Didn't use foul language, didn't attack anyone, just said that people who use water for their lawns here in drought-stricken SoCal could use a good lecture (following up on a previous person's comment who made the same point, saying they "didn't want to lecture, but..." I wonder if they got suspended too?)
shareYeah people flip out over lawns. Penn & Teller had an episode of BS! about it.
shareFuck lawns! Rip out your damn useless water-wasting lawn, and put in a drought-resistant pollinator garden or grow some vegetables!
I don’t get the big obsession with lawns. Supposedly they were made popular in the US by Andrew Carnegie. When I was a kid growing up I don’t remember people doing extensive landscaping. I can understand spending time on a vegetable or flower garden but not a lawn.
share‘You can take my lawn when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.’
-Every Dad In America🇺🇸
Amen. Don't mess with lawns.
share"Lawns are family."
- Dominic Toretto
In absolute seriousness, much of the American West doesn't have enough water for everyone to have a lawn.
That's one of the things I like about Tucson, there people there have more sense than the people of Los Angeles of Phoenix, most of the homes and businesses have native plants that hardly use any of water. It's a win all around - the city as a whole uses water wisely, and IMHO it makes the city uniquely attractive, it's a desert city full of desert landscaping, it gives the place an air of harmony with Nature. Which is totally absent in Phoenix, which is fighting Nature with everything it's got.
its puzzling to see the Splash pad going full blast at my local park with no one even there enjoying it but what is really nonsensical is the ones who have their sprinkler system on while its raining.
shareOur splash pads have timers that shut off after a few minutes. The water stays off until a child pushes the "magic" button.
Watering when it's raining is a pet peeve of mine. Do away with these "set it and forget it" systems. One should have to manually turn it on, and it should shut off after a half-hour or whatever, and have to be manually turned on again.
that's typically how it works here to, they'll hit the button & the water pours out but every now & then it'll just be flowing out with no one around
shareI came here to say... LOL
shareMost people don't water their lawns at the right time of day. Instead of doing it early in the morning, I see sprinklers on during the afternoon - hottest part of the day. It never gets a chance to soak the soil and roots and basically just wastes water.
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