Yeaaaa, validate me for not taking leaves
Screw blackberries tho
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Yeaaaa, validate me for not taking leaves
Screw blackberries tho
Excuse me? What do you have against delicious blackberries?
The plants are nigh impossible to control or remove. They're like mint; only plant it in the ground if you hate yourself and your neighbors :)
Mint’s great.
My wife and I discovered some spearmint growing right by our house. So we just mow it into a patch and mulch around it: free mint and the bees love it! Fresh mojitos every summer lol.
Thanks, I know what I'm planting!
Mint doesn't need to be put in the ground. Just put it in a pot outside, it'll do the rest, and leave you with some level of plausible deniability.
I know this because my ex got some different types of mint to grow, since we both loved it. She put them in pots on the front porch, about 4 feet off the ground.
That mint found its way to the lawn. We still don't know where it started from, just that the pot was flourishing, and then so was the yard. The new owner of that house is still finding mint growing in random parts.
I know the Himalayan blackberry and they are awful to have on your property. Each year all too much time is diverted towards controlling it and attempting to eliminate it. The birds (if they exist) eat them and spread the seeds. They pop up where you thought you’d already handled them. Ug.
We do collect them to make cobblers and such, but I would gladly do without that if I could rid us of them entirely.
They're a highly invasive species here in Washington state. Brought by settlers. They've displaced the native species and are nearly impossible to get rid of.
Himelayan blackberries are invasive
Look past their juicy and delicious flesh comrade! invasive species are the scourge of many a backyard garden
The issue is parasitic HOAs that don't allow it.
For calling themselves "land of the free" there is surprisingly little freedom, unless you are rich of course. At that point you can rape kids and get away with murder.
As an American. The cause is racism.
No, really. HOA's were originally created to keep black people out of white neighborhoods after government-backed segregation was made illegal.
I stopped raking years ago, and have started seeing fireflies again.
My neighbours hate it, but honestly, I’ve never understood raking in the first place. It’s autumn, and leaves are natural. What’s with the obsession to make lawns look like artificial carpeted spaces?
The leaves look nice imo. Better than a scalped layer of dying grass.
Ok but please clean your sidewalks, people. Don't use the environment as an excuse to be a bad neighbor. We still need to use the sidewalks.
It is strange to me, that sidewalks aren’t public property and are managed (and cleaned) like the streets in other countries 😄
They are public property and designed and built by the municipalities in many places. The cities and towns just prefer to offload the cleaning part to who every lives in front of a section of sidewalk.
Let's call it "Civic Duty" and your chance to do something nice and beneficial for your neighborhood.
In Brazil the property owner is responsible for everything up to the edge of the road in a lot of places, including building and maintaining sidewalks....they go to shit and nobody fixes them lol
I have crashed my escooter on slippery wet leaves. They were too slippery to steer.
Now I ride my bike instead I haven't had that problem as the roads are swept
Depends on the zone.
In Texas where I lived... you get snakes. BIG snakes. And fun things like ninja bug swarms, wasp colonies, black widows, and such.
There aren't a lot of wet leaves in Florida with so many palms or evergreens, but if you do leave them, you get disease and parisites, especially if its up against your house. Like, all the native plants in your yard will start dying. And it's definitely not safe to step in.
What's up with h all the hate for Friends these days? It's a simple feel good comedy that got laughs, why hate on that?
I loved friends, still do
It was always a mediocre show, but was so massively popular at the time that any criticism was quickly drowned out and brushed away. But now the hype has died down and people are more openly talking about the show’s flaws.
I personally thought it sucked back when it was new and have no interest in watching it now. I watched a handful of episodes as it had a syndication spot on my local networks, but just never got into it. (For the kids: Growing up on the East Coast, the dinner hours were generally news and 8-11 pm was “prime time” when new episodes of shows would air. In between shows would air reruns in syndication. So Friends was the filler I’d sometimes watch while waiting for the new shows to air.)
It is what it is, a simple comedy feel good show. Don't expect deep and complex story lines because that's not what anyone wants with a show line this
So with that in mind, what is objectively wrong with it? You said it yourself, it was massively popular, why do you think that was? It was good at what it did, nothing more, nothing less
It just wasn’t funny. It was a group of obnoxious young adults in apartments mugging for the camera while the laugh track assured us what they said was funny (it wasn’t.)
The only episode that landed for me was the boys trying to move a couch upstairs with Ross shouting “PIVOT!” Otherwise, nothing really interesting happened. The “Smelly Cat” song everyone memed about was just grating.
And I remember what was popular about it was Ross and Rachel. Which is mind-boggling, because they were both incredibly toxic and spent half their lives arguing over whether Ross cheated on her. Why would anyone root for that?
It's a comfort show that's still popular. But for some people they just don't get it. Kinda like how the office is a comfort show. Why do people still watch them? Not sure, I don't get the appeal. But it's pretty common to have a comfort show and that's probably fine.
Because it wasnt simple, and its got a lot of old culture in it that doesnt always hit the same way as it did then.
Its a product of its time, and making fun of it is sort of like making fun of older generations for whatever reason.
I will say I dont like how apparently women needed to be under 100 pounds to be considered attractive back then, and it bums me out knowing that Chandler's actor was struggling with addiction during a chunk of the show.
It does have some really well written bits though, but its usually not the ones people bring up most often.
I honestly don't get all the love for the show. It was the stereotypical sitcom that was super generic and not all that funny. I was always completely bored by it.
And the salamander didn't say anything bad about it. It said there's better shows. Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
I'd never claim that, for one because it's claiming that a banana would be better than an airplane. They're very different things for very different purposes
Breaking bad is a very well written and acted show with complicated drama, plots, and a lot of violence
Same for game of thrones (at least untill season 6 started, then the writing took a hit but still, great show until season 8 which just sucked.
Friends in the other hand was simple popcorn feel good comedy where you could have simple laught without having to think too much, where you could get a warm fuzzy feeling about it. Breaking bad won't give you that, it's a whole different beast. Are the story lines deep and intricate? Nope, and that's what we want; simple turn-your-brain-off comedy, and I don't think it ever pretended to be more than that. It's very good at what it did, I think
I like that when you mention better shows you choose 2 shows that are not at all light hearted, funny or comparable to Friends in any manner.
Why watch friends when you can watch 2 shows that have many fucked up things happen in them
I recently got into FRIENDS purely cuz it's cozy. But it's hard to reference it without looking a little behind.
"OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!"
I loved Friends growing up.
But it was of a different era and now many of their jokes make me uncomfortable.
Edit: I accept I am wrong here. His style looks like AI slop to me. I see his responses in the screenshots. I'm wrong. I'll keep my statement about slop as-is, though, since it's true.
HELLO THERE!
DID YOU KNOW USING AI SLOP AS A CARTOON IS HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT?
~~Brian Ahearn may make poignant cartoons, but his use of generative AI to illustrate them is sad.~~