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[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Tonight, Gehrwoman joins the hunt

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Red bar appears beneath the boss name "Betrieblichesicherheitgeschlecht"

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

German as a language was a mistake

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

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

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

The bespoke scythe guy > the broke knife guy.

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago
[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

I gotta read that saga someday

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 2 months ago
[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

You've never seen a professional scything contest have you

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

I sell European scythes

He's just trying to drum up demand

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago
[-] theturtlemoves@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 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?"

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 🤷

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I've always wanted a scythe.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

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

[-] huf@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 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.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I love it,

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

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Alambrado, papá

Argie spanish at least

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[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Lol I meant the competitive aspect of it, not the alambrado itself.

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

This is something I'd happily base my personality on

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

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

[-] JayTreeman@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 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

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Source: have a back

Pics or you're lying

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

So does shrimping in an office job so eh

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 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.

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago
[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Really? I don't remember

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

it's even worse, he has an LLC

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago
[-] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

limited-liability company

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

A corporation

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