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Post by PinkFloyd on Aug 10, 2009 20:56:20 GMT
I am so glad you are all enjoying the topic! D. Yup and amazing how a cabbage thread can turn into a "mine's bigger than yours" thread
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Post by merton on Aug 10, 2009 21:01:19 GMT
don't you turn every thread that way?
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Post by PinkFloyd on Aug 10, 2009 21:14:29 GMT
don't you turn every thread that way? Into a discussion about the size of one's manhood? I'm not aware that every thread I post in I turn the discussion into "peni".... erm
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Post by merton on Aug 10, 2009 23:50:22 GMT
wasn't there one in a thread about an amp where you were saying how your nuts were the size of turnips or something, and then arroyo noted that that was due to some sort of surgery?
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Post by tomo on Aug 11, 2009 14:15:18 GMT
I can tell you a top secret screw-up in Japanese Food-Stuff industry. Sorta related so sit and listen for a sec.
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People around here are obsessed about produced in Japan stuff. (Sort of like Americans go for "made in America" thing, but much more distorted.) So the "fish farm" industry people thought about this carefully. There is no particular legal definition as to what "produced in Japan" means other than the food-stuff must be "heap"ed in Japan. So fish must be "fished" in Japan.
So the fish could be grown up elsewhere entirely, then they can still be "produced in Japan" if they are "moved" at the last moment to Japan. This happens with "fish farms" often in Japan. Pretty bad, you may call this "organized" crime.
Crimes don't stop there. There have be several occurences of "mis-labeling" products. Surfaced because of recent Chicken Influenza epidemic if you recall. One irresponsible chicken farmer in Japan panicked and shipped good portion of the infected chicken stock in a hurry. Stopped at the last moment they hit the stores. The farmer was caught, but promptly killed himself before interrogation. ... as that would redeem him; I say he ought to have cooperated track down the infected stock and serve his time. ... Living people in Japan had to do that "for him". Irresponsible! ... I am gonna beat a crap out of him when I meet him at the pearly gates.
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What I want to say that simply saying "Organic" isn't really gonna do you anything good. Probably bad because of few bad apples screw-ups. To prevent this, some of good hardworking Japanese farmers came up with an awesome solution. They asked the supermarket people to post the farmers' picture of themselves on the product packaging or stolls on which their products are sold.
Perhaps you ought to try that. That way you won't be mixed up with screw up incidents. I think consumers would be feel easy about buying your organic vegies.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Aug 11, 2009 22:23:24 GMT
I can tell you a top secret screw-up in Japanese Food-Stuff industry. Sorta related so sit and listen for a sec. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ People around here are obsessed about produced in Japan stuff. (Sort of like Americans go for "made in America" thing, but much more distorted.) So the "fish farm" industry people thought about this carefully. There is no particular legal definition as to what "produced in Japan" means other than the food-stuff must be "heap"ed in Japan. So fish must be "fished" in Japan. So the fish could be grown up elsewhere entirely, then they can still be "produced in Japan" if they are "moved" at the last moment to Japan. This happens with "fish farms" often in Japan. Pretty bad, you may call this "organized" crime. Crimes don't stop there. There have be several occurences of "mis-labeling" products. Surfaced because of recent Chicken Influenza epidemic if you recall. One irresponsible chicken farmer in Japan panicked and shipped good portion of the infected chicken stock in a hurry. Stopped at the last moment they hit the stores. The farmer was caught, but promptly killed himself before interrogation. ... as that would redeem him; I say he ought to have cooperated track down the infected stock and serve his time. ... Living people in Japan had to do that "for him". Irresponsible! ... I am gonna beat a crap out of him when I meet him at the pearly gates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What I want to say that simply saying "Organic" isn't really gonna do you anything good. Probably bad because of few bad apples screw-ups. To prevent this, some of good hardworking Japanese farmers came up with an awesome solution. They asked the supermarket people to post the farmers' picture of themselves on the product packaging or stolls on which their products are sold. Perhaps you ought to try that. That way you won't be mixed up with screw up incidents. I think consumers would be feel easy about buying your organic vegies. All very interesting Tomo but......... how long is your penis?
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Post by tomo on Aug 12, 2009 10:19:23 GMT
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Post by merton on Aug 12, 2009 13:08:17 GMT
yeah, he's into asians you know.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Aug 12, 2009 13:15:17 GMT
yeah, he's into asians you know. Don't be so disgusting you damned moron!
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Post by merton on Aug 12, 2009 16:37:08 GMT
and now he tries to hide his sweet affection for you. ooooh kissy kissy. LOL
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2009 21:52:17 GMT
yeah, he's into asians you know. MERTON Quite a few of our members are of Asian extraction. Luckily, they are nice,friendly,and civilised people, or they would shove your big bloody mouth up where there isn't any daylight ! SandyK
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Post by merton on Aug 15, 2009 17:51:33 GMT
why? what'd i do to them?
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Post by tomo on Aug 19, 2009 10:42:46 GMT
I don't get it. Why all the sudden people are interested in my bong size? ... But I have to tell you, only my lady friends have authorized access to it. (I am the super user of my bong.)
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Post by PinkFloyd on Aug 19, 2009 16:08:42 GMT
Why all the sudden people are interested in my bong size? A "bong" ? Is that a bong in a King Dong stylee or in a dope smoking device?
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Post by tomo on Aug 20, 2009 3:01:31 GMT
Smoking device. Access to my bong. Get it?
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Post by merton on Aug 20, 2009 3:32:08 GMT
yes. he smokes his bong regularly.
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Post by tomo on Aug 20, 2009 8:23:24 GMT
Heehee. If that were possible, I would be a dog.
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Post by guadixman on Jan 22, 2010 14:38:06 GMT
FWIW, taste has a lot to do with soil type. When we lived in Galicia,NW Spain we could'nt believe how tasteless the vegetables were. In fact Galicians cannot handle taste at all and even chill red wine, not just in the summer but all year round. Occasionally we would see carrots and such like from Sevilla (Andalucia) we always grabbed those fast because we knew they would have taste. Where we live now the soil is acidic, the same as Galicia. We are renting an apartment that has a 250sq.m garden. Once I have fenced off an area for veg, the reason being dogs, I shall do a pH test to determine acidity and to adjust the pH to what I want, use lime. Mike if you knew anything about horticulture today, you would know all about 'systemic plant treatments'. A systemic pesticide works by being absorbed into the plant - eat the plant - absorb the chemicals. I taught myself basic horticulture when I was 14 and regularly used Deildrin - a systemic pesticide. I was non too careful about splashback when spraying - this is and has been a banned pesticide for decades. DDT is now found in every lifeform, penguins etc. in the Antartic. When the American government wanted to test chemicals for warfare they used the sparsely populated state of Montana. Agent Orange produced severe deformaties in animals - eg. cows with two heads and there were well documented deformaties in the human population - it did'nt stop them from destroying huge sections of pristine Vietnamese and Cambodian jungle and of course there are thousands of people and their children with the most horrible of deformaties. In Spain in the 70s' hundreds of Spanish people died and the government lied about the cause which was that in Almeria province truly illiterate peasants were making up cocktails of pesticides to use inside their plastic greenhouses - no one had taught them how or what to use and most importantly of all the ratios of water to pesticides. Had they been truthful it would have destroyed the huge profits Spain was making by supplying northern Europe with vegetables and fruit - they lied and said it was tainted cooking oil. BTW I would'nt touch any of the foodstuffs that come from 'Plasticland' (it can be seen from space) since they are still loaded with chemicals. If anyone does grow their own and that includes vegetables - there is absolutely no reason to use pesticides at all - just use fine mesh netting - good bye cabbage butterflies/carrot fly etc. You want to keep slugs away - encourage hedgehogs and use a trail of woodash or soot around your vegetable plot. If you have problems with pests that make lunch of the vegetable roots - create a barrier into the soil about 15 inches should be enough around the vegetable plot. In France/Spain/Holland/Belgium that is easy - they have cavity clay bricks that are about 2.5 inches thick , they are crap for building but excellant in this application and cheap.- alot of work, maybe, but you only do it once. One of my favourite veg. is - spring greens. In Spain they have a lot of brainwashing from the Roman mafia, so much so that they will not touch anything green - it being the primary colour of Islam. So when they cut their cabbages (which are bloody tough and take a lot of cooking) the secondary growth which follows the cutting aka spring greens (which are delicious and cook easily) are thrown away - they have never even heard of compost heaps. The Spanish women throw away all the green leaves and they do the same with leeks. These stupid people don't know that their are far more vitamins and iron in green leaves than the rest of the white cabbage or leeks. I even had to give a bollocking to a green crocer in the local municipal market, who without asking me had started stripping off all the green leaves from some leeks I had bought from him. He started laughing along with a Spanish female customer - so I pulled no punches and told them both what stupid prats the Spanish were and was there any chance they could get their heads into the 20th century it being totally impossible that they could ever get anywhere near the 21st century - you have to live in Spain to know what I mean. After the allotment I used was wiped out for a police station, I got into growing exhibition roses at home and the difference between a healthy rose and a sickly one could be a particular trace element that was lacking and we are talking here about 6-7 parts per million of say manganese or Boron - we are no different to the plantworld - it's one system. Sadly I shall have to stop drinking wine or at the very least just share maybe one bottle of wine per week with Angela - she has osteoporosis and alcohol strips calcium from the body and I have a re-action that makes the skin on my fingers spontaneously split - voila - ketchup. Also I seem to be developing arthritus in some of my fingers and I'll bet if I get down to virtually zero alcohol that problem will dissappear as well. Don't forget that alcohol is poison to the human system and I'd rather not die of liver malfunction - you pays yer money and yer makes yer choice.
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