"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
05/19/2015 at 07:28 • Filed to: None
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"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
05/19/2015 at 07:28 • Filed to: None | 15
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What the hell. Why have kids at all then?
Seriously though...I mowed the lawn from age 8 on up.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 07:36 |
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Yep, that was about when I started mowing the lawn. I’m still here.
FKA-RacecaR
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 07:36 |
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Not to be that guy, but they look like two people who have nothing better to do than watch dr Phil all day while reading sensational articles on accidents that MIGHT happen to kids.
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thebigbossyboss
> FKA-RacecaR
05/19/2015 at 07:37 |
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Yeah, they are totally those type of people.
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thebigbossyboss
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
05/19/2015 at 07:38 |
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Me too. Allegedly at least. I also started with an electric mower and had to keep the cord from being mowed. It’s amazing I survived.
TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 07:41 |
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The juxtaposition between the story and the ticker bar is fantastic.
Also, I started mowing when I was a kid too - had one of those fancy ride-on lawnmowers.
Alfalfa Romeo
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 07:45 |
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I say you’re a man at 8, anyway!
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 07:49 |
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Stupidity at its finest. I did more dangerous stuff as a kid than I do now, still here unscathed.
Gabor Vajda (@Gabor_V)
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 07:50 |
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I’m wondering whether “lawn’ is the past participle form of ‘law’.
LongbowMkII
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 07:54 |
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Well, without context its hard to know exactly what they’re talking about. Quite possible they’re talking about the yearly tradition of rednecks running over their toddlers with lawn mowers. Lawn mower joyrides are the worst.
505Turbeaux
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:00 |
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hell my parents made me mow the damn lawn from like 8 years old on. I fared better than my dad who whacked his toe with the blade once. That was a fun trip to the emergency room for them to drill a hole in his big toenail...
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:02 |
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no, no it’s not amazing you survived. you simply exercised a few brain cells, worked on developing your motor control nerves and listened to the little survival instinct voice in the back of your head. People these days are so fucking domesticated and coddled they don’t even begin to understand how stupid and over protective they are being.
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thebigbossyboss
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
05/19/2015 at 08:08 |
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This is it. Then we end up with incapable 20 year olds. My bro went to grade 8 with this one kid, and he’s all married now and stuff. Neither him nor his wife can cook or clean or any of that sort of stuff.....how?
user314
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:09 |
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Hell, the first mower I used was my grandmother’s Flymo , and I managed to cut the cord at least once. No biggie.
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:10 |
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The most dangerous thing about mowing the lawn when I was a kid was the time my dad almost killed me when I ran the mower with no oil in it and it seized.
John_Harbinson
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:13 |
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Parents bought me a tractor for my 7th birthday. 1967 Cub Cadet 124. No saftey equipment, no auto shut off when you get up off the seat, and I’m still alive (remarkably). I still cannot believe that I sold it when I was 12 to buy an iPod. AN IPOD.... I still kick myself over that. If any oppos have one for sale, let me know, I’m still looking for another.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:14 |
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I have been driving a riding mower far longer than I have been driving a car.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:18 |
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After my first week of college, I went downstairs to do my laundry. There stood some bozo who had no idea how to do his own laundry. He was busy piling everything into one washer - whites, reds, bluejeans, etc. I was going to let him go until he asked me how much detergent to put in. Then I couldn’t help myself. Laundry 101 was in session.
ttyymmnn
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:19 |
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I know plenty of adults who shouldn’t be near lawn mowers.
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:32 |
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The kind of people who write a headline like that are the kind who can't figure out that there's a difference between showing someone how to use something safely and simply giving them the lawnmower and saying "here, go nuts". Not to mention the fact that the earlier you learn something, the more likely it is to stick. Especially where parental advice is needed. My dad was always correcting something when I started doing the lawn—If I'd waited 'til the age these people seem to likely to reccomend I'd probably have written off his advice, because of course I know better. Write your own "happy ending" to that.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:36 |
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I think those people should never be around anything. I hate people like that.
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thebigbossyboss
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/19/2015 at 08:41 |
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You should have let him learn the hard way. You tend to remember mistakes that cost you all you all your clothes. Related/not related: A couple I know from home each do their own laundry. This is because when they were first married Valerie did the laundry and her husband complained that she did a bad job.
Fast forward 30+ years....Bruce has been doing his own laundry ever since that day. LOL.
Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:49 |
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Have the kid run over a tennis ball.
Explain to kid that could be your foot/hand/nub.
Tell them not to fuck around with the lawn mower.
Drink your beer.
?????????????
Lawn Mowed.
cazzyodo
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:53 |
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I was responsible for the lawn as soon as I turned 8 as well. This was without the self propelled stuff today.
That fuckin ariens was heavy.
They should focus on weed whacking, which I also did, and loved.
Richtofen, Baron von Pickup
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 08:57 |
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Make sure they’re never near cars, ladders, hammers, pencils, books, bunnies, or cribs, either.
AthomSfere
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 09:09 |
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Me too!
Doesn’t mean it was any safer then, as opposed to now, or vice versa... or that it was safe at all.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 09:13 |
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I do all of my own laundry and my wife does all of hers. We swap out for the kids, although my daughter is old enough to learn the ropes and has started taking care of some of the easier loads. God forbid any of my wife’s gets mixed in with mine. I usually shrink it. My daughter learned that lesson last weekend when some of my wife’s laundry got mixed in with a load she was doing. She shrank it. :)
Milky
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 09:35 |
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I can’t remember what age I was, but it was as soon as I was heavy enough to not activate the auto-off thing on the seat. Parents these days ….
scoob
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 09:43 |
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Kids can be near dangerous things if you fulfill your role as a PARENT and teach them things, not avoid things.
BigBlock440
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/19/2015 at 10:06 |
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Eh, I’ve never noticed a problem with doing everything in the same load.
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BigBlock440
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 10:10 |
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They’re right, kid’s have more important things to do than mow the lawn. Like get a job down at the mill. It’s about time they earn their keep.
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thebigbossyboss
> BigBlock440
05/19/2015 at 10:25 |
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Girl clothes are hard. For most man clothes if you do it in cold water should be fine. I seperate whites and colours.
CB
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 10:45 |
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Fuck that. Mowing lawns is how I made money before I started working in the trayliner factory. It teaches you how to pay attention, gives you some exercise when I know that I would have just sat inside and played video games, and in general is fairly pleasant.
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thebigbossyboss
> CB
05/19/2015 at 10:58 |
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So good to see left and right agree :) Hah!
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FKA-RacecaR
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 10:59 |
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That’s basically what I do as well. Then I usually handle the towels. I let my wife do most of her stuff, along with our two daughter’s clothes.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> thebigbossyboss
05/19/2015 at 11:33 |
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My Dad might agree. At age 11, I learned the importance of checking to oil, by blowing our lawn mower’s engine. Though he was partially at fault there, or completely, I was 11.
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thebigbossyboss
> 505Turbeaux
05/19/2015 at 20:28 |
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Well done to your old man. My old man broke his toe when he was a kid...doing a cartwheel...in the house. Because kids do dumb things no lawn mower required.
KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
> thebigbossyboss
05/21/2015 at 08:47 |
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Cat safety: Kids should never pull a cat’s tail.
Bee safety: Kids should never piss off bees.
Kid safety: Kids should never be near kids.
Thank you, CTV, for the adjunct reminder of the constant Health & Safety Executive presence that exists in the modern world.
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thebigbossyboss
> KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
05/21/2015 at 09:58 |
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Outdoors safety: Kids should never go out doors where there are “dangers” but should stay indoors in front of screens.
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KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
> thebigbossyboss
05/21/2015 at 12:45 |
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Screen Safety: Staring too much at a screen can cause eye strain.
Book Safety: Turing a page could cause a paper cut.
Pencil Safety: Pencils have a point and are sharp.
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thebigbossyboss
> KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
05/21/2015 at 12:57 |
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Ball safety “ Soccer or Footballs Balls can hit kids in the head” Ban kids from playing with balls.
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KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
> thebigbossyboss
05/21/2015 at 14:36 |
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The teenage sons would have a problem with that.
lonestranger
> FKA-RacecaR
05/23/2015 at 01:59 |
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Have you noticed that most of the women who are against abortion are women you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place?