Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:45:47 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 8/21/24 08:25, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:12:26 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
 

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:11:46 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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Wash them? Oh, you're putting things that can leak into them.

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They did get leaked on now and again, but mostly it's just that dirt
accumulates during a few dozen uses.

 
Dave Berry once articulated the theory that women can see dirt that
men can not.

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    Men can see it too with practice and attention to details.

If you say so. Note that Dave Berry is a /humor/ columnist. This was a
joke.
 

Which is to say that I don't see any dirt accumulating on mine.
 

And one washes food containers more often than garments.

 
Yes indeed; the two I use get washed every day.
 
But then, fruits/veggies /do/ tend to leave bits behind.

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Everything that touches anything tends to leave bits
behind which with DNA sequencing is why so many criminals
are being apprended later.

The things /I/ buy leave bits of cardboard box or plastic box or paper
bag behind. All food is safely contained.

I had a bagger once who wanted to put my boxed powder bleach into a
small plastic bag so my boxed food would be protected from it. I told
her she was thinking symbolically ("don't mix bleach and food" --
which, of course, is perfectly fine advise when they /can/ mix). I
could just as well have "magically", because only by magic could any
bleach bits have migrated into a box containing food, penetrated the
inner wrapper, and so met the food.

I'm currently reading Deaver. Although the book I am reading right now
is set in 1936 in Germany, most are set in the USA and are
contemporary with when they were written. They include a lot of
forensics, including DNA traces.

~40 years ago my mother was murdered and this year
they found the micreant. He was in prison for attempted
 murder, I believe. Trial should start next month.

My sympathies for your loss. The capture and trial of the perp must be
very satisfying.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"