Robotic aides...Brothers, your views please

DublinWriter

On an impulse buy I purchased a €50 electric lawn-mower in Tescos when my sizable back garden started looking like the Serengeti (they did place them on special-offer adjacent to the drink aisle, damn them).

I reduced the grass in the back lawn to a slash-and-burn look after about four hours of hard labour over the previous two sunny evenings, but that's four hours in which I could have been drinking beer.

So while I was surfing the web today trying to appear like I was working, I stumbled across this - a lawn cutting robot distributed by a company in Louth.

What's that you say? They cost €1,500? Hang the expense, I'll have two!

Should I add this to my current arsenal of man-gear (currently consisting of a Laz-e-boy and a 2kwh chain saw) or are these devices as good as they promise to be?

Zaph

DublinWriter wrote: »

On an impulse buy

What are you, a wimmin? Only wimmins make impulse purchases that are not beer, pr0n or a €4,000 home entertainment system.

DublinWriter wrote: »

I purchased a €50 electric lawn-mower

For shame. That was €50 that could have been spent on beer.

DublinWriter wrote: »

my sizable back garden started looking like the Serengeti

:eek:

DublinWriter wrote: »

(they did place them on special-offer adjacent to the drink aisle, damn them).

Bet you're wishing you'd spent that €50 more wisely now?

DublinWriter wrote: »

I reduced the grass in the back lawn to a slash-and-burn look after about four hours of hard labour

This sentence makes Baby Jesus cry. If you want hard labour the fitness *spit* forum is thataway

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DublinWriter wrote: »

that's four hours in which I could have been drinking beer.

You only realised that after the fact?

DublinWriter wrote: »

So while I was surfing the web today trying to appear like I was working, I stumbled across this - a lawn cutting robot distributed by a company in Louth.

Why can't you just surf for boobies or football like a normal person?

DublinWriter wrote: »

What's that you say? They cost €1,500? Hang the expense, I'll have two!

No, you'll have one. What have we learned already about wasting money that could be spent on beer?

DublinWriter wrote: »

Should I add this to my current arsenal of man-gear (currently consisting of a Laz-e-boy and a 2kwh chain saw) or are these devices as good as they promise to be?

Who cares if it's any good, it's a cool gadget that costs shedloads of money. All your mates will be envious and will flock to see it. If it's crap all you have to do is challenge them that it'll cut the grass quicker than they could with the crappy €50 mower.

Tom Dunne

Note to self: get out of the gutter. That's a different type of robotic aide.

justsomebloke

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Note to self: get out of the gutter. That's a different type of robotic aide.

apparently so

the_syco

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Note to self: get out of the gutter. That's a different type of robotic aide.

I was likewise thinking along the lines of a sex android... ah well.

DublinWriter

the_syco wrote: »

I was likewise thinking along the lines of a sex android... ah well.

That explains why I'm hearing the track Cyborg from Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage playing in my head right now.

Don1

one word solution: concrete.

trout

I was hoping that Mr Universe's hawt Companion Love Robot from Serenity was now available at all good online retailers.

For shame Brothers. For shame.

ruthiedv

I'm sure yis'd all make good use of one of these beauties, when you're too drunk to lift your next pint:D

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070829/070829_arm_hmed_10am.hmedium.jpg

Slow Motion

I'm giving serious consideration to putting this thread in the misleading titles list:mad:

Don1

I didn't know robots had immune systems to get hyperly deficient....
Oh aides

smashey

Get a cow.

DJ_Spider

We just put stones down! perfect for throwing at cats/kids/anything that gets in garden!!!

Rabies

smashey wrote: »

Get a cow.

or a sheep.
Double the fun.

Mahatma coat

Rabies wrote:

Originally Posted by smashey View Post
Get a cow.

or a sheep.
Double the fun.

Bro Youse been in KiwiLand a bit too long

KamiKazi

Robotic lawnmower, expensive but the BGRH way!

minidazzler

itll cost €10 every 3 weeks to get your grass cut by that cnut of a kid who wont fcuk off. Pay him to do it.

And It doesnt have to be cut in the Winter so you are sorted.

Wagon

minidazzler wrote: »

itll cost €10 every 3 weeks to get your grass cut by that cnut of a kid who wont fcuk off. Pay him to do it.

Maybe in nice suburban america but this is Ireland. Pay one of them and they'll get rid of the grass and you're lawnmower as well.

I think this is a great invention, Im gonna do a bit of thinking ahead here as well, ill hopefully have my own gaff soon with a bunch of lads who are just as lazy as myself and I'd much rather put the energy spent on mowing lawn into making a fry up. So thats what you do. Get your mate/wife/girlfriend/taxi down to louth, buy a robot and then get up in the morning on saturday to join all the other men being forced to mow their lawns the conventional way, sit on a deckchair, drinking a beer eating a fry up and watch the robot do the work. You can get those in hoover format too y'know. Cos about the same price.

DublinWriter

Don1 wrote: »

one word solution: concrete.

Two word obstacle: the Missus.

DublinWriter

minidazzler wrote: »

itll cost €10 every 3 weeks to get your grass cut by that cnut of a kid who wont fcuk off. Pay him to do it.

€10?!? Where are you living? Bob-a-Job Land?

ruthiedv

Wagon wrote: »

Maybe in nice suburban america but this is Ireland. Pay one of them and they'll get rid of the grass and you're lawnmower as well.

Nah, they don't need lawnmowers; they all have their own horses to sort the grass out.

Don1

DublinWriter wrote: »

Two word obstacle: the Missus.

Then I'd go with the cow option!

Victor

Can such a device be used to convey food and beverages?

trout

Victor wrote: »

Can such a device be used to convey food and beverages?

*thinks* mmm, a robot wimmins* who can mow the lawn. truly a must have gadget for every right minded brother, or sister.


*with optional hawt modifications to yore custom specification. or something

Don1

Hmmm, list;

One real doll,
One gutted Honda asimo
Gang of robotics and animatronics experts
One puter + programmer

Result, perfection!

BetsyGray

Rabies wrote: »

or a sheep.
Double the fun.

I'd go with the sheep like Rabies suggests. They're lighter and thus easier to turn on their backs which means you can kiss them as well.

I'm an old romantic

DublinWriter

Right! I've decided to take the money I was going to spend on the robot and use it to fund the services of young boys...to mow my lawn of course!

Honestly, 1.5K can be spent else where with more effect, like on an Arcam Solo Movie or....on a robotic vacuum cleaner.