Dumpster Diving (Tips and such)

[Mizango]

jesus christ are you dumb fucks still trying to justify this?

Think of it as cost/benefit ratio. Oh cool a sealed bag of chips that I found and rumbling around in the garbage? Great, I just spent 10 minutes in a fucking dumpster digging through shit (almost literally) to find a fucking bag of chips.

Benefit: eating a $.30 bag of chips. Cost: Civilized dignity, potentially your health.

"But the waste in this country!!!!" Sorry to break it to you, but there are ways of bringing attention to that cause / change it without eating garbage

This x 100. Yall niggas crazy as hell

[notorious bum]

Why? Because you don't approve? Because society has taught you that it's something only hobos do?

Not much less. And depending on various factors, that may not even be true.

Conformity truly is a motherfucker, man. I recommend watching this new show Head Games! That show is hilarious but at the same time it will make you think twice about certain things.

[Eurell]

Why? Because you don't approve? Because society has taught you that it's something only hobos do?

Not much less. And depending on various factors, that may not even be true.

Because its garbage? Jesus christ.


Also, you can not say Walmart food is worse than walmart food found in a dumpster. The shelves inside the store are gonna be a much safer bet than the fucking dumpster filled with rotting food and garbage.

[Yugl]

Do you drive? You mentioned the bar, both drinking and being around drunk people is far more dangerous. Do you ever use stairs? 12k Americans die from those every year.

Life is dangerous. Most dumpsters aren't really any more dangerous than cooking, walking down stairs, driving, or living somewhere where earthquakes, hurricanes, etc occur.

You've given us one statistic that tells us nothing about relative danger (No distribution among factors such as age, which I'm guessing is skewed). The worst part is that you presented a raw numerical count rather than a percentage. If we're comparing danger, you need a percentage out of the number of people participating in that activity at minimum. Even that wouldn't do much good since I doubt people are going to the hospital telling people they ate shit out of the dumpster (That would skew the reported total of participants). Finally, the complaint against dumpsters is relative benefit. One hospital visit can undo the money you "saved" doing this. What's the relative cost of not using stairs? Not going to work? Not getting to your bed or bathroom? The magnitude of consequences outweighs that of not having extra cash to spend on hobbies (Which, allegedly, is the sole benefit of the activity in question).

That said, I'm with CS on the normative evaluation. You guys can make poor decisions; I don't care. Not my place to tell you what to do with your health.

[vagus]

And this is how the zombie apocalypse really starts, dumpster diving.

[Tajin]

Too busy watching tits

[Hiryo]

Basically, someone needs to delete the holster hobo video from the op and replace it with something more accurately in representing the bg divers. Just find a documentary about a bakery that throws out bread nightly and you'll find more links to things that any average person would find edible.

Someone did bring up extreme couponing, which I do have experience with. As easy as it seems, it is not easy at all to get a great cost ratio out of it. Your options are:
A) getting a hookup from recycle centers, couriers, gas stations(I went this route), etc
B) buying or trading for inserts online
C) buying multiple subscriptions at a discount from the press.
D) stealing inserts
I woke up every monday at 4am to take free inserts from the gas station before the courier takes them. Then you take hours per week sorting your coupons(mine are alphabetically in a trading card binder). Then you have to constantly be on the look out for deals you can get. I follow 3 couponing Twitter accounts and 2 forums. Even then, you will miss deals because people call stores before the sales happen and have all the stock set aside for them. I managed to create a stockpile of toothpaste, pasta, cereal, and body wash that lasted for nearly a year, but at a cost of time, effort, and cash.

Long story short, couponing isn't the easiest thing to break into and make considerable profit.

[hey]

Because its garbage? Jesus christ.

So...? Being called garbage doesn't magically make it deadly.

You've given us one statistic that tells us nothing about relative danger

Well yeah, since the data needed to say something about that doesn't exist.

[Yugl]

Well yeah, since the data needed to say something about that doesn't exist.

So the evidence to support your claim doesn't exist, but you make the claim nonetheless? To be fair, doing that is not bad if you're willing to accept how feeble the claim is (Essentially, amounts to a belief). However, you made your claim seem like more than a belief when you began saying that daily activities are 100x more dangerous than this activity and attemped to follow up with "proof."

[Meresgi]

Still laughing how people cant seem to grasp that people are not eating garbage when they do this shit in the sense of what they think garbage is. No one is eating your fucking orange peels, no one is taking out half eaten bread or a loaf of 80% moldy bread. I mean shit, i'm sorry if you cant distinguish good food from bad food other then in the context of "oh it's in a dumpster so it's now bad food!!". Half the shit out there you pick up at local store isn't that great for you to begin with anyways when it's pumped full of chemicals and shit, like someone said earlier, best way to eat is to make good with the local butcher and farmers and actually get your shit fresh...but no one does that.

There's danger in everything, if you have a few brain cells you can eliminate 99% of it if you're going dumpster diving. If you're fucking retarded and dig down into a 4 day old dumpster and start eating the pizza at the bottom then yeah, you're ass is gonna get sick.

I mean seriously, when I go to Trader Joes I watch the mother fuckers bring the shit outside before they go home while I sit in the parking lot, then when they leave I roll up and see what they threw out.

[dejet]

Do you drive? You mentioned the bar, both drinking and being around drunk people is far more dangerous. Do you ever use stairs? 12k Americans die from those every year.

Life is dangerous. Most dumpsters aren't really any more dangerous than cooking, walking down stairs, driving, or living somewhere where earthquakes, hurricanes, etc occur.

Id like to see some facts the only fact you named is that 12,000 out of over 300,000,000 die from falling down stairs.

Its well documented that germs thrive in warm, moist environments and in fact need this to survive most of the time. A dumpster is a breading ground for this.

You tell me a bar is not safe? Id say germ wise its about as safe of a place ever.

[Guitarman]

their meat is equally bad for you

My father has been a butcher for 30 some odd years now. And as a butcher's son, i can tell you this is 100% bullshit. You have zero idea what you're talking about. It's quite clean and well handled. OSHA has such strict regulations it would make your head spin.

[hey]

You tell me a bar is not safe? Id say germ wise its about as safe of a place ever.

wat

The biggest danger in a bar is the alcohol. I'd be quite worried about you if you were worried about germs in a bar.

[dejet]

wat

The biggest danger in a bar is the alcohol. I'd be quite worried about you if you were worried about germs in a bar.

If you drink a lot ya, your going to kill yourself. I drink maybe one drink every 2~3 weeks. Its sorta counter to the 900 posts iv made in the fitness thread.

[dejet]

also under my similar threads I get "Going to Japan! Tips and recommendations?"

[FNH]

I mean seriously, when I go to Trader Joes I watch the mother fuckers bring the shit outside before they go home while I sit in the parking lot, then when they leave I roll up and see what they threw out.

unf that hot fresh garbage..

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/gl..._stake_out.gif

[notorious bum]

My father has been a butcher for 30 some odd years now. And as a butcher's son, i can tell you this is 100% bullshit. You have zero idea what you're talking about. It's quite clean and well handled. OSHA has such strict regulations it would make your head spin.

Maybe safe enough to ingest in-terms of contamination-levels, of course. If you're talking about the quality of meat that gets dumped into any large food chain, then you're not fooling anyone on the long-term effects of what they put into the livestock(not to mention the common practice of gluing shitty cuts together to fool even those who choose to buy only "high-quality" cuts.

[Odin'sLaw]

Id like to see some facts the only fact you named is that 12,000 out of over 300,000,000 die from falling down stairs.

Its well documented that germs thrive in warm, moist environments and in fact need this to survive most of the time. A dumpster is a breading ground for this.

You tell me a bar is not safe? Id say germ wise its about as safe of a place ever.

just don't eat the nuts ok, because your basically eating that guys nuts who just came out the shitter and he doesn't look like the kinda guy that washes his hands

[Salodin]

unf that hot fresh garbage..

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/gl..._stake_out.gif

laughed way harder at this thought then i should have.

[Guitarman]

Maybe safe enough to ingest in-terms of contamination-levels, of course. If you're talking about the quality of meat that gets dumped into any large food chain, then you're not fooling anyone on the long-term effects of what they put into the livestock(not to mention the common practice of gluing shitty cuts together to fool even those who choose to buy only "high-quality" cuts.

fair enough.