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This question is pretty solid - state your reasoning behind this idea so we can speed things up around here.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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OK - I have a garden that is mainly Eggplant and Hot peppers. All sorts of hot peppers. The point of all this, of course, is to get as much fruit as possible (otherwise I'd just look at pictures of them in seed catalogs).
Well - it started with some indoor hot banana peppers that survived well over a year in a sunny window at work. To get peppers from them, since there was a shortage of bees and other pollinators, I took upon myself the task of giving them the finger - or more precisely, the back of my thumbnail. For peppers, even without other pepper flowers available, this was enough to cause fruiting. Still, it was rather crude.
So now I've gotten a small soft paint brush - a tiny version of the ones used by humans during what is oft called 'foreplay'. Here's the plan:
I figure that if even a fingernail gets the flowers to go to fruit, imagine how much the yield will improve if the plants enjoy the experience even more with gentle and genteel brush strokes! As I only just started this method, there is an obvious induction period before any results are observable.
I'll update the lounge, if there is the expected clamor for the results, when the upcoming developments are manifest, so stay tuned !
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We really need to bring back the Soapbox. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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pollinating with paint brushes is thing. wow. who would have thunk it. 
Pollination brush[^]
It sure looks like a large water color brush to me, but what do I know. 
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Slacker007 wrote: It sure looks like a large water color brush to me,
Not when it's aimed at your reproductive organs. Then it looks very different. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Looks like a makeup brush to me. Not that I would know, I have merely observed the women-folk in my life use similar looking brushes.
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I originally was going to say make-up brush myself, but did not want to be accused of possessing knowledge about these things, so I changed it to water color brush. 
In this day and age, I should not be worried about such things, but I am. 
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So, use one such makeup brush with the hot peppers, and put it back in her makeup kit.
What could possibly go wrong...?
(assuming those parts aren't the hot ones...)
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Sometimes, it's the journey that's important . . . not the destination.
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You do realize that the offspring is from incestuous activities. Normally bees will move around from plant to plant, ensuring a little bit more genetic diversity.
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Marc Clifton wrote: You do realize that the offspring is from incestuous activities. Normally bees will move around from plant to plant, ensuring a little bit more genetic diversity.
Well, from what I've observed, the bees mainly go from flower to flower on the same plant. Definitely some crossover, but mostly not - at least in the world of peppers and eggplants.
In the case of the frisky fingernail, it falls closer to the world of a lonely hermaphrodites.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: lonely hermaphrodites
I could have gone a thousand years without this mental image.
Thanks a lot, Balboos. 
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: lonely hermaphrodites.
[Soapbox]
Hermaphrodites can go **** themselves.
[/Soapbox]
(This is not a slur. It's merely a statement. Prove me wrong.)
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Some plants are self pollenating though. Socially awkward plants, but still.
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If they're like tomatoes (pollination-wise) an electric toothbrush may be effective (Google it; lots of "how-to's" and videos).
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The uses of a large soft brush to get one's female into a desirable state via dermal stimulation is well established. A grand step beyond a luxurious back (and more so, front) rub.
First, however, you will need to get leather, latex, rope, chains and rubber out of your plans - just too "restrictive" from what I hear.
Here's a picture of the appropriate brush (SFW)[^]. Also, unlike with my peppers, there is little or no chance of it inducing reproduction (at least not directly).
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stay out of my garden 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Do worry. Your harem is safe !
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This: The Magical Methods in C# · Cezary Piątek Blog[^] is an exception.
Quote: There’s a certain set of special method signatures in C# which have particular support on the language level. Methods with those signatures allow for using a special syntax which has several benefits. For example, we can use them to simplify our code or create DSL to express a solution to our domain-specific problem in a much cleaner way. I came across those methods in different places, so I decided to create a blog post to summarize all my discoveries on this subject.
Very cool.
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Some interesting things in there, even though I've never learned C#. But this came as a surprise:
Quote: I’ve discovered this language feature by accident...
I hope the feature is documented instead of being an accidental side effect of the current implementation!
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Of course it's documented!
It's documented right there in that blog post you just read! 
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The author does actually suggest linking to his blog if your co-workers don't understand your code when it uses one of these spiffy features!
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Nice. I love it when I learn stuff.
Real programmers use butterflies
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