In a new study published by the ap, it has been found among trees most hugged that copious amounts of harmful bacterial, namely the e.lycos.meninlius, as well as collinopal-lingus bacteria (a & b) can be found living inside the bark of trees most often hugged.
The study was double-blind and found that among open space recreation areas where the population of "stinky, dirty, treehugging, pot-heads" were more than 2% above the mean, the bark of the trees most hugged were infected with the above mentioned bacterium.
Sorry folks. You're going to have to change your earth un-conscious ways. Hugging trees is in line with cohorting the lumberjacks. It has been noted that since the publication of said study, there has been a 32% rise among treeloggers involved in actual treehugging. The job market in this field is expected to skyrocket by mid-November.
Get a life! @#$@@# Stop hugging trees!!!
bradley in boulder
The study was double-blind and found that among open space recreation areas where the population of "stinky, dirty, treehugging, pot-heads" were more than 2% above the mean, the bark of the trees most hugged were infected with the above mentioned bacterium.
Sorry folks. You're going to have to change your earth un-conscious ways. Hugging trees is in line with cohorting the lumberjacks. It has been noted that since the publication of said study, there has been a 32% rise among treeloggers involved in actual treehugging. The job market in this field is expected to skyrocket by mid-November.
Get a life! @#$@@# Stop hugging trees!!!
bradley in boulder
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Wed, October 12, 2005 - 8:02 PMthanks for showing me the way god.
not all tree huggers are hippies, either. stop generalizing. some people are considered hippies just because they have a thought process that goes beyond the realm of ME! it is nice, you should try it sometime. -
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Fri, October 14, 2005 - 1:51 PMLook star. Your inherent hippy nature is completely obvious. Based on your emotional reactionary response.
You hippies and your liberal agenda are all the same. You've already taken over the media with that communist crap. But is that good enough? NO....You want everybody else to know exactly how much your life sucks. So you cram all this animal rights, treehugging, love your neighbor cock-a-mei-mei down the working man's throat until he chases you out of town with a muddy shovel.
Give it a break. Go do some more drugs or something, you hippy. Go take a bath. And shave your friggin armpits you beatnik. -
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Fri, October 14, 2005 - 7:04 PMoverly emotional response...
have you ever heard of the concept of projecting?
sounds like you want everyone to know how much your life sucks. is that why you went on a tribe that you dont have anything in common with the people on it to cram something down our throats?
if only you could do some more drugs and forget about how much hatred you have and how little excitement you have in your life- so little that you have to try to bait people into arguments so you can spew your hate at them.
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Fri, October 14, 2005 - 7:05 PMwhat should i do if i just took a bath and my armpits are already shaven? does that mean im not a hippie? oh god has saved me from the wrath of being a hippie! i cant think of a happier day in my life! what a horrible life it was.... -
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Sat, October 15, 2005 - 12:20 PMwell you can keep on taking baths if you want to - see if I care, you'll still be a dirty, treehugging hippy! So what, now you want everybody to kill as many brain cells as you have?
You treehuggers are all the same. You think anybody who simply needs a few old growth redwoods for some toilet paper wasn't loved by their mother. I just need to wipe my ass, but you wouldn't know about that kind of thing would you, you dirty hippy. See what I mean?
So go ahead, keep hugging those trees. It's only going to infect them with your stinky amoebic toe jam fungus and kill them. And then we won't even get to make towel racks out of them, cause they'll be all infected with your hippy funk, you dirty hippy! -
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Sun, October 16, 2005 - 7:43 AMwow! this thread is hilarious! i mean, i really thought it was a joke. some guy... tsk tsk tsk... what's wrong with people fighting for what they care about? isn't that what you're doing? you care about your ass, so you fight for the right to be able to wipe it with a dead redwood. good for you, being an activist... of course, some people may call you a hippie for that. go take a bath, you dirty ass hugger! -
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Re: Flash: Treehugging destroys bark microbials
Mon, April 3, 2006 - 4:53 PMHappy Hippies Hug Trees..........microbials lost is a small price to pay for the gentle loving hugs they receive.........
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Mon, May 15, 2006 - 8:14 AMHey, do I look like a hippie to you??? I don't smoke pot (any more that is) - so how can you possibly lump all treehuggers in the same stereotype???
My wife never ever smoked pot and she hugs trees more than I do. Neither of us have toe jam, and when we do hug trees it takes place in such out of the way places that the poor tree probably never received a hug before except maybe by a Bear! We are the kind who start out following a trail and end up in the woods off the trail because that's where the real forest is.
As for toilet paper, they can recycle it from used cardboard... or else you can always use fallen leaves and do it in the woods which probably helps fertilize the forest if not done in excess. (Lisa says "eww")
After seeing this topic I just had to join this Tribe so I could reply.
Besides, treehugging is cool!
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Mon, May 15, 2006 - 11:31 AMI'm sorry.....but i hate to break it to you.....but, YOU ARE A HIPPY!!! you're friggin' name is RAVEN, you poop in the woods, you recycle, you like hugging trees....and you also signed you post with PEACE & LOVE......
maybe you aren't absolutely sure what a hippy actually is....i don't know....all i can say is LOOK IN THE MIRROR!!!
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Tue, May 16, 2006 - 7:27 AM"YOU DIRTY HIPPY!!! "
I'm sorry to break it to you, but that is my husband and he doesn't smell.
Raven is a Native American name, not a hippie name but I suppose you would call Natives hippies because of the long hair.
If you live in the woods you poop in the woods if you have to. Actually we use a composting pile and you should see the size of the leaves on the tree next to it.
So if we're all a bunch of dirty hippies did anyone ever tell you your profile pic looks like someone named Osama? :P -
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Tue, May 16, 2006 - 8:52 AMyeah, or jesus, or the zig-zag man.....
i'm sorry.. but i can't take that back.....ya'll talk just like friggin' dirty hippies....and if it talks like a dirty hippy, hugs like dirty hippy, and poops like a dirty hippy....
it's probably a dirty hippy....
so go ahead if you want....destroy all the thousands of tiny, innocent, helpless bark microbials that you like..... -
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I AM NOT A DIRTY HIPPIE!!
Wed, May 17, 2006 - 7:18 AMDirty hippie you say?
According to the stereotype hippies smoke pot.
I have not smoked pot since May 2001
Hippies smoke hashish (according to the stereotype)
I have not smoked hashish since September 1998
Hippies take LSD
I have not taken LSD since March 15, 1985!
Hippies have black lights & black light posters in their pad.
I have not had these things since 1982!
Hippies wear flowers in their hair.
I haven't recently but I did put flowers in my wife's hair in the past week.
Hippies listen to Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, The Birds, and other such 60s & early 70s "acid" rock.
Ok, you got me there. I have listened to most of that in the past month, but hey man, you have to listen to music and tune in ya know. I dropped out a long time ago so I don't have to do that anymore, but I still tune in with music.
So, I may be a sort of hippie but I am NOT a DIRTY hippie. Wanna know why? I washed my hair with the solar heated shower bag just this morning.
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Fri, May 19, 2006 - 12:11 PMI luvs my hippies....hippy is in your soul...not smoke floating....or toe jamming ...or flowers in your hair....WELL maybe flowers in your hair....and maybe always hoping we will have trees to hug....that is if we dont germ them to death with all our hugging.....
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Re: I AM NOT A DIRTY HIPPIE!!
Thu, September 27, 2007 - 6:37 AM"Hippies have black lights & black light posters in their pad."
Hippies dont have blacklight posters and a pad, those are yuppies
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Tue, April 4, 2006 - 1:16 AMSo...Silly Love...if this is true and not just a bit of a Devils advocate game...would you mind posting where you came across this information so us dirty tree-hugging hippies can legitimately check it out for ourselves, because it kind of made me sad to think that our hugs were bad for the trees....I personally find tree-hugging one of the best ways to ground my self to my Mama....and quite frankly, the info you posted sounds kind of silly...like Silly Love...
I checked out your profile and you seem like a thinker...outside the box...so what's your game here...truth....or just a little pickin' and pokin' fun
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Hug a treehugger
Tue, April 18, 2006 - 12:58 PMWell, I'm not entirely prepared to give up my treehugging ways, but I might consider substituting hugs with other would-be treehuggers in the shade of a big ol' tree. And I'll take all the hug-transmitted microbials you care to share. -
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Mon, April 24, 2006 - 1:04 PMTreehugger hugs rock....(waiting under a shadey tree).....great Idea....
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Mon, May 15, 2006 - 5:22 PMDarkling- you name the time and the tree, and I'll be there to share those microbials. -
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Sat, May 20, 2006 - 8:39 AM
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Sat, October 27, 2007 - 2:45 PMYou can keep yer bugs though- hippy
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Tue, May 23, 2006 - 12:29 PMToo Funny!!!
But really you guys need to stop hugging those tree's or corporate america wont have anything to destroy! Thus making it open season on hippies!!!
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Mon, June 5, 2006 - 11:30 PMOK today I climbed up and sat in a wonderful tree...to hide from corporate america....though what the would want with us old hippies is beyond me....it was really nice....so tomarro I think I will just climb up for lunch instead........ -
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Sun, October 1, 2006 - 9:33 AMJust standing or should I say stinking next to a tree is enough for me to feel all that vertical vibe field. And climbing trees seems pretty natural too. How I love being in touch with all the joys this beautiful planet has to offer. On Neptune I mostly just floated around and played tag with the seahorses. By the way, I think that my sweat smells delicious and I'm not easily offended by other people's stinks either. Good thing cuz you really smell dead, Silly Love. -
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Mon, October 2, 2006 - 5:50 PMMaybe I am a zombie, and didn't even realize it. . . .but one thing is for sure. Those trees must not give you a very positive feeling, because you surely aren't projecting it onto this thread. You should be careful, because maybe the trees you've been climbing haven't been fed with organic fertilizers. That's definately something to watch out for.
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Thu, January 18, 2007 - 3:48 PMThree cheers for the most sarcastic man on the web. I really apreciate your style, tis unfortunate that sarcasm just doesnt flow when typed. really though, treehugging is for lazy hippies that dont REALLY believe in their cause. I prefer dendrophelia, the act of "loving" trees. Much more progressive, and a lot more fun too! Cant imagine what it does to the microbes, but i know ive pissed off a squirrel or two in my day...
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Fri, August 24, 2007 - 9:38 AMwould you pleas provide microbial links that reference the genus or species that you mention.
Also, which tree microbes are harmed.
Your subjective post refers to bacterium types that are not men I doubt this sensational AP post which reference double blind studies while generalizing the populations mentioned.
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Fri, August 24, 2007 - 10:33 AMhuh? I never heard of such a thing anyway
whats the world coming too if we cant even hug trees anymore?
Im gonna do it anyway
until..."I" learn its not safe
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Fri, August 24, 2007 - 12:56 PMTree-hugging refers to an environmentalist that is concerned with preserving forests, not necessarily someone that actually hugs them. The term can be used describe ones emotional attachment to our fellow earth creatures or as a derogatory remark by close-minded individuals with nothing better to do with their time than start and fan flames. -
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Re: collinopal-lingus
Sat, August 25, 2007 - 1:32 PMIn fact, tree hugging causes similiar symptoms as can be found from systemic pesticides and herbicides. Scientists believe that microbes lodge themselves underneath the bark and or root buttress, where they remain dormant for up to a year or more.
Quercus, Acer, and many other hardwoods are most likely to be affected. More research needs to be done, however, to understand these human borne pathogens, especially in "soft" wood evergreens, etc. Some scientists have speculated that the evergreens have adapted to these pathogens in their needle like leaves.
There is current research that suggests that other species have adapted certain allelochemicals to repel humans.....take for example the genus Eucalyptus, whose rotting leaves smell of skunk musk. . . .
As far as an ARP for you PHC protocol, as I mentioned earlier we have to wait for the research to be published.....
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Sat, October 27, 2007 - 3:00 PMHi-
Everyone calls me a hippy. I don't know why? I don't got any toe-jam. I do hug trees, and dogs and kks, and goats, and geese, and other hippies, and dirty old men, and young tasty boys and dirty girls... I am not too picky. Just as long as you keep yer bugs to yerself. There ain't no bugs on me. I have not taken a shower in a week. I may smell. I have recycled silk braided into my dreadlocks. I would not want to directly support the torture of millions of silk worms...
So silly love what is up with you, you f$$$king hippy? You look like one. It takes one to know one. You look like one of those drooling gutter hippies that hangs out on waterfronts and in alleyways in old towns. You probably are not even classy enough to play a guitar for yer panhandling coffee cup. I think I can smell you from here. Did you take a shower this month?
I love trees. As a biologist, I can not imagine that some little microbes could kill trees. Look at all the lovely trees that are growing in the neighborhood you panhandle in? They look fine I am sure. More damage could be done to a tree by stepping on its roots too many times.
I know- lets make dirty filthy potty mouthed hippies like you wear giant body sized condoms. That way we can't smell you from here, you stinky rotten filthy drooling hippy.
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Sat, October 27, 2007 - 5:52 PMi live on a permaculture farm. I usually smell at the end of a day's work, but then i hop in the shower and all is well. just yesterday, now that you mention it, i washed my dreads, so now they're peppermint fresh.....ooh yeah......
i've never panhandled....but i do read poetry at the local coffeehouse......
Upfulness a.k.a Silly_Love Light
p.s - why all the negativity, Kale? I've never met a biologist who showers less than once a week...... Are you a fibber? And by the way, I don't hug trees, I plant them..... -
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Sun, October 28, 2007 - 8:30 AMFibber? That's sounds like something I dont want to eat.
I am just teasing you-
And why would a biologist want to shower more than once a week? We just get dirty again...
for the wild- chathaunt
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