Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Not surprising. They're probably the only kind that don't fall off the average NORK.
“human excrement”
WTF?
People aren’t eating enough to keep up with their own supply. NK is an obscenity and that the world hasn’t stepped in and put an end to the horror is unconscionable.
They lost me at “skinny jeans”...
Dangit. I just flushed a fortune down the drain..
At least their carbon footprints are low.
That's what they SAY.
A Russian once told me, "In my village, we called it 'sausage' and fought over it!" But I am sure HE was joking. Wasn't he?
Socialism does that.
“Hey Sung, did you get any good sh*t for Christmas?”
Each spring, the Ringling Circus plays at Madison Square Garden in NYC. For years, the circus struggled to dispose of the prodigous amount of manure produced by the elephants. About 30 years ago, after the NY Times had an article about how elephant crap is a highly nutritous fertilizer, they started receiving calls asking if it can be purchased. Today, the circus does a well, "s**tpile" of business selling elephant poop. It's funny to see the MBs, SUVs and BMWs pulling under the garden, and having bags of the stuff loaded aboard so that all the eco-wackso in Manhattan can fertilize their roof gardens..
The Koreans(N or S) have ALWAYS used “human excrement” as fertilizer. They call it “Night Soil”.
If you've ever been in the Korean countryside, it really DOES smell like Human Waste.
Sounds like a good place for the out-of-office democrats to move to. Democrats are always full of chit, and now that they can’t sell it to Americans, perhaps the North Koreans can have all of the democrats’ chit.
One big problem, though.
With the chit that the democrats have been “selling” to Americans, everything that’s been touched by their chit has ended up damaged or destroyed. But, since North Korea is already in ruins, I guess it won’t make too much difference.
You have got to be ****ing!
I can see it now:
[At the WayneS home, the evening of December 28, 2010]:
WayneS: Wait son! DO NOT flush that toilet! Stop being selfish! Don't you realize there are poor, starving children in North Korea who would LOVE to have the fine, healthy excrement that you are about to simply flush away without a THOUGHT?.
WayneS, Jr.: Gee, dad! I had no idea! I really WAS being selffish, wasn't I? Will you help me organize a nationwide movement [he he] to ship ALL of our otherwise wasted poo to the poor, starving children of North Korea!
WayneS: THERE'S the kind and thoughtful son I know and love! What a GREAT idea! I'll register a web-site and start an e-mail advertising campaign right away!
WayneS, Jr.: Gosh, Dad. I just can't WAIT to get started. Can I have THREE bowls of oatmeal tomorrow at breakfast instead of just two tonight?
WayneS: Sure, son. I know you want to get things moving as quickly as possible!
[fade to black]
then...
[In early February, 2011, www.shipmysh1t.com becomes a reality. By the end of March it has become a "hit". By the summer of 2011 it has literally become a nationwide craze among the youth of America. Tens of thousands of children around the United States begin to carefully retrieve their ordure from the bowl. Instead of just thoughtlessly flushing it away, they lovingly and unselfishly place it in handy, self-sealing envelopes, and send it "overnight" to Pyong Yang.]
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BUT! There are at least TWO Unintended Consequences:
1) Nationwide sales of stainless steel strainers increase drastically and,
2) [from CNN News, December 27, 2011): '...and TOPPING our 2011 List of "Worst Jobs in the World" is, get this folks, Fed-Ex delivery driver in Pyong Yang...'
The Asian continent historically has used human excrement for fertilizer. Much of the food you eat comes from Asia, including China, and was most likely fertilized that way.
Remember the term “honey bucket?” That was a yoke with a bucket of human excrement on each end, carried over the coolie's neck being taken out to the fields.
You youngsters on FR just don't know about the finer things in life!
At first glace, I read “fashionable trousers” as “fissionable trousers.” I hope there is an embargo against shipping nuclear pants to the Worker’s paradise.
“Yonhap news agency reported that shops began selling human excrement to deal with acute shortages of fertilizer in North Korea.”
I forgot that in the 1960s in South Korea “honey buckets” - human waste collected from local houses and establishments, during the night - were still a source of fertilizer for farms and gardens in poor villages.
I had forgotten that, and when I read the quote above I first thought that maybe poor North Koreans were buying the “human excrement” for fuel.
The biggest problem, even then in the 1960s in South Korea, was not directly from the use of human excrement for fertilizer, but because of HOW it was used it could easily become a contaminate of the local drinking-water supply; because most local drinking water drew directly from the local wells and the local water table and not filtered and monitored water systems.
In other words, in most conditions that human excrement is used for fertilizer, the “sewer system” is released directly into drinking water supply from the run off from the farms.
Which of these doesn't belong?