What's on your mind?

[RelentlessOblivion]

I had strawberries and cucumbers last year but neither really took off. Have an apple and a lemon tree too

[AlSymerz]

Bloody strawberries, they either go wild or do nothing, I've had years where I couldn't keep up with them, then the following year almost nothing. This year I've tired several different varieties, I don't think I'll get a bumper crop first year but hopefully next year as the runners take over it will improve.

Last year was a bad year for cucumbers, too much moisture in the air. Part of the reason I'm trying cute-cumbers this year is because they grow a lot quicker and you pick them at about 10cm so potentially they should grow a bit better if it's a muggy year.

I'm trying to grow an espalier apple tree across the old vine that used to grow grapes. Idea being that once it's grafted you can have several different apples growing off the one vine like tree and potentially have apples most of the year round.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

18 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

cucamelons

I figured this was probably just something your mob had an alternate name for, like capsicums or rocket. But I have never ever seen or heard of cucamelons before you mentioned them just now.

[AlSymerz]

I found them a few years ago and they are great little things to add to salads or just eat off the plant. They also self seed really well so they come back every year. Depending on what size you pick them as to what they taste like.

What do you call rocket?

[RelentlessOblivion]

Damn, my chilli plant just died too, made it through winter only to drop just as the warm weather arrives

[AlSymerz]

One of my capsicums got blown out of the ground last week. Blood temperamental plants!!

[FatherAlabaster]

1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

What do you call rocket?

Arugula.

[AlSymerz]

Well there ya go, I've never really eaten rocket so I've never really needed to know that it had another name.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

I found them a few years ago and they are great little things to add to salads or just eat off the plant. They also self seed really well so they come back every year. Depending on what size you pick them as to what they taste like.

What do you call rocket?

Haha, I remeber being in some joint called Ribs & Rumps Restaurant in Olympic Park and seeing "rocket" on the menu. I had to ask my mother in law what rocket was. We call it arugula here in the states.

[AlSymerz]

I'm not surprised we call it something different, in this country we can't even agree on what to name some things across state borders.

[RelentlessOblivion]

We do agree to shorten everything though. MacDonald’s nah it’s Macca’s, MCG nope the G, oh someone’s named Darren? I don’t think so. You’re Daz now… 

[AlSymerz]

Dazza and Shazza. Shazza with her hot pants and tied tank, Dazza with his stubbies and wife beater, both wearing double pluggers heading down the coast in the shagging wagon with a slab of coldies in the eksy

.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

A quick root in the back of his ute then give her the flick and she'll be apples in the morning.

[Dead1]

SHRIMP ON THE CUNTING BARBIE!

[GoatmasterGeneral]

4 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

SHRIMP ON THE CUNTING BARBIE!

 

[AlSymerz]

Cunting must be a Tassie thing. I don't even think a Canberrian would use that word.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

33 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Cunting must be a Tassie thing. I don't even think a Canberrian would use that word.

I've heard it's been catching on with the banana benders lately.

[Dead1]

34 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Cunting must be a Tassie thing. I don't even think a Canberrian would use that word.

It's a Slayer word:

 

Quote

 

SOUTH OF HEAVEN

 

An unforeseen future nestled somewhere in time.
Unsuspecting victims no warnings, no signs.
Judgment day the second coming arrives.
Before you see the light you must die.

Forgotten children, conform a new faith,
Avidity and lust controlled by hate.
[The] Never ending search for your shattered sanity,
Souls of Damnation in their own reality.

Chaos rampant,
An age of distrust.
Confrontations.
Impulsive habitat.

Bastard sons beget your cunting daughters,
Promiscuous mothers with your incestuous fathers.
Engreat souls condemned for all eternity,
Sustained by immoral observance a domineering deity.

Chaos rampant,
An age of distrust.
Confrontations.
Impulsive sabbath.

On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven

The root of all evil is the heart of a black soul.
A force that has lived all eternity.
A never ending search for a truth never told.
The loss of all hope and your dignity.

Chaos rampant,
An age of distrust.
Confrontations.
Impulsive habitat.

On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven
On and on, south of heaven

 

[AlSymerz]

3 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I've heard it's been catching on with the banana benders lately.

Yeah but they lick cane toads.

2 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

It's a Slayer word:

 

Brought to you by the guy who was surprised Repentless wasn't in the dictionary after writing a song about it and using it as a name for their final album.

 

[Dead1]

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

 

Man I wish Australia was like that.

I was in tropical Queensland on an island resort this year during the best month possible (August).  It rained nearly every day despite being the dry season and part of the island was unwalkable due to sandblasting wind!   Water was cold!

And certainly no hot young bikini clad babes*, all the beaches we went to were full of us family types. 

I still had a great time and it was one of my best holidays.

 

*This is the same fantasy I associate with 1980s glam metal.  

 

 

Question for anyone whose been on a 70,000 Tons of Metal festival - was the weather good and was there plenty of hot young metal babes in bikinis or was it all overweight middle age blokes who have never heard of deodorant?

 

4 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

 

Brought to you by the guy who was surprised Repentless wasn't in the dictionary after writing a song about it and using it as a name for their final album.

 

And a shit album at that.  Their worst one in my opinion.

In any case cunting is in the Urban Dictionary which makes it a proper word IMO.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cunting

[AlSymerz]

I remember when the first 70,000 Tons happened and there was memes all over the place using the Simpsons cruise ship episode.

But there is a reason why they choose the time of year they do for these things and it's not because they expect bad weather, but it could happen. Besides it's a fucking huge ship, I went on a cruise a few years ago, smaller ship that they use for 70,000 and the bad weather was barely noticeable. It's certainly not something you'd want to pay for and spend a week complaining about, ex Australia it was about $3500 for a half decent room that you can stretch your feet in last time I priced it.

10 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

In any case cunting is in the Urban Dictionary which makes it a proper word IMO.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cunting

I didn't suggest it wasn't a word I just suggested that not even someone from Canberra would use it.

[Sheol]

7 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Arugula.

WTF? I always assumed rocket was the USA name for what we call ruccola. And as it turns out, ruccola = arugula = rocket.

[Thatguy]

7 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

I don't even think a Canberrian would use that word.

You'd be surprised.

And arugula? WTF indeed.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

37 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

You'd be surprised.

And arugula? WTF indeed.

Well Doc in the states, rockets are phallic shaped things made with steel that we like to shoot up into space and send around to the moon and shit. So you see that name was already taken. I s'pose there's a lot of things we could have called arugula, chair, truck, broom, snake, vegemite, porcupine, kettle...but those names were already taken as well. So we just call it what it is to avoid any confusion. 

[Parker]

I was in Denmark, and it said, "rocket," on the menu at a sandwich shop. I asked what it was, and was told it was lettuce. It didn't look like any lettuce I had ever seen. Now I know what I ate.