There are some things lurking in this world which were never meant to be. Absinthe. Uri Geller. The dodo. Nixon. The Tully Monster. Anna Nicole Smith. Ethel Merman‘s disco album. Eventually, a vigilant celestial being becomes aware and takes action against these abominations and outrages against all that is right and good.
We can only hope and pray that S/He takes action promptly against the atrocity known as fiberboard. This loathesome and amorphous agglomeration of unnamed and unnameable materials has long been the mortal enemy of those who respect the craft of carpentry, those who would live in a world free of synthetic imitations, and those whose very bodies reject the presence of formaldahyde-oozing $89 bookcases from Home Depot.
We at the ol’ raincoaster blog have some bad news for you. However shitty you may think this product already is, it’s about to get worse. Much, much worse. The AP has the report. Shit.
Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. Researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture insist it’s no cow pie in the sky dream. They say that fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in making fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves. And the resulting product smells just fine.
Ch’yeah, whatever. Call me when it saves forests and can hold a screw.
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This is a very shitty idea :P
And who said I wasn’t taken police action? :P
Have a good rest of your weekend.
Excuse me as I walk across my real wood floor to grab a real-fruit fortified drink
Cheers
Get me one while you’re up.
I understand the other 6 but absinthe? It’s such a pretty green and the accoutrements are charming. Bring back the sugarcube…
There is some good shit out there – – –
You left out aluminum siding. And polyester.
And Rick Dees. And Windows NT, and Pennsylvania 1-600 . . .
Vinyl siding. Polyester can stay because of microfiber only. Windows ME ($500 for that piece of shit? Spare me: Bill Gates better never run into me in a dark alley). Absinthe is vile: have you tasted it? I have, and the angels rightfully hate it.
A couple on Bowen Isand went through a very lengthy process to produce a hemp based building product which apparently is like cement. It met all engineering standards and the building code. According to all reports their hemp house is beautiful and very cosy. I’m all for utilizing this zero to low THC level source of cellulose myself. I thought you might like to research the story as it goes so well with this one. :)
Wonder how this stuff packs?
No-one should need worry about the engineering qualities of manure-board. After all, politicians have been running on platforms of crap for years.
Metro wins.
only because he was less disgusting
but if this stuff catches on among contractors, we truly will be in a world of shit
No, the political tie-in was way out ahead of the competition…by a nose.
Some Tory was giving a speech on the Prairies and as a platform he literally stood on top of a manure spreader. When he started to speak, a guy at the back yelled “Put ‘er in gear Tom, she’s never had a bigger load.”
Guess I’ve been living in the U.S. so long that the fecal connection with politics is something to be taken for granted >B^D>
Indeed. If Al Gore ran for president, you could take Timethief’s suggestion and build ecosensitive houses out of hemp. Cannabis and politicians would be a MUCH better combination than bullshit and politicians, if only because they’d be too mellow to declare war.
Sweet jumpin’ screaming cheeerysit!
Please don’t tell me that the current POTUS isn’t on drugs. I’d kind of assumed that he had to be, to maintain his “we can ‘win’ Iraq” stance and economic policies.
Sorry–you specified cannabis. I’d say George the Less was riding the downer edge of a really nasty cringe binge. That would explain the loud noises, the unsocial activities, the paroxisms of violence.
Perhaps we need to turn him onto E?