Dirty Jobs

I love Dirty Jobs on Discovery Channel! (I love the theme song of Discovery Channel too!)

This guy is paid to go around the world trying out different disgusting / dirty jobs that everyday humans do for a living.

I'd only caught 3 episodes so far, but I fell for the documentary hook, line and sinker, on the very 1st episode I watched.

First, was a factory where all used nappies (yes, with shit) go to be washed, disinfected and repacked for sale. The workers had to sort out the soiled nappies (bearing the smell), and the occasional bugs that jump out at them.

You know, years ago, before disposable diapers were made easily available and affordable, people used cloth napkins, and if the baby shits or pees, the nappy will be washed at home, sunned, then reused. (Yeah.. I had gone through this, taking care of my sis when she was still a baby. I remember the safety pins. They were huge, and always had some cute animal as the head.)

Just imagine a much larger scale of this process, plus, the shit is not 'fresh', as the nappies had to be transported to the factory. So.. yeah.. let ur imagination run smelly-shitty-wild..

Second time i watched, it was about this guy who dealt with crocodiles. He had to pick the eggs from a marsh (if he's lucky, the mother croc would not attack him as he picked her babies), incubate, hatch, raise them for a bit, then sell. Some are raised and returned to the wetlands to breed and maintain the ecosystem.

The host of the show got bitten by quite a bit of fire ants. The crocodiles seemed pretty scary to hold too.. even with their mouths taped shut when they had to be transported, 'cos they do thrash about a lot.

The last episode that I managed to catch, was when the host tried to be a dustbin-man, moving rubbish that cannot be incinerated to landfills. Again, the smell. Picture decaying rubbish and food, smells that make you gag..

On top of that, he had to repair a pipe that broke, and hose rubbish off the tractor to keep the machine workable, whilst being amidst watery, decomposing err.. things. (Ok.. I like being clean. Don't you?)

Applaud the people who are willing to do these jobs to keep cities safe and clean, and applaud the producers who educate audiences about the reality of these jobs. Ohh, and the host! 1 man, trying all dirty jobs!

Can't wait to catch the next episode!