'Best get a new kettle, then...'
A girl I once worked in a pub with was asked by a customer for a hot chocolate, one night.

Not having ever made one before, but not wanting to look like a div, she improvised a method, thusly:

- Pour about half a jar of hot chocolate powder in the kettle
- Fill the kettle with milk
- Turn on the kettle

It sort of made a fuzzley noise for a minute and started to crackle and emit burnt chocolatey smoke.

In fairness, several bar-hanging regulars and I had watched her throughout the whole process, and could have corrected her, but we were too enthralled.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:58, 7 replies)

That
Is fucking marvellous.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:59, closed)

my brother had a mate who (at the age of 24) did this
at our house during a house party years ago. Explaining why we had to buy a new kettle to our suspicious parents wasn't easy
( Bamboo Steamer, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:03, closed)

wonder
ful
(Pat_Gash, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:03, closed)

Thas a good one!
Duly clicked!
( ..wil, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:11, closed)

In a previous job...
...we had some long-term visitors from the Far East who did basically the same thing but with noodles.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 17:30, closed)

In my first year at Uni
there were stories about the Chinese people in halls setting off the fire alarm by trying to cook frozen burgers in a toaster.

Actually, thinking about it I once managed to set fire to my toaster by toasting something that contained more grease than I realised. Ah well, it was only a £5 Tesco value toaster...
(julius, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 18:20, closed)

When I was in halls
the only 'weird forrin' we had was a Polish guy who I once walked in on as he was skinning a fish in the shower.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 10:20, closed)

...skinning a fish in the shower"
Is that a euphemism?
(GoodLord doesn't have time for sigs., Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:11, closed)

Nope
He was stood in the shower cubicle, knife in one hand, Trout in the other.

Finding him wanking would probably have been less weird....
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 13:09, closed)