The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[balrog]

The nasty walnutses are almost all down..

Only one wheelbarrow load yesterday. I could probably make a graph, but I won't.

 

[day_trippr]

How many walnut trees do you have anyway?
We are cursed with some kind of chestnuts that do not appear to interest anyone or anything...

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

I think he said six ... i have two chestnuts out back. squirrels love em...

 

[paulthenurse]

Wassup lads?

There needs to be a special place in hell for the douchenozzles who ride on the far righthand side of the road going past all of the folks who are sitting in traffic then they swoop across and force merge into the front of the line.
We should be able to legally pull those f-tards out of their cars and beat them to death. Not only should it be legal, it should be rewarded.

Do ya think the drive in this morning was a sh!t show?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Wassup lads?

There needs to be a special place in hell for the *****enozzles who ride on the far righthand side of the road going past all of the folks who are sitting in traffic then they swoop across and force merge into the front of the line.
We should be able to legally pull those f-tards out of their cars and beat them to death. Not only should it be legal, it should be rewarded.

Do ya think the drive in this morning was a **** show?

Same goes for the dbags that get out of the rt lane on the CIP then cut everyone off that was waiting to exit for the LIE right at the exit . Why do you think the exit lane is taking forever you selfish entitled a$$ hole? Sorry your commute sucked. Other than that how’s things?

 

[paulthenurse]

Not bad. But a 45 minute ride to go 11 miles makes me want to reconsider retirement.

 

[balrog]

We should be able to legally pull those f-tards out of their cars and beat them to death. Not only should it be legal, it should be rewarded.

I condone the sentiment entirely.

How many walnut trees do you have anyway?

Six. A seventh is a new small one (suddenly 40' tall) in the blackberry patch area that I have unfortunately ignored and must now render undo rapid oxidation by performing a walnut tree ectomy with surgical chainsaw. What I find ceaselessly interesting is the different walnut trees produce different sized/shaped walnuts. The one (which will also die a horrendous death this Fall) near my hops patch drops lemon shaped walnuts <see image below - the boot shaped object is not a walnut>

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Not bad. But a 45 minute ride to go 11 miles makes me want to reconsider retirement.

Then may I suggest you make the move before the new dude with the big hammer takes a whack at fulfilling his dream of decimating SS?

 

[day_trippr]

Yikes! Those big'uns look like they'd hurt if you got bonked!

Our chestnuts don't look like the spikey bastid American Chestnuts I grew up with that have apparently all died.
They're maybe half the size of your smallest walnuts there. Squirrels spend all their time stashing acorns (which we had plenty of) and don't seem interested in the chestnuts...

Cheers!

 

[Melana]

Traffic sucks. I missed my cushy office this week and have been on the road all week. Andover Monday (2 hours) and two two hour trips to Cambridge. Holy carp I have spent twelve hours in my flipping car this week and it's only Thursday.
Please make it stop.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

You could always put the nuts in Paulies "coffee pot"

 

[balrog]

Yikes! Those big'uns look like they'd hurt if you got bonked!

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Our chestnuts don't look like the spikey bastid American Chestnuts I grew up with that have apparently all died.
They're maybe half the size of your smallest walnuts there. Squirrels spend all their time stashing acorns (which we had plenty of) and don't seem interested in the chestnuts...

Cheers!

I grew up w an American chestnut in the back yard. All the neighborhood kids learned very VERY quickly that we'd play whatever in ANYONE else's yard but mine. The spikey balls with superfine needles got in you deep and broke off. Every Fall was brutal. But in the Smoky Mountains you'd hike past giant chestnut trees that had fallen decades before and were surprisingly well preserved. The locals had often built their barns out of chestnut (the locals got 'relocated' when the national park came into being), the barns occasionally would go up on auction and sell for large sums for the chestnut lumber.

Someone near me was trying to revive the American Chestnut through some state grant grassroots something or other, and I jokingly said I'd be happy to follow along behind his planting with a giant container of salt. He was oddly not amused in the least.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Some late night reading. I've solved your nut problem @balrog

I've seen a couple of recipes that added maple syrup like treehouse did. They also say aging brings out the walnut nuances. Several mention similarities to Jager

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/nocino/

 

[balrog]

Some late night reading. I've solved your nut problem @balrog

I've seen a couple of recipes that added maple syrup like treehouse did. They also say aging brings out the walnut nuances. Several mention similarities to Jager

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/nocino/

I appreciate you thinking of me, it is an interesting possibility.
But as much as I dislike picking them up, I can't imagine hauling my aging a$$ up a 70' tree to harvest immature walnuts from the trees.

 

[whosradl]

Hello fellow MA brewers!
I've gotten some interest in another brewing ingredients run for before the end of the year (2023), so wanted to reach out here again to see if anyone had any ingredient needs. In case anyone is reading this for the first time and doesn't want to scroll through the comments here's a recap.

If anyone anywhere reasonably drivable from central MA is looking to save some money buying some grains, DME, dry yeast packets, or hops I'm putting together an order through BSG in the next couple weeks. They offer most of their grains in 1, 10, and 50/55 lb sacks, DME in 1, 3, and 50/55 lb bags, and hops in 1 oz, 8 oz, or full lb increments. They offer dry yeast from most of the major manufacturers (Fermentis, Lallemand, Mangrove Jack, etc).

You won't see prices since one can only do that with an account with them, but here are links to their webpages for grains, DME, hops, and dry yeast to check out what they have:
Malt - Grains | Welcome | BSG HandCraft | Wholesale Brewing Supplies For Homebrew
Malt - Extract | Welcome | BSG HandCraft | Wholesale Brewing Supplies For Homebrew
Hops | Welcome | BSG HandCraft | Wholesale Brewing Supplies For Homebrew
Yeast | Welcome | BSG HandCraft | Wholesale Brewing Supplies For Homebrew

If you're interested, please DM me and we can work together to figure out what's best for you. I don't mind working out driving and meeting somewhere. Cheers!

 

[paulthenurse]

Nah. I'll support my local shop and keep it open. Thanks anyways.

 

[day_trippr]

Well, there's a limit to my largess.

I needed a particular base malt for a brew I'm doing tomorrow - I'm trying to tune a recipe and didn't want multiple things changing - and I paid through the nose for it at $2.39 a pound. I'm willing to pay that for specialty malts, and I buy all my yeast from the same outfit, but for near generic Rahr base malt that's unsustainable. I typically buy 300 pounds (320, specifically) of base malts annually and I'm not paying that for it.

I'm in on the buy.

Cheers!

 

[paulthenurse]

Ho Lee Fuq.

Two more posts and this ginormous waste of time will crack the 20,000 post mark! GTF outta here. I don't know wether to be proud or embarrassed.

 

[day_trippr]

"Why not both?"

I could snipe the 20000th but I won't...19999 is cooler anyway!

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

WOO HOO !!

[Edit: I know, I know. I should've yelled, "LEEROY JENKINNNNNNNNS"]

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

01

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

WOO HOO !!

[Edit: I know, I know. I should've yelled, "LEEROY JENKINNNNNNNNS"]

At least it wasn’t a walnuts post.

 

[balrog]

At least it wasn’t a walnuts post.

Heard.

 

[paulthenurse]

No cannons. No fireworks. No ice cream. Kind of anticlimactic

On the other hand we're all still here flipping the bird at an early death.
So there's that.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

here here to the flipping the bird part.

 

[Dland]

No cannons. No fireworks. No ice cream. Kind of anticlimactic

On the other hand we're all still here flipping the bird at an early death.
So there's that.

Sadly, I think most of us are too old to die young, as is this thread. Prolly be going on until they unplug the last of us, ;.]

 

[balrog]

until they unplug the last of us,

I thought we would all be going out in a blaze of glory on a last chance power drive, or maybe I've been listening to too much Bruce lately.

 

[day_trippr]

I thought we would all be going out in a blaze of glory on a last chance power drive

I tried that. Didn't take, but I did get some quality ED time

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Stoutfest Brunch

 

[balrog]

Ugh. My mom insisted on this stuff when I was growing up in TN. The one year we made it fresh with the hand crank meat grinder, oranges and (okay not technically fresh but frozen) cranberries, we never went back.