Trouble at t'Cressbrook Mill

[pwhole]

Mmmm - the joy of reading about people pretending to like each other until they can't pretend any longer, but still manage to write more and more about their anguished experience to keep it going just a bit longer. I've always supported the idea of psychedelic enlightenment, but it just doesn't seem to be working out for poor Rachel. I think she should increase the dose. Significantly...

 

[AR]

What is "Shamanic wisdom".
Seems it would have been on offer, along with growing vegetables.

The result of a conversation with those vegetables following a cup of 'shroom tea...

 

[alanw]

The result of a conversation with those vegetables following a cup of 'shroom tea...

I thought the 'shrooms had to be passed through a reindeer's urinary tract.

 

[pwhole]

Only Fly Agaric works like that. Whoops.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

The Aborigines had something similar, but it had to have passed through a wombat's arse.

 

[AR]

Having had a scan of the blog post, I suspect you'd probably get a more lucid conversation out of the vegetables as compared to some of the people she's associating with of late!

As for fly agarics, you don't have to feed them to reindeer (or another human) first to get the hallucinogenic effect, but by doing so it removes most of the fat-soluble toxic alkaloids that can kill you while retaining a significant portion of the water-soluble alkaloids that give the desirable effects. So, your choice - take the unpleasant side effects and risk death, or drink wee..

 

[LadyMud]

The Aborigines had something similar, but it had to have passed through a wombat's arse.

In which direction?

 

[Speleofish]

In Vietnam they sell coffee beans that have been 'passed through' a civet. Given that civets are thought to be vectors for some nasty viruses, you have to hope that the roasting and boiling renders them sterile. They do taste extremely good....

 

[AR]

Speaking of shamanic wisdom, this got flagged up on another forum I frequent and made me laugh - sixties psychedelia brewed up with British cynicism about new age-y guff, "My familiar animal is a beetle pushing a ball of shit up a hill"

Do I Get To Ride On A Unicorn?, by Birds Of Hell

from the album Birds of Hell

birdsofhell.bandcamp.com

 

[Long Drop]

I did a first degree in biology, and you can take it from me that if you roast and boil a civit it does make it sterile. HTH...

 

[2xw]

Mmmm - the joy of reading about people pretending to like each other until they can't pretend any longer, but still manage to write more and more about their anguished experience to keep it going just a bit longer.

This is a weird way to announce a new TSG journal 🤪

 

[pwhole]

Haha, luckily it's not for a while yet. I've insisted that someone else writes at least some of it this time

Funnily enough, I found myself more or less directly above yon hippie camp on Thursday on an informal PDMHS mine walk, but I behaved responsibly, what with the rolling capability from up there, and the strong wind, etc.

 

[AR]

Funnily enough, I found myself more or less directly above yon hippie camp on Thursday on an informal PDMHS mine walk, but I behaved responsibly, what with the rolling capability from up there, and the strong wind, etc.

I would have thought they were capable of rolling for themselves, being hippies? Likewise, the strong wind is probably lentil-related...

 

[Mrs Trellis]

Article on Elnaugh in today's (23/04/23) Sunday Times. It sounds as though she's a failed entrpreneuse in need of regular cash injections.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

In Vietnam they sell coffee beans that have been 'passed through' a civet. Given that civets are thought to be vectors for some nasty viruses, you have to hope that the roasting and boiling renders them sterile. They do taste extremely good....

Argan oil is quite popular as a hair treatment. This is made from the kernels of a peach-like fruit which is eaten by goats then the kernels are excreted and then collected from the ...er.. poo by local Berber tribesmen.

 

[wellyjen]

Argan oil is quite popular as a hair treatment. This is made from the kernels of a peach-like fruit which is eaten by goats then the kernels are excreted and then collected from the ...er.. poo by local Berber tribesmen.

Early on a dark, rainy Monday morning, the alarm has gone off and you are regretting your career choice, just think, "I'm really glad I am not an Argan oil goat poo dissection operative.".
😀

 

[Ian Ball]

So is argan oil vegan?

 

[Mrs Trellis]

Nowadays yes.

 

[pwhole]

From Wikipedia - nicely put

The kernels are then later retrieved from the goat droppings, considerably reducing the labour involved in extraction at the expense of some potential gustatory aversion.

 

[wellyjen]

Early on a dark, rainy Monday morning, the alarm has gone off and you are regretting your career choice, just think, "I'm really glad I am not an Argan oil goat poo dissection operative.".
😀

I've realised how insensitive this post was. To all the goat poo dissection professionals who read the forum, I apologise. You have an important job and if there was a clap for goat poo sorters event, I'd be out on my doorstep celebrating your essential work.
I shall think of you the next time I use argan oil, or a product made from it.