With all due respect

[altivo]

(or something like that)

If you've ever seen the 1997 Dreamworks film Mouse Hunt, with that hilarious opening that takes place at a funeral, and things go downhill, or rather down the sewer, from there

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[farhoug]

I gather manure composts run pretty hot once they get working, it should speed up the cycle of nature quite nicely. Thus, there's more gaseous anomalies to be expected. :-)

[altivo]

That's the "common wisdom" though frankly, I haven't observed that manure gets that hot. What does heat up fast is wet grass. Hay that hasn't been properly cured or that is baled up after being rained on can get hot enough to burn you or even catch fire on its own.

[farhoug]

I guess hot is a relative matter, it probably won't go that far that it would kill the bacteria within, or it would rather find a balance somewhere there.

Hot grass? I wonder what's happening with that...

[farhoug]

Looks like it's the same thing, just suitable environment for various microbes to start munching the grass. Hot little critters...

[saythename]

Poor Sheepy!

@.@!!!

And Walken showed up too? I heard he never turns down a script
but...c'mon!

*Imagines Christopher Walken, dressed in black with a white
collar as you dig*

"We...look, the sheep...itgaveitslife, and now...your digging
a hole...with a pick!"

[altivo]

Or not digging a hole, as it turns out. In any case, the strategy seems to have worked so far.

I'm talking about endings. *plays Mirror Force Trap Card*

[gabrielhorse]

Just as a ewe needs no praise or congrats for giving birth to lambs, a dead sheep needs no funeral rights.

In case you hadn't heard, I've been thinking about death & the ceremonies humans erect around their ideas of human life, mortality and their desire o ignore and even deny death in the blatant face of death. If human bodies weren't embalmed (AKA: pumped full of preservatives) or entombed (crammed in a coffin & buried six feet under) they would decompose rapidly wherever they fell and never moved again. I'm sure you know all this.

Due respect? If humans thought about how living things treat the dead (birds pecking out the eyes of corpses, carnivores gnawing off genitals and tearing out interal organs... not to mention the little things the grubs and maggots do...), they would find their idea of respect is a fallacy. All journeys come to an end. No end is ever what humans want it to be- they typically would rather it go on forever.... and that's the end of this.

[cabcat]

I made the decision to cremate my kitty when the time comes and keep the ashes. She didn't really have a favourite spot outside to be and liked being inside.