Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Some more from my youthCutting my own hair- 'Hey, how difficult can it be'? Answer.... very (especially when 10)
After shave when a mid-teen. Dad's old spice? Hai Karate? I settled for something called 'Mandate' without thinking that it sounds like you want to date a man.
Running the LP of Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden backwards to find out what Satanic message they were trying to put into kid's minds, only to find it was Nicko McBrain saying something like 'For two, said a man with three bones' (Wikipedia says it was 'What Ho said the man with the three bonce' as 'said' by Idi Amin in the Alan Coren 'collected broadcasts of...') in a Jamaican accent. Normal record styli don't like going backweards and after a few times, the LP didn't like it either.
After reading 'british woodland plants and flowers' where it gave helpful descriptions of which plants had odd effects myself and a couple of science-y school friends wanted to extract the active ingredients out of Dill, Valerian and Monkshood (although the last one would have been pretty toxic- after all, digitalis comes from Foxglove) but didn't have the neccessary apothecary skills, so we just tried to make a tincture by marinading dried dill and valerian root in alcohol. Well, specifically, bacardi. I didn't have a chance to sample the finished product (we wanted super-spy knock-out juice but agreed it would be unwise to try out on anyone else first) but Fletch volounteered- complained that it did nothing and was like eating grass...I tried to explain that he should have filtered it first...
I also experimented with trying to like pop music in the 1980s but fortunately my brother had lots of the aforementioned Iron Maiden albums around, and 90125 by Yes, so I put down the Brothers In Arms and went down the heavy metal / prog rock path. And am still on it 20 years later.
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 25 Jul 2008, 15:46,
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PROG! WOOHOO!Brothers In Arms is ace as well though.
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Hai Karate!As an 11 year old, I used to wander around steeped in my dad's hai karate!
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baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 15:57,
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