The Home Ownership Thread

[Fueco]

Pears are trash fruit. They're not as bad as durian, but that only because they don't smell like unwashed ass.

(@Fueco's is pretty, though)

My unwashed ass is pretty too.

 

[beargonefishing]

Pears are trash fruit. They're not as bad as durian, but that only because they don't smell like unwashed ass.

(@Fueco's is pretty, though)

The grapefruit would like a word, as you seem to think the pear is stealing it crown.

 

[SixOhNine]

The grapefruit would like a word, as you seem to think the pear is stealing it crown.

How can you be so wrong so consistently? Grapefruit is magnificent. Truly the underappreciated star of the citrus family. Now if you had said honeydew melons are the worst, we might be able to have a reasonable discussion. But this unwarranted aggression toward grapefruit?

 

[bicycleradical]

Does anyone (not just SF, anyone) actually do "No Mow May"? I get the rhetoric, grass lawns are bad for the environment, but it's just so impractical that the only people who might do it would just get rid of their lawns.

If you live somewhere temperate, May is peak growing season. My lawn would be two feet tall after not mowing all month, and probably have freaking trees growing out of it. I'm not especially lawn obsessed but I end up mowing almost twice a week during peak spring. It'd be a huge project to reclaim, not to mention being unusable and ugly the whole time.

A friend of mine in Maryland did it last year and it was a total pain. It took forever to mow the lawn after it had grown massive.

If someone wants to help pollinators and other beneficial insects, planting flowers and other things native to one's area is the best strategy. Not mowing for a month is performative environmentalism, imo.

 

[Gibonius]

Pears are trash fruit. They're not as bad as durian, but that only because they don't smell like unwashed ass.

(@Fueco's is pretty, though)

Bradford pears don't produce human-edible fruit, just little fruit that the birds love to spread all over the place.

 

[Fueco]

Bradford pears don't produce human-edible fruit, just little fruit that the birds love to spread all over the place.

They’re actually edible, but very small and kind of bitter. Or was that an old girlfriend?

 

[double00]

A friend of mine in Maryland did it last year and it was a total pain. It took forever to mow the lawn after it had grown massive.

If someone wants to help pollinators and other beneficial insects, planting flowers and other things native to one's area is the best strategy. Not mowing for a month is performative environmentalism, imo.

grass doesn't require pollinators but pollinators def collect grass pollen

 

[beargonefishing]

How can you be so wrong so consistently? Grapefruit is magnificent. Truly the underappreciated star of the citrus family. Now if you had said honeydew melons are the worst, we might be able to have a reasonable discussion. But this unwarranted aggression toward grapefruit?
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You're a monster. Grapefruit is like eating a rotting corpse with stringy pulp.

 

[Texasmade]

You're a monster. Grapefruit is like eating a rotting corpse with stringy pulp.

Grapefruit is the worst citrus fruit.

 

[SixOhNine]

You're a monster. Grapefruit is like eating a rotting corpse with stringy pulp.

Grapefruit is the worst citrus fruit.

How dare you profane the state fruit of Texas.

Texas State Fruit - Texas red Grapefruit - wheretexasbecametexas.org

The Texas Red Grapefruit was adopted as the Texas state fruit on May 17, 1993. The fruit was first discovered by Texas citrus growers in 1929. It generates more revenue than any other tree fruit in Texas. The legislature said, “This variety of grapefruit has been carefully nurtured and perfected...

wheretexasbecametexas.org

 

[otc]

wtf, have you only had bad mealy pears?

A good pair is an amazing thing.

Edit: not fixing it.

 

[beargonefishing]

How dare you profane the state fruit of Texas.

Texas State Fruit - Texas red Grapefruit - wheretexasbecametexas.org

The Texas Red Grapefruit was adopted as the Texas state fruit on May 17, 1993. The fruit was first discovered by Texas citrus growers in 1929. It generates more revenue than any other tree fruit in Texas. The legislature said, “This variety of grapefruit has been carefully nurtured and perfected...

wheretexasbecametexas.org

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The prosecution rests, and closes.

 

[SixOhNine]

bad mealy pears

Commonly referred to as "all pears".

 

[double00]

Commonly referred to as "all pears".

afaik pears are the only fruit that are picked before they are ripe , if they are mealy it's user error

 

[Numbernine]

When the Santa Clara Valley was covered in orchards from the East Hills to the Santa Cruz mountains you could find perfectly tree ripened fruit of every variety from Spring (cherries) thru Fall (pears). I loved all of it.