Leafblowers/dustblowers first

Another generation of woke urbanists getting balls bounced off of their faces wave their arms, bleating for mercy.

You don’t send young children to the park unsupervised.

They sit. They stare. They suck.

A REAL real city will make lawnmowers superfluous by zoning until no one even has lawns to mow. Nobody gets bothered by lawnmowers in, say, Berlin, or Paris., or Tokyo.

I reached the same conclusion re lawns and gas mowers a month ago. I watched some YouTube videos, bought a European style scythe for not much money and gave my gas mower to Pete small engine repair to use for parts. This is a viable option for small urban lawns. There's a bit of a learning curve, but that's actually fun, plus, a bit of exercise.

So no, lawn does not have to "look like shit", if you quit your carbon emitting, noise polluting superfluous garage-clogging mower.

I've used a push mower for years - sure it takes a little longer, but you get some good upper arm muscle tone out of it, your neighbors and your wife don't complain about the noise and smell, it's beneficial for the environment, and so long as I keep the gears oiled and get the blade sharpened every couple of years, I figure the thing will keep on mowing until I'm too old to do it anymore. And unless you have a yard the size of a football field you really don't have any excuse to use a gas mower.

How about reducing vermin as a justification? 17th century England wasn't so great at that, if I recall correctly.

But the point that poorer people tend not to have lawns is taken.

There goes Mudede with his “real city” gatekeeping. Don’t you realize that a city must control weeds to preserve infrastructure? When weeds encroach on pavement, sidewalks, asphalt, etc, it will eventually cause the material to crumble. A REAL city resident would know this.

@1 Are you crazy? Leaf blower AFTER you cut the grass.

Fertilize in Mid April for best results.

Water once a week.

Anyhoos, who will employ all the illegals your great plan will put out of work?

@5: Not really, but there's this:

https://archpaper.com/2013/04/paris-trots-out-black-sheep-as-a-lawnmower-alternative/

@13 Briggs and Stratton. Never fails. One pull every time.

Nothing better than the smell of fresh cut grass in the summer, while the kids wash my car, laughing and giggling. Did I mention it’s an SUV?

Will my virtue be tarnished in Seattle?

So we should all live in a ghetto? Attacks like this on the 'vapid middle class' are thinly veiled attacks against the hated white people. So wanting to have your house look nice is bad? What about your clothes and hair? I have ego battery powered lawn tools btw.

There are a lot of climates where you can just let whatever take over and still have usable outdoor space but Seattle definitely isn't located in one of them.

Apparently Charles is more upset by white people mowing their lawn’s, than black people opening fire with guns at a memorial day picnic in Seattle.

He must have hit the wine at Oddfellows early today.

Hey there is it weed or crack got you yacking! With all of the more serious issues going on in this country you want to talk about getting rid of lawn mowers in the city. Three quarters through reading this waste of foolishness I had to walk away. Now, I am back! I grew up in the city and I mostly remember dirt yards and a push mover, it wasn't much green around. We are the care takers of the land. I have two movers and a tractor today and at 64 and woman I love the help they provide me. I love the beauty of cared for land scape rich or poor. It powers the fruits of my spirit. Put your focus on the security of our country and democracy.

Ban lawns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgcgkrcNHso

Oh Charlie.

If you'd just get out there and pull the weeds and mow the lawn the first time the Missus asks you to, she won't have to remind you and give you that glare, and you won't have to go into a funk and overreact like this.

And for heaven's sake don't take your sulky anger out on a branch of science that has never done anything to you, and that you definitely don't know well enough to be spitting on in public so casually.

Now here's a research assignment: your local government health department uses the term "harborage." What does this term mean? What does it describe, and why is it regarded as a public health issue?

What a maroon.

Lawns are tolerable in places where grass grows naturally. Lawns in the Southwest desert states though? No. Gross misuse of water. Every time I see a golf course in Arizona I want to burn it.

I used a push-reel mower for years but recently switched to plug in electric. I love mowing my lawn and the way it looks afterwards. I practice organic lawn care, no fertilizer. It's all about the soil. And white dutch clover.

Horses. What good are they? At least cows you can eat.
Charles, the horses must go first. They are a rich man's plaything, for which no purpose exists but to play master of them.
Are you in or out?

This and medicine. Historically, only the upper class could afford medicine. Medicine should be banned.

Jeez. Again with the ludicrous metaphysics. Or maybe someone was taught Lamarckian evolution in some socialist school somewhere. Where to start?

First, equating Darwinian evolution with the idea that everything is explained by changes in DNA sequence makes no sense. Darwin never heard of DNA, let alone considered sequences. What he figured out (and that still holds up perfectly) is that there are a variety of heritable characteristics in any organism, and natural selection works on them by selecting for variants that increase reproductive success. The principle is exactly the same whether you claim it's all DNA or whether you see that there are other mechanisms (like epigenetic modifications to chromatin). In fact, the operative principle is really the same because the kind of modifications to chromatin (that in turn regulate expression of genes) is ultimately going to be determined by an organism's genome.

Second, there is of course plenty we don't understand yet (for example, there are thousands of small RNA molecules that carry out a host of functions that were not even though of 30 years ago), but nothing has come along that contradicts the basic paradigm of selection acting on genetic variants.

And if you want to see evolution in action in real time, take a bunch of culture plates with a low concentration of an antibiotic in them, and repeatedly transfer the surviving bacteria to a fresh plate. Sure enough, the antibiotic will create a selection in favor of the variants that have some resistance. Or better yet, next time you get a strep throat, take 5% of the drugs the doctor gives you. I bet you can evolve some cool resistance that way.

Note that the antibiotic resistance I am talking about will most likely arrive because some of the bugs pick up a small piece of DNA called a plasmid, which acts like an additional chromosome. Not a change in the bacterial DNA sequence, but it presents a variant of different fitness which will surely be acted upon. No "intelligent molecule" or metaphysics is required for any of this.

@5 bingo. No lawns, no problem.

This is some stupid shit I can't believe people are actually for this it all comes down to a lazy generation get up off your ass and mow your damn yard and shut up

And I suppose you believe we evolved from monkey's. But with that in mind it would bring clarity to your theory's. It took man thousands of years to perfect the temperatures to bring the pleasures of throwing raw meat on a flame for better cooking. Shall we all move from our suburban modules and find a comfy cave out yonder. Either you are just a miserable sniveling crybaby who complains for recondition like some high school drama Queen, or you are just that retarded. Wow!

Written by someone who must hate kids. There's not much more enjoyable than tossing frisbee or a ball in the yard with your kids. Or just watching them run around in the grass playing by themselves while you enjoy a beer on your porch.

Sure, a lot of men judge each other by how meticulous their suburban lawn looks, but just as many of us just want some soft grass for our family to enjoy. The closest public park is 10 minutes away and closes at dark. My yard is immediate and always available.

I was walking to work through the Central District yesterday morning, and some lady was mowing her lawn at 7:43AM! I felt bad for her neighbors who may have been still sleeping. Isn't there some noise ordinance against that? 7:43AM!

Don't mow your lawn no mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZ6hCy_Pok

If we just let random green take over we’d be covered in thorny blackberry bushes and bindweed. That said, lawns are annoying. I’ve been slowly digging up mine.

Im a little confused is this about banning mowers?.... Or rather an oppurtunity to talk shit about the middle class... which by the way composes most of america and pays taxes for sorry idiotic left wing to sit on their ass and live for free.

At least he's not blaming lawn mowers for the always impending stock market crash...

@30 & @38: Look out, muffy, dog parks are next. This is what happens when you don't get your shots.

Remind me why you don't you live in Zambabwie you fucking moron. You could only spout this nonsense here, the USA. Weird, huh? No one cares one shit about what you think. You are no one, Name check all you want, you are no one, and no one cares. You might think that my post means someone is listening, you are wrong, No one gives two fucks what you think. Why do you even waste your time? You could be eating shit food at a gas station and thinking its the best thing you have ever had. That alone makes you a fraud.

@40 massive projection.