The Home Improvement Thread

Space wrote:

hutch wrote:
I meant your wife! You can’t yell that at people!!!

She's from a loud working class Lithuanian family from Chicago. She yells whatever she wants. Often. Besides, he's on a riding lawnmower wearing noise cancelling headphones. He's not going to hear anything (hoping his wife and kids didn't hear it from indoors.)

So therefore it's ok to be racist?

Apparently

Lots of Lithuanian immigrants in metro-Detroit; can confirm, they're allowed to be racist.

Julian, wrote:
Lots of Lithuanian immigrants in metro-Detroit; can confirm, they're allowed to be racist.

hmm, this is a loophole I didn't know about


TIL learned about some famous Lituanians: Pink, John C Reily, Jason and Amy Sudeikis, Anthony Kiedis, Brandon Flowers

and oddly a timely one
Hannibal Lecter, the villain and main character of The Silence of the Lambs, though fictional, was born in Lithuania. The book’s author, Thomas Harris, created his famed character as a Lithuanian who moved to the US and over time earned his US citizenship before becoming a serial killer. Harris and his famous evil character are commemorated with a plaque on Literatu g. in Vilnius, a street that highlights authors and famous novels related to Lithuania.

The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’s a wonderful man. He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last scene? ‘Excuse me, I’m about to have a friend for dinner,’ as this poor doctor walked by. ‘I’m about to have a friend for dinner.’ But Hannibal Lecter. Congratulations. The late, great Hannibal Lecter.

My grandmother was Lithuanian but I don’t remember hearing about this loophole? Maybe it doesn’t apply for Lithuanian Jews?

hutch wrote:
My grandmother was Lithuanian but I don’t remember hearing about this loophole? Maybe it doesn’t apply for Lithuanian Jews?

ahh the old loophole in the loophole

The Poophole Loophole, if you will.

Julian, wrote:
The Poophole Loophole, if you will.

walky thread >>>>>

Yada wrote:

Julian, wrote:
The Poophole Loophole, if you will.

walky thread >>>>>

"Relaxer thread >>>>>" would've been the better, deep cut.

hutch wrote:
My grandmother was Lithuanian but I don’t remember hearing about this loophole? Maybe it doesn’t apply for Lithuanian Jews?

Not sure.

The irony is that my "Mexican" neighbor (if I had to guess based on his last name, Mexican-American would be a good guess) attended one of the very tippy top elite small liberal arts colleges in the country (acceptance rate less than 10%), which has a about a 10% Latino population and about a 0.2% African-American population (so, literally, less than five black people). Whereas my Lithuanian-American wife took 10 years to pay her way through a fourth tier university with an 85% acceptance rate, and a student population that has more Latinos than it does White people and an African-American population on par with the national average.

How do y'all feel about riding mowers on small lots?

At 7 am? GTFO


My style is more just not mowing at all….

I have mowed the front lawn once this year. I need a new lawn mower. Something that can take a beating. None of that electric weak shit

hutch wrote:
At 7 am? GTFO


My style is more just not mowing at all….

Yeah, he's very ambitious with the yard work. Sometimes has the while family out there with him. This is in contrast to most of the neighborhood, who hire help to do the work for them. Good for him, but the 7am was a bit much.

I'm not Mr. Perfect yard (I think we have more weeds than grass, as both front and back is sun-challenged…but I do what I can.)


A couple of weekends ago we hard a hard rain and it caused a leak in my wife's office ceiling. I had our roofing people out yesterday. They insisted that the problem is not with the shingles but with the (possibly nonfunctioning) ancient solar panels…so they gave us an expensive caulk job. It's possible it might be time to take down the solar panels, but that will involve some time and thinking (who takes them down? The roof people? An HVAC company? I don't even know what the solar panel company was.)

Of course, I went into the attic several times to investigate, and now in addition to a small leak we have a large hole, as I accidentally stepped through the ceiling. So after we're sure the roof if fixed, I'll have to call someone to do a drywall job on the office ceiling.

I think it would be fun to race lawnmowers. We used to have a go-kart when I was a kid. My dad made a track so we could race it, but we only had one go-kart. So those not on the go-kart would race their bmx bike. My kid does nothing like that. Hell, she doesn't do any chores around the house. Maybe if I got her a riding lawnmower and sold it as a fun thing that people who went to an elite college do, she would take to lawnmowing. I think the key would be paying her enough. But my wife already buys her everything she asks for, so there's little incentive to do any chores.

Would read again.

hutch wrote:
My style is more just not mowing at all….

can confirm

Julian, wrote:
Sorry to hear of your dogs ordeal.

The thing about the “yard work noise pollution” aside that always cracks me up is: what do you want people to do exactly? You cannot just NOT mow your lawn or take your leaves. In Richmond, it’s literally a civil violation and they’re going to send DPW out to do it and bill you.

So many people hate the sound of yard work and I guess I get the specific complaint if someone is doing it at 5am but it’s literally an unavoidable evil until silent lawnmowers are made. It’s not someone specifically being a jerkass.

Here,  there are certain times when yard noise is allowed and when yard noise it not.

We have neighbors who used to let their barking dog(s) out at 6:30 every morning, even on weekends. They ALWAYS woke us up. We anonymously left them a note with the quiet hours, and it's been fine since.

What my wife doesn't get is that EVERYONE does yardwork. And everyone does it at differing times. That's why it's going to be nonstop.

Of course, different people do different things. I have a very quiet push mower and rake my leaves. Some of these tiny dick guys around here use a riding mower to mow their quarter acre yard.

My wife thinks raking leaves is completely unnecessary. She thinks if you just leave it, it will all turn to mulch. While that may work if you have one small tree, I probably have the most leaves of anyone on my block. I literally bag up by hand 25+ tightly packed bags a year from my one small lot. And of course she says since it's "unnecesary work," it doesn't count when she says "I do way, way more housework than you."

My lawn mower broke like three months ago….yard is looking rough

I don’t give a shit

Space wrote:
My wife thinks raking leaves is completely unnecessary. She thinks if you just leave it, it will all turn to mulch.

Insane. I'm not a yard guy at all (I live in a city and do my 12' x 8' pocket yard with a weed wacker), but that's nuts.

Hatch, wrote:

hutch wrote:
My style is more just not mowing at all….

can confirm

hutch wrote:
My lawn mower broke like three months ago….yard is looking rough

I don’t give a shit

confirmed