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My mate works for a water treatment company, so he's regularly down the sewers doing stuff. His best ever comment was that he hates it in the rich towns cos the
by monk_e_boy 11y ago
My mate works for a water treatment company, so he's regularly down the sewers doing stuff. His best ever comment was that he hates it in the rich towns cos the shit stinks vile. But in the poor towns it smells OK.
I had always thought all shit smells the same.
- Joof 11y agoClearly you don't know shit. Dietary differences I guess? I'm sure there are scientists, especially in the wildlife area that specialize in the compounds in feces.
- monk_e_boy 11y agoMy thought was maybe other things go down the drains that alter the chemistry? Cheap bleach vs expensive bleach? Hummus? Shampoo? Or maybe just a meat rich diet vs a more vegetarian diet of the poor folks. He also said that in the pumping stations there are thousands of frogs and toads that have fallen into the road side drains and have been swept down the sewers. They get chewed up in the pumps.
- wslh 11y agoI think your mate should write a blog post.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoI'd love for him to shove that shit into a gas chromatograph and check for objective differences.
- Johnny555 11y agoI spent a summer pumping out septic tanks (good money, but not a job I'd choose again), and didn't notice any such difference -- rich sht smelled like poor sht. (though the wealthier customers tended to have more non-degradable bits in the sludge, I guess they didn't care as much about keeping their septic system healthy by taking care about what they flushed). One customer called us after their son flushed all of his legos down the toilet, we had to suck them out of the drainfield cleanouts too, not sure how they made it that far since legos tend to sink. There must have been thousands of pieces, he must have worked long and hard on flushing them.