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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 200 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

You're having a rough day. Seems like everybody wants a piece of you and they aren't kind about it. So you put on some ear protection, grab your leaf blower and step outside. Nobody bothers you out there. The leaf blower yells nonstop the way you wish you could and even though you aren't doing the yelling, there is still something cathartic about the noise. It creates a bubble where you are left alone. As the minutes pass and the debris collects into neat little piles, you can slowly regain your calm. The urge to explode, unleashing your anger and frustration, in an irreparable way ebbs and you feel like you can hold your shit together for a little while longer.

Or they are in a feud with their neighbors and are trying to piss them off.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I though for sure this would end in the hell in a cell copy pasta.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Haven't seen that one before.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They're for connecting to a car battery and a dead car battery to jump start the dead one. Pretty common really.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 106 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If a genie told me I could erase all land-mines or two-stroke leaf-blowers, I'd choose landmines, but the silence while I considered would be uncomfortably long.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

This comment is magic lol

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[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Well I ain't gonna get down on my knees and blow them myself

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And that's why I'm leafing you!

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[–] bob_omb_battlefield@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 17 points 3 weeks ago

"they must not be scattered, mess is the mind killer"

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

One of my neighbours sometimes hoses down her driveway in the pouring rain. Who knows why neighbours do the things they do.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are they ex military? Are they an ASVAB waiver? Did they used to get told to mop up the rain too?

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably to hose off sentiment run off

[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

Are those the sentiments that appeared when she ran off?

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah we saw one of our neighbors watering the storm drain. But also recently she drove from her driveway to ours - literally got in her car, backed out the driveway then immediate turn into ours, to come ask a question. Then got back in her car, backed out of our driveway and immediate turn into hers. So I think she is just crazy.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I once inquired about this very practice. I've been told it's because:

  • Water restrictions are generally lifted when it rains
  • Easy rinse/prepped surface

That all make sense to me if these idiots had a pressure washer, but its always a normal hose with a nozzle..

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

Either the boss said he had to do it, our his homelife is so bad, that blowing leaves is an improvement.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I just got a 765cfm battery-powered leaf blower and...

...it's so much fun. Mindlessly entertaining. I don't even care if I just blow the leaves back and forth, it's just...weirdly fun.

Also fun to blow random things around the house until someone gets mad.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also fun to blow random things around the house until someone gets mad.

Hey, this guy knows my ex-wife. tugs collar

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I really hate leaf blowers.

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[–] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My neighbor will blow them into my driveway (which is higher than his so it's a never ending battle) and then he'll walk between my house and the house on his other side blowing leaves to the other side of the street. He wastes so much gas every day, I would find it funny if it weren't infuriating. Like, who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore?

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore

Gas blowers are about half the purchase price. And in this 'first thing I looked up' match up, are slightly better speced and higher rated.

[–] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

I'll take the one with less maintenance anyway. I wouldn't even need to buy the battery for this because that's the same one my lawnmower uses

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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Are you in IL? I just saw my neighbor doing that, but he has dementia. I think there are to many people who want a manicured lawn. Personally I don't see why so many people like that.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

if I ever live somewhere with a garden, I'm ripping out the grass and planting a dandelawn.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or moss!

Moss is cool too!

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[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I tried making my front lawn all wild flowers. The town had other ideas and sent me a warning to mow my lawn even though at that point my lawn was solid flowers. It is now a mix of dried out grass, sandy bare spots, and cigarette butts from the sidewalk traffic going to the Casino across the street. I tried watering my lawn the first year here and my water bill was nuts.

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[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As it happens, it's about 10 C (50 F) near me and raining, and I did actually think about using my leaf blower for a very specific purpose: blowing the leaves clear of the road gutters.

I saw outside my window that the autumn leaves formed a dam in the gutter, impounding an amount of water which started diverting onto the asphalt and the sidewalk. From what little I know about road construction, water intrusion is the greater enemy so I didn't want to let the small pond sit there.

In the end, I just picked the leaves up by hand to remove the obstruction. But if I had a lot more streetfront, leaf blower would be the first tool to come to mind. But it would take no more than 10 minutes total.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Honestly, it's just fun to blow leaves or snow. It's a mindless puttering activity that lets you improve your home area and be mildly active.

Unfortunately what happens is people's general tendency to think about themselves and nobody else. So they're self-satisfied in their reasons for being out there, not thinking about the dude next door that works nights and can't sleep, and even his construction-grade noise headphones don't help. Or the dude that just wants to listen to jazz quietly.

The leaf blower people are well-meaning people with mild mental illness who are just selfish enough not to realize their home/self care is annoying others. e: A lot of times the guy just needs to get the F away from their spouse. I've lived near leaf blower people and they're invariably older married (sometimes retired) men. Never women.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like a rake would be a better alternative on all accounts

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Plus, you can leave it in awkward places as a trap!

doinggg!!!

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I miss the internet being like this. I like this

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower.

One does not simply blow wet leaves with a leaf blower. It is folly.

[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I once thought so, but in my experience with maples and fir needles it works really well. Much easier than raking for wet stuff. Of course, the correct way is to wait until all of the leaves have fallen (enjoy Autumn to its fullest) and then round them up once for the whole season. Every week or two is why everyone hates leaf blowers.

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Or just leave them. Leaves are good, people. If you can, leave your leaves.

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[–] pigup@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I like using leaf blower, don't like listening to leaf blower.

[–] FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I had a neighbor for a while that ran his gas blower for a couple hours EVERY DAY. I think he had some sort of PTSD trauma and it soothed him.

He also dug holes in his backyard to bury leaves. Quite a ….. character.

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Um leafblowers are portable jets and just as fun as an air-compressor.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Because the day already sucks so much…

[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

It’s because he can’t use his chain saw on anything.

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