Turf

The Backwards Man

Yay or Nay

Vincent Vega

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQqv4BEcUvs

MyStubbleItches

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yay or Nay

Ah would you whist up about turf for one night.

The Backwards Man

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

Ah would you whist up about turf for one night.

Give me something more intellectually stimulating AND fun to talk about then!

Shint0

Club.

Are ya a gambling man, Backwards Man? Have you a punt on the Euros?

harry Bailey esq

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Give me something more intellectually stimulating AND fun to talk about then!

Your a odd fellow skinner, but you steam a good ham.

The Backwards Man

Shint0 wrote: »

Club.

Are ya a gambling man, Backwards Man? Have you a punt on the Euros?

There's two things you should never count on, professional footballers and Mongolian calculators.

Shint0

What did a Mongolian calculator ever do to you?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Turf tourism was a thing in the midlands when I was growing up. People would actually pay money to go on the bog train tour.

wil

Sod it.

The Backwards Man

Shint0 wrote: »

What did a Mongolian calculator ever do to you?

They're made by morons

Shint0

The Backwards Man wrote: »

They're made by morons

You just insulted me. I've been told a few times I look like a Mongolian.

You can keep your turf :mad:

Duckworth_Luas

For peat's sake

foggy_lad

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Turf tourism was a thing in the midlands when I was growing up. People would actually pay money to go on the bog train tour.

One of our third class tours was to the bog and the briquette factory and to a power station, not sure which one, might have been Allenwood or Edenderry.

The other tour was a day out with the Army in the Curragh and rides on the tanks and personnel carriers they had back then and a visit to the museum where we all got to hold guns!

Shint0

foggy_lad wrote: »

The other tour was a day out with the Army in the Curragh and rides on the tanks and personnel carriers they had back then and a visit to the museum where we all got to hold guns!

Are you Willie O'Dea?

Mycroft H

Ours isn't even cut yet. Going to be a wet year as we've burnt all of last year's turf at this point.

foggy_lad

Shint0 wrote: »

Are you Willie O'Dea?

Ah now if I told you that I'd have to shoot you:D

Shint0

foggy_lad wrote: »

Ah now if I told you that I'd have to shoot you:D

Gotcha.

Willie O'Dea exposed as Foggy_Lad from Carlow. Good alias.

Ruu

A good weapon.

foggy_lad

Shint0 wrote: »

Gotcha.

Willie O'Dea exposed as Foggy_Lad from Carlow. Good alias.

Stop now or I'll set the moustache after you










I am not now and never have been the great Willie O'Dea or his Moustache.

Stigura

Mongolians? Reminded me of the time the teacher asked us all for examples of insults we might throw at eachother. As she pointed to each of us, we'd do our best.

" Loony ". " Dip Stick ". " Sissy ".

Then, she pointed at John O'Sullivan. " Mongolian Snot Gobbler, Miss! "


Guy was a fcuking legend!

diomed

All men are equal on the Turf, and under it.

kneemos

Mycroft H wrote: »

Ours isn't even cut yet. Going to be a wet year as we've burnt all of last year's turf at this point.

No turf left over from last year ?

Anesthetize

All the Jackeens here will never get to experience that satisfactory feeling of bringing home the last load of turf.

alchemist33

My brother in law delivered a load yesterday and I spent the time before the game building a stack in the shed. Love the smell!

Redbishop

Young ones nowadays have no appreciation of the work that went onto cutting the sod years ago, when every single turf was cut individually with spade or slaine.
Spent years catching and wheeling out the dirty b*****ds.
Saved some myself this year for the first time in about 30 years, paid young lads to lift them for me.
In a remodelled old farmhouse with an old sod burner in the kitchen and looking forward to stoking it up on cold winter days and standing with my arse up to it to warm myself.

Anesthetize

Redbishop wrote: »

Young ones nowadays have no appreciation of the work that went onto cutting the sod years ago, when every single turf was cut individually with spade or slaine.
Spent years catching and wheeling out the dirty b*****ds.
Saved some myself this year for the first time in about 30 years, paid young lads to lift them for me.
In a remodelled old farmhouse with an old sod burner in the kitchen and looking forward to stoking it up on cold winter days and standing with my arse up to it to warm myself.

You had it lucky. We had to bring home the turf sod a few sods at a time, whatever you could carry in your arms, for 20 miles. There were no tractors or donkeys in those days. And if we didn't work hard enough, our father used to beat us until the blood ran down our legs.

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DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Turf tourism was a thing in the midlands when I was growing up. People would actually pay money to go on the bog train tour.

Clonmacnoise? and them talking about the leather man they dug up. Grim stuff.
I hate hate hate hate hate hate the bog. Hate it.

Redbishop

Anesthetize wrote: »

You had it lucky. We had to bring home the turf sod a few sods at a time, whatever you could carry in your arms, for 20 miles. There were no tractors or donkeys in those days. And if we didn't work hard enough, our father used to beat us until the blood ran down our legs.

Ah yiz probably deserved it!
There were always donkeys/asses, just not all had or have four legs.

It the wrong time of the year for the post, should have posted a photo of his lovely turf fire wet cold day in December.

The backwards man seems to have achieved some sort of mystical union with turf, is it the start of a new religion based on the worship of turf.

Boom_Bap

Is Turf the knock of version of Surf washing powder?

The flying mouse

I remember years ago having to go down to the local Turf shed with a pram to collecting 4/5 bags of it, This was 1970s Dublin.I say this for it, it was cleaner than coal :-)

Shint0

Turf
Peaty heather scented toast from an open fire with lashings of butter...after you got your fingers cremated

Redbishop

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Is Turf the knock of version of Surf washing powder?

No, but coal or oil is the astroturf of bogmen.

Fratton Fred

Redbishop wrote: »

Young ones nowadays have no appreciation of the work that went onto cutting the sod years ago.

It's terrible, I remember when flying to Spain gave you terrible arm ache.

Thankfully though, we have planes that do it for us now.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I have a piece of turf in which you can see jesus's face. I keep it in a special cabinet (not a filing one) and take it out every evening and leave it beside all the rest of the turf so he isn't lonely but I never burn it and replace it in its cabinet afterwards.

Boom_Bap

Redbishop wrote: »

No, but coal or oil is the astroturf of bogmen.

so what you are saying is that you can't do a load of laundry with it

Redbishop

Boom_Bap wrote: »

so what you are saying is that you can't do a load of laundry with it

Well you can heat the water for it though!
But interestingly as you mention turf and surf together, have a great weekend sometime.
http://www.booking.com/hotel/ie/turfnsurf-lodge.en.html?aid=311076;label=turfnsurf-lodge-v015EiG_bHJv*O2ZEGgUJgSM107408187041:pl:ta:p1:p2:ac:ap1t2:neg:fi:tikwd-16836447888:lp21316:li:dem:dm;ws=&gclid=CjwKEAjwka67BRCk6a7_h_7Pui8SJABcMkWRWrRQCBfj0dW2X7qGurLWTgKX2U_iebcc_hQjhlG3KhoCYdnw_wcB

ToddyDoody

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yay or Nay

Put it in a blender, add fruit and turn it into a smoothie.