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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i used a scythe once at the family summer get-away cabin to cut the way too long grass while wearing a black skirt, a black top and a wide brimmed black hat.

Felt like I was a boss in Bloodborne for a minute there comfy-cool

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tonight, Gehrwoman joins the hunt

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Inappropriate laughter Oh silly me....I seem to have missed a spot... ....creepy giggles

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Red bar appears beneath the boss name "Betrieblichesicherheitgeschlecht"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

German as a language was a mistake

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The fact it resulted in the creation of both Dutch and English should have been a clue.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a way cooler thing to base a personality upon than Le Epic Beard or bideo bames. Critical support.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The bespoke scythe guy > the broke knife guy.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I gotta read that saga someday

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Start today! I started reading them after hearing about it on hexbear last year and read the whole thing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Discworld is addictive, so make sure there aren't any other books you want to read for a while

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

What can the harvest hope for, if not the care of the Reaper Man?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

100% the name is a nod to One Straw Revolution (1978) by Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008).

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

You've never seen a professional scything contest have you

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I sell European scythes

He's just trying to drum up demand

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He's really gonna hold onto the bit until Death huh?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

What can the harvester hope for, if not the approval of The Reaper Man?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Retrofit the blade and you got a pole arm for combat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Welcome to Guys: A Podcast About Guys, and this week we're taking a look at Scythe Guys"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

"I'm Bryan and I'm here with my co-host Chris, the string trimmer"

"Ok, yeah I guess I'd use one if I had a lawn? Is that bad?"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Scythes are underrated, in certain situations they are way faster and efficient than a string trimmer. Like when I see people maintenance mowing meadows with a string trimmer I feel so bad for them. But good luck clearing around garden beds with a scythe.

Having said that I would have never considered buying one if it weren't for cranks like these and they're completely harmless as far as those things go so 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've always wanted a scythe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's another guy (I think) who has consistently won speed mowing competitions using a scythe, and his channel is a joy to watch.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there's at least a third one, a swedish (i think) dude super into scything to restore meadows. mowing apparently wrecks the shit out of them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I think that's the one! He's really into speed mowing and regular mowing.

I've also been lucky to meet some amazing folks who do the same but don't have a YouTube channel. They're just mountain people maintaining meadows through transhumance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I love it,

I used to watch speed building of uh, "wire fences" I guess it's the translation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That is very niche, so much so I don't even know what the word for that kind of wire fence would be in Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Alambrado, papá

Argie spanish at least

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ah of course, we call it that in Colombia, too. Just that we use it to mean barbed wire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plus it can't be niche, how are y'all keeping your cows and sheep grazing in place?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

This is something I'd happily base my personality on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Does this not fuck up your back if you do it too much?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

EVERYTHING fucks up your back if you do it too much. Source: have a back

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True, our spines weren't meant for upright bipedal use. Return to monke.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Then why it inserts itself in our craniums in that angle?

Sike there are no whys in biology, whatever it is, it's what sticked without killing off the species (yet), plus fucking randomness is the biggest evolutionary driver, etc etc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Source: have a back

Pics or you're lying

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

So does shrimping in an office job so eh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i mean yeah, it's manual labor. the flesh is temporary. i don't think lugging around a weed wacker is much better for you, and it's definitely better than a push mower.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scythes were up there with bacon and mustaches in the 2010s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Really? I don't remember

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's even worse, he has an LLC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A corporation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

limited-liability company

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