Christ, that tube one's a boring fact. I wouldn't like to sit next to them at a dinner party.
I have another laser-related fact, though. If you have a top-loading CD player that's skipping, don't bother wiping the CD. Instead, take a scrap of bog roll, preferably unused, wrap it around your index finger, touch it onto lens of the laser and gently turn your finger clockwise a few times.

The lens jiggles slightly loose on them and throws the laser off. Or, it could just be dust. Clean the lens, anyway.
( Kroney, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:08, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Preferably unused?
preferably? Christ man, I know your meme and all but I really can't see how smearing a shitty tissue on the innards of my CD player is going to stop the disc skipping.
(berk, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:11, Reply)

On DVDs and the like it produces an effect not dissimilar
to the old Vaseline on the camera lens trick. Instant soft focus!
( Kroney, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:13, Reply)

Can't you and your bog eye
simply achieve that same effect by watching the dvd with your glasses off?
(berk, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:16, Reply)