General Chit Chat

[Marsbar100]

Guys like Djokovic and Nadal can afford the best health guys, what they probably use is a thin line between what should be legal and illegal.

Tennis does have a lot of breaks in it, it's also not a race, I don't think you would need to go Lance Armstrong mode for tennis.

[Rockape]

Guys like Djokovic and Nadal can afford the best health guys, what they probably use is a thin line between what should be legal and illegal.

Tennis does have a lot of breaks in it, it's also not a race, I don't think you would need to go Lance Armstrong mode for tennis.

It’s all about how hard you can push your body before you can’t any longer. The drugs allow you to train harder, which translates into a stronger body that can maintain a higher performance level for longer.

[Marsbar100]

Unlike Sims to be gone for this long, hope he is good.

[StLGooner]

Yea that is weird. Anyone know him personally?

[Ach]

Another who wanted Arteta in and can't show his face round here anymore?

Seriously though hope he's ok. Unlikely he's found a life and left us to it

[UFGN]

Does anyone use Football Index?

How does it work? Youre betting on the future value of players or what?

[Phil71]

Human compost funerals.

A US firm has given scientific details of its "human composting" process for environmentally friendly funerals.

A pilot study on deceased volunteers showed that soft tissue broke down safely and completely within 30 days.

The firm, Recompose, claims that its process saves more than a tonne of carbon, compared to cremation or traditional burial.

It says that it will offer the world's first human composting service in Washington state from next February.

The process involves laying the body in a closed vessel with woodchips, alfalfa and straw grass. The body is slowly rotated to allow microbes to break it down.

Thirty days later the remains are available to relatives to scatter on plants or a tree.

Although the process is straightforward, it has taken four years of scientific research to perfect the technique. Ms Spade asked soil scientist Prof Lynne Carpenter Boggs to undertake the work.

Composting livestock is a well-established practice in Washington state. Prof Carpenter Boggs's task was to adapt it for human subjects and ensure that the remains were environmentally safe.

She carried out pilot studies with six volunteers who had given their enthusiastic consent to the research prior to their deaths. She told me that the work took an emotional toll on her and her team.

"We all kept checking in on each other. My physiology felt different, I wasn't sleeping well for a few nights, I wasn't hungry - it was a distress response."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51389084


Interesting. The way forward for disposing of our remains? My first thought is in a big city the facility would have to be huge.

[Dejan]

Very interesting indeed

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[Pat Rice in Short Shorts]

I doubt the Queen will opt for that solution. Imagine a royal funeral procession a month after she croaks with a horse drawn wagon of compost being paraded across London then being dumped on a flower bed in Regents Park. That I would tune in for.

[Phil71]

I wouldn't mind that.

Use me to plant a tree.

[UFGN]

Dump me on the WHL pitch

I'll curse them forever

[Pat Rice in Short Shorts]

Dump me on the WHL pitch

I'll curse them forever

My will states that my remains be set out in the woods behind our home for coyotes and wolves to get some revenge and a full belly. My wife says she ignore that wish and have my ashes inserted into football and have a few good kick abouts every month.

[Phil71]

Dump me on the WHL pitch

I'll curse them forever

My will states that my remains be set out in the woods behind our home for coyotes and wolves to get some revenge and a full belly. My wife says she ignore that wish and have my ashes inserted into football and have a few good kick abouts every month.

Look up Tibetan sky burials.

Your relatives take your dead body to the top of a mountain where monks offer the service of chopping it up for the vultures. Once they've picked the bones clean the monks grind them up and scatter them to the wind.

[Pat Rice in Short Shorts]

Dump me on the WHL pitch

I'll curse them forever

My will states that my remains be set out in the woods behind our home for coyotes and wolves to get some revenge and a full belly. My wife says she ignore that wish and have my ashes inserted into football and have a few good kick abouts every month.

Look up Tibetan sky burials.

Your relatives take your dead body to the top of a mountain where monks offer the service of chopping it up for the vultures. Once they've picked the bones clean the monks grind them up and scatter them to the wind.

Have seen that on nature shows etc. Makes sense if a Buddhist to recycle the body plus digging any hole up there in the Himalayas would suck!

Native Americans of many tribes also their dead on platforms for consumption by birds and the like.

[Va-Va-Voom]

Which one in more laughable?

The fact Cantona is always rated higher than Bergkamp or the fact Giggs is always rated higher than Pires?