so the London fatberg has been analysed and the contents are interesting and possibly pose a health risk
"The tests also discovered evidence of hordenine and ostarine, which can be found in performance-enhancing sports supplements. Ostarine, used for muscle gain, is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s prohibited list and is not licensed for medical use in the UK.
Hordenine and ostarine represented more than half the proportion of pharmaceuticals found in the sample."
I wonder how they'll dispose of it. Burn it, maybe? At a quick estimate, 130 tonnes of 90% fat could provide all of Parliament's electricity for over a fortnight.
Let the jokes commence.
Edit: Typo. I meant to refer to the berg's mass, not its colour.
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Pastychomper wrote:I wonder how they'll dispose of it. Burn it, maybe? At a quick estimate, 130 tones of 90% fat could provide all of Parliament's electricity for over a fortnight.
Let the jokes commence.
nah will be sold to Tescos as cooking fat, special edition
Perhaps the bits of berg can be redistributed amongst the inhabitants of the boroughs feeding the blocker sewers?
"Good morning, Mrs Flushing! Here is your portion of baby-detritus, unwanted drug, plastic-enhanced cotton pufferies and junkfud fat. We apologise for our inability to differentiate these useful items from their matrix of effluent but perhaps you yourself can perform the advisable separations".
Meanwhile, the sewers will be closed for further purging, so that the various stuffs heretofore flushed away to "elsewhere" will instead remain "here" and in need of local processing by the consumers who have purchased them. There will probably have to be a strengthening of the laws concerning fly-tipping and burning noxious substances on the garden bonty...
Eventually there will be a revival of the crafts of cotton nappy boiling, cooking real grub from unwrapped ingredients and perhaps heavy sales of composting toilets & vegetable seedlings. Plastics will be banned, with those already extant employed to encase the now redundant producers of the nasty stuff, as "a warning from history", not to mention a dissuasion upon greedy polluting profiteers everywhere.
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Cugel wrote:Perhaps the bits of berg can be redistributed amongst the inhabitants of the boroughs feeding the blocker sewers?
"Good morning, Mrs Flushing! Here is your portion of baby-detritus, unwanted drug, plastic-enhanced cotton pufferies and junkfud fat. We apologise for our inability to differentiate these useful items from their matrix of effluent but perhaps you yourself can perform the advisable separations".
Meanwhile, the sewers will be closed for further purging, so that the various stuffs heretofore flushed away to "elsewhere" will instead remain "here" and in need of local processing by the consumers who have purchased them. There will probably have to be a strengthening of the laws concerning fly-tipping and burning noxious substances on the garden bonty...
Eventually there will be a revival of the crafts of cotton nappy boiling, cooking real grub from unwrapped ingredients and perhaps heavy sales of composting toilets & vegetable seedlings. Plastics will be banned, with those already extant employed to encase the now redundant producers of the nasty stuff, as "a warning from history", not to mention a dissuasion upon greedy polluting profiteers everywhere.
Cugel, with a practical suggestion for every difficulty.
or sell it to tourists - in a sealed glass canister of course. Though would be interesting to know what US customs would make of it
Edit - I should note that the title of the thread was 'Is there anything more disgusting' when I posted this
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I thought fatbergs were British holiday makers floating in the pools of all inclusive holiday hotels before going out to get drunk, start fights and get laid while letting it all hang out. I'm not sure if the real thing is more of less disgusting!
Get rid of all the sewers and give every household a septic tank. That'll learn 'em.
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity. Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments... --- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
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