mowing the lawn (or anything involving a gas powered landscaping device) before 10 am: dud or SHOULD BE PUNISHABLE BY HAVING YOUR BALLS TWISTED IN A VICE?!?!

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― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

mowing the lawn (or anything involving a gas powered landscaping device)

Does that include hair-styling things?

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in the back of my building, and once a week the big beeping, roaring and clanging garbage truck comes to empty the dumpsters at about 5:30 a.m.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I reckon before 9am they should be given a stern talking to.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

it wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt some dork doing "the edging" outside my window for what seemed like 20 minutes.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

They were doing this directly outside my classroom two days running during my 8:30 a.m. finals.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

My father would look askance at anyone who cut the grass on a Sunday. "Don't they know it's Sunday?" he would say.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, the dudes down the hall from me, these sub-Fubar types, came home from the bar the other and had a lengthy argument until five a.m., chasing either between their apt., the hallway, and the common balcony area right beside my window, slamming doors the whole fucking time.
I must have revenge.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha I mowed my yard at 9 am last Sunday!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

god will punish you. and badly.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

watch out for snakes.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

or you could have Sanford & Son & Son & Son & the Son's Two Burnout Friends next door, like i so. They were up at the crack of 6:30am, to begin their busy day of sitting in their backyard/parking lot, and swearing/drinking.

fun fact: one of them looks EXACTLY like Carl from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, only with a slightly smaller gold chain.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

AARGH. Every morning at 6.30 AM (but not Sunday) the garbage truck visits our road along with the binmen who are shouty and oikish and think it were all offices 'round 'ere.

Add to that the private refuse collectors who turn up at 2 am with their horrible truck which emits a posh-voiced 'THIS VEHICLE IS REEEEE-VERSING' noise as it backs down the road.

The most miserable experience: after free drinks 'til 3am at Goldfrapp aftershow, to wake with soul-destroying hangover to the accompaniment of JACKHAMMER MEN on our building's doorstep. there wasn't a bacon sandwich large enough to put that sucker right as a result.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

mostly i'm just amazed that caitlin has a gas powered hair dryer

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(crosspost with suzy)

I live in the back of my building, and once a week the big beeping, roaring and clanging garbage truck comes to empty the dumpsters at about 5:30 a.m.

when i first moved to this town i lived (very briefly) in a neighborhood with a very dense population of restaurants... EVERYDAY (M-F, SAT AND SUN EVEN HOLIDAYS) at about 6:00am the trash collection would come and empty the industrial strength refuse containers (large - 6'x3'x4', metal) and just pound the fuck out of them into the lifter trucks less than 30 feet from my bedroom window. it is amazing after a couple weeks what your body will do to cope with loud noises. i actually slept through it once.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean there were like 10 restaurants just on my street (1/4th of the block) and you'd hear this for all the restaurants.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in the back of my building, and once a week the big beeping, roaring and clanging garbage truck comes to empty the dumpsters at about 5:30 a.m.

I get this every day. I don't mind it so much; it gets me out of bed.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

it is amazing after a couple weeks what your body will do to cope with loud noises. i
actually slept through it once.
when I was 18/19, I was in Katimavik, this Canadian youth corps feel-good kinda thing. We moved around the country in a group doing good deeds and speaking in French. Anyway, my roommate (and still, 8 yrs later one of my best friends) was one of the most tenacious snorers ever. He has athsma, and I think that somehow contributes to it. I've even seen him snore on lying on his front!
Anyway, I very quicly got over it, and could sleep fine, but for a while there were three of us in the room, and the third guy, who was a little unstable to start with I think, would go nuts EVERY NIGHT because of it, and was far more a nuisance than the snoring.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Leaf blowers are the devil.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i live in the sky

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

With diamonds?

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

ts: flocks of geese vs. lawnmowers

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

What Kris said. I find the binmen quite restful in their own unbelievably loud way.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

watch out for snakes.

I'll watch out for them as my mower rips their flesh asunder and transforms their corporeal forms to mulch muahaha die snake messengers of Jah die!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I live on a cul-de-sac and the neighbor across the way has a riding lawnmower...I think he takes care of everyone's lawn in exchange for cheap rent or something.

1. He mows as late as possible. In the summer this means 9, and I go to bed at 8 if I can help it.

2. His son joyrides the mower around and around at night in the cul-de-sac towing other kids around in an attached wagon.

Neither of these things seems like that huge of a deal in the cold light of day, but when you're sleeping, it's all about the murderous rage. One of those kids is going to get hurt someday anyway though.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that a threat teeny!?!?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it's so like totally amazing because those kids are going to run over each other with the mower and hurt themselves worse than I could! It's totally karma!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I live across the street from a park. At almost-25-years-old, I'm already That Old Guy on the block screaming "don't do that! you'll get hurt!" to the random neighborhood kids. And I'm also the guy that mows his yard on Sunday morning when everybody else goes to church. I'm the neighborhood freak!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Strongo I smash you. ;)

As much as it sucks when I'm trying to sleep, it's even better / worse when I'm watching TV & the bastards are weedwhacking for 45 minutes. I mean, shit, there's barely anything to whack, unless they're fucking w/ the flower bed.

One time, I was awaken by people washing the decks. That was interesting. I thought it was raining a LOT.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, be thankful you don't live in Anchorage, Alaska. You'd think it was the bright skies at 3am that would keep your more equatorial friends and neighbors awake at night on a trip.. but nooooo, high solstice was far from the culprit....

Instead I had to hear a maelstrom of screeching kittywakes the entire "night". (kittywakes are basically northern seagulls. Their wail is about ten times more piercing than those electronic bird sounding christmas balls)

I'm thankful for any flock of geese or lawnmower army at this point.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I generally sleep through the 6am garbage trucks and the upstairs residents clomping around at 7:30 am on weekends.

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Asshead next door wheels the garbage bins out to the curb every week at 1:30 *AM*. He gets yelled at by everyone in our building every week. "Can't you do that in the morning?" "No." "Why are you doing that in the middle of the night?" "I just got home from work." Now when we yell at him he doesn't even look at us.

Some fucks moved in behind them who have parties every other week that involve standing on their balcony and screaming until four in the morning, and occasionally throwing bottles through windows and running around screaming in people's back yards. This is in fucking North Berkeley, mind, where students should not be allowed.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

when I'm watching TV & the bastards are weedwhacking for 45 minutes. I mean, shit, there's barely anything to whack, unless they're fucking w/ the flower bed.

The obvious answer is that because they whack so much that it is weed-free.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 15 August 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

What does a neighbor deserve for running his generator throughout a night during which there is a power outage? What does he deserve for setting it up 20' away from my house? (Cuz it was so loud that we couldn't open any windows and allow our living room's temp to go below 90 degrees.)

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

my dad sometimes did this, not to be an annoying person but because during the summer it was cooler in the early morning than later in the day.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

we also had a pretty large lawn and the houses were pretty far apart (for a suburb, at least).

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've mentioned in other threads the air conditioner at the Russian Embassy, next door to where I live. Not only does that piece of junk make an ungodly racket, but it cycles on and off. If it were constant I might be able to get used to it as some sort of "brown noise." More than once I've been tempted to cause an international incident over noises from next door...especially the time some kid over there was blasting Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood."

Because of this, I don't mind my building's janitor with his leaf blower nearly as much, and geese would almost be melodic in comparison.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

babushka moya

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

WE WIN...

Lady Jessica and I live in a development (at least until November, ending a three year 'temporary solution')and our apartment happens to be directly across from the public swimming pool. It's not so much the screaming kids every morning (tho they ARE a nusiance)that drives us so batty, but, the ICE CREAM TRUCK likes to park IN FRONT of the pool (lucrative spot for the bastard, for sure) and play "The Entertainer" infinitely (the 'ice cream truck / bells on the roof' version, of course) - instead of just making his presence known by merely BEING a giant white truck with an ice cream cone painted on it, he insists on PLAYING the goddam song all morning. beat THAT!

― roger adultery, Saturday, 16 August 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be symphetic to all of you, but I'm the kind of person who could sleep though a tornado.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Sunday, 17 August 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

why the fruck cannot they just find a breed of grass that only grows like four inches and stops

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:05 (thirteen years ago)

patent that idea

― mh, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:36 (thirteen years ago)

these things are so damn loud that i bought a push mower and use that -- my nbhd has lots of stay at home moms and I just feel like there is no time I would not be aggrieved to hear the sound of that thing.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:38 (thirteen years ago)

how long does the chia pet hair grow? Does it just keep going and going or is there a limit? i suggest that we replace all lawns with chia pet hair

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)

i might see if i can somehow get a bunch of chia pet hair at a bulk rate discount and then go as Chia Man with No Friends for halloween this year

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)

half my lawn this year was eaten by wildlife so I have only littel baby crabgrass on it now

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

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