Caught a marathon this afternoon while cleaning my apartment. This is a pretty cool show it turns out. In one of the episodes, the host was row boating around in a lake of SHIT. Now THAT'S good television.

NOT CRAP

I like it alright.

the episode where they had to change some pressure pump lug thing the size of a Ford F150 in the sewage treatment plant was fucking vile.

Good TV for the most part...

To hell with anyone that could vote CRAP on this show.

I think it's coming into its own and entering Mythbusters territory.

not crap.

mike seems nice.

This sounds like a show in Britain called the worst jobs in history with Baldrick in it.
Though I don't think he's rowed around in shit yet.

I used to have work with my Da who is (was) a floor layer. This used to involve, amongst other things, pulling up old carpets. This was always unpleasant but this one time we were working in a night club where some bright spark had decided to put carpets down in the toilets.

Surprisingly, by far the worst was the ladies toilets. I could not possibly describe the rank stench that came up from that floor when it was pulled up. I could only last a minute or so at a time before I had to rush out and wretch such was its intensity (think Ray Liotta digging up the dead corpses in Goodfellas - that pretty much sums up my reaction).

Anyways, though not swimming through shit or whatever that was a pretty dirty job. Though occasionally I used to get high as a shoot from the industrial strength glue and hallucinate. This wasn't on purpose but was a hidden bonus to an otherwise shit job.

moral of the tale - don't put carpets down in toilets.

There was a pretty extraordinary BBC documentary I caught at the tail end of summer. It was about men who work in sewers, and it was narrated by some hard cockney bastard. I think.

Anyway, they kept talking about how it was the last realm of employment which was exclusively male, and how the sewers of London felt like a sanctuary where they could just be themselves. Obviously it was quite chauvinistic, but they were all kind of damaged and weird. Like, they found some tampons in the sewer and had absolutely no idea what they were for except 'woman things'.

Anyway, part of it was one of these guy's birthday party. It was very moving and very odd.

I like it, but sometimes it's hard to watch because I have an irrational fear of ending up in one of those jobs. I'm afraid one day I am going to wake up with nothing and have to take a job in a chick hatchery or glue factory in Cumgargle, Nebraska.

I think its better than mythbusters, but pales in comparison to Survivorman.