The only time my neighbor starts a fire in their back yard is when there is a red flag fire warning. We don’t have many of these warnings per year, like one or two. On these days, they have a fire without fail. Yeah, they’re a libertarian. Loves Rogan and Musk. Fucking dangerous, these people. Adolescent contrarians have more functioning logic.

  • bleistift2English
    91·
    6 hours ago

    First time I got to use a fire extinguisher was when a neighbor a few houses down the street thought it was a good idea to burn moss in his driveway with a blowtorch after it hadn’t rained in weeks.

    That was the second time that neighbor’s neighbor’s hedge caught fire. He then replaced it with a fence.

      • bleistift2English
        25·
        3 hours ago

        There is too little information in that comment for me to be able to provide a meaningful response with the given context.

        Edit: I don’t know why the material matters, but I think it was a wire mesh with some sort of plastic in between.

        • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          51·
          5 hours ago

          I’m not the person you replied to, but pretty sure the question was whether the neighbor in your story replaced their hedge with a vinyl fence specifically.

          • bleistift2English
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Thanks. I couldn’t come up with a reason why the material would be relevant, so I thought there must be some context or other meaning of “vinyl fence” that I was missing.

            • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              3 hours ago

              I could be wrong, but they likely asked because vinyl/PVC is generally toxic to the environment so it was probably a means of asking whether your neighbor replaced the foliage in their yard with a fixture that poisons the ground. I wouldn’t be surprised if the strips in the chain link were vinyl, as that’s a pretty common outdoor filler material.