Dear Jason Chatfield, please do not refer to useful or even quasi-useful things as "shit." Using the word "shit" in your columns reflects the cultural degradation that Trump fosters upon us. We used to be polite, civilized, when nasty words didn't make their way into print, except sometimes in literature by writers of limited skill. In stooping to use nasty four-letter words you show Trump's influence on you. Please rise above it.
Now, a few words about "shit." Animal manure is useful for enriching soil to grow vegetation. In some societies, human manure is used the same way, but Americans have trouble digesting the vegetation such soil produces and it makes us sick. Ergo, "shit" in our culture is completely useless - not appropriate for the potentially useful things you describe in your article.
I grew up in a university town. When school let out in June, the sidewalks became a treasure trove of items. Sometimes students just left stuff in their apartments for the next tenant, which is how I acquired my first bed.
My younger brother and his friends were enterprising little souls. They'd collect all of the girlie magazines that the college boys were too embarrassed to take home to mom. Then Brother & Co. would take the magazines to construction sites where the workers would trade them for empty soda pop bottles that the youngsters would return to the grocery store for the deposit money which they'd spend on candy.
Our mother pretended not to know this was going on.
Dear Jason Chatfield, please do not refer to useful or even quasi-useful things as "shit." Using the word "shit" in your columns reflects the cultural degradation that Trump fosters upon us. We used to be polite, civilized, when nasty words didn't make their way into print, except sometimes in literature by writers of limited skill. In stooping to use nasty four-letter words you show Trump's influence on you. Please rise above it.
Now, a few words about "shit." Animal manure is useful for enriching soil to grow vegetation. In some societies, human manure is used the same way, but Americans have trouble digesting the vegetation such soil produces and it makes us sick. Ergo, "shit" in our culture is completely useless - not appropriate for the potentially useful things you describe in your article.
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I absolutely love that. I wish kids were as industrious these days. Listen to me. I'm turning into an old man shouting, "Get off my lawn!"
I grew up in a university town. When school let out in June, the sidewalks became a treasure trove of items. Sometimes students just left stuff in their apartments for the next tenant, which is how I acquired my first bed.
My younger brother and his friends were enterprising little souls. They'd collect all of the girlie magazines that the college boys were too embarrassed to take home to mom. Then Brother & Co. would take the magazines to construction sites where the workers would trade them for empty soda pop bottles that the youngsters would return to the grocery store for the deposit money which they'd spend on candy.
Our mother pretended not to know this was going on.