Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

Cosimo De Benedetto said:
I think I fixed it 😂
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🤣👍
pistonsandgears said:
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Sweet shot! 😎👍
SteveC said:
Nice pic of wee Staggy ! 😍👍
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Thanks buddy 😊👍
unclekurty said:
Good Saturday Guardians. Here’s N. 9 with that superb jigging.
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Wonderful! 😎👍
birdsbeaks said:
Good morning, Guardians! From banana flowers to mango - I must be on some kind of crazy fruit kick!! I'm definitely on a crazy Rosecraft kick, as I can't seem to put this one down!

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It isn't mango season in Miami (at least I don't think it is... when driving around, I see people selling avocados by the side of the road and I believe it's one of the other. 🤔) and this example came from the grocery store.

Miami is ripe with Spanish slang, the majority of it lost on me - as I've cast my entire linguistic lot with English, beautifully diverse cesspool that it is! Occasionally though, some kind soul will show up that, probably assuming I need a chuckle, will explain the finer (or at least funnier) points of the conversations going on all around me that I'm missing entirely. And that is how I know that amongst Venezuelans, the term "concha de mango" (concha - "shell," like a conch, but in this case "skin" would be a closer translation) or "mango skin" means a trick question or something easy to slip on - kinda how the rest of the world thinks about slipping on the proverbial banana peel. I can testify that mango skins are indeed much more slippery than banana skins.

Amongst the Cuban population, the term "arroz con mango" implies a situation that is chaotic and complicated. Upon seeing a train derailment resulting in a twenty-car pileup in the middle of a Thanksgiving day parade during an ongoing blizzard in which a few buildings have caught fire - a Cuban person might be likely to exclaim "¡arroz con mango! or "mango with rice!" - just imagine what that would look like: a mess!! I say "likely," because the Cuban people have an incredible number of colorful expressions to describe such an event - most of them inappropriate to utter in polite society (not much of that here...)!

Less specific to any particular group of South-American Spanish speakers (but I believe it originated in Mexico), the term "mango" used on its own, as an exclamation, is used to signify that the person you are saying it to looks good - could be sharp, could be sexy, it's versatile but generally positive. For example, if Jack were to meet Wolfie at the cafe, and Wolfie showed up sporting some slick new duds and a fresh haircut - it would be entirely appropriate for Jack to exclaim "mango!" following which, Wolfie would spin around so that he could admire the whole ensemble.

I think that's all I know about the various uses of "mango" as a Spanish slang term, so it'll have to do. Have a great day Guardians!
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Fascinating post Will 😊 I'd make a colourful exclamation if Wolfie would just turn up on time! 😖 I ended up having a drink with his brother today, and even with his nephew, who had travelled up from the south, but the lupine lollop didn't make it 🙄
SteveC said:
Happy Saturday Guardians !


Hartshead Barlow today 👍



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Smashing pic there Steve 😊👍
echoscout said:
Morning Guardians! Reckon it's a beautiful fall day out there. J Milner Lamb 🐑

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Lovely Lamb David 🙂👍
JonMcD said:
#9 is looking quite handsome Kurt.

#12 was out stretching his legs this afternoon.

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Stunning pic Jon 😎👍
 
Bonus pic!

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... and we're back to bananas! There's a dirty secret regarding bananas - Hey! Just cool it right now! Not THAT kind of dirty secret! Ahem... which is that the bananas that you find in the grocery store are not the most delicious banana cultivar nor the most nutritious banana cultivar - in fact, they are the banana cultivar that best withstands the rigors of international travel. Kinda bland? Yes. Kinda nutrient deprived? Also yes. Capable of being loaded into shipping containers and sailed around the world without dissolving into a puddle of banana muck? Yes and yes.

The bananas that grow in my yard are small, delicious, and will go bad on you if you turn your back on them for a moment - but did I mention they are delicious? I'd go so far as to say that if you've only ever had store-bought bananas, you've no idea what you're missing!!

There's another dirty banana secret - settle down, it's still not that kind of dirty... which is that given the fragility of monoculture crops, of which bananas most definitely are, if a pathogen or insect is ever able to defeat the plant's genetic resistance and the farmer's pesticides - there's nothing stopping it from wiping out the entire global supply of bananas in no time flat. Since the bananas you find in the store are all genetically the same, they'll all be susceptible. However, it's likely mine wouldn't be impacted given their generic diversity from the farmed strains.

Did you know that the majority of the world's starch comes from the banana rhizome (think: root)? A shortage could potentially have greater consequences than no fresh bananas on store shelves! Dangerous business monocultures are!

The more you know (about bananas)! 🍌
 
birdsbeaks said:
which is that the bananas that you find in the grocery store are not the most delicious banana cultivar nor the most nutritious banana cultivar - in fact, they are the banana cultivar that best withstands the rigors of international travel. Kinda bland? Yes. Kinda nutrient deprived? Also yes. Capable of being loaded into shipping containers and sailed around the world without dissolving into a puddle of banana muck? Yes and yes.
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The modern Banana is actually quite unhealthy for you. Controversial i know, but they are now so genetically modified they are a hybrid of the original genus. Also as you state with monoculture planting and cropping and modern day transport to have them available 12 months of the year is ludicrous, and to then be consuming them for 12 months of the year is not good for you. Any complaints see management. :rolleyes: .

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