Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@stargazer said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
... Kruse looks into changing username on every website/forum to "Kakapo".
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you cant make this shit up...well, cant make it believable!
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@stargazer said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
that's pretty fucking funny
i feel like they are the animal kingdom's version of a stereotypical movie asshole
hey baby!! hey! yeah you gorgeous! come over here i'll show you a good time huh!
coooome ooonnn!
Yeah well fuck you, keep walking then you fucking lesbian!!fucking dyks everywhere man, I'm better off fucking this rock
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@mariner4life Toxic masculinity. I'm surprised they don't have mullets.
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@mariner4life proof of concept?
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@jc said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@mariner4life Toxic masculinity. I'm surprised they don't have mullets.
Perhaps that's why they're flightless; the tail is actually a mullet?
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@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@stargazer said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
that's pretty fucking funny
i feel like they are the animal kingdom's version of a stereotypical movie asshole
hey baby!! hey! yeah you gorgeous! come over here i'll show you a good time huh!
coooome ooonnn!
Yeah well fuck you, keep walking then you fucking lesbian!!fucking dyks everywhere man, I'm better off fucking this rock
My immediate thought was "Brazilian men". They just sit around plastic tables on the sidewalk, drinking beer, and every time a female appears - it's "psst, pssst... hey baby, ..." in exactly the same tone every time. Fucking funny... as long as you're not the target of their highly-romantic attention (I assume). They're bloody persistent, and seem to genuinely think this is going to work one day.
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When we built we lived very near this area and could hear Kiwi calling at night, never saw them, but you certainly hear them!
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@stargazer said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
During my high school days in the Netherlands, I often worked in the tulip fields and sheds during the holidays. I don't miss the smell of the bulbs in the sheds, but I do miss the sight of the fields.
Mate, I'm curious, what's the smell? Is it that vommity parmesan cheesey smell I've noticed with other bulbs?
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@siam I wouldn't know how to describe it; I definitely don't associate it with any cheesey smell; it's more earthy, but unpleasant. It's quite unique and strong, although it depends on the type of bulbs and the weather conditions outside. The worst is the smell of rotting bulbs if it has rained a lot. Nauseating. When you're peeling bulbs and get one of those rotting bulbs in your hand and instead of peeling a hard bulb, you squeeze all the rotting juices out of a mushy one! The horror!
The smell goes into the pores of your skin, just like the smell of cigarette smoke goes into the pores of frequent smokers.
My mother only allowed us to come in via the backdoor; we had to take of all our clothes in the laundry room (they went straight into the washing machine), take a shower and wash our hair twice. And even then, I could still smell it. It took a few days to get rid of it.Apart from the smell, there were those nasty sharp bulbs, which cut right through your gloves into your skin. I often had double layers of bandage on my thumb and index finger, while wearing two pairs of gloves, just to prevent the most serious cuts and blood baths.
Still had fun though while meeting new people and making money, and especially rewarding if we managed to earn a bonus (by peeling a certain number of boxes per day). I've never regretted having that experience, although I was glad to be able to move on to better jobs as I got older.
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@stargazer cheers mate. That rotting bulbs with water added is the smell i was thinking of. Took me ages to realise what was making that stink!
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@siam It's hard to imagine, but my father's family had to eat flower bulbs during the "hunger winter" (1944) during the Second World War because there was nothing else to eat at the time. I guess you can eat anything if you're really hungry, but just the thought of it ...
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@taniwharugby cool. One off my kids is on an internship with Cam and released four kiwi out on the coast 10 days ago
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@machpants i took the kids out to a release out Parua Bay several years back (were raised on Limestone Island) were a couple hundred there
TR Jnr was only about 8 or so and they asked what used to eat Kiwi before dogs and stoats arrived in NZ and his hand shoots up an he shouts out The Maoris!
They were meaning before Maori arrived too.
When we lived out that way one of our cats caught a stoat!
