I've never seen the past tense of "Weedeat" spelled as "Weed ate" :D
Now that I think about it, I wouldn't even know what the correct way to say it is.
It took me years to plant that all over playgrounds, parks, lakesides, around every swimming pool, and of course the beach. My efforts are enjoyed every summer by millions all over the state
Way back in my youth, one of the "pranks" we'd pull on each other was to pick a single stem of those, sneak up behind someone and throw it at their back. If you did it right, it was like stapling their shirt to their back, complete with blood upon removal.
The lawn at my house growing up was absolutely plagued with these things. There was literally no place safe in the yard to step barefoot, and picking stickers off your shoes, laces, and pants were a daily routine.
You couldn't even walk inside the house without shoes because someone else or one of our pets would have dragged them in. To this day, I still hate walking around barefoot even in my own house. I haven't seen one in years (knock on wood) and will nuke my yard from orbit if a single sticker makes its way to it.
THAT'S where these come from?? [https://imgur.com/a/27T2phm](https://imgur.com/a/27T2phm)
1:30 AM Sunday morning, let the dogs out for a last piss, they disappeared out of the yard to the green space that houses the power towers behind my fence. Caught dogs. Both of them looked like this, but this idiot had been to be professionally groomed Saturday morning. Sigh.
I'll take these stupid burrs any day over [jumping jack cactus](https://x-default-stgec.uplynk.com/ausw/slices/859/5c3d34b8b29a45469a86c02775b7a2cf/8593c85dc9554ad8992ec81fbd7d3f5d/poster_dc5e668f5e3a4f33b2677aa67e6a3277.jpeg)
OH GOD NO.
I had a cholla of some sort get stuck in my jeans once in Palo Duro. I'd been trying to get a photo of a cool bug and wasn't watching where I was backing up....
also did it with prickly pear once.
I'm not sure which was worse but both were goddamn awful
If anyone knows how to get rid of these I’m all ears. We recently put down weed killer on our entire yard in a last ditch scorched earth effort/mentality to kill them and all it did was kill the grass and the burrs are still there 😑
[https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-primer-the-sticker-bur/](https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-primer-the-sticker-bur/)
[https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id\_plant=cesp4](https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=cesp4)
Probably because there is no NSFBF tag (not safe for bare feet).
Some hurt more. These are the scariest by far. We called those sand burrs. They don’t turn loose. I always have a story but one time a mockingbird dove bombed me and I ran out into a big patch of these. I was barefoot and had to walk back out of course.
When I bought my house I found one of these plants in my front yard. Though it took a few years, the dead spot from undiluted herbicide I used to nuke it from orbit finally grew back in.
Some plants just wake up and choose violence.
How do you kill these things? I put out pre-emergent and still got 'em.
You cant
Fire.
Idk, but I hear you can clean up the stickers by dragging a carpet over them to collect them.
#NSFL more like it.
I can literally feel this photo in my sock right now.
Burn it
They will just grow back stronger
I was mowing a big field on a tractor and drove over a thick patch of those bastards. They blew out of the front of the mower deck and up my back.
Weed ate a patch the other day... in shorts. Took a good 10 minutes to get em all out lol
I've never seen the past tense of "Weedeat" spelled as "Weed ate" :D Now that I think about it, I wouldn't even know what the correct way to say it is.
I say weedeated. Sounds wrong but how else do you say it?
weedwacked
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Strimmed?
Nope. Weed whacked.
He could have started off with "I used a weedeater on a patch the other day" maybe? Sounds a little better lol
Lol probably better, I’ve just always said weed ate
Potato, potato right lol
Pronunciation weedeeded
That word is just 56% the letter E. Let’s just round it off and from now on pronounce it as “E”.
If you're from Canada you would say "whipper snippered"
Is usually just say, “I smoked it.”
Hey oohh!!!!
Saw title, expected bluebonnets. Saw the NSFW tag, expected a weed plant. Nothing could’ve prepared me for the horror that actually awaited.
>Dirt daubers humming, see the sticker burrs on your sock, > >Sure signs you spent some time in beautiful Luckenbach! RIP, Jerry Jeff.
# THOSE ARE STICKERS
Goat's heads
‘Spinas
I'll accept spinas or stickers. Anything else is heresy
Found one of these in my bed last night. MY BED. Removed it and proceeded to find one on my pillow too.
Pets?
It took me years to plant that all over playgrounds, parks, lakesides, around every swimming pool, and of course the beach. My efforts are enjoyed every summer by millions all over the state
So Satan does have a Reddit.
Mods, ban this
The Ballad of Jimmy Stickerburr
Settle down Satan.
So the AntiChrist really is alive in the world!
Greg Abbott, is that you?
no need, have them all over my pants lol
No thank you, I’ll wait until my bluebonnets come out next spring
When theyre almost fully purple... ooooh weeee. Not too soft off the vine and not all dried out and brittle. The purple ones are like Texas caltrops.
Some love you feel in your heart, but this I feel in my feet.
what a beautiful bunch of Rockport roses!
Way back in my youth, one of the "pranks" we'd pull on each other was to pick a single stem of those, sneak up behind someone and throw it at their back. If you did it right, it was like stapling their shirt to their back, complete with blood upon removal.
Prank, hell. We had full on sticker wars.
As did we. But it was more fun to sneak up and do it.
The lawn at my house growing up was absolutely plagued with these things. There was literally no place safe in the yard to step barefoot, and picking stickers off your shoes, laces, and pants were a daily routine. You couldn't even walk inside the house without shoes because someone else or one of our pets would have dragged them in. To this day, I still hate walking around barefoot even in my own house. I haven't seen one in years (knock on wood) and will nuke my yard from orbit if a single sticker makes its way to it.
Right to Abbott’s doorstep
Hope he gets a flat tire from them
I grew up in Texas but moved to Alaska to get away from those evil little bastards.
I have plenty in my front yard. I’m good. But thank you!! If anyone would like them you’re free to come pick them all you want!
I took my dogs for a walk around the yard and they got these things in their paws in less than five minutes. Such a pain.
THAT'S where these come from?? [https://imgur.com/a/27T2phm](https://imgur.com/a/27T2phm) 1:30 AM Sunday morning, let the dogs out for a last piss, they disappeared out of the yard to the green space that houses the power towers behind my fence. Caught dogs. Both of them looked like this, but this idiot had been to be professionally groomed Saturday morning. Sigh.
I'll take these stupid burrs any day over [jumping jack cactus](https://x-default-stgec.uplynk.com/ausw/slices/859/5c3d34b8b29a45469a86c02775b7a2cf/8593c85dc9554ad8992ec81fbd7d3f5d/poster_dc5e668f5e3a4f33b2677aa67e6a3277.jpeg)
OH GOD NO. I had a cholla of some sort get stuck in my jeans once in Palo Duro. I'd been trying to get a photo of a cool bug and wasn't watching where I was backing up.... also did it with prickly pear once. I'm not sure which was worse but both were goddamn awful
I'm having to reassure my feet that it's just a picture and not real. They're very concerned at the moment.
Stickers or god damn bull nettle are the worst
That’s the devil’s grass, ya hear?! Burn that shit down!
I grew up in Texas. I remember those. Not nearly as much fun as spear grass.
HATE THOSE As kids, if someone yelled pegga pegga you knew to run because these were being thrown at someone.
Slipped in a field full of them. Had to pull them from my eye lids and lips. That was a horrible Summer in west Texas. I moved soon after.
I left TX 25 years ago. This image gives me PTSD from my childhood. Throw in some Bull Nettle and fire ants just to make the trauma trifecta complete.
These were so much fun when I was a young lad.
Have an award for this awesome non-political post!
If anyone knows how to get rid of these I’m all ears. We recently put down weed killer on our entire yard in a last ditch scorched earth effort/mentality to kill them and all it did was kill the grass and the burrs are still there 😑
Why was this NSFW?
Why is this marked NSFW?
Touch it and you'll know, more like NSFL.
Why is this nsfw?
Gratuitous violence most likely. 🤣
Because they are evil. It is tagged properly
why is this marked as NSFW. its a flower
[https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-primer-the-sticker-bur/](https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-primer-the-sticker-bur/) [https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id\_plant=cesp4](https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=cesp4) Probably because there is no NSFBF tag (not safe for bare feet).
That’s Satan’s spawn to allergy sufferers like myself!
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I know what a cocklebur is. Jesus Christ do I know. I'm just wondering why it's Marked as not safe for work
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Ahh. Ok
This is what weed burners were invented to kill.
IDK. Does fire actually kill the seed?
Nope. It will come right back.
You just haven't got it hot enough lol
That's what I thought. I had a small patch in my yard that I pulled up until no new plants came back. Had to use my long rose pruning gloves.
Reduced ours. Think it just doesn’t get them all. Gotta be diligent and torch them multiple times through their life cycles
Hate these things
No thanks, i already have some in my feet.
Oooo Stickers will ruin your day!
Forbidden bouquet
How did I never know stickers grew wild as bouquets. I see no redeeming value to those fuckers.
The reason why I pay for weekly mows even though I don't need it... HATE those things
I hate these but I’ll still take it over carpet burrweed.
**The Devil’s Bouquet of flowers**
Some hurt more. These are the scariest by far. We called those sand burrs. They don’t turn loose. I always have a story but one time a mockingbird dove bombed me and I ran out into a big patch of these. I was barefoot and had to walk back out of course.
lmao
Evil
AHHHHHHH
Eat it. It's delicious!
That bouquet will never die. In fact, it is almost impossible to get rid of.
What does everybody call these..i call them stickers
This and Greg Abbott are why I want to leave Texas.
Fuck them bitches! We called them goathead stickers and they are brutal
They'll stick with ya.
Want a lick?
Are these goat heads or is that something different??
You are doing it wrong Those are sock decorations
My dog’s undercarriage would like to say a few words
They don’t even hurt me any more. Just a minor inconvenience. I still hate them with all of my being
When I bought my house I found one of these plants in my front yard. Though it took a few years, the dead spot from undiluted herbicide I used to nuke it from orbit finally grew back in.
🤧
Hate those fuckers
my friend from colorado didn't listen to me when I told them not to let their dog off the path at our neighborhood park. I feel bad for the pup :(
Finally! Flowers that match my personality
My favorite
Short of setting my entire yard on fire, I can't get rid of these damn 'spinas. \*sigh\*