Pedro Picasso being anti-green grass again

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3780329

Oh my.

The old sourass Pedro Picasso's harped about this issue before, usually every summer.

catnhatnh  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-11-08 10:09 PM
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Wasting water so you can waste gasoline....
   
...is pretty much the definition of a lawn. Both resources are finite and under pressure. Every gallon played off against the other denies something vital to people who will suffer from the lack of one or the other. These days, when I see a "well tended" patch of grass (watered daily and cut weekly) I realize that more than a piece of land is getting hosed. Someone remind me again about the virtues of a voluptuous lawn?

Atman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-11-08 10:12 PM
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1. Lawns are TOTALLY artificial, useless and wasteful.
   
Take a walk in "nature." Go into the woods, walk through a meadow, whatever. When was the last time you saw a "lawn" in nature? Ain't no such beast. Lawns are totally man-made, and devastating to our planet.

I dunno.  The "lawn" here is simply mowed, not watered.

If never mowed, the grass would be as high as an elephant's eye by April.

Photographic evidence to follow as soon as I use up a roll of film, and have pictures made.

magellan  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-12-08 01:45 AM
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6. I said much the same to hubby last week
   
...when he was moaning about the never-ending struggle with weeds. Don't bother cutting it anymore, let it go to weed and seed as nature intended. He agreed until the subject of the landlord's opinion came up.

We'd love to build a Geodesic Dome home in the woods somewhere....

Lydia Leftcoast  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-11-08 10:15 PM
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2. I especially hate the two-acre suburban lawn

So you buy this huge house on this huge piece of lawn, and then you have to spend all your spare time taking care of it.

When do you get to LIVE?

Besides, the chemicals they treat lawns with are poisonous. My parents had their lawn treated in the 1980s, and the dog went out and came back in with skin irritation that caused her hide to wrinkle. It was a bizarre sight.

No chemicals used on all these acres of natural prairie foliage here.

pansypoo53219  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-11-08 10:40 PM
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3. nothing like living in the northwoods and hearing a ****ing lawnmower. my grandparents built a cottage in northern WI in 68. grandma wanted trees, not a lawn. it is still trees. too many lawns on the lake.

SidDithers  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-11-08 10:56 PM
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4. I haven't watered my lawn once this year...
   
and I still have to cut it at least once a week (with my push-powered reel mower).

In Toronto, we've had the wettest summer since Environment Canada started keeping track of weather stats.

NJCher  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-12-08 01:40 AM
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5. I hate lawns, too
   
I've only cut mine about three times this year. I'm off the beaten path, not even on a through street, in suburban NJ. That's how I can get away with it.

I never fertilize my lawn, either. In fact, I got rid of most of it by turning it into flower gardens. I planted drought-tolerant flowers, too. The rainfall here pretty much takes care of my gardens without extra watering.

But oh! The neighboring properties. Once a week the landscaper comes in and mows, wacks, and blows. It is a never-ending hell of noise. It's such a waste--transporting leaves with fossil fuels. The leaves were meant to decompose and form humus.

It's a very sick system of lawn care here in the Jersey suburbs.

As was a certain porcine by-product meant to decompose and enrich the eart--er, planet.

TahitiNut  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-12-08 01:48 AM
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7. Grow dandelions instead. Pretty yellow flowers and edible greens.   
   
.... and your neighbors will hate you.

It's alllll good.

Radical Activist  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-12-08 01:50 AM
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8. Grass lawns are one of the most moronic common practices in today's society.

It's just the green-eyed monster in the radioactive primitive, nothing more.

[Chris_]

Is there anything they don't hate?

[franksolich]

Is there anything they don't hate?

Well, actually, with the light of my lantern as I wander among the primitives of Skins's island, I generally find that primitives love anything that's detrimental to decency and civility.

I've never been able to figure out the old cactus-assed Pedro Picasso's hostility to green grass, though; he has a long history of posting Hate-filled screeds against lawns.  I suspect as with the radioactive primitive at this bonfire, it's just the green-eyed monster; since the old grumpy-assed Pedro Picasso couldn't ever have a nice lawn, he doesn't want anybody else to have one either.

[JohnnyReb]

Me and this DUmmie might be on the same page here.....but for different reasons. I don't water the lawn. And if it's green, it's "lawn" in my book, dandy-lions and all.

[BEG]

I bet they would really hate me.....

[USA4ME]

It's good to know that the majority of Americans upset these fools just by having a lawn.  Everywhere they go and see one, it's just another person saying to them "In your face!  In your face!", and they can't do anything about it but stew.

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[Lord Undies]

Those DUmbasses are always so damn concerned about other folks business, all under the phony-ass guise of interconnected humanity and equally phony contrived concern for "the planet". 

The fact is they hate individuals being independent and having the freedom and means to grow a nice lawn, something they obviously want too, but do not have the ambition or drive to obtain.  Instead of finding fault with their own inabilities and limitations, they want a law made so it will be illegal for normal people to enjoy their normal lives - lives which bring to fruition those thing the DUmbasses want but cannot have.   

[BannedFromDU]

Lydia Leftcoast  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-11-08 10:15 PM
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2. I especially hate the two-acre suburban lawn

So you buy this huge house on this huge piece of lawn, and then you have to spend all your spare time taking care of it.

When do you get to LIVE?

Besides, the chemicals they treat lawns with are poisonous. My parents had their lawn treated in the 1980s, and the dog went out and came back in with skin irritation that caused her hide to wrinkle. It was a bizarre sight.

     I weigh an opinion by how informed it is. TWO ACRES of lawn? I hate to break it to the DUmbasses, but anyone who has two acres is either not mowing it at all (because there are animals milling around on it), or isn't mowing it themselves, in which case a DUmmy would get filled full of lead for sneaking into a gated community to observe such a lawn.

     The vast majority of suburban home lots are smaller than a third of an acre, thus dividing the idiot's ire by at least six.

     Moreover, sprinkler water is released into the soil, which in most cases charges the groundwater. It might take longer to reappear as usable water, but it doesn't all go away forever.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I kind of like Tahitinut's approach, it appeals to the curmudgeon side of my nature.  I really hate mowing, fortunately the hot weather lately has slowed the grass down a bit.  I have an acre or so of farmhouse yard to mow around, and another acre in overgrown orchard I need to reclaim from three years of encroachment by berry vines and buckbrush since I was last home for long enough to keep it clear.

[Lord Undies]

I bet they would really hate me.....

Prob-ab-ly!  It just reeks of style and class - you know - all those things DU hates.

[NHSparky]

I'd hate to show you MY lawn.  And I even have a buffer around it (trees) on the remainder of my property, front, back, and sides, as soundproofing and to block view of road from the house and vice versa.

And no, I haven't had to water my lawn yet this year.  As a matter of fact, I've had a bit of an issue with having enough dry days to where I could mow it.  I'd venture to guess that the entire lawn covers about 1/2 an acre, and takes about 90 minutes to mow with my push-mower.  That's about exactly one tank of gas (about a quart, maybe a bit more).

All that actually serves a purpose, primitives.  If I had woods right up to the house:

--The root systems would actually damage the foundation.
--When there are high winds, falling trees would be much more likely to fall in such a manner as to damage my humble abode.
--The lawn serves to keep the topsoil from being washed away during rain, spring runoffs, etc.
--I wouldn't have anyplace to plant my fruit trees/bushes, flowerbeds, and spice garden.

So, primitive, GFY.

[delilahmused]

And yet...we here in the ultra progressive state of OR are the grass capital of the world. China is a big customer of ours...grass grown here is on Olympic fields. They do irony better than anyone.

Cindie

[BannedFromDU]

--The root systems would actually damage the foundation.
--When there are high winds, falling trees would be much more likely to fall in such a manner as to damage my humble abode.
--The lawn serves to keep the topsoil from being washed away during rain, spring runoffs, etc.
--I wouldn't have anyplace to plant my fruit trees/bushes, flowerbeds, and spice garden.

 

     All of which goes to show you how unsustainable your freeper "home" is, which was probably built on land stolen from both Native Americans AND Nelson Mandela somehow, and which you probably use to house Skull & Bones meetings. You should be ashamed of yourself. I can't wait until Our Savior ascends to the White House and smites you and your unnatural land use.

/dumode