Wasn’t sure if this was the Onion, trying to wade my way through the muck.
Couldn’t finish it.
Best not to.
You will soon see what I mean.
No - here - I will challenge anyone to read it in its entirety.
You will be fighting it.
Has to be something wrong with me if I found the following cute:
If this doesn’t confirm NK officially going to shit, I honestly don’t know what does.
I’m not gonna wade into that, but you know what makes more poop?
FOOD, ya dumb shit! (speaking to Mr. Kim Jong Un)
You know what makes more food? Fertilizer/manure/shit. Kind of a catch-22 for them at this point, I imagine - eating their seed corn in a contrapositive way (I realize that is probably the wrong logical operation).
Sounds to me like he’s full of shit.
That explains the poop shortage. He’s hoarding.
I was contemplating the punctuation in your reply, and wondering if a full colon < : > might have worked as well as a period < . >.
If the poop gets stuck in there, scoop it out with a Slim Dung Spoon.
Well they claim that he never shits, so he is part of the problem.
Didn’t read the article, but my first thought was, don’t I recall reading critiques of The Martian that said human manure was not a sufficient soil amendment?
ETA: how well could human manure spread COVID?
Night soil isn’t going to make Martian soil viable for farming on its own (ignoring all the toxic perchlorates in the soil anyway) but there’s a rich (ha!) history of use as fertilizer where you already have soil that just needs a bit of a boost. It’s still in use as such in parts of the world today, clearly.
As for spreading COVID, almost certainly not a risk. What we’ve seen is that it’s primarily spread via respiration.
But bacteria and parasites? Sure. And among viruses, you betcha Hepatitis is a risk.
Thanks, that makes sense.
Re COVID, I was thinking less of lovely composted manure than of the gathering, processing, and incidental inhaling or nose/eyes-touching while handling.
I’d be interested to know how long it takes HepA to deteriorate under those conditions.
Reminded me of this article:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/health/north-korea-defector-parasites-health/index.html
The defector, whose last name is Oh, required emergency treatment for his wounds, including extensive surgery. Doctors discovered a large number and multiple forms of parasitic worms.
Some of the parasites removed were as long as 27 centimeters (more than 10 inches), according to the South Korean doctors who treated him. One type of worm they discovered is typically found in dogs.
“In my 20 years as a surgeon, I have only seen something like this in a medical textbook,” Lee Cook-Jong, the man’s surgeon, told reporters on November 15.
Choi Min-ho, a professor at Seoul National University College of Medicine who specializes in parasites, told CNN the use of human fertilizer on crops and poor sanitary conditions led to the transmission of parasitic cysts in North Korea.
See! They have lots of food but the tapeworms are eating it all.
Hermit Kingdom Mirace Diet!
Two thoughts:
Is his given name “No”?
From booster shots to booster shits.
I wasn’t certain where this story should go, but this is the perfect, perfect thread for it. The dead man instigated both the incident in which he lost his life and the earlier incident.
That is a sad, sad story. Was he really this quiet devoted family man who every so often erupted in rage? Did his family and friends never see that side of him, or were they afraid to confront him about it? (If they were, I don’t blame them.) There were occasional eruptions of rage when I was growing up, but nothing like this.
I found this a bit hilarious. On one of our broadcast channels, the captioning system is festooned with strict and aggressive filters. One example would be a word that it renders as “conxxxxuous”, because that in there is ethnic slur. The classic Scunthorpe dilemma. So, today we saw “… as an ordained minister of xxxxx xxxxxx, I now pronounce you husband and wife …” My irony meter is pegged.
(The stupid MFer is the one who designed and installed those filters.)