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It’s honestly terrifying how much people really don’t give a shit about what other people want (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

I know from personal experience that if you ever, ever ask a pink-faced thumb-headed divorce dad to not blast out floorboard-shaking-loud max-bass buttrock or flaghumping yeehaw country after midnight while taking rant selfies in the cabin of his mobile suburban assault vehicle, he will never stop taking the opportunity to do it extra just to spite you. grill-broke

Treatbrain is a progressively worsening condition that involves louder and more aggressively "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOO" spite over time. brainworms

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I had an elderly retired neighbor who was all about chemical treatments for his lawn, mowing patterns and all other sorts of curb appeal stuff. I could generally get along with him about most stuff and liked helping him do gardening or shovel snow. But he would get unhinged about our lawns. This guy would act like the dandelions in my yard were an abomination.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lawn fixations are one of the deepest core values of boomers in a way that transcends generation. Xers and even some older millennials that I know are also lawn fixated, sometimes doing petty shit like cutting down native plants in neighbors' yards and bragging about it later because it'd be too much trouble to get them legally punished for it. grillman