Pointless,
Christ on a bike, I have done hundreds of stupid pointless experiments.

-I tried to see how long I could go without sleep. I ended up going for four days and in the end I think I was dreaming and I was awake and I found it difficult to tell the two apart. I decided to call it a day and have a kip when my mother found me next to the oven in the kitchen. The oven was on and I was stuffing a damp(!) pillow into it.

-Attempted to make Crystal Meth in university lab as I thought I could become Merc – driving drug tsar. Our tutor told us how to make it in a ‘cool’ attempt to be friendly and to be down with the kids, except he didn’t tell us the specific reagent to be used. I decided that it probably didn’t matter and used an arbitrary one. I don’t know what I made eventually but it gave my mate a headache for 3 days.

-used liquid paper on my keyboard to see how well I can type without looking at the keys themselves. Verdict? New keyboard.

-Attempted to make thermite in my uni halls of residence kitchen for shits and giggles. This was slightly more successful and I managed to completely destroy the gas cooker and gave myself second degree burns on my hands and face. I also melted a plastic bin.

-Attempted to see how long I could give up meat. The answer was a surprising 20 minutes.

-Attempted to live for a week on original flavour Oreo cookies because my local Costcutter was doing a deal on them. I managed 2 days and at the end when I finally went to the toilet the bowl looked like there had been an explosion in a Guinness factory. I also had to wipe crumbs from my chocolate starfish.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:08, 4 replies)

Making Drugs
Haha! We tried to make that in the labs too, for someones dissertation project apparantly (I was the chemistry geek and to be honest I think they may have been lying to get me to help them), however a lot of the stuff we were using was very volatile and all we succeeded in making was an absolutely foul smelling black tar like substance that caused several of the labs to be evacuated.
(tillyecl Tilly, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:14, closed)

20 minutes, eh?
Sir, I do salute you for your massive, selfless contribution to teh science.
Your experiments are hardly pointless, and they did produce giggles at my workplace. Clickety!
(w4I4q1O1 was hard at work on, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:52, closed)

What you made, and what gave your friend a headache, was probably boric acid.
It's used to kill rats, though not very effectively.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 18:32, closed)

I did the keyboard thing
The idea was that my muscle memory would let me type without paying attention to the keys. I pulled out all the keys with a screwdriver and replaced them in arbitrary positions. If I didn't think about it, I could type brilliantly, but if my brain got involved, that's when I ran into trouble.
(BrainSurgerysFun, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 0:15, closed)