Dangerous sports
Nige
it?
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Muck
> I have a couple of old airbags I want to set off in the garden, anyone top
> it?
>
noise. :)
Speedgazebo
That's a pop.
Black bin liner full of acytelene. Now that's a bang.
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RW
"Nige" <nigelD...@buggerfuckmittens.co.uk> wrote in message
news:6ooau1F...@mid.individual.net...
>I have a couple of old airbags I want to set off in the garden, anyone top
>it?
Dunno about noises and danger but the eeejits on this site
http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php
Under each of the "Death Wish" headings take some beating
Muck
That reminds me... a friend was angle grinding near a freshly charged
car battery. That went bang, and produced a nice cloud of atomized
battery acid.
Beelzebub
>it?
Fucking pathetic that is- wouldn't get out of bed for less than a kg of PE4.
Alan Crowder
>it?
Done that, hilarious, and also done the acetylene in a bag and set
light to it, took the hairs right off my arm it did.
Funny as fuck tho.
Alan
Simon Wilson
> I have a couple of old airbags I want to set off in the garden,
> anyone top it?
Are you going to Nige 'em out afterwards?
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ogden
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ogden
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Alex Ferrier
>
>I have a couple of old airbags I want to set off in the garden, anyone top
>it?
>
Getting avalanched, heliboarding in Whistler a few years back.
Blowing myself up with a bolt bomb on a bus as a teenager.
Falling down a crevasse, descending from the aguille de plan
to the envers hut.
Swinging (face out) by my wrist strap having slipped whilst
free-ice climbing on seracs on the Boison glacier, on a hot
summers afternoon.
Flat out down the Minton batch on an MTB (ending up upside down
in a stream at the bottom).
Shit loads of motorcycle stuff.
Come on, the least you could do is use them for whoopee
cushions for unsuspecting guests...
Make sure you get footage.
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Wicked Uncle Nigel
<x@x.x> typed
>Nige wrote:
>>
>>I have a couple of old airbags I want to set off in the garden, anyone
>>top it?
>>
>
>Getting avalanched, heliboarding in Whistler a few years back.
>
>Blowing myself up with a bolt bomb on a bus as a teenager.
>
>Falling down a crevasse, descending from the aguille de plan
>to the envers hut.
>
>Swinging (face out) by my wrist strap having slipped whilst
>free-ice climbing on seracs on the Boison glacier, on a hot
>summers afternoon.
>
>Flat out down the Minton batch on an MTB (ending up upside down
>in a stream at the bottom).
Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a front
wheel spindle tightened by me.
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Beav
"Speedgazebo" <nick...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Ho yuss. A pal of mine blew his eybrows and eyelashes off doing that when
the cunt exploded before its time.
It was a mightily impressive flash and bang and VERY close.
He uses much longer masking tape fuses now and he only does it at night for
even more effect.
--
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Beav
>it?
Plastic can of petrol (empty, but only just). Poke a screwdriver in one
corner and lay a "petrol fuse" until there's NO fuel left in the can. Make
sure the lid is on tightly, back away and light the fuse.
Buy new ears and always remember to grab the can right away. Wonderful
source of instant heat.
Monz
Same gas in a 2 litre plastic pop bottle makes a very impressive bang too
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Nige
Mint, brand new & never used ;)
Nige
> I have a couple of old airbags I want to set off in the garden, anyone top
> it?
I rigged up the big fuck off horn i bought for the BMW to our doorbell, you
can imagine the result!!
Pete Fisher
<see...@email.net> cast forth these pearls of wisdom
>Beav wrote:
>> "Speedgazebo" <nick...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:d86fbaa3-8caa-40d9...@v4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
>>> On 21 Nov, 18:11, Muck <Muck_REMO...@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>>>> Nige wrote:
>>>>> I have a couple of old airbags I want to set off in the garden,
>>>>> anyone top
>>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> Naa.. but pumping up footballs until they go bang makes a very loud
>>>> noise. :)
>>>
>>> That's a pop.
>>> Black bin liner full of acytelene. Now that's a bang.
>>
>> Ho yuss. A pal of mine blew his eybrows and eyelashes off doing that
>> when the cunt exploded before its time.
>>
>> It was a mightily impressive flash and bang and VERY close.
>>
>> He uses much longer masking tape fuses now and he only does it at
>> night for even more effect.
>
>
>Same gas in a 2 litre plastic pop bottle makes a very impressive bang too
>
My old chemistry teacher[1] used to demonstrate the principle of
explosive mixture using an old cake tin with a hole in the bottom and
the lid and a bunsen burner. Cake tin with lid firmly bashed on
suspended over a bunsen burner protruding in to hole in bottom.
Turn bunsen burner on and wait for tin to fill with gas (proper towns
gas in those days not natural rubbish). Light the jet of gas emitted
from small hole in lid. Stand back. When the air/gas mixture in the tin
reaches a suitable ratio a reasonably big bang and flying cake tin lid
ensue. Much tittering from the ranks of the lecture theatre. Gave us all
enquiring minds of the 'dangerous book for boys' kind. Can you imagine
that happening in a school today (in a lesson at least)?
[1] So decrepit that the back of his brown lab coat was mottled with ink
blotches from the quink-soaked wodges of blotting paper flicked from the
end of wooden rulers.
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Jim
Nige <nigelD...@buggerfuckmittens.co.uk> wrote:
>Simon Wilson wrote:
>> Nige wrote:
>>> I have a couple of old airbags I want to set off in the garden,
>>> anyone top it?
>>
>> Are you going to Nige 'em out afterwards?
>
>Mint, brand new & never used ;)
"Not been in an accident"
--
CB500 (blue + flies)
Grimly Curmudgeon
drugs began to take hold. I remember Pete Fisher
<Pe...@ps-fisher.demon.co.uk> saying something like:
>Turn bunsen burner on and wait for tin to fill with gas (proper towns
>gas in those days not natural rubbish). Light the jet of gas emitted
>from small hole in lid. Stand back. When the air/gas mixture in the tin
>reaches a suitable ratio a reasonably big bang and flying cake tin lid
>ensue. Much tittering from the ranks of the lecture theatre. Gave us all
>enquiring minds of the 'dangerous book for boys' kind. Can you imagine
>that happening in a school today (in a lesson at least)?
The safety nazis were only just awakening from their slumbers when I was
exposed to suchlike at school. A perspex cabinet thing made an
appearance one day on the teacher's desk for just such demonstrations.
It didn't last long as it "just got in the bloody way".
Pip
<w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a front
>wheel spindle tightened by me.
Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
OTOH, riding off round several tracks with front brakes rebuilt and
re-padded (with modded pads) by me would qualify too.
--
Pip: B12
Nige
Well, the clueless cunts that set off fireworks every saturday night ove the
farm will have a shock tonight ;)
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<gingerbl...@NOSPAMgmail.com> typed
>On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:52 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
><w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a front
>>wheel spindle tightened by me.
>
>Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole incident
very, very well.
>OTOH, riding off round several tracks with front brakes rebuilt and
>re-padded (with modded pads) by me would qualify too.
Ah, but it was Champ that Sweller tried to murder with the old
"backed-off pads" routine, wasn't it?
Pip
<w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip
><gingerbl...@NOSPAMgmail.com> typed
>>On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:52 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>><w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a front
>>>wheel spindle tightened by me.
>>
>>Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
>
>No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole incident
>very, very well.
Oh, OK. I remember the look on your face, though.
>
>>OTOH, riding off round several tracks with front brakes rebuilt and
>>re-padded (with modded pads) by me would qualify too.
>
>Ah, but it was Champ that Sweller tried to murder with the old
>"backed-off pads" routine, wasn't it?
You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.
--
Pip: B12
Bear
says...
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip
> <gingerbl...@NOSPAMgmail.com> typed
> >On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:52 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> ><w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a front
> >>wheel spindle tightened by me.
> >
> >Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
>
> No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole incident
> very, very well.
Seriously, are you sure? I could have *sworn* it was the rear.
--
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Hog
There was an incident of stripping the rear spindle, or rather the tube nut,
which delayed a pit stop.
--
Hog
'06 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400
Pip
wrote:
Well, I thought it was the rear, being largely a rear end man myself -
but WUN was the stripper that day so he should know.
--
Pip: B12
Pete Fisher
<swe...@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom
>Pete Fisher wrote:
>
>> Turn bunsen burner on and wait for tin to fill with gas (proper towns
>> gas in those days not natural rubbish). Light the jet of gas emitted
>> from small hole in lid. Stand back. When the air/gas mixture in the tin
>> reaches a suitable ratio a reasonably big bang and flying cake tin lid
>> ensue. Much tittering from the ranks of the lecture theatre. Gave us
>> all enquiring minds of the 'dangerous book for boys' kind. Can you
>> imagine that happening in a school today (in a lesson at least)?
>
>and at my school the chemistry master used to do the same demonstration
>and the "Do you know how dangerous custard powder is?" [1]
>
Oh. good, but how big was the cake tin?
>Incidentally, the gas needs to be turned off to get it to go bang.
>
>
Now I remember why I only got a 'C' in A level Chemistry. I also only
got an O level pass in Physics, but I later generally managed the
acoustics calculations by winging it using rule of thumb.
Nige
> Pete Fisher wrote:
>
>> Turn bunsen burner on and wait for tin to fill with gas (proper towns
>> gas in those days not natural rubbish). Light the jet of gas emitted
>> from small hole in lid. Stand back. When the air/gas mixture in the tin
>> reaches a suitable ratio a reasonably big bang and flying cake tin lid
>> ensue. Much tittering from the ranks of the lecture theatre. Gave us
>> all enquiring minds of the 'dangerous book for boys' kind. Can you
>> imagine that happening in a school today (in a lesson at least)?
>
> and at my school the chemistry master used to do the same demonstration
> and the "Do you know how dangerous custard powder is?" [1]
>
>
>
Custard powder, flour, any dry powder is very dangerous. Freezer rooms too,
very dry.
Pete Fisher
>Pete Fisher wrote:
>
>> Oh. good, but how big was the cake tin?
>
>
Hmm. memory plays tricks, but IIRC ours used a large conventional
[insert word for period around 25th December of choice] cake tin with a
flatter aspect ratio IYSWIM. Maths not being a strong point either, I
leave the calculation as to which had the greater explosive mixture
capacity to you. Then there is the lid sticktion factor to be taken into
account.
Eiron
Any dry powder? How do dry powder fire extinguishers work then?
--
Eiron.
Nige
How do Dry Powder Fire Extinguishers Work?
Dry powder extinguishers are filled with powder and pressurised with
nitrogen.When activated the powder is released under pressure and on contact
with the flames, it overlays the fuel with a layer of powder, separating the
fuel from the oxygen around it, thus putting out the fire.
;)
Pip
wrote:
>Pip wrote:
>
>> >>>>> Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a
>> >>>>> front wheel spindle tightened by me.
>> > > > >
>> >>>> Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
>> > > >
>> >>> No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole
>> incident >>> very, very well.
>> > >
>> >> Seriously, are you sure? I could have sworn it was the rear.
>> >
>> > There was an incident of stripping the rear spindle, or rather the
>> > tube nut, which delayed a pit stop.
>>
>> Well, I thought it was the rear, being largely a rear end man myself -
>> but WUN was the stripper that day so he should know.
>
>I think he's talking different incidents - the stripped spindle was
>definitely the rear as I saw his face as it went.
A picture I could never forget.
--
Pip: B12
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<swe...@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> typed
>Pip wrote:
>
>> >>>>> Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a
>> >>>>> front wheel spindle tightened by me.
>> > > > >
>> >>>> Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
>> > > >
>> >>> No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole
>> incident >>> very, very well.
>> > >
>> >
>> > There was an incident of stripping the rear spindle, or rather the
>> > tube nut, which delayed a pit stop.
>>
>> Well, I thought it was the rear, being largely a rear end man myself -
>> but WUN was the stripper that day so he should know.
>
>definitely the rear as I saw his face as it went.
Apparently I don't remember the incident very, very well.
I blame the PTSD.
Muck
> Pip wrote:
>
>>> I think he's talking different incidents - the stripped spindle was
>>> definitely the rear as I saw his face as it went.
>> A picture I could never forget.
>
>
*cough*
A rather big Ewok. :)
The Older Gentleman
> Any dry powder? How do dry powder fire extinguishers work then?
Sublimated magic smoke, as eny fule kno.
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and hassle for no tangible benefit."
Bear
says...
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller
> <swe...@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> typed
> >Pip wrote:
> >
> >> >>>>> Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a
> >> >>>>> front wheel spindle tightened by me.
> >> > > > >
> >> >>>> Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
> >> > > >
> >> >>> No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole
> >> incident >>> very, very well.
> >> > >
> >> >> Seriously, are you sure? I could have sworn it was the rear.
> >> >
> >> > There was an incident of stripping the rear spindle, or rather the
> >> > tube nut, which delayed a pit stop.
> >>
> >> Well, I thought it was the rear, being largely a rear end man myself -
> >> but WUN was the stripper that day so he should know.
> >
> >I think he's talking different incidents - the stripped spindle was
> >definitely the rear as I saw his face as it went.
>
> Apparently I don't remember the incident very, very well.
>
> I blame the PTSD.
heh.
We're now into "doesn't know one end of a bike from the other" territory
:)
Alex Ferrier
Nope, ITYF that as the incident occurred,
he could be visibly seen to shrink.
--
Alex
BMW R1150GS
DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
Windy's "little soldier"
Phil Launchbury
> On 21 Nov, 18:11, Muck <Muck_REMO...@tallbloke.net> wrote:
>> Nige wrote:
>> > it?
>>
>> noise. :)
>
> That's a pop.
> Black bin liner full of acytelene. Now that's a bang.
Place OldestBrother first worked (plant Nursery near Capel Manor) they
used to chuck empty spray cans on the bonfire for a bit of a giggle.
That stopped one day when one exploded out of the fire, missed someones
head by about 1cm and went straight through 2 greenhouses..
Phil.
--
Phil Launchbury, IT PHB
'I'm training the bats that live in my cube
to juggle mushrooms'
Champ
<w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip
><gingerbl...@NOSPAMgmail.com> typed
>>On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:52 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>><w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a front
>>>wheel spindle tightened by me.
>>
>>Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
>
>No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole incident
>very, very well.
As others have pointed out, it was the rear, you senile old fool.
--
Champ
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger
ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R600 racer (for sale) | ZX10R racer (broken)
neal at champ dot org dot uk
Grimly Curmudgeon
<ph...@launchbury.org.uk> saying something like:
>Place OldestBrother first worked (plant Nursery near Capel Manor) they
>used to chuck empty spray cans on the bonfire for a bit of a giggle.
>That stopped one day when one exploded out of the fire, missed someones
>head by about 1cm and went straight through 2 greenhouses..
Indeed. Before a regular rubbish collection made its appearance I used
to torch it in an open incinerator but one time an aerosol can sneakily
insinuated itself into the mix. Gave me quite a start when it went off
and one bit of it whizzed past my ear at a rate of knots. Bloody
shrapnel.
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<ne...@champ.org.uk> typed
>On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:05:38 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
><w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip
>><gingerbl...@NOSPAMgmail.com> typed
>>>On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:52 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>>><w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a front
>>>>wheel spindle tightened by me.
>>>
>>>Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
>>
>>No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole incident
>>very, very well.
>
>As others have pointed out, it was the rear, you senile old fool.
<fx: dribbles>
Nige
My next door neighbour when we where nippers got one in the face, made a
very nasty cut about three inches across.
We stopped doing it then.....
--
platypus
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ
> <ne...@champ.org.uk> typed
>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:05:38 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>> <w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip
>>> <gingerbl...@NOSPAMgmail.com> typed
>>>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:52 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>>>> <w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Riding moderately quickly around Snetterton aboard a bike with a
>>>>> front wheel spindle tightened by me.
>>>>
>>>> Bzzt! It was the rear spindle you stripped ... wasn't it?
>>>
>>> No, it was the front. Trust me on this, I remember the whole
>>> incident very, very well.
>>
>> As others have pointed out, it was the rear, you senile old fool.
>
> <fx: dribbles>
You need to do something about that sunroof.
platypus
I think I may have mentioned it before, but I had a can of windscreen deicer
let go in the Beetle once. It was in the rear footwell, right in front of
the hot air vent...
c...@nospam.netunix.com
>
> Indeed. Before a regular rubbish collection made its appearance I used
> to torch it in an open incinerator but one time an aerosol can sneakily
> insinuated itself into the mix. Gave me quite a start when it went off
> and one bit of it whizzed past my ear at a rate of knots. Bloody
> shrapnel.
The traditional open incinerator is made by taking an air chisel to
a 200 litre oil drum. Off with the lid, a few biggish holes near the
bottom and about halfway up. They tend to rust out after a year or two
so I scrounged a replacement from the guys fixing the local road.
Said drum had contained tar, and a fair amount was still stuck to the
inside.
The first rubbish burn was rather spectacular once the tar got hot.
--
03 GS500
68 Bantam D14S
platypus
If you can get the stainless steel drum from a commercial washing machine,
it'll look hi-tech and last forever.
Mick Whittingham
c...@NOSPAM.netunix.com writes
Years ago when I had bought a large old house in Herne Bay and was doing
it up, I was very careful not to make more mess than necessary.
All the thick old wall paper went into a metal dust bin in the back
garden. It had all come off dry so it should have been easy to light.
After several attempts at lighting it I poured some petrol over the
paper and with great care threw a lighted newspaper torch into it.
Nothing.
So some minutes later I threw a second one in.
Nothing.
As I was preparing a third torch, the petrol vapours in the dust bin
ignited explosively and fired a dustbin shaped plug of old wall paper
bits about 30 feet into the air where it then broke up into pieces.
So much for being careful not to make a mess.
--
Mick Whittingham
'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.'
William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.
Grimly Curmudgeon
<Mi...@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> saying something like:
>As I was preparing a third torch, the petrol vapours in the dust bin
>ignited explosively and fired a dustbin shaped plug of old wall paper
>bits about 30 feet into the air where it then broke up into pieces.
Heh. I did just that with a 200L barrel of rubbish. Mutter, mutter,
mutter as I picked it all up again.