I GRADUATED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND I MAKE THIS SAME RANT TO MY FREIDNS AND IM FUCKING QUIVERING IN A MIXTURE OF RAGE TOWARDS GRASS AND HAPPINESS THAT VAUSH UNDERSTANDS HIW SHITTY GRASS IS FUCK GRASS MAN
just saw the "throwback" in the title. DIdn't realize this was made back before rush limbaugh died. It's really a shame radios weren't blasting "another one bites the dust" when that happened. And honestly, he did a lot of bad, but the sheer nerve of using a song written by a bisexual man to celebrate deaths of gay men is, well honestly it's hard to come up with something equally cruel to compare it to.
The historical socioeconomic background of grass is pretty interesting: First it was the aristocracy and later in masses the bourgeoisie who started to grew grass in their gardens. Its a sign of showing off to your neighbours and bypassers: "Look, I am so rich, I can afford to spend money, time and ressources to grow this useless grass stuff instead of something I could eat or sell" Grass is totally unbased, anti-worker. Should be cancelled.
It was more like “look, I am so rich, not only can I afford to not use a massive amount of land for anything at all, I can ALSO afford to make peasants maintain it instead of letting it go fallow.”
Mowing my lawn is literally my happy place. The warmth of the sun, the smell of freshly cut grass, the look of a neat, tidy and aesthetic lawn, The accomplishment felt at maintaing my property I worked so hard for. Go outside you fucking pasty gollum cave dwellers!
Rewatching this, I just realized something that doesn't get enough attention: Suburban sprawl is killing small businesses. Local businesses aren't walkable anymore.
Small businesses, and the communities they are present in, greatly benefit from higher density, walkability, public transit, and mixed use zoning. Downtown areas, in big cities and small towns, represent a disproportionately high amount of revenue for the community, while the burbs represent a huge financial drain on the community at large. It's by nature that density provides revenue, and sprawl burdens both itself and the dense. So when communities hopefully wake up to this inevitability, they can turn back time and reverse the black hole that is sprawl.
I am so glad that my homes grass is natural and doesn’t have to be fucking dowsed in a absurd amount of fertiliser every month. I ain’t in America but I live in a rural area but just on the cusp of a city, but it must be noted that the city has 25000 people, that isn’t a problem, low density areas mean less traffic.
Best part of Suburbia is that even if you wanted to have a nice looking biodiverse garden, you can't, because you're beholden to a fascist HOA that mandates everything about your life from the color of your walls to the height and species of the grass in the lawn you are forced to pay for.
@@oilyfrog5022 generally, if you don't live in a condo or a newer 2000's neighborhood, there's no HOA. There are exceptions, but that is the general rule
This is why I like Vaush. Nowhere else can you hear such an intelligent and well-spoken person get so downright belligerent over stupid bullshit EDIT: Nevermind this is based as hell
Nothing makes me happier than opening a youtube video and immediately being greeted by vaush very angrily exclaiming about how shitty grass is Also he's 100% fucking right
It's a luxury. Jelly of my yard? Sounds like it! Heck, tax it and regulate it. But yes, I enjoy my beautiful large yard. Do any of you fly? Check out how much gas you used.
I grew up in Puyallup, WA. Pretty much a rain forest climate. Yes, we had Sword Ferns all over the front yard. Giant Fushia bushes. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries in the backyard. In the summer time if my siblings and I were hungry we went outside.
@@ringtailrobin3036 Very Cool. I now live in arid Central Washington. It's a different kind of beautiful. Basalt columns, gorges, and lots of sage brush. I miss the trees and the sight of Mt. Rainier, I don't miss the rain.
I live in a geographically beautiful part of the US and it literally makes my blood boil that the people out here are living in the woods, in the mountains, and STILL have GRASS LAWNS
It shocks me how the US, despite being one of the most incredibly beautiful and diverse places on the planet, the people living there just wants to do nothing with it, just make more suburbs.
Honestly as someone from a small town that is being turned into a suburb of a expanding city more people want the suburbs than to preserve the nature around their community and it’s breaking my heart watching my community being gentrified and the natural ecology being disrespected and destroyed
One of the worst things I can tell you about my experience right now is as a person who works at a liquor store the rich people who just moved here complaining about the restaurants being understaffed and them not realizing that they priced them out and bought all the houses that used to be semi affordable houses or rentals I mean I saw houses that were worth probably 50,000 dollars going for 2-3 hundred thousand dollars and rent in most places went from 6-8 hundred for a one or two bedroom apartment to 1-2 thousand for a one bedroom and most places are vacation rentals or air b&bs that don’t want people there for more than a couple months what kind of normal working class person can afford that in a state where most restaurants pay like shit
My mom has an HOA, and one time they sent her a letter about “community security” because one time I waited for a car to stop by and open the gate for me because I forgot my zapper one time. (I walk to and from work)
I'm a novice forager and whenever I go to the suburbs it almost hurts my heart to see their lawns. Where I live, someone can walk outside and find two or three edible, and medicinal plants right outside their house. But in the suburbs they pour Round Up and other poisons on those plants and replace it with a uniformly cut ornamental grass that isn't even fit for livestock. A literal bounty right outside your door, but why take advantage of that when you can have Bermuda grass that comes in a fucking roll.
This rly is sad, ive grown up in suburbs all my life and the current house im in is surrounded by so many different trees and flowers, but theres a highway expansion going on and they cut down the forest alot and it just feels... wrong, its sad to see a community i loved decay so quickly
if you live in the suburbs and are bored, definitely dont look into seed bombs and guerrilla gardening, it’s technically vandalism and is very very bad. i just want to let you all know so you can avoid it
I worked for a lawn company that takes care of suburbs...the entire lawn industry is a racket. Domesticated grasses cannot survive unless they are continuously taken care of. Grass is vulnerable to weeds, funguses, dozens of different grass killing insects, birds (like cranes who dig holes for insects), even boars (I've seen lawn be dug to shreds by wild pigs).The amount of weed killer, water and money it take to protect these artificial biomes is absurd. I've seen people pay tens of thousands of dollars to resode their lawns, only for it to be over in by chinch bugs. Lawn care is a tit for tat arms race against nature. There's no permanent victory or solution. And that why it makes money. Also, fun fact. A lot of the weeds people pay to kill were brought to North America intentionally by Europeans as a extra source of food. Examples being dandelion and clover.
seriously though, it would be so much better environmentally if everyone just let their grass die. At the very least, stop watering it. Definitely stop mowing it. And we should also stop picking up leaves that fall from the trees. Apparently the reason people do that is the leaves not getting picked up could kill the grass, which again, wouldn't be a bad thing
listening to this drunk is just different. I imagine sitting at the bar and said bless you tonthe person bext to me. And they just go ham, go absolutely crazy ranting to me. Vaush stunlock never change, please.
This gives the vibe of when you ask your friend how their day was, and they’ve had a rant ready in their head for hours about how bad it was. And I’m for it.
People called me crazy for saying the exact same thing about lawns, there’s no practical use for them and it’s bland AF. I’m still crazy, but at least I feel affirmed hearing this
People have lawns because rich people had lawns. Rich people had lawns because royalty had lawns. Royalty had lawns so the peasantry couldn't sneak up to their palace under forest cover and overthrow them.
i'm in a suburb on the outskirts of a city and ur right about this. city is way more alive and real. if you dropped me in a random part of my city id be able to tell where i was just by looking around. if you dropped me in a random suburb id be lost because all suburbs are copy pasted parking lots
I cant believe Vaush made me feel shitty about living in a house. At least the suburb I live in doesn't have a HOA so I don't have to worry about that.
@@sashalai3987 well, we actually have a "corridor" of dirt alongside the house, so it is easier to clean when they shit there (wich I do), but she still losses her mind because of the grass.
I live in a densely populated area of Oahu, Hawaii where literally everything is less than a 5 minute drive away. It’s like a actually 5 minute city. I couldn’t imagine having to move back in with my parents in their suburban ghost neighborhood in Virginia with nothing going on. I’d feel sick to my stomach with anxiety everyday.
I used to own a landscaping company, and after years of watching people throw thousands at me to make their lawns look like this... There's a reason I don't do it anymore.
I live in a soviet blockhouse and the space between my house and the house right next to it is like a whole goddamn forest, completed with all of the birds and even foxes... it's pretty beautiful, I'd never trade this for a grass and concrete square with an ugly house on it...
I grew up in my very early years in a cozy little single wide, a mate to a pair on a lot for two tenants to occupy. The yard was very comfy, with tall bushes surrounding much of it and some shade trees that made it very nice to spend time outside in. It was out at the edge of town and still exists to this day in probably much the same state as it was in when I lived there, but where there once was fields of golden grass at the edge of the tiny neighborhood, now sits sprawling sterile copy-paste lots of late stage suburban sprawl. I haven't been back to this location since I moved out into a rural suburban community 20 or so miles away when I was probably just 3 or 4 years old, but I have prominent memories of that place. I sincerely tell you that I literally remember my mom holding me one morning with the blue light of the pre-sunrise sky, and she was letting the cat outside. That place was a masterpiece of childhood nostalgia.
Coming back to this video after seeing the neighbors who’ve just moved into my beautiful tree-ridden wooded suburb that has a pretty good amount of ivy and trees and biodiversity cutting down the trees right next to our fence on their side, which is now leaving big swaths of ugly blankness instead of the pretty tree cover that was creating a natural fence. Thankfully it’s not like they’re cutting down the trees on our side, they can’t do that, but damn if they care that much about leaves in their backyard then they’re going to be real mad this spring when I go plant 4/5/6 new young trees on our side of the fence. Fuck them. If you don’t want leaves on your backyard then move to one of those ugly lawn filled neighborhoods, don’t buy a house in our gorgeous biodiverse wooded suburb. The trees that have been there since before my parents were born. I literally drive past trees my aunt and uncle planted with their own hands a few times a week. I’m planting extra trees just to spite them then. FUCK LAWNS
As a guy from the Greek suburbs around Athens , I'm happy we don't have this lawn system where there's no fence, where every house is the same, where there are no shops near your home for miles. Luckily I can go to the more commercial suburb nearby and there are street musicians playing traditional, folk, jazz or vocal music in the street as well as shops bars and abandoned buildings to hang out with friends. You are absolutely right here about the state of some suburbs. .
I haven’t mowed my zoysia grass in 2 months. It’s amazing at the stuff that ends up popping up. My ex husband is a turfgrass manager and hated having to “mow around” stuff like trees, rock gardens, vegetable gardens, etc. My current project of reducing my lawn just happened to be symbolic. The stuff is pointless.
God, I genuinely dispise lawn that just flat, green, homogeneous grass. It's an eyesore that's high maintenance that doesn't even benefit something as simple as bees. There's a plain lawn in my backyard and I hate how it does nothing. There's a small patch of clovers that grew in naturally near the steps to one of my gardens and every time that it grows back from getting cut or from winter, I adore how it looks. Especially since there is grass to compare it next to. I have actually tried reasoning with my parents that we should replace the lawn with clovers. Tbh, they haven't done anything with this idea and I'm hoping that the little clover patch takes over the rest of the lawn. The clover patch is slowly but surely outgrowing the lawn, and it's already made it a few feet past the path that sections off the clover from the rest of the lawn.
2022 Vaush has been replaced with Vowsh for a while now. How else could you explain all his takebacks on water being wet and his weight loss? The only ones brave enough to call out this evil entity are the Twitter users who immediately noticed that their favourite unproblematic streamer changed. It’s unprobable that the CIA slipped up in posting a true Vaush video, we could have someone on the inside who wants us to wake up and demand an explanation. Come, join us in the resistance and demand the return of tactical slurs and kindness!
At my friend's house, they don't weed or do anything to the lawn except mow. The natural grasses along with the white, yellow, and purple wildflowers look very nice.
Suburbs look like someone who never left the gigantic city they were born in tried to design a village. It's all the surface level stuff like one family houses and green stuff, and none of the content.
8:04 This gave me whiplash bc I live in Arcata and through the entire video I was thinking to myself about how much better it is than what he was describing. So glad I live here
I visited a retired couple in Washington State that have this beautiful garden all around their house. They’ve spent a a lot of their retirement cultivating it all. They even have this beautiful large Red Wood tree towering over their home that they planted as a sapling when their first moved to this home decades ago. It’s so cool!
vaush is spot on I lived in a suburb and its one of the few things where I will say "man pol pot was on to something" I think honestly nuclear war would be more appreciatable than dealing with a suburb.
Lawns are environmentally destructive to areas where they don't belong, it's a symbol of white supremacist invasion ignorance barbarism and general despicable worthlessness that characterizes filthy degenerate wasp filth ripe for the cleansing
Look into xeriscaping. You replace grass lawns with local plants that don't require so much maintenance and water. It's especially good in arid places like Arizona where saving water is actually a priority.
I live (with my parents) in a suburb, and go to college in the Exchange District (Winnipeg) and yeah, the exchange is 100000000000000x more lively and interesting than suburbia.
Meanwhile in Anchorage even people living deep inside the city have to drive two miles to the grocery store, and everyone has an SUV because it’s safer in the winter.
I've lived in the suburbs my whole life and I agree with these generalizations, but they are generalizations. I never drive anywhere; my house is in walking/biking distance of 2 grocery stores, post office, Dr offices, dentists, big box stores, pretty much everything and I am replacing my grass with woods. I won't live anywhere where I can't. Ironically, I also have a second place that's an apartment in a huge midtown and everything is so spread out. I am able to walk to grocery and restaurants, but it's a massive walk for anything else, the train only goes so many places, and I had to install Uber for the first time for occasional things
1:11-1:17 - This reminded me of how much of a bop the song Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) by Arcade Fire is. I loved when their album The Suburbs won a Grammy and nobody knew who tf they were!
Damn I don’t remember this rant but I’m glad it’s been brought up again. I wish Vaush would talk about housing more I never realized how much it impacts everything until recently and now I feel like I’ve been cheated out of so much
Suburbs are unbeatable for holidays though, ESPECIALLY Halloween. The layout and cleanliness of the neighborhoods make it a perfect canvas for holiday artistry. I can also walk around, enjoying the brisk weather (amplified by the subtle greenery that adapts to the season.) speaking of which, I can walk around and feel completely confident I won’t die that day- wether it be a fucking hole in the sidewalk, some maniac going 60 through residential districts or some killer bum. And at night time oh man, the subtle glow through the suburban windows, the sunset peeling over the mismatch shaped roofs, the subtle, unimpeded breezes. It’s wondrous. Especially in autumn. And not all suburban neighborhoods are sterile either. Mine isn’t flawlessly maintained by any means but it still provides a much more comforting atmosphere than whatever vaush has in mind. Well trimmed lawns and varying trees add to this for sure. Any “artistry” I need in life is sufficient with my imagination and the things I do, not the “cultural” things I see. And this is coming from a person who’s spent time in the city. I like it’s for different reasons, but the flaws within the city are MUCH more dire than “muh racist grass.” Maintaining grass fucking sucks though.
Absolutely agree 100% I grew up in a wooded suburb and hated it literally nothing to do within miles of walking on curved roads going up and down hills that just bring you to more hills and depressing emptiness
Suburbs are literally so depressing. I live in one and I hate it more and more every year. Even the small downtown area of the village near me, Rockford, would be more fun to live around. Downtown Rockford Michigan has cute little restaurants and the sidewalk library boxes and a pinball arcade and people out walking their dogs and going to the park. Even living near downtown Cedar Springs Michigan has a small tiny little village a couple square blocks where people can walk to a park and get a bite to eat or thrift or sit and enjoy being outside. I'm so continuously depressed because of living in the suburbs.
My god I live in socal and I for the past 2 years have been wanting to move to eureka (town adjacent to arcata) and part of what i liked was arcata square finding out he lived there is crazy to me
There are some nice ass suburbs out there that don't have a lot of yard, but have some really nice architecture, nice sidewalks, tons of parks, their own village area with shops, and tons of trees and greenery. Just explored one the other day. They have a neat alleyway system at the backs of houses where the garage and cars go to maximize street space for traffic and pedestrian biking, without having a ton of cars littering the fronts of house driveways. Tl;dr Suburbs can be done very well, but most in the US aren't because Americans were sold the mcmansion 2 acre lots that they'll never use half of, and they all look like samey, blocky shit.
LAWN? LAWN?! WHAT ARE YOU, A FUCKING SUBURBANITE?! LAAAAAWN?!
😂😂👏🏾👏🏾
LAWN? LAWN?! WHAT ARE YOU, A FUCKING RUMINANT?! LAAAAAWN?!
WAIT LAWN!?! WAIT ARE YOU A FUCKING RACIST JESUS CHRIST!! LAWN!!!…….LAWN!!!!!
@@samiamrg7 ruminant gang
i can't remember what this is a reference to and it's killing me
I GRADUATED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND I MAKE THIS SAME RANT TO MY FREIDNS AND IM FUCKING QUIVERING IN A MIXTURE OF RAGE TOWARDS GRASS AND HAPPINESS THAT VAUSH UNDERSTANDS HIW SHITTY GRASS IS FUCK GRASS MAN
this comment radiates with so much power, even the doom slayer is stunned
Reject lawn. Return to wildflower field.
I'm not even in that niche and I feel strongly about how much grass sucks too.
Yes THANK YOUUU I want a video explaining why suburban lawns are shitty for the environment so I can play it for my father lmao
perennials is where it's at
"They listen to Rush Limbaugh as he's dying of lung cancer"
holy crap Vaush predicted the future
Ain't no way bruh💀💀💀
It was foregone conclusion with how he smoked
I’m pretty sure it was ass cancer but close enough
dawg everyone knew he had horrible lung cancer way before this, it was very well known
just saw the "throwback" in the title. DIdn't realize this was made back before rush limbaugh died. It's really a shame radios weren't blasting "another one bites the dust" when that happened. And honestly, he did a lot of bad, but the sheer nerve of using a song written by a bisexual man to celebrate deaths of gay men is, well honestly it's hard to come up with something equally cruel to compare it to.
The historical socioeconomic background of grass is pretty interesting: First it was the aristocracy and later in masses the bourgeoisie who started to grew grass in their gardens. Its a sign of showing off to your neighbours and bypassers: "Look, I am so rich, I can afford to spend money, time and ressources to grow this useless grass stuff instead of something I could eat or sell"
Grass is totally unbased, anti-worker. Should be cancelled.
It was more like “look, I am so rich, not only can I afford to not use a massive amount of land for anything at all, I can ALSO afford to make peasants maintain it instead of letting it go fallow.”
It's not great for local wildlife either. Native wild flowers (including native weeds) are the way forwards.
@@hithere5553 true
Mowing my lawn is literally my happy place. The warmth of the sun, the smell of freshly cut grass, the look of a neat, tidy and aesthetic lawn, The accomplishment felt at maintaing my property I worked so hard for. Go outside you fucking pasty gollum cave dwellers!
It's lawns, not grass...
Rewatching this, I just realized something that doesn't get enough attention:
Suburban sprawl is killing small businesses. Local businesses aren't walkable anymore.
Ah yes, a fellow NJB enjoyer.
Small businesses, and the communities they are present in, greatly benefit from higher density, walkability, public transit, and mixed use zoning. Downtown areas, in big cities and small towns, represent a disproportionately high amount of revenue for the community, while the burbs represent a huge financial drain on the community at large. It's by nature that density provides revenue, and sprawl burdens both itself and the dense. So when communities hopefully wake up to this inevitability, they can turn back time and reverse the black hole that is sprawl.
Legendary rant.
Truly it is
A stupid one
Vaush: WHO LIKES GRASS!!!???
Twitter users: I KNOW RIGHT!!!!!
It's just the suburb grass that sucks. The wild uncut grass is fluffy and awesome
And full of ticks.
@@jjdude5531 ticks are usually in trees
I am so glad that my homes grass is natural and doesn’t have to be fucking dowsed in a absurd amount of fertiliser every month.
I ain’t in America but I live in a rural area but just on the cusp of a city, but it must be noted that the city has 25000 people, that isn’t a problem, low density areas mean less traffic.
@@jjdude5531 keep a pet possum then
@@PancakemonsterFO4 Was gonna say this myself!
Best part of Suburbia is that even if you wanted to have a nice looking biodiverse garden, you can't, because you're beholden to a fascist HOA that mandates everything about your life from the color of your walls to the height and species of the grass in the lawn you are forced to pay for.
Yep. Grass as a feature of a garden is nice. But you can't have a garden in the suburbs. You have to have a lawn.
I've been living in suburbs for 32 years and never had an HOA
@@quitstalin GIVE THE COORDINATES OR ITS NOT REAL, I DONT EVEN LIVE IN AMERICA AND THEY HAVE AN HOA HERE FOR OUR SUBURB
Let some HOA try to tell me what to do with my pink flamingos. Ill do violence to them, don’t fuck with my flamingos 🦩 ill wreck ur shit
@@oilyfrog5022 generally, if you don't live in a condo or a newer 2000's neighborhood, there's no HOA. There are exceptions, but that is the general rule
This is why I like Vaush. Nowhere else can you hear such an intelligent and well-spoken person get so downright belligerent over stupid bullshit
EDIT: Nevermind this is based as hell
good job adding the edit. you’d get deservedly roasted cause this shit is really impactful not just stupid bullshit
George Carlin is also a good source of this kinda thing.
the vaush experience
Holy shit is that an anakin profile pic, and a vaush’s fan? Based as hell!
Lol.
Vaush screaming "GRASS IS FOR COWS" is my spirit animal
Milk is for babies, real men drink beer
Bacon is my spirit animal.
FINALLY!! This rant is one of the best Vowsh rants of all fucking time, legendary.
OMG HI RGE
It's bordering on perma unsunscribe.
Stfu, Vaush
Nothing makes me happier than opening a youtube video and immediately being greeted by vaush very angrily exclaiming about how shitty grass is
Also he's 100% fucking right
It's a luxury. Jelly of my yard? Sounds like it! Heck, tax it and regulate it.
But yes, I enjoy my beautiful large yard.
Do any of you fly? Check out how much gas you used.
Grass, the monoculture sucks. Fields of natural grass left to grow are awesome, mixed with flowers and shit? Hell yea
Based
I love little flowers in natural grass so much. That little pop of color makes me so happy.
Left to grow? Not so much, get that shit grazed and sink that carbon.
Vaush doesn't like grass because horses eat hay.
@@leahcimnaerc9543 dead grass tho
He doesnt like grass becuase hes fat and unathletic and never enjoyed being out on grass himself. Its pretty obvious
@@leahcimnaerc9543 cows eat grass horses eat dead grass (hay) that's the joke
I grew up in Puyallup, WA. Pretty much a rain forest climate. Yes, we had Sword Ferns all over the front yard. Giant Fushia bushes. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries in the backyard. In the summer time if my siblings and I were hungry we went outside.
Sounds beautiful
Hellll yeah when I was growing up by Dash Point the ocean air and shade from the trees made summer afternoons picking blackberries insanely comfy
Writing this comment from Puyallup and had to do a double-take. It's pretty as hell out here.
@@ringtailrobin3036 Very Cool. I now live in arid Central Washington. It's a different kind of beautiful. Basalt columns, gorges, and lots of sage brush. I miss the trees and the sight of Mt. Rainier, I don't miss the rain.
I live in a geographically beautiful part of the US and it literally makes my blood boil that the people out here are living in the woods, in the mountains, and STILL have GRASS LAWNS
It shocks me how the US, despite being one of the most incredibly beautiful and diverse places on the planet, the people living there just wants to do nothing with it, just make more suburbs.
Honestly as someone from a small town that is being turned into a suburb of a expanding city more people want the suburbs than to preserve the nature around their community and it’s breaking my heart watching my community being gentrified and the natural ecology being disrespected and destroyed
Jesus that IS sad :( Suburbs are awful and so bad for the environment.
One of the worst things I can tell you about my experience right now is as a person who works at a liquor store the rich people who just moved here complaining about the restaurants being understaffed and them not realizing that they priced them out and bought all the houses that used to be semi affordable houses or rentals I mean I saw houses that were worth probably 50,000 dollars going for 2-3 hundred thousand dollars and rent in most places went from 6-8 hundred for a one or two bedroom apartment to 1-2 thousand for a one bedroom and most places are vacation rentals or air b&bs that don’t want people there for more than a couple months what kind of normal working class person can afford that in a state where most restaurants pay like shit
Vaush communicates like he's on cocaine in this video. I love it.
Less overmanaged lawns, more meadows.
Dont forget about the nightmare that is Home owners associations.
My mom has an HOA, and one time they sent her a letter about “community security” because one time I waited for a car to stop by and open the gate for me because I forgot my zapper one time. (I walk to and from work)
I'm a novice forager and whenever I go to the suburbs it almost hurts my heart to see their lawns. Where I live, someone can walk outside and find two or three edible, and medicinal plants right outside their house. But in the suburbs they pour Round Up and other poisons on those plants and replace it with a uniformly cut ornamental grass that isn't even fit for livestock. A literal bounty right outside your door, but why take advantage of that when you can have Bermuda grass that comes in a fucking roll.
Until you go into the backyard of that one lady's backyard and find her own garden or something to enjoy in privacy.
@@normandy2501 we will always stan home gardens.
POV: you've met the end boss of people who don't touch grass.
This rly is sad, ive grown up in suburbs all my life and the current house im in is surrounded by so many different trees and flowers, but theres a highway expansion going on and they cut down the forest alot and it just feels... wrong, its sad to see a community i loved decay so quickly
Love the idea of throwback segments, hope to see more!
I'm looking forward to some tactical segments.
if you live in the suburbs and are bored, definitely dont look into seed bombs and guerrilla gardening, it’s technically vandalism and is very very bad. i just want to let you all know so you can avoid it
Or just leave the suburbs and get 4 roommates in the city somewhere
@@normandy2501 thats not really viable for minors though
vandalizing suburbs with guerilla seed bombs sounds straight up like something a DC villain would do and I'm in full support of it
@@normandy2501 are we doing the destiny position? Just mooooooove!
I worked for a lawn company that takes care of suburbs...the entire lawn industry is a racket. Domesticated grasses cannot survive unless they are continuously taken care of. Grass is vulnerable to weeds, funguses, dozens of different grass killing insects, birds (like cranes who dig holes for insects), even boars (I've seen lawn be dug to shreds by wild pigs).The amount of weed killer, water and money it take to protect these artificial biomes is absurd. I've seen people pay tens of thousands of dollars to resode their lawns, only for it to be over in by chinch bugs. Lawn care is a tit for tat arms race against nature. There's no permanent victory or solution. And that why it makes money.
Also, fun fact. A lot of the weeds people pay to kill were brought to North America intentionally by Europeans as a extra source of food. Examples being dandelion and clover.
Next time my neighbors complain about my yard upkeep I'm gonna send them this
seriously though, it would be so much better environmentally if everyone just let their grass die. At the very least, stop watering it. Definitely stop mowing it. And we should also stop picking up leaves that fall from the trees. Apparently the reason people do that is the leaves not getting picked up could kill the grass, which again, wouldn't be a bad thing
Tell them to shut the fuck up and mind their own business
listening to this drunk is just different. I imagine sitting at the bar and said bless you tonthe person bext to me. And they just go ham, go absolutely crazy ranting to me.
Vaush stunlock never change, please.
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This gives the vibe of when you ask your friend how their day was, and they’ve had a rant ready in their head for hours about how bad it was.
And I’m for it.
People called me crazy for saying the exact same thing about lawns, there’s no practical use for them and it’s bland AF. I’m still crazy, but at least I feel affirmed hearing this
People have lawns because rich people had lawns. Rich people had lawns because royalty had lawns. Royalty had lawns so the peasantry couldn't sneak up to their palace under forest cover and overthrow them.
Lawns suck, no doubt. Ugly, bland, and super wasteful.
@@johnchaney2772 European royalty didn’t use lawns for any tactical purposes, it was just a status symbol.
@@johnchaney2772 A stack of claims with no proof
i'm in a suburb on the outskirts of a city and ur right about this. city is way more alive and real. if you dropped me in a random part of my city id be able to tell where i was just by looking around. if you dropped me in a random suburb id be lost because all suburbs are copy pasted parking lots
I remember watching this rant live and laughing my ass off! Vaush is 100% right. Grass sucks and the suburbs are hell.
When we moved from Europe to a gated community in a US suburb, the grass was fucking mandatory. Literally. My parents had to sign a contract.
This would be incredible standup.
Carlin taking notes in heaven
A lot of his rants would be
@@Ismael-kc3ry yeah, he could have just skipped the politics and become a world-class comedian
@@ShnoogleMan it’s the passion, it’s so entertaining
@@ShnoogleMan Keep the politics and you get George carlin who did rants like vaush
Shit...this was back in 2020?? It’s been that long already?
Yes look how gross the setup is + he's so skinny now
@@Versace_sheets Gross then or gross now?
The fact that 2020 can be a throwback is depressing
I cant believe Vaush made me feel shitty about living in a house. At least the suburb I live in doesn't have a HOA so I don't have to worry about that.
It isn’t about living in a house, it’s about living in suburban sprawl with manicured uniform lawns
This is literally me every week when my mom fights our dogs for shitting on the grass.
Wair what lol, where does she even want the dogs to shit?
@@sashalai3987 well, we actually have a "corridor" of dirt alongside the house, so it is easier to clean when they shit there (wich I do), but she still losses her mind because of the grass.
I live in a densely populated area of Oahu, Hawaii where literally everything is less than a 5 minute drive away. It’s like a actually 5 minute city. I couldn’t imagine having to move back in with my parents in their suburban ghost neighborhood in Virginia with nothing going on. I’d feel sick to my stomach with anxiety everyday.
This is one of the all-time great Vunch rants, good to see it up here
I collapsed on the floor laughing and broke my kneecap. But it was worth it for these 12 minutes of pure gold.
I used to own a landscaping company, and after years of watching people throw thousands at me to make their lawns look like this... There's a reason I don't do it anymore.
I live in a soviet blockhouse and the space between my house and the house right next to it is like a whole goddamn forest, completed with all of the birds and even foxes... it's pretty beautiful, I'd never trade this for a grass and concrete square with an ugly house on it...
I agree though! Regular gardens are superior
Favorite Vaush take
I grew up in my very early years in a cozy little single wide, a mate to a pair on a lot for two tenants to occupy. The yard was very comfy, with tall bushes surrounding much of it and some shade trees that made it very nice to spend time outside in. It was out at the edge of town and still exists to this day in probably much the same state as it was in when I lived there, but where there once was fields of golden grass at the edge of the tiny neighborhood, now sits sprawling sterile copy-paste lots of late stage suburban sprawl. I haven't been back to this location since I moved out into a rural suburban community 20 or so miles away when I was probably just 3 or 4 years old, but I have prominent memories of that place. I sincerely tell you that I literally remember my mom holding me one morning with the blue light of the pre-sunrise sky, and she was letting the cat outside. That place was a masterpiece of childhood nostalgia.
Coming back to this video after seeing the neighbors who’ve just moved into my beautiful tree-ridden wooded suburb that has a pretty good amount of ivy and trees and biodiversity cutting down the trees right next to our fence on their side, which is now leaving big swaths of ugly blankness instead of the pretty tree cover that was creating a natural fence. Thankfully it’s not like they’re cutting down the trees on our side, they can’t do that, but damn if they care that much about leaves in their backyard then they’re going to be real mad this spring when I go plant 4/5/6 new young trees on our side of the fence. Fuck them. If you don’t want leaves on your backyard then move to one of those ugly lawn filled neighborhoods, don’t buy a house in our gorgeous biodiverse wooded suburb. The trees that have been there since before my parents were born. I literally drive past trees my aunt and uncle planted with their own hands a few times a week. I’m planting extra trees just to spite them then. FUCK LAWNS
Lawns are ecoterrorism. You're doing the lord's work.
I didn´t knew about this rant, its so incredibly good
I’m midwestern, I’ve been programmed to enjoy large and empty fields full of corn or grass
Corn is (mostly) fine. Corn is USEFUL. Blank lawns without a proper garden is just ugly and shit.
As a guy from the Greek suburbs around Athens , I'm happy we don't have this lawn system where there's no fence, where every house is the same, where there are no shops near your home for miles. Luckily I can go to the more commercial suburb nearby and there are street musicians playing traditional, folk, jazz or vocal music in the street as well as shops bars and abandoned buildings to hang out with friends. You are absolutely right here about the state of some suburbs. .
Yeah, but you're country is broke as fuck tho.
Always hated lawns, luckily my parents are hippies and we have trees and bushes everywhere, 0 grass on our lot not shadowed
I haven’t mowed my zoysia grass in 2 months. It’s amazing at the stuff that ends up popping up. My ex husband is a turfgrass manager and hated having to “mow around” stuff like trees, rock gardens, vegetable gardens, etc. My current project of reducing my lawn just happened to be symbolic. The stuff is pointless.
God i loved this rant...its great the first tine, better the second
God, I genuinely dispise lawn that just flat, green, homogeneous grass. It's an eyesore that's high maintenance that doesn't even benefit something as simple as bees. There's a plain lawn in my backyard and I hate how it does nothing. There's a small patch of clovers that grew in naturally near the steps to one of my gardens and every time that it grows back from getting cut or from winter, I adore how it looks. Especially since there is grass to compare it next to.
I have actually tried reasoning with my parents that we should replace the lawn with clovers. Tbh, they haven't done anything with this idea and I'm hoping that the little clover patch takes over the rest of the lawn. The clover patch is slowly but surely outgrowing the lawn, and it's already made it a few feet past the path that sections off the clover from the rest of the lawn.
2020 Vaush: Grass sucks!!! It's for cows!
2022 Vaush: Go touch grass you loser, lol.
2022 Vaush has been replaced with Vowsh for a while now. How else could you explain all his takebacks on water being wet and his weight loss? The only ones brave enough to call out this evil entity are the Twitter users who immediately noticed that their favourite unproblematic streamer changed. It’s unprobable that the CIA slipped up in posting a true Vaush video, we could have someone on the inside who wants us to wake up and demand an explanation. Come, join us in the resistance and demand the return of tactical slurs and kindness!
As a moss enjoyer I spiritually relate to this rant.
At my friend's house, they don't weed or do anything to the lawn except mow. The natural grasses along with the white, yellow, and purple wildflowers look very nice.
My neighborhood had trees, bushes, cactus, flower gardens, bamboo, pamp trees, rock gardens, Cedar Park Texas.
But vaush is right.
Suburbs look like someone who never left the gigantic city they were born in tried to design a village. It's all the surface level stuff like one family houses and green stuff, and none of the content.
8:04 This gave me whiplash bc I live in Arcata and through the entire video I was thinking to myself about how much better it is than what he was describing. So glad I live here
I can't wait for the day Vaush tops this rant. His "Bernie or buster" rant was also top-tier
Lol, I loved this rant, I saw it live.
OG VAUSH FAN POGGERS
I can watch this every day.
reject grass, embrace moss
I visited a retired couple in Washington State that have this beautiful garden all around their house. They’ve spent a a lot of their retirement cultivating it all. They even have this beautiful large Red Wood tree towering over their home that they planted as a sapling when their first moved to this home decades ago. It’s so cool!
vaush is spot on I lived in a suburb and its one of the few things where I will say "man pol pot was on to something" I think honestly nuclear war would be more appreciatable than dealing with a suburb.
My yard will be pebbles.
5:22 "WHAT ARE YOU DOING???"
His expression here made me laugh so fucking hard and I don't know why. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
5:24
🤏 WHAT ARE YOU DOING! 🤏
Great rant. Living in suburbia is depressing af. Lawns should be abolished.
Lawns are environmentally destructive to areas where they don't belong, it's a symbol of white supremacist invasion ignorance barbarism and general despicable worthlessness that characterizes filthy degenerate wasp filth ripe for the cleansing
Look into xeriscaping.
You replace grass lawns with local plants that don't require so much maintenance and water. It's especially good in arid places like Arizona where saving water is actually a priority.
I live (with my parents) in a suburb, and go to college in the Exchange District (Winnipeg) and yeah, the exchange is 100000000000000x more lively and interesting than suburbia.
Meanwhile in Anchorage even people living deep inside the city have to drive two miles to the grocery store, and everyone has an SUV because it’s safer in the winter.
Absolutely fantastic rant, 100% true, completely based
I've lived in the suburbs my whole life and I agree with these generalizations, but they are generalizations. I never drive anywhere; my house is in walking/biking distance of 2 grocery stores, post office, Dr offices, dentists, big box stores, pretty much everything and I am replacing my grass with woods. I won't live anywhere where I can't. Ironically, I also have a second place that's an apartment in a huge midtown and everything is so spread out. I am able to walk to grocery and restaurants, but it's a massive walk for anything else, the train only goes so many places, and I had to install Uber for the first time for occasional things
I've been waiting for this for too long
I love me a good Vaush rant
this is the most passionate he's ever talked about anything
Clearly you never seen him talk about horses
That was amazing!
This is my favorite Vaush moment! And it's finally clipped! Thank you!
1:11-1:17 - This reminded me of how much of a bop the song Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) by Arcade Fire is. I loved when their album The Suburbs won a Grammy and nobody knew who tf they were!
one of the best rants of all time
Damn I don’t remember this rant but I’m glad it’s been brought up again. I wish Vaush would talk about housing more I never realized how much it impacts everything until recently and now I feel like I’ve been cheated out of so much
Suburbs are unbeatable for holidays though, ESPECIALLY Halloween. The layout and cleanliness of the neighborhoods make it a perfect canvas for holiday artistry. I can also walk around, enjoying the brisk weather (amplified by the subtle greenery that adapts to the season.) speaking of which, I can walk around and feel completely confident I won’t die that day- wether it be a fucking hole in the sidewalk, some maniac going 60 through residential districts or some killer bum. And at night time oh man, the subtle glow through the suburban windows, the sunset peeling over the mismatch shaped roofs, the subtle, unimpeded breezes. It’s wondrous. Especially in autumn. And not all suburban neighborhoods are sterile either. Mine isn’t flawlessly maintained by any means but it still provides a much more comforting atmosphere than whatever vaush has in mind. Well trimmed lawns and varying trees add to this for sure. Any “artistry” I need in life is sufficient with my imagination and the things I do, not the “cultural” things I see. And this is coming from a person who’s spent time in the city. I like it’s for different reasons, but the flaws within the city are MUCH more dire than “muh racist grass.”
Maintaining grass fucking sucks though.
Rants like these are h the neatly why I love Vaush. He screams so I can save my voice.
Talking about the real problems.... Love it
This is the high quality content I subscribe for.
Absolutely agree 100% I grew up in a wooded suburb and hated it literally nothing to do within miles of walking on curved roads going up and down hills that just bring you to more hills and depressing emptiness
Listening to this as I mow my 1 acre lawn out in the country where I commute 40 minutes to work
This entire video is how I’ve always felt about lawns
Suburbs are literally so depressing. I live in one and I hate it more and more every year. Even the small downtown area of the village near me, Rockford, would be more fun to live around. Downtown Rockford Michigan has cute little restaurants and the sidewalk library boxes and a pinball arcade and people out walking their dogs and going to the park. Even living near downtown Cedar Springs Michigan has a small tiny little village a couple square blocks where people can walk to a park and get a bite to eat or thrift or sit and enjoy being outside. I'm so continuously depressed because of living in the suburbs.
My god I live in socal and I for the past 2 years have been wanting to move to eureka (town adjacent to arcata) and part of what i liked was arcata square finding out he lived there is crazy to me
I'm so glad this is finally a segment
There are some nice ass suburbs out there that don't have a lot of yard, but have some really nice architecture, nice sidewalks, tons of parks, their own village area with shops, and tons of trees and greenery. Just explored one the other day. They have a neat alleyway system at the backs of houses where the garage and cars go to maximize street space for traffic and pedestrian biking, without having a ton of cars littering the fronts of house driveways.
Tl;dr Suburbs can be done very well, but most in the US aren't because Americans were sold the mcmansion 2 acre lots that they'll never use half of, and they all look like samey, blocky shit.
he looks soooo different now damn
Literally my favorite Vaush moment.
Hands down one of the best Voosh rants
People who mow it in the morning need to be eliminated.
Legitimately my new favorite video on the youtubes