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The importance of reading words closely… I was looking at the Telegraph and saw a very odd story titled Cameroon threatens to jail urine drinkers… my immediate reaction was “ok, now that is moderately revolting, but why the hell does David Cameron feel the need to pronounce on what is hopefully a fairly uncommon activity in the UK? Is there nothing this busybody does not want to regulate?”
And then I read it more closely…
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Serves ’em right for taking the piss
Serves ’em right for taking the piss
Even after clarifying that this is a ban on an increasingly popular medical technique and not some totally random activity, how is it any of his business what people drink or how they try to cure their afflictions? He can piss off.
Wow! And now I understand after re-reading that the point of clarification had nothing to do with the policy itself but whether an African country or a British politician was responsible.
But I still maintain the sentiments I expressed earlier.
“a fairly uncommon activity in the UK?” You’ve obviously never drunk John Smith’s bitter.
In this day and age, all those testimonials amount to rock solid science. Hollywood will be taking it in tablet form very soon.
Why “hopefully a fairly uncommon activity in the UK?” If people choose to do it surely its up to them. Let’s not try and impose our non-urine drinking values on others when it doesn’t affect us.
Hear hear, DocBud. Being a bit judgmental there, Perry? Urine drinking is as valid a lifestyle choice as any, IMHO. This is not to detract from the obvious fact that whatever damages this activity brings to this African nation, the blame lies squarely with the West, through years of colonialism, and the fact that we did not give Bob enough of our focking money.
Cameroon? Isn’t this the place with lots of Cangaroos?
Why “Hoepefully a fairly uncommon activity in the UK?”
Well, would you want to kiss a woman who had been imbibing the amber nectar (no, not Foster’s, then again….)?
Each to their own and all that, but there’s a very good reason why that stuff is excreted from the kidneys in the first place.
As this is only a little while after the speech where Mr Cameron said that he wanted to stop the government passing statutes and regulations trying to deal with every problem (instead leaving people to make their own choices and help each other), this demand for a new ban is depressing.
Perhaps there is no health benefit from drinking urine (I rather doubt that there is, and certainly do not intend to drink it myself), but this is in no way relevant.
It just is not any of the government’s concern – why does not Mr Cameron understand that?
Next: picking weevils out of buscuits.
Some commenters here need to take Perry’s advice and read more closely… 😉
Well I’ll drink most things, but certainly not urine!
I’m told by a psoriasis sufferer though, that the first pee of the morning collected and applied to the red flakey patches of skin, Is remarkably effective.
Quite right Mr Fisher.
I mistook Cameroon (the country), for Cameron (a British politician).
I apologize.
Urine, urine,
Looks pretty weird,
But it tastes just fine.
This is typical Daveishness…
Fiddle while Rome burns.
If one were to make a list of things that are problems for the UK, urine-drinking would be down about 10765836291847260475th.
Perry,
You sod!
Mind, it says something that I was taken in. Well, it says that I’m a bloody idiot but… OK, I’ll be quiet now.
As an aside, when I lived in another French-speaking African country I was often asked how I could be white (i.e. Caucasian) when I had the ‘same’ name as an African country 😉
Bill Rhodes?
Bill Cameron – lol
Guy: all you had to do is place the cursor over his link:-)
It’s only a slight diversion from our present theme to point out that urine kills athlete’s foot on contact. The sprays and powders at the drugstore are just as effective as uric acid when it comes to killing the fungus.
I highly recommend drainingoff a quart or two and soaking your feet therein every week if neccessary.
Yeah and you could bung in that ol smelly Afgan jacket
and tread it like grapes
Cos Urine is great for tanning leather too!
RAB: this is the second thread in two days that deals with bodily excretions. Next thing you know, we’ll be discussing the mastery of our domains. And no soup for you!
It must be a Doctor Strangelove thing. Next topic, flouridation.
Now look!
I have already been branded a “Prevert”
on this site!
It’s wishful thinking!
Boy can I wish!!!
The fact is-
It is my wife Vanessa and I’s 29th Anniversary today!
And there is no person on this earth I would prefer to be snuggling down with in a few minutes than her.
So there!
I have this friend. He pulled a car over, and saw in plain view eight mason jars of urine.
According to the driver (who was tweaked out of his mind on meth) he was saving the urine to extract more meth from it. The stuff being what it was, he didn’t want it to go to waste. Um, so to speak.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t there, so this has to remain in the land of “friend of a friend” stories.
(Now, if you don’t restore the same highbrow Samizdata that we all know and love, I’m going to tell everyone about “buddy bumping.” It’s every bit as bad as it sounds.)
RAB: how unusual, and sweet. What kind of a boomer are you anyway?:-)
Unfortunately[???!!!], I wasn’t there
“Buddy bumping”…will I be sorry I asked?
Come on Sunfish!
Tell all!
We is adults afterall. We wanna know. That story was brilliant. Tell us more!
Alisa might be freaked but I’d like to hear about “buddy bumping”.
I have some weird drug stories and they are are real 6-degree ones, alas, apart from the antics of Leo which I witnessed up close and personal.
Unusual? What being married all that time?
I suppose it is. We know of only one other couple from all our friends that are still with the same partner after all these years.
There are types of Boomer?
We demand full disclosure Sunfish!
It’s a sin to let a good anecdote go to waste.
This is turning into a real freak show. I like it!
It is still nothing to do with the government what these snake oil drinkers do to their own bodies. It should be noted that so long as you don’t have an infection urine is virtually sterile when it leaves the body so in small doses they aren’t going to be doing themselves much harm, it’s just a bit disgusting.
RAB, I was listening to this tonight, and somehow it reminded me of your comment. So pretend that this is a radio show, and that I am dedicating the song to you and Vanessa:-)
Alisa, my sincere thanks for that.
I have mates on this site you know
but have they turned up to offer their congratulations at my achievement at living with a half mad menaupausal dragon for all these years?
Have they hell!
I’m very dissapointed!! 🙂
She’s been menopausal for all these years???!!! (Sorry, could not resist…)
‘Buddy bumping’ is a means by which methamphetamine is administered in suppository form. I’ve never heard of it being done other than by/to homosexual males, but I can’t say that I’ve been paying attention.
I heard about this in a class on “Drugs that Impair Driving.” A guy was pulled over for 55 in a school zone and determined to be tweaked to hell and gone on meth. The officer asked him how he had ingested the meth. The driver said “Oh, we was buddy bumping.” The officer asked what that was. The driver told him, in somewhat more-graphic terms than I use here, that it basically amounted to having the drugs delivered to his system in the course of anal sex.
Aren’t you glad you asked?
Thank you, sunfish. Woe is me.
Yes thank you Sunfish.
Buddy bumping is definately off my list of
things I must do before I die!!