Portuguese physics professor Joao Magueijo, currently teaching at Imperial College in London, describes the English as –
“…unrestrained wild beasts who eat food so greasy it needs detergent.”
Sounds harsh, but you should hear what Norwegians say about the Swedes.
“…unrestrained wild beasts who eat food so greasy it needs detergent.”
It’s so bad that many British municipalities have to dig up their sewer pipes because they’re completely blocked with greasy congealed pig fat.
The problem is often the result of going green and is not unique to Britain.
http://dailysignal.com/2011/03/02/low-flush-toilets-the-san-francisco-treat/
You’re suggesting the grease and fat clogging the sewers are because of low flush toilets? You think people only throw grease in low flush toilets?
I love Europe because everybody is one big happy family!
/sarc
And what the Swedes say about the Norwegians!
Uff da!
Håll käften!
And he said it and he meant it and he felt no need to cut off any heads over it.
See, he’s a part of Civilized Man.
One of the reasons my ansestors left Europe was the trash culture that had Euros at each other’s throats for millennia – kings/rulers/governments took advantage of this natural animosity of one group hating another with different accents that lived just down the road, and kept these tribal dorks in perpetual war. Nothing really changes – witness the Scots trying to pry themselves loose from this eternal madness.
Aren’t the Portuguese bald headed guys with short chubby little bodies? Or am I wrong?
That could be but it appears to me that they sent their best musicians to Brazil.
That professor must have been put off with Bacon-fried toast.
Portugal ranks 37th in the World in per capita GDP. Just ahead of Trinidad & Tobago and Equatorial Guinea.
When syphilis first came from the old world to the new we had:
The Spanish calling it the Portuguese disease
The French calling it the Spanish disease
The English calling it the French disease
Upscale sophisticated, Northern Italians calling it the Neapolitan (Naples) disease
Nothing new here.
What I remember about the Portuguese is that they all go down and buy cheap decanters of rough red wine starting about 10 am and parting till they pass out z12 hours later, Brits start getting hammered about 3
John Galt said: “You’re suggesting the grease and fat clogging the sewers are because of low flush toilets?”
Yes. Because sewers are designed by engineers to flow with a certain volume of water in them. If you reduce the flow below the designed volume (which retrofitting entire neighborhoods with low flush toilets will do because they are -low-flush-, duh) grease accumulates in the sewer instead of in the GREASE TRAPS where it is supposed to accumulate.
Indeed, sewers have grease traps in them. Which get cleaned out all the time, even in places where people don’t boil the pork roast. Amazing, yes?
In San Francisco and Los Angeles too if memory serves, the cities mandated a flow rate so small that not just bacon fat but actual sewage accumulated in dips in the pipes and -dried out-, thereby completely blocking the system. This could have been avoided by the simple expedient of flushing out the pipes every week from a handy fire hydrant, or just increasing the allowed flow from toilets etc., but GAIA MUST BE SAVED!!!! so they just let it block up instead. Then they send highly paid city workers to shovel out the poo that normally would just flow through effortlessly.
Physics is an unforgiving beeotch.
Yet again you cloud the issue with facts…and flair.