John Kuthe wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 6:02:59 AM UTC-5, Ophelia wrote:
> > "jmcquown" wrote in message ...
> >
> > On 12/4/2017 10:42 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > >
> > > You mean like Amazon, Home Depot and a bunch of other stores we all use?
> > > Do we have to speculate on where people buy their lawn equipment?
> >
> > Only if they *crow* about it. That could apply to a lot of people
> > here. John Kuthe posted the link and I don't care enough to find out
> > where he bought an electric lawnmower. It's not groundbreaking news.
> > One of my neighbors uses one. Ditto electric trimmers.
> >
> > John Kuthe acts like owning these sort of tools is something special.
> > It's not.
> >
> > Jill
> >
> > ==
> >
> > Perhaps it is, if he has never had one before.
>
> And I never have, before I moved into this house and my Cheap Chinese Landlord had A paragraph in our lease about how it was US LEASEES' responsibility to maintain mowing/trimming the lawn! A housemate resident when I moved in seemed to be the only housemate doing lawn maintenance and I picked up that responsibility after he moved out. And at that time our Cheap Chinese Landlord would bring HIS gas powered mower over for loan to Wang (my housemate when I moved in here) could mow the lawn here when needed!
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> So as a Rainbow Warrior I saw an opportunity to strike a deal! So I proposed to my Cheap Chinese Landlord that if he would BUY ME a CORDED electric lawn mower (for the house, not for ME!) that *I* would assume all lawn mowing responsibilities!! And HE BIT!! :-) Bought me (the house) a cheap-assed Chinese made "Black and Decker" (another famous in the U.S. formerly good well made USA made brand that MOVED TO CHINA!! Thanks MalWart!)and I started mowing our lawn regularly with it, and discovered it was kinda underpowered, so as somewhat of an expert on electric motors (I burned out a LOT of my toys' little electric motors by overpowering them with a much higher VOLTAGE and of course amps too, and even BEFORE I became an EE I KNEW Ohm's Law!
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> So I searched for the HIGHEST AMP electric Plug-in mower I could find, and the highest amp one I could find was Made In China (of course!) so I BOUGHT ONE! Had to wire AROUND the Dead Man's handle safety shutoff to make it WORK, which I did to my first Green Works high amp electric plug in mower AND the POS Chinese made Black and Decker my landlord bought us too, because THEY FAIL and make the mower INOPERABLE, and I knows how to bypass that and MAKE THEM AVOID THE "not plugged in" error,FAIL!!) And I STILL have all my toes and fingers because I am not STUPID!
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> Do y'all feel so much speciously better about your failing fragile egos saying that "Oh yeah, WE ALL knew that all along" when there is NO WAY that was a true statement? Overgeneralization is almost never true!! It's EGO PATCHING only, almost always. Except for syllogisms!!
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As one of Marlene Dietrich's world - weary characters said in a movie ("Touch of Evil" IIRC), "Everything old is new again..."


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Greg