The real reason for Otto's urine jar collection
- Joined: May 25th, 2009
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Otto's got the right idea, it's just like printing money:
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Gilpin Family Whisky made from diabetics' urine
James Gilpin is a designer and researcher who works on the implementation of new biomedical technologies. He's also got type 1 diabetes, where his body doesn't produce enough insulin to regulate blood sugar levels.
So he's started a project called Gilpin Family Whisky, which turns the sugar-rich urine of elderly diabetics into a high-end single malt whisky, suitable for export.
The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers, including Gilpin's own grandmother, Patricia. The urine is purified in the same way as mains water is purified, with the sugar molecules removed and added to the mash stock to accelerate the whisky's fermentation process. Traditionally, that sugar would be made from the starches in the mash.
Once fermented into a clear alcohol spirit, whisky blends are added to give colour, taste and viscosity, and the product is bottled with the name and age of the contributor.
The original idea came from an (unverified) story he heard about a pharmaceutical company that supposedly set up a factory next to an old people's home and would swap cushions and soft toys for the residents' urine. They'd then process the urine to remove the chemicals that had passed straight through the dilapidated endochrine systems of the patients, which could then be put straight back into new medicine.
The whisky, as you might have guessed, won't be widely marketed conventionally. In fact, it's more of an art piece, asking, Gilpin says, whether it's "plausible to suggest that we start utilising our water purification systems in order to harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance".
It'll be exhibited, with tasting sessions, at 100% Materials, a design and architecture event in London in September, and the Abandon Normal Devices festival in Manchester in October. If you're not keen on trying it yourself, then you can still go along and view the three films that Gilpin will be showing alongside the whisky, which each outline one aspect of living with the disease.
nanananayeah
Re: The real reason for Otto's urine jar collection
i don't know what to say. urine whiskey. what next, tofu made from poo? oh wait... (http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/wine_msg.php?titleid=1214)
Trust me, it's so danger.
pnkearns
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I can see the advertisements now...
Only the freshest urine mate!
So sexy.
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otto
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that is just f-ing vile and nasty and wrong
who the f*** is going to drink that?
couldn;t read it all-please tell me there's fine print in there explaining it's a joke.
please
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
pnkearns
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It's not that unusual. The most expensive coffee in the world is civet coffee. As Triumph would say, he pooped on it.
Kopi Luwak Coffee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
Kopi luwak (Indonesian [ˈkopi ˈlu.ak]), or civet coffee, is coffee made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other related civets, then passed through its digestive tract.[1] A civet eats the berries for their fleshy pulp. In its stomach, proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through a civet's intestines the beans are then defecated, keeping their shape. After gathering (from the poop), thorough washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness, widely noted as the most expensive coffee in the world.
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otto
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I've had the civet coffe, or a facsimile thereof using the same process, in vietnam.
It's
It's not even in the same region of foulness as drinking fermented human urine from a diseased person, afaic
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
wefrucar
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*shrug* when properly purified, urine is just as drinkable and healthy as water.
Not that I'd want to buy a bottle of Evian Purified Urine, mind, but they do pretty much just drink that on space shuttles these days, so can't be too bad.
Sometimes I feel it is maybe unbearable always be traditional Chinese girl.
vividFish
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Speaking of this, it reminds me of a movie
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Das Parfum - Die Geschichte eines Mörders
Monkey King
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"*Shrug*"? Really?!?
I can't believe anyone's responding to this thread with anything but "Holy f-ing sh*t, that's disgusting!"
And to make it worse I've got an increasingly nagging curiosity as to what it tastes like.
Happy New Year 2Bi! I hereby grant you early release for a month of good behavior.
Don't violate your parole though, naughty naughty!
otto
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what's really disgusting is Vivid Fish's new avatar.
looks like a butthole
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
56785678
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不怕神一样的敌人 就怕猪一样的队友
vividFish
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you are sth., you see everything as sth.
otto
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no, that's not true. and whoever told you that was a moron.
was it a family member?
AAAARGH there's the bleached butthole again!!!
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
vividFish
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your mom told me
wefrucar
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Pucker up otto
Sometimes I feel it is maybe unbearable always be traditional Chinese girl.
otto
Re: The real reason for Otto's urine jar collection
no.
your mother
AAAAAAAH!!!!!! GIANT BLEACHED BUTTHOL!
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
vividFish
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besides that, you mom told me the real reason for Otto's urine jar collection
I promise I won't tell others
otto
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That's it, I'm kicking mom's ASS
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
Aier2
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thank god the anus has been removed.
vividFish
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Don't forget what otto's mom said.
Masturblurker
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Nope, still posting.
...and that's when I decided to blame wave.
admin
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bet it tastes great with soda made from purified blister pus
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Masturblurker
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Don't be ridiculous Adders, that's Bailey's?
...and that's when I decided to blame wave.
Count_zero
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That's the stuff they serve at Origus.
I prefer the whale jissolm ice cream or anal mucous pie.
otto
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my mom's full of sh*t anyways.
she claims to know who my father is.
she has no clue
fkn liar
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
lyonya20011
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-- What?! 300 bucks for these leftovers??! Yesterday I ate that for free from a trash-can!
-- Well, that's what rich people eat: food leftovers.