Hi Hank, yes you have asked before :) and yes you can chop them shows up and add to your compost but, if there are any fruits on them I'd put these in your recycling bin. Only time you can't compost the shows is if the have blight or some other problem. Oh and I'd cut off the roots and put in the recycling bin too, just in case there are some tiny potatoes on them.

You speak a different kind of English than I do Hank and sometimes I can't understand what you are asking but Mg is usually on point.

Seems clear enough to me - what's the problem? If its Old Geezer that just means an elderly chap, usually a gardening/farming type but not necessarily.. Spuds are potatoes. I think increasingly we could do with a US/English vocab.book - except that the young in the UK are increasingly being influenced by US-speak because of the internet. Crisps are chips, chips are fries, bonnets are hoods, sidewalks are footpaths or pavements, lifts are elevators, petrol is gas, and until very recently we had no diners, just cafes. I'm sure there are plenty more. Most of them are pretty obvious but the chips had me puzzled for a long time.

Thanks guys for the help. Sorry B, will think twice before asking another question.

Hope you were joking Hank!

I meant I wouldn't use any more pigeon English to assist B.

We all understood you Hank - don't worry!

Hank it's OK I'm just making an observation, not of you, but Europeans in general. You have a different form of the English language. Sometimes I can't understand what is being said, It's a different language. You don't have to stop. I find it fascinating. Many of the words you use aren't in the dictionary. I'll just let somebody else answer. That's fine.

Stera there is no problem so please don't create one
Mg I don't know what you are worried about. "We all"? Don't make a big to do over nothing

I wasn't creating a problem,(not intentionally anyway), just musing on how the two versions of English have diverged in the past few centuries.
Its interesting that many of our words aren't in your dictionary - but I suppose that many of your words aren't in ours - except perhaps in the very big ones like the many volume Oxford one. It would be interesting to check that sometime - an occupation for a rainy afternoon perhaps!

You set me off wondering about Geezer and apparently its comes from the characters in the old mummers plays , then became a general word for people who went round in disguise. Now it just means any elderly chap, usually a country type but not a posh one.

That's interesting. I have never used the word "Geezer" in a sentence. It carries an insulting tone.

Not on this side of the pond Bathgate... just another of those differences in our languages. When someone puts up 'hey' as the first word in their question I bristle -'hi' fine but to me 'hey' is like being shouted at. Hank bet you never thought this would turn into a discussion on the differences between UK & US English!

To call somebody an 'old geezer' is mildly disparaging & dismissive. Would you say it your mother?