People Who Live In Suburbs: Classy, Icky, or Dudes?

werewolves legitimately need a big lawn and a lot of space to run imo

trying to figure out if my parents' house out in the middle of the woods is destroying the earth based on this thread

I think maybe yes?

a little bit

is there a bank of america branch attached to their house?

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Destroying The Earth

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Not Destroying the Earth

dan im guessing your parents are not off the grid and are not farming using sustainable practices

and are liberal

You know the fertilizer, pesticides, and any other products used on that lawn are running straight into that body of water and probably into their ground water, too.

dan, do your parents shit in the yard? impt q

not to mention their septic system
xp haha

nah they shit in YOUR yard

DAN, ANSWER THE QUESTION ABOUT YOUR PARENTS SHIT

man, anything that sparse isn't going to cause anyone problems unless there's a hidden farm field right behind the treeline

Pretty sure that's not true, mh. My hometown lake has been shown to be measurably affected by lawn run-off, and there are hardly ANY yards going down to the edge because most of the shore is forest/beach/boat docks. So just a handful are poisoning the ecosystem for the whole lake.

My parents got satellite TV around 1997 so I guess they're fully on the grid now? I don't know if Dad is using sustainable practices on his vines; I assume so? I've never seen him spray anything.

They shit in the yard by septic tank proxy.

x-post It kind of all depends on the density of houses around a lake, how large the actually maintained yard space is, and the water table. Oh, and size of the lake and whether it's a feeder for a stream or whatever. There are a few lakes around this region that are fairly well-populated but fine, and a few that are silted-in messes.

I was raised near a lake that won awards as one of the cleanest in America. I'd drink out of it bare-handed before I gulped down some of that Hudson sauce.

I have watered/fertilized my lawn exactly never

way to destroy the earth John

If I ever put down any more grass seed to fill in the bare spots, I will water it a little. But that might require me to mow more often, which seems really environmentally unsound, so I think I will leave it be.

No fertilizer or pesticides in my yard either.

Did bury my dead cat back there last week.

Live cat kept getting out, though.

Is the cat in a box? If not, instant fertilizer

really.

Jesus Christ, I spit on my monitor.

Our yard is 90% moss with some grass growing in it.

Oh yeah. Sometimes I try to claim that my lawn is "native plants".

haha i also do this

yo I just wanna point out that this is the best post ever on this thread:

werewolves legitimately need a big lawn and a lot of space to run imo

thats why that american werewolf in london was so angry iirc

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iatee a total hero itt as always

nah

lol yeah forgot that he literally called each person who chooses to live in the suburbs conservative - outrage at that was totally righteous

he inspired me to submit to my condo association the names of every old lady who didn't walk to CVS.

idk considering that overall he really does seem to think that anybody who doesn't live in a metropolis is legitimately either a bad person or a total dumbass, I think he does a pretty good job of only presenting the less misanthropic aspects of his argument here

i love driving. from a purely selfish standpoint i wd do it every day if it wasnt obscenely expensive & unnecessary for my lifestyle

anyway iatee otm

pretty sure he does a better job at defending his position than you do k3v

so yknow there is that

i think that everyone here is ethically compromised at some level, imo its fine for iatee to observe that u know some ppl's earth-damaging footprints are larger here than others

the other day i used too much toilet paper & accidentally left some lights on when i left the house.

haha yes i tend to agree with his general thesis (wrote similar stuff in high school essays) but disdain at suburban people rather than strictly surburbs as civil structure/landscape always seeps out at some point
xps

i love driving. from a purely selfish standpoint i wd do it every day if it wasnt obscenely expensive & unnecessary for my lifestyle

I grew up in SoCal in the 80s before the traffic out there got permanently fucked - learning to negotiate the freeways & driving yourself to shows after you'd turned sixteen was a feeling I can't even describe, like getting on the onramp on a summer night & heading in to the show -- incredibly free feeling, sort of a You Are Young And This Is How It Feels thing

There's this one kid at the office who takes the H1N1 threat so seriously that he uses clean kleenex, towel paper, and toilet paper to open doors.

i disagree i think he pretty obviously said/implied the problem was with society and that the beliefs informing a preference for suburbian life were part of a general trend and not necessarily true of every single person

xp to aero

i dont think he really transmits 'disdain' although i think its perfectly fine to point out that ppl do make these *choices* and that they are *choices* instead of passing the buck to 'the system, man'

I grew up in SoCal in the 80s before the traffic out there got permanently fucked - learning to negotiate the freeways & driving yourself to shows after you'd turned sixteen was a feeling I can't even describe, like getting on the onramp on a summer night & heading in to the show -- incredibly free feeling, sort of a You Are Young And This Is How It Feels thing

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otm!! i used to drive down, then up lake shore drive at night -- one of the most beautiful, amazing, fun drives in the summertime

i was going to mention lake shore drive. miss it.

I grew up in SoCal in the 80s before the traffic out there got permanently fucked - learning to negotiate the freeways & driving yourself to shows after you'd turned sixteen was a feeling I can't even describe, like getting on the onramp on a summer night & heading in to the show -- incredibly free feeling, sort of a You Are Young And This Is How It Feels thing

totally

there's different degrees of choices, he's simplistic about it