UK Minister praises plan to heat swimming pool from fires of crematorium

UK Minister praises plan to heat swimming pool from fires of crematorium. The board said your illness really isn’t untreatable, it’s just that the pool has been kinda chilly recently.

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  • “The Department for Energy and Climate Change"

    Doesn't that just about say it all?

    He added that he would “die a happier man” if he knew heat from his cremation was warming the waters of a local pool.

    Well, what are you waiting for? Take your plan and yourself, and go get toasted!

  • They neglected to mention that it will cost the British taxpayers eleventy six million British pounds to install the "cutting edge green technology." Using today's exchange rates, that's roughly eleventy nine twenty million US dollars. And unless the plague strikes London again, they're gonna need to run the old conventional heater system when the ovens aren't cooking meat.

  • Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
    We know Major Tom's a junkie...

    Is it me, or does this seem quite literally ghoulish and ironically cold? No, really.

    Ya know, if they're interested in sheer utility, I hope they dig out any gold teeth from the bodies first. Maybe they could even shave the dead heads and use the hair to stuff pillows for all the poor refugees flooding in from the Tird World.

    68 years old you say? Step through the NHS delousing chamber first please. No, don't worry, ma'am, leave your clothes right here.

    • From what it said on the TV the other night, Whitney Houston was buried with half a million in jewelry. Nothing like begging for the grave to be robbed, huh?