Members MsGuy Posted January 26, 2015 Members Posted January 26, 2015 Is 'beans and cabbage' really a dish that people eat? Quote
AdamSmith Posted January 26, 2015 Author Posted January 26, 2015 Never heard of it til those pics. One hopes not. PS But apparently it is real: http://wgno.com/2014/05/19/johnny-sansones-recipe-for-white-beans-and-cabbage/ Quote
Members MsGuy Posted January 26, 2015 Members Posted January 26, 2015 Might have known those Frenchies would be the ones. They'll eat anything. Quote
AdamSmith Posted January 26, 2015 Author Posted January 26, 2015 Cajuns, at that. Might have known. Quote
AdamSmith Posted February 22, 2015 Author Posted February 22, 2015 So a friend just had occasion to ask on Facebook whether 'poo poo' is one word or two. Consulting the ever-faithful Urban Dictionary... poopoo A substance (usually brown) very much like logs that is the result of digested food. It comes out of your anus as you sit on the can. It can also come out of your anus at any other given time. see poop or shit My poopoo is on the floor, i couldn't hold it in any longer. by bobo July 06, 2004 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poopoo Any connection between this post and other threads active here tonight is left as an exercise for the reader. Quote
AdamSmith Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 http://www.amazon.com/Fart-Dictionary-Scott-A-Sorensen/dp/0762441453 Quote
AdamSmith Posted February 28, 2015 Author Posted February 28, 2015 Poo power: fuel, lampshades, paper and other useful things made from waste From horse manure to panda poo, animal waste can build our furniture and fuel our cars The panda can naturally convert waste plant material into the type of sugars that can be fermented into bioethanol. Photograph: Xinhua /Landov /Barcroft Media Rich McEachranFriday 27 February 2015 10.39 EST Last modified on Saturday 28 February 2015 10.21 EST Poo. It’s a dirty word, and in some parts of the world, a taboo. But everyone does it – the average person alone produces 72.5kg of faecal matter annually. Some of it gets treated, some of it is left to float around, but nearly all of it has an economic value. Last year, the UK’s first bus powered by human poo hit the roads of Bristol and in January this year, the Janicki Omniprocessor, a machine that turns human poo into water was revealed. Janicki Bioenergy, the company behind the machine, is soon to ship a processor to Dakar, Senegal, where it will produce 10,800 litres of water. Here are some other examples of how waste is being integrated into sustainable, circular design and production with environmental and social benefits. Stools made from stoolsThere are seats made from urine and sand, so it’s almost inevitable that there would be furniture fashioned from poo, or to be more precise, a mixture of horse manure, straw and other agricultural waste. The stools and lampshades, known as Terra, were the creation of Tel Aviv-based designer Adital Ela. Ela believes the idea could inspire the future of interior design and that anyone could eventually make their own household items from waste collected locally. After use, the objects can be remoulded with water or composted. She even envisages a future where the making process could become a craft and provide communities in developing countries with added income. Poo to the slaughter Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Kenya, Maasai pastoralists in Kajiado County are generating electricity for a slaughterhouse using byproducts from the animal killing process: blood, guts and even poo. The facility can pipe gas to local businesses, while any waste sludge is turned into fertiliser. The group of 320 pastoralists expect to sell cylinders of the gas from March. Each one would be priced at Ksh 700 ($8/£5.20) – roughly half of the price of standard gas. Usually the slaughterhouse waste would be burned, so with more than 500 cattle and sheep being killed daily, the process will also ensure that a lot of methane doesn’t enter the atmosphere. Let cow poo provide the powerIn the future, poo won’t just be the fertiliser that grows the fruit, vegetable and crops. It could also close the nutrient cycle by powering food production systems. A team of Stanford University PhD students are developing a low-cost machine for pasteurising milk that runs on methane from dung. According to Sarah Rizk, co-founder of the technology, Vorpal, a cow’s poo can pasteurise 10 times the amount of milk it produces. By relying on the animal to power the biodigestor, the system can ensure that methane emissions are reduced, less milk is spoiled and farmers’ incomes are boosted. “The cow provides all the power we need to pasteurise the milk. With this system, farmers can be fully self-sufficient and customers wouldn’t have to pay [more to cover the costs of] electricity for pasteurisation,” explains Rizk. “We use a high voltage pulse to directly kill bacteria rather than heating up the whole volume of milk. Because of this, we cut energy use in half.” Writing on rhino poo Facebook Twitter Pinterest Standard paper production can use vast amounts of water and chemicals and emit high levels of CO2. A number of small businesses have found an alternative to energy-intensive virgin wood: elephant and rhino poo – there’s a lot of it going around: according to the WWF, Indian elephants can excrete 220lb (100kg) of dung a day. Mumbai-based Elrhino is one of the businesses recovering the waste and converting it into a range of stationery. The dung is a perfect raw material because it’s high in celluose (the main fibre used to make paper), explains ElRhino’s co-founder Nisha Bora. The company manages the dung production chain from the sourcing and preparation to the selling. Bora says that “the art of making paper by hands is dying”, so having control over the supply chain means they can train local women and young people to provide them with economic opportunities and skills. It currently has several dozen employees. ElRhino claims that the products sold are created using 44% less energy than virgin wood and generating 50% less waste. Run your vehicle on panda poo Facebook Twitter Pinterest Biofuels from corn can be worse than gasoline when it comes to carbon emissions, according to experts. Researchers from the Mississippi State University concluded that waste plant material, such as corn cobs and stems, would be ideal alternative sources, with a little help from a cute animal: the panda. Ashli Brown, who co-authored a report based on the research, presented at an American Chemical Society meeting, realised that the bear’s poo could help in the process of converting the waste – it contains a number of microbes needed to break down the material, thanks to the bacteria in the bear’s gut, which it uses to break down its diet of bamboo. The panda’s ability to naturally convert material into the type of sugars that can be fermented into bioethanol is a sharp contrast to the current carbon-intensive options. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/feb/27/poo-animal-panda-waste-useful-furniture-fuel-cars lookin 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted March 3, 2015 Author Posted March 3, 2015 Too much human poo on Mount Everest says Nepal http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/too-much-human-poo-on-mount-everest-says-nepal Quote
Members MsAnn Posted March 13, 2015 Members Posted March 13, 2015 Dear Mr. Smith You can thank me later. Regards, MsAnn http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/akron-police-searching-for-someone-who-pooped-on-19-parked-cars For the past three years, residents of a quiet Akron, Ohio, neighborhood say they've been terrorized by a man defecating on cars and even children's front yard toys. But early Wednesday, a diligent neighbor who set up a time-lapse camera managed to catch the suspect with his pants down — and turned over the photographic evidence to police. Akron authorities have released the image of the so-called "Bowel Movement Bandit," who they say has pooped on at least 19 parked cars in driveways in the city's Castle Homes neighborhood. The resident who set up the camera told NBC affiliate WKYC that the suspect has struck the family's car at least eight times since the fall. "I was questioning my son: Who do you have mad at you?" said the resident, who did not want to be named. "People were pointing fingers all over the place." Another resident pooh-poohed the man's behavior as disturbing and bizarre. "My mother-in-law walked out of our house one day, and the kids' front-yard slide had to be sanitized," Rob Brunson told WKYC. He added that neighbors have been playing the "blame game" for months, casting suspicions on one another. But the photograph of the suspect in the act has relieved residents and offered a break in the case. "The photo shows this guy bent over on the hood, pants to ankles defecating on the car," Akron police Lt. Rick Edwards told the station. "We need to know who this person is." Akron Police Department Police in Akron, Ohio are searching for this man who was caught by an eyewitness defecating on 19 parked cars in driveways between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m on March 12. SOCIAL — Erik Ortiz First published March 12th 2015, 12:19 pm AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members lookin Posted March 13, 2015 Members Posted March 13, 2015 Police in Akron, Ohio are searching for this man who was caught by an eyewitness defecating on 19 parked cars in driveways between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m on March 12. That's not defecating, that's diarrhea if not dysentery. AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members MsAnn Posted March 13, 2015 Members Posted March 13, 2015 The intellectual appreciation for Poop http://www.poopreport.com/ AdamSmith 1 Quote
