Ignoring InstructionsWhen I was small, a friend of mine waved a big plastic bottle at me and asked me if I "wanted some drinking yoghurt?" I pointed out the "do not drink" label, but no, he was convinced this was a big jug of a particularly strange, liquid yoghurt that was briefly popular in the 70s.
He was sick for hours, after consuming a suprisingly large quantity of washing liquid.
What instructions have you ignored?
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chthonic, Thu 4 May 2006, 11:24)
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Splattered CeilingChemistry class, A Level practical exam.
We were supposed to find the boiling point of some compound that we had created and then had to seal them in little tubes.
Alex (for that is his name) missed out a step in the process, rendering the compund flammable. When he plunged his glass capsule into the oil bath it shattered, with the contents spilt and it started to burn atop the oil bath. Then like a scene from a cartoon there was an almighty 'whoosh' and the oil bath shot upwards due to the pressure in the large test tube it was held in, and it splattered the ceiling and little pools of flames were burning.
Needless to say, the whole building was evacuated and the fire brigade arrived. Teacher went back to Practical Exam Backup plan B- Titration.
Even then Alex managed to shatter his pipette, spraying acid all over the bench and burnt this great big hole in his labcoat by his crotch.
What a twunt.
I think he went on to do Chemistry at some backwater poly-cum-uni thing...
(, Fri 5 May 2006, 12:30, Reply)
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