Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

[tree]

What other techniques are there for determining whether to classify
a person as a redneck versus being a medieval peasant?

 

[Suzette]

Why do people make elaborate rules for water conservation, like running the dishwasher only when full and turning off the faucet when you brush your teeth but insist on water flush toilets, green lawns and weekly car washes ?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Do people not want water to flush their toilets?

 

[Suzette]

Do people not know there are hygenic alternatives to water flush toilets?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Like outhouses or those vacuum ones they use in space?

 

[Suzette]

Do you know about urine separating toilets?

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Isn't there an ancient tradition of composting toilets in finland?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Do you really think the Vikings had time for all that?

 

[tree]

How long would it take to dig a hole?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

How big a hole are we talking about here?

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Aren't the modern versions of all that just a bit more sophisticated and sanitary than a hole in the ground?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Do you think a toilet seat, or the dirt covering a hole in the ground is more sanitary?

 

[Suzette]

Did you know mixing urine and feces causes more, foul smelling bacteria to proliferate than allowing feces to dessicate?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Did you know mixing urine and feces causes more, foul smelling bacteria to proliferate than allowing feces to dessicate?

Yupperdoodles! It's so true. I was just telling someone that I visited this guy a long time ago, and he lived in an Earthship (house made from tires, cob, and glass) and he had a composting toilet. It didn't smell at all. It just smelled like alfalfa. It was so weird.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Did you know I forgot for a second that this thread was Answer a question with a question?

 

[Suzette]

Did you know we have a composting toilet on our boat and your last two posts made me laugh?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Did you know there was once a rattlesnake in the outhouse as a kid? Can you imagine how angry and shocked he must have been, tunneling through the dirt and popping out down in that hole? lol

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Wouldn't that be a surprise, to take a seat, then hear a buzz?

 

[tree]

Do you mean the shocking part would be because the rattlesnake tunneled
through all that dirt to get into the outhouse and it turned into a
buzzing electric eel?

 

[Suzette]

Would you die by fright or rattle snake bite?