Comments on: Taiwan city launches new cash-for-poop initiative http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 26 May 2013 03:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609826 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609826 Poo does not provide any vital nutrients to the sidewalks, train platforms, etc. There it is just a steaming pile of smelly bacteria and a genuine public health issue. On a side note, a kilo seems like a lot of poop - blech! Poo does not provide any vital nutrients to the sidewalks, train platforms, etc. There it is just a steaming pile of smelly bacteria and a genuine public health issue.

On a side note, a kilo seems like a lot of poop – blech!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-647248 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-647248 @poagao: You'd say "United States city." @poagao: You’d say “United States city.”

]]> By: TheMightyBorys http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609658 TheMightyBorys Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609658 So, what's to stop any dog owner from just collecting at home? Or any other area other than the ones they're looking to keep clean? So, what’s to stop any dog owner from just collecting at home? Or any other area other than the ones they’re looking to keep clean?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609677 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609677 I'd have thought cleaning up poo is *bad* for the environment... Poo provides all sorts of vital nutrients to the plants that grow there. If you wanted to help the environment, they should be encouraging *more* poo. I’d have thought cleaning up poo is *bad* for the environment… Poo provides all sorts of vital nutrients to the plants that grow there. If you wanted to help the environment, they should be encouraging *more* poo.

]]> By: clevetheripper http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-611217 clevetheripper Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-611217 Sounds like the Korean cartoon, Aachi and Ssipak. Definitely worth a watch. Sounds like the Korean cartoon, Aachi and Ssipak. Definitely worth a watch.

]]> By: poagao http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609948 poagao Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609948 Shouldn't that be "Taiwanese City" in the headline? It's a perfectly good adjective; there's no need to avoid it. Shouldn’t that be “Taiwanese City” in the headline? It’s a perfectly good adjective; there’s no need to avoid it.

]]> By: Moriarty http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609707 Moriarty Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609707 But how do they tell it's dog poop, really? I wonder how common it will become for people short on cash/dignity to use their own rear-mounted torso ATMs? Also, that's 128 humans per feral dog. But how many humans per human willing to gather dog poop? Is this going to turn the homeless into street cleaners in the same way bottle and can deposits do? How do we feel about that? But how do they tell it’s dog poop, really? I wonder how common it will become for people short on cash/dignity to use their own rear-mounted torso ATMs?

Also, that’s 128 humans per feral dog. But how many humans per human willing to gather dog poop? Is this going to turn the homeless into street cleaners in the same way bottle and can deposits do? How do we feel about that?

]]> By: Eric http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609709 Eric Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609709 They must have that problem in Singapore, too: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301397/The-Pooper-Ronald-Koh They must have that problem in Singapore, too:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301397/The-Pooper-Ronald-Koh

]]> By: dwasifar http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609970 dwasifar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609970 If you were talking about Los Angeles, would you say "California city" or "Californian city"? What about Chicago - "Illinoisan city"? I think not. "Taiwan city" is better. If you were talking about Los Angeles, would you say “California city” or “Californian city”? What about Chicago – “Illinoisan city”? I think not. “Taiwan city” is better.

]]> By: mr_josh http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609758 mr_josh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609758 Wait. Wait wait wait. Are that dog's back feet off of the ground?! Wait. Wait wait wait.

Are that dog’s back feet off of the ground?!

]]> By: Jerril http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-609771 Jerril Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-609771 Yes, small dogs are weird. Yes, small dogs are weird.

]]> By: Nadreck http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-610027 Nadreck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-610027 When I used to live in Taiwan I was always fascinated by the totally out-of-control stray dog situation. For example, the 180,000 stray doggie figure only refers to the dogs in the human city areas. The population in the various jungles and mountains is probably far greater than that. Some estimates go so far as to say that the dogs outnumber the people; although I think that's taking it a bit too far. Still, when we finally kill ourselves off Taiwan is definitely going to be the cradle of the Doggie Dominion to follow us. The two things that most struck me were that the wild packs are mostly heterogeneous with over a dozen different pure breeds in each and that the urban strays are mostly three legged. The first is because the unwanted dogs from the pet stores haven't had time to breed towards a Dingo Dog or whatever it is that dog breeds eventually breed into. I was wandering around the edges of Hsin-Chu with a friend once and found a little Pug puppy stuck in a ditch. My friend admonished me for rescuing it saying that it might have rabies but I replied that: one, Taiwan is an island without rabies; and two, fairy-tale logic dictates that we must rescue all struggling cute strays in order to avoid being killed by their relatives. Sure enough, Pugsley ran around the corner to a pack consisting of Collies, a German Sheppard, Poodles and various Spaniels. I remain convinced to this day that only Pugsley's gratitude saved us from being eaten then and there. The three legged dogs are a quasi-evolutionary effect of the island's geography. Taiwan is a spine of rock jutting out of the ocean. The humans live on the rare spots that are relatively flat and on alluvial deposits on the west coast. Most of the rest is at an incline of at least 60-degrees or more. Dogs are much happier running around the mountains (probably eating the unwanted bunnies that people have also dumped out into the wild) but if you break a leg you can't handle the inclines or hunt very well any more. So you have to move into the flat city where you don't have to hunt so much if you live off of human cast-offs. If you break more than one leg you can't make it into the city. When I used to live in Taiwan I was always fascinated by the totally out-of-control stray dog situation. For example, the 180,000 stray doggie figure only refers to the dogs in the human city areas. The population in the various jungles and mountains is probably far greater than that. Some estimates go so far as to say that the dogs outnumber the people; although I think that’s taking it a bit too far. Still, when we finally kill ourselves off Taiwan is definitely going to be the cradle of the Doggie Dominion to follow us.

The two things that most struck me were that the wild packs are mostly heterogeneous with over a dozen different pure breeds in each and that the urban strays are mostly three legged.

The first is because the unwanted dogs from the pet stores haven’t had time to breed towards a Dingo Dog or whatever it is that dog breeds eventually breed into. I was wandering around the edges of Hsin-Chu with a friend once and found a little Pug puppy stuck in a ditch. My friend admonished me for rescuing it saying that it might have rabies but I replied that: one, Taiwan is an island without rabies; and two, fairy-tale logic dictates that we must rescue all struggling cute strays in order to avoid being killed by their relatives. Sure enough, Pugsley ran around the corner to a pack consisting of Collies, a German Sheppard, Poodles and various Spaniels. I remain convinced to this day that only Pugsley’s gratitude saved us from being eaten then and there.

The three legged dogs are a quasi-evolutionary effect of the island’s geography. Taiwan is a spine of rock jutting out of the ocean. The humans live on the rare spots that are relatively flat and on alluvial deposits on the west coast. Most of the rest is at an incline of at least 60-degrees or more. Dogs are much happier running around the mountains (probably eating the unwanted bunnies that people have also dumped out into the wild) but if you break a leg you can’t handle the inclines or hunt very well any more. So you have to move into the flat city where you don’t have to hunt so much if you live off of human cast-offs. If you break more than one leg you can’t make it into the city.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-610030 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-610030 But consider the same usage, doesn't Canadian city, Swedish city, sound better than Canada city, Sweden city? Taiwan after all, is a country. But consider the same usage, doesn’t Canadian city, Swedish city, sound better than Canada city, Sweden city? Taiwan after all, is a country.

]]> By: poagao http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/taiwan-city-launches.html#comment-610033 poagao Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-610033 Dwasifar: A more accurate analogy would be, if you were talking about Los Angeles, would you say "America city" or "American City"? Dwasifar: A more accurate analogy would be, if you were talking about Los Angeles, would you say “America city” or “American City”?

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