‘UNDERPANTS UNDERGROUND’

Flanders residents called on to bury underpants

(Thanks to Ralph)

Comments

[Steverino]

Belgium is just wierd.

[Clankie]

"After two months, you can dig up the pants again..."

If you do, the men in the white coats grab you and off you go to the loony bin. Yeah, you can see that one coming.

[Sponge Bob]

Not a good idea.

[wanderer2575]

I see London, I see France...

[Pullet Surprise]

I convinced my father, a gardener, that the science is sound on this subject, and I would like to bury his underpants. I think they left one important point out - I buried his underpants with him still in them. Hey, they did not say anywhere in this article that you have to take them off the wearer first.

[Nancy J Gill]

“The reason why there are a pair of pants buried in the garden is so you known when it is the best time to plant your crops. If you want to find out how fertile your soil is, one idea advised to farmers is to bury a pair of cotton underpants, dig them up a couple of months later, and see what is left. If there is nothing left except the elastic, then the soil is fertile because the pants have biodegraded. This advice is recommended by the California Farmers Guild and Quality Meat Scotland. In 2017, both groups launched "Soil My Undies" campaigns to encourage this. In healthy soil, life forms like worms and microbes also thrive. A tablespoon of soil contains 50 times more organisms than there are humans on Earth (380 billion organisms in comparison to 7.5 billion humans).”

[One of 7.5B]

@NJG: You've gobsmacked us all!

[Rod]

Uh, I don't think this is what the author of "In Flanders Fields" had in mind.

[LeDud]

I suspect whether the underpants are clean or worn would skew the results. Skidmarks would help the decomposition.

[fractalist]

I come not to praise underpants, but to bury them...

[Doug in Sacramento]

I have had my last Stella Artois.

[Doug in Sacramento]

And ze Frenchmen, zey come to Belgium avec their petite man-panties which deteriorate in about a day which throws off ze entire experiment, non? Quelle dommage!

[Pullet Surprise]

Overhearing the guys talk about the dates they had last night:

Question - "Hey, did you get into her underpants last night?"

Answer- Yeah, I just had to did them up out of her garden."

Question -"Well, how could you tell it was hers?"

Answer - "They had 'Tuesday' embroidered on them. And her last name is Weld. So Tuesday Weld."

Answer - and today is Wednesday and I have a date with Wednesday Adams tonight."