# Fucking leaf blowers. I am so sick of this goddam shit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749 "2008-09-15T22:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/81 "2014-02-18T17:09:08Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > Go eat a bag of dicks, and don’t forget to swallow. Homophobe ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/82 "2014-02-18T17:26:46Z")
Just be glad you don’t live near one of my neighbors, who uses his leaf blower year-round. It could be mid-winter, and if one leaf or twigfalls onto the snow, he’s out there blowing it away. And he wears a gas mask. He also trims his lawn and hedge with a pair of scissors and sweeps the street in front of his house. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/83 "2014-02-18T17:33:19Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > You know, Wal Mart carries a very good selection of foam ear plugs that might be your salvation. Walmart also carries…rakes. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/84 "2014-02-18T17:43:18Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Homophobe Feel free to enjoy the process. I won’t stop you. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/85 "2014-02-18T18:28:59Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > You should hope that list of morons doesn’t include those who join a northern Hemisphere message board in Winter just to resurrect a 6 year old thread with an off-season topic Who cares how old a thread is? Leaf blowers still suck in 2014. Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/86 "2014-02-18T18:53:49Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Who cares how old a thread is? Leaf blowers still suck in 2014. Get over it. Congratulations. You just said the stupidest thing I’ve read on the internet today. Though I can see, since you have so much trouble reading for comprehension, that you would post something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/87 "2014-02-19T01:54:46Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > You just said the stupidest thing I’ve read on the internet today. Unless you post without reading the choice turns of phrase oozing slimily from your fingers like so much rancid day-old cocksplatter, this is a surprising claim. Come to think of it, that explains a lot. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/88 "2014-02-19T04:18:14Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > I use a lawnmower about once every two weeks, a power washer maybe two or three weekend days in the spring, and a leaf blower/vacuum thing in the spring to clear the patio/deck… Ooh, can I play the **Superior Neighbor** game? I wash windows with windex, rake or sweep leaves with zero blowing, AND I have an Old School manual “reel” mower. Just from watching me cut quietly, three other guys on our block have bought one. Had a friend drop over on a Saturday, and she looked around at the mowers, the big wheels, the slip ‘n’ slides and sidewalk chalk (oh, and the lemonade stand), and asked if she’d just crossed into a time warp. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/89 "2014-02-19T12:35:17Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Congratulations. You just said the stupidest thing I’ve read on the internet today. I really hope that is just rhetoric. Because it can’t be actually true. Speaking of, does the phrase “eat a bag of dicks” have anything to do with the insult “dickbag”? And isn’t one sort of homo-insulting, but the other isn’t? How do homos insult each other anyhow? They can’t call each other cocksuckers. They can’t yell “Oh yeah? Well kiss my ass”, or “Suck my dick”, which is your go to insult for an American manly man. Or can you still say that? Just in case I become gay, it would be good to know. I should add that I’ve had a woman, a seriously angry woman tell me to suck her dick. I mentioned she didn’t have one, and she yelled, really loud too, “Well if I did you can suck it”, which brought up all kinds of strange thoughts about that particular scenario. Anyhow, back the hatred of leafblowers, and the cocksukers who start them up at 6 am on a Sunday morning. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/90 "2014-02-19T13:07:42Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Speaking of, does the phrase “eat a bag of dicks” have anything to do with the insult “dickbag”? > > And isn’t one sort of homo-insulting, but the other isn’t? > > How do homos insult each other anyhow? They can’t call each other cocksuckers. They can’t yell “Oh yeah? Well kiss my ass”, or “Suck my dick”, which is your go to insult for an American manly man. Or can you still say that? Just in case I become gay, it would be good to know. God, I hate open mic night… ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/91 "2014-02-19T13:11:56Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And he wears a gas mask. He also trims his lawn and hedge with a pair of scissors and sweeps the street in front of his house. That inconsiderate bastard. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/92 "2014-02-19T13:23:40Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > God, I hate open mic night… More than you hate leaf blowers? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/93 "2014-02-19T14:05:30Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/94 "2014-02-19T14:15:53Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Unless you post without reading the choice turns of phrase oozing slimily from your fingers like so much rancid day-old cocksplatter, this is a surprising claim. I love that sentence! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/95 "2014-02-19T16:12:02Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > Join date: Today > > Posts: 1 > > Posting in: Long dead thread. > > Yup. Seen this one happen lots of times before. Congratulations Sherlock you’ve solved the case of the Newbie Poster. Feel free to pat yourself on the back and feel superior to such a lowly creature. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/96 "2014-02-19T16:34:52Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Congratulations. You just said the stupidest thing I’ve read on the internet today. Though I can see, since you have so much trouble reading for comprehension, that you would post something like that. Now, see, friends, what we have here is like one of those “[useless machines.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4)” By posting this, you negate it at the same time, because YOUR post is the stupidest thing you’ve read on the Internet today. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/97 "2014-02-19T17:03:40Z")
Oh snap! ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/98 "2014-02-19T17:04:45Z")
I didn’t realize this was an old thread when I saw it pop up, and I posted in it. WHO THE FUCK CARES HOW OLD SOMETHING IS? Sometimes old stuff is really valuable. Not a leafblower, but other stuff. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/99 "2014-02-19T18:24:29Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Now, see, friends, what we have here is like one of those “[useless machines.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4)” By posting this, you negate it at the same time, because YOUR post is the stupidest thing you’ve read on the Internet today. Well yeah…until you posted. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/100 "2014-02-19T18:30:39Z")
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