Desperate TimesStranded in a hotel in an African war zone with no internet access for two weeks, I was forced to resort to desperate measures. Possessing only my passport and the clothes I stood up in; and the warning "You can catch it shaking hands with a vicar out there" ringing in my ears, I had to draw my own porn in order to preserve my sanity.
Alas, it all came out looking like Coronation Street's Audrey Roberts, but, as they say, any port in a storm.
What have you done in times of great desperation?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Nov 2007, 10:10)
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As a student in hallsSome of the blokes on my floor decided it would be a good money saving ploy to brew our own beer. So the deed was done.
It wasn't very good, but it was alcoholic.
Then the idea was mooted to try to distil some of it. Well, none of us had access to a proper distillery, and I was too much of a wuss to nick stuff from the chemistry labs, so we rigged up our own apparatus. It consisted of a kettle, to provide the heat source to evaporate the alcohol, a piece of tubing (don't know where that came from), two bottles and a bucket of ice.
One bottle was filled with beer, and placed in the kettle of boiling water. The tube was sealed onto this bottle and led to the other bottle, which was in the bucket of ice, to condense the vital liquor.
It worked. Sort of.
We got about 5 ml each of throat-burning, essentially tasteless spirit.
But it was still cheaper than buying it.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 15 Nov 2007, 11:58,
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