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Yeaaaa, validate me for not taking leaves
Screw blackberries tho
Excuse me? What do you have against delicious blackberries?
The plants are nigh impossible to control or remove. They’re like mint; only plant it in the ground if you hate yourself and your neighbors :)
Thanks, I know what I’m planting!
I know the Himalayan blackberry and they are awful to have on your property. Each year all too much time is diverted towards controlling it and attempting to eliminate it. The birds (if they exist) eat them and spread the seeds. They pop up where you thought you’d already handled them. Ug.
We do collect them to make cobblers and such, but I would gladly do without that if I could rid us of them entirely.
Mint’s great.
My wife and I discovered some spearmint growing right by our house. So we just mow it into a patch and mulch around it: free mint and the bees love it! Fresh mojitos every summer lol.
They’re a highly invasive species here in Washington state. Brought by settlers. They’ve displaced the native species and are nearly impossible to get rid of.
i mean… i can do something to help, might not effect the long term though 😋
On the contrary, I overpicked and killed a blackberry plant as a kid. Sounds like a solid tactic.
Himelayan blackberries are invasive
Not if you live in the Himalaya ☝️🤓
Look past their juicy and delicious flesh comrade! invasive species are the scourge of many a backyard garden
… You ever tried clearing a yard or whole garden overgrown by wild blackberries for years?
God, they’re delicious, but they are EVERYWHERE, regrow as soon as you turn around, and you either are very slow and careful or get hurt a lot. Nasty little suckers, those thorns.
I’d guess OP has the same trauma as me
Certain blackberries are deeply irritating invasive species. Delicious, but an outright menace that can destroy local forests. Methods to control them are extensive and extreme. Never eat road side blackberries in the US, certain states use herbicide to stem the tide. Bushes next to highways are more likely to be sprayed. Low pedestrian traffic and cheaper maintenance than cutting them back.
The issue is parasitic HOAs that don’t allow it.
I stopped raking years ago, and have started seeing fireflies again.
My neighbours hate it, but honestly, I’ve never understood raking in the first place. It’s autumn, and leaves are natural. What’s with the obsession to make lawns look like artificial carpeted spaces?
The leaves look nice imo. Better than a scalped layer of dying grass.
HOA’s don’t allow watching Friends? I thought HOAs were bad.
I recently got into FRIENDS purely cuz it’s cozy. But it’s hard to reference it without looking a little behind.
“OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!”
OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!"
My older brother watched Friends every single night, rerun after rerun. Ross and Rachel are the reason I immediately dislike any “will they / won’t they” plots when watching a new show.
I just feel bad about all that sleep you’re gonna miss wishing you were with me!
Oh, no, no, no, don’t you worry about me “falling asleep.” I STILL HAVE YOUR LETTER!
I rewatched it couple of years ago and I think it’s still funny and not that dated. The only thing I didn’t like was the laugh track.
Ok but please clean your sidewalks, people. Don’t use the environment as an excuse to be a bad neighbor. We still need to use the sidewalks.
It is strange to me, that sidewalks aren’t public property and are managed (and cleaned) like the streets in other countries 😄
They are public property and designed and built by the municipalities in many places. The cities and towns just prefer to offload the cleaning part to who every lives in front of a section of sidewalk.
Let’s call it “Civic Duty” and your chance to do something nice and beneficial for your neighborhood.
In Brazil the property owner is responsible for everything up to the edge of the road in a lot of places, including building and maintaining sidewalks…they go to shit and nobody fixes them lol
What’s up with h all the hate for Friends these days? It’s a simple feel good comedy that got laughs, why hate on that?
I loved friends, still do
Because it wasnt simple, and its got a lot of old culture in it that doesnt always hit the same way as it did then.
Its a product of its time, and making fun of it is sort of like making fun of older generations for whatever reason.
I will say I dont like how apparently women needed to be under 100 pounds to be considered attractive back then, and it bums me out knowing that Chandler’s actor was struggling with addiction during a chunk of the show.
It does have some really well written bits though, but its usually not the ones people bring up most often.
women needed to be under 100 pounds to be considered attractive
What makes you think this has changed?
It’s a comfort show that’s still popular. But for some people they just don’t get it. Kinda like how the office is a comfort show. Why do people still watch them? Not sure, I don’t get the appeal. But it’s pretty common to have a comfort show and that’s probably fine.
I honestly don’t get all the love for the show. It was the stereotypical sitcom that was super generic and not all that funny. I was always completely bored by it.
And the salamander didn’t say anything bad about it. It said there’s better shows. Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
I like that when you mention better shows you choose 2 shows that are not at all light hearted, funny or comparable to Friends in any manner.
Why watch friends when you can watch 2 shows that have many fucked up things happen in them
I hate them all 😶
Game of Thrones only had 4 seasons though. Shame they never finished it.
First 5?
Yess, everything after was horseshit
Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
Yes
I’d never claim that, for one because it’s claiming that a banana would be better than an airplane. They’re very different things for very different purposes
Breaking bad is a very well written and acted show with complicated drama, plots, and a lot of violence
Same for game of thrones (at least untill season 6 started, then the writing took a hit but still, great show until season 8 which just sucked.
Friends in the other hand was simple popcorn feel good comedy where you could have simple laught without having to think too much, where you could get a warm fuzzy feeling about it. Breaking bad won’t give you that, it’s a whole different beast. Are the story lines deep and intricate? Nope, and that’s what we want; simple turn-your-brain-off comedy, and I don’t think it ever pretended to be more than that. It’s very good at what it did, I think
I mean, as someone who grew up watching and loving friends, it’s extremely problematic.
I’ve come to realize over the years that most TV is problematic, but you can still be consciously aware of it and still enjoy what you like within that context. I think it’s worse if you watch it, but have no idea that it’s problematic. My dad watches big bang theory sometimes, and that show is incredibly misogynistic for laughs. He has no idea, he thinks the humor is normal. He just takes a lot of that stuff in completely unexamined. My point being, if you are consciously aware of something being problematic, it makes your consumption of it more responsible.
big bang theory
Blackface for nerds.
extremely problematic
Oh boy, what did it wrong this time?
I’m sorry but whenever someone starts talking about something being problematic it’s mostly something that really isn’t a problem, it’s just a personal dislike
Anything and everything is problematic for somebody
I don’t like it, but it’s plenty well written, it’s obvious why people like it. I think people just like to hate on things they don’t like, it can be fun to be negative with no substantial harm, like complaining for fun.
It was always a mediocre show, but was so massively popular at the time that any criticism was quickly drowned out and brushed away. But now the hype has died down and people are more openly talking about the show’s flaws.
I personally thought it sucked back when it was new and have no interest in watching it now. I watched a handful of episodes as it had a syndication spot on my local networks, but just never got into it. (For the kids: Growing up on the East Coast, the dinner hours were generally news and 8-11 pm was “prime time” when new episodes of shows would air. In between shows would air reruns in syndication. So Friends was the filler I’d sometimes watch while waiting for the new shows to air.)
It is what it is, a simple comedy feel good show. Don’t expect deep and complex story lines because that’s not what anyone wants with a show line this
So with that in mind, what is objectively wrong with it? You said it yourself, it was massively popular, why do you think that was? It was good at what it did, nothing more, nothing less
It just wasn’t funny. It was a group of obnoxious young adults in apartments mugging for the camera while the laugh track assured us what they said was funny (it wasn’t.)
The only episode that landed for me was the boys trying to move a couch upstairs with Ross shouting “PIVOT!” Otherwise, nothing really interesting happened. The “Smelly Cat” song everyone memed about was just grating.
And I remember what was popular about it was Ross and Rachel. Which is mind-boggling, because they were both incredibly toxic and spent half their lives arguing over whether Ross cheated on her. Why would anyone root for that?
It is cringe 😄
Simple feel good comedy is just a distraction from reality. Even worse, with their semi fantasy “this is how real world is” style, they are actually hurting society making people think they are living in this fantasy society.
Go for Silo, severance and Invasion. Those shows offer way more reality based society even while being full-on fantasy.
Eh?
Simple feel good comedy is just a distraction from reality
Yes? Yeah! That’s what we want! Just a few laughs to relax and I don’t have to think too deeply, what’s wrong with that?
Silo, severance, invasion
It’s like I’m talking about apples and you say “yeah but airplanes are much better!” and… I can’t eat an airplane, dude!
Friends was very good at what it pretended and intended to be: simple fun to relax and feel good, it is what people wanted which it was so insanely popular
🤣
Depends on the zone.
In Texas where I lived… you get snakes. BIG snakes. And fun things like ninja bug swarms, wasp colonies, black widows, and such.
There aren’t a lot of wet leaves in Florida with so many palms or evergreens, but if you do leave them, you get disease and parisites, especially if its up against your house. Like, all the native plants in your yard will start dying. And it’s definitely not safe to step in.
And fireflies and butterflies. You take the good with the bad.
Don’t shame them for their guilty pleasure, lizard creature!
AMPHIBIAN
Edit: I accept I am wrong here. His style looks like AI slop to me. I see his responses in the screenshots. I’m wrong. I’ll keep my statement about slop as-is, though, since it’s true.
HELLO THERE!
DID YOU KNOW USING AI SLOP AS A CARTOON IS HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT?
Brian Ahearn may make poignant cartoons, but his use of generative AI to illustrate them is sad.Yeah as someone pointed out to me in another post. AI slop stole from artists like these hence why it looks similar and some of us have this initial negative reaction. Farking waste of air those thieving tech bros!
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Excellent work, thanks!
Also, when you want to remove them (partially or in spring), just mow them and leave the mulch. Easiest cleanup, good for the plants and wildlife
And Im going outside to rake up my leaves. And my neighbours leaves. Fuck that… gecko? No one shits on Friends, you little shit! NO ONE!!! lol
No one needs to shit on Friends, it’s already shit.
Remove the laugh track, and Ross is a full blown narcissistic sociopath… The only person he seems to genuinely care about is his son, Ben… But even Ben seems to vanish in the later seasons. There are fan theories that Ross completely abandoned Ben (or that Carol and Susan took full custody because Ross was always such a prick) after Emma was born.
Phoebe is a manipulative bitch who uses quirkiness as an excuse to toy with people.
Rachel is a spoiled disorganized mess, whose need for attention compelled her to constantly keep Ross on a leash without letting him get too close. She broke up with a dude, got her feelings hurt when he had a rebound, then constantly held it over his head after they got back together. When he got tired of it and found someone else, she crashed their wedding in the hopes that he would leave his fiancée at the altar.
Chandler regularly uses sarcasm to poke at his friends’ insecurities and belittle them, and masks all of his insecurities with self-deprecating humor instead of actually working to better himself.
Monica’s obsessive need for control regularly leads her to manipulate or bully others, and consistently overshadows her empathy.Joey was too good for the rest of the characters. His only real emotional flaw was that he never really had any deep romantic connections. But that was largely because he was more into the hookup culture, and he reserved his attempts at deeper romance for the few partners he really got along with. He never tried to hide the fact that he was a playboy, even around the women he was sleeping with. He was an idiot, but he at least cared for and about the other main characters, in a way that none of them ever seemed to reciprocate.
Also, the show was ultimately about six rich white people, who occasionally cosplayed as relatable lower middle class folk. In a city as diverse as NYC, you would have to work to find a city block so completely deprived of melanin. The series was 10 seasons long, and black people only had speaking roles in like 25 episodes… And a lot of those were because Ross and Joey dated the same black woman for like 10 episodes in the last season. They also very clearly lived in a nice part of the city, (some have estimated that Monica’s apartment would run for ~$3-4M when the show was airing) and their financial struggles were only ever superficial to make them more relatable.
Remove the laugh track, and Ross is a full blown narcissistic sociopath…
Yeah, we all saw that video, mate. It only makes him look like that, because hes pausing for the audience laughter. Its a sitcom… I dont really know what you expect. You take away the LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE and everyone looks like a nutjob.
But even Ben seems to vanish in the later seasons.
You can blame the Sprouse brothers getting more work for that, I would assume. Theres strict laws around how many hours a kid can work, and those kids were starting to gain popularity doing a couple of movies a year. Getting the schedules to line up was probably the main reason. But yeah, it was odd to see not see him show up again. But he was mentioned, most notably in jokes about his absence. Like when Jack says Emma is his first grandchild.
Phoebe is a manipulative bitch who uses quirkiness as an excuse to toy with people.
Rachel is a spoiled disorganized mess
Yes, that was the start of her character arc… You have seen character arcs before, right? You start off at one place. Have a few experiences, make some good and bad choices, learn from those experiences and then ultimately grow into a new version of the character? Does having flaws make a character bad? Some would say that flawed characters are the best characters. For example, Kim Wexler is a deeply flawed character, and one of the best of recent memory.
Chandler regularly uses sarcasm to poke at his friends’ insecurities and belittle them, and masks all of his insecurities with self-deprecating humor instead of actually working to better himself.
Same answer as Rachel.
Monica’s obsessive need for control regularly leads her to manipulate or bully others, and consistently overshadows her empathy.
See Rachel again.
Joey was too good for the rest of the characters. His only real emotional flaw was that he never really had any deep romantic connections.
Did you even watch the show?
Also, the show was ultimately about six rich white people, who occasionally cosplayed as relatable lower middle class folk. In a city as diverse as NYC, you would have to work to find a city block so completely deprived of melanin
So, white people cant be friends with only white people? Thats kinda racist, isnt it? Its not like there wasnt any other black people on the show. In the first season monica works with and is friends with a black woman. She just isnt part of the main cast. Do you have the same complaints about Living Single? Or the Fresh Prince? Or any of the other completely black casts of 90s sitcoms? Ill be you dont, cos Reddit never told you to…
They also very clearly lived in a nice part of the city, (some have estimated that Monica’s apartment would run for ~$3-4M when the show was airing) and their financial struggles were only ever superficial to make them more relatable.
So, Im guessing you just got all of this from Reddit? Cos theres loads of reasons not to like friends, and you havent hit any of them. What you have done is hit every single popular thing to say on reddit. Including reddits uncanny ability to miss the mark on all of them. The answer to the apartment was “rent control” and “subletting the apartment from Monicas grandmother”. Things that were brought up in the show REGULARLY. If you really wanted to challenge the cost of living, you would have picked Joey. As he was an out of work actor in a non rent controlled apartment. But even that was addressed by the fact that Chandler basically paid for everything and Joey owed him a fuck load of money. But Joey is the easy one to go after in this complaint, not Monica and Rachel. But reddit users are dumb as fuck, so there you have it.
Honestly, its the racism in your post thats so very disturbing. That white people MUST have a token black friend, or they are considered racist.
In a city as diverse as NYC, you would have to work to find a city block so completely deprived of melanin.
Greenwich Village(where friends is set) is part of Community District 2. And in the 90s CD2 had a population of 94,105. Of that, 2,941 (3.1 %) were non‑Hispanic Black/African American. So… no. It wasnt that diverse. Not where Friends was set. You need to go back to Reddit, bro beans. Youre stinking up the place with incorrect nonsense. Have a great day!
Sure, if by “wild life” you mean insects and rodents that you probably don’t want in your yard. Also, your grass will be dead if you have a good amount of trees.
Hedgehogs love leaves. And fuck yes do I want some rodents in my yard. I love bunnies. Why would I not want cool ass beetles? And I’m sure the little lizard wouldn’t mind as well.
Fuck the monoculture you call grass. I have a local wildflower yard.
Akshually rabbits aren’t rodents…
Of course I entirely agree with your post and am just being anal
Fine, then I love squirrels.
Hope you love snakes and fleas too
I love danger noodles. Especially since they’re not dangerous where I live. I will not commit to making my yard be void of life because I am incapable of using flea shampoo. I will also stay far away from wild animals, like you should.
You’re making a whole lot of assumptions about me here, which I’ll ignore.
Here are some reasons why I think this is a bad idea for many people. My good friend and neighbor just has rodents (mice in this case) do $7000 in damage to his car by chewing holes in his wiring harness. Also depending on your climate, said leaves are wonderful homes for cockroaches to breed, which I assume you don’t want unless you are insane. This was a major issue in Florida if I didn’t immediately rake of the vast bed of oak leaves. I have no problem with “good” rodents. Rabbits, squirrels, chipmonks, headehogs (are these even in the US? I’ve never see one of these anywhere I’ve live), etc. It’s is the mice and rats that can and will ruin your stuff and can majorly screw up your life. Good luck with your leaves.
Some people don’t mind sharing the land they have with them. Especially as the land available to wildlife decreases year on year.
Personally I’ll take insects and native rodents over sterile trimmed grass any day, especially for the front yard which doesn’t even get used aside from a ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ style lawn and garden manicure unspoken competition.
You can refer to my comment to a different reply for more details, but this has nothing to do with “keeping up with the Joneses”, it has everything to do with keeping away mice, rate, cockroaches, and the like away from my vehicle and home.
Where I live all the grass in peoples yards are not native and would absolutely die without constant upkeep by humans. I really don’t understand the point. I get that it looks neat and upholds the aesthetic of luxury yards, but I’ve never thought natural foilage was ugly and never understood why it was unwanted by people. The picture perfect at grass lawns are very uninviting for people to actually walk around on. At that point it’s basically the equivalent of putting plastic on all your furniture and telling guests not to sit on it
Those lawns could be clover, and they would look even nicer, require less upkeep, and be better for the environment and wildlife.
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You mean like complaining on the Internet about a throwaway joke in a webcomic?
The Friends dig was just a utilitarian punchline for the comic to add some comedy to the informative nature of the first panel. I dunno why people take things to heart so much when there really are so, so many better shows than Friends. The comic doesn’t even say that Friends is bad, just that there’s better. Show viewing options have expanded and improved a lot since 1994.
I generally agree with you, however I don’t think you can really say thatviewing options have improved. That depends on a lot of factors, with the most important one being preference.
