As my ancestry spans the Border,I think I ought to have myself fired in a low trajectory missile from England to Scotland(in little crumbly bits in aflower pot,naturally).But you never know,Scotland may have its own air defences by then and I may be intercepted by their fighters or anti -missile systems,going out finally in a bang over the Solway.And lets face it, one wouldnt want to start a war,my lot have enough form in that area from the past!
A good case for cremation rather than burial.
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I read about a real murderer who tried that. It might have been in Alabama or Georgia. Whenever I hear tree surgeons using one of them, I feel a bit queasy. It's the way they sound like they are just about to jam up with a particularly stubborn piece of "material".
classic33
Leg End Member
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Yes, blooming grim stuff.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I almost did that to myself once!
I had a summer labouring job for a few months in the mid-70s at a factory in Coventry which made extruded and moulded plastic products. They had a big machine for chomping up scrap material and I was given the job of chomping up several hundred feet of plastic waste. It was in the form of piping made of a very flexible, rubbery kind of plastic and I was supposed to chuck a few lengths of it into the machine stand back, and switch the machine on, switch it off, add the next lot of scrap, and so on. It was taking too long so I just left the machine running and continuously fed the piping in. Yes, it was an accident waiting to happen ...
I was making good progress and began to feed the stuff in so fast that the machine was struggling to do its chomping. As I turned to grab the next handful of piping, the end of the piece I had just thrown into the machine managed to wrap itself round one of my wrists and I was yanked off my feet and dragged towards the opening of the machine, beyond which were the chomping cutters and rollers!
A real heart-stopping moment ... I was damn lucky in that I had chucked so much stuff into the machine that I jammed it and the motor cut out! My arm was only a foot or so from being pulled inside.
I switched the machine off to load it after that!
jefmcg
Guru
alternative responseIf I (or whoever has to pay for it) can afford it, I'd like to go this way: freeze dried
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/14/promessa
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zas2EovN0wI
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
I almost did that to myself once!
I had a summer labouring job for a few months in the mid-70s at a factory in Coventry which made extruded and moulded plastic products. They had a big machine for chomping up scrap material and I was given the job of chomping up several hundred feet of plastic waste. It was in the form of piping made of a very flexible, rubbery kind of plastic and I was supposed to chuck a few lengths of it into the machine stand back, and switch the machine on, switch it off, add the next lot of scrap, and so on. It was taking too long so I just left the machine running and continuously fed the piping in. Yes, it was an accident waiting to happen ...
I was making good progress and began to feed the stuff in so fast that the machine was struggling to do its chomping. As I turned to grab the next handful of piping, the end of the piece I had just thrown into the machine managed to wrap itself round one of my wrists and I was yanked off my feet and dragged towards the opening of the machine, beyond which were the chomping cutters and rollers!
A real heart-stopping moment ... I was damn lucky in that I had chucked so much stuff into the machine that I jammed it and the motor cut out! My arm was only a foot or so from being pulled inside.
I switched the machine off to load it after that!
A near Darwin Award?? My, I thought better of you!!
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
I am being buried, I wouldn't mind going on some little trips after I'm dead!!
Of course, I am going to donate my organs first, so I might be a little bit lighter than before!!
Of course, I am going to donate my organs first, so I might be a little bit lighter than before!!
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I intend to have a glorious death fighting insurgents inside a leaking nuclear reactor, so there won't be much left of me to cremate.
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Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
'Intend roadie a glorious death'??
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Sorry, bloody predictive text thinks it can speak English better than I can!
classic33
Leg End Member
The "Elephants Foot" then!
A few years ago my MiL bought me a two foot high Celtic Cross ... which I prompty deployed in the Garden
The "gardener", (who already thought I was "Weird" because of the Green Men) asked me about it, so I told her it was the first wife... keeping her in the garden kept No 2 on her toes
Never spoke to me again, and the following Christmas card was to my wife and "the Husband"
The "gardener", (who already thought I was "Weird" because of the Green Men) asked me about it, so I told her it was the first wife... keeping her in the garden kept No 2 on her toes
Never spoke to me again, and the following Christmas card was to my wife and "the Husband"
