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Article #644Re: OT: Only in America
From: Bill Sloman
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:14
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:14
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On Nov 7, 2:46 am, Greegor <greego...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For people who happen to live in areas without a proper sewage system, > > a "honey-wagon" is truck that goes around and collects human excreta. > > > The US doesn't like spending money on services that improve the health > > of the community as a whole, so many communities persist with this > > rather primitive form of sewage collection, which has long been > > superseded in other advanced industrialised countries. > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesspool_emptier > > > Advanced industrial communites do still have honey waggons, but they > > service temporary and mobile toilets, and there are not enough of them > > to make the word part of the active vocabulary of the bulk of the > > population. > > Sloman, septic tanks are commonly used for homes that are > some distance outside of metro or city services. > > Are you pretending that every home between Nijmegen > and Amsterdam is plumbed into a city sewer system? > > Even in Australia there must be rural homes > outside of the range of city sewer systems. > > What kind of high tech civilized poop chute > do they use in rural parts of Netherlands or > Australia? > > Don't they use septic tanks? Sure they use septic tanks. The house we live in now depended on septic tanks when we bought it - the previous owner had been too cheap to hook the house up to the sewer on the street outside - but the tanks weren't emptied by a honey-wagon, but by a local pig farmer who added the contents to the waste produced by his pigs. The point is that the proportion of house that rely on septic tanks and honey wagons is so low in both Australia and the Netherlands that word "honey wagon" fall outside the regular vocabulary. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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