Take your children to a cemetary

[Black Diamond Bay]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I wonder if it doesn't just destroy them emotionally. In re-reading All Quiet on the Western Front, the author takes to pains to point out how soldiers must cut off their connection to emotionality. If that link is severed, they may not function well as people. Perhaps not. Just speculating.

I really think that for a lot of them it does. I don't know how WW vets especially could not be traumatized, and many of them just flat out destroyed by what they had to go through. One of my great uncles assigned to clean up the German POW camps after the war. By all accounts he came home a wreck, and I think he did die relatively young, drunk himself into oblivion.

[marsupial]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

If you don't think putting on a moon suit and going to a land fill for a few hours would be fascinating I feel sorry for you. You might learn more there about your culture than on CNN. The rats alone would mesmerize (if you had the right weapon to keep them at a safe distance).

I dated a guy in high school who had hippy parents. As a kid, they would picnic at the cemetary.

My son would probably love to go to a landfill. He's been begging us to take him to a sewage treatment plant.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by marsupial

I dated a guy in high school who had hippy parents. As a kid, they would picnic at the cemetary.

My son would probably love to go to a landfill. He's been begging us to take him to a sewage treatment plant.

A sewage treatment plant would be a good place to discusss nature's chemistry, since all sewage treatment really is is using microbes to accomplish the same thing that would happen in the bay if we just dumped our sewage there raw. With so much food the bugs woud use up all the oxygen needed by fish. I'm sure Lebowski knows more about this than I do.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

A sewage treatment plant would be a good place to discusss nature's chemistry, since all sewage treatment really is is using microbes to accomplish the same thing that would happen in the bay if we just dumped our sewage there raw. With so much food the bugs woud use up all the oxygen needed by fish. I'm sure Lebowski knows more about this than I do.

Ummm..... Thanks. (I think)

And yes, that's an accurate statement.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by marsupial

My son would probably love to go to a landfill. He's been begging us to take him to a sewage treatment plant.

Have you showed him cougarboard?

[myboynoah]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

If you don't think putting on a moon suit and going to a land fill for a few hours would be fascinating I feel sorry for you. You might learn more there about your culture than on CNN. The rats alone would mesmerize (if you had the right weapon to keep them at a safe distance).

Hey, we are of the same roots my friend. Growing up, whenever my dad loaded some junk in the old pickup and said, "I'm going to the dump", I was totally on board. What a great saturday afternoon. Ours was the Davis County Landfill, just east of Hill Air Force Base (jet planes and the dump; we were in heaven) and overlooking South Weber (I would never live in South Weber).

Cemetaries are equally interesting; we did it occasionally in Tokyo.

Of course, just walking the streets of Paris . . . well, what more can I say.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

Hey, we are of the same roots my friend. Growing up, whenever my dad loaded some junk in the old pickup and said, "I'm going to the dump", I was totally on board. What a great saturday afternoon. Ours was the Davis County Landfill, just east of Hill Air Force Base (jet planes and the dump; we were in heaven) and overlooking South Weber (I would never live in South Weber).

Cemetaries are equally interesting; we did it occasionally in Tokyo.

Of course, just walking the streets of Paris . . . well, what more can I say.

What a blast heaving stuff into that big pit at the dump. We have a great one tucked away in a gentrified section called Fremont. Twenty bucks for all the fodder you can fit in your car. The pit looks kind of like that compactor Luke, Han and Leah got thrown into in StarWars I (IV?). There's always a big front end loader down there in the maw shoveling junk.

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

What a blast heaving stuff into that big pit at the dump. We have a great one tucked away in a gentrified section called Fremont. Twenty bucks for all the fodder you can fit in your car. The pit looks kind of like that compactor Luke, Han and Leah got thrown into in StarWars I (IV?). There's always a big front end loader down there in the maw shoveling junk.

I bet I make more more than SU as a ratio of cost to take stuff to the dump.

FM, there are advantages to living in Utah.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

Hey, we are of the same roots my friend. Growing up, whenever my dad loaded some junk in the old pickup and said, "I'm going to the dump", I was totally on board. What a great saturday afternoon. Ours was the Davis County Landfill, just east of Hill Air Force Base (jet planes and the dump; we were in heaven) and overlooking South Weber (I would never live in South Weber).

Cemetaries are equally interesting; we did it occasionally in Tokyo.

Of course, just walking the streets of Paris . . . well, what more can I say.

I can testify that few things in life are more entertaining that shooting rats at night at the city dump with flashlights taped to your .22's.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

I can testify that few things in life are more entertaining that shooting rats at night at the city dump with flashlights taped to your .22's.

I should make this a scout activity.