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  1. Grumbly Stu says:
    1 September 2012 at 1:09 am

    Silent cereal advertising – more evidence of a general trend to leave out the informative drone that usually accompanies visual presentations. This year I have seen several tv documentaries on cities, parts of the world, animals etc. that just show you stuff in silence, even without music. No commentator telling you what you should know as you look.

    I don’t know what the motives of the producers were in each case. I myself do not take these documentaries as “showing the world as it really is”. What I like about them is that I can pose my own questions, to myself, about what I am being shown and not shown – instead of having answers dumped on me to questions I never asked.

  2. A. J. P. Crown says:
    1 September 2012 at 1:19 am

    Yes! I hadn’t thought of that.

    I like to think I’m relatively immune to certain advertising: for English lessons, say, or for many kinds of perfume and cleaning materials I don’t use; but maybe I ought to think positive and try to utilise the images for my own purposes – assuming I have some.

  3. dearieme says:
    1 September 2012 at 10:46 am

    How much does the farmer charge you for having the odd munch? Do you pay him in dung?

  4. A. J. P. Crown says:
    1 September 2012 at 11:11 am

    This is the first time it’s happened. They always say that horse manure isn’t as good as cow- or pig-, but I don’t know the reason. Once a year the farmer in his tractor sprinkles pig shit everywhere and there is a VERY strong smell for several hours.

  5. Ø says:
    1 September 2012 at 12:45 pm

    … which led me to the Wiki article on manure. I think that horse dung is too much like unprocessed grass. There’s that old favorite word “slurry” again. Also, wow.

  6. Grumbly Stu says:
    1 September 2012 at 1:00 pm

    Here too it is the season of dung and prospective fruitfulness. I don’t often tootle through the countryside, since I don’t keep a car. However, on the way to Weilerswist on the bus last week I smelled what I could immediately identify as horse dung. It sure is more earth-mothery than Schweinegülle. This is a kind of fermented and liquefied pig shit, even a whiff of which bids fair to cauterize the nasal membranes.

    I am told that cow dung is nasty too, but it can’t be as bad as Schweinegülle, which conjures meltdown in a chemical factory. I don’t expect farming to be a bed of roses, but since scientists can splice fish genes into tomatoes they ought to be able to make fertilizer smell more like fried onions, say. (At the Turkish barbershop yesterday I allowed my head to be sprayed with a bit of “Eiswasser” that smelled very prettily of caraway).

  7. A. J. P. Crown says:
    1 September 2012 at 2:15 pm

    Also, wow.

    Goodness. That’s a bit much. I think it needs some elaboration: why only the white stuff?

    I think that horse dung is too much like unprocessed grass

    But what’s wrong with that? Lawnmowings form the largest part of my compost heap.

    it can’t be as bad as Schweinegülle

    Thank you. Now I have a name for that very pungent stuff. In Wikipedia I can translate Gülle into Česky, Dansk, Esperanto, (Esperanto?), Español, Français, Nederlands or Polski, but not English. Does it work as a swearword, “Schweinegülle!”?

    At the Turkish barbershop yesterday I allowed my head to be sprayed with a bit of “Eiswasser” that smelled very prettily of caraway

    A nice image. I don’t think we have any Turkish barbershops, or I’d be right down there.

  8. A. J. P. Crown says:
    1 September 2012 at 2:16 pm

    Sorry, no search result for Schweinegülle. Did you mean: chenille?

    Nope.

  9. A. J. P. Crown says:
    1 September 2012 at 2:19 pm

    Oh well, I guess it’s slurry. But I like Schweinegülle so much better, a good woody sort of word. “Slurry” just sounds like a euphemism.

  10. Grumbly Stu says:
    1 September 2012 at 4:17 pm

    Sorry, no search result for Schweinegülle.

    I get 71,400 hits. Here’s the WiPe on Gülle. Perhaps you accidentally excluded German from search results in your browser ?? In Firefox there are settings for “preferred languages. .

    Does it work as a swearword, “Schweinegülle!”?

    No, but you can disoblige someone by calling him/her Schweinebacke. Schweinkram refers to rude (Brit.) activities.

  11. Ø says:
    1 September 2012 at 6:40 pm

    Wiki says

    Manures with a particularly unpleasant odor (such as human sewage or slurry from intensive pig farming) are usually knifed (injected) directly into the soil to reduce release of the odor.

    I wonder if your neighbor on the tractor was using liquid super-smelly pig manure or ordinary smelly pig manure.

  12. Ø says:
    1 September 2012 at 6:46 pm

    Lawnmowings form the largest part of my compost heap.

    Yes, but I think that compost serves a slightly different purpose, or purposes, from fecal-based manures. We may have talked that subject into the ground, though, the time when we were discussing the word “mulch”.

  13. Ø says:
    1 September 2012 at 6:55 pm

    season of dung and prospective fruitfulness

    I get it. For any who don’t it, let me mention that “Mist” is German for “dung”. Good one.

    I am told that cow dung is nasty too

    I think it can be pretty earth-mothery, too, though more intense than horse dung.

  14. dearieme says:
    1 September 2012 at 7:50 pm

    In a field of cut hay, seen today: two llamas. sitting and munching.

  15. A. J. P. Crown says:
    2 September 2012 at 12:17 am

    I like llamas, I didn’t know they’d reached Cambridgeshire.

    season of dung and prospective fruitfulness

    I get it. For any who don’t it, let me mention that “Mist” is German for “dung”. Good one.

    This stuff whizzes past without my having noticed. Can’t you be a little bit more obvious about it, Stu? Bold it or something.

    It’s liquid super-smelly. Stu mentioned how its odour affects the nasal membranes, like weak smelling salts. There’s no mistaking it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s responsible for my forgetting old posts.

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