A True Bonsai Tree

[Sansui]

Yo... don't be dissin' my Yorkshire pudding and Roast Beef! And I'm not from the UK!

My son came home from college for Christmas, and I told him we were going to be having Yorkshire pudding and roast beef for Christmas. He had never had Yorkshire pudding... and didn't know what he was in for. When we served the meal his quote "this has to be the most poorly named dish in the world... it has nothing to do with pudding, and in fact is nothing more than some kind of puffy starch with roast drippings and butter!"

Needless to say, he ate every bit

Gordon Ramsey's Yorkshire Pudding Recipe *****

Thank you for the recipe! Like many old traditional recipes it is a way to feed more mouths during tough times by adding the pudding and using the fat. Of course, don't forget the mashed potatoes and Scottish meat pies! An English WWII wartime dish I became accustomed to (by default) is beans-on-toast. Give it a try. Yummy!

 

[eryk2kartman]

This is fake news! or News-a-like

 

[Japonicus]

y'all have way yonder too much time on yer hands

 

[penumbra]

y'all have way yonder too much time on yer hands

You are so right. I can't believe how much time I have wasted here. Bolero has been a real time suck and I should have just stayed away. But you know how it is hard to look away from a car wreck .... and this was a real train wreck. Here it is, middle of a beautiful day, and I am stuck at a computer reading this Bolero generated bs. I gotta slap myself and get a life.

 

[Smoke]

You are so right. I can't believe how much time I have wasted here. Bolero has been a real time suck and I should have just stayed away. But you know how it is hard to look away from a car wreck .... and this was a real train wreck. Here it is, middle of a beautiful day, and I am stuck at a computer reading this Bolero generated bs. I gotta slap myself and get a life.

Don't sell these threads short.

There has been some amazing bonsai history and pictures shared in these gems.

 

[penumbra]

Don't sell these threads short.

There has been some amazing bonsai history and pictures shared in these gems.

I hear ya Smoke, but I really didn't pick up all that much. Certainly not to justify the time I spent here. Now several other posts were interesting and helpful and hopefully I helped a bit as well. I know that you and probably just about everyone was amused by Bolero's rantings, but I wonder what new members or beginners just looking thought of it all.

 

[Smoke]

I hear ya Smoke, but I really didn't pick up all that much. Certainly not to justify the time I spent here. Now several other posts were interesting and helpful and hopefully I helped a bit as well. I know that you and probably just about everyone was amused by Bolero's rantings, but I wonder what new members or beginners just looking thought of it all.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again for the umpteenth time....I come to the internet for entertainment purposes only. Very, VERY rarely do I learn something I have not seen or known before. So if your coming here thinking you will learn something, you ain't gonna do it reading about it. You have to do it with your own backyard, own climate and own material. If something works for you, then BOOM you learned something. I don't ever see much shared in the last 13 years here that is worth writing home about. Most of it gets caught up in the entertainment part, and thats what is hard for a beginner, having to sift thru all the bull shit.

But the entertainment, wow better than a comedy show!

 

[penumbra]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again for the umpteenth time....I come to the internet for entertainment purposes only. Very, VERY rarely do I learn something I have not seen or known before. So if your coming here thinking you will learn something, you ain't gonna do it reading about it. You have to do it with your own backyard, own climate and own material. If something works for you, then BOOM you learned something. I don't ever see much shared in the last 13 years here that is worth writing home about. Most of it gets caught up in the entertainment part, and thats what is hard for a beginner, having to sift thru all the bull shit.

But the entertainment, wow better than a comedy show!

I am saying , and I will say it again, its not that cool or that funny for someone starting out and that's all that I'm saying. There are still pearls of wisdom to gleen and there is plenty to share for those who think they know it all.

 

[Bolero]

To anyone still following this Thread and Subject I want to say......

The point of my OP was to verbally illustrate the difference between Sticks in a Pot versus Bonsai created by The Serious Bonsai Gardeners of yesteryear....

Guess I got a little carried away with that OP.

After reading the informative Post's here by Smoke and a few others I have come to the Conclusion that Bonsai as a Generality is Alive and Well World Wide, even the Sticks in a Pot...

No more Bonsai Look Alikes !

Now I fully anticipate a New Flaming Discussion based on this Post so lets hear it folks....

 

[just.wing.it]

 

[Smoke]

I am saying , and I will say it again, its not that cool or that funny for someone starting out and that's all that I'm saying. There are still pearls of wisdom to gleen and there is plenty to share for those who think they know it all.

You would be correct if people coming here for help did any of the things that more advanced people explain how to do. If everyone that came here slavishly followed what anyone said here then that would be a problem.
Yet I have showed people, explained the pro and cons, showed development pictures and how to do step by step, and people still choose the wrong fork and do it their way.

I have no problem doing it your way, that is how I learned with no internet, but to ask for help and then not take it, is kind of a slap in the face.

Trust me.....I'm not worried.....

 

[PABonsai]

Correction:
A true bonsai is 1000 years old and has only ever been kept by the same Master of preferably Asiatic origins who has sculpted the tree only on the full moon while keeping his back to space and standing on one leg while pruning leaves and branches with his specially sharpened teeth.

Anything else is a foul, accursed and poor imitation.

Were the teeth bamboo or beech?

 

[Vance Wood]

And his name is Ho Lee Sheet

 

[PABonsai]

I hear ya Smoke, but I really didn't pick up all that much. Certainly not to justify the time I spent here. Now several other posts were interesting and helpful and hopefully I helped a bit as well. I know that you and probably just about everyone was amused by Bolero's rantings, but I wonder what new members or beginners just looking thought of it all.

As a look alike beginner I thought this was frickin' hilarious. Some of these replies are absolute gems. There is nothing "misleading" about this thread. Anyone who is old enough to actually be interested in looking at trees in pots knows the whole premise is ad absurdum. Bolero wouldn't walk into the garden of a Japanese master and look at his 75 year old pine and tell him that's a look alike because it isn't as old as the one sitting next to it. They'd politely show him the door (gate?).

 

[Smoke]

They'd politely show him the door (gate?).

Hara Kiri Sword?

 

[BunjaeKorea]

Were the teeth bamboo or beech?

The teeth were made from jade hewn out with spoons at the top of mount fuji

 

[penumbra]

I have no problem doing it your way, that is how I learned with no internet, but to ask for help and then not take it, is kind of a slap in the face.

Only if you take it personally. You know the adage, you can lead a horse to water .....

 

[penumbra]

Anyone who is old enough to actually be interested in looking at trees in pots knows the whole premise is ad absurdum.

Has an age limit been set for bonsai appreciation that I am not aware of?

 

[cheap_walmart_art]

Has an age limit been set for bonsai appreciation that I am not aware of?

Only someone who is 100 years or older who only looked at 500 year or older trees created by masters in Japan coul.....ah fuck it, nevermind.

 

[PABonsai]

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