@averagejoe1 saidIt's about time.
Blue States. Not Lu. That smacks of orientals, I am talking USA.
If I get woken up in the afternoon by one of these one more time.....
@averagejoe1 saidI mean if there were a guy sitting on his front porch just blowing an air horn all day long, you'd hope the police would come along and arrest the peace disturber no?
Blue States. Not Lu. That smacks of orientals, I am talking USA.
If I could time travel backwards to prevent the invention of any single thing, it would be leaf blowers. You go outside for a little peace and quiet but it's "BWHAAHHH" city, all day every day for like 3 months. A scourge on humanity, with no real purpose other than to annoy.
I stole this from twitter. "Astonishingly pointless, debased, and wasteful"
A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of society occurs every year at this time, all across the country. Deciduous trees spend all Spring taking nutrients out of the soil to make leaves, which photosynthesize all Summer and Fall. When the cold comes, those leaves fall and the trees go dormant for the Winter. All across this great land, people proceed to fire up specialized machines literally called "leaf blowers", which burn irreplaceable fossil fuels, pumped out of the ground at great expense, to produce, in addition to carbon monoxide and noise, powerful blasts of forced air. They blow the leaves into immense piles, and then rake them into huge bags made of polyethylene, a byproduct of fossil fuel refinement which will take longer to decompose than the geologic processes which produced the fuel to begin with; a very, very long time. These bags full of leaves are then loaded onto trucks which, burning fossil fuels, move them to giant areas called "landfills" -- where the leaves, trapped in plastic, undergo anaerobic decomposition, and, rather than releasing their nutrients back into the soil, turn to slime and sulfurous gasses. This entire process means that, wherever modern humans congregate, the soil quickly becomes impoverished, as the nutrients required for cyclic leaf production are removed, rather than stored in the ground, producing a kind of grey, dusty soil that when I was a professional gardener we immediately recognized and referred to as "blower disease". It is all so astonishingly pointless and debased and wasteful that it would probably be better not to spend too much time contemplating it; let us turn out attention to more pleasant things
@shavixmir saidShag Doody for brains has previously claimed he's travelled to the US, now we have doubts.
Gas powered?
You mean petrol powered? Or do you actualky use gas in lead blowers??
@shavixmir saidI think the one my neighbor has is 65 horsepower, tows behind his truck. Its easy to hear from a mile away.
Gas powered?
You mean petrol powered? Or do you actualky use gas in lead blowers??
Even just a gas backpack blower is over 100 decibels, and the landscapers just run them for hours and hours.
15 Dec 23
@wildgrass saidGas powered?
I think the one my neighbor has is 65 horsepower, tows behind his truck. Its easy to hear from a mile away.
Even just a gas backpack blower is over 100 decibels, and the landscapers just run them for hours and hours.
15 Dec 23
@shavixmir saidYes, gas powered. Well, a 2 stroke engine, so it's burning a mixture of oil and gas. Inefficient, for sure. And the frequency, or something. It goes right through walls.
Gas powered?
15 Dec 23
@averagejoe1 saidWhy in hells name would you have a petrol driven leaf blower, have you actually declared war on your grandchildren.
Blue States. Not Lu. That smacks of orientals, I am talking USA.
In fact stop being a fat lazy slob and grab a leaf rake, jeezo republicans are the ultimate snowflakes
15 Dec 23
@kevcvs57 saidThey’re saying gas-driven.
Why in hells name would you have a petrol driven leaf blower, have you actually declared war on your grandchildren.
In fact stop being a fat lazy slob and grab a leaf rake, jeezo republicans are the ultimate snowflakes
I wonder if they ever explode.
@shavixmir saidHopefully but they are too lazy to say petrol because it’s 3 more letters and an extra syllable
They’re saying gas-driven.
I wonder if they ever explode.
Not sure why their called gas stations when they sell petrol and diesel
@wildgrass saidWe agree. Every time one cuts off I holler as loud as I can, hoping I am heard by everyone, “THANKYOU!!!!!!!” But, it usually cuts on again. Oh, he missed a leaf.
I mean if there were a guy sitting on his front porch just blowing an air horn all day long, you'd hope the police would come along and arrest the peace disturber no?
If I could time travel backwards to prevent the invention of any single thing, it would be leaf blowers. You go outside for a little peace and quiet but it's "BWHAAHHH" city, all day every day for like 3 mo ...[text shortened]... t to spend too much time contemplating it; let us turn out attention to more pleasant things[/quote]
I play golf in the south. Very leafy indeed. Query: what did golf courses do 50 years ago when there were only rakes.?