Stupid Pet Peeves
- Thread starter Hartsock
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ya got no ground to stand on, bro.
This is a modern development driven by social "progress". You are a "progressive", so it's your baby. Your own damn baby.
dysfunctional, yes..... but progressive as hell.
here's the scoop. dogs and cats are today's "children". young couples today often get a pet to placate the maternal psychology of women whom nature is calling to get pregnant. Old folks today often get a pet to replace the departed children and refill the "empty nest".
If we were still "noble savages" prowling the plains or woods and tending little fires in caves, nature would be in charge of all this.
But you know better. You know it all. You're the expert with the vision of the brave new world.
Miggs
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I’m the opposite. I want my lawn looking perfect. We have guys who mow and edge it and I got rid of one guy a few years back because his mower went around the trees in my front yard too quickly and would cut into the grass and take out chunks here and there.
Ours is almost always cut late in the day on Thursday which I love because it looks so good and gets me excited for the weekend. Typically looks great on Friday and pretty damn good on Saturday too. By Sunday it looks solid but is a little long for my liking.
But yeah, I want **** to look perfect. It’s more for me and my OCD nature than anything else.
Ours is almost always cut late in the day on Thursday which I love because it looks so good and gets me excited for the weekend. Typically looks great on Friday and pretty damn good on Saturday too. By Sunday it looks solid but is a little long for my liking.
But yeah, I want **** to look perfect. It’s more for me and my OCD nature than anything else.
I'm looking to eliminate all grass in my backyard.
My basement exits to the backyard and the upstairs has a dinky little deck back there. I'd like to extend the deck so that it covers all the cement patio and make it high enough so that the underpart of the deck is usable. Then I want to use the back of the yard to put a raised sand bed that could be used to play bocce ball, horseshoes, etc. At each end of the sandpit there would be a little awning for shade.
Something like this...
People were doing it 50 years ago, when I was 7.
Some people, undoubtedly, were doing it 25,000 years ago..... in a possibly vain and foolish attempt to keep the camp from butchering the little pet. No doubt, the whole reason humans domesticated dogs and cats was for the affection or companionship which other humans just weren't supplying adequately.
But with Malthusian visions of a world stacked ten deep in humans, and their poop, many of us have been bamboozled into just not having real human kids, with the consequence that more of us depend on the pets for our humanity and community.
The progressive movement may be considered, if you like, an extension of The Enlightenment of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, when we in substantial numbers discarded established traditions and authorities and undertook the impossible task of setting our own values as the standards all should embrace, because...… of course..... if we think it, everyone should.
So fifty years.... or a hundred.... would not really relieve "progressivism" from having an impact on our pet/human relationships.
my sister has two dogs (they're adorable) but it drives me a little crazy that she refers to herself as their "humommy" - though I guess that's better than just calling herself their Mommy. But she'll say things to them like "Humommy says NO!" and it just seems strange.
idestroyedthetoilet
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Dante Exum being on the Jazz.
Seeing Dante or Exum in the Jazz forum.
Seeing Dante or Exum in the Jazz forum.
So you lost?
Nah, dude got choked out by the bouncer. Was apparently being a right ****, came up to me at the bar and declared that i was an arab and he wanted to fight me, then he threw a bar stool, I shoved him toward the bouncer and that was the end of it. Ridiculous behaviour.
Douchebag K
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Did you confuse “Arab” with “fat bastard” ?
For once i was the innocent party. Just trying to get my drink on, wasn't even wearing a kaftan.
Douchebag K
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Tho to be fair to the dude you were prob wiping your bum with your left hand
What? Is that a thing now?
back to "pet peeves", does that topic include the peeves our pets have?
"woof..... what's that computer got you won't take me outside?"
"woof.....when ya gotta go ya gotta go."
"woof..... you people are really gonna get peeved on if ya don't let me outta here"
um....lator gators.
"woof..... what's that computer got you won't take me outside?"
"woof.....when ya gotta go ya gotta go."
"woof..... you people are really gonna get peeved on if ya don't let me outta here"
um....lator gators.
Archie Moses
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What a racist prick. Props to the bouncer.
Yeah it was good work, i was probably close to ten pints in so it was the last thing i needed.
Uh oh. Someone try to put a saddle on your babe?