primitives become enraged over leaf blowers

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018794985

I didn't bring over the entire thread, but it's a pretty entertaining read:

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 12:20 AM
Star Member ailsagirl (11,419 posts)

Does anyone here hate leaf-blowers???


The gardeners come every week and sometimes have four or five going at once.
Drives me crazy.

I guess noise pollution is irrelevant when it comes to these noisy devils. All I
can do is...

 

and tune out

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 12:22 AM
PoliticAverse (12,945 posts)
1. Does anybody not? n/t

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 12:24 AM
Star Member ailsagirl (11,419 posts)
2. The guys that use them don't!!

I mean, God forbid that they should have to actually RAKE the leaves!!!

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 11:32 PM
Star Member ailsagirl (11,419 posts)
34. WOW-- just found this out

Because they are designed to be air-cooled, the engines release 100% of their tailgate emissions directly into the environment, and since they also burn fuel very inefficiently, a leafblower running for one hour emits as many hydrocarbons and other pollutants into the atmosphere as a car driven at 55 mph for 110 miles.

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/ART02059

I didn't realize they're so bad for the environment (I never researched this) but apparently the NOISE is one of the more benign things about them!!

BAN LEAF-BLOWERS!!!

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 12:34 AM
Star Member Populist_Prole (4,860 posts)
3. With a blazing red hot passion

Hell, they're hardly even used to blow leaves around. Anymore, most are used to blow dust/dirt from one area to another; or to spread it around and atomize it so it gets all over everything and everybody.

And the noise, noise noise noise noise!

hu Sep 3, 2015, 01:53 AM
Star Member Aerows (33,082 posts)
5. I despise leaf blowers

vacuum cleaners and shredding machines.

Sit me in a server room with a million fans and I can't hear anything due to the hypnotic flow of small fans. It is my zen.

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 04:59 AM
CBGLuthier (11,488 posts)
6. Saw and heard an electric one today. Much much quieter.

I assume since it was used outside a beach resort at 7:00 in the morning they were just being sensible.

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 09:01 AM
Star Member cwydro (19,373 posts)
8. Yesterday, I was out riding my bike in the 90 degree heat, and

stopped by a peaceful park that I like to drink some water.

I had to move on because the adjacent neighborhood had numerous workers with blowers. It sets my teeth on edge.

Earlier that day, my mom and I went for a walk in a different park. Same thing, except with weed-whackers, mowers and so on. My mom is hard of hearing (almost 90) and the noise made her crazy.

I remember summers of my childhood, when all you would hear was crickets, cicadas, children playing, and the occasional low drone of a push mower.

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 09:30 AM
Star Member Lizzie Poppet (5,034 posts)
9. With the fury of a thousand suns.

When they start up way too ******* early on a weekend morning, there is some chance you might see me on that evening's news.

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 10:41 AM
Star Member sarge43 (20,115 posts)
12. Don't forget chain saws. n/t

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 11:17 AM
Orrex (46,285 posts)
16. Yes--I've complained about them previously

My yard is pretty small, and my neighbor's yard is about one-third smaller. I can mow and rake my yard in about half an hour. It takes him 45 minutes to mow and another 45 minutes with the leaf blower to clean up the trimmings.

In the winter he actually paces up and down his sidewalk blowing snow from the pavement as it falls in real time.

Leaf blower afficianados are a special breed.

If I lived next door to this primitive, that's exactly what I'd do.  No doubt the primitive pushed the guy's buttons, and now he does it just to get his goat.

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 11:24 AM
NV Whino (18,573 posts)
17. Any gardener worth his or her salt comes with a leaf blower attached at the hip

They're born that way.

I actually asked a gardener once if he knew what a rake was. He just looked at me.

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 05:23 PM
Star Member ailsagirl (11,419 posts)
21. A... rake??

Last edited Thu Sep 3, 2015, 08:38 PM - Edit history (1)

Oh yes... I seem to recall what those are...er, were. 

One fine fellow, with leaf-blower in hand (and it was ON though maybe in neutral), walked through
the lobby of our office building with the thing spewing exhaust fumes and who-knows-what-else. He
was oblivious.
I was apoplectic. Another Darwin Award Winner (that list is getting mighty long).

So we can assume then that the perpetrator of this bouncy was white or hispanic. 

Sat Sep 5, 2015, 12:04 AM
Star Member NJCher (18,600 posts)
40. oh, please, please, please

do not defile the word "gardener." Gardeners are gentle folk who work with the earth to grow beautiful vegetation.

Leaf blowers, on the other hand, are in the category of people who think nature should be controlled. No leaves on the ground. It's called the industrial approach to landscaping.

Real gardeners (I am one) don't use leaf blowers.

42. I tried to go into that business

but I couldn't because the way it's structured, it's all minimum wage. My idea was to have an organic gardener bank, but nobody wants to pay.

Instead of using fossil fuels to haul heavy equipment around, like blowers and mowers, the gardener would travel to the person's house and use their equipment. Organic techniques would be used, and as far as equipment, rakes, not blowers.

What I did regarding leaf blowers, though, was get a partial ban on them in my town. They can only be used six weeks in the spring and six weeks in the fall. To get the ban, though, took a grassroots group of 2000 people, which I and my partner formed. Lotta' work. Four years worth, in fact.

Just imagine puke stew, with lawn clippings as a garnish.

[Big Dog]

Leaf blowers?



Love 'em!

[BannedFromDU]

      A leaf blower operating on one's property implies the following:

1. One has disposable income to afford a leaf blower, and/or
2. One cares about the appearance of one's property, and/or
3. One has the motivation to get off one's ass and use the blower.

Or, worse:

1. One has the disposable income to pay someone to keep up their property.


Any of those scenarios are bound to infuriate a DUmmy.

[Ralph Wiggum]

For every thing that is holy, IS THERE ANYTHING these whiny morons won't complain about?

[GOBUCKS]

The purpose of this thread has nothing to do with noisy leaf blowers.

The purpose is to brag about being able to afford a gardener, and being affluent enough to live in a neighborhood that employs gardeners.

Note there is no mention of a neighbor using a blower. Only "gardeners" use them.

[BannedFromDU]

The purpose of this thread has nothing to do with noisy leaf blowers.

The purpose is to brag about being able to afford a gardener, and being affluent enough to live in a neighborhood that employs gardeners.

Note there is no mention of a neighbor using a blower. Only "gardeners" use them.

      GOBUCKS has called it again.

[JohnnyReb]

The purpose of this thread has nothing to do with noisy leaf blowers.

The purpose is to brag about being able to afford a gardener, and being affluent enough to live in a neighborhood that employs gardeners.

Note there is no mention of a neighbor using a blower. Only "gardeners" use them.

Nothing worse than a 'rich' liberal.

[BannedFromDU]

Nothing worse than a 'rich' liberal.

     Except a rich liberal who needs everyone else to know they're rich.

[thundley4]

The purpose of this thread has nothing to do with noisy leaf blowers.

The purpose is to brag about being able to afford a gardener, and being affluent enough to live in a neighborhood that employs gardeners.

Note there is no mention of a neighbor using a blower. Only "gardeners" use them.

Just like this DUmmie is pointing out the fact that they are staying at a "beach house" resort.

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 04:59 AM
CBGLuthier (11,488 posts)
6. Saw and heard an electric one today. Much much quieter.

I assume since it was used outside a beach resort at 7:00 in the morning they were just being sensible.

Of course that might just be the DUmmies favorite panhandling spot.

[landofconfusion80]

[Ralph Wiggum]

     Except a rich liberal who needs everyone else to know they're rich.

And they always remind you. Well, the condescending ones.