Bombs Away

I, in common with all normal boys, spent an inordinate amount of time trying to make things blow up. This lead to many minor injuries. Burnt hands from match bombs, near enough deafened by the shotgun shell bomb, more burns from the burning molten sodium bomb and not forgetting premature defecation during the gas cylinder on bonfire incident.

At 18 years old, legally a man but very much still a boy, I had all my birthdays and Christmases in one when I went on a underwater demolitions course. The first bit of the course was to familiarise ourselves with various explosives and techniques on land before we took it below the waves. And by familiarise I mean play around with lots of explosives , blow stuff up and laugh quite a lot. I look back on the afternoon spent seeing who could blast debris the farthest out to sea as my finest moment.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 21 Nov 2011, 11:05, 5 replies)

Molten sodium bomb? Tell me more...
(skgorsky, Mon 21 Nov 2011, 11:20, closed)

Acquired all of the school's sodium supply. Put it an empty tin on the middle of a fire. It got hot and melted, but no air could get to it. So we threw a bucket of water over it. The results were dramatic. A wump and a huge billow of white smoke filled with thousands of orange points of light. The side of me that was facing the fire was peppered with burning sodium globules, it had an “instant chicken pocks” effect.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 21 Nov 2011, 16:43, closed)

know exactly where you're coming from
16 years old. RAF Akrotiri, 2lbs of C4 and an Austin Maestro.

Next time I had that much fun involved an anti-tank rocket and a caravan... No wonder I wasn't interested in school.
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Mon 21 Nov 2011, 14:49, closed)

You sir are a lucky fellow
count your blessings (& fingers).
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 21 Nov 2011, 17:32, closed)

it's not just boys
i LOVE to watch things go boom :)
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 21 Nov 2011, 17:37, closed)