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» DIY Techno-hacks
I have a video projector
OHP plus some bits from an LCD monitor gaffer taped to it.
CFSB
(Thu 20th Aug 2009, 18:50, More)
I have a video projector
OHP plus some bits from an LCD monitor gaffer taped to it.
CFSB(Thu 20th Aug 2009, 18:50, More)
» Food sabotage
We put party popper charges in a pepper pot once
Someone banged it on the table when they couldn't get any pepper out and they nearly choked to death and couldn't see for about half an hour.
I also went through a phase of swapping the paper stuff in party poppers for foodstuffs. Horseradish sauce was particularly good and it looked like spunk when it landed on someone's dinner jacket.
(Thu 18th Sep 2008, 21:28, More)
We put party popper charges in a pepper pot once
Someone banged it on the table when they couldn't get any pepper out and they nearly choked to death and couldn't see for about half an hour.
I also went through a phase of swapping the paper stuff in party poppers for foodstuffs. Horseradish sauce was particularly good and it looked like spunk when it landed on someone's dinner jacket.
(Thu 18th Sep 2008, 21:28, More)
» Best Graffiti Ever
Woo Yay Houpla
on the wall of one of the gents' cubicles in the Chemical Engineering dept. at uni
(Thu 3rd May 2007, 17:45, More)
Woo Yay Houpla
on the wall of one of the gents' cubicles in the Chemical Engineering dept. at uni
(Thu 3rd May 2007, 17:45, More)
» Pointless Experiments
Electricity
Licking a 9v battery is pretty funky on your tongue.
Doing the same with a 16V, 5A 1950s (or thereabouts) Meccano transformer isn't so good.
(Thu 24th Jul 2008, 18:03, More)
Electricity
Licking a 9v battery is pretty funky on your tongue.
Doing the same with a 16V, 5A 1950s (or thereabouts) Meccano transformer isn't so good.
(Thu 24th Jul 2008, 18:03, More)
» Your first cigarette
Chemistry lessons
At high school we were at the stage where they were teaching us really useful stuff - sex education and the reactivity of metals.
Due to health and safety (or more likely because the teacher knew us too well, even though we were top set) we weren't allowed to chuck caesium and rubidium into buckets of water and had to settle with sodium, magnesium and potassium.
The magnesium came in a nice roll which someone half inched and it came to break time which allowed groups of people to go off down to the bottom of the grass bank out of sight of the teachers for their morning's nicotine fix.
We convinced the person who had brought the tobacco and papers that day that smoking a fag which had a couple of strips of said magnesium rolled into it would give it much more of a kick (we convinced him using our knowledge of SCIENCE).
We pretended to play football while they went off for their smoke but got bored because nothing happened. Then all of a sudden expletives were heard and we turned to see a huge cloud of white smoke rising up from below the school yard followed by some sheepish looking smokers coming back up the embankment (I'm sure one of them had less eyebrow than before).
That was our laugh for the day. We gave them the rest of the roll of magnesium but don't know what they did with it.
Length? 100mm in the fag and about 2m left on the roll.
(Wed 19th Mar 2008, 21:35, More)
Chemistry lessons
At high school we were at the stage where they were teaching us really useful stuff - sex education and the reactivity of metals.
Due to health and safety (or more likely because the teacher knew us too well, even though we were top set) we weren't allowed to chuck caesium and rubidium into buckets of water and had to settle with sodium, magnesium and potassium.
The magnesium came in a nice roll which someone half inched and it came to break time which allowed groups of people to go off down to the bottom of the grass bank out of sight of the teachers for their morning's nicotine fix.
We convinced the person who had brought the tobacco and papers that day that smoking a fag which had a couple of strips of said magnesium rolled into it would give it much more of a kick (we convinced him using our knowledge of SCIENCE).
We pretended to play football while they went off for their smoke but got bored because nothing happened. Then all of a sudden expletives were heard and we turned to see a huge cloud of white smoke rising up from below the school yard followed by some sheepish looking smokers coming back up the embankment (I'm sure one of them had less eyebrow than before).
That was our laugh for the day. We gave them the rest of the roll of magnesium but don't know what they did with it.
Length? 100mm in the fag and about 2m left on the roll.
(Wed 19th Mar 2008, 21:35, More)