice things about having the large mower deck is that since it goes a foot past the tires I save a lot of weed whacking because I can get under the bushes

Btw the seat on my lawnmower is more comfortable than any other seat in my house
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I feel bad for the people that have to mow their lawn because they have no other choice. Biggest waste of time and resources. Rocks and palm trees are lot nicer and cheaper.

AzureAnihilator posted...

I'm not surprised the boys of CE don't understand such a simple thing. You're not men. A man, a real man, enjoys taking care of his lawn while you sit inside watching Gilmore Girls and eating pizza rolls.

This site is fucking pathetic.

AzureAnihilator posted...

KhanJohnny posted...

Whats wrong with lawns being a part of American culture?

Americans aren't allowed to have a culture in 2018. Being American is wrong now, and so is being white, and so is being a male while being white. Don't be proud of your country unless you're talking about the people whose boots aren't currently in it. And you don't get a free pass on owning things unless you're not white, because it's exemplary when someone not white owns a big house or a nice car, but when it's someone white, of course they do. Doesn't matter if they worked for 60 years to get it or, hell, built the house with their own two god damn hands. You can't deserve anything when you're white. You can't earn anything when you're white. Everything is given to you, even if nobody gave it to you.

You can sit right there and stereotype the shit out of America, or white people, and it won't get a single degree warmer... you stereotype about any other culture, any other race, and you will feel the heat.

this is really great satire.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

AzureAnihilator posted...

I'm not surprised the boys of CE don't understand such a simple thing. You're not men. A man, a real man, enjoys taking care of his lawn while you sit inside watching Gilmore Girls and eating pizza rolls.

This site is fucking pathetic.

Why are you two even on this site about video games, then, Hank Hill and his twin brother?

A real man would be discussing things with people he respects instead of engaging in self-loathing fuelled millennial bashing
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Damn_Underscore posted...

The lawn around josi's lawnmower in fact looks really nice

The funny thing is that it's far nicer on the other side of the fence. Probably because it's allowed to grow and probably gets more water from road runoff
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My next home will be somewhere between the 30th and 60th floors of a skyscraper, lawns are for idiots who need the drone of an engine to meditate.
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dreamvoid posted...

this is really great satire.

Didn't even see that before I made that first post of mine.

I wouldn't have bothered if I'd seen that he was somehow seguing a discussion of grass into some horseshit about white genocide, lol. Gotta love this political climate
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Damn_Underscore posted...

4 real - has anyone ITT ever played baseball, football, soccer, etc. on their lawn?

yes. I grew up on 5 acres that is all landscaped. About 1 acres of woods, .5 acre of grassy hill, 3 acres of lawn on bottom of the hill, .5 acres on top of hill where the house is. we played many games of football, baseball, soccer, volleyball, paintball, rugby (as near we knew the rules), etc. my dad had a bunch of the halogen flood lights so we would line the hill with flood lights and play all the sports under the lights after dark, too.
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Yeah just a plain lawn is boring. My ideal front yard would be:
-33% is space taken up by trees, maybe some box woods and other plants.
-33% rock beds with mostly rainbow rock.
-33% Grass strip a few pieces of sod wide down the middle for the walkway.
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Trinstin posted...

Bio1590 posted...

Lawns are you know them are largely an American concept and planting things like native plant species and wildflowers would require far less maintenance and be significantly better for the environment.

Not a bad idea actually.

just because something is native doesn't mean it would require less maintenance. Just look at any wild field in the Northwest. Full of tough thick grass that grows like crazy.

As far as a low maintenance, low water usage lawn, something like micro clover is popular and is probably what I would do if I got a large lot and wanted a nice lawn. it comes from Europe, Asia and Africa. Of Fescue grass which is a grass that folds over at a certain point and self terminates so you have grass that never gets above 3-5" for the lawn types of the grass. It is from Europe.
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Southernfatman posted...

Why would anyone do drugs when they can just mow a lawn?

They need to bring KotH back.
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16-BITTER posted...

Real talk: millennials dislike lawns because it's a thing they would have to be responsible for and requires maintenance. It's the same reason they dislike marriage, children, and home ownership and are desperately looking forward to shit like self-driving Ubers.

Self-loathing millennial detected
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I think I've seen it all now. There are people out there who actually hate lawns.
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Good thing millennials only kill the most useless things. The world is becoming a better place

cerealbox760 posted...

Good thing millennials kill the most useless things.

This. Best generation tbh, possibly the zenith of human intellectuality and the first (possibly only) generation to be moved primarily by utilitarian thinking rather than traditional flow-going-with-ery

Pretty sure no other gen is even trying
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Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

cerealbox760 posted...

Good thing millennials kill the most useless things.

This. Best generation tbh, possibly the zenith of human intellectuality and the first (possibly only) generation to be moved primarily by utilitarian thinking rather than traditional flow-going-with-ery

Pretty sure no other gen is even trying

He says from his mothers basement.
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Why are you still mad
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Not mad, we love statistics so much in this topic that I felt compelled to point out that this zenith generation statistically lives at home unemployed and being taken care of by their parents longer than any generation before them.
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Gee I wonder why
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I just pay some guy $20 every two weeks to mow my front and back lawn. I don't have time for that shit.

You know I actually paid someone to cut down my stereotypical front yard bushes a few weeks ago.
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LordRazziel posted...

Move to the desert.
Many houses just have rocks.

I hate this.

I have been able to travel that state to camp and hike and have found a lot if cool rock types to populate the gravel with though.
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