Have you ever started a fire?I went to sleep with candles burning - woke up to a circle of flame on the rug. Thought, "Tits. Better put the rug in the bath and turn the taps on." TIP: Don't put a burning rug into a fibre glass bath. I caused about £5000 of damage to the house and was coughing up smoky black phlegm for a few weeks. Can you beat that?
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rob, Tue 2 Mar 2004, 17:48)
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not mebut some people I know...honest
Chemistry was always a source of fun...
Investigating Substances, age approx. 15 - whole class proceeds to set fire to said substances, particularly the sulfur, wax and large piles of magnesium. hint: powder gives a more satisfying bang.
Sword-fights with lit bunsen burners...followed shortly by and excursion for the fire extinguisher.
Our teacher used to regularly set fire to his desk when demonstrating...it burned green and blue and purple depending on what he'd been spilling on it.
Now, this isn't fire, but it does involve smoke...chemistry last year...a whole 16 years old, we were, just into the sixth form...we're doing some experiment, involving H2SO4 probably, and we do what all good students do when we're done...pour the waste down the sink...cue steady smoke from the plug hole and a massive panic for a whole 5 seconds...then everyone else joins in.
My physics teacher, as a student, apparently once poured liquid nitrogen down the toilet...that's not even slightly relevant but you can imagine the results...mmm, frosty
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