I was a curious child
I spent a vast amount of my free time doing lots of little experiments and at the tim I certainly didn't think they were pointless at the time!

There was the time I mixed all of the chemicals from my chemistry set together and then poured the bubbling mess down the kitchen sink...and burnt the sink.

I tried to make an overhead projector with a Tomy Torch and a few mirrors. Needless to say it didn't work.

I tried to swing up and over on my garden swing and tipped the whole thing over, grazing my bum on a rock as I landed.

But I think the crowning glory was the world's most pointless experiment I ever did, in fact that anyone has ever done. Something my parents still tease me about now. When I was very young (about 6, I'm told), I had an old woolly hat in my toybox. Not sure why it was there, but it was. Anyway, one day, I decided to see if I could pee in it without it going all the way through. Yes, you did just read that right. Don't ask me why I did it because even I don't know. My face has gone bright red just writing this.

My mum made me wear a nappy that night as punishment.
( El Lazarus is calm now, Ish,, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 18:29, 1 reply)

The chemistry set
I did the same but added every household chemical I could find and held the mixture in a test tube over the meths bunsen burner they provided in the kit.
Result? Thick brown/orange smoke, the bottom of the test tube blowing out and a nasty tarry substance which melted my nylon tracksuit trousers.
Happy days.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 11:30, closed)