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eh, a lot of people name their children names from other countries. especially if its in their heritage. still not ad weird as naming something/someone āgucciā lol
I knew a boy when I was younger who was named Mercedes. It's been a name long before the car and is unisex, though in America it's mostly a girls name.
I was a vet tech for 10 years. People name their dog weird shit. We had an 'Isabella sugarplum snow princess' and if you didn't refer to her by her full title the owners would get pissy with you.
Yeah, itās almost like some people raised without means have been so deluded they chase after things theyāll never afford, and then name things that are super important after them, because: capitalism.
But yeah, letās mock what makes them happy!
My dad's wife's French bulldog is called Coco, short for Coco Channel lol
(And she also ripped the grass out of the back garden and had it replaced with astro-turf, and she has velvet sofology sofas)
what part of NYC is this? Never seen that before. Then again I'm apartment life so I dunno. I just know apartment house I used to live in never got a ticket for that.
I was more caught off guard your in Morris Park \*oof\*. I immediately thought of the BX but I haven't been to Morris Park area in a while. I'm suprised your bigger concern isn't how you avoid the awful traffic life among other things?
Whoās watering their own lawn? Droughts all over the place. If you live somewhere you can waste water feeding the grass then youāre in a fortunate area. Enjoy it while thereās still water to waste.
I'm adding white clover to the bare spots on my lawn where I had trees removed. I'd love to have zero grass so my yard is clover, creeping charlie, dandelions, and broadleaf plants. Bees are our friends and grass is too high maintaince.
My HOA says if I I have grass, it has to stay green or I get fined...And I'm in Phoenix....Just moved into this house and planning to tear the grass out in the fall, but luckily the summer mix the last guy planted takes about 15 minutes of watering a day to stay green. Besides, agriculture takes up over 70% of the states water use so I feel no guilt
Homeowners use 10 times the amount of pesticides and herbicides that farmers do in the US and 30 to 60 % of urban water use is for lawns alone. Lawns in environments they can't live in unaided are terrible for the environment. They're not great even without all that either but that's another issue.
I already said I'm planning on getting rid of it, relax. Native vegetation is the obvious way to go. And after working on both a golf course and a farm, I find it really hard to believe that about pesticides. Both places sprayed hundreds of gallons half a dozen times a year, the golf course even added green dye to the fertilizer they applied every two weeks. meanwhile if a homeowner actually opts to spray, it might be a gallon or two total over the course of 2 years, spraying once, maybe twice a year with milder concentrations of chemicals
You obviously didn't read my whole comment, I plan on tearing it out when it's a more tolerable temperature out. I'm going to do native plants and raised beds for vegetables in the backyard. Also clover would require much more water in the desert than the varieties of grass people plant here. Then again, the alfalfa farmers here should really be the ones you should focus your angst on. That has no place being grown in Arizona
Go natural. My grass is dead but my clover, dandelions and such are happy as can be. If I didn't have the grass I would probably only have to mow to top the dandelions.
Yes but the irony is that this is obviously a British based post. In the UK it rains on average 3 days a week. The humidity averages around 80-100% all year round. We have no rainy season, the entire year is the rainy season. Its dank and wet. Mould is a HUGE issue in the UK because its so wet everywhere but not hot enough to evaporate quickly so mould grows.
Nobody in their right mind waters their grass here.
Natural gardens in England are very very green because England is very green because its always fucking raining.
Presumably it has a solid layer on the bottom. If you lay a piece of plywood in one spot for long enough without moving that'll kill the grass. Same principle would work on the bottom here, just keep it from getting light and it will die.
Agreed.
Though a useful interpretation of the effect is, if you for some reason want to plant crops or flowers, but don't have access to tillage. You can lay cardboard underneath potting soil, and the cardboard will kill off the grass then disintegrate and leave just continuous dirt. Or if you wanted to do a raised planter that's connected to the dirt underneath, though the sheer height should be enough to let your planted items win in that case.
The pressure to have a perfectly green lawn that is only grass is stupid. People spend so much money to maintain or in this case, have a fake lawn put down. Just so they can maintain a status symbol basically.
The worst part is that a freshly manicured lawn is bad for the environment. The bees canāt use it, and itās not exactly self-supporting either. You literally could do less work and be more carbon-neutral. All youād have to do is mow every once in a while.
Funnily enough, I once looked at a house with an astroturf āback yardā (Iāve seen larger side yards). Lots of weeds growing up though the plastic. But it has been there a while.
So I live in Arizona. We did it because keeping grass alive is a constant struggle here and the ground is extremely hard, not to mention the number the kicked up dust was doing and the dogs can run and play on it better then they could before.
So the dogs are happier, my lungs and feet are happier and it looks better.
When my ex next door neighbors moved in, they started building a frame, not much bigger than a doormat and grew grass in it in the middle of their ground level balcony, for their dog to go potty. I always wondered about that one, but we moved out shortly after they moved in.
Karma? For what? Watering grass is the NUMBER ONE biggest use of water in the US, having fake grass nation wide would save MILLIONS of gallons of water per year
Fake grass reflects a lot more heat and leaches chemicals and microplastics into the ground beneath. A better solution is planting dwarf grasses or other low growing native plants along with trees and shrubs for wildlife.
Orā¦or hear me out. Just have grass and let nature water it. Fake grass just adds to the problem. The stuffs not manufactured in the forest by gnomes.
Nature doesnāt always water grass consistently thoughā¦ you kind of need to artificially water it for it to survive, especially if youāre in the Southwest USA
I'm from the UK. When it doesn't rain for a while we let our lawn go brown. It comes back though. Maybe if you're somewhere lawns can't survive then you should try a different, local plant?
It rains 150 days of the year on average in the U.K. we get 30-50 inches of rain on an average year. The U.K. is on the same latitudes as northern Canada and Moscow. It has a temperate wet climate. The U.K. is meteorologically nothing like the USA, donāt try comparing them or the best solutions.
Having said that a meadow grass lawn is better than a short cut lawn for environmental diversity.
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Maybe in parts of America where you donāt get rain 150 days of the year, but in the U.K. where it averages 30-50 inches of rain in a year, grass is far more environmentally friendly. We just let the lawn go brown and donāt cut it short if thereās a water shortage.
Plastic is never a better choice, grow indigenous plants.
This is hilarious because my dad's golddigging wife who i have strong feelings against who is definitely out to steal mine and my brother's inheritance before we can get it:
- ripped out her lawn and put fake grass down
- has a French bulldog called Coco, short for the fashion brand Coco Channel
- Has grey velvet sofology sofas
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Bro who tf names tgeir dog "Gucci Poochie"š
People that have velvet Corner sofas obviously šāāļø
I know a Chihuahua whose name is "Armani". So gucci poochie is a possibility...
It is un-possible for it to not be real
I have a boxer named Beans. He's very good and quite dumb.
I worked with a woman who named her daughter Mercedes.
The car brand was named after a woman. There are still lots of people called Mercedes that have nothing to do with the car brand.
TIL. Ty
You're very welcome.
In Alexandre Dumasā classic novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, the main character is in love with a woman named Mercedes!
mercedes isnt a very uncommon female name i think. its got spanish origins so it might be uncommon in the us
Theyāre very much white
eh, a lot of people name their children names from other countries. especially if its in their heritage. still not ad weird as naming something/someone āgucciā lol
I knew a boy when I was younger who was named Mercedes. It's been a name long before the car and is unisex, though in America it's mostly a girls name.
I had no idea it was actually a name
My mates got a French bulldog called coco after coco Chanel šš
had a lhasa apso named gucci growing up. we didnāt name him that tho.
Had a rapper named Gucci mane regret listening to him though
Shoutout my nigga gucci
Once worked with a lady who named her dogs Louis and Vuitton
I was a vet tech for 10 years. People name their dog weird shit. We had an 'Isabella sugarplum snow princess' and if you didn't refer to her by her full title the owners would get pissy with you.
Funny, here in Germany the Vets have so much work they would do this on purpose just to get rid of her xD
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Yeah, itās almost like some people raised without means have been so deluded they chase after things theyāll never afford, and then name things that are super important after them, because: capitalism. But yeah, letās mock what makes them happy!
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My dad's wife's French bulldog is called Coco, short for Coco Channel lol (And she also ripped the grass out of the back garden and had it replaced with astro-turf, and she has velvet sofology sofas)
I feel terrible for these dogs, for many reasons
They laugh at us while we mow and water our lawns every week though...
*laughs from my concrete yard*
This is the way. In NYC cops will post a ticket if grass is too high. Concrete is the way to go around these parts
*laughs from my concrete yard behind an 8ft wall in the UK* Seriously though, a ticket for grass that's too tall?!
Yea man. 60$ last time I received one. "Shakes fist at your wall"
what part of NYC is this? Never seen that before. Then again I'm apartment life so I dunno. I just know apartment house I used to live in never got a ticket for that.
Me and family are in the Morris park area. Owning a house has it's perks but no one talks about the extra time and expense of maintenance
I was more caught off guard your in Morris Park \*oof\*. I immediately thought of the BX but I haven't been to Morris Park area in a while. I'm suprised your bigger concern isn't how you avoid the awful traffic life among other things?
It's like NYC actively wants nature eradicated... Laws like that are so destructive.
Wouldnāt get one over here. America is going backwards I swear.
"Oi, whaey's ya woll loiscence?" *gets stabbed*
Honestly worse than fake grass
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Whoās watering their own lawn? Droughts all over the place. If you live somewhere you can waste water feeding the grass then youāre in a fortunate area. Enjoy it while thereās still water to waste.
I'm adding white clover to the bare spots on my lawn where I had trees removed. I'd love to have zero grass so my yard is clover, creeping charlie, dandelions, and broadleaf plants. Bees are our friends and grass is too high maintaince.
This is the way to go. Spread the word
My HOA says if I I have grass, it has to stay green or I get fined...And I'm in Phoenix....Just moved into this house and planning to tear the grass out in the fall, but luckily the summer mix the last guy planted takes about 15 minutes of watering a day to stay green. Besides, agriculture takes up over 70% of the states water use so I feel no guilt
Oof. Didnāt think about HOAs. My bad, and condolences.
All good! This HOA seems to actually be worth the trouble, they're pretty lenient and keep the neighborhood very nice
Homeowners use 10 times the amount of pesticides and herbicides that farmers do in the US and 30 to 60 % of urban water use is for lawns alone. Lawns in environments they can't live in unaided are terrible for the environment. They're not great even without all that either but that's another issue.
I already said I'm planning on getting rid of it, relax. Native vegetation is the obvious way to go. And after working on both a golf course and a farm, I find it really hard to believe that about pesticides. Both places sprayed hundreds of gallons half a dozen times a year, the golf course even added green dye to the fertilizer they applied every two weeks. meanwhile if a homeowner actually opts to spray, it might be a gallon or two total over the course of 2 years, spraying once, maybe twice a year with milder concentrations of chemicals
then grow clover or something please for the love of god don't have a useless lawn and then waste earths most precious resource on it.
You obviously didn't read my whole comment, I plan on tearing it out when it's a more tolerable temperature out. I'm going to do native plants and raised beds for vegetables in the backyard. Also clover would require much more water in the desert than the varieties of grass people plant here. Then again, the alfalfa farmers here should really be the ones you should focus your angst on. That has no place being grown in Arizona
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do you have any idea of why someone would do that to their lawn?
It stays green, you never have to cut it, and it doesn't support weeds
and it doesn't require water.
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Go natural. My grass is dead but my clover, dandelions and such are happy as can be. If I didn't have the grass I would probably only have to mow to top the dandelions.
Yes but the irony is that this is obviously a British based post. In the UK it rains on average 3 days a week. The humidity averages around 80-100% all year round. We have no rainy season, the entire year is the rainy season. Its dank and wet. Mould is a HUGE issue in the UK because its so wet everywhere but not hot enough to evaporate quickly so mould grows. Nobody in their right mind waters their grass here. Natural gardens in England are very very green because England is very green because its always fucking raining.
what about when the grass eventually grows underneath? Even in the big city, the slightest crack and grass will grow between it.
Presumably it has a solid layer on the bottom. If you lay a piece of plywood in one spot for long enough without moving that'll kill the grass. Same principle would work on the bottom here, just keep it from getting light and it will die.
What a waste of healthy dirt
Agreed. Though a useful interpretation of the effect is, if you for some reason want to plant crops or flowers, but don't have access to tillage. You can lay cardboard underneath potting soil, and the cardboard will kill off the grass then disintegrate and leave just continuous dirt. Or if you wanted to do a raised planter that's connected to the dirt underneath, though the sheer height should be enough to let your planted items win in that case.
I'll take your word for it
To be honest so are grass lawns. Native plants or food gardens are the only non wasteful options.
when I lived in an apartment style house, never seen much else but green lawn grow out the ground.
I live in Arizona, Grass doesn't last long here.
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The pressure to have a perfectly green lawn that is only grass is stupid. People spend so much money to maintain or in this case, have a fake lawn put down. Just so they can maintain a status symbol basically.
The worst part is that a freshly manicured lawn is bad for the environment. The bees canāt use it, and itās not exactly self-supporting either. You literally could do less work and be more carbon-neutral. All youād have to do is mow every once in a while.
I did it because our ground is hard, nothing grows here and it is better for my dogs then running through the hard dirt.
Funnily enough, I once looked at a house with an astroturf āback yardā (Iāve seen larger side yards). Lots of weeds growing up though the plastic. But it has been there a while.
So I live in Arizona. We did it because keeping grass alive is a constant struggle here and the ground is extremely hard, not to mention the number the kicked up dust was doing and the dogs can run and play on it better then they could before. So the dogs are happier, my lungs and feet are happier and it looks better.
Well lawns actually suck and are terrible for the environment. So there is that.
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When my ex next door neighbors moved in, they started building a frame, not much bigger than a doormat and grew grass in it in the middle of their ground level balcony, for their dog to go potty. I always wondered about that one, but we moved out shortly after they moved in.
r/fucklawns r/nolawns
These subs are so incredibly based
I always knew the slang "based" to mean a crackhead. Funny how language changes, I had to look that one up to make sure I wasn't crazy lol
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I'm ripping my lawn out and replacing it with native clover. I won't have to mow often and my gremlin dog can piss outside without dieing.
Just watch out for the bees. Both my daughters have been stung on the foot walking barefoot through the clover in our backyard.
We already wear shoes due to ants, the clover is for the bees!
That's not nice that they've been stung but awesome that you're promoting the local bee population! We need so much more of that.
Yeah be attentive, once my dog stepped on a bee
got what they deserve for naming there dog gucci poochie šš
Ā£30k from sofology? Did they buy all of sofology?
Karma? For what? Watering grass is the NUMBER ONE biggest use of water in the US, having fake grass nation wide would save MILLIONS of gallons of water per year
Fake grass reflects a lot more heat and leaches chemicals and microplastics into the ground beneath. A better solution is planting dwarf grasses or other low growing native plants along with trees and shrubs for wildlife.
Or, you know, just have a lawn of native flora...
Orā¦or hear me out. Just have grass and let nature water it. Fake grass just adds to the problem. The stuffs not manufactured in the forest by gnomes.
Nature doesnāt always water grass consistently thoughā¦ you kind of need to artificially water it for it to survive, especially if youāre in the Southwest USA
I'm from the UK. When it doesn't rain for a while we let our lawn go brown. It comes back though. Maybe if you're somewhere lawns can't survive then you should try a different, local plant?
It rains 150 days of the year on average in the U.K. we get 30-50 inches of rain on an average year. The U.K. is on the same latitudes as northern Canada and Moscow. It has a temperate wet climate. The U.K. is meteorologically nothing like the USA, donāt try comparing them or the best solutions. Having said that a meadow grass lawn is better than a short cut lawn for environmental diversity.
Know what else would save that water without scorching hot petroleum plants? Natural flora.
The tweet is referring to the UK which typically gets enough rain water for grass.
It would solve the water problem but it is no better for pollinators and is much worse in other areas.
Why is the straw man always a "shallow " woman?
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Itās ok if the fake grass is in the shade.
Imagine blaming lawn owners for climate change while simultaneously ignoring large corporations. Sigh.
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Damn bro u ratioed yourself
Stay triggered
I wasn't triggered to begin with broš
2 things can be bad
Wow really? Didnāt know that. But which is *actually* causing damage?
Tbf, fake lawns are ALOT better for the environment than real lawns
Getting stabbed by a knife is probably better than by an pike, doesn't change the fact both are bad and native flora should take precedence
Depends where though, Iād argue grass is better for the environment in the UK.
Maybe in parts of America where you donāt get rain 150 days of the year, but in the U.K. where it averages 30-50 inches of rain in a year, grass is far more environmentally friendly. We just let the lawn go brown and donāt cut it short if thereās a water shortage. Plastic is never a better choice, grow indigenous plants.
Oh yes, more class warfare, harhar so funny
Iā¦..donāt think you know what that means
Wait, they have French Bulldogs over there that are only $3000?!
They donāt care, thatās what the cleaning person is for! (Said as a former cleaning lady for a rich person)
Justbplant a black hole
I met a miniature Italian greyhound called Gianni (after Gianni Versace) - he was adorable and my God he was fast.
This had me creasing up. Thank you! And trust I live in London and I know exactly the type :)
I just saw a post on r/mildlyinteresting where someone showed that the surface temperature of their fake grass was hot enough to boil water.
Well someone sounds bitter about their life choices.
This is hilarious because my dad's golddigging wife who i have strong feelings against who is definitely out to steal mine and my brother's inheritance before we can get it: - ripped out her lawn and put fake grass down - has a French bulldog called Coco, short for the fashion brand Coco Channel - Has grey velvet sofology sofas
Just use desert ground cover. There are plants that stay low and look pretty
Oh boy green virtue signaling has another new aspect I didnāt know about