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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: shadeaux on December 03, 2012, 12:42:11 PM
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Whovian (1,627 posts)
A sign of the overwhelming poverty in the rural SE
Last edited Sun Dec 2, 2012, 11:34 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Riding past a soybean field last week but I decided to bring it up now I saw several cars parked by the field and many more people scavenging soybeans that the harvesting machinery had left behind.
They were all bent down on all fours as they sifted through the scrum and dumping their finds into five gallon buckets. I have never seen this before.
It is hard to ride a motorcycle with tears in your eyes.
On edit. For the gleaning fans that are saying this is just great that they are doing this:
THESE ARE SOYBEANS!!! They are the size of a small pea. They are earth tone in color and buried in the shards of the bushes that cover them in the earth of the same color as the bean. To find these beans one would have to sift through the detritus one handful at a time. This is not picking up chestnuts, apples or pecans or whatever. This is desperation.
Yes Whovian, people are sifting on hands and knees through the scrum, whatever the hell that is, to gather soybeans needing to make soybean soup, homemade soybean bread and maybe some tofu, wash it down with homemade soybean milk. The fields near my house are crawling with soybean hungry people. :whatever:
d_r (2,162 posts)
1. damn I've never seen that
Neither has anyone else.
Whovian (1,627 posts)
5. I've lived here and in this area for 40-50 years and have never seen this before.
These aren't apples or pecans, these are soybeans. A not very desirable dish to most but a good source of protein. Also, I can imagine they are much harder to find in a mown field than an apple or pecan would be as they rested under a tree.
A field is sown, not mown.
Whovian (1,627 posts)
18. After spraying the herbicide everything dies and dries up.
Nothing against gleaning here, but gleaning soybeans a a very labor intensive work.
OH MY GOD. Now the farmers are trying to kill hungry folk. I really dislike that word folk. Obama has made it vulgar. It now means sucka !
People, skip the soybeans, find yourself a place were there are many pecan trees. The store has 1 lb. bags of whole pecans going for $10. They are selling them here at malls for $6 a bag cash. Go make yourself some money and forget the scrum. :rotf:
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Whovian (1,627 posts)
A sign of the overwhelming poverty in the rural SE
Last edited Sun Dec 2, 2012, 11:34 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Riding past a soybean field last week but I decided to bring it up now I saw several cars parked by the field and many more people scavenging soybeans that the harvesting machinery had left behind.
They were all bent down on all fours as they sifted through the scrum and dumping their finds into five gallon buckets. I have never seen this before.
It is hard to ride a motorcycle with tears in your eyes.
On edit. For the gleaning fans that are saying this is just great that they are doing this:
THESE ARE SOYBEANS!!! They are the size of a small pea. They are earth tone in color and buried in the shards of the bushes that cover them in the earth of the same color as the bean. To find these beans one would have to sift through the detritus one handful at a time. This is not picking up chestnuts, apples or pecans or whatever. This is desperation.
Who's admin is this (supposedly) happening under?
Lousy bouncy BTW.
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Oh my God! Someone posted something from that awful Leviticus!
Response to Whovian (Original post)
Sun Dec 2, 2012, 11:26 PM
On the Road (20,244 posts)
10. Leviticus 19:10
'Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger.
Response to Whovian (Original post)
Sun Dec 2, 2012, 11:21 PM
msongs (28,603 posts)
8. we used to glean the potato fields in ND back in the 60's...food going to waste...
although our family didnt NEED to do that we did it because for us it was an interesting diversion not a necessity
Shouldn't you have left those potatoes for someone who really needed them, and not used them for your own cheap entertainment?
(Who digs for potatoes for fun? :mental: Although I once picked blueberries for "fun" and found out it wasn't very).
Response to Whovian (Original post)
Mon Dec 3, 2012, 01:56 AM
Mothdust (107 posts)
19. japanese people call them edomome
If you boil the pods a few minutes with a little soy sauce and a dash of sesame oil and a pinch of red hot pepper then strain and let cool before popping open the pods, just like peanuts in shells, you will have a healthful nutritious snack
Sounds disgusting. I'm suspicious of anything called a "healthful nutritious snack." Usually tastes like cardboard and/or lawn clippings.
Oh and BTW, there they go crying again. :bawl:
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This never happened under Bush.
just sayin'
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A field is sown, not mown.
Whoops!!!! :rofl: :rofl:
If they haven't picked up the pecans yet, it's too dang late. I have two garbage sacks filled from my two trees, and our parks are all picked over.
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Soybeans should be roasted and fed to dairy cows.
Trying to make such a bitter tasting thing a staple of human consumption is a tragedy.
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Four years from now with the idiotic economic policies of 0bama the marxist, these will be the good old times..
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My great uncle planted the first soybeans in this area in 1951. mY dad and I went to have a look see at them. I was a little boy and I can remember thinking (kids went allowed to talk back then), "Boy! am I glad I don't have to pick and shell those things."
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healthful nutritious snack
#1 warning sign that something tastes like shit.
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This never happened under Bush.
just sayin'
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I would have called the sheriff.
No way those 0bamaites had permission to be crawling around in that beanfield.
And if one of them got hurt, they'd be suing the farmer.
Bums.
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Where's Tom Joad when you need him?
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Farmer needs to come out there and get them for trespassing! :evillaugh:
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Sounds disgusting. I'm suspicious of anything called a "healthful nutritious snack." Usually tastes like cardboard and/or lawn clippings.
Green soybeans are eaten as edamame, and they are tasty. You can buy them already out of the shell at Trader Joes. Just open the container and you have an easy veggie snack.
Not the same thing as eating fully ripe, brown soybeans at all...
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This got me to thinking how 0bama wants all of the USA to be like kali. In kali we have 35% of welfare recipients but only 10% of the population. Oh, we also have a 26% poverty rate and public employee unions controlling the politics. Although that is really saying the same thing just a bit differently.
Look to kalifornia now to see what the USA will be in four years.
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Green soybeans are eaten as edamame, and they are tasty. You can buy them already out of the shell at Trader Joes. Just open the container and you have an easy veggie snack.
Not the same thing as eating fully ripe, brown soybeans at all...
KILL THE HIPPIE!
:angryvillagers:
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:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
(http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haight-hippie.jpg)
(http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/hippie.gif)
She looks purty!
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KILL THE HIPPIE!
:angryvillagers:
My mom did tell me once that other than my politics, I would make a good hippie :tongue:
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:rotf: :lmao: at the pics.
"Tasty veggie snack." :hammer:
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Soybeans make a healthy snack........for cows.
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Soybeans make a healthy snack........for cows.
Deer, too.
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That's BS! I go to local stores to get "garbage" to feed my animals. I certainly could and would make myself a nice salad if I were hungry! But I turn it into meat of course.
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mum made some garbage soup today...I was afraid to ask what was in it...It had some sort of bean it, don't know what kind though.......it looked disgusting.
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:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
(http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haight-hippie.jpg)
(http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/hippie.gif)
She looks purty!
She looks contagious.
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I don't see anything wrong with people picking up what is left after a harvest that just goes to waste anyway.
An old neighbor of mine would go on weekends and do that. He would fill up his truck with cantalopes, or whatever, then sell them by the roadside for extra money. Now they don't let you do that anymore.
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Why don't the soybean garbage people just get food stamps and/or go to the food banks like everyone else? Or maybe their church family could help them? Or....and here is a radical idea....maybe their actual families could kick in for a loaf of bread or two?
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:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
(http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/hippie.gif)
Ahhh, sir... sir... your, ummm, pants... you seem to have lost your pants.
And I'm concerned about what your lady friend plans to do to you with that Vagisil applicator.
This might be a good time to go and find your pants. Just sayin'.
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I don't see anything wrong with people picking up what is left after a harvest that just goes to waste anyway.
An old neighbor or mine would go on weekends and do that. He would fill up his truck with cantalopes, or whatever, then sell them by the roadside for extra money. Now they don't let you do that anymore.
When I was young we'd walk corn fields after harvesting , pick up the corn for feeding chickens, ducks and geese. That was when they used to pick the corn and let the field sit over the winter.
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Whovian (1,627 posts)
A sign of the overwhelming poverty in the rural SE
Last edited Sun Dec 2, 2012, 11:34 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Riding past a soybean field last week but I decided to bring it up now I saw several cars parked by the field and many more people scavenging soybeans that the harvesting machinery had left behind.
They were all bent down on all fours as they sifted through the scrum and dumping their finds into five gallon buckets. I have never seen this before.
It is hard to ride a motorcycle with tears in your eyes.
Boo freaking hoo!!! :bawl:
If you had any human compassion at all, you would volunteer to HELP those poor folks glean those fields.
I doubt very, very seriously they were picking up the beans from the ground, IF these people even existed. The beans would have been run over many times by trucks, tractors, wagons, etc., and mashed into the ground.
More than likely, they would be looking for any pods still attached to the vines the combine missed. 10-20% losses from mechanical harvesters in not unusual, and most soybean combines have sensors to automatically adjust the header height so it runs as close to the ground as possible.
When I was young we'd walk corn fields after harvesting , pick up the corn for feeding chickens, ducks and geese. That was when they used to pick the corn and let the field sit over the winter.
We would let some friends of ours that kept a few head of livestock pick over the corn fields after we were finished. Sometimes we'd help them, and it wash't unusual for them to gather 2-3 pickup loads of ear corn out of a 40-50 acre field.
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Boo freaking hoo!!! :bawl:
If you had any human compassion at all, you would volunteer to HELP those poor folks glean those fields.
I doubt very, very seriously they were picking up the beans from the ground, IF these people even existed. The beans would have been run over many times by trucks, tractors, wagons, etc., and mashed into the ground.
More than likely, they would be looking for any pods still attached to the vines the combine missed. 10-20% losses from mechanical harvesters in not unusual, and most soybean combines have sensors to automatically adjust the header height so it runs as close to the ground as possible.
We would let some friends of ours that kept a few head of livestock pick over the corn fields after we were finished. Sometimes we'd help them, and it wash't unusual for them to gather 2-3 pickup loads of ear corn out of a 40-50 acre field.
'Round here, there's these things called "whitetail deer" that take care of the leftovers.
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Whovian (1,627 posts)
It is hard to ride a motorcycle with tears in your eyes.
DUmmy CindyLouWho, a pink Vespa is not a motorcycle.
(http://vespalexington.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pinkvespa.jpg)
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
I can't believe they aren't upset over the bums stealing food from the deer :bawl:
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16 trillion in debt and we ain't overwhelmed poverty yet? ....right ...but we're overwhelmed with debt.
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DUmmy CindyLouWho, a pink Vespa is not a motorcycle.
(http://vespalexington.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pinkvespa.jpg)
i so love that and i want one
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Whovian does ride a scooter but he says it a bad scoot. :lmao:
I passed some soybean fields today, saw nothing except egrets.
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'Round here, there's these things called "whitetail deer" that take care of the leftovers.
The deer get what's leftover after the hogs and cows finish, and WE get the deer after that, before hunting season.
(We fed the SOB's all f'n year, we're gonna eat a couple of 'em.) :-)
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The deer get what's leftover after the hogs and cows finish, and WE get the deer after that, before hunting season.
(We fed the SOB's all f'n year, we're gonna eat a couple of 'em.) :-)
There's also these undocumented illegals called 'Canada geese' that do their part in cleaning yup the drops, too.
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It is hard to ride a motorcycle with tears in your eyes.
Try goggles. And don't smile. Keeps the bugs out of your teeth.
Finally, anyone see this for what it is, kinda like Pam? WOE IS ME, LOOK AT THESE COOL TOYS I HAVE!!!
****ing trailer queen.
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Finally, anyone see this for what it is, kinda like Pam?
Which reminds me.
Pam hasn't been around for a while.
I hope someone is watching the Wichita obits.
Wouldn't wanna miss a dance.
Next year there could be an award for "Outstanding Dead DOTY".
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Whovian (1,627 posts)
A sign of the overwhelming poverty in the rural SE
Last edited Sun Dec 2, 2012, 11:34 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Riding past a soybean field last week but I decided to bring it up now I saw several cars parked by the field and many more people scavenging soybeans that the harvesting machinery had left behind.
They were all bent down on all fours as they sifted through the scrum and dumping their finds into five gallon buckets. I have never seen this before.
It is hard to ride a motorcycle with tears in your eyes.
On edit. For the gleaning fans that are saying this is just great that they are doing this:
THESE ARE SOYBEANS!!! They are the size of a small pea. They are earth tone in color and buried in the shards of the bushes that cover them in the earth of the same color as the bean. To find these beans one would have to sift through the detritus one handful at a time. This is not picking up chestnuts, apples or pecans or whatever. This is desperation.
I give, what's the point of this bloviation?
1. Unionize Soybean thieves?
2. Nationalize the Soybean Farmers?
3. mOar TeeCherZ?!!!!!11111eleventy
4. Guns kill Soybeans?
5. Bain Capital forced people to pick Soybeans?
6. Wal Mart oppressed Soybean thieves?
7. Bob Costas would make a good Soybean picker because he's a sawed off little jackass?
C'mon (D)Ullards, help us out here...
It is hard to ride a motorcycle with tears in your eyes
You just gave, whatever it is you are trying to say, away.
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Which reminds me.
Pam hasn't been around for a while.
I hope someone is watching the Wichita obits.
Wouldn't wanna miss a dance.
Next year there could be an award for "Outstanding Dead DOTY".
I noticed that she has been upgraded to high school teacher at the Gateway Alternative Program for future offenders.
http://gateway.usd259.schoolfusion.us/modules/tt/staffList/staffListSimplified.phtml?sessionid=29749a2919bfb23181fdfb19ae113779
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I noticed that she has been upgraded to high school teacher at the Gateway Alternative Program for future offenders.
http://gateway.usd259.schoolfusion.us/modules/tt/staffList/staffListSimplified.phtml?sessionid=29749a2919bfb23181fdfb19ae113779
Her position was upgraded commensurate with her condition. :-)
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I noticed that she has been upgraded to high school teacher at the Gateway Alternative Program for future offenders.
http://gateway.usd259.schoolfusion.us/modules/tt/staffList/staffListSimplified.phtml?sessionid=29749a2919bfb23181fdfb19ae113779
She must be getting ready to retire so they gave her a new postion with a boost in pay so the taxpayers will be on the hook for a larger pension.
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I noticed that she has been upgraded to high school teacher at the Gateway Alternative Program for future offenders.
http://gateway.usd259.schoolfusion.us/modules/tt/staffList/staffListSimplified.phtml?sessionid=29749a2919bfb23181fdfb19ae113779
I'm pretty sure that's the same title she's held since she was shipped off to Alcatraz for Teens.
Her duties, on those rare days when she shows up for work, are very similar to what's normally called a corrections officer.
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Which reminds me.
Pam hasn't been around for a while.
I hope someone is watching the Wichita obits.
Wouldn't wanna miss a dance.
Next year there could be an award for "Outstanding Dead DOTY".
I just checked: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansas/#navlink=navbar
No listing for Die alte Sau for the past 6 months.
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So just because you were able to dig up a couple of old photos of my mom and dad you expect me to run off in embarrasment back to huffingtonpost ?
I am made of sterner stuff.
My parents decision to name me snowflake admittedly caused a few altercations in school but maybe because of that I am a more compassionate person and a true champion for the underdog.
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I just checked: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansas/#navlink=navbar
No listing for Die alte Sau for the past 6 months.
You're confusing Pam Dawson with Anne Pritchett, DUmmy Proud2BDUmb, who is referred to lovingly by coach as die alte Sau.
Pam is the DUmmy who's perpetually terminally ill.
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You're confusing Pam Dawson with Anne Pritchett, DUmmy Proud2BDUmb, who is referred to lovingly by coach as die alte Sau.
Pam is the DUmmy who's perpetually terminally ill.
You're right, I got their nom de coaches mixed up.
I checked the obits for Pamela Dawson, though.
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I'm pretty sure that's the same title she's held since she was shipped off to Alcatraz for Teens.
Her duties, on those rare days when she shows up for work, are very similar to what's normally called a corrections officer.
She was listed under support staff for a while. Now she is listed as teaching high school.