Lawns: Crimes Against the Ground
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2021
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"We've got you surrounded! Come mow your lawn!"
"I hate the Homeowners Association! I hate the Homeowners Association!"
Underrated
Pain
HOA is the Antichrist
payday2 quote refrence?
@@rdablock I never thought I'd want to buy a gun until I started dealing with an HOA
This is like Adam ruins everything, but without the Adam, and instead of ruining everything, he makes everything better.
And it's actually good, giving good information without giving non truths/lies by omission and, you know, it actually has humor instead of cringe
I'm sure some of what Ordinary Things says is true though.
An British
Adam Ruins Everything sucks
Sources on screen is the only way
One of my neighbors has a moss lawn with beautiful rocks and zen garden like decor. It’s so gorgeous and more environmentally friendly, but the HOA is constantly trying to get her to “fix it” luckily, the rest of the neighborhood is helping her fight them so for now at least, she gets to keep it
I hope the HOA backs off and leaves your friend alone.
@@peronafanman they’ve backed off her for now, but they always come back
It's unbelievable that this is even a thing. Like can't you even decide what your own garden looks like? Crazy stuff
Pls keep supporting her, moss looks good
@@JaneDoeValentine Maybe your friend can try finding a lawyer and sueing them?
@@peronafanman they are nearly impossible to sue because when you move in. So, the way HOA’s work is that you sign up for them and then if you need maintenance fixes or something, they’ll come in and do that for you. You also get to vote for community stuff. In turn, you donate money or pay fees so that they can keep the neighborhood clean. However, you don’t know how shitty they are until you already sign up. And if you leave it, you’re basically shunned from the neighborhood but they *usually* leave you alone. But once you sign up, it’s hard to sue unless they do something actually illegal. You basically consent to be harassed to “fix” your stuff if you agree to have the HOA help out. It’s a whole thing. So, she’s kinda stuck. She just deals with this bs
I love when people call a natural grassland "overgrown". Like, my brother in Christ, that's how it's supposed to look
By 'overgrown' they mean not inbred and stumpy like a modern lawn lol and 'overgrown' patch of land is just 'grown' land. There's no such thing as overgrown unless its something manmade like a house. That just shows how manmade a lawn is.
@@darrens3 Yeah, and it's ugly and unpleasant to walk on.
💯 Unless it was an invasive species of grass, like, ye, what's the big deal?
@@MrAnimason seriously, its not lol. there is a lake near my home and there is some natural grass that grows there and me and my mates hang out over there frequently, we ride our bikes and take along something to eat, the natural grass is pleasant to watch as it slowly shakes due to the wind and there is something about the smell or normal no-chemical grass thats just amazing.
@@aryanram02 I live next to a lot of nature and I agree. I still find a lot of quaint serenity with a nice lawn yard though. It's like... feminine, I guess? To each their own though, that sounds very beautiful.
What’s curious to me is that often the “weeds” in the grass are actually plants that settlers brought to be eaten, like dandelions and plantain. Even down to lawns, we’re fighting wars that we created.
People ate those things?
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 dandelion leaves are edible and very healthy for you
@@dragonheart9400 Honestly it's not bad, just make sure you don't eat any from areas that might be sprayed for weeds
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 I have dandelion in my garden, the latex is good for pain, leaves for food, roots are good for medicinal juice or dry them & bake them for a coffee replacer
I have broad leaf lawn plantain seeds to grow, most anything that's a 'weed' ( conditional term) may be a food
An apple tree is a weed in a corn field, if you're ignorant
Companion planting helps; there is a multicellular Network underneath the soil where plants are connected and share nutrients called mycelium networks
Lawns are really good for murder, that Whitehouse one isn't just for picnics
I love dandelions in spring. Good with bacon and brown sugar.
I can't believe you cut my 18 minute segment on the similarities of lawns and pubes
I too need the Pube Cut
i need the pubes
Robbing us of the most critical information!
Mister Kudos, how about a Video on John McAfee?
Probably the wrong place to bring this up but ill try anyway😅
You make your own video out of spite, do it.
It's so crazy to me. In Poland you can have almost anything around your house. There's even a dead, stuffed beaver near local popular road that is leading to the sea.
Gonna add that to my list of positive things about poland.
It's not a very long list so there's plenty of room for stuffed beavers.
Its Poland mate, a religiously obsessed country who thinks the pope vising is the same as jesus walking the earth lol.
Same in South Africa. My neighbors have built 3 "illegal" extra buildings on their property in the past 2 years alone.
There's still a big lawn culture in poland though, at least in my area. If you told someone to start a food garden, do anything useful on their lawn, or at least not mow it and let nature create actual biodiversity instead of having a kilometer of grass they'd want to kill you
Russian here, as long as you don't let weeds or plants, used to produce drugs, grow unchecked and/or build something “inappropriate”-nobody gives a shit
“It’s just grass… this is fucking stupid” is the exact amount I care about my lawn… yet you got me to watch this whole video… awesome job.
Favorite Journalist, in the noble sense of the term.
Ordinary Things guy and Andrew Callaghan are journalist legends
Cooo české zastoupeni u ordinary things? 😶
Missed a 'u' .
You’ll also like the “Big Boss” channel. Reports on e.g. Nikola Motors and GSE/Robinhood.
Ok I vote Blimps.
Or BlackRock Blimps
Admit it you just wanted to see if you could make grass growing entertaining
Only he could get me to watch grass content. What a power move. Also sweet videos my dude. Funny seeing you here, but good to know the creators I watch have good taste too.
Next video: The Messy Business of Paint
Mission accomplished, I must say
@@viscountrainbows6452 Paint: Crimes Against the Walls
The man read like half a dozen books about lawns to research this video, I think it was more a case of him seeing if he could handle it himself.
Fun fact: The smell of freshly cut grass is basically it's blood. It's rushing to the wounds to try and seal up as well as the grass attempting to "harden" (to very little effect) against further injury. Then the smell spreads because they're trying to warn other blades of grass that there's nearby danger.
I farded and shidded
@@exMuteKid don't we all ?
☹️
Tf the grass think the other grass gonna do? Run?
@@calebbarnhouse496 Get a blade to protect itself,
get it?
… I’ll leave now
"Allowed land owners to survey the wider territory and look out for potential threats and the Scottish."
Bit redundant, don't you think?
No one who had come up against a Scot would say that!
Doesn’t help that the Scot he chose was Count fucking Dankula lmao
Depends on if you think "potential" applies in both cases.
Lawns are the number one most watered crop in America. The fact that we take care small green patches is stupid.
and people complain about livestock taking up water. Well at least we can actually eat meat and its not just eye candy to look at.
You should go out to Idaho sometime. They literally farm grass… in the desert.
Even though California is in a drought you better believe the grass will be watered.
I hate lawns so much. Its such a waste, dandelions and such are important for the environment. Ppl just wanna drive their big stupid lawnmower over their big stupid lawn.
@@theoddbox what is your alternative? If you don't mow the grass in your lawn, tall weeds will grow and literally obstruct your house
I want my lawn to look like a field of Minecraft grass Blocks
Booba
@@reeeeeeeeeeeeeeman6757 Yuric up there draws a lot of Booba on his channel and Twitter. And I do mean a LOT of booba.
Mongolian booba when?
If it doesn't look freshly bone meal'd it's not my kind of lawn
Hey Yuric!
I'm studying landscape architecture in college and we learn about how criminal the deep rooted symbol of a green lawn is all the time. There are so many climate appropriate landscaping options that need a fraction of the irrigation that lawns demand (they usually can be watered on rainfall alone), but since lawns are so malignant with the idea of suburbia most families and homeowner associations refuse to even consider it.
Oh well, I'm sure they'll reconsider once the Colorado river eventually dries up
Agreed, here in California I've seen some pleasant desert scapes and rock formations. Lavender and Poppy grow with no problem and look nice.
HOA’s aren’t that reasonable. Once all water sources dry up, they’ll demand you still maintain a green lawn somehow, with the how not being their problem. I just have to wonder why people were so eager to give a group authority over their house and property in the first place? I would never live in an HOA, and those who choose to know what they’re getting into, and yet many still idiotically complain every single year. It makes no sense.
@Purple PencilGrey-Pink 🏳️🌈⃠ Water itself might not be, clean water is
Even then I sincerely doubt people will give up on their grass
@@PurplePencilGreyPink water is a scarce resource in many geographical régions, including in many US lands. The whole southwest régions, the ex-mexican territoires - California, Nevada, etc -, were scarcely inhabited untill Very recently because of it, and only changed with modern technology. Water there is fossile, is being wasted, and Will become more scarce. There is a social need to change current american conceptions of landscape in Suburbia and etc with gardens, hopefully with Job transition programs for the jobs that are lost with the ones created.
Absolutely staggering that instead of diversifying the plant life we keep around our houses, America engineered ways of making lawns possible to grow everywhere
If lawns were self managing all of the toxic chemical company wouldn't have an industry. You have to create a fake problem i.e. lawns in order to create a fake market for your grift product that has no marketable use outside of the military; everything has to become a product and where a market does not exist one must be fabricated. Essentially the mantra of like 50 percent of all things for sale.
So basically every chore I did growing up was an active waste of time and has actually significantly increased my chances of chronic illness?
Aaannnndd grossly depleted an inordinate quantity of the only thing that everyone and everything on this planet needs to be alive..
Bet you still spent your bloodstained pocket money though didn't you? You monster!
@@noodlebrains2689 pocket money?
@@noodlebrains2689 Hah, you think I got paid to mow the lawn. You're funny.
@@LexYeen lmao right? Did you also get an allowance there Noodle B?
As someone who used to do groundskeeping work in the southern US, those stats on injuries and deaths don't surprise me at all. Hot weather+heavy machinery+dehydration=bad times.
Since 2003, there has been a consistent annual decline in the number of golf players. There were 6.8 million fewer golfers in 2018 compared to 2003 - a loss of 22 percent. This resulted in a net reduction of 1,243 18-HEQ courses between 2005 and 201
Golf courses was a boomer hobby anyways
@@MRlebellion I hate golf so that’s good
@@MRlebellion I've played enough golf to develop a complete and total hatred of the sport
@@MRlebellion Golf isn't necessarily a boomer hobby, it's basically a sport for people who aren't in their prime anymore. It doesn't take a large amount of strength or a fast reaction time to hit a golf ball really, really far, and it isn't hard to become accurate with practice. It's basically a sport for anyone to old to play sports, which at the moment just so happens to be boomers.
So the grass is getting better hydrated than the grasskeepers??
Also a very late shout out to grass for being one of the most common causes of allergy symptoms. So glad we decided to cultivate this stuff in all the spaces people are trying to live.
Touch grass
@@calebbarnhouse496
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I remember in second grade there was girl who couldnt have recess because she was so allergic to grass that if she went outside for more that 30 minutes she needed epinephrin
On the topic of lawn laziness, my friend and his dad spent like $5000 on a remote control lawn mower with the intent of making a business mowing acreages in his area.
The business never went anywhere and the mower breaks down every time they use it lmao
Tale As Old As Time
Nooo 😭 that’s why you start small and upscale but if they had 5k to drop like that I’m sure they’re well off Atleast
I love this channel it reminds me that everything no matter how small is a fucking existential nightmare
That isn’t a good thing please get help
@@BinglesP who are you to tell me what’s good or bad?
@@LUKASISNOWONLINE lmao fuck yeah that's the energy we need here tbqh
It's almost like the systems we were born into are flawed and there are people responsible for keeping it that way.
@@LexYeen Yeah, us. Why are lawns a thing? It's not because the government force people to grow grass, it's because consumers want grass. People need to stop bitching and just _make_ change. No one can fix the issue of lawns but the people that have lawns.
My neighbour has a rewilded lawn, but there’s no bees or monarch butterflies that have came back yet.
Might have something to do with the rusting cars and noxious fumes drifting from his trailer, idk I’m sure they’ll be back soon
Next time you pass by, try tossing some homemade seed balls in his yard with some flower seeds inside. Since he lets his yard grow wild, those flowers might actually get a change to establish themselves and draw in some pollinators
@@Emiliapocalypse I tried to do that once last year, but he came out at 4am the next morning to meticulously remove each from his lawn by hand, while shouting at shadows or smthn
@@uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg753 some people just wanna see the world burn.
It may also be because the rest of the neighborhood is still plain lawns and concrete.
Is he cooking meth or something?
As a guy who was a landscaper for many years I appreciate the thanks, it's not a job that people look highly on. It's good honest, hardwork. I would often do the entire thing, with that suburb you showed. It's back braking and take alot of pride in my work going above and beyond to get everyone's yards looking good.
Somehow I feel like there's a connection between your username and your previous job
“I’m so proud of this lazy boomers lawn I just mowed”
@@Master_of_Critique Yeah, how dare he be proud of doing a difficult job well. Who you're doing the work for doesn't matter. That's what it is to take pride in your work. No matter who the person paying you is, you do your job well because you have enough self respect to not do any less
I love a nice green lawn. That being said, I live in a semi rural area and maintaining my yard would be near impossible so I let the natural prairie grass grow and I mow it about 4 times a year.
I live on a former farm field, and mow it around every 2 weeks for the safety of my dogs and family (snakes, ticks, insects,and such things. Also for the safety of rabbits that decide it's safe here. I don't like when my dogs find baby bunnies, it's sad). The only thing we do besides that is plant more grass where the dogs dig holes.
@@Emily-ye1rjmay i suggest a moss lawn instead? less upkeep and short.
Honored to have reviewed lawns for such a high profile journalism channel.
Honored to have seen such a good review
Bless you
This piece would have suffered greatly for the lack of your insightful comments on the subject of dirt fur.
You are an inspiration to us all.
You looking pretty beefy there boy
Were those goats or sheep you were screaming at?
Gentle reminder that the very concept of "weeds" was invented by Monsanto in the 1950's to sell more product. Up until then, dandelions and white clovers were seen as a natural and good part of your garden. Even today, "to live in clovers" is an expression meaning to be rich and live a comfortable life.
U sound lazy
@@brendenvenema5741 tf what
clovers taste like peas because they're related! I eat em.
Where I come from they still are an important part of a lawn, they make it interesting and actually beautiful. Even have a dedicated patch of grass where noone goes that is completely uncut, bunch of interesting flowers will find their way there.
I honestly dont care about dandelions I think they're neat.
I'm gonna make this channel my home for the next few months, or years.
Your videos are like a breath of fresh air. No clickbait, no nonsense. Straight to the point.
Welcome to the neighborhood 😊
My home town recently converted a golf course to a gorgeous zen/sand/rock garden 😀 . Different colors of sand and rock. They have a few native plants(cacti and sage) and some trees to give shade from the sun, but the water they use now is pretty minimal
Do BlackRock, this might bring more awareness how insanely huge and powerful this company is
What this guy said. If you’re in finance than your know they’re like the eye of sauron
Big BlackRock pounds tiny white homeowners
@@bobbobberton1911 in case you don’t know they just recently bought an entire city in texas
Whats that? Are there more like conspiracies and shit.
@@gregmattessich4733 I read they bought a neighborhood in Conroe. Not an entire city.
“He liked his lawns how I like my women: short, well-organized and shaved once a week.”
*chef’s kiss*
huh I like my tall unorganised and well shaven
@tiddyfard4517🤨
I'd like to believe Ordinary Things' dad asked him to mow the lawn and this is how he tried to get out of doing it
My grandfather is of the boomer generation and is more proud of his st Augustine lawn than the fact that I’m the first person in either side of my family to get a college degree.
Honestly, got my bachelors, and I’m not as proud of it as I am finally getting my backyard how I want it. It’s just a thing people like. I enjoy the manual labor and how it differs from my mental labor every day at work lol
No one cares you got a college degree lmao 🥱
Remember when lawn companies here in the states tried to convince us clovers where weeds? When they are lovely, give your garden/lawn well needed nitrogen, and out compete a lot of other plants we consider weeds.
rip to all the 4 and 5 leaf clovers
Clover are also the indigenous to the Americas too, and iirc they would’ve been the a substantial part of the ground cover in some places before grass was imported.
they are also edible and help other native plants grow, wich helps insects and local biodiversity :)
There's a hill near my house filled with wild grass and wildflowers, I remember dozens upon dozens of butterflies enjoying it, it was super pretty. I brought my mum out a week later to show her and the entire thing was uniformly mowed, all the flowers and insects gone. It's not a hill anyone walked on, what was the point of constantly shaving it down?
We had a similar thing in the garden behind my house, but it had to be cut because things like badgers/foxes started hanging around there which made them close to a lot of kids that parents weren't happy about or they were dying on the road that near the grass because they kept hanging around the area. Could be a similar reason.
@@sweptay ah yes it started to become suitable habitat for living things, which is of course unacceptable.
If you don’t cut grass for long enough you will no longer be able to walk through it
It also let's pests have a place to live. I assure you you're cute little butterflies went somewhere else.
@@Linkophere No such thing as pests, unless you're talking about parasites like ticks, but then again, those fuckers are everywhere anyway. If it's not absolutely necessary, there is no reason to remove even more habitat from the already declining insects, spiders, snails, worms and other critters of this world.
Capability Brown made open lawns because he was aiming to create 'heroic landscapes' that made the wanderer/viewer feel small, as if they were walking in the lands of gods.
Thats why he did broad, open sprawls and featured monuments, lakes, large trees as features etc
As a person who cares about his lawn I reuse my lawn clippings to make my own ferilizer and I keep the lawn at the lowest 4 inches from the ground and use a species of grass that can still maintain strong roots. No riding mower here either.
Landscaper here, I mow a good thick amount of grass at 3" in a nice summer when rain is present. Makes the lawn look very nice, and it stays healthy. Clippings are all used for compost rather by our company, or customer requested compost for fertilizer.
I like this video. I now feel better about having a yard with enough tall grass to support the next region of wild Pokémon. I don't know what Blackrock is so I'd like to see that video, please.
BlackRock is a cancer that is busy buying up all the land in the world so you will be forced to rent from them.
FOREVER.
They are evil that’s all you need to know :)
Blackrock will be our future overlords. I sure hope their nice. Fingers crossed. 🤞
Ah yes Generation 9, Launfrunte
Your tall grass will just have ticks to give you tired lazy disease so you can have another excuse not to mow the lawn
I think Blackrock is the lesser known of the two options, I’d like to see a video on them
I agree, also credit card debt has been trending down in a very hopeful way. The whole Blackrock buying up homes to rent back to us lowly Serfs is trending in a very.... uncomfortable way
@@OneNewHope Yes, the real pandemic is the financial instability created by these systems
Was talking to a coworker about marbles and realized that they're sort of a mystery to me. Somehow they end up everywhere to this day but I know nothing about them, would really love to see that as a topic here on Ordinary Things
Marbles like the round glass things?
They're toys for playing games, sometimes decorations.
They are very cheap to manufacture, have infinite ways of playing Open to imagination - you could say they are Lego before Logo but not trademark and therefore cheap - , anyone can play them from small girls to teenagers and adults, the many colours add a collectability to them. This makes them turn profit and be widespread.
Like hamster and where are they naturally live.
"40 years after the French learned to take a few inches off the aristocracy" killed me in the context of lawn mowing 😂
I live in a rural area, so mowing the lawn actually has a very practical purpose of not getting a tick on you every single time you leave the house
just don't have a lawn
@@cipreste And then he has long grass and brush. And also ticks, which are not only icky but also disease vectors.
There's a whole lot of nature that knows damn well it's not the apex predator, and very few of those are willing to spend any length of time exposed on a lawn, and the ones that are are exposed and you can do something about them if you decide it's warranted.
@@boobah5643 sounds like an American problem, there aren't a lot of lawns here where I live and I've never heard of a tick problem due to that.
@@cipreste If they live outside of the North East the lawn won't just die off by itself sadly. Also ticks may carry Lymes disease which can cause a life long ailment. Still Lawns have to go. At least with gardens that produce food you are somewhat productive
I think you missed the point of the vid, you personally aren't being called out for doing what you literally have to do. The problem is with the lawn industry and the bullshit that came with it.
As an ex-Trugreen employee of 5 years I can tell you that that company is truly awful. Any “lawn specialist” they send to your lawn is literally just some poor shmuck they tricked into working very hard labor for not much wages.
I think we're all poor schmucks tricked into working nonsense jobs. Could be a good topic for a video, or how Yiddish proliferated American vernacular.
More than one occasion Ive had to tell clients the reason why there grass, shrubs, trees etc are dying is because there lawn guy is an untrained idiot and careless with application rates.
A few years ago at my old house, the backyards for all of my neighbors had a steep hill on the back of the yard and one day a neighbor had their brother come over to help mow the lawn while they were away.
As he was going up the hill, he slipped and foot went under and the big toe and the second toe went chop chop
They were able to reattach the big on but not the second one
As someone who used to never understand why my dad loved mowing the lawn, after having kids I finally understand that it's the perfect time to be left alone. Like who is going to disturb someone controlling a spinny cutting machine over why they can't find where they put their shoes. That's why this industry exists
I suggest an episode about storage units. Places for people to put their extra shit
Crimes against the closet
@@rileyl4109 crimes against space
Ooh good one
My place has like 8 within a 10 mile radius and I have no idea how any of them are open. Why do you need so much shit that you can't keep it in your house?
Most people I know who use them as garages and restore cars and bikes in them.
I am British and when I saw “blame the British” with a Union Jack in the background I was very happy :)
Gotta say though. Some of those lawns on those British estates were pretty solid.
@@JohnDoe-gy5dr it's mainly to facilitate the playing of a great British past time; Lawnyballsmack
Me too
Mmmm yeeees
Mostly English though, and mostly higher class ones
God I live in pnw suburbs and we've been killing our lawns and it's surprisingly difficult not just because they planted shitty crabgrass, but because they TOOK OUR TOPSOIL when they were building the house, sold it, and replaced the dirt with shitty clay. Every time we plant something nice like phlox or creeping time we have to dig out a ton of useless soil and replace it with peat moss and potting soil.
I was honestly thinking the other day, out of all the plants in the world with every advancement they've made fucking GRASS is the one that's found literally everywhere
It’s frankly absurd that you can get fined for not having “a perfect lawn”. Talk about time, money and energy that could’ve been invested in something way more meaningful…
It’s just the fucking HOA’s. Hey, there’s a video idea for ordinary things!
HOAs are a tax on the stupid
@Æ It's only considereed socialism in America if it helps the poor. If it helps the rich it's pure capitalism, regardless of logic.
@@Peasant_of_Pontus Yeah, americans will literally call basic worker rights socialism while living in a community that will call the police on them if their grass isn't just right...
"Like most of the world's problems, we must first blame the British." Brava, brava 👏👏👏
Britain’s overt old rule of India, lasting for hundreds of years until the latter’s independence in 1947, owed its precedence to Mr Clive and the Nawabs of Bengal.
Yeah we do ruin everything, as well as America but mostly us
I think your forgetting america
@@didyfinkise9033 You can blame the British for that too. And the French, can't forget those cheese scented frog fondlers.
imagine blaming it on long deceased forefathers
"You will live in a small box in a dirty grey tower densely surrounded by other small boxes in dirty grey towers and you will be happy."
One of my great aunts when she was a toddler got ran over by lawn mower and died, pretty f***** up.
Also there's a hill right next door where a neighbor died from a riding mower rolling over on them, who the thought having domestic suburbanites and children use heavy farming Machinery could cause an injury.
Definitely do Blackrock. They're super relevant to present trends in housing market in the US (skyrocketing home prices, the narrowing possibility of future home ownership for people who presently don't own homes, the drastic increase of the proportion of people who rent for housing over the last decade, etc) so there's been increasing public interest in them over the past year. so yeah it's a pretty opportune time to make a video on Blackrock.
Seconded
@@joshdoyle182 thirded
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You would think America would of learnt its lesson after the financial crisis but greed is eternal.
@@captain-chair The rich only got richer in the crisis. The lesson they learned was how to do it again.
I been saying this to everyone around me for a while. I try to cultivate native plants in my yard and give cover to all the animal friends :D
This is the way
We do the same at our house, what lawn space we have not yet converted to raising chickens/goats and veggies we are converting back to native habitat. We are going to leave just enough grass for playing Badmitten and picnics but the vast majority will be returned to nature or used to feed our commune.
@@pnwbriar301 sustainability is cool tho
Good for you I don't cate
@@asbestosfibers1325 all these flavours and you choose to be salty
my parents used to live in Dallas, Texas, where the lawns were sprinkled so intensely that it drastically increased the humidity of the entire city.
I had 2,4, D dropped over the rooftop that feeds the rainwater tank supply for my drinking water. We had to avoid using the tap water for most anything for nearly a year before it all decayed and flushed itself out of the water lines. We're still extremely sceptical of the water.
Bonus note: The guy responsible for hiring the spray-helicopter claimed the water was fine, and drank a glass of it in front of us like that was anything compared to long term effects of drinking dilute military weaponized defoliant for a year.
I'm a relatively new homeowner I absolutely HATE lawncare. I plan to replace as much of the grass with other ground coverings that require way, way less work and resources to maintain.
Purge the grass and stop cutting what ever grows.
I recommend cardboard and mulch. Then you can put things like garden beds on top.
@@hithere5553 you are why HOAs exist
Agreed. I bought my house in 2016 and absolutely despise taking care of it. Especially since we don't have a sprinkler system so in the summer I have to constantly be messing with it so it doean't die and lower the value of the house. If it was cheaper I'd be done with it and out in a synthetic lawn.
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se I am become death, destroyer of lawns.
I grew up in Eastern Europe, listening to older people talk about asinine laws Soviets put in place. Yet HOA rules in US suburbia are so asinine, that they put communist party to shame.
Hey man Soviet housing blocks may have been kinda ugly but they were effective and saved a shit ton of water, USSR had a 0% homeless rate
@@bigcheese2128 untrue, basic research shows you are incorrect
@@bigcheese2128 they saved water cause water was limited to a certain amount per person not cause of the design
@Eat the Soyiet and the many millions of others dying of malnutrition and insane labour
@@wtice4632 under Lenin and Stalin there was no homelessness. Later on towards the end when it became a state-capitalist bureaucracy there was. And I’m not saying Stalin was good, I am an anarchist who would have been purged under his rule but you just have to give credit where credit is due.
The riding mower is truly a man’s best friend
2nd to dogs of course
Respect to those who turn their front lawns into gardens. Not only is it a better use of the land but it also makes for convenient snacks when I go walking.
Daily reminder that tree canopies lower the temparature of their surrounding area by as much as 5 degrees celcius during the height of summer. Summer is probably unbearable for you because you have a lawn instead of trees.
I wish i have a lawn.
Thank you for the information!
💯👍🏼Trees are nature’s insulation.
No, I have both. :)
Unfortunately in some cities they have cut down a lot of trees in some neighborhoods to reduce the cost of having to maintain them.
As a future city planner wanting to make the world a better place: thanks you for bringing this issue into attention.
Nice profile photo
A city planner wanting to make the world a better place wow hope you're ready for literally everyone to be against you every damn step of the way for literally no reason at all
@@astolbro7183 haha, I know. Luckily, I live in Europe, where there is a bit more leeway.
@@Arlae_Nova thats fantastic words do not describe just how bad it is in the usa
this man bout to go full doomguy on the city planning industry lol
I like how instead of touching grass, he touched white clover, which is a lawn alternative plant.
Imagine what a utopia Victorian England could’ve been if they had discovered battle rapping
“Disneyland for brain damaged adults.”
Sounds like Disneyland to me
Kids are becoming an increasingly rare thing at Disneyland. It's mostly grown adults with annual passes and no health insurance.
@@_0______00__________0_______0 My godmother is one of those people. I'm always baffled by how she talks about Disneyland. It's literally like someone describing their faith
That need to make every segment edgier than the last
Look at the lil edgelord here! He’s so edgy he’s named after a cartoon character!
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I mean... It's not like the vacation money is gonna buy you anything other than free cough drops coverage.
9:50 “an agreement was placed into each Levittown homeowner’s deed, they said they had to mow their lawn once a week between the months of april and november”
There was also another agreement in there that forbade them from selling the houses to black people
Of course there was
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@Albert Strauss People like you?
its a joke people, calm down
@@winterchedder No; jokes are funny. Throwing tomatoes is also funny.
A video about *Lawns* has no right to be so good in quality and actually entertaining.
Man I miss your videos, some of the best content I've seen on YT. Also, sourcing the facts you state deserves a huge thumbs up and I rarely see it done by other creators!
We need episodes on Blackrock, Blackwater, Blackfyre and Blackair.
What about Blackadder?
@@cugamer8862 Didn't that get a whole series before the internet?
Blackfyre, you mean Starfire's sister?
@@kidkangaroo5213 I think it's blackfyre from got/asoiaf
@@cugamer8862 With a touch of Black Books.
As a Scot, I loled hard when you showed Count Dankula to represent the Scottish.
is it true there's a lotta specky bams in glasgow?
I KNEW THAT WAS HIM
Its crazy how I recognized who he was and the reason for it is so bizarre.
i think they deserve better
as a swede, i loled hard when he showed the swedish moose to represent meese everywhere
Just had an ad for a lawnmower whilst watching this video!
So good to see how far your channel as come. Keep it up! You're doing great things. 👍
3:52 Internet Historian sounds like he's desperately trying to not burst out laughing while reading his lines and I think that's delightful
My city has a code that requires all homeowners to maintain their own lawn, under threat of fines. So we're discussing getting rid of our lawn and replacing it with a garden that requires no water.
Fuck lawns.
Yeah I can't understand the obsession with having a lawn
Yeah fuck lawns
@Bazukin Belyugovich English gardens are beyond gorgeous, but you just _know_ an HOA would call one scruffy and unkempt 😭
It's about the city looking good
@@Emiliapocalypse HOAs seem so weird. like, i bought this land, i can do what the fuck i want with it, so long as it's not illegal. it seems like having a clothes owner's association that fines you for wearing odd socks
16:50 robot lawn mowers are big in Sweden, since no on wants to cut grass in the horrible weather they’ve got there, so I find it funny to hear that guy go “nej!”
"kill your lawn" - Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
My environmental science teacher in high school would go on tangents nearly everyday about how wasteful lawns are. Something I never thought of before. We live in Pennsylvania and even then we never had to water out lawn because our house faced in front sun most of the time meaning it was never dried out. I won't forget that man
It is still a waste even in natural regions for grass, your teacher was right. People could live in cities, more dense suburbs, etc and use the fertile land to grow food , bônus points if it is organic, Or leave as nature preserve, agroforests , Or even return it to the local indigenous nation if someone is still alive.
I have neighbors who literally spray paint their lawn green.
In all honesty their yard looks better than the majority of other people in our area
WHAT THE FUCK?!
@@cedar4539 That's only a problem if your goal is a field of heathy grass.
If your goal is a field of grass that just LOOKS healthy and doesn't grow enough to need cutting to keep short: mission accomplished , I guess.
@@cedar4539 So?
My garden has a lawn. Not my choice, i rent it. But i might have sneaked some pesky seeds in it. Like poppy's. It's actually booming. Looks nice.
I've found a way to "control" the lawn: i just put random stuff in the garden when the mowers come, they can't be arsed to move my stuff so my patch gets to grow another day. It's getting too long? I move my stuff when the mowers come. (They come way more often than is sane i swear.)
And it is lovely, soft to sit in with a shitload of flowers.
When my country got hit by almost 1,5 weeks of dry heat my patch was the only one to not turn yelllow and die...
Hey internet guy thank you for what you do I’ve been going thru some dark times in my life lately and your super hilarious videos have been a tremendous help in many ways on many levels and for that I just want to say thank you so very much
Aight so I used to be the chemical spray tech for the golf course I worked at, you only scratched the surface for how many military grade chemicals are used on a daily basis for keeping grass maintained on a golf course
I haven't heard of Blackrock until last week but everything I've heard has been horrifying
A surprisingly in depth look at something very few people actually think about. Very fascinating!
Thank you for making this!
Do black rock, perfect time to do so. Then do credit cards after.
My dad told me about a time he was mowing a neighbor's lawn as a teen, circa late '70s, and before today's safer machines, and the mower blade hit a rock, which was fragmented and launched so hard it punched through the metal body of the mower, and also sending bits of broken blade out the sides. He was lucky it didn't fly at him, he could have been seriously injured.
If it HAD injured him, he could'a just taken a salt tablet and walked it off.
One of my uncles nearly severed his toe in a lawnmower accident
Shit even today you should wear chaps at the least.
@@dickcastle
Take a salt tablet ...
@@kgpspyguy salt tablet?
I work in a lawn care company not too dissimilar to TruGreen and everything about this video is spot on. Literally every single point. People don't realize how much work it takes to make their lawn look like how they dream of it looking like and then complain when it doesn't look that way despite putting zero effort in. I get wanted a nice looking property but it's insane how much work we put into some of these lawns and they STILL look like crap
I used to scythe it's perfect if you like the overgrown grass look & just need to clear a few paths. It also works as a rake
One wrong thing in this video: Dumping grass clippings back on the lawn is only good for the lawn if you're cutting it once a week and keeping it very short. Using a catcher is better for any lawns that are being cut every 2-3 weeks where the grass is getting to 6 + inches because dumping the clippings on top of taller grass will actually just stamp it out and end up killing it
Also artificial soil structures, which a lot of luxury lawns are built on, don't have the ability to break down organic matter. Especially if they're getting top dressed every couple of years. That layer of half decomposed grass gets trapped and refuses to break down creating a spongy black layer that holds water, stopping it getting to the roots of the turf.
@@killdizzle you mean beneficial insects and natural decomposition agents?
2-3 weeks? I leave mine a month. Technically. Front one fortnight, back the next. Lines up with the council's green waste collection schedule and minimises work for me.
@DoublePlusUngood what the hell is wrong with fungi? They do nothing but help in forests and lawns, and if they are the correct specie, you could get something out of it too. Just picking and choosing species is wrong btw, if you want a space to be beneficial to the world you want it to be natural, and things like ticks and fungi are natural. It's really easy to spot ticks and you really shouldn't be keeping a head of hair or pets if you aren't willing to check them for parasites every day or so
As an American, for years I’ve been converting my friends to lawn hating, and supporting native biodiversity, but there’s not much you can do to go against HOA depending on where you live. I thought this was supposed to be the land of the free....
Everything about American suburbs make me so uncomfortable. It is simultaneously: soul breaking due to it's uniformity, against the very concept of freedom due to how codified and regulated it is with all the repercussions that come with it and just ......... the fact it's a fucking ponzi scheme paid by tax payers that has been going on for over half a century and keeps on going
This is truly baffling
@@GoogleDoesEvil The state of American cities can be traced back to the decision to focus the housing into single family homes in car dependent suburbs, but this topic really is a rabbit hole that I think OT should cover into a video at some point (and it probably would be his biggest because BOY is there a lot to say about it and how far this problem goes)
@@GoogleDoesEvil It sucks to say but ....... the entire way American apprehend suburbs is a terrible idea. The American suburb is by nature one of the most regulated environments that exists with laws regarding everything and no real freedom, and all of that built upon a massive amount of debt that is paid off by constructing more suburbs that will also accrue even more debts that will be paid off by creating more suburbs ......
Basically, the single family home with garage surrounded by identical single family home with garage for miles upon miles is absolutely unviable and the fact it was made to be the model is a really terrible idea, especially when there are alternatives: if you want a big home you can always go to the countryside and make one, or you could have more spread out cities where the bulk of the housing is made up of small appartment buildings with underground garages and a handful of one/two families homes that are integrated into the city's layout, European style etc
Basically, you can make good suburbs that won't cause a housing bubble, hyper regulation and won't be a burden on your children, youjust have to look at how American and ?Canadian suburbs are made and just do the exact opposite
@@GoogleDoesEvil I understand what you're saying, the city life isn't for you and you want to live more on the outskirts, sure. But the way American suburbs are made is just not the way to go about things, from zoning laws that make it illegal to build any stores or commercial properties within a reasonable distance from residential zones, forcing everyone to drive to get ANYWHERE, to residential zones being zoned mostly as single-family homes, not allowing for more dense housing. There are even laws where homes built have to be setback from the road a minimum distance, forcing people to have lawns.
I'd recommend looking up the channel Not Just Bikes, specifically his latest video about Houston.
"Land of the free" is just the propaganda you've grown up with.
The US was literally built up in murder and slave labour.
Nothing free about that.
This channel is like the rebirth of Charlie Brookers Screenwipe, with a ting of Adam Curtis archival footage all being narrated by Alain de Botton. @OrdinaryThings I can’t think of a better compliment than that. Bravo keep it up.
Lawns are like getting a hair transplant and then getting a buzzcut every week.
It's as The Clash sang : I fought the lawn and the lawn won
*Bobby Fuller Four
It was originally a Bobby Fuller Four song.
I also like their other banger: “daddy was a lawnmower”
I use to work at a garden nursery for years, and I remember my boss telling me about the introduction of weed killer back in the 40's. Turns out clovers are beneficial for the ground by providing nitrogen and nutrients but would die because of herbicides. So, these herbicide companies later classified clovers as a "weeds".
Hold up, you're telling me a company lied in order to make sell their products even though it was detrimental to society?
*Shocked Pikachu*
It's really telling that when my local HOA disbanded itself the housing prices in my parent's neighborhood went UP
You Brits and your deadpan sense of humor. I love you guys. Especially you, my guy. You made a video about lawns a million times more entertaining than it should have been.
Once again, high quality sht my boi
Hey papa
Probably one of his worst
Hi papa flamy
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Damn, homie must've known i was rewatching the old vids again
Are well all rewatching right now?
@@AngieParty12380 yes.
You forgot to mention how many people ran over pets with their lawnmowers. Way more cats ate it at the business end of a grass cutter than drunk dads lost toes.
Two petrol mowers a sit on tractor mower two strimmers and a petrol leaf blower. And a shed.
None of which I could enjoy or justify without a lawn.
(Except the tractor, she's a keeper)