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The only thing I learnt in electronics class was that the smell of solder, star wars figures and fruit polos, when subjected to the heat of a soldering iron for 20 minutes until they are one conjealed mass, is enough to make you want to gag just thinking about it 12 years on. It's sort of like a rancid, sour smell that goes right up your nose and makes it sting and run, but is also really sickly sweet, complemented as it is by the toxic whiff of plastic, and pungent plasto-fruity overtones. I don't know which star wars figure works best, or whether he-man would work better.

And burning your GCSE revision notes in a saucepan post-exams, alone in your parents' house, requires your full attention. And metal conducts, so the pan-base shouldn't be placed onto carpet. If only I'd learnt that scientific fact before my exams.

One should also bear in mind that buying firelighters and placing them on top of bollards in shopping areas of an evening really scares and confuses people.
(And I don't agree with that in the workplace, Thu 4 Mar 2004, 12:28, Reply)