Smug twunt : "Everyone can compost"

[Cort Haus]

The ethical living brigade do get my goat at times (apologies to anyone here taking offense who considers themselves as such) as they pollute the sociosphere with the stench of their smug, self-satisfied, fart-sniffing self-righteousness.

The Guardian, which competes vigorously with The Independent to be the High Temple of Smug in the UK runs the headline :

Bin it!
Do you still chuck out your kitchen scraps?
Shame on you.
Everyone has room to compost

Accompanied on the 'Life and Health' (index page ) by a picture of a lovely, richly-foliaged garden, complete with compost-bin..



The article .

I enlarged the 'shame on you' to emphasise the pious, prig, pulpit-pounding sermonising of the preachy, pompous priests of the new religion.

Then they say "Everyone has room to compost". Yes, everyone. Because in their affluent, comfortable, rural or suburban upper-middle-class lives everyone has a garden. No-one lives in flats, bedsits, studios and tower-blocks. Oh no, darling.

It reminds me of a white South-African I knew who would go absolutely ballistic if you hinted or even joked about the racist recent history of his people, yet would casually turn round and say "of course, back home everyone has a swimming pool".

Yeah, right.

Everyone.

[Elok]

I enlarged the 'shame on you' to emphasise the pious, prig, pulpit-pounding sermonising of the preachy, pompous priests of the new religion.

Was it a stylistic choice to break up the alliterative chain with "sermonising," or was the whole thing accidental? Either way it's a bit much of the letter P and the single odd word out just distracts from your message.

Oh, and yes, I doubt apartment-dwellers are allowed compost heaps.

[Cort Haus]

Yes, Elok. It was a stylistic choice to break up the alliterative chain exactly halfway through. Every good rant should have one.

Think of it as the apex of a gothic arch, symmetrically bisecting the curves.

[Elok]

See, that's where we disagree. Good writing should draw you in, so that you hardly even notice it. Excessive alliteration draws attention to itself rather than focusing the reader's attention on the topic, and the anomaly is even more jarring.

[Cort Haus]

Surely you're not implying that anyone here listens to anything I say? That would be most irregular.

No, I post here merely to practice my typing and to try and keep fit by keeping my fingertips busy. My alliterative tinkerings are therefore for my personal amusement only and I don't give a tinker's cuss what you think, sir.

[aneeshm]

Replace it with "pontification" or "pontificating".

[Wezil]

I live in an apartment and I compost.

Accidentally of course.

[Snotty]

I pocket mulch

[LordShiva]

I eat at restaurants, so I produce very little kitchen trash

[Qilue]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I eat at restaurants, so I produce very little kitchen trash

Indirectly, but the restaurants generate those kitchen scraps on your behalf.

LordShiva -> Restaurant <-> Kitchen -> kitchen scraps

Thus you do generate kitchen scraps at the same quantity as someone who would prepare their own food..

EDIT - typo

[Wezil]

I've tried that but they got mad. Something about actually buying the food there seemed important to them.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Qilue
Thus you do generate kitchen scraps at the same quantity as someone who would prepare their own food..

But restaurants have economies of scale

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by LordShiva


But restaurants have economies of scale

So you generate far larger amounts of kitchen scraps, because of the economies of scale?

[ZEE]

Smug Twunt LAWLZ i like dat

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by aneeshm


So you generate far larger amounts of kitchen scraps, because of the economies of scale?