Pearoast.
I was helping a friend of mine clear some brush from his land, including a stand of bamboo. We had piled a load of brush in a clear area and had a merry little fire going onto which we threw the shrubs and branches and whatnot that we had cut down. Then we threw on a load of green bamboo with the rest of the branches.

Did you know that those chambers inside bamboo are actually pretty airtight? Did you know that putting it into a fire while green would result in steam pressure building up inside those chambers until they burst? Did you know that a large piece of bamboo can produce explosions sufficient to hurl chunks of fire in all directions so that you have to simultaneously dodge and try to put out a dozen small fires that have suddenly sprung up all around you?

Well, I fucking do now.
( Wanderer, Tue 27 Jan 2015, 10:39, 2 replies)

Why do you think they call it BAM!boo?

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 27 Jan 2015, 11:18, closed)

This I like.

(McChinaman banned, Wed 28 Jan 2015, 7:35, closed)