
Old hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
( , Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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Well, if you smoke you have. I had fags (so no need for teabags), papers (no bible pages), and I even had filters (no hobbit tampons). But my lighter was empty. It was one of those non-refillable types, but I did have a can of lighter gas (so no need to syphon petrol out of the nearest automobile).
So I bodged together a lighter. I grabbed an empty beer bottle (I was right classy back then), and filled it with the noxious miasma from the can. This is sounding like a Monkey Island game.
Then, I diligently held my cigarette over the top of the bottle, and struck sparks from the lighter. Nothing. More lighter gas. Still nothing. A bit more lighter gas. BOOM!
I managed to set fire to my thumb, my hair and a bit of my face. I happily wandered down to casualty with a lit fag in my mouth.
( , Thu 20 Aug 2009, 22:44, 6 replies)

Next time maybe use a toaster..
I had a similar experience trying to use a kitchen blowtorch to light a fag.. Never again.
( , Fri 21 Aug 2009, 0:41, closed)

had the same effect with a gas stove top...
no eye brows for a month
( , Fri 21 Aug 2009, 1:10, closed)

I set the front one of MrKitty's then dreadlocks on fire lighting his cigarette.
I swear it burnt for at least a minute but when we put it out- no damage. Not to face, eyebrows or even hair.
There was so much built up hair grease and product that the fire just burnt on that.
Ewwww.
( , Fri 21 Aug 2009, 3:57, closed)

with using the cooker, I ask you?! You can even use an electric hob to light a ciggie if you wait long enough...
( , Fri 21 Aug 2009, 10:37, closed)

lucky you didn't kill yourself, mate.
Its stories like this that make me glad that I go to the effort of carting a cooker round with me everywhere I go.
Click!
( , Fri 21 Aug 2009, 14:07, closed)

i strolled defiantly into the kitchen, turned on the hob, lit up and then went back to watching telly
( , Fri 21 Aug 2009, 17:11, closed)
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