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Comment on: The Bare Nee Cessities

Mommy, what's a Freegan?

43 Comments
Friday, February, 29, 2008 9:10 AM The Crawfish writes:

Good Lord

Liberalism...a Progressive Disease. Obviously, it has an effect on the sanity of those afflicted.

Nee, what possessed you to write about this and ruin my appetite this morning?
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 9:15 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Squatters?

Nothing a shotgun loaded with rock salt can't handle.

Crawfish, look on the bright side, natural selection will thin their sickly herd fast.
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:04 AM skep41 writes:

Groan

Before we scoff we'd better realize that in the Obama-caused depression thats coming there are going to be a whole lot less phat trash dumpsters and a whole lot more skinny people fighting for the contents.
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:14 AM ShiningCity writes:

I've seen this.

In Colorado, there's a movement of this sort. I even get a little email called "Instructables," (which is usually kinda cool) where people publish how to make unusual interesting stuff. They sometimes also "instruct" on how to do other things. One such instructable was on how to know which vegetable trash was "good" and which was, well, trash.

I guess this doesn't shock me.
Remember, Nee, when we used to just call these people hippies? It's the same thing: educated people, smoking dope, refusing "The Man" (now replaced with "The Beast"), talking "communalism," stealing property from others and generally causing a ruckus. Before that, I think they were called Bums.

What is really interesting is that in other, less endeavorous, countries, these Freegan Hippie Bums (FHBs) would get some kind of infectious disease and die. But in the U.S., the Capitalistic Beastly parents of these FHBs actually vaccinated their kiddos, so...such much for disease killin' a bunch of them off. As you said, they expend their lives doing nothing but railing against an umbrella of a system in which they couldn't live their miserable lives without.
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:37 AM Nee writes:

Craw

So sorry, take a raincheck and I'll buy ya some lunch at the next gathering...
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:38 AM Nee writes:

Guns

Tha's what I said, that and who the hell do they think they are? Maybe they wanted to imitate the lazy, poor and downtrodden South Afican squatters....
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:39 AM Nee writes:

Skep

You said it..and it is illegal in some states to DD.
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:42 AM Nee writes:

Shining City

Thanks for stopping! The thing that kills me is that they are so proud of the fact that they DD. Yes, it is a trash "tour" after all and tourists of life need instruction, now, don't they. No individualism, right?
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:43 AM clyde writes:

Nee

Indeed an odd subject,but good read none the less. Have you read of any lawsuits filed by some of these "freegans" due to being carted off by the garbage truck,or illness caused by eating the spoiled contents of said dumpster? If not,you KNOW they are coming. As far as squatters go,I like Gunny's idea, but would substitute birdshot.
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:54 AM ShiningCity writes:

Nee, want to learn?

Here's one instructable:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Dumpster-Dipping-for-a-smal l-planet-or-just-for-f/

(You won't believe it, but it totally typifies your point.)
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 11:59 AM ShiningCity writes:

Here's his face.

And there's more.
The best thing, there are pictures here of these ridiculous people, which you couldn't put on your blog. You're totally right. They WANT you to know they do this, because they are soooo superior to the rest of us who work & pay money to Safeway.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Eat-on-3-a-day/

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Friday, February, 29, 2008 1:59 PM Jimmy Carter writes:

"Mommy, what's a freegan?"

Mommy : "A freegan dumbazz."
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 2:53 PM Nee writes:

Jam Apple

Always a pleasure!! hahaha
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 2:53 PM Nee writes:

Clyde

What's birdsot...
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Friday, February, 29, 2008 5:00 PM Purplegimp writes:

Nee

Silly me. I thought that people who DD were mostly just poor and hungry. Now you tell me it's a life style? I guess it's good that I'm a nice capitalist consumer girl. Do you have any idea how hard it is to DD from a wheely?
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Saturday, March, 01, 2008 2:20 AM Peppermint2 writes:

Nee

I don't know whether to laugh or cry over these obvious sick individuals.

Like SC, this does remind me of back in the sixties when the hippies were the rage and lived in communes and grew their own food and dope I guess. They shared everything to stick their fingers in the eyes of capitalism and tell mommy and daddy to go suck a big one. Ah, excuse the language.

Interesting article. Never heard the word freegans before. I learn something new everyday.
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Saturday, March, 01, 2008 2:37 AM Peppermint2 writes:

I will agree with

Skep that after Obama and the 2nd big depression comes a lot of us might be dumpster diving.
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Saturday, March, 01, 2008 6:05 PM clyde writes:

Nee

birdshot is a lot of little metal pellets packed in a shell,usually used for small-game,rabbits,squirrels,pheasant,quail and such.Salt will sting them good,birdshot will hurt.
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Sunday, March, 02, 2008 1:25 PM BrianR writes:

Very funny essay!

Before the term "Freegan", we used to call it Dumpster Diving.

Perhaps that's a bit un-PC in this day and age, but it's certainly not a new phenomenon. Just plain old Dumpster Diving repackaged as environmental conscientiousness.


It's even a natural behavior in some animals. Think of dung beetles.

As a matter of fact, you could think of the whole essay as a description of human dung beetles; how fitting.
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Sunday, March, 02, 2008 3:12 PM Pasadena Phil writes:

It's a version or relation of anorexia

These people just don't understand the circle of life. Every living thing is some other living thing's food. They consider every foot print people leave behind them, every change (improvement) we make to the environment and even casting our shadows onto other loving things as bespoiling the environment. There is a very famous photograph taken in the arctic of what is the most beautiful arctic scenery you can imagine. Mountains, blue ocean, ice floes, etc... Right in the middle of it is a giant beautiful polar bear...standing over his bloody meal of seal with red blood all over the ice flow and into the surrounding water. Is that bespoiling the environment? Should we pass a law to rehabilitate polar bears?
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Sunday, March, 02, 2008 3:14 PM Pasadena Phil writes:

gimpy

I know stock brokers who used to DD looking for account statements. It is also a prime target for identity thieves. I do it to meet interesting people.
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Sunday, March, 02, 2008 11:06 PM Scottie writes:

In the immortal words of

Eirc Cartman, "Those aren't Freegan's, they're g*d d*mn HIPPIES!"

And the pic on SC's link; I can just hear it now. "Oh my brother Jack? We Nicholson's don't hear much from him since he went to Hollywood and got all rich and stuff."
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Monday, March, 03, 2008 6:56 AM Nee writes:

Brian

But...but...No buts, actually! It's been arond for the real tried and true homeless folks...but to know that you are going to do it when you have the ways and means still makes me scratch my head and then I have to laugh.
"Bob, check this out! 10 bags of unground Starbucks, man. I rock!" As he walks away,gives himself a high five and whispers Jackpot!"
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Monday, March, 03, 2008 7:23 AM Nee writes:

PPhil

Now there's a visual I can live with!! The connections these people make in order to justify it is mind-boggling.
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Monday, March, 03, 2008 7:42 AM Sgt Relic writes:

Caught this on the tube

I saw a segment on these folks a while back. 21st century "Mother Earth Society" where ever day is "Earth Day". I guess even the deranged need a hobby?
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Monday, March, 03, 2008 7:45 AM Nee writes:

PG

I wouldn't want you to get hurt! So, If ya gotta DD, maybe we can hook you up!! hahaha
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Monday, March, 03, 2008 7:46 AM Nee writes:

Scottie

As always, you wit makes me smile!
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Monday, March, 03, 2008 7:47 AM Nee writes:

Sgt. Relic

Mother Earth...those words remind me of CSN-"Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down." Do you thik they had the big vision then? haha.
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Monday, March, 03, 2008 7:49 AM Nee writes:

Pepp

Pepp,
It's the "new" PC, babe.They are still birken stock wearing hippies on the inside, some just dress nicer!
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Monday, March, 03, 2008 10:41 AM Redhead writes:

Freegan, Vegan, Freek

Potato, Patahto.
Where would they be without the businesses to provide for them? They just don't understand the end result of their own philosophy, if you could call it that.

Part two of Liberal Logic is up.
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Tuesday, March, 04, 2008 9:36 AM Purplegimp writes:

Nee

Thanks, but I think I can get myself in ok, but might need some help getting out.
I'm thinking that way things are going both here and there, I'd better starting on getting myself in and out on my own. I wonder how long it will be until showers are installed next to all the dumpsters?
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Wednesday, March, 05, 2008 7:56 AM davecatbone writes:

Nee

I"m absolutely in agreement with you on this. How about making it profitable to conserve the environment some how. Now that would be innovation.
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Wednesday, March, 05, 2008 11:48 PM SquiddyPopPerkyJean writes:

Oh My, Another Freaky Group!

That is DISGUSTING. Sounds like they want all of mankind to live like cockroaches.

I also knew a guy once who considered all sex, whether or not consensual, to be rape, an invasion of a woman's body. Maybe he's a freegan these days. He WAS kinda smelly. But at least he's not out reproducing.
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Thursday, March, 06, 2008 8:38 AM Nee writes:

Squiddy

Oh boy, that IS wierd! Nice to see you out and about!! Hope you're feeling better.
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Saturday, March, 08, 2008 1:56 AM J-Dawg writes:

Hellooo

Thats actually pretty funny. Around here we calls em bums & they live on the beach.

whoops I see SC already pointed that out.

Regards
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Saturday, March, 08, 2008 2:02 AM Georgetwin writes:

Nee

These PETA types think Bambi is a documentary!

New Posting!
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Tuesday, March, 11, 2008 2:55 AM andrews writes:

Nee

Having a number of friends who either graduated from art school, dropped out of the same, or otherwise involved in fringe pursuits in the art world, I have heard of this for some time.

Fortunately, it does seem to be a pretty small movement. Mainly because convincing people to eat garbage is relatively difficult. (That does give me some hope for humanity.)

While I am willing to accept all sorts of dietary movements (hey, vegetarian and Jew, I have enough dietary rules of my own to complain about anyone else's rules) this one struck me as particularly stupid, mainly because it was not so much a dietary movement as a veneration of the bum lifestyle. I never quite got how living like a hobo was supposed to make one more enlightened or better. It isn't as if most people pick through garbage by choice. These idiots seem to think living like a wino will make them more pure and decent, less tied into the "dirty capitalist" society. I just don't get it.

Then again, I never accidentally drank wood alcohol nor have I spent much time sniffing glue or inhaling spray paint, all activities which I think helps to explain a lot of this freegan movement.
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Tuesday, March, 11, 2008 10:46 AM Nee writes:

Andrews

Hey! Thanks for stopping...yes, that is what baffles me as well- How will this behavior make them more pure or better? How does it really affect the world? The answer is that is just doesn't. Hence, my suggestion that they really try to stop the waste instead of being disgusting and getting 'over' with squatting and free food.
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Tuesday, March, 18, 2008 11:50 PM rsa_securid writes:

For Once And For All

Nee,

Thanks for the comment on my most recent post. I'll answer your question about Geraldine Ferraro thusly. The difference between her and Obama is that while she was appointed to be on the ticket w/Mondale (and would not have been the nominee for VP were she not a woman), Obama relied on no one's sympathy to get to where is is at present; if anything, his race was seen as a detriment in the eyes of white women, blue collar white men and Hispanics. He beat candidates who had more experience and more allies within the Democrat party because his message resonated (as opposed to his race.)

The differences between the campaigns of Ferraro and Obama in this regard are as clear as water. That she cannot discern them is evidence of her being blinded by her biases.

Thanks again, and come back soon!

As always, I am,



G
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Thursday, March, 20, 2008 11:13 PM Redhead writes:

Breaking News!

Over at my place! This one is sure to break the bank!
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Sunday, March, 23, 2008 6:36 PM Jimmy Carter writes:

OK, Nee...

...it's time for something new Here.

This "freegan" story is getting as freegan old as the garbage the freegans eat.
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Monday, March, 24, 2008 11:17 AM Buck writes:

McDonalds

Years ago you could hang around a Mickey D's as they transitioned from breakfast to regular meal. They would throw out all the 'hockey pucks' they hadn't sold for breakfast.

Then they got smart and locked the dempster dumpster.


Nee, Any word on the Gunny?
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Monday, March, 24, 2008 4:16 PM Nee writes:

Buck,Jam Apple Jimmy

The Guns is on vacation...

Jam Apple, I'm working on it!!
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