this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
897 points (98.6% liked)

memes

14140 readers
3641 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 0 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

Ok but if you did before 10 am you might not wake up motherfucker

Another fun way to deal with assholes is to get a bunch of medium rocks and throw them into random places in the yard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I happened to misinterpret the content on the bottom right part of the image for another bodypart :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

Yeah I thought it was muscles for a second too before I realized it was a cock

[–] [email protected] 42 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

If you must have a lawn (e.g. HOA, personal preference), I strongly recommend doing away with this nonsense and go electric. Better yet, stay ahead of battery obsolescence and get a plug-in model, provided your yard is small enough. No more gas, oil changes, clogged filters, re-gapping spark plugs, and no more dislocating your shoulder trying to start the damn thing. Just keep the blade clean and sharp and it'll run for a decade at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Or get a reel mower and call it a day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Just get a Makita or some other power tool company that lets you use the same battery for your drill, mower and a bunch of other things. Make sure it's a reputable one where the ecosystem will be around a long time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

Creeping thyme is so much nicer. Bee-friendly, mosquito repellant, smells nice, and you can eat it.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Imagine having property with a lawn to mow

[–] [email protected] 31 points 21 hours ago

My mower always started first time, every time.

Because it was electric 😌

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

and by mower I mean penis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

That's why I leave my window shades open

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I convinced my truck drivin', Trump votin', gun totin', beer swillin' redneck neighbor to switch to an electric mower purely because he was envious of my own electric one and how it just runs when you press the button, without fail and every single time. It was actually kind of hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I have got 9 people to buy electric lawn mowers. Electric lawn mowers are amazing.

You can one up him buy getting one of those automated ones that run automatically every couple of days. Get it to run at night and he will be amazed how you keep a perfect lawn without him ever seeing you mow

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Careful running those at night. Depending on local wildlife, you might end up waking up to a mowed hedgehog.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I'll get you THIS time, Sonic.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago

I feel there is real life experience to this post…

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Don't mow nearly that often, you need to give the grass time to grow so local wildlife can try to go through a lifecycle when it can. Constantly mowing your grass is terrible for overall biodiversity, lowers soil quality and is bad for pollinators. Only mow like every two weeks if you can.

Source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Having the grass already ruins the biodiversity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Doesn't matter, mowing often will make the problem worse regardless of what's being mowed. Plus, there are tons of local fauna that will use grass to hide, live and grow during the time you'll be not mowing.

Would it be better to plant native grasses? Absolutely. But we should still encourage whatever biodiversity we can to help our local area. Every little bit helps, because it's not just the grass that you're helping by leaving it to grow.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Why would you run it at night? They're not as loud as petrol mowers, but spinning blades are not exactly quiet when mowing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The sound is negligible. You wouldn't even notice it running.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Oh neato then. I had a full-sized corded lawn mower back when I lived in a house where I was burdened with a lawn. It was quieter, but still loud.

Glad to hear that there are quieter ones.

Or the properties are just so huge you wouldn't disturb anyone haha (I lived in a inner suburban place where the next house was less than 5m wall to wall)

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

All of the above but Trump votin'. My wife is happy to push the electric DeWalt around. First electric mower, scored it new for $199, bought a pair of batteries and a charger. Pretty happy.

Neighbor chunked a very nice looking ICE mower. Going to take it down the street to the retired small-engine guy. He'll probably charge $20 + parts, maybe $40 tops. But now I'm wondering if I can even sell it for a profit. I could haul it to camp for random chopping work, but then I got another gas engine to fuck with. Probably not worth it.

At my job (Lowe's) we sell almost all battery mowers. As cheap as ICE mowers are, not seeing them run out the door nearly as fast. Haven't seen one sold yet, but I'm outside garden.

Anyone got tips on a battery weed eater? Mine's pretty well shot, eats full batteries in minutes. Thinking on trying EGO stuff from Lowe's since I get a discount. Inside lawn and garden expert told me they're the best on the market ATM. ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I've got a few ego tools and the only one I'm slightly disappointed with is the mower. The outlet design isn't great and can clog up if you mow anything denser than grass.

String trimmer, leaf blower and snow blowers (both single and dual stage) all work great.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They're all functionally interchangeable as far as I can tell, but only conceptually and not in the sense that your batteries will fit all the different machines because the manufacturers have seen to it that it doesn't work this way (because fuck you, that's why).

If your machine is dying in minutes the issue is probably that the battery is roached, not the machine. Lithium-whatever batteries do not last forever, and generally the ones in outdoor equipment are not charged or stored with much care, or in ideal temperature conditions, etc.

The secret is to just buy Chinese knockoff off-brand batteries. "But," all the oldheads will cry, "Those are Chinese garbage!"

Yes, they are. But so are the "OEM" batteries. The only real difference is the audacity of the markup; you may as well pay what they're actually worth rather than what your local big box store thinks people ought to believe they're worth. Before you throw away your weedwhacker, get a knockoff battery pack from Aliexpress or Amazon or whatever and give it a shot. Worst case you're out thirty bucks, but the gamble is probably better than buying a whole new weedwhacker.

I have all Ryobi crap, for the most part, because that's where I got roped in initially and that way I only have to stock one kind of battery. I have two genuine batteries that came with my stuff, but all the rest are knockoffs. The knockoffs are everything the genuine batteries are, but 1/6 of the cost. Actually, due to the perpetual slow march of battery tech improvements, one of my knockoffs is legitimately a noticeably higher capacity than my oldest genuine Ryobi batteries were even when they were brand new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I have several batteries, different ages and usages, seems random how long one will last. I'm thinking there's too much resistance on the spinning bits as it seems to get hot too fast. As always, I'll do my best to fix before buying new, but it's a drag constantly fixing shit to avoid feeding the beast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

You might have crap all wrapped around the axle behind the spool. It's probably worth taking that apart and seeing if it's packed full of weeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

All this electric mower love in the comments and I'm looking at fixing the carb on my 20 year old gas mower because the arm broke off my electric after 2 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Did you crank it too hard?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thought OP got caught cranking something else for a second there.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago

CRANK THAT HOG BROTHER

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

On the first pull

[–] [email protected] 30 points 23 hours ago

is that what they're calling it now

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You sleep with a full deli's worth of bologna and ham laid out on your chest? Wow, talk about living the dream.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In an assumption that those reading the comments here are lawn cutting folks, please consider not cutting your lawn at all, or if that's not feasible at least reducing how often or how large an area you do it to. Nature cannot survive the onslaught of every home on the planet having a perfectly neat 10mm tall patch of grass and nothing else. We need diversity.

See the sidebar here for more information: https://slrpnk.net/c/nolawns

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

This meme is as old as cranking mowers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

The neighbor:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Bro can hold his breath for at least 20 minutes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

How I sleep when that aquarium of sea monkeys I ate a year ago reach full maturity.

load more comments
view more: next ›