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StoPPeRmobile		2013-03-23 12:36:33 AM

AverageAmericanGuy		2013-03-23 12:46:58 AM

Dirt? But that's where we grow our vegetables!

The Snow Dog		2013-03-23 12:55:39 AM

Mud enemas:
for the children's sake, mud enemas all 'round.

meat0918		2013-03-23 01:15:55 AM

I will live forever!

//Plays in the dirt gardening, and the kids help.

drjekel_mrhyde		2013-03-23 01:30:16 AM

Well diatomaceous earth is good for humans and pets http://www.earthworkshealth.com/How-Diatomaceous-Earth-Works.php to consume if it's food grade

MurphyMurphy		2013-03-23 01:34:53 AM

drjekel_mrhyde: Well diatomaceous earth is good for humans and pets http://www.earthworkshealth.com/How-Diatomaceous-Earth-Works.php to consume if it's food grade

Go back to Tauron, dirt eater.

KrispyKritter		2013-03-23 01:48:07 AM

Grandma used to say: "You eat a pound of dirt before you die". I never ate at Grandma's house.

meat0918		2013-03-23 02:01:38 AM

drjekel_mrhyde: Well diatomaceous earth is good for humans and pets http://www.earthworkshealth.com/How-Diatomaceous-Earth-Works.php to consume if it's food grade

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hardinparamedic		2013-03-23 02:09:29 AM

The Snow Dog: Mud enemas:
for the children's sake, mud enemas all 'round.

www.ceessentials.net

FARK is not your personal erotica site.

12349876		2013-03-23 02:31:30 AM

Well it's good if you can survive.

/not sure if there's a way to have a "dirt" society without higher infant mortality compared to "clean"

The Snow Dog		2013-03-23 03:33:03 AM

hardinparamedic: The Snow Dog: Mud enemas:
for the children's sake, mud enemas all 'round.

[www.ceessentials.net image 309x377]
FARK is not your personal erotica site.

Huh? How is that erotic, sicko?

Need_MindBleach		2013-03-23 04:00:05 AM

Interesting how the old stereotypes sometimes prove to be true, such as asthma and food allergy sufferers being overprotected mama's boys. Turns out they were.

hardinparamedic		2013-03-23 05:15:12 AM

The Snow Dog: Huh? How is that erotic, sicko?

I'm not the one posting about his fantasies of pediatric klismaphilia, Snow Dog.

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Uncle Tractor		2013-03-23 09:07:39 AM

When I was a little kid, I sometimes went looking for fossils at a nearby building site. Usually came home covered in mud from head to toe (and carrying an armload of fossils).

Does that mean I'm safe?

/too old for childhood illnesses anyway

Fano		2013-03-23 09:14:02 AM

Dirt don't hurt.

How do we know 'e's king?

DoctorOfLove		2013-03-23 03:17:11 PM

Best thing you can do for an infant is get a big hairy friendly smelly outside dog.

El Dudereno		2013-03-23 04:07:17 PM

DoctorOfLove: Best thing you can do for an infant is get a big hairy friendly smelly outside dog.

This. My big, stinky lab has been my daughter's best friend since she was a baby. Very protective too.

The kid has no allergies.

StarlingFive		2013-03-23 04:12:37 PM

El Dudereno: DoctorOfLove: Best thing you can do for an infant is get a big hairy friendly smelly outside dog.

This. My big, stinky lab has been my daughter's best friend since she was a baby. Very protective too.

The kid has no allergies.

Careful. I pointed out something close to this a while back and got jumped on by the fark snowflake-protection brigade.

dforkus		2013-03-23 08:42:58 PM

In the first house we lived in we had mice, before I had a chance to kill them off I caught my then crawling son taste testing a few of their turds. Freaked me out, but he was fine,

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