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There’s a bacteria for that.
Do your duty — for God and Country, flush some for London.

The SCARY part is when it sprouts eye stalks and tentacles, and starts acting like it’s one of Cthulhu’s minions, or an actor in a Japanese porno…

Ah yes, the “fatberg”.

I’d wager there are nastier things than that in the old sewers of London.

That would make one hell of a bonfire.

In late Victorian times, they fished 500 hookers a year out of the Thames.

Mix it with oatmeat, put it in a sheep’s stomach, boil it, and it will be gone in no time…

Put a second deck on top of it & fat Americans will ride it around oohing & aahing.

If it is somebody’s job to watch sewer tv all day long, why wasn’t this noticed back when it was no bigger than a Volkswagen bus?

Huh, nobody told me Michael Moore was going to be spelunking whilst on holiday in England…

No matter how careful you are, that crap is building up in your pipes. After decades its like hardening arteries and the water can barely get through. Its horrible.

Do you have a cite for the 500 hookers per annum? I mean, there’s only 700 or so murders a year in the whole country now, so that’s a very surprising figure. And presumably not every dead strumpet ended up bobbing in the river, so the total must have been astronomical.

If it’s never reported to the police, is it really a murder? Some sweet young lady with no friends disappears in an era before biometrics & the plod are to assume it’s foul play? A body turns up bobbing in the Thames & who’s to say it didn’t grow there?

I’ve got one of those tunneled sewers right below my house. When they had to fix the subsidance on my house, they also replaced all the plumbing that goes into that sewer. Instead of completely replacing the old, very Brunell-looking cast iron/black enamel pipes, instead, they had a robotic spool that went through the pipes, lasered out the fat and shit, and left a big, long, protected nylon sheath. Inside of that, they put new pvc plumbing, and lo and behold, we still had Brand New Plumbing, and all that Victorian iron and steel is still down there, holding up Fat Mountain!

Now stop and realize there’s some poor bastard whose job is to sit and watch Sewer TV all day long.

Still beats MSNBC in the ratings.

Rad Alert USA!

http://www.netc.com/

David Gillies: I got it from a book titled something like Crime in Nineteenth Century London. Which one of these it is, I could not say.

Pupster, I thought MSNBC *WAS* Sewer TV…

If any of you have ever cleaned a restaurants grease trap you know how bad this ‘berg must smell.
For those that don’t know, grease traps make the inside of septic tanks smell good.

Comment from Ripley
Time: August 7, 2013, 11:53 am

Pupster, I thought MSNBC *WAS* Sewer TV…

Nah, Ripley. For MSNBC, think lower. Much lower.

Keep going . . .

At least the microbes on Sewer TV have a useful purpose.

The murder rates in London for those times didn’t include the folks living in places like seven dials. It was not only impossible to actually get an accurate count, but most of the folks in charge just didn’t care.

Weaponise it. Drop it on brown people. Job’s a good’un.

Melt it down and make fish and chips.

City’s cleaning the sewer lines outside my house as I type. Diesel and poo, what a fine way to wake up!

“Crime in Victorian London.” Yowza. Now I know where Anne Perry gets the background material for her novels.

Well, don’t humiliate it, whatever you do. Them Swiss might consider it a form of ersatz plant or sompthin.

Jon Spencer is right, they don’t get much nastier than grease traps.

Timothy S. Carlson:

Mix it with oatmeat, put it in a sheep’s stomach, boil it, and it will be gone in no time…

Thanks hugely, TSC, that is the most disgusting and hilarious comment I’ve seen all month!