Banana Fact #231

Did you know japanese people literally wear bananas as clothing? Anyone for a banana kimono?

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    A third wave of banana diffusion occurred in both Asia and in Europe.  By the 1200s, Japanese cultivators harvested specific banana varieties for their fibers, to forge into textiles for clothes and other fabrics.  Through selective use of banana fibers and processing techniques involving lye soaks, Japanese textile production from bananas could be either soft enough for use in the creation of prized kimonos and other traditional wear, or coarse enough for use as table cloth. 

 

On 14 January 2017 at 7:38 PM, daisycutter said:

heard our own earl hood was spotted at portsea for the big polo gig, gallantly standing in for julie bishop who mysteriously couldn't make it. i always wondered whether earl might be a closet hooray henry. i do hope he had a good chat to gillon while he was there and can fill us in on the latest afl shenanigans

Alas the answer is no DC. No polo for me I have been in Canberra for past few days visiting galleries and two exhibitions, the treasures of Versailles and the 2 million years of history in one room with 100 objects from the British Museum of History. In the latter I thought I would find an answer to the last 60 odd posts on this thread but no, while I saw the first evidence of human endeavour with cutting stones from Tanzania more than a million years ago through to tools and art from ancient Egypt, Babylon, Persia through to Alexander and Ptolemy, Augustus, Roman dominance, Tamarlane, aboriginal artifacts and on and on but oddly no mention of the Habsburgs, the Nazis or Steiner schools for that matter. Perhaps the aforementioned discussions are no more than a blip in history of mankind. 

25 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Alas the answer is no DC. No polo for me I have been in Canberra for past few days visiting galleries and two exhibitions, the treasures of Versailles and the 2 million years of history in one room with 100 objects from the British Museum of History. In the latter I thought I would find an answer to the last 60 odd posts on this thread but no, while I saw the first evidence of human endeavour with cutting stones from Tanzania more than a million years ago through to tools and art from ancient Egypt, Babylon, Persia through to Alexander and Ptolemy, Augustus, Roman dominance, Tamarlane, aboriginal artifacts and on and on but oddly no mention of the Habsburgs, the Nazis or Steiner schools for that matter. Perhaps the aforementioned discussions are no more than a blip in history of mankind. 

We are all blips, my friend.Some of us blip more honestly and benignly. I take my hats off to those who do. As they say in the classics, my buckin hats cover my buccaneers.

Also, the terrors Alexander wrought on the world as he knew it ought to be compared to the terrors Napoleon, Churchill, Stalin and Hitler wrought on the world.

I simply hate those clowns who thought it was their destiny and privilege to wreak terror. Bush, Blair, Howard, Obama, Clinton, Netanyahu, and their ilk should be put away.

Edited January 15, 20179 yr by dieter

55 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Alas the answer is no DC. No polo for me I have been in Canberra for past few days visiting galleries and two exhibitions, the treasures of Versailles and the 2 million years of history in one room with 100 objects from the British Museum of History. In the latter I thought I would find an answer to the last 60 odd posts on this thread but no, while I saw the first evidence of human endeavour with cutting stones from Tanzania more than a million years ago through to tools and art from ancient Egypt, Babylon, Persia through to Alexander and Ptolemy, Augustus, Roman dominance, Tamarlane, aboriginal artifacts and on and on but oddly no mention of the Habsburgs, the Nazis or Steiner schools for that matter. Perhaps the aforementioned discussions are no more than a blip in history of mankind. 

A pity, earl. I'd really hoped you might have been there to pump gillon for some juicy news as there would be no chance you'd bump into him at a canberra gallery or exhibition (unless it was one on the national game of course). julie would have been disappointed you couldn't stand in for her. look forward to your trip report.

29 minutes ago, dieter said:

We are all blips, my friend.Some of us blip more honestly and benignly. I take my hats off to those who do. As they say in the classics, my buckin hats cover my buccaneers.

Also, the terrors Alexander wrought on the world as he knew it ought to be compared to the terrors Napoleon, Churchill, Stalin and Hitler wrought on the world.

I simply hate those clowns who thought it was their destiny and privilege to wreak terror. Bush, Blair, Howard, Obama, Clinton, Netanyahu, and their ilk should be put away.

Howard is a Northern Sydney solicitor who fell into the leadership of Australia due to the fact that Labor had done its job of solidifying our economic potential into a reality.

He was a coat tugger and a [censored] who got lucky.

How you can lump in Obama with him is beyond reason.

Blair was a toad,Bush was a moron,Clinton was a genius and. Netanyahu was a human tick, still is.

Barack will be ranked along side Lincoln and Franklin as a giant in years to come.

 

Just checked on Kafka-born in Prague.

I await your apologies.

Just now, Biffen said:

Howard is a Northern Sydney solicitor who fell into the leadership of Australia due to the fact that Labor had done its job of solidifying our economic potential into a reality.

He was a coat tugger and a [censored] who got lucky.

How you can lump in Obama with him is beyond reason.

Blair was a toad,Bush was a moron,Clinton was a genius and. Netanyahu was a human tick, still is.

Barack will be ranked along side Lincoln and Franklin as a giant in years to come.

 

Obama did nothing but toady to Israel and drop bombs and talk sweetly. Clinton was just as bad. The damage he and Albright did to Iraq, just for starters, was way beyond the pale.

Obama will be compared to the great fairy flosses of the world, full of sweet sound and broken promises ( Quantanimo, exiting Iraq and Afghanistan) while piling on the murders by Drones, not to mention his complicity in the rape of Libya and Syria.

3 minutes ago, Biffen said:

Just checked on Kafka-born in Prague.

I await your apologies.

If he'd been born in Osaka though he wrote in German probably, by your reckoning, may not make him Japanese though.

Edited January 15, 20179 yr by dieter

Just caught up on this thread, what the heck has happened to it?! 

Have the Germans and Japanese taken over the banana industry? 

3 minutes ago, dieter said:

Obama did nothing but toady to Israel and drop bombs and talk sweetly. Clinton was just as bad. The damage he and Albright did to Iraq, just for starters, was way beyond the pale.

Obama will be compared to the great fairy flosses of the world, full of sweet sound and broken promises ( Quantanimo, exiting Iraq and Afghanistan) while piling on the murders by Drones, not to mention his complicity in the rape of Libya and Syria.

You are right about Obama now but history will change all that.

Clinton waged one of the most efficient wars in History-resulting in minimal death.

Im impressed by Drone warfare- it saves lives.

I look forward to viewing idiots set up RPGs on US targets until the silent drone intervenes.

Its clean.

YouTube at its best.

9 minutes ago, dieter said:

If he'd been born in Osaka though he wrote in German probably, by your reckoning, may not make him Japanese though.

No Deits.

My logic is sound but unfashionable.

8 minutes ago, dieter said:

Obama did nothing but toady to Israel and drop bombs and talk sweetly. Clinton was just as bad. The damage he and Albright did to Iraq, just for starters, was way beyond the pale.

Obama will be compared to the great fairy flosses of the world, full of sweet sound and broken promises ( Quantanimo, exiting Iraq and Afghanistan) while piling on the murders by Drones, not to mention his complicity in the rape of Libya and Syria.

Well Dieter I believe all US leaders believe in their right to attack their enemies off shore, wherever it may arise in the world. That gives them the right to ferment revolution or assination locally. And we have witnessed that throughout Central and South America and in Asia of course in the 20th century.

Obama is just following a well worn national tradition. 

9 minutes ago, Biffen said:

No Deits.

My logic is sound but unfashionable.

What logic?

 

14 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Just caught up on this thread, what the heck has happened to it?! 

Have the Germans and Japanese taken over the banana industry? 

Yes, we have no bananas today.

1 minute ago, dieter said:

Yes, we have no bananas today.

Clearly, plenty of nuts though. 

7 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Clearly, plenty of nuts though. 

a thread prerequisite, ethan

6 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Clearly, plenty of nuts though. 

Man, you wanna just talk peanuts by the sound of it. For a start, bananas are about just as boring as nuts. Wanna talk about the weather?

Okay, it's nice and cool in Melbourne at the moment, though we are heading for a 38 degree Tuesday, though the weather bureau keeps changing its mind about the exact figure.

Have you ever noticed that? Does it annoy you too?

45 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Just caught up on this thread, what the heck has happened to it?! 

Have the Germans and Japanese taken over the banana industry? 

This topic ..

My Head 

1 hour ago, bjDee said:

This topic ..

My Head 

In German we say, Ach du Liebe!

7 hours ago, dieter said:

Man, you wanna just talk peanuts by the sound of it. For a start, bananas are about just as boring as nuts. Wanna talk about the weather?

Okay, it's nice and cool in Melbourne at the moment, though we are heading for a 38 degree Tuesday, though the weather bureau keeps changing its mind about the exact figure.

Have you ever noticed that? Does it annoy you too?

That's akin to heresy on this thread, dieter. There are some things up with which we will not put, as your hero Winston once said.

3 hours ago, Dr John Dee said:

That's akin to heresy on this thread, dieter. There are some things up with which we will not put, as your hero Winston once said.

Couldn't agree more. The bottom line is heresy is heresy. I can feel an immolation coming on.

7 minutes ago, dieter said:

Couldn't agree more. The bottom line is heresy is heresy. I can feel an immolation coming on.

a jolly good flogging should suffice this time, dieter

List of interesting things seen transported on a scooter/bike around Saigon.

6m long steel bars

Bricks

A cage of live dogs

A fat sow

And this is the best so far

A double door fridge.

Look out Valentino Rossi.

12 hours ago, dieter said:

Yes, we have no bananas today.

Well when they do arrive wherever our erstwhile correspondents are geographically or temporally located please ensure there is no freckle on your banana.

 

 

16 minutes ago, Biffen said:

List of interesting things seen transported on a scooter/bike around Saigon.

6m long steel bars

Bricks

A cage of live dogs

A fat sow

And this is the best so far

A double door fridge.

Look out Valentino Rossi.

And how are you getting around?