Back when I was a foolish youth
A mate of mine and me decided it would be a ripping wheeze to take all the powder out of a couple of boxes of black cat bangers make a tasty pryramid of the powder.

Being foolish, I decided, that, nope, this was not enough, so we stole a half dozen of my dad's shotgun cartridges, and deftly sawed them open, and added the gunpowder to the pile also.

This pile, might I add, was just sat on our patio, on a handy concrete slab, so we were having a devil of a time getting it lit.

Soo. We leaned in over it, cupped our hands about it, and went at it with clipper lighters until:

FLOOM! It went up like a bastard. Massive flash, both blinded, faces singed, was deaf for about three days. Freind assures me he thought we were rather dead afterwards.

The concrete slab bore a brilliant star shaped singe mark until I moved out, and I guess, it still does today. A monument to idiocy if you will.

Now, I've noted a few folks saying in the other posts that facial fire trauma made them or their mates beards grow slow. Dunno if it has anything to do with this but my beard grows well patchy and never fills in on the sides.

My mate however, can grow a full on Brian Blessed, so, I discount the fire = less shaving theory.

tl/dr 6 pack of bangers taken apart + gunpowder pile, meets teenage idiots, with lighters, goes exactly how you would think.
(yeswehavenopasties, Sat 31 Jan 2015, 0:44, Reply)