• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    331 day ago

    “It’s good. You’ve got the swing and everything.”

    Tʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ, ᴍɪss Fʟɪᴛᴡᴏʀᴛʜ.

    “But why one blade of grass at a time?”

    Bill Door regarded the neat row of stalks for some while.

    Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴡᴀʏ?

    “You can do lots in one go, you know.”

    Nᴏ. Nᴏ. Oɴᴇ ʙʟᴀᴅᴇ ᴀᴛ ᴀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ. Oɴᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ, ᴏɴᴇ ʙʟᴀᴅᴇ.

    “You won’t cut many that way,” said Miss Flitworth.

    Eᴠᴇʀʏ ʟᴀsᴛ ᴏɴᴇ, Mɪss Fʟɪᴛᴡᴏʀᴛʜ.

    “Yes?”

    Tʀᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛʜɪs.

    • @turmacar
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      131 day ago

      Came here to check if there was a Pratchett quote.

      (Reaper Man if anyone’s curious)

      • topher
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        111 day ago

        The ‘small caps’ really gave it away to me but I wasn’t familiar with which book - thank you! The Death books were always very humanizing in an interesting way, His scenes were always my favourite.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    520 hours ago

    A skilled scythe user can be very handy in the really tall stuff.

  • @mojofrododojo
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    623 hours ago

    mowing lawns in texas makes you 1) anticipate death as a routine part of the job and 2) on the long days wish for it’s release.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      422 hours ago

      I always wondered why nobody has invented a roomba that was a lawn mower. You set up the lawn boundries, and it just zips around once every two weeks cutting your grass.

      And then you just sit inside and watch your beer, while drinking a tv.

      • @ladicius
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        1222 hours ago

        Autonomous lawn mowers (lawn mower robots) are a thing for about ten years now over here in Germany. I see them everywhere, just silently and slowly rolling around and mowing around the clock.

        They are also very efficient in killing hedge hogs and frogs and the likes - humans pushing a lawn mower trend to keep such animals alive whereas the robots simply shred them. They have no device to detect small animals and nobody cares to implement any which says a lot about humankind.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          421 hours ago

          I understand how frogs would get caught up in it…but you’d think hedgehogs would run away before it gets them.

          • @ladicius
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            620 hours ago

            Turns out they can’t. It really happens often.

      • @[email protected]
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        422 hours ago

        For the same reason robot mops haven’t gotten to be viable in a commercial environment: human slaves are still cheaper than robots.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          321 hours ago

          What? Robot mops exist…I bought one for my sister like 10 years ago.

          • @TheHotze
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            221 hours ago

            So do autonomous lawnmowers, just neither got as popular as Roombas.

  • @samus12345
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    71 day ago

    “I’m here to kill n00bs!”

      • @samus12345
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        120 hours ago

        I loved EQ back in the day, but I just can’t deal with the clunkiness any more. Especially since I don’t have time to do more than solo nowadays.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      422 hours ago

      Yes. Manny Calivera is definately a grim reaper I’d hang out with.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 day ago

    Then when we’re done, I’ll take you on a super-cool trip… to hell, how does that sound? We have donuts.