So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.

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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ain’t that America! Home of the free, baby! Busted old fences for you and me!

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  • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weird, I assumed this is some British petulance. I wonder.

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• troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jesus your life is soft. Boo fucking hoo.

  Fence is there. Yay. Thanks, neighbor, for fixing it.

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  • kyle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This sub is called “mildly infuriating”, not “holy shit I’m out of my mind angry at this”

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    congrats everyone!

    we found the neighbor!

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Didn’t notice the screws?

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There are no screws.

      … those are nails

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• sepi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  nail edit

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…

  I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. Gen X got to grow up with adults familiar with the pre-tech world and where a lot of things could be and needed to be fixed by yourself, and they grew up with the advent of household technology. From mending fences to replacing a capacitor in a electric motor to fixing your own car. Some of that got passed on to the kids by the boomers. I’m not trying to say this kind of knowledge was common, it was just more common.

  I looked at the fence and couldn’t understand why someone wouldn’t take the ten minutes to trim the bottom off and buy a small box of the correct nails, but then someone could be in the position of never having been taught to think of those things. Maybe it was just laziness.

  So, I appeal to my Gen X brethren - peel yourself and your kids away from the screens and find a way to get your collective hands dirty. Change some brake pads. Fix a fence right. Change the spark plug or oil in a mower. Build a raised-bed garden, even a small one, from scratch. Make the kids do the work they can. Trll them why you chose to do what you did, how you chose the parts, what you need to look out for, etc.

  It’s better for problem solving skills, planning, and just understanding how things work. Spare everyone the embarrassment of a shitty fence repair job.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bro, you can grab any old saw and cut off an end it -takes practically zero knowledge.

    Stop bitching about “kids these days”.

    More likely, the person either didn’t have a saw or was just lazy. This isn’t a generational issue. Don’t be ageist.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This isn’t a “kids these days” at all. No need for you to be offended.

      It was a request to pass on generalist knowledge from generations that had a lot more exposure to it.

      I left plenty of room in my statement with conditional language to allow those with knowledge like this to exist regardless of age, but you went and made it all about you.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He probably decided he didn’t have a way to cut those 45 degree angles and so there was no way to make those boards like the rest.

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cut it off the bottom then?

    And use way shorter hardware to affix the boards.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah I should definitely have included the /s here LOL my bad

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I imagine that’s still their property, given the fence in the foreground, but those screws sticking out could have been a great slip-and-fall style multi-million dollar lawsuit my just cutting yourself a little with a “rusty” screw. My building HOA got sued for less before I moved in, and insurance just caves without checking if it’s legit since that can just up the premiums.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is why you need good neighbors. Good neighbors make good fences.

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  • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think you missed the joke.

      See, there’s an old saying “good fences make good neighbors”, meaning that a fence allows neighbors to coexist with less friction since there are less opportunities for seeing and crossing into each other’s lives and yards.

      They flipped the saying around “good neighbors make good fences” because the fence here isn’t that good.

      It’s a nice little play on words and ideas, not then telling OP to get better neighbors

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You could resort to what Will Ferrell and John C Reilly did in Stepbrothers

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• whithom@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cut them an inch shorter than yours, and bend the nails over so they can’t be removed.

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What a poor job lol. Looks like the fence has buck teeth!

  Those are nails. It’d be better if they were screws as the extra length would be easy to snap off. Nails are less brittle so you need to cut them off or bend them over.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So they have a hammer but no saw

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• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had a uncle who could have cut those perfectly with a chain saw.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fence of Theseus…

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Buckfence ass bitch

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• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d hammer the nails back out into their side.

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• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Its crazy how many peeps here cant see there are two separate fences with a no mans land gap between. It’s really weird because Ive seen this on properties more often then I would’ve expected I would.

  One of the most common scenarios ive seen this is when neighbor A has a pool and put the required perimeter fence for the pool but not at the property line. Also the pool and fence would be installed first. Then neighbor B put up a fence after and told the cobtractor to run their property line. I say contractor because they do as told by person paying, if it was diy fence by owner theu wouldve talked to neighbor and butted the fences back to back w/ no gap. It’d explain the neighbor not caring about the protruding screw out the back because they’ve never seen a single person between the two fences the entire time they put the fences up.

  Other scenarios are quick fix to contain animal till full fence replacing is installed. Or neighbor with bucktooth fence, from the picture angle, looks like they have no sight line to that part of fence from house and said fucked if I care.

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• 3ntranced@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Had similar scenario this summer at new house. Solution? We built a 10 ft fence.

  Just add more wall when needed.

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• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pound the nails out so they’re back on their side. Harmless, but gets the point across(maybe).

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• dumbass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Does it stop things getting through the fence?

  If yes then it’s a legally perfect fence.

  The screws is probably the only thing that they need to fix up. That’s a safety issue but besides that, nothing wrong with that fence.

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