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A shortage of shit
Seems unbelievable with Johnson as Prime Minister and all his ministers, but PETER FROST reports on a dramatic shortage of excrement
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SO WHAT do you call it? Shite perhaps — that “e” makes it much more polite, or poo, crap, excrement, stools, faeces, dung, faecal matter, manure or even good old number twos.
Shakespeare’s Juliet said: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” and whatever you call it, the sweet and smelly stuff will always smell just as sweet and smelly.
Today despite the vast increase in human population there is massive shortage of the stuff that is so important to nourish all kinds of organisms further down the food chain both on land and sea.
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