I’m pretty sure snoop was famous for being a rapper rather than smoking weed.

She didn’t luck it. She schooled everyone in judo and they didn’t know how to deal with her, until someone did. And then she met Amanda Nunez.

Joe ‘Obvious Idiot’ Rogan? I’d take his views on MMA and not much else.

It’s a house coat

I have about 3000 tracks on my player in one folder playing on random. When my mum’s in the car and it’s something she doesn’t know, she’s all ‘turn that down, it’s so loud I can’t think’, but when it’s something she knows, she cranks that shit up and has no problem thinking.

The boss in my place brought in some guy as head of marketing who he picked himself and thinks is the bee’s knees. We have a closed customer base who, once they purchase our products, will buy spares for the next 30 to 40 years. We don’t really need marketing at all.

He does nice graphs and charts (that we don’t need), chats in constant gibberish business-speak, and makes things look fancy. That’s it.

He has recently been moved into an overarching position in control of technical and engineering teams he knows nothing about and can’t manage properly, and the shit will hit the fan real soon.

I can’t wait.

A box? A fat?

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Strong disagree for all aforesaid reasons. I’d say we’re likely talking about different types of lawns when it comes down to it. Most lawns I know are a damp green rectangle that grows whether you want it to or not. It’s not an ecological villain. It’s just grass and ‘weeds’.And culturally, British gardens have always mixed lawns with borders, hedges, trees, and beds. I’ve no doubt perfect lawns are sterile and water hungry but that’s the extreme, and most aren’t that. It’s not aesthetics or a dog toilet. They’re a space that people use. An outside room.

As I said, a monoculture lawn is better than concrete or bare earth. I’m by no means a fan. I agree with you that they’re shit, but most I know simply aren’t that at all. They’re healthy and host a variety of life.

I water my lawn once or twice a week when it’s dry. Nothing crazy, just a misting for 10-15 mins. I don’t think it’s wasting water to help an ecosystem blossom. The vast majority of grass seed we see in the UK would be native grasses. Mine is mixed hardy horse paddock grass. Grows like wildfire, and the bugs love it.

I still think even monoculture grass lawn is a good middle ground between nothing living at all and a wildflower meadow or the like. Not everyone cares about the plants around them, but grass and soil beats concrete or bare earth.

I don’t think your first statement is true. Most people I know or places I’ve lived in or been have a mixed, lived‑in garden where the lawn is one component of a wider ecosystem. Most don’t look like the green on a golf course.

A lawn with clover, moss, daisies, micro‑wild patches, little plants I can’t even name that drift in on the wind, and healthy soil full of ants and worms and beetles and spiders and things I need to photograph and identify is not a monoculture. It’s a low meadow kept short that hosts plenty of life.

Go take a look in any real garden or lawn for 10 minutes. You’ll find life.

Lawns are fine. Having lawns and nothing else is a problem. Filling your lawn with chemicals is a problem. Most people I know who have lawns don’t do that. They also have rich borders and beds and planters and wild areas. I post a different pic everyday here of bugs I find in my garden; the grass and clover and soil itself is full of life. Most people need an open space to play or entertain or whatever, and a lawn - though not a wildflower meadow - beats decking or concrete.

Why does the US have HOAs? I can’t think of other countries that have them, nor why they are really needed. Seems like a chance for power-hungry people to be little Hitlers over minutiae.

An entire generation has not rejected smoking.

The tagline on book 5 was superb:

The fifth book in the increasingly incorrectly titled hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy trilogy.