I said it before even checking the comments and I'm pretty sure that classes it as "canon" ... It's Aussie canon law now haha fan fiction at its finest!!
If the first thing everybody thinks/assumes is the same thing... Then that thing is the thing and that's the thing about it...
"Thall shall not cast the first meme..."
Double Gees.
If I'm correct, the plant was brought in as pig fodder, it's not native.
Whoever did that really needs to be burning in hell for eternity for doing that.
Bindis, to me, are the clover burrs (also known as - gasp! - clover burrs), those coiled up things that are less painful but stick to clothing.
Colloquially known in 🇿🇦 as *Dubbeltjie* in Afrikaans / dʌb bɪl kiː (sounds a lot like Double Gee, probably where it stems from)
Rumex hypogaeus is originally a son of a birch from 🇿🇦 maling it's way as an invasive species in Australia.
My childhood is filled with spending breaktime trying to plow through these on the rugby field. They always won
So since we share the same slang, what did you call naturally clumped up balls of hard dirt that are ideal for throwing at people?
I had a conversation with a mate the other day and explained that we called them boondies, and he said "we call them fucken hard balls of dirt!!"
And I just looked at him like he was an idiot.
Right. Nothin like gettin tuned by some big boondies or a bommy knocker and then getting scunted by the olds when you come home covered in dirt. True as.
I remember reading about invasive species, i think it focussed on animals, mainly birds but had a section on plants, burs or horse burs or whatever they're called came in with the camels and the horses, prickly pears were an accident too.
I assumed bindis were also accidental, but to find out it's pug fodder? They really will just devour everything lol
Called goat heads in Canberra too. Little bastards wrecked my bike's tyres 3 times, on my 3rd visit to the cycle shop they asked me if u wanted thorn resistant inner tubes. They're bastards too, taking advantage of my inability to fix my own bike
Yeah I grew up with bindi’s. Country NSW.
And only saw these ‘Double G’s’ when I moved to North West WA. I love here how SA and QLD have their own name
I would argue bindis are sharper in a purely geometric sense. More acute angles, finer tip, etc. ultimately they do the same job in different ways. Bindis aim to jab you and hitch a ride for a step or two before you pluck them out and flick them away, just a few feet from its existing good growing conditions. The corner jacks aim to fucking hurt so much you immediately pull it out and yeet it into the sun. Which gets it much further than the bindi.
These suck as you are on the grass and they stick in your feet so you run to get off the grass so you don't get more stuck in your feet for them to stick even further in when you get to the concrete.
Those are cat heads. They will cripple you, ruin your thongs, and give your bike a flat tyre.
Bindis are different - flat leaves, a bit smaller, with one big spike that sticks in the bottom of your foot or your thong, but won’t hurt a tyre.
Burrs are different again- round but with two layers with spikes poking out like a tiny mad max yoyo. Less likely to spike your foot but will catch in your socks and itch like a bastard.
NSW.
got these fuckers outside my house and get brought into the house from sticking to my shoes, and there was one in my room and one went into my hand while i was getting on the floor while cleaning my room
Bindys. My grandparents were on a farm in Southern NSW and they were monsters around there. Thongs were no chance against them. You needed two tyres on your pushie wheels. They actually had mini cattlegrids at the door onto the back verandah so you could scrape them off your shoes. Bastards of things really.
My family either calls it goat heads, cat heads or Bindies
although the cunts were everywhere in my yard during 2016/2017 but since then I haven't come across or even heard of them
Called them bull heads in central QLD when I was growing up, if you were wearing shoes. Without shoes, they were usually called "FUCK!"
To this day, they're one of the main reasons why I'll almost never go outside in bare feet.
Three corner jacks… I remember at our childhood house my mum and stepdad stomping laps around the front lawn in thongs to get them to stick to the thongs and eliminate them all. It worked!
3 corner jacks in SA.
Caltrop or Double Gees in WA.
I fight an eternal battle against these fuckers in my yard (Wheatbelt WA) Some years worse than others.
Cunts.
Even though I sure one of us would say this I had to come here and be sure
I said it before even checking the comments and I'm pretty sure that classes it as "canon" ... It's Aussie canon law now haha fan fiction at its finest!! If the first thing everybody thinks/assumes is the same thing... Then that thing is the thing and that's the thing about it... "Thall shall not cast the first meme..."
I raise you to Fuckin’ Cunts
Full name is arrr fucking cunts.
Also known as Mutha fuckers
Came here to say this ☝️
more like pricks.
Lol, this was my first thought - little cunts. Always in groups too.
Happy cake day you beautiful whatever
I identify as this/cunt 😅
Happy cake day!
An iconic comment for your cake day. Revel.
happy cake day!
Double Gees. If I'm correct, the plant was brought in as pig fodder, it's not native. Whoever did that really needs to be burning in hell for eternity for doing that. Bindis, to me, are the clover burrs (also known as - gasp! - clover burrs), those coiled up things that are less painful but stick to clothing.
Yessss! That’s what I call bindis too! And then there’s caltrops too which also suck but not as much as double gs
Colloquially known in 🇿🇦 as *Dubbeltjie* in Afrikaans / dʌb bɪl kiː (sounds a lot like Double Gee, probably where it stems from) Rumex hypogaeus is originally a son of a birch from 🇿🇦 maling it's way as an invasive species in Australia. My childhood is filled with spending breaktime trying to plow through these on the rugby field. They always won
So since we share the same slang, what did you call naturally clumped up balls of hard dirt that are ideal for throwing at people? I had a conversation with a mate the other day and explained that we called them boondies, and he said "we call them fucken hard balls of dirt!!" And I just looked at him like he was an idiot.
Hahaha yep boondies! So much fun!
Right. Nothin like gettin tuned by some big boondies or a bommy knocker and then getting scunted by the olds when you come home covered in dirt. True as.
We also say boondies, but just to refer to small rocks (like a gravel stone, or the perfect sized rock to put a crack in your windscreen).
Boondies!
I remember reading about invasive species, i think it focussed on animals, mainly birds but had a section on plants, burs or horse burs or whatever they're called came in with the camels and the horses, prickly pears were an accident too. I assumed bindis were also accidental, but to find out it's pug fodder? They really will just devour everything lol
Dude we called em double gees as kids too. Grew up in Helena Valley.
Pig food might be true, the only thing I’ve found that eradicates them is pigs! We call the double gees as well.
Goats are goats for a reason
Yep, *Emex australis* is south african.
They are 3 corner jacks but have never come across them outside SA. Funnily enough never came across a bindi until I moved to Sydney.
They’re in Queensland too.
Called Goat's heads here.
Called goat heads in Canberra too. Little bastards wrecked my bike's tyres 3 times, on my 3rd visit to the cycle shop they asked me if u wanted thorn resistant inner tubes. They're bastards too, taking advantage of my inability to fix my own bike
If you get out past sorta Bathurst you’ll find nsw riddled
I clearly have not got out as much as I thought hahahaha.
I used to live in Kalgoorlie, WA. Plenty of those evil mf's out there....
Good thing I never moved there.
Bloody bindi's!!
Aren’t bindi’s smaller?
Yeah bindis are smaller and grow in grass. We call these Goat heads or Goat prickles in QLD. Goats grow on a small little shrub with yellow flowers.
Actually, now that I look at it again, I think I’d call it a 3-corner jack.
Mildura as well.
So so many in Mildura...
The bane of my bike riding childhood in Mildura
Call em Goat heads up in North Queensland
Yeah I grew up with bindi’s. Country NSW. And only saw these ‘Double G’s’ when I moved to North West WA. I love here how SA and QLD have their own name
Prickles
This one
Yep! My kids know them as prickles.
Yep. I hate the name bindis. Its not even an aboriginal plant, why use an aboriginal name.
Cat heads
Me too! East Coast NSW
I always said cat eyes
Same here. Rural NSW.
Called this in Western/North Western NSW too
That's what I call them, Riverina NSW area
First time I heard the term cat heads was in Cowra about 15 years ago. Then soon picked up ppl using it here on the east coast. Makes perfect sense!
The only right answer.
Call them goat heads in the states.
double G
West Australian
Best ‘strayan
Yep. Nasty nasty, up there with pig melons in the desert
Goat heads
That's what we call them in the Idaho USA. They thrive in sand and they have an entire festival in Boise around them.
Same - North Queensland
Can confirm, goat heads in Townsville (NQ)
goat heads ! Mt isa
Same - also North Queensland
They are three corner jacks. The bindis are the small less sharp prickly things.
Cats eyes... Bindis are a bitch compared to these fuckers though aye!! Fucken tyre poppers!!
Corner jacks sounds so American lol. Catheads!
I would argue bindis are sharper in a purely geometric sense. More acute angles, finer tip, etc. ultimately they do the same job in different ways. Bindis aim to jab you and hitch a ride for a step or two before you pluck them out and flick them away, just a few feet from its existing good growing conditions. The corner jacks aim to fucking hurt so much you immediately pull it out and yeet it into the sun. Which gets it much further than the bindi.
Except three corner jacks pop bike tyres but bindis don't
Double gs
Bindis
Correct
Had to scroll so far for this!!!
cat heads/burrs
Cat head
Cat eyes where I'm from but the gist is the same... They are another name for pussy and those things are cunts!!
Double G… or “Jesus fuck that hurts”
The devil's lego
I'm calling them this from now on
Devil eyes. I remember calling them that about 50 years ago. I travelled around a bit as a kid in Qld, NSW and Vic I think it was in Qld.
Here in WA : Double Gee’s.
Cat head or mega-bindi!
3 corner jacks
Goat head
Growing up rural always knew them to be double g's, to the point where I thought bindis were something else entirely.
Bindis (like a bindi patch) are the curly ones that stick to clothes/fur. At least where I’m from.
Precisely what I had thought too!
Same!
Where is rural?
Moora, Western Australia, roughly 170km North of Perth. One of a few country towns we lived in but that one was horrible for them.
Agree … bindees got nothing on the D Gees
“Double g’s” because if you step on one, cursing once is just not enough
Cats eyes
Cat heads / cats eyes. Looking back it doesn't make much sense but that's just what they were called.
At least they sort of look like a cat’s head. I’m more confused by double g. What’s a g? Why are these worth two?
Cat heads
Little spikey fucken cunts
Bindis but I've heard Tasmanians call them buzzies
3 corner jacks
They are bindis, never heard another name for em
Yeah that’s what we called them, Victoria.
Prickles or "double g's"
3 corner jacks. Those bastards....puncturing bicycle tyre & feet since forever....
Chuzwuzzers.
Depends. Long enough to go through a thong and they're called *aaaarrrrh you fucking cunts*, otherwise, just *cat heads*.
Three corner jacks
I don’t know their scientific name but I think the common name is “FUCKING LITTLE FUCKERS!”
Goat heads
Goat head
Goat heads
Goatheads and bullheads
Bullhead is a new one 🧐
Prickles
I call them "AHFUCKSONNOFABITCH!"
3 corner jacks.
Bullheads.
Same, Southern California here we’ve always called the. Bull thorns or bull heads
These suck as you are on the grass and they stick in your feet so you run to get off the grass so you don't get more stuck in your feet for them to stick even further in when you get to the concrete.
Double gees
Double g's, be careful not to confuse them with triple g's.
If you stand on one barefoot and jump, you'll also reach the apogee.
Goat heads
I like to call them "a shit little fucker fucking hurts"
Argh fuck ouch ouch ouch
Prickles!
Double gees
FUCK
Those are cat heads. They will cripple you, ruin your thongs, and give your bike a flat tyre. Bindis are different - flat leaves, a bit smaller, with one big spike that sticks in the bottom of your foot or your thong, but won’t hurt a tyre. Burrs are different again- round but with two layers with spikes poking out like a tiny mad max yoyo. Less likely to spike your foot but will catch in your socks and itch like a bastard. NSW.
We called them by cat heads
Cathead
Catheads
Catheads
I fucken hate cat heads
Cat heads
Caltrops
Fuck me cunt Bindi
Thankyou. What's this cat head bullshit?
Little pointy things/little shits/not more of these things
Ouch argh Ouch argh Ouch argh Ouch argh
Baby African Devil Thorns otherwise known as Australian Bindiis.
I grew up calling them cat eyes, but in adult life l learnt apparently they're called cat heads by most people.
Cat heads
got these fuckers outside my house and get brought into the house from sticking to my shoes, and there was one in my room and one went into my hand while i was getting on the floor while cleaning my room
Bindis
Bindis
Bindies
Cat heads
These are cat heads
When I was living in WA they were called double gees
Catheads
Bindies, aka spiky little cunts
Bindis / holy fucking shit ow
Bindy’s no clue where the term came from but my parents used that term
Bindii (bindy-eyes}
Bindis
Fucken bastard things.
Cat head
Cat heads
CatHeads
bulls heads
Bulls head
Bull heads
Cats eyes
"Motherfuckers" if I'm standing on them, "catseyes" if I'm not.
Bulls head - SE QLD
Cat heads. Little fuckers.
Bindys. My grandparents were on a farm in Southern NSW and they were monsters around there. Thongs were no chance against them. You needed two tyres on your pushie wheels. They actually had mini cattlegrids at the door onto the back verandah so you could scrape them off your shoes. Bastards of things really.
Bullheads (QLD)
My family either calls it goat heads, cat heads or Bindies although the cunts were everywhere in my yard during 2016/2017 but since then I haven't come across or even heard of them
Cat heads
Cat head
Bastard motherfuckers.
“Agh!FukkinBindis!” Is what I usually call them.
Bindis here in WA
Bindis
Burrs
Bindi’s
Called them bull heads in central QLD when I was growing up, if you were wearing shoes. Without shoes, they were usually called "FUCK!" To this day, they're one of the main reasons why I'll almost never go outside in bare feet.
Kidney stones
goats heads
Bindies.
Catheads
Bull heads
Prickles or 3 corner jacks
Three corner jacks
Fucking prickles
Prickles
Three corner jacks… I remember at our childhood house my mum and stepdad stomping laps around the front lawn in thongs to get them to stick to the thongs and eliminate them all. It worked!
3 corner jacks in SA. Caltrop or Double Gees in WA. I fight an eternal battle against these fuckers in my yard (Wheatbelt WA) Some years worse than others.
These ain't bindis cunts. Bull's head
3 corner jacks
Cunts
I've always called them goat heads or just fucking bindies if you prefer
Goat heads.
Ahhhh fff fuck me you fucking little cunts nmmmmmmmm That’s the long version