Chili at Home Depot...

[talula]

I can vouch for the rancidness of warm, rotting chicken shit. Fell into a field of it once. Up to the waistline. Bad situation..... Don't do this........

[cutnbulls2ox (imported)]

I can t figure out rattlesnakes. They never rattle for me. Just silent. I try to jump or stamp on the ground if I see them heading near me. It never alters their course. They just keep going straight to where they want to go. At most they might get into S shapes or coil to be ready to strike. But they won t change their course to stay away from me. I have to get out of their way.

Water moccasins and copper heads at least try to head away from me, but not rattlesnakes.

I d be crazy to try to relocate any poisonous snakes and risk getting bit. Much as I love reptiles and snakes, having poisonous ones around is way too risky with pets, kids, livestock, elderly people, workmen, and others around who might get bit. I d never forgive myself if I left a venomous snake alive near humans and someone got bit by that same snake and suffered all that pain, swelling, infection, and possible limb loss or death from it. Out in empty land I leave them alone. But in settled areas they are too risky to leave alive.

One guy I met in town recently got bit foolishly handling a rattlesnake to show off. The snake was so terrified and pissed off, it pumped extra venom into him. It took huge amounts of anti venom to save him, drs had to split his arm open to relieve the swelling and circulation damage, and the tissue damage from the poison left his hand paralyzed.

They are fascinating creatures but way too dangerous to be around people and pets.

[Dave (imported)]

When I was working, my company hosted a "Burning Animal Waste" conference.

Cow flops could be dried and burnt without much displeasure. It also can be dumped on fields to fertilize the crops.

Horse manure left in the manure pile several months turns into fertilizer. You can buy it from most horse stables.

Chicken Litter is "harvested" in large chicken coops (Think thousands of chickens on commercial farms) at the bottom of the coop on what appears to be a giant sponge-like plastic webbing. It's about 2ft deep sponginess to hold the chicken litter. Whether it needs it or not, the spongy webbing is replaced every six months with new webbing. The old being taken to a calcining furnace, calcined and sold as high-potash fertilizer.

Swine Manure is the worst being 50% water and supporting disease germs that requires chlorine to kill. The water content requires too much energy to burn it and the germs spread disease. Pigs are filthy animals.

(One day I'll tell y'all about my review of a technical paper titled "Efficacy of Slime Molds in Enhanced Oil Recovery")

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

I do believe that the "Killer Flu of 1918" was traced back to a large pig manure fire upwind from an army base in Kansas, I think it was "Fort McAllen" or something like that. Anyway, a few days after the large pig manure fire, the first soldiers started getting sick with the initial phase of that virus, it probably mutated a bit as it passed from soldier to soldier, those soldiers shipped out to Europe and carried it there, not sure about how it moved to Spain, but it did and acquired the MISnomer "The Spanish Flu." Before that flu epidemic was over, it had killed about 50 million people world wide, and the loss of human life to the flu was clearly a contributing factor in the decision of the Germans to surrender. Seems almost funny to me, that people scream bloody murder over a few deaths caused by unusual ways (mass shootings for example), and totally ignore the big killers in our history. All those 50 million deaths would have been averted if the wind had been blowing a different direction on that day that some pig farmer decided to burn the manure pile, also, the millions of deaths would have been so greatly reduced if more people could have troubled themselves to simply follow the directions of public health authorities. Now I wonder.... pig shit can clearly carry virus and spread disease.... what about human farts? Seriously, could I be spreading the next "Killer Flu of 2018" by farting?

And another serious question, just why is it that "fart humor" is so damn funny? Reading the initial post really made me laugh, just what is so funny about particularly stinky farts?

[Paolo]

It seems to be something natural. Even very small children who aren't sure what a fart is laugh at them. Probably the sensation of passing gas cause the laughter, and it just sticks. Later on, it's probably, "I can make a funny noise that smells bad and makes adults yell!" How cool!

[madnomadtoo (imported)]

... Pigs are filthy animals.

Agreed. So why do they taste so good?

[cutnbulls2ox (imported)]

Because people like to claim everything that is fun is bad for you lol.

[Paolo]

The other night, I had the most spectacular and lengthy fart of my entire life.

I had just left my cousin's place, as the rest were in from out of state. Sadly, I was alone outside, and the 8 small children in attendance were denied the hilarity of it.

It seemed to go on for a full minute. It was initially quite disturbing. And rancid. Good thing I was outside with a breeze.

It must have been the freshly ground sage in the low-carb bread stuffing?

[Dave (imported)]

call it a "rectal belch" and say the meal was great...

[Paolo]

It's that time of year to bump this thread back into life!

I made a pot of "murder chili" the other night and it was glorious!