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thucythucy

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2. I wish to God my neighbors had solar panels
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 08:15 AM
Oct 2012

on their lawns. Instead they have riding mowers, weed whackers, leaf blowers, and just the day before yesterday my next door neighbor pulled out a new toy for churning the dirt in her (quarter acre) plot that emits about a hundred decibels and spews clouds of gas fumes down the entire block.

It's nearly constant--someone is always working one of these machines--not to mention the poisons poured into the ground to kill grubs, and then this petroleum fertlizer crap that people spray three or four times a year. All of it to make their grass grow, and then they cut it as soon as it gets more than a couple of eighths of an inch too tall. My neighbor with the new toy mows her lawn literally, and I mean literally, three times a week. When I've suggested maybe she could ease up on the grass a bit, she looks at me like I've said something perverted.

This society is so unbelievable fucked up. Solar panels no, but carbon spewing noise monsters--hey, it's the American way!

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