However, muck is great for fields, building soil that has been depleted by too many years of chemical fertilizers. I'd just put up with the flies, ordering lots of extra fly paper from Amazon. They won't last much longer.

Tommy_Carcetti

(44,587 posts)

2. Funny.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 06:02 PM

Aug 2016

I thought he was in Virginia today.

Demonaut

(10,153 posts)

3. of all the planets creatures I loath only flies

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 06:02 PM

Aug 2016

malaise

(297,987 posts)

10. Yep but we should all hate mosquitoes.

Reply to Demonaut (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:20 PM

Aug 2016

The thing is they all have their use.

I hate them both.

GaYellowDawg

(5,112 posts)

22. They're actually both in Class Diptera

Reply to malaise (Reply #10)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 09:49 PM

Aug 2016

Both mosquitos and flies, that is. So no big surprise you hate them both!

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

4. I thought this was a story about a Trump rally nt

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 06:04 PM

Aug 2016

TheCowsCameHome

(40,270 posts)

5. Pay attention, please.

Reply to geek tragedy (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 06:16 PM

Aug 2016

Nobody mentioned maggots.

malaise

(297,987 posts)

9. ROFL

Reply to TheCowsCameHome (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:19 PM

Aug 2016

TheCowsCameHome

(40,270 posts)

16. Always happy to give you a chuckle, malaise.

Reply to malaise (Reply #9)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:51 PM

Aug 2016

malaise

(297,987 posts)

17. And you never fail

Reply to TheCowsCameHome (Reply #16)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:52 PM

Aug 2016

world wide wally

(21,836 posts)

6. Gee. Another Republican state with a self inflicted catastrophe.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 06:22 PM

Aug 2016

Who woulda thunk?

malaise

(297,987 posts)

8. Well it's complicated because it's the result of farmers using

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:18 PM

Aug 2016

the ultimate natural fertilizer.

world wide wally

(21,836 posts)

11. But we should know better than that.

Reply to malaise (Reply #8)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:25 PM

Aug 2016

Consider all the chemicals and GMOs that humans ingest

malaise

(297,987 posts)

12. Not human

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #11)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:28 PM

Aug 2016

cow poop

world wide wally

(21,836 posts)

14. The linked newscast said it was human waste

Reply to malaise (Reply #12)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:33 PM

Aug 2016

malaise

(297,987 posts)

15. I thought it was cow poop

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #14)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:33 PM

Aug 2016

Damn!!

duncang

(3,767 posts)

7. It's a sign of the apocalypse

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 06:40 PM

Aug 2016

The wicked are being punished. At least that would be the theme if it happened in a major city that trends to the left.

Almost running out of tin foil.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

13. Yuck!

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:32 PM

Aug 2016

malaise

(297,987 posts)

18. Decades ago I lived next door to two old ladies - sisters whose husbands had died

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #13)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:53 PM

Aug 2016

They had a thriving business of Chinese vegetables and they used - nine day old pee to fertilize them.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

19. Lol! Gardener here. One of those things many're probably happier

Reply to malaise (Reply #18)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 08:01 PM

Aug 2016

not knowing, but I just want to know: why nine days? Fermented?

malaise

(297,987 posts)

20. That was their answer

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #19)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 08:03 PM

Aug 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

21. Well, gee thanks. I'll remember that.

Reply to malaise (Reply #20)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 08:17 PM

Aug 2016

Unfortunately, no smilie is appropriate to the earthy wisdom you pass on -- a sad commentary on modern society.

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

23. ewwww

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Aug 2, 2016, 09:50 PM

Aug 2016

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