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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Saw a TikTok about some woman asking why men have to disturb the peace of a Saturday or Sunday morning by mowing their lawn or using a leaf blower, and you would’ve thought she went on a bigoted rant by the comment section. Like damn she was just talking about how it would be nice to enjoy a peaceful morning and random commenters took it as a personal attack. Shit you not I truly believe some suburbanites would go to war over their lawn the way they treat it like a fortress to a castle.

Is this not extremely silly when you type it all out? Time is a circle and I feel like I’m a peasant under feudalism watching kings, nobles and knights protect their land like it’s under some type of threat

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

that's why I said home and not house. Your home is where you live owned or not

there is a balance of what is banned and what is allowed. Banning things because you find them annoying can be unreasonable and costs the people around you. It is a way that your personal space can expand and constrict others

for example no loud noises after a certain time means people can't have friends round or company in their own home. I had a landlord that forbade bringing romantic partners overnight and that effectively banned me from having a love life

granted I used to be shouted at and berated for drinking water in "the wrong way" so I am particularly unsympathetic to people complaining about annoying noises. But the people doing that always felt justified because I was in a shared space ignoring the fact I didn't have any private space

some people think that various ethnicities shouldn't be allowed to cook their foods because it creates a smell in the shared space

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How about banning lawn mowers and lawns because they are both ugly and destructive to the environment and annoying to hear.

I fail to see why anyone should have the right to dump pollution all over just so they can keep a monoculture lawn a specific height and prevent any blooming flowers from popping up.

Let's not forget what the oop was actually complaining about. And also I have been woken up in the morning by a leaf blower outside my house and it sucks, use a big outdoor broom, it makes less allergens in the air for neighbors too.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

yeah screw lawns have gardens

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

People can take measures to reduce their vulnerability to loud noises from outside their home if it is a frequent problem.

Plenty of obnoxious noises are just a normal part of living, barking dogs, crying babies, people maintaining their homes at the times they can, and I'm personally tired of the petty authoritarian efforts of people to control when and where people can do things for their own convenience beyond all reason.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

m personally tired of the petty authoritarian efforts of people to control when and where people can do things for their own convenience beyond all reason.

fuck you let me sleep

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Earplugs are, like, ten dollars

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

why the fuck should i sleep with earplugs every night just in case some jackass runs a lawnmower in the morning when they could instead not run the lawn mower so fucking early in the goddamn morning?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Why should someone sweat their ass off in the midday sun so you can save ten dollars?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

read my comment again, it's definitely not about the $10

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I know what your point is, I just think it's silly. Have you ever worked a landscaping job? Yardwork in the midday sun is pretty much torture, so wearing earplugs needs to be worse than that for me to agree with you.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

damn it's a real shame there is no time between 7 and 12 that's less hot than 1pm.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wait, are you saying people are mowing their lawns at 6am? I thought we were talking, like, 8.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

nah 8 is too early. i could be talked into accepting loud shit at 10 am

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah nah 10 is a full ten degrees warmer than 8 in the summer and the sun's already high in the sky

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