Post #42,587
6/17/02 10:37:00 AM
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Complaints from the neighbors
I've been wearing shorts while doing yardwork. The neighbors have registered complaints about my "legs of +2 blinding" due to their uncanny resemblance to the pale white underbelly of certain frogs.
How do I appease my neighbors whithout sacrificing my own comfort? I don't want to be responsible for a rash of sightlessness.
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...
...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
KARL ROVE
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Post #42,598
6/17/02 11:24:45 AM
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Tell 'em..
...to fuck off.
I don't care if your legs light up the sky light a great searchlight. During the daytime. If you're in your own yard doing work, and you're not breaking any statutes, then, well, see above.
I've a neighbor who mows his lawn wearing dark-blue relatively nice slack-style shorts, boat shoes, and a polo shirt. I think he's pretty damn ridiculous. I put on just about my rattiest clothes available to do yardwork like that.
-YendorMike
Real programmers use "vi a.out".
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Post #42,606
6/17/02 11:41:13 AM
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Agreed.
I'm a skinny bastard, and I'll mow the lawn without a shirt on when it's hot and muggy. I'd die of heat prostration if I didn't. The neighbors can take a flying leap if they don't like it.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #42,599
6/17/02 11:27:40 AM
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wear a thong instead, that'll shutem up
TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
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Post #42,600
6/17/02 11:32:14 AM
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doubtful
I suspect the neighbor grapevine would engage in overdrive.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #42,604
6/17/02 11:35:41 AM
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"Causing Offence To The Public Sensibility"
Peter
[link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire]
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Post #42,673
6/17/02 5:46:28 PM
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I'm with Bill: Thong! And then when you're done, you walk...
...over and ring on their door, and ask the fuckwits: "Now, won't you guys be HAPPY when I wear my shorts again, next time I mow the lawn?"
Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #42,678
6/17/02 6:15:25 PM
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Don't forget the (washable) tattoo:
If your binoculars can READ THIS you are too fucking nosy to live.
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Post #42,603
6/17/02 11:34:27 AM
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My solution...
...usually involves not doing yardwork in the first place. The advantage, of course, is that when the weeds grow high enuf, the neighbors won't even be able to see the house. :-)
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Post #42,719
6/18/02 12:12:21 AM
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Other advantages of not doing yardwork...
Longer grass can survive better with low water. This is good to know if you are in a dry climate.
It is good for the local wildlife.
Some of us like pissing off uptight neighbours. :-)
Cheers,
Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
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Post #42,633
6/17/02 2:38:31 PM
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Hmmmm
Just like my neighbors that complain when the dog barks outside. Well no more, because we just put the dog in the pound because he bit my son, and nephew, and my wife's Uncle. No more dog means no more complaints, the dog was 15 years old and getting senile.
Either you can:
#1 Wear cotton pants, the cottom will breathe better.
#2 Use body paint on your legs so they don't look white.
#3 Get a tan on your legs.
#4 Get someone else to mow the lawn for you.
#5 Mow the lawn yourself, but at night.
#6 Don't do anything and continue to mow the lawn the same way you always do. When the neighbors complain, flip them off.
I am free now, to choose my own destiny.
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Post #42,639
6/17/02 2:50:11 PM
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Might try number 2
Can I get that paint in plaid, please?
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...
...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
KARL ROVE
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Post #42,674
6/17/02 5:48:15 PM
6/17/02 6:46:53 PM
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Pictish blue, perhaps? Only, do you think they'll get it...?
If not, add a fucking big claymore next time around...
Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764|Andrew Grygus]
Edited by CRConrad
June 17, 2002, 06:46:53 PM EDT
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Post #42,761
6/18/02 1:01:40 PM
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They may stop us from mowing our lawns, but they'll never
take away our freedom! :)
I am free now, to choose my own destiny.
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Post #42,688
6/17/02 7:48:46 PM
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So which exactly are they complaining about?
The shocking fact that you are daring to expose your legs in public, or just that your legs are not tanned?
Like, are these serious complaints? And how were they delivered? I'm just finding it hard to digest how someone would actually complain about such a thing.
Thikn I'm very much in the 'Tell them to fuck off' crowd for this one.
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #42,704
6/17/02 10:44:58 PM
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Complaints have ended
I bought a gross of 'Blublocker' sunglasses and issue them out to any families complaining of the horrible glare/reflection caused by my pasty white irish/scottish legs.
(sheesh, some of you caused me to wonder)
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...
...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
KARL ROVE
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Post #42,714
6/17/02 11:57:22 PM
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*Whew* ____for a second there
thought maybe you'd hired a Posse Comitatus to ride on through with scythes, swinging the Terrible Swiftian Sword and singing,
the Terrible Horde aNational Anthem, Apocalypse Now or Whenever
{Phew}
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