Gardener's Question Time

[barrydidit]

There's a bit of a slope on my garden.

I think it's to do with the dutch hoe.

Even the ground is racist now.

[EternalOptimist]

I had murder in Tescos today. I pointed out that calling the vegetables, 'vegetables' was derogatory, demeaning and disablist.
So the absolute idiot in charge asked me what we should call them instead.
'er - not fruity', i suggested
'whaat'
he rolled the sleeves up on his pink shirt


and thats when the fight started

[xoggoth]

I'll certainly buy ones that look like deformed fannies

[darmstadt]

And surely all this reluctance by supermarkets to sell distorted fruit and vegetables is a concealed attack on the disabled?

Some places have decided to start selling potatoes that look like CUK members and carrots that look like deformed willies:

Fruta Feia | Gente bonita come fruta feia

Grocery Store Reduces Food Waste by Featuring Deformed Produce | Care2 Causes - French Grocery Store Intermarché Launches Inglorious Fruits & Vegetables Campaign to Urge People to Eat More Produce | One Green Planet - https://www.intermarche.com/home.html

But they're foreign....

[greenlake]

Don't forget those racist gnomes....

[mudskipper]

Just to emphasise the laziness of the Indy's journalist: the programme itself is available on BBC iPlayer. But they didn't even bother listening to it and reporting what was actually said and understanding its context, instead just grabbing stuff from the Mail and repeating it.

Lazy, lazy, lazy

Only what we do - google, cut and paste

[xoggoth]

And surely all this reluctance by supermarkets to sell distorted fruit and vegetables is a concealed attack on the disabled?

[MicrosoftBob]

What about the boycott Israel campaign, isn't just an front for lefty closet racists to be able feel superior when the post about it social media

[darmstadt]

Damn, even the government are racist now:

Invasive non-native species report published - News from Parliament - UK Parliament

Natural England - England's Non-native Species Audit

[NickFitz]

Link to the Independent. But wait, what's this at the start of para 5?

According to the Daily Mail…

Ah

Just to emphasise the laziness of the Indy's journalist: the programme itself is available on BBC iPlayer. But they didn't even bother listening to it and reporting what was actually said and understanding its context, instead just grabbing stuff from the Mail and repeating it.

Lazy, lazy, lazy

[NickFitz]

Link to the Independent. But wait, what's this at the start of para 5?

According to the Daily Mail…

Ah

[SueEllen]

Some academics have too much time on their hands and are desperate to get their work read they will say anything to get in the news.


A more sensible analysis of the findings is given by:

A horticulturalist and long-time Gardeners’ Question Time panellist Stefan Buczacki called the claims “utterly absurd.”

Stefan was born in Derbyshire of an English mother and a Polish father and says the achievement of which he is proudest is to have been voted among the 100 people of Polish descent who have contributed most to the life and culture of Britain

linky

[barrydidit]

Racist? The lunatics (read academics) are taking over the asylum...these people don't live in the real world: Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time accused of being a vehicle to project 'racist' leanings - Home News - UK - The Independent



So what is a plant such as Japanese Knotweed if not non-native? What should we call it? 'Immigrant Vegetation?' **** me even it's Latin name is not in English: Fallopia japonica. What should we call words like this that are not English? 'Bloody Foreign Gibberish?' *******

Mind you, NLyUK was on there the other week. She had something nasty growing in her front privett iirc.

[darmstadt]

Racist? The lunatics (read academics) are taking over the asylum...these people don't live in the real world: Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time accused of being a vehicle to project 'racist' leanings - Home News - UK - The Independent

The use of botanic terms such as native and non-native, for example, panders to an innate desire to express nationalism, he says.

So what is a plant such as Japanese Knotweed if not non-native? What should we call it? 'Immigrant Vegetation?' **** me even it's Latin name is not in English: Fallopia japonica. What should we call words like this that are not English? 'Bloody Foreign Gibberish?' *******