» Things you've done when you've had no money.

driptray
A friend at uni took to ordering a pint of drip tray from one of the local pubs when his cash ran out. They very kindly obliged and poured the contents of all the drip trays into a pint glass for a very reasonable price.

Also tried -1) don't eat anything all day. Then 1 pint'll do the trick. 2) Roll up a beer mat into a makeshift straw, Inhale whisky/vodka/gin into nasal cavity. Get spectacularly drunk for an hour, then get very sober with a headache/burning pain in nose. (apparently v. dangerous, akin to solvent abuse. oops.)
(Fri 8th Oct 2004, 11:14, More)

» Pure Ignorance

Dumbness in Durham
I met some amazingly dumb people at Durham university. This includes a whole social group who were unaware that the wax on a candle burned. They thought it was there to hold the wick up, then dribbled down the sides.

Durham cathedral is light up at night with big spotlights. One girl thought it lit up at night because it was made of glow-in-the-dark bricks.
(Tue 11th Jan 2005, 13:30, More)

» Stuff You've Overheard

Squaddies
On a Train to Newcastle I overheard two squaddies talking about their initiation rituals.

Apparently having melted cheese poured over your genitals and a broom handle stuck up your arse are standard fare in our armed forces.
(Thu 10th Jun 2004, 14:45, More)

» Your Weirdest Teacher

A terrible maths teacher
Had no idea how to teach. He would tell us which page of the text book to do questions from then read the answers out at the end. If we asked for help he'd just tell us to read the textbook.

Eventually it turned out the reason for this was he had made up all his qualifications, and was promptly sacked.

He then got a job at the school down the road from us on the virtue of his 4 years teaching experience......
(Fri 11th Nov 2005, 11:20, More)

» Useless Information

Every breath you take
on average contains one carbon atom from Julius Cesar
(Fri 18th Mar 2005, 16:37, More)