I'm glad my beans and corn piss this dude off.
Not paying for weed treatment... Dude ya spray those fuckin chemicals allll over your lawn because nature exists only to be tamed. What's a climate change?
it's the cultural outgrowth of America's fantasy of yeoman farmer self-sufficiency that persists as an aspirational class signal
It's also tied oddly deeply into US concepts of masculinity. The meme didn't start with King of the Hill - I don't know when it started, but it's never quite gone away
also intimately tied to the popular but delusional notion of a single-family home as an investment vehicle.
It started with how the theft and appropriation of land in the colonies was sold to colonizers as a form of freedom and self-actualization. Regional industries all had associated imagery which associated masculinity and freedom with rugged labor which made use of the land. Think pelters, log cabins, homesteaders, family-owned plantations, and later on, prospecting. At each step, the imagery of rugged men conquering the open wilds to secure their own self-made destiny was used to cover up what was really happening: class liquidity made possible through enslavement, genocide, and mass theft.
This was prominent even after this sentiment was used to convince men to go participate in the world wars. The Napoleonic romanticization of the bayonet the charge being blown away by the realities of modern mortar fire and trench warfare made no difference. Or at least, by the time the post-war period was cemented in our minds as a form of American theology in the 80’s, this idea of freedom and masculinity involving the conquering of nature was again prominent. I think a lot about how Mr. Wilson’s garden is portrayed in the 1990’s Dennis the Menace movie. Mr. Wilson is an asshole who’s obsessed with his garden at the expense of all else, but his entitlement to control his own lawn down to the very last flower is portrayed as sympathetic and valid.
if that was it then they would let you grow vegetables in them
but the flex is "I have so much land/wealth, I can just let this productive land around my house be ornamental"
I think it’s more to do with petite bourgeois mindset. An unkempt yard breaks the illusion of wealth and thriving within your economic class. It forces petite bourgeois individuals to confront their tenuous class relations. Most of them are one or two paychecks away from a truly proletarian existence, and they can’t emotionally deal with that, so they set up these rules to enforce the illusion.
Nooo you can't have plants growing in your yard except this one I decided is ok.
My neighbors were always making some passive aggressive remarks about my bushes being unkempt, so I spent this past weekend ripping every single bush and shrub out of my yard. Now they’re all pissed and I’m trying to figure out how to start permaculturing the plots I dug up
Sold a service company for 7 figures. Now a self storage operator with 1.9 million square feet and 44 employees. I send a weekly email to 55k people. Athens, GA
This guy's profile description has the energy of a bragging middle schooler.
"So tell me about yourself."
"I'm so important I send emails to FIFTY thousand people!"
"Cool..."
I always think the most boring thing to talk about someone with is what their job is... and this guy brags about emails. Truly these types of people are just so sickeningly boring
It is your God-given right to squat in this guy's self-storage units. Use cardboard to sort-of insulate the walls!
this is also the tomato guy, which is insanely funny
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4cnlqXX0AAUDKD.jpg
sorry tankies, i have over 500 hours on harvest moon. you can make 50 GOLD PER TOMATO. thats what real work gives you
just put it on a box where for the mysterious walking teamster. its that easy
Look at this absolute baby-brained take.
Yeah dude, great advice if you haven't farmed in 25 years. Here in the modern world, tomatoes only sell for 60g. They should be worth at least 100g if prices had kept up with inflation! Now we need to have a side hustle like pressing it into tomato juice.
And even for all those extra weeks of work, Mayor Lewis is still only gonna give us 135g for the tomato juice. We'd need to spend all summer aging it in casks up to iridium quality to make it really worthwhile!
You need to be bribing Lewis with hot peppers. Just... slide one into his dress shirt pocket while nobody is looking.
Look I may have started farming with a third hand SNES I bought for 2 dollars (inflation, exchange rate adjusted) but I have something you don't. Experience.
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Just kidding I took a PPP loan on the farm and then sold it for 50 million dollars
A racket that famously takes no effort.
First you must own land. Second, that land better not be in this guy's HOA.
Where am I supposed to grow my tomattos huh Nick if I can't do it in my yard?
Anyway ya love just burying a whole ass tomato
He wants you to know he did the math. And he really knows the math. I love that he didn't round it up and say 4,000,000 tomatoes.
what a beautifully empty mind. just nothing going on up there besides basic business math and obsessive lawncare
This isnt even how the guy got his wealth. He got it from real estate and underpaying warehouse workers.
Some areas have garages set up for car maintenance but the waiting list is usually a couple months.
I thought that America was car country. As long as they don't spill nasty stuff on the ground and keep the noise down, how can you get mad about other people minding their own business, fixing their own cars in their own driveways?
It's hilarious that the so called "land of the free" has all these asinine restrictions that pretty much don't exist anywhere else lol
Modern automobiles have frames built in a way that makes them nearly impossible to disassemble without a jack of some kind.
People do literally anything besides entrepreneurship.
This guy: noooo you're ruining my life
not getting weed control treatments
I don't know how good the methodology was but I was looking up how concerned I should be about sprayed lawns while walking my dog:
Turns out there is a 70% increased risk of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for dogs at homes that spray their lawn. Sooo...:yea: Not to mention what it does to aquatic life
I’ve always wondered why gardens are against so many HOAs. Like, I’d expect them to love that shit (like normal people do!)
Guess he’s why
"gardens" that are just like 3 non native plants that require 500% the water and care of native plants: good, wholesome, American.
Gardens that mostly consist of colorful wild flowers and self sufficient tree: bad, evil, communistic
They've been propagandized into conflating their self worth with a flat plane of grass that they have to continually soak in pesticides and allocate 50% of their water bill to every month despite never actually using it in any meaningful way.
This guy is the worst and seeing that house he posted as an example of a "bad" one makes me wonder what my neighbors think of our yard. I keep the grass mowed but it's full of "weeds" like clover, violets, dandelions, and ground ivy, and it's different colors in places due to different types of grass. My huge-ass garden is mostly native wildflowers and I don't cut stuff back until I absolutely have to so the bugs and birds have extra food. I also have bricks, rocks, and other assorted stuff in my driveway from unfinished home improvement projects.
Your neighbors talk about you in utter disgust and have considered spraying herbicides on your flowers because all of the bees are bothersome to them.
The answer to any of that kind of stuff is to remind them that you know where they live too and everybody has to sleep sometimes
and to also scatter aggressive native plant seeds on their lawn at night at the correct time of the year
If they are :grillman: and mow it 8 days a week, that won't affect them. The proper response is to salt their lawn.
Most lawn-crazy people use broadleaf herbicides so they won't stand much of a chance.
I've put hundreds of hours (and probably thousands of dollars) into my garden, if someone did that to me I can't promise that I wouldn't commit some felony destruction of property.
My partner just sent me a meme of this guys hoa quote and then it was just a pic of Tom bombadil in the woods
Old Tom Bombadil and his Goldberry much prefer to keep the trees and green growing things! Oh yes oh tommo bombadillo willow wham way get rid off the HOA!
I would want to trim it up a bit as a project if it were my home. I couldn't imagine a life so devoid of problems or things to do that I look twice at it without loving affection for greenery in what looks like a cozy house.
Ya it could use a trim but it's a pretty cozy lookin zone. I don't wanna live in a barren field of grass and maybe, if I'm lucky, one or two flower beds filled with invasive species.
HOAs don't really exist in my country, but hearing about HOAs in America always really makes my BLOOD BOIL for some reason. Sure, they're not as evil as the meatballs in Washington, but come on. You're gonna die on the hill of seething hatred against trees and bushes? Hatred against mechanical work??? HATRED AGAINST FUCKING VEGETABLES????? The HOA schmucks are like comic book villains, and they're so proud of it too, as if it makes them smarter than everybody else.
Sounds like someone should be composted and used in a community garden. :shrug-outta-hecks:
Just saw that for the first time today. Reminded me of the Spike Jones song about the little boy whose rabbits won't stop breeding.
This is what you get without an HOA
yeah sounds great. I'll have that then
