Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 6 2010, 9:20 AM BSTYou seem to mow your lawn a lot! Maybe you should pave it over, free up a bit of your spare time.
Every 5-7 days or the mower wouldn't be able to chew through it. St. Augustine grass is very thick and grows about 4 inches per week.
Quote: Nogget @ May 6 2010, 9:26 AM BSTPresumably there are strict regulations regarding grass length?
There are, but it'd probably have to be a foot tall or higher before anyone complained.
Quote: DaButt @ May 6 2010, 1:56 PM BSTEvery 5-7 days or the mower wouldn't be able to chew through it. St. Augustine grass is very thick and grows about 4 inches per week.
Get some pretend grass laid down.
Quote: DaButt @ May 6 2010, 1:56 PM BSTEvery 5-7 days or the mower wouldn't be able to chew through it. St. Augustine grass is very thick and grows about 4 inches per week.
There are, but it'd probably have to be a foot tall or higher before anyone complained.
Why don't you get a goat?
Quote: Chappers @ May 6 2010, 2:10 PM BSTWhy don't you get a goat?
So you can keep guns, but not goats?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 6 2010, 2:29 PM BSTSo you can keep guns, but not goats?
Yep. It's illegal to fire a gun within city limits, but I live a few yards outside the boundary so I could probably shoot a goat if I liked. 
Quote: DaButt @ May 6 2010, 2:33 PM BSTYep. It's illegal to fire a gun within city limits, but I live a few yards outside the boundary so I could probably shoot a goat if I liked.
What if you fired it in the air several times a day? Maybe to mark each hour, like a clock?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 6 2010, 2:29 PM BSTSo you can keep guns, but not goats?
Are you unaware of the role of the goat it organised crime?
So you can't keep goats, nor more than two pets; you have to keep the grass short; and you lock up more people than anywhere else on the planet.
And this is 'the land of the free'?
Quote: Nogget @ May 6 2010, 2:44 PM BSTAre you unaware of the role of the goat it organised crime?
The Goatfather.
Goatfellas.
The Sopran...goats...erm....
Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 6 2010, 2:35 PM BSTWhat if you fired it in the air several times a day? Maybe to mark each hour, like a clock?
Firing into the air is unsafe. I heard a few shots the other day, but it was only a neighbor shooting a rattlesnake.
Quote: Nogget @ May 6 2010, 2:44 PM BSTSo you can't keep goats, nor more than two pets; you have to keep the grass short; and you lock up more people than anywhere else on the planet.
And this is 'the land of the free'?
The first three are my neighborhood association's rules, not laws. Residents have adopted them voluntarily and people are free to live elsewhere.
Locking up dangerous criminals is a good thing. Do you disagree?
You can't have three cats? 
What are mad old cat ladies supposed to do.
How about 2 cats and a goldfish?
Quote: DaButt @ May 6 2010, 2:56 PM BSTLocking up dangerous criminals is a good thing. Do you disagree?
I'd be concerned about how many people are locked up for things as keeping 3 cats.
Did anyone else in London see a giant Channel 4 banner being flown overhead just now? For all the expense I couldn't make out what show was being advertised but I suspect something to do with the election. Can anyone edify?