I used to do loads of these as a kid
1) I stared at the sun for a good minute just to see what it would do. I reckon that whole 'going blind' thing is bollocks cause it did nothing

2) Put red ants in a black ants' nest. That was fucking cool, they had a vicious fight and the red ants lost miserably.

3) Put a wasp in a jar over the same ants' nest. The wasp fought valiantly but it eventually succumbed to the wrath of the ants

4) Made chlorine gas by mixing bleach with vinegar. My friend Martin told me it would explode if I lit a match over it so I tried but it didn't work

5) Ate way too much beetroot as I heard it made your pee go pink. It did.

6) At primary school we tried using rose thorns to pop the pipe that was filling up the swimming pool as we were curious as to how high the jet of water would go. We couldn't go through the thick plastic of the pipe, though.

7) built a huge see-saw out of old cereal packets and loo rolls, then tried to find stuff that would balance. Apparently one flower pot is about as heavy as two small flower pots. I then broke it when I tried bricks

8) Speaking of bricks, I once stacked up a huge wall of bricks in my garden, then tried to jump over it. I got as high as 11 bricks before my rear leg caught the top brick and I got moderately injured when I fell head-first onto the ground, followed by a load of bricks.

9) Raided my neighbour's rubbish bins to see what was in there. Funnily enough, most of it was...well, rubbish. There was an old, broken umbrella and a full tin of in-date spaghetti unopened.

10) Lit a candle using the sun an a magnifying glass. It actually works!

I could have continued this list for a long time. God I miss being a kid.
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 18:26, 1 reply)

I agree!
Being a kid was all of the aceness.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 22:23, closed)