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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more bunsen-related hilarity...We were in Year 6 (about 10-11 years old, I think), and using bunsen burners for the first time.
One lad, called James Coward (I think, it was a long time ago) was too excited to listen to the teacher telling us to turn the gas off if the flame goes out.
He was so excited he did the experiment to evaporate salty water to leave just salt, and then blew his flame out. Just so he could listen to the hissing sound the gas made. Bear in mind that this was a laboratory with about 25 burners dotted around the place. All burning away merrily.
After about 30 seconds, he got bored. He wanted more fire. The following exchange occured:
JC: "Sir, do you have a match?"
Science Teacher: "Why?"
JC: "My flame's gone out"
ST: "when?"
JC: "errrrrr about a minute ago"
ST: "oh...ok". *thinks* "you did turn the gas off at the wall, didn't you Coward?"
JC: "eh?"
ST: "did. you. turn. the. gas. off?"
JC: "errrrrr no sir. Was I meant to?"
ST: "EVERYBODY GET OUT OF THE BUILDING. NOW!!"
He turned the gas off at the mains, and made us run behind a wall and crouch down. Then guess what happened?
Fuck all.
Proving that not listening to instructions didn't result in any death whatsoever.
(, Fri 5 May 2006, 13:55, Reply)
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