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shortylickens

shortylickens

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Jul 15, 2003
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after those guys sprayed the mystery goo on my lawn, I am mowing once a week.
Never letting them back on my property again.
 
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BoomerD

BoomerD

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shortylickens said:
after those guys sprayed the mystery goo on my lawn, I am mowing once a week.
Never letting them back on my property again.
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We had Clark Pest and Lawn control for a couple of years when we were in California...I'd cut the lawn...before I got the mower put away...it needed cutting again.I fired them...making an old disabled man work that hard...how dare they?!?
 
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Spacehead

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I used to shake my head at some of the guys i used to work with. They'd bitch in the spring if the weather wouldn't allow them to get out & fertilize the lawn, then they'd bitch the first half of the summer that they had to mow 2 or 3 times a week or cry if it rained too much & they couldn't mow & the grass would be too tall when it did dry out.

Every day someone brought up mowing woes. It was sad & funny at the same time.
 
Charmonium

Charmonium

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clamum said:
Yeah the top is flat, but the new TV had two stands that attach near the edges of the TV (my old one had just a single stand in the middle, though it was mounted in the back to a different TV stand; the fireplace one is new).

Once I got my brother's help to get the TV out of the box, I measured from center to center of the stands and they were about 58" apart; the top of the fireplace stand is 54". It's my own dumb fault for ordering it; I just didn't realize it would be that big and was thinking of my current TV with the center stand. Plus i was excited to get a new, bigger TV lol.

Plan to take it back to BB tomorrow cause that didn't work out this morning.
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I've always had this problem when buying a tv since I like to put mine on a rolling, wire frame shelving unit. That means that the whole screen has to fit between the support posts. The shelves themselves are 48" long, but the support tubes at each corner are about 1.5" wide. So IOW, instead of having the full 48" I have to work with, I have to make sure that the screen of the new tv will be no more than 45" wide.

"Why should I give a shit" I hear you say.

Because it's the same problem with slightly different parameters. Let me turn things over to my good buddy Phil Swift of Flex Seal fame now since he can do a much better job of helping you understand just how revolutionary the following idea is.

What if I told you that there is a really simple way to figure out how wide a tv is just by knowing 2 things - diagonal screen measurement and aspect ratio?

Aspect ratio? WTF does that have anything to do with my problem?

I understand your skepticism sir but bear with me and I'm going to make your life infinitely better. Not just a little better. Not even a lot better. What I'm talking about here is nothing short of a miracle - a deep religious experience nonpareille.

Think about it for a moment. What does the aspect ratio tell you? It's the relationship between the width and height of the screen. And what does a diagonal measurement tell you? Well, since the diagonal splits the screen into 2 big triangles, or more precisely, right triangles, then the diagonal is the hypotenuse of both.

You probably see where I'm going with this. But then again, maybe not. After all, having just the hypotenuse doesn't help you figure out the other sides/dimensions. Besides that, aspect ratio has no units of measurement. It's just a number.

That's a valid point, at least up to a point.

But if I know the ratio of one triangle leg to the other, can't I parley that dimensionless measurement into a measurement that tells me the length of each leg in warm, friendly feet and inches.

Now I'm going to stop here since I've yapping for a while and I'm tired. But more than that, I want you all to take a crack at this before I give everything away. So take a minute think about it then come back and impress the shit out of me.
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

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<phew> saved by the rain. (Just a light sprinkle... but I'll take it. :p
My backyard has a LOT of shade, so it's usually mid-afternoon before it dries out enough from the dew to mow. (hey, it's my story...)
 
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Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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I don't mind mowing my lawn but I also have a super small yard. I did not like doing my parents' though, not only do they have a big yard but my dad insisted on bagging the grass instead of just letting it go out the chute. It was a full day ordeal to mow that lawn. Afterwards we needed to bring about 40 bags of grass to the dump. It was a huge make work project.
 
sdifox

sdifox

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Red Squirrel said:
I don't mind mowing my lawn but I also have a super small yard. I did not like doing my parents' though, not only do they have a big yard but my dad insisted on bagging the grass instead of just letting it go out the chute. It was a full day ordeal to mow that lawn. Afterwards we needed to bring about 40 bags of grass to the dump. It was a huge make work project.
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Err compost it?
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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sdifox said:
Err compost it?
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That's what I kept telling them but "it's going to smell and it's an eye sore!". My parents are rather perculiar with stuff like that. I used to find it ridiculous having to bag it, not to mention that garbage bags take 100's of years to decompose. Now they just hire someone to do it, not sure if they still insist on bagging or not, I don't think anyone really does that anymore, it's too much trouble.
 
snoopy7548

snoopy7548

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Cut grass smells good.

I like mowing and doing yardwork, but my lot is small - ~7800 sq. ft. I can weedwack and mow in about 30 min.
 
Zanovar

Zanovar

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Calippo ice lollies missing from my tesco delivery again.Now im thinking its the driver munching on them between deliveries.Bastard.
 
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