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edit: Don't do this. Embrace modernity and don't pollute the soil.

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[–] [email protected] 230 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm sure there will be people that take this seriously lol, PSA to others don't do this. It fucks up the land and nearby water sources as it spreads out. In the US you can be forced to replace the contaminated soil

[–] Dasnap 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just drink mine before pissing in the gravel hole.

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[–] KnightontheSun 72 points 1 year ago (21 children)

When I was a yout, they had trucks with a huge tank and a sprayer on the back. The truck would drive all the country roads spraying the dirt with waste oils. This was done to keep the dust down. Smelled terrible. Miles and miles of dirt roads that ran all around by rivers and lakes.

It is crazy to think about that now.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure you know this, but that's exactly how a town got turned in to a EPA superfund site due to Dioxin contamination, because of a fuck up over chain of command for waste oil from the creation of napalm or pesticides(IIRC?). The guy running the spraying business didn't know, which I can believe, but the company that paid for him to dispose of it should've informed him.

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[–] JJROKCZ 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assure you they still do that, source: my dad still lived on a back country road that they regularly tarred until they finally paved it about two or three years ago. When I lived there I hated when they did it because I had a white car and didn’t want all the oil on it since it was so hard to wash off and I had to go to the car wash every time I left the house

[–] Serinus 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was reading about one where the oil was contaminated with some truly terrible shit, dioxin maybe? Several people died. They turned that whole area into a Superfund site.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The solution to pollution is dilution

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Boomers: Why don't you kids go outside and play. When I was your age we played in the dirt for hours at a time.

Also boomers:

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Boomers: Kids these days think they can get through life by taking shortcuts

Also boomers:

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I've had boers tell me that as kids they would pick up balls of tar from the street and chew it like gum

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put oil back where it belongs, in the ground!

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it can be extracted again. True carbon neutrality.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mod [email protected]

I will mail you one of those jack in the boxes with boxing glove in it if you do this.

[–] ggppjj 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the bone juice come out the dirt make out of holes why not bone juice back into ground for more juice later?

Recycle bone juice to dirt?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bone juice kills the green things and the moving things. There is a reason they aren't making more bone juice. All moving things that had it have died.

[–] ggppjj 12 points 1 year ago

Ah! AHHH! GRUG FIND SMART SCIENCE NOT THINK! Green thing not have bone and it die too? How green thing die if no bone?

Uno, atheists.

[–] SendMePhotos 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do I have to prove that I do it, or can you just mail one to me?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shipped.

3-5 business days.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tradition is to save it and use it as a wood oil so the wood will not decay after some time on the rain. Absorbs really good, doesn't stink or stick...

[–] zakobjoa 62 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yeah, but there's stuff for that that doesn't give you eleven different cancers.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, to get cancer is also very traditional, forgot to say that.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was about to mention that. But you forget to mention the half-and-half mix of oil and diesel to prevent wood rot and insects.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Mixed 50/50 with diesel is what I'm using as fence stain/sealer.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Shit like this is why people doing home gardening, especially in areas that have been inhabited for hundreds of years, without testing the soil first give me heart palpitations. What are you eating?? I don't know, and neither do you!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My neighborhood soil is laced with arsenic and lead from an old foundry that used to be nearby.

A bunch of my neighbors grow and eat food in that soil knowing it. It boggles my mind.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I know it's not convenient, have you considered... telling them?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, and the response has been ‘I’ve been eating food I’ve grown here for 20 years and I’m totally fine!’

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like the people that love to tell their grandparents lived a long life smoking tobacco everyday.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, heat your home more effectively in the winter by always having a bucket of coal burning in your living room.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first couple times I helped my dad change the oil in his car he dumped it down the storm drain which lead to the Chesapeake.

We don't do that anymore.

[–] mkhopper 24 points 1 year ago

I think of all the times I did that working on my cars years ago.
It was just something you did and no one ever even blinked. Old oil, gas, brake fluid, etc, right down the storm drain.

Now I think back and shudder.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

My grandpa would just set the old oil filters when he would change the oil in the 3 farm tractors he owned. He did that for years and 30 years later that spot is still like blacktop. At least it’s only a 2’x2’ spot but I couldn’t imagine if he dumped the actual oil. And that’s only 3 diesel tractors twice a year.

The thought that shops were doing it for years is sad

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So return to its source. Basically.

Oil is weird.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need the full book/magazine this comes from there.might be other nice tips.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Instructions unclear, now the swing set in my back yard needs it's tires rotated.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The modern way of doing this would involve reversing the process of dinosaur bones turning into oil. So you just put into the oil-to-bone-inator and bury those bones back into the ground where they originally came from.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oil isn’t made from dinosaurs

[–] droans 34 points 1 year ago

Sure, if you're buying the cheap stuff.

[–] ignotum 25 points 1 year ago

Oh really? So how come you can use oil to make plastic dinosaur toys?

Checkmate atheists

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That's what Big Non-Dino-Oil wants you to think, so they can get all of the moneys from everyone.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Thanks. It nice to have a reliable source to turn to when I am inspired to follow guides published in the 1960s.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember that 1970 shitty cartoon "Barbapapa", which proposed burying all kinds of waste as a solution.

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