Call me ignorant
but I thought car batteries were full of acid, not water. What's been going on in the world?!
( dr_fonz, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:58, archived)

Sorry
topping up car batteries. You're right (I think) but if the level of them drops you add distilled water (presumably the water evaporates but the acid doesn't).
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:01, archived)

*hands over A-level in chemistry*
correct answer that man.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:08, archived)

I got a D
:(
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:10, archived)

slags.
did they swap your paper with that of some insignificant royal to get him into oxbridge via the back door? .. I bet they did you know ..
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:13, archived)

No, but in fairness
no one in my entire school got above a B that year. Not even the guys doing 5 A levels and getting As in all of them. Don't know what happened there really, seems everyone dropped a mark on their predicted.

I got a B in physics (if I'd done any course work it'd probably have been an A) and failed maths.

Coincidentally, 16-18 I started doing a lot of acid :P
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:18, archived)

ah, can't have been the drugs*
It must be a conspiricy ;)

*in fairness I turned up to a couple of my A-levels stoned out of my mind and it didn't do me any harm :P
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:22, archived)

Ah I'm not blaming the drugs
just I did really well at GCSE level and then got very interested in sex, drugs and rock and roll (and all night illegal dance parties) and stopped seeming to being that interested in thermodynamics.

I regret it slightly but a youth wasted isn't a wasted youth :)
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:27, archived)

fair enough
I didn't have those problems until my final year so didn't fuck myself up too badly. well, not academically anyway ... ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:33, archived)

All the acid got used up by our parents/grandparents
at woodstock
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:01, archived)

I thought that too
until revising for my theory test last week.

I also learned that if I adjust my chain incorrectly it could cause.. Oh.. Bugger.. Seem to have forgotten already.
( Dekazer, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:04, archived)

flanging, I suspect.
or more likely ... it to come off and decapitate a small child

/if you need to know about chains, what happens if you only want to ride a shaft-drive bike?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:07, archived)

Ach it was
only for the theory test - everyone does the same one. And then instantly forgets it all :D
( Dekazer, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:30, archived)