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Antsreply to "Cliff" potty talk
Howdy folks,
I feel responsible in some way for the recent melt down in civility. Last time I checked in I posted a naive little note about what a thoughtful group this was for expressing ideas without getting flamed. Wow, little did I know. ( Now someone will flame me for spelling 'naive' without an umlaut. ) There was a columnist for Scientific American, Ann Eisenberg who does an occasional back page article on Science and culture, and she wrote an article about six, seven years ago on flame wars. What was great, was that all the examples she used were from the GARDENS listserv at UKY. The irony of going from peonies to death threats in a gardening forum was too much to resist. While everyone was feeling effusive ( or constipated as the case may be ) I thought I'd mention my experience today at the Travis County office downtown. After politely waiting for the two men to finish their discussion of the complexities of "The Matrix", I was met by my request for information about composting toilets and grey water systems, with a distinct smirk. "You want it temporarily right, until you get a real toilet, right?" Actual quote. I pondered his disbelief for a moment, and realized I was way out of line. Sure, what I really wanted was to pay for gallons of clean drinking water to dispose of my urine. Then I want my taxes raised so we can pay for the urine to be extracted from my drinking water. It better be clean, because if I don't flush it back down the toilet I might actually drink some. Composting toilets ? How could anyone be so silly? My next stop was Eco-Wise in South Austin, where a very friendly, but obviously underfed young lady showed me the catalog. I've got my eye on the Monstro Excrement 10,000 model but I'm having a difficult time selling the idea to my wife who is doing the interior design of our project based on French Country 'Provence' style, and wants rough wooden seats etc and a pull chain from an overhead box. I was curious if anyone out there has had experience with composting toilets and have any comments, other than "Are you out of your freaking mind?" Steve Coyle www.austingardencenter.com |
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Antsreply to "Cliff" potty talk
"Steve Coyle" wrote in message om... Howdy folks, I feel responsible in some way for the recent melt down in civility. Last time I checked in I posted a naive little note about what a thoughtful group this was for expressing ideas without getting flamed. Wow, little did I know. ( Now someone will flame me for spelling 'naive' without an umlaut. ) Aw, they probably would have gone off like that anyway. And I've been to that Umlaut Sculpture Garden; it's nice! ;-) There was a columnist for Scientific American, Ann Eisenberg who does an occasional back page article on Science and culture, and she wrote an article about six, seven years ago on flame wars. What was great, was that all the examples she used were from the GARDENS listserv at UKY. The irony of going from peonies to death threats in a gardening forum was too much to resist. While everyone was feeling effusive ( or constipated as the case may be ) I thought I'd mention my experience today at the Travis County office downtown. After politely waiting for the two men to finish their discussion of the complexities of "The Matrix", I was met by my request for information about composting toilets and grey water systems, with a distinct smirk. "You want it temporarily right, until you get a real toilet, right?" Actual quote. I pondered his disbelief for a moment, and realized I was way out of line. Sure, what I really wanted was to pay for gallons of clean drinking water to dispose of my urine. Then I want my taxes raised so we can pay for the urine to be extracted from my drinking water. It better be clean, because if I don't flush it back down the toilet I might actually drink some. Composting toilets ? How could anyone be so silly? My next stop was Eco-Wise in South Austin, where a very friendly, but obviously underfed young lady showed me the catalog. I've got my eye on the Monstro Excrement 10,000 model but I'm having a difficult time selling the idea to my wife who is doing the interior design of our project based on French Country 'Provence' style, and wants rough wooden seats etc and a pull chain from an overhead box. I was curious if anyone out there has had experience with composting toilets and have any comments, other than "Are you out of your freaking mind?" Steve Coyle www.austingardencenter.com You've probably seen this, but what the heck: http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebo...ostToilet.html Looks like $200 for the permit, and buy a NSF-approved unit. And convince the lovely wife, of course. Dale |
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