Polystyrene floats
not the kind you use in the swimming pool though ...

My friend's wee boy can't be left in a room with polystyrene. He eats it. God only knows why, but there you go.

That stuff is completely indigestible, and comes out the other end the same way it went in. My friend discovered this when her wee boy ate a chunk of the packaging their new telly came in.

His poops were unflushable for days afterwards - they floated too well. Eventually, one of his parents (they refuse to divulge which) had to don the faithful rubber glove and scoop out the floaty white bits. The rest had broken up and gone to join Nemo in the ocean.

That one is guaranteed to come up the first time he brings a girl home.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:53, 1 reply)

they need to take pics as well
for more solid blackmail material.

I've never wished my kids to eat polystryene before....but imagine the possibilities for teen-embarassment!!
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 2 Apr 2008, 2:29, closed)