Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: 41magsnub on July 01, 2011, 10:29:42 PM
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Was just out fussing with the garden, training sugar snap peas up the lattice work and whatnot. Started talking to the neighbor over the fence, she does not believe in gardening for food because she doesn't know where the dirt has been and what could be in it. ??? My brain hurts now.
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Well, if you live in Ukraine, it might sort of maybe make sense. :facepalm:
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Tell her you bought your dirt at Home Depot.
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Tell her you bought your dirt at Home Depot.
No, no. Tell her you bought it at the local co-op and that it's certified organic.
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No, no. Tell her you bought it at the local co-op and that it's certified organic.
If APS had a like button, I'd be all over it.
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Gotta love how we classify the vast majority of our vegetable and animal food as non-organic, but an amalgamation of substances that includes a large proportion of minerals can be "organic." Strange times.
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My standard response to the "Is that organic?" question is:
I'm pretty sure there's a carbon molecule in there somewhere.
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What does she eat - protein in all colors of the rainbow ???
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What does she eat - protein in all colors of the rainbow ???
Only if Soylent Green is ORGANIC people.
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What does she eat - protein in all colors of the rainbow ???
I bet she only buys her meat at the grocery store where no animals have been hurt.
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Nitrogen protein synthesis directly from the air is possible if you believe hard enough.
http://everything2.com/title/airitarian
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Tell her the dirt is 100% au naturale bovine skat. It don't get more natural than that.
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Was just out fussing with the garden, training sugar snap peas up the lattice work and whatnot. Started talking to the neighbor over the fence, she does not believe in gardening for food because she doesn't know where the dirt has been and what could be in it. ??? My brain hurts now.
I can actually see that, in some circumstances. "Where exactly did they get the landscaping dirt for your nicely sculpted new subdivision?" (There's an old superfund cleanup site at the edge of town here. Old Burgess battery factory.)
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You just need to start explaining all the govt regulations on dirt at farms and such where food is grown. I'm sure you can make up something good. =)
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Tell her that you wash your dirt every time it rains.
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I can actually see that, in some circumstances. "Where exactly did they get the landscaping dirt for your nicely sculpted new subdivision?" (There's an old superfund cleanup site at the edge of town here. Old Burgess battery factory.)
I remember an incident in Tel-Aviv where a subcontractor did not want to pay money for quality sand -apparently sand differs in qualities - and simply brought sand he scooped up somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
He introduced termite eggs to at least a dozen homes.
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He introduced thermite eggs to at least a dozen homes.
Thermite eggs.. are those kind of like detcord worms?
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Bah. Spelling fixed.
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Bah. Spelling fixed.
Fail. Thermite eggs are way cooler.
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Fail. Thermite eggs are way cooler.
Damage still isn't covered by insurance, though... :laugh:
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You just need to start explaining all the govt regulations on dirt at farms and such where food is grown. I'm sure you can make up something good.
Not out of the realm of possibility. A few months back the EPA was looking to regulate dust from farms caused by plowing as a pollutant.
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I could somewhat understand if you lived in redneckville where everybody and their brother drained their car oil and tranny fluid. My wife wants to know what this lady has been doing in the dirt? Maybe you could set up a camera and sell photos and videos online. :O =D
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She must have seen a rainbow from the sprinkler and wondered what is oozing out of the ground.
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Someone needs to tell this lady that life basically comes from manure :P
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please don't, they already think there ideas are worth something.
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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.
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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 ****.
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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 (http://ombac.org/over_the_line/). 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!
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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."
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As they told us at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, "God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt."
Thats what we said! :lol:
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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.
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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
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Thats what we said! :lol:
Wow!....that really IS what she said.... :laugh:
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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.