Do berries really care?
12-24-22, 11:59 AM
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I don't know the answer to this question but it appears to me that non-fixie carries berries. Does that make non-fixie a Care Bear?
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12-24-22, 01:12 PM
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I think the berries do care. And the carrots can cry.
Just look at a simple animal like the Nautilus. The beautiful, colorful Nautilus. It plays. It knows how to play. I've known some hominids that don't know how to do that very well.
Just look at a simple animal like the Nautilus. The beautiful, colorful Nautilus. It plays. It knows how to play. I've known some hominids that don't know how to do that very well.
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12-24-22, 04:08 PM
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12-24-22, 06:42 PM
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Some of my berries don’t give a fig. The others are totally nuts.
I’ll find my way out.
I’ll find my way out.
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they care, berry berry much
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Hey, I treat my berries right. Those apples, pears, ... all see the knife when I make breakfast but not the berries. (They go into the bowl first so they get eaten last.)
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The "Berry" holding the baby on the left cares, the other Berry's could give a flying hoot.
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BTW, He also said Merry Christmas to all B.F. members.....the others said "Bah Humbug", no soup for you!
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12-25-22, 03:01 AM
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Oh they do! Went over my bars in a Polish wood once, and the berries took me in their arms, nurtured me and made me smell nice for the rest of the day. So unlike that ****** of an avocado that tied me to the zschitter for half a week in Bucarest!
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I've seen it more used colloquially, interesting it being used at Dillard's. Curious, men or women's pants?
12-25-22, 10:12 AM
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Men's. I'm fine with pegged pants, I'm just a little surprised they would use "carrot taper" as a marketing term - doesn't seem very flattering.
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12-25-22, 10:17 AM
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I love blueberries fried into pancakes, not so much raw ones. But you have to be incredibly careful when eating the pancakes, lest the uncaring blueberries (believe me, there are always some waiting) splurt open on your shirt or nice tablecloth. Thankfully, though the stains seem intractably permanent, oxygen bleach generally gets them out.
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12-25-22, 01:08 PM
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Carrot taper.
great, as if ISO, JIS, SWISS and others weren't enough
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And speaking of berries, specifically of my love, blueberries - I'm loving the trend. Seeing fresh blueberries in large quantities in every supermarket. And many of those bluebs are good tasting. I grew up surrounded by wild blueberries, both high bush and low bush. The high bush yielded far more but some of the low bush (there were several varieties) had berries that were to die for. Sadly, the trees had grown up and shaded those low bushes so much that hours of seeking would get me maybe a tiny handful. Yes there were blueberries in stores but they were of varieties that simply didn't taste good or were picked too soon. Now I can plunk down a fiver and have more berries in that box than used to come off our biggest high bush and often those berries are quite good. Some of the farmers market best are very good.
Only once growing up did I get to eat enough blueberries to see a difference in how I felt. (The current "super food".) That once? They made me quite sick! When I was 10. Picking and immediately eating them as I worked my way up a New Hampshire hill recently burned over to renew the blueberries. Ate so many I barely made it to the top! (And the sad note. I had to be in my brother's wedding party on that hill witnessing their marriage in full summer on another perfect blueberry year and not be able to eat those wonderful berries all around me. Reception after was far away.)
Now I eat those bluebs in moderation, a healthy little pile with my breakfast most morning. With yogurt and granola after bike rides. Good stuff. And my love continues.
Only once growing up did I get to eat enough blueberries to see a difference in how I felt. (The current "super food".) That once? They made me quite sick! When I was 10. Picking and immediately eating them as I worked my way up a New Hampshire hill recently burned over to renew the blueberries. Ate so many I barely made it to the top! (And the sad note. I had to be in my brother's wedding party on that hill witnessing their marriage in full summer on another perfect blueberry year and not be able to eat those wonderful berries all around me. Reception after was far away.)
Now I eat those bluebs in moderation, a healthy little pile with my breakfast most morning. With yogurt and granola after bike rides. Good stuff. And my love continues.
12-25-22, 07:13 PM
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Well, I've found that when you get sent for pie and you don't come back with Olallieberry, people care.
