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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I had almost that exact same thing happen to me. Found a big snapping turtle in the middle of the road, picked it up so it wouldn't get run over. Fortunately, I was holding it near the back, hands on either side of it's tail. It whipped its head around to bite me, and missed by what had to be less than an inch. Somehow I didn't drop it but now when I see a turtle in the road I give it the finger. I used to kind of lightly press on the back of their shells with my foot when I found turtles in the road. They usually started to scoot and couldn't get to my tasty, tasty fingers.
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Eponine posted:I used to kind of lightly press on the back of their shells with my foot when I found turtles in the road. They usually started to scoot and couldn't get to my tasty, tasty fingers. Did you ever manage to do the thing where you got unlimited 1-ups?
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-10/vic-taxis-campaign-backfires/6927626
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Drops battery into glass Drops glass
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Indolent Bastard posted:Drops battery into glass I think the glass cracked. I bet he had a hell of a time trying to put that out.
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gender illusionist posted:I think the glass cracked. I bet he had a hell of a time trying to put that out. "Quick! Get me some water!" *FWOOSH*
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Let's just do this potentially explosive science experiment just at my desk next to my keyboard in my crowded room, I'm sure nothing will get in the way or damaged...
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gender illusionist posted:I think the glass cracked. I bet he had a hell of a time trying to put that out. You do tend to drop a glass when it blows up in your hand. I'd love/hate to see the aftermath.
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Indolent Bastard posted:You do tend to drop a glass when it blows up in your hand. Nah as he's moving the glass off the table it sounds like the reaction made it crack.
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"I'm just going to use all of it and see what happens." It's like the high school graduates' version of "Hold my beer and watch this."
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Atmus posted:Did you ever manage to do the thing where you got unlimited 1-ups?
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LawfulWaffle posted:"I'm just going to use all of it and see what happens." In a similar vein, here are some high schoolers trying to pour molten aluminum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A796N_YZTm8
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Where's the rest of it? I want to see him kick the clown's rear end.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 22:41 |
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Not gonna lie, I did dumb experiments in my bedroom when I was in high school too. Never started a chemical reaction fire though. Think the dumbest thing I ever did was fill a mt. dew bottle with butane in an attempt to make a rocket that would spin my chair around. It didn't really work, if you are wondering.
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I remember one year the Christmas Eve present that I opened was a chemistry set. It was only minutes later that my mom regretted it, as I made a stinkbomb by heating sulfur and candle wax (it was one of the simpler recipes).
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Similarly I once lit several guitar picks on fire in my room when I was a kid and marveled at how aggressively the fire burnt, like a butane torch. What I didn't consider was that fumes were also being burned off just as aggressively from the plastic and one whiff knocked me out instantly. I woke up with a killer headache and a freshly singed carpet. I was lucky enough not to have burned the house down. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB0lXPiJ_pk New Failarmy redneck edition. The stunt near the end is pretty brutal, surprised the guy got up and was able to run after that. speshl guy has a new favorite as of 23:06 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I remember one year the Christmas Eve present that I opened was a chemistry set. It was only minutes later that my mom regretted it, as I made a stinkbomb by heating sulfur and candle wax (it was one of the simpler recipes). The first thing I did was mix absolutely every chemical that had a "Danger" or "Flammable" notice on it. All it did was make a bad smelling grey/blue mess that was not flammable and stained the garage floor. Good old science!
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This reminds me of the new science/chem building at univ. At some point, something, a small controlled fire from an experiment or something, triggered a smoke alarm which set off automatic sprinklers. Everyone ran out - but they forgot that there was still a block of sodium metal sitting in the open, which they were just getting ready for some other experiment. Oops.
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Solice Kirsk posted:The first thing I did was mix absolutely every chemical that had a "Danger" or "Flammable" notice on it. All it did was make a bad smelling grey/blue mess that was not flammable and stained the garage floor. Good old science! I did something like that with my set and it stripped the glaze off the bathtub. On one hand: Free nonslip grip! On the other hand: Sandpaper your rear end down while taking a bath!
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Carbon dioxide posted:This reminds me of the new science/chem building at univ. At some point, something, a small controlled fire from an experiment or something, triggered a smoke alarm which set off automatic sprinklers. Everyone ran out - but they forgot that there was still a block of sodium metal sitting in the open, which they were just getting ready for some other experiment. Oops. Ahahaha awesome. If they have to put up warnings for firefighters why on earth do they have sprinklers up in there?
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syscall girl posted:Ahahaha awesome. To give the firefighters something to fight when the sprinklers go off, duh
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Any Chem. dept. worth their salts should have alarms going off regularly and ignored most of the time. Also you guys must be slightly older since you had "real" chem kits.
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Reminds me of a story my high school science professor once told my class. It may be stdh.txt but he was a pretty strange guy and I believe him. He told us that when he was an undergrad, he had screwed up the timing for a lab experiment and so was in the lab alone, very late, repeating the work correctly. He was wandering the lab's storage rooms while waiting for a sample to finish a long round in the oven or something and came across a large jar containing a solid in some kind of greenish fluid. The label identified it as a kilogram of sodium. At this point I'll quote him: "So I stole it." He brought it back to his dorm, which was shaped like a very square letter C or like an unused staple, and they built a snowman in the middle of the dorm lawn where it was overlooked on three sides by people's rooms. On top of the snowman went the jar of sodium. And then they threw things at it. He admitted that it took them quite a while to land any direct hits and even longer to actually break it, but eventually they managed and the fluid started oozing out and down the snowman. After a minute, enough had drained out to let the sodium actually contact the snow and a sudden spout of flame came firing out of it at an angle! Everyone was entertained for a bit. But it grew to be several feet long rather quickly and then was joined by a second fire. Everyone was getting pretty worried now and someone called the fire department. The fire department has a particular way of dealing with fires, a way they pretty much always employ. But that way made the sodium actually explode. He said the ultimate consequences were he and his roommate being put on probation for the rest of their academic careers, something he had to talk his way INTO because the first plan was to kick them out. And they had known it was him for two reasons. His roommate had thrown a book with his name on it and every window facing the explosion had shattered except for theirs, because it was cold but they had opened it to throw things. Hydrocodone has a new favorite as of 23:53 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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Gaunab posted:Where's the rest of it? I want to see him kick the clown's rear end. This is actually a prequel for IT
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Hydrocodone posted:Reminds me of a story my high school science professor once told my class. It may be stdh.txt but he was a pretty strange guy and I believe him. A couple of guys I knew in high school stole a giant thing of sodium that was packed in a bucket with a bunch of sand and threw it into some kid they hated's above ground pool. Completely leveled the thing, and they got it all on video. Man that was cool (at the time). Kids are lovely and dumb.
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PhazonLink posted:Any Chem. dept. worth their salts should have alarms going off regularly and ignored most of the time. I grew up in a golden time when parents were just out of touch enough that you could get into really fun trouble, but close enough that you wouldn't usually wind up dead or on fire (born in 1980). Also I was allowed to play with all those dangerous chemicals when I was like 7 or 8 years old because kids were awesome back then. Also we got to play around with model rockets which are basically fireworks that you can reuse. And toys with small pieces that fit perfectly in our throats but didn't have warning labels because we wouldn't eat our loving toys like idiots. But kids these days with their......<rabble rabble rabble>
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Solice Kirsk posted:I grew up in a golden time when parents were just out of touch enough that you could get into really fun trouble, but close enough that you wouldn't usually wind up dead or on fire (born in 1980). Also I was allowed to play with all those dangerous chemicals when I was like 7 or 8 years old because kids were awesome back then. Also we got to play around with model rockets which are basically fireworks that you can reuse. And toys with small pieces that fit perfectly in our throats but didn't have warning labels because we wouldn't eat our loving toys like idiots. But kids these days with their......<rabble rabble rabble> Them darn millennials, with their unburnt carpets and all 10 fingers! Back in my day, babies choked on their toys and liked it!
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RE: Sodium chat. My high school science teacher had a fun story once. He had a rock of sodium in his classroom for display about the size of a softball, along with all sorts of other displays. One time some boys stole it and decided to throw it in the toilet in the bathroom...and were disappointed when nothing happened, so they left the bathroom. See, the thing had been sitting for years and had a layer of all sorts of stuff on it, from oxidization to oils and dirt from being handled. This took a while for the water to soak through. About fifteen minutes later there was an explosion so big it shook the whole school and there was nothing left of the stall it was put in.
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Choco1980 posted:RE: Sodium chat. My high school science teacher had a fun story once. He had a rock of sodium in his classroom for display about the size of a softball, along with all sorts of other displays. One time some boys stole it and decided to throw it in the toilet in the bathroom...and were disappointed when nothing happened, so they left the bathroom. See, the thing had been sitting for years and had a layer of all sorts of stuff on it, from oxidization to oils and dirt from being handled. This took a while for the water to soak through. About fifteen minutes later there was an explosion so big it shook the whole school and there was nothing left of the stall it was put in. And with enough time to get out and into class they were probably never caught right? Pretty lucky for them though.
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Back at the dorm we once filled up a big barbecue grill with old landline phones and gasoline, because all the electronics poo poo in the phones would give off cool colors. It did, but also the flames were 3 stories high and the grill burned through and we had to replace a section of the flag stones that had been ruined by a lump of molten iron & various other leftovers.
Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 01:23 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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quote:Police say a man approached a car at a city intersection Monday evening and tried to pull the driver out of his seat with a goal of stealing the vehicle. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/undercover-police-attempted-carjacking-1.3313350?cmp=rss
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In High School there was a kid called Sandy about 5 years older than me who had 2 fingers on one hand. He'd left/graduated by the time I found out why in Science Club from the teacher that took that. He thought it was a good idea to make a firework/rocket out of a copper tube at home knowing what he knew from Chemistry class, and stealing the ingredients. Having hammered one end closed, then filling it with what amounts to gunpowder, he then hammered the other end closed Hence blowing his fingers off. It pays to take notice in Chemistry of consequences as well as what to take home.
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Goldskull posted:In High School there was a kid called Sandy about 5 years older than me who had 2 fingers on one hand. He'd left/graduated by the time I found out why in Science Club from the teacher that took that. He thought it was a good idea to make a firework/rocket out of a copper tube at home knowing what he knew from Chemistry class, and stealing the ingredients. Having hammered one end closed, then filling it with what amounts to gunpowder, he then hammered the other end closed Seems like they could have used a lesson in basic physics. e: guess he got one
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Gaunab posted:Where's the rest of it? I want to see him kick the clown's rear end. Remi Gaillard is the genius behind this and many other entertaining videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/nqtv
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Goldskull posted:In High School there was a kid called Sandy about 5 years older than me who had 2 fingers on one hand. He'd left/graduated by the time I found out why in Science Club from the teacher that took that. He thought it was a good idea to make a firework/rocket out of a copper tube at home knowing what he knew from Chemistry class, and stealing the ingredients. Having hammered one end closed, then filling it with what amounts to gunpowder, he then hammered the other end closed I am truly surprised I still have all my fingers and eyes after reading Jolly Rogers Cookbook. A lot of the stuff in it was above my comprehension at the time so I improvised. I wanted to make detonators for whatever reason so I got Ramset charges from my uncles work shed (Ramset charges are from those gun things used to punch holes in concrete - look like blanks). I then stole a long spool of magnesium strips. I then got the pliers out and peeled the charges open and stuffed some magnesium stripping into it, then recrimped the charge closed with pliers again. Then I lit it in the laundry. I immediately panicked and in the rush to get out I locked the screen door so ran back to the charge and threw it into a camping pot. The lid went through the ceiling and I was in a lot of trouble.
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1.46 every time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwClFPzo9Vs
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Speaking of magnesium, apparently the US military uses or used magnesium-framed snowshoes for their light weight and ability to be shaved as emergency fire starter. I'm wondering how the Marines felt thinking about walking around the campfire with shoes made of highly reactive tinder.
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