7 party poppers on new years eve
At the last minute on new year's eve, I purchased seven "giant party poppers" from the pound shop.

These things aren't any party poppers. Imagine, if you will, a wallpaper tube with a co2 canister attached to the bottom. Inside, the manufacturers had inserted approximately half a metre of glitter, streamers and bits of shiny plastic.

A few beers later and these bastard devices were set off in every corner of my house, making the place look like a gay World War III scene. It took us 5 hours to scrub the dye from the streamers out of our floor.
(hcarp, Sun 6 Jan 2008, 21:33, 3 replies)

I bought a batch and modded them.
As any good nutter would. They were smaller (about bog-roll inner size. I took out the streamers and replaced it with other goodies. These ones were spring loaded not gas so could be re-used with a bit of work.

Flour - Dissapointing
Flourozine - Messy
Paintballs - Good 'skirmish' toy for getting the other team
ballbearings - don't ... just don't
Chilli powder - VERY good non- lethal weapon for use on Scallys or stray dogs (same thing, isn't it?)

Would love to try similar with the big CO2 ones...
(Dionysian Aut viam inveniam aut faciam, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 11:12, closed)

Party popper prophylactic
Went to a friend's 21st a couple of years ago. Her uncle had brought along something that sounds similar, though the whole thing was covered in a cellophane wrapping. A *very* tough cellophane wrapping, as he discovered when he fired the party popper, projecting an enormous cloud of glitter, streamers and confetti from the end of the tube, an impressive two or three centimetres out of the end, where it was all neatly contained by the wrapper.

We ripped the thing open anyway, and threw the contents around by hand, much to the delight of the restaurant staff.
(Photon wasting your time since, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 23:26, closed)