Steven the Seagull Running
Look at the little fella go
edit: that link is a bit shit, have this seagull related one instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suYz5SHFHyA
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wideeye slightly pickled, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 16:20,
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I'm in three minds about the seagull laxative one:
1. It's a great prank
2. It's cruel to the seagulls
3. The kids are dickheads
Possibly the last two.
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Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 16:48,
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Calcium carbide wrapped in bread, thrown to gulls is always cruel and heartless*
As they die by exploding.
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*frantic scribbling*
Calcium Carbide you say? Hmmm... Where might one find some of that?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 16:58,
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www.caving-supplies.co.uk
In 1Kg tins.
I wouldn't recommend it as the gulls die. WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE GULLS!!!!
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Like this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lvhN8icYt8
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Ghoti Fingers, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 17:02,
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Could be!
When Calcium Carbide hits water it gives off Oxygen and Acetylene - in an enclosed pressurised space it can spontaneously combust.
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Oh, for heaven's sake Placid. Pay attention.
Acetylene, yes. But no oxygen is produced in the reaction with water.
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Ghoti Fingers, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 17:12,
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Same as this, calcium carbide in barrel, ignited....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Z4T7j1FWI
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Anyone with a relative pushing the numbers may have heard of "carbide lamps" for pushbikes as batteries were newfangled or expensive or summat. prewar II, the operation was not simple, but water somehow dripped on said material produced acetylene which burned with a smokey yellow flame.
My gran explained it to me in about an hour, 5 minutes of which were coherent and pertinent and i remain unenlightened.
All my dad said was if you shook them up and threw them they exploded and blew white liquid everywhere, they used to target the local beat copper who looked like he had been bird-shitted afterwards. This is more interesting, me being me, but you would just have got slap if caught, rather than a crim record and a jeremy Kyle invite as per today.
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And in the winter the water could freeze, so hot piss in the lamp would get it going again.
Unfortunately you also got a very unpleasant smell of hot urine.
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Varmint, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 20:21,
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Sounds like a more extreme version of the rice and pigeons thing
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Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 17:11,
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Russians are a tad more direct in their seagull eradication
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FUUeqSseERo#t=11
(may cause some collateral damage)
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Doesn't mean 3. isn't true
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Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 17:13,
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