• bricklove@midwest.social
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    2 hours ago

    For a good minute or 2 today a leaf blower, chainsaw, and police sirens combined powers to just fuck my shit up

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    It’s all awful and loud noises until you get ear protection, grab the machine, and become the leaf blower. Then it becomes the perfect game for holding our attention.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      and also your neighbours doing DIY one after the other

      if they want to use their powertools fine but at least pick a day out of the week to do it all together!

      edit: typo

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 hours ago

    i just realized i barely ever hear leafblowers here in sweden (i think they only really use them to clean up the winter gravel) and thank fuck for that

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Fucking hell, now ride of the valkyries is on loop in my brain and Willem Dafoe won’t stop screaming at me.

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      50 minutes ago

      Like others have said, it’s loud, but it’s also that it’s a constant noise that can often tend to cut through whatever you’re currently trying to focus on.

      Add on the tendency people have to feather the throttle (do leaf blowers have throttles?), making the noise really inconsistent and unpredictable, and it makes it difficult to keep what little focus you have.

      Sometimes, when there’s like 3 different leaf blowers going at once, I can barely keep my train of thought if I can’t drown it out by turning my music all the way up. :\

    • Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      Its loud and often kicks up tons of dust that can be an irritant until it eventually lands on everything nearby.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      17 hours ago

      Too loud? I think it would be fun. And at the end you have a neat pile of leaves. Should use them to build a house.