Posted on 11/13/2009 6:47:38 AM PST by COUNTrecount
I grew up in the country. I guess I’ve been saving the world for decades now. Does that mean I get to keep my SUV!
Yeh, what’s that — Milorgano or something like that? No thanks.
Well I see they are applying the dogs rule of thumb:
If you can’t eat it or screw it, pee on it.
Who knew Billy Carter had it right all along?
Already do it, and this article is my defense if the wife catches me.
You think this is funny? In Brazil they have a national TV campaign telling all to Pee in the shower, to save water.
(grin!) Or you could try an artillery strike from the laundry room. With practise, you might yet be able to bombard the roses!
If I go out and fracture the sewer pipe, would it have the same wonderful results for the planet?
If that one guy a couple weeks ago got arrested for indecency just making a cup of coffee in his own kitchen in the buff, imagine what would have happened if he'd contributed to his compost pile. Call out the SWAT team!
“Have you ever wondered what they do with the stuff they pump out of septic tanks? Enjoy those farm fresh vegetables!”
My firm represents a local municipality that had to convince citizens that the sewage treatment plant wasn’t backing up - turns out the golf course was importing human waste from Houston (no, not Rita refugees) and dumping (!) it on the course to save on fertilizer. It REAAALLLY stinks!
Colonel, USAFR
The eco-weenies are way behind. Gardeners have been doing this for ages.
Works great on green compost. Of course, if the health departments catch on, you get fined.
Yeah, THAT’ll happen...
Colonel, USAFR
GYAH! The voices! Where are my pills!
Urine is sterile
Yeah, but I better not. I don’t think the neighbors and golfers would appreciate that very much.
Many years ago when I was a child I remember visiting people who had a “smell” about them. I began to associate that smell with poverty.
Many years later I was reading the autobiography of Jack O’Conner and he mentioned that same smell and how modern homes no longer had it. One evening he was out for a late night stroll and while going through an alley in the
poor section of town he found what the smell was.
Every back door opened and the man came out and peed on his woodpile.
At that moment I realized that was what I had smelled. Woodsmoke and urine.
Then why do health organizations require food handlers to wash their hands after going to the bathroom? Because solid and liquid waste can spread germs. From the CDC website, for example:
“You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding S. Typhi or if sewage contaminated with S. Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food. Therefore, typhoid fever is more common in areas of the world where handwashing is less frequent and water is likely to be contaminated with sewage.”
There’s a book (name unavailable to this foggy brain) detailing what a huge scientific advance it was to verify that typhoid was spread thru the wells in London contaminated by the open sewage flowing thru the streets—and this was in the Victorian period!
yeah my reaction seems like making a mountain out of a molehill but the reasoning given in the article (”to save water”) flies in the face of health concerns. They should at least install handsanitizer dispensers next to the bales! Or doesn’t the UK have a problem with the Swine flu? (/sar)
Could be worse. In ancient Rome they washed clothes in urine.
I’m still not buying or using a “she-wee” — roses, compost, or whatever. Somebody else can save the planet.
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