Can anyone explain where the pleasure is in mowing the lawn?
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I had to do it yesterday, and compared to my old hobbies (as in I don't do them any more) I really can't see the point. All you end up with is a large number of bin bags full of short green cr@p you can't eat, drink, smoke, wear or even put in the composter as it's the "wrong type of material" and temporarily slightly shorter green stuff, whjich will be back to normal by the end of the week. And a trip to the tip in a car that smells of rapidly fermenting vegetables. At least with my ex-hobbies of excessive drinking, excessive consumption of illegal narcotics, and riding excessively large motorcycles at excessive speeds on public roads you got something concrete out it: Considerably poorer, a bad headache and a big grin. How the elephanting heck can people actually enjoy this?:confused:
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OriginalGriff wrote:
...I really can't see the point.
In mowing? It's better than the alternative. I actually enjoy it, whether on the mower trimming the yard, or on the tractor taking down thick brush.
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I had to do it yesterday, and compared to my old hobbies (as in I don't do them any more) I really can't see the point. All you end up with is a large number of bin bags full of short green cr@p you can't eat, drink, smoke, wear or even put in the composter as it's the "wrong type of material" and temporarily slightly shorter green stuff, whjich will be back to normal by the end of the week. And a trip to the tip in a car that smells of rapidly fermenting vegetables. At least with my ex-hobbies of excessive drinking, excessive consumption of illegal narcotics, and riding excessively large motorcycles at excessive speeds on public roads you got something concrete out it: Considerably poorer, a bad headache and a big grin. How the elephanting heck can people actually enjoy this?:confused:
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That's a big reason I don't own or rent a house. Not only is yard work loathsome, people rarely add up the true costs.
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Although the mower is loud, it creates a kind of cone of silence where kids and spouses can't reach you. If you have a cigar while you mow, so much the better. It's a suburban Zen thing. Bagging sucks tho. I'll spot you that.
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That's a big reason I don't own or rent a house. Not only is yard work loathsome, people rarely add up the true costs.
My wife does all the gardening, she likes it, but it is my job to mow the lawn. I figure that is a fair division. On the other hand she keeps the hell out of my kitchen except to make the tea :)
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I had to do it yesterday, and compared to my old hobbies (as in I don't do them any more) I really can't see the point. All you end up with is a large number of bin bags full of short green cr@p you can't eat, drink, smoke, wear or even put in the composter as it's the "wrong type of material" and temporarily slightly shorter green stuff, whjich will be back to normal by the end of the week. And a trip to the tip in a car that smells of rapidly fermenting vegetables. At least with my ex-hobbies of excessive drinking, excessive consumption of illegal narcotics, and riding excessively large motorcycles at excessive speeds on public roads you got something concrete out it: Considerably poorer, a bad headache and a big grin. How the elephanting heck can people actually enjoy this?:confused:
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You know, I was just thinking the exact same thing yesterday as I was cutting the grass. "The dream of home ownership"?? What Crack smoking moron dreams of spending 4 hours cutting the grass, picking sticks, pulling weeds, and whatever else once or twice a week??
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Are you sure that is the grass and not the coke?
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Although the mower is loud, it creates a kind of cone of silence where kids and spouses can't reach you. If you have a cigar while you mow, so much the better. It's a suburban Zen thing. Bagging sucks tho. I'll spot you that.
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They cancel each other :) I used to do Coke and Speed, you went hyper-gobshite for 20 mins, then just settled down to buzz for the next 6 hours. (I have grown up since the early 90's and don't do drugs any more - So Kids, just say no!)
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I had to do it yesterday, and compared to my old hobbies (as in I don't do them any more) I really can't see the point. All you end up with is a large number of bin bags full of short green cr@p you can't eat, drink, smoke, wear or even put in the composter as it's the "wrong type of material" and temporarily slightly shorter green stuff, whjich will be back to normal by the end of the week. And a trip to the tip in a car that smells of rapidly fermenting vegetables. At least with my ex-hobbies of excessive drinking, excessive consumption of illegal narcotics, and riding excessively large motorcycles at excessive speeds on public roads you got something concrete out it: Considerably poorer, a bad headache and a big grin. How the elephanting heck can people actually enjoy this?:confused:
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A rider mower and mulch, baby, mulch!
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Pour gin on the lawn. It comes up half cut.
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You know, I was just thinking the exact same thing yesterday as I was cutting the grass. "The dream of home ownership"?? What Crack smoking moron dreams of spending 4 hours cutting the grass, picking sticks, pulling weeds, and whatever else once or twice a week??
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They cancel each other :) I used to do Coke and Speed, you went hyper-gobshite for 20 mins, then just settled down to buzz for the next 6 hours. (I have grown up since the early 90's and don't do drugs any more - So Kids, just say no!)
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I always hated speed - never did that much "up" for me, and the down was way too far down, and way to long - 24 to 48 hours. I did however enjoy smoking Charlie in a good, Moroccan Black doobie - much, much better for your septum than snorting it. However it has been a good number of years since I touched either. :-D
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or 'How small is your mower'?
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I always hated speed - never did that much "up" for me, and the down was way too far down, and way to long - 24 to 48 hours. I did however enjoy smoking Charlie in a good, Moroccan Black doobie - much, much better for your septum than snorting it. However it has been a good number of years since I touched either. :-D
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The worst thing about speed was the Tiny Todger. And the cottonmouth.
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I had to do it yesterday, and compared to my old hobbies (as in I don't do them any more) I really can't see the point. All you end up with is a large number of bin bags full of short green cr@p you can't eat, drink, smoke, wear or even put in the composter as it's the "wrong type of material" and temporarily slightly shorter green stuff, whjich will be back to normal by the end of the week. And a trip to the tip in a car that smells of rapidly fermenting vegetables. At least with my ex-hobbies of excessive drinking, excessive consumption of illegal narcotics, and riding excessively large motorcycles at excessive speeds on public roads you got something concrete out it: Considerably poorer, a bad headache and a big grin. How the elephanting heck can people actually enjoy this?:confused:
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I don't bag I mulch. Here is my options essentially. Clean the tornado mess that the kids made inside the house. Clean/Maintain the yard. Since I am inside all day long during the week it seems a no brainer. As for it being a "hobby" thats like saying it is a hobby to cook dinner. While some may enjoy cooking just because people cook and don't gripe about doing it does not make it their hobby. Its what needs to be done. Further more, our brains will often convince ourselves we enjoy such activities because we know we must do them. Now back to my enjoyable system I am working on. Oh it is sooo kewl ;)
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You found the zone too!! The drone of the lawnmower drowns out the drone of the SO and the offspring. Once you get use to it - you'll find yourself watering the lawn to keep it growing!
"you'll find yourself watering the lawn to keep it growing!" :laugh:
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They cancel each other :) I used to do Coke and Speed, you went hyper-gobshite for 20 mins, then just settled down to buzz for the next 6 hours. (I have grown up since the early 90's and don't do drugs any more - So Kids, just say no!)
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I live on a corner with sidewalks. It's not so much the size of the lawn, but all the frickin' edging and trimming that goes along with it, then cleaning that mess up.
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I had to do it yesterday, and compared to my old hobbies (as in I don't do them any more) I really can't see the point. All you end up with is a large number of bin bags full of short green cr@p you can't eat, drink, smoke, wear or even put in the composter as it's the "wrong type of material" and temporarily slightly shorter green stuff, whjich will be back to normal by the end of the week. And a trip to the tip in a car that smells of rapidly fermenting vegetables. At least with my ex-hobbies of excessive drinking, excessive consumption of illegal narcotics, and riding excessively large motorcycles at excessive speeds on public roads you got something concrete out it: Considerably poorer, a bad headache and a big grin. How the elephanting heck can people actually enjoy this?:confused:
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You've obviously been duped by one too many TV commercials, showing guys riding around on their John Deer riding lawn mowers, using their Husqvarna weed eaters, trimmers and blowers, while wearing manly looking clothes like plaid shirts and military issue boots. These tools are so amazing that they effortlessly turn their yards that once looked like the outback, into the front cover of Homes and Gardens magazine. But the important thing here to remember is this: it's a elephanting TV commercial and it's full of LIES. Mowing the lawn is hard work and you almost always have to do it in 100 degrees of heat, surrounded by insects that haven't eaten anything in months, until you strolled outside, and despite your best effort to keep yourself physically fit, you'll use muscles to push that mower around your yard that you didn't know you had; and actually, you don't, which is why you're body feels like someone's set it on fire when you're done, it's because you're dying. And those great yard tools you dropped half your life savings on? Yea, after you dislocate your shoulder getting them to start, assuming you actually can get them to start, you'll spend the next hour gritting your teeth thru the pain of holding this overweight gas hog, praying that maybe you'll just pass out and die from the obvious malaria infection you've sustained from that mosquito swarm that just plowed thru your yard, using you like a blood filled water balloon. And let's not forget about the torn ligaments in your knee that you're fairly certain you sustained, while pushing that mower thru your yard, right, the one that said it was a "riding" mower, that never actually works right, so you end up having to push it out of the middle of the tallest grass in your yard, back to your garage, so you can get out the crappy mower that you have to constantly restart every two seconds because it can't cut grass taller than 2 inches. Yes sir, mowing the lawn is a manly, enjoyable, relaxing, can't wait to have a cold one when I've turned this mess into Disney Land, experience; and if that's what you honestly think about it, it's because you're actually laying dead in your yard, being eaten by Fire ants.
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I had to do it yesterday, and compared to my old hobbies (as in I don't do them any more) I really can't see the point. All you end up with is a large number of bin bags full of short green cr@p you can't eat, drink, smoke, wear or even put in the composter as it's the "wrong type of material" and temporarily slightly shorter green stuff, whjich will be back to normal by the end of the week. And a trip to the tip in a car that smells of rapidly fermenting vegetables. At least with my ex-hobbies of excessive drinking, excessive consumption of illegal narcotics, and riding excessively large motorcycles at excessive speeds on public roads you got something concrete out it: Considerably poorer, a bad headache and a big grin. How the elephanting heck can people actually enjoy this?:confused:
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I rather love mowing the lawn. I love bagging the lawn clippings even more. I can't relate to your post at all. I know not what you speak of. Sorry. :-D
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