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  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    what can you have instead though, if you want a nice garden?

    what grows in Arizona?  there must be lots of things

    There are many plants that grow naturally, and you can make an attractive front to your house using those, and they are low maintenance.

    But they don't fit someone's 1950s idea of what a nice house is, so fuck them I guess, just spend all that goddamn money on water.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    "My parents were put in a psychiatric hospital."

    This is darkly comical but also really distressing for some reason.
  • The aquifers under Florida from which all the drinking water comes from are getting drained out due to overuse, and once they're gone, it's desalination plants forever.

    It distinctly irks me whenever I see someone whose water sprinkler goes over the sidewalk half the time
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i was more thinking about the back yard

    if you have kids they can't exactly play in the flowerbeds
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Rocks.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Oh, and then it flips around again.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    like a Japanese rock garden

    or like actual fucking rocks
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    just lying there being rocks

    some stone age shit
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Odradek said:

    Tachyon said:

    what can you have instead though, if you want a nice garden?

    what grows in Arizona?  there must be lots of things

    There are many plants that grow naturally, and you can make an attractive front to your house using those, and they are low maintenance.

    But they don't fit someone's 1950s idea of what a nice house is, so fuck them I guess, just spend all that goddamn money on water.
    Yeah.  @buttercupistiny's parents set up their lawn like that.  It's pretty.


    The aquifers under Florida from which all the drinking water comes from are getting drained out due to overuse, and once they're gone, it's desalination plants forever.


    It distinctly irks me whenever I see someone whose water sprinkler goes over the sidewalk half the time
    It bothers me when I see that happening on the UCLA campus.  At least that's relatively public, though, at least...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    'go play among the rocks kids'

    have a rock fight
  • Man, just get sand. Or finely chopped gravel

    That mess stays forever, it looks good, you don't need to hire a lawnmower, and most dog owners are too chicken to let their dogs do their business on it
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    image

    someone moved here and went "yes, this is place that is conducive to a lawn. I want a lawn"
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    'go play among the rocks kids'

    have a rock fight

    Kids in Arizona won't want to go out on the hottest days anyway.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    gravel is, again, fine for a front garden, but you wouldn't have your entire back yard full of gravel, surely?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Odradek said:

    image


    someone moved here and went "yes, this is place that is conducive to a lawn. I want a lawn"
    yeah that's absurd
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    gravel is, again, fine for a front garden, but you wouldn't have your entire back yard full of gravel, surely?
    8112 W Melinda Lane Peoria AZ 85382 Backyard3.jpg
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    but i think maybe it comes down to imported aesthetic sensibilities and a climate not conducive to making anything in line with them
  • Tachyon said:

    just lying there being rocks

    some stone age shit

    if you read this in Ol' Dirty Bastard's voice it sounds like a skit from 36 Chambers.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    It's like, if you want a lawn

    don't live in Arizona
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Odradek said:

    gravel is, again, fine for a front garden, but you wouldn't have your entire back yard full of gravel, surely?
    8112 W Melinda Lane Peoria AZ 85382 Backyard3.jpg
    oh, that looks good actually

    it's still very much a grown-ups garden, though, be boring for kids
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Don't live in Arizona if you want a lawn, don't live in Florida if you don't like humidity, don't live in Western PA if you don't want to be surrounded by the worst fucking idiotic scum to ever putrefy the human race.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Tachyon said:

    Odradek said:

    gravel is, again, fine for a front garden, but you wouldn't have your entire back yard full of gravel, surely?
    8112 W Melinda Lane Peoria AZ 85382 Backyard3.jpg
    oh, that looks good actually

    it's still very much a grown-ups garden, though, be boring for kids
    Counter-argument: you could bounce a basketball on the concrete, which you can't do on grass.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    point
  • Tachyon said:

    Odradek said:

    gravel is, again, fine for a front garden, but you wouldn't have your entire back yard full of gravel, surely?
    8112 W Melinda Lane Peoria AZ 85382 Backyard3.jpg
    oh, that looks good actually

    it's still very much a grown-ups garden, though, be boring for kids
    Counter-argument: you could bounce a basketball on the concrete, which you can't do on grass.
    yea but then you'd knock stuff over and ur mom would be like "god dammit Xzavier"
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    My little brothers play a lot of basketball
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    you can have cactus, which is better than a lawn, since it stabs would-be intruders

    it's like nature's barbed wire.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Sometimes I feel like I'm a contradiction

    Because I enjoy seeing pseudoscience and fake psychics debunked

    But my fantasy persona is all about magical powers
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i mean now you guys explained it to me it's fairly obvious why lawns would be a problem in parts of the USA

    but reading it on the list there without that context it was like if they'd had an episode that was just 'ketchup' or 'pencils' or 'washing machines'
  • Sometimes I feel like I'm a contradiction


    Because I enjoy seeing pseudoscience and fake psychics debunked

    But my fantasy persona is all about magical powers
    u ever heard of a fellow named Harry Houdini
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    you can have cactus, which is better than a lawn, since it stabs would-be intruders

    it's like nature's barbed wire.

    'go and play on the cactus, children'

    yes, cactus, singular
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    that's just how you say fuck you in Arizona though
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    Sometimes I feel like I'm a contradiction


    Because I enjoy seeing pseudoscience and fake psychics debunked

    But my fantasy persona is all about magical powers
    u ever heard of a fellow named Harry Houdini
    ok yeah that's a good point
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Sometimes I feel like I'm a contradiction


    Because I enjoy seeing pseudoscience and fake psychics debunked

    But my fantasy persona is all about magical powers
    Lovecraft said that only an atheist could write good supernatural fiction. 

    This was self-serving, as Lovecraft was an atheist who wrote supernatural fiction.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Sometimes I feel like I'm a contradiction


    Because I enjoy seeing pseudoscience and fake psychics debunked

    But my fantasy persona is all about magical powers
    u ever heard of a fellow named Harry Houdini
    ok yeah that's a good point
    James Randi is literally a magician too.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Odradek said:

    Sometimes I feel like I'm a contradiction


    Because I enjoy seeing pseudoscience and fake psychics debunked

    But my fantasy persona is all about magical powers
    Lovecraft said that only an atheist could write good supernatural fiction. 

    This was self-serving, as Lovecraft was an atheist who wrote supernatural fiction.
    i don't agree with him
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    I know that RationalWiki varies in quality, but...

    Penn and Teller are controversial figures in the skeptic community because of their libertarian political views. A good rule of thumb to use may be that their episodes and discussions on religion, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories are great, but that your mileage may vary on episodes dealing with politics, global warming and economics.

    This sounds about right to me.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Well that's one of many things you and I don't agree with Lovecraft on.

    Probably one of his less objectionable views, of course.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Yes but conversely i'm more inclined to treat his views seriously when he's talking about supernatural fiction, which is something he understands, than when he's talking about, say, Jews
  • Odradek said:

    Sometimes I feel like I'm a contradiction


    Because I enjoy seeing pseudoscience and fake psychics debunked

    But my fantasy persona is all about magical powers
    Lovecraft said that only an atheist could write good supernatural fiction. 

    This was self-serving, as Lovecraft was an atheist who wrote supernatural fiction.
    Richard Dawkins writes terrible fiction.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    My favorite thing about Rationalwiki is that they're really centrist, but insight wankers are convinced they're wild marxist radicals.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    cat
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    yes

    what's in the mug?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    also what's his name
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/24/politics/dennis-rodman-donald-trump-endorsement/

    Donald Trump is the second most ridiculous and terrible political figure Dennis Rodman has endorsed.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    It's now my birthday, JSYK.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Happy birthday!
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