Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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12 and stupid...and then again 10 years later.
The blue and yellow BMX from before very well could have been mine, aged 12 my dad got it out of the paper, I was suddenly uber cool - never before had my stomping ground seen such a brightly coloured dervish of metal and plastic.
There I was, BMX stunt master, riding down a hill in paralel form, my cohorts a kimbo...
Dave: I bet you can't ride down here with your arms crossed -
Me: arms crossed, I could do that whilst knitting, you bafoon...
* crosses arms places on the handle bars.. success....
half a second later my teeth are rapidly approaching the tarmac... the rest is a bloody mess - how I didn't loose teeth I will never know...
but I can safely say, riding with crossed arms on a bmx 4 sizes too large down a hill is important.
10 years later, and I have my own house, my own money, and access to lots and lots of things that my 12 yearold brain could only wish for.
Most notably, alcohol and fireworks... Bored with the standard bangers, I decided to take one appart take out the solid cartridge, grind it into a powder, and make smaller ahem... explosives!!!
Unfortuantly I got drunk, got bored, so inside the house, I found that the powder ignites really easilly, and makes a nice little 'pooof'...
Bigger and bigger the piles got, till something sparked off my main pile - into my face, all over my hands - my hands turned into single large blisters, my eyebrows and eye lashes were gone - and I lost the deposit for the burns all over the room...
I told everyone I burnt myself on the oven...
(, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 14:45, Reply)
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