The stupidest thing I've ever heard (at least for this week)

[BlueStarLizzard]

I wonder what this lady would say if she was hiking with us camp kids back in the day...

when dish "washing" was dirt scrub and rince.

[CNYCacher]

During the summer I was working in landscaping, we were once spreading topsoil around some plants by hand in the spots where shovels were too imprecise.  I start noticing that the soil is a little . . . funny in texture and has a kind of distinct odor to it.  As it turns out, the place my employer bought topsoil from was basically a large field where sewage solids from NYC were trucked up and dumped to turn into topsoil over time.  At certain times in the summer though, supplies got a little low and the stuff they were selling was still kinda *fresh*.

So yeah, I definitely have spent an afternoon pawing through hippy ****.

[Chuck Dye]

In San Diego's Mission Bay, Fiesta Island is where sludge from the Point Loma sewage works is deposited.  It is also the annual home of the Over-The-Line Tournament.  Suffice it to say that the OTL jiggle factor is extreme and TV coverage very cautious about camera angles, backgrounds, and team names.

Talking some years before his death, Dad mentioned that he might opt for a poor man's burial at sea, cremation and the ashes flushed down the toilet, thinking that his ashes would be deposited off Point Loma by the outflow.  I pointed out the Fiesta Island sludge dump.  Dad got an "Oh, yeah!" look and said that might be better:  having a permanent pass to the OTL championship.  I laughed and said "Good joke, Dad!"  Dad laughed back, saying that two of his friends ashes have been secretly scattered on Fiesta Island for exactly that reason.

Next time you spread Milorganite, show some respect, you never know!

[Perd Hapley]

I wonder what this lady would say if she was hiking with us camp kids back in the day...

when dish "washing" was dirt scrub and rince.

As they told us at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, "God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt."

[BlueStarLizzard]

As they told us at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, "God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt."

Thats what we said! 

[Balog]

Unless you're talking either soil contaminated with something that a plant would leach out or bio-concentrators like some fish and shellfish, this woman is crazy.

[41magsnub]

In this specific case we are talking about garden soil from miracle grow bags bought at home depot she watched me haul so yes    batshiat crazy

[seeker_two]

Thats what we said! 

Wow!....that really IS what she said.... 

[Lee]

Maybe she just doesn't want you to have a garden.  My yuppy neighbors look and me and mine as something from outer space. I am essentially surrounded by highly educated people who don't know how to do anything other than earn a lot of money and pay people to do stuff for them.