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Old 09-05-2017, 06:02 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Timely question, I was looking for a place to post this:


http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/09/if-you-must-push-lawn-mower-may-as-well.html

When I lived right downtown, the front yard was two 20ft sq patches. I gave it a shag cut with a scythe. Little old people couples would come down the sidewalk and comment on how long it had been since they had seen one. The neighbor kid borrowed it for Halloween.

When I was in a landscaping cooperative in my tax-resisting anarchistic youth, we had one customer who insisted we use reel hand mowers, for the best cut and because they are quiet. We liked it because — hey, billable hours.

Which raises a question. The 'news' talks about Antifa being anarchists, when they are really nihilists. But nobody calls the Cajun Navy being anarchists, when they are in fact self-organizing rednecks.

Edit: More anarchism, this time from a corporation:

justacarguy:SALUTE of the day! Tide is helping in Rockport Texas, and have been doing disaster relief since Katrina, 12 years ago

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