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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
Thu May 31, 2012, 07:44 PM May 2012

Power of the Picket Fence II: assault, armed robbery, and the shaggy lawn culture.

Last edited Thu May 31, 2012, 08:26 PM - Edit history (1)

Armed robbery is terrible. Its bad. And so is violent assault. so can there be any doubt that these things are part and parcel of our grassified culture where it has become increasingly permissible to let your lawn go to seed? Obviously not. Because the scientifically peer reiewed sociological framework of lawn flatzhitzmatpiphery clearly tells us that through society's lens of lawnificating violencimatationizing, violence is always associated with not mowing your lawn frequently enough.

Lets review:







We need to do something about our lawnified culture, or the violence will never stop. WHY WONT THEY LISTEN?!?!!!?!

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Power of the Picket Fence II: assault, armed robbery, and the shaggy lawn culture. (Original Post) Warren DeMontague May 2012 OP
Yes. It's a well understood cognitive process. lumberjack_jeff Jun 2012 #1
"well understood cognitive process"! Warren DeMontague Jun 2012 #2
Its also a statistical fact that 97% of all armed robbers have had contact, at some point in their Warren DeMontague Jun 2012 #3
See, science! Warren DeMontague Jun 2012 #4
 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
1. Yes. It's a well understood cognitive process.
Sat Jun 2, 2012, 07:06 PM
Jun 2012

People frustrated with their shaggy lawn will rob convenience stores for the money to hire the hapless neighbor kid.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
2. "well understood cognitive process"!
Sat Jun 2, 2012, 07:13 PM
Jun 2012


Nice to see ya, Jeff.




You realize that for using that phrase successfully in a sentence, the machine will dispense you a biscuit. I thought skinner, in particular, would appreciate the irony.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
3. Its also a statistical fact that 97% of all armed robbers have had contact, at some point in their
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 03:59 AM
Jun 2012

Lives, with crabgrass.

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