Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/23/knives-made-of-human-feces-don.html
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Revenge is a dish best served cold, carved by poop knives.
Oh well.
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I think I know who’s getting a 2020 Ig Nobel…
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I don’t even want to know what prompted the question to be asked in the first place.
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They didn’t account for differences in diet.
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Off to get set up for A/B testing.
I’ll report back after Thanksgiving.
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Thank GOODNESS someone is doing this kind of valuable research!
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It’s important to note that feces are also not an appropriate material for a boat paddle, in a situation, for example, in which one finds oneself up shit creek.
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Ms. Felicity Beedle needs to include this in her next edition of The World of Poo. Someone got a channel of communication to her?
Also, I am a bit sad none of the researchers is named Samuel.
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“Human feces make a shitty knife, scientists say.”
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Well if no one else will
These knives are shit!
There. Good day.
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Peter Freuchen is disappointed.
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And gut flora. My wife makes a perfectly shaped, batlle-ready Russian nuclear sub every 2 days like clockwork and I’m lighting off the fireworks at all hours…I know whose raw materials I’d use on the ice floe
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The friction of cutting will melt ice and you get bits of poop in your food. Ewww.
I gotta think this Inuit fellow had other items with him that would have done a better job. Sharpen a bone with a rock, like they actually do.
And another thing - just because an individual from a resourceful peoples comes up with an idea, it shouldn’t always be seen as traditional, spiritual, revered and so on. There’s a reason some get banished from the community.
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Let no one tell you the romance has gone out of your relationship.
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It could work as a murder weapon. Even a small cut would likely give you a nasty infection.
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The kind of person who would try butchering meat with feces would be on the short list.
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The inuit story of the shit knife said that the knife was used to butcher a dog to use as raw materials (not food).
After that point one presumes he sharpened bones into rather better knives.
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I thought it was going to be the worst kiwami japan video ever.
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If accelerated fast enough, they could be reaction mass tho.
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