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[Stosta]

I worked in The Natural History Museum, and this is basically how it is done, only the meaty bones and skulls are put in a sandbox - all critters could still get to it. And yes, one gets used to the smell

So they kept a special sandbox full of critters to clean the bones?

 

[Room Fogger]

Haha! You guys are totally metal!

According to a handy guide...

The merits of keeping the skull as a trophy are debatable for two principal reasons.
First, a human skull may call suspicious attention to the new owner.
Secondly, thorough cleaning is difficult due to the large brain mass, which is hard to remove without opening the skull.
The brain is not good to eat. Removing the tongue and eyes, skinning the head, and placing it outside in a wire cage may be effective.
The cage allows small scavengers such as ants and maggots to cleanse the flesh from the bones, while preventing it being carried off by larger scavengers, such as dogs and children.
After a sufficient period of time, you may retrieve the skull and boil it in a dilute bleach solution to sterilize it and wash away any remaining tissue.

@Caramia , logical explanation for you knowing, scares the living daylights out of me that @Stosta knows!

 

[Stosta]

@Caramia , logical explanation for you knowing, scares the living daylights out of me that @Stosta knows!

This is the end result of not monitoring what your kids are doing on the internet!

I like to think that occasionally Googling this sort of thing on your work computer also helps keep the boss away, and your increases reasonable.

 

[Halfdaft]

while preventing it being carried off by larger scavengers, such as dogs and children.

I did not know that children are considered large scavengers

 

[Christos]

I did not know that children are considered large scavengers

Some adults too depending on wich part of the South you are from

 

[Room Fogger]

This is the end result of not monitoring what your kids are doing on the internet!

I like to think that occasionally Googling this sort of thing on your work computer also helps keep the boss away, and your increases reasonable.

I have just as effective a method to keep people away when I do not want to be disturbed.

 

[Stosta]

I have just as effective a method to keep people away when I do not want to be disturbed.
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Hahaha! You just got to mess it up a bit so they know you enjoy using it!

 

[craigb]

I did not know that children are considered large scavengers

More like medium to small scavengers

 

[Christos]

More like medium to small scavengers

I have not come across a more effective scavenger. The size I believe is irrelevant.

 

[Caramia]

So they kept a special sandbox full of critters to clean the bones?

Yep

 

[Room Fogger]

Hahaha! You just got to mess it up a bit so they know you enjoy using it!

Nah, tell them i keep it pristine and extra sharp as I do circumcisions on Saturday afternoons.

 

[craigb]

Nah, tell them i keep it pristine and extra sharp as I do circumcisions on Saturday afternoons.

Said like a man with at least one daughter.

 

[Room Fogger]

Said like a man with at least one daughter.

I have actually only got two sons, and wouldn’t swop them for anything, but my brothers daughter loves her uncle!

 

[Hooked]

https://www.all4women.co.za/food-home/recipes/recipe-items/south-african-dessert-recipes

"A dessert in each hand is a balanced diet"

 

[RainstormZA]

Some adults too depending on wich part of the South you are from

I once collected the skull of a reedbuck corpse that was rotting away. Tied it on a fence and left it to be further cleansed for another 6 months. Voila! Clean bleached skull...

 

[Adephi]

 

[Steyn777]

I worked in The Natural History Museum, and this is basically how it is done, only the meaty bones and skulls are put in a sandbox - all critters could still get to it. And yes, one gets used to the smell

This...this is how the Zombie apocalypse will start.

 

[Steyn777]

I have just as effective a method to keep people away when I do not want to be disturbed.
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And this...this is how we'll fight it.

 

[Steyn777]

I once collected the skull of a reedbuck corpse that was rotting away. Tied it on a fence and left it to be further cleansed for another 6 months. Voila! Clean bleached skull...

You don't live near a church do you...?

 

[RainstormZA]

You don't live near a church do you...?

Ummm why are you asking?

 

[Steyn777]

Ummm why are you asking?

You hang a buck's skull on the vence where I used to live and you'll wake up to the sight of 1 young priest and 1 old priest.

 

[ARYANTO]

Haha! You guys are totally metal!

According to a handy guide...

The merits of keeping the skull as a trophy are debatable for two principal reasons.
First, a human skull may call suspicious attention to the new owner.
Secondly, thorough cleaning is difficult due to the large brain mass, which is hard to remove without opening the skull.
The brain is not good to eat. Removing the tongue and eyes, skinning the head, and placing it outside in a wire cage may be effective.
The cage allows small scavengers such as ants and maggots to cleanse the flesh from the bones, while preventing it being carried off by larger scavengers, such as dogs and children.
After a sufficient period of time, you may retrieve the skull and boil it in a dilute bleach solution to sterilize it and wash away any remaining tissue.

This reminds me of a little thing that we wrote in each others yearbooks at the end of a school year !!
As jy eendag kom tot sterwe
kan ek jou kopbeen erwe
om my biltong op te kerwe ?

 

[ARYANTO]

If you have a grief, nobody feels, If you have a pain, nobody feels.
If your heart is broken, nobody feels, but if you fart, all will understand.

 

[Steyn777]

This reminds me of a little thing that we wrote in each others yearbooks at the end of a school year !!
As jy eendag kom tot sterwe
kan ek jou kopbeen erwe
om my biltong op te kerwe ?

My folks owned a Funeral parlour when I was younger and as a extra add on they also sold tombstones. I spent more time in graveyards than William Banting himself and to keep myself busy I'd read the various little inscriptions on the headstones. Best 1 I ever saw was:

"Waar jy nou staan, het ek ook gestaan
En waar ek nou lé sal jy ook eendag lê."

 

[RainstormZA]

Lol I love cemeteries. I've documented a few myself.