Home Science
Have you split the atom in your kitchen? Made your own fireworks? Fired a bacon rocket through your window?
We love home science experiments - tell us about your best, preferably with instructions.
Extra points for lost eyebrows / nasal hair / limbs
( , Thu 9 Aug 2012, 17:25)
Have you split the atom in your kitchen? Made your own fireworks? Fired a bacon rocket through your window?
We love home science experiments - tell us about your best, preferably with instructions.
Extra points for lost eyebrows / nasal hair / limbs
( , Thu 9 Aug 2012, 17:25)
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In my defence I was about 4
I remember being very interested in science (based mainly on mad scientist scenes from kids cartoons).
I spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of experiment I could do. A lot of this time was spent on the toilet. One day when I was channeling Edison whilst pinching my daily loaf I got to wondering what would happen to the poo if, instead of being flushed away, it was kinda...... left for a while.
And that is the story of how I found myself to be pooing into a wad of toilet roll which I would then hide somewhere. I didn't think it through so I then had to think of a suitable hiding place whilst my creation festered under my nose. Not straying too far from my comfort zone I soon found myself wrapping it in more TP and then wedging it in a spot I had found underneath the ceramic bathroom sink.
I left it there.
For about a month.
My parents spent a fortune on dyno rod and other assorted plumbers trying to find out where the smell was. Oming from.
Being young and oblivious I didn't take any notice. I went back to it when, purely by chance, I remembered what I had done.
Either someone had replaced my mighty log with a deformed sultana which somehow still smelled of shit, or a lot of it had disappeared through the tissue. Applying what I now know to be called occams razor I decided the shitty sultana scenario was highly improbable and that is how I learned about desiccation/evaporation/dehydration (I am sure some clever boffin b3tan will indicate hitch one it is)
A length joke would be too easy given the subject matter.
( , Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:10, 9 replies)
I remember being very interested in science (based mainly on mad scientist scenes from kids cartoons).
I spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of experiment I could do. A lot of this time was spent on the toilet. One day when I was channeling Edison whilst pinching my daily loaf I got to wondering what would happen to the poo if, instead of being flushed away, it was kinda...... left for a while.
And that is the story of how I found myself to be pooing into a wad of toilet roll which I would then hide somewhere. I didn't think it through so I then had to think of a suitable hiding place whilst my creation festered under my nose. Not straying too far from my comfort zone I soon found myself wrapping it in more TP and then wedging it in a spot I had found underneath the ceramic bathroom sink.
I left it there.
For about a month.
My parents spent a fortune on dyno rod and other assorted plumbers trying to find out where the smell was. Oming from.
Being young and oblivious I didn't take any notice. I went back to it when, purely by chance, I remembered what I had done.
Either someone had replaced my mighty log with a deformed sultana which somehow still smelled of shit, or a lot of it had disappeared through the tissue. Applying what I now know to be called occams razor I decided the shitty sultana scenario was highly improbable and that is how I learned about desiccation/evaporation/dehydration (I am sure some clever boffin b3tan will indicate hitch one it is)
A length joke would be too easy given the subject matter.
( , Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:10, 9 replies)
If you were channeling Edison then you'd have nicked somebody else's story and passed it off as yours.
( , Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:17, closed)
( , Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:17, closed)
I swear
Small children can decide not to smell poo. It's the only logical explanation for them wandering in with half a ton of cack in their pants and looking at you bewildered when you ask them where the god-awful honk is coming from.
( , Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:59, closed)
Small children can decide not to smell poo. It's the only logical explanation for them wandering in with half a ton of cack in their pants and looking at you bewildered when you ask them where the god-awful honk is coming from.
( , Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:59, closed)
Did you just shit your pants?
"No" says first sprog.
Well it sure smells like it.
"I did it this morning"
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 0:43, closed)
"No" says first sprog.
Well it sure smells like it.
"I did it this morning"
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 0:43, closed)
I used to eat paper
So that I would get worms and could watch them wriggle around.
well normal I was.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:29, closed)
So that I would get worms and could watch them wriggle around.
well normal I was.
( , Tue 14 Aug 2012, 13:29, closed)
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