Your lawn is racist

[Mik]

The Mexican economy would collapse.

But seriously - it is cultural appropriation. We appropriated lawns from the French aristocracy.

[Doctor Phibes]

I think the lawns are really a British rather than a European thing. I've never understood why you'd do it over here in this climate. You don't get anywhere near enough rain, so you have all those ridiculous sprinklers and what-not fighting the inevitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn

Edit - OK, maybe the Brits pinched it off the frog aristo-pigs, too. But for regular folks, it makes a lot more sense in the English climate.

[Jolly]

We get around 60 inches a year...

[Catseye3]

I'm in favor of more creative aesthetics for lawns, as against the broad swaths of flawless green -- mainly because I find the latter boring.

As for the dog thing. Ima getting me a Rottweiler and getting him a doghouse with a sign over the entrance: "Repercuss this, sucka."

In a saner age, I'd regard that as spoof, but now? Who knows?

[Mik]

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

We get around 60 inches a year...

Hence the rice.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Your lawn is racist:

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

We get around 60 inches a year...

Hence the rice.

Well, that's half of it. The rice farmers double crop with these:

[Mik]

Now yer talkin'.

I got into a little spat with my brother on FB last night. He posted some meme about lawns that proclaimed we must socially stigmatize the idea of having a lawn. In other words, cancel lawns.

There is nowhere in our lives they wil not try to control.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have long thought lawns wasteful, certainly a waste of my time and resources. But social stigmatzation as a change agent? Please.

[LuFins Dad]

Mankind has been shaping nature to fit man’s needs since they first sharpened a stick as a spear, first planted a crop, built a shelter instead of a cave, etc...

By their logic we should stop farming, all mining, do away with all fossil fuels, solar farms, wind farms, hydro-electric dams, etc...

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Your lawn is racist:

Now yer talkin'.

I giot into a little spat with my brother on FB last night. He posted some meme about lawns that proclaimed we must socially stigmatize the idea of having a lawn. In other words, cancel lawns.

There is nowhere in our lives they wil not try to control.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have long thought lawns wasteful, certainly a waste of my time and resources. But social stigmatzation as a change agent? Please.

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance...

[George K]

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance

But, but...THE CARBON FOOTPRINT!!!!

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Your lawn is racist:

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance

But, but...THE CARBON FOOTPRINT!!!!

It gets worse...that's a BX23s, meaning it's under 25hp(it's 23hp engine, less at the PTO). Under 25hp, tractors do not have to have a regen cycle. That means they are allowed to pollute more!

I didn't show one with the five foot belly mower, which does a fine job cutting large lawns. Just think...belly mower, front end loader, backhoe...Why, the possibilities to chug out a constant stream of diesel smoke are endless! How deliciously upsetting to the overwrought green crowd!

[Mik]

Yes. They'd be so upset, why they'd have to land their Lear Jet and see their therapist.

[mark]

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

@Mik said in Your lawn is racist:

Now yer talkin'.

I giot into a little spat with my brother on FB last night. He posted some meme about lawns that proclaimed we must socially stigmatize the idea of having a lawn. In other words, cancel lawns.

There is nowhere in our lives they wil not try to control.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have long thought lawns wasteful, certainly a waste of my time and resources. But social stigmatzation as a change agent? Please.

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance...

Sweet rig!

[Jolly]

@mark said in Your lawn is racist:

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

@Mik said in Your lawn is racist:

Now yer talkin'.

I giot into a little spat with my brother on FB last night. He posted some meme about lawns that proclaimed we must socially stigmatize the idea of having a lawn. In other words, cancel lawns.

There is nowhere in our lives they wil not try to control.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have long thought lawns wasteful, certainly a waste of my time and resources. But social stigmatzation as a change agent? Please.

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance...

Sweet rig!

That's Kubota's best selling under 25hp rig. Compare it directly with a 1 series Deere.

Both are very good at what they do.

[Larry]

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

We get around 60 inches a year...

Let's see.....

52 weeks a year, 3 times a week... 156. 156 X .....

Yep. My wife gets 1,560 inches per year.....

[Jolly]

@Larry said in Your lawn is racist:

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

We get around 60 inches a year...

Let's see.....

52 weeks a year, 3 times a week... 156. 156 X .....

Yep. My wife gets 1,560 inches per year.....

Who's she dating?

[Larry]

Hahahahaha

[LuFins Dad]

Sigh, Larry’s confusing metric with English again...

[Mik]

Well, he does know all about meet hers.

[Larry]

Hmpfh.... I'm just gonna throw it over my shoulder and go.....