Stuff You Shouldn't Do
 

I wanted to start off this thread becuase we were beginning to go off topic in the flaming computers topic, so...

Things that are incredibly awesome but should never be done, attempted to be done or even thought about:

Wrapping a coconut in fiberglass cloth and then curing the fiberglass into a hard shell and microwaving the entire thign for ten minutes. It will make the coconut and the mircowave explode and imbed microwave chunks in your neighbor's kitchen walls (becuase you wound't be doing this in you ouwn home, now would you?)

Microwaving eggs gives you a lesser but equavalent explosion.

Apples will pop and fizz when microwaved.

If you use a bicycle pump to pump a two or three liter bottle filled halfway with water up to fourty or fifty PSI it goes really far up. You can put rotten fruit on top and on a good day you can get it out of sight.

If you get someone really strong you can explode a three-liter bottle, which will scare the crap out of anyone nearby.

We did this by accident at the pool one day. There's this playground clearing that's hidden from view by a line of treees, and we were launching bottle rockets, volleyballs, etc, this way, when we overpumped a bottle and it exploded. Man did we confuse the lifeguards...

WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS, EVER. And I never mentioned any of it. *shifty eyes*

Ahh... about the egg thing- when I was in sixth grade, I had Home Ec for a semester. They showed us this video about microwaving. It was extremely low-budget, so they used the same actors over and over. Therefore, a teenage boy was "a new father making eggs for his baby".

The idiot put it in the microwave (and, of course, it was an 80's microwace), and the egg exploded and took off the door of the microwave. We all cracked up.

-Marty 8-)

Here's an obvious one.

Don't shake a can of carbonated liquid and then open it up.

That one I've tried, and it works beautifully. Do not stand too close to the bottle. :bloocross:

If a parent buys a deep fat fryer and uses it extensively, but then needs to transport it to a relatives' house, a few reminders....

1.) First, make sure that either you've emptied it of grease, or at least pack it into a safe, stable position.

2.) If you are unable to do any of the above, then find a nice, safe hiding spot for at least two weeks, or however long it takes for your mother to clean her clothes or for the dog to smell normal again.

Gah, not one of my greatest moments.

Lol!! Should newborn babies even be eating eggs? Is that healthy?

That reminds me of a video we watched in science once... it showed things you shouldn't do in a chemistry lab, and it showed a guy who was supposed to "accidentally" cut his hand with a piece of glass, but he was a bad actor and he pretty much just reared back and lanced his own hand... it didn't look accidental at all. Another pointer was "Don't wear flammable, loose-fitting clothing in the chem lab" and it showed a sweatered arm going over a bunson burner and the video was trying to play it off as a real arm, but it was a plastic mannequin arm being HELD over the fire like they were trying to roast a marshmallow on it. It was so funny! 8D

I microwaved a dead rat once.

OK, let me explain that one...I have snakes, see? I buy pre-killed, frozen rodents to feed them, and like most of us, I sometimes suffer from a lack of patience. I am a product of the modern age, and I don't like it when things take forever...things, like, oh, the thawing-out process of a large dead rodent. Sooooo....I decided that I would expedite this process by sticking it in the microwave, just for a few seconds, you know. Hey, it works with hamburger and chicken, why not a rat? Meat is meat, right?

WRONG! Remember that scene in the movie Gremlins when the mom microwaves the Gremlin? It was a lot like that, only worse.

So, I can definitively add microwaving dead rats as one of the things you just should NOT DO!

pitbulllady

ew.

sure thing, never.

Not to be girly or anything... but that bit of information made me feel a little queasy...

Why does most of the stuff on the "Do Not Attempt" list involve microwaves? I stuck in a hamburger wrapped in aluminum foil once (yeah, I know, I know, but the wrapper looked like paper, I swear!) and it looked like a lightning storm was going in there. But it was awesome. Oh! Oh! And try sticking marshmellow peeps in there, too! I got only got to do it once when I was 9.

What happens? Don't they just melt and turn into a bubbling, oozing mess?

They don't just melt, they grow! Yeah, you can't really appreciate it with the dull, white marshmallows. It's more fun when you're watching the yellow birdy things growing 4 times their size.

Jamey and Adam did that on "Mythbusters", to prove once and for all that a microwave WILL NOT EXPLODE if you put metal in there. They got no reaction at all from eating utensils, or from a smooth piece of foil, but when they crumbled it up, Oh boy! It CAN, given enough time, damage the magnetron in the oven, but it will just stop working, not blow up. It was fun to watch, though!

pitbulllady

Don't kill yourself. Straight and to the point :blooevil:

... if you can't kiill yourself in ten seconds or less, it's not fun.

I was one of those people who seriously thought sticking metal into a microwave was gonna make it explode. It's awesome now, but it really scared the $^*! out of me when I thought I was gonna set my kitchen on fire.

I had a friend that put a frozen soda in a microwave. It destroyed it. Ooh and don't light your shorts near your groin region on fire... it may look cool, but it can be dangerous. Sadly that was all friends doings, I never do dangerous stuff. *tear*

yep, another good episode

and about the peeps, we do microwave them, but stick toothpicks in the side facing each other and rev the microwave, they grow and try to stab each other starting the ever popular "peep wars"

Never stick a remote controler in the mircrowave. A firend's father one time spilled soda on a remote so he rinsed it off and put it in the microwave so it would dry faster. He ruined the controller and the microwave.

Never light a cup of gasoline on fire underneath a tree during a drought. My father left a gallon of gasoline out one summer day where my brother and I (I was about 8 and my brother was 12) were bored and our parents were at work. Greg and a few of his friends were in the backyard playing with their gameboys until one of them brought out a lighter. They started chatting and lighting leaves and paper on fire. Eventually they poured some gas into a plastic cup and put it on top of the picnic table. I was playing with the hose luckily when they threw a lighted piece of paper at the cup and there was a giant burst of fire, it caught a low hanging tree branch and by then they grabbed the hose from me and put the branch out. It was scary (and my Parents never found out.)

Never boil gasoline. It will boil over the pot, flow down the sides, hit the burner or flames you're using to heat it up and explode.

Never plug keys into a socket. Okay, everybody knows not to do that! But I was 6 or 7 when I did this. What happened was, I remember being in my room sitting on my dresser while playing with some random keys, mom was in the kitchen. When I say random, I mean the keys never really went to anything we owned, plus they were mine since I liked colecting keys, and still do. Anyway, I thought It'd be cool to plug the keys into the socket just to see what it would do. Keep in mind, the socket was right next to me, myself sitting on my dresser.
Well, sparks flew, the socket exploded, and I think the lightbulb either dimmed or blew, I can't remember. So mom comesrunning in wanting to know what happened. She freaked out when she saw the keys in the socket.
The keys were black, but I came out absolutly unharmed. It didin't hurt me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KhCmfX_PQ7E ^_^

Never let anyone control you, especially your parents cuz that's just showing weak will and it may look as if resignation will help it just kills you slowly... BE A REBEL!:blooevil:

Ha! That reminds me of something Bloo'd say.
Okay I got another one. Never make a prank phone call to the police! Let me explain...
I was about 8 or 9 when this happened. My grandma was watching me while mom was at work, I remember her cooking something in the kitchen, so, I decided to have a little fun.
I picked up the phone in the livingroom and dialed 911 then hang up, and I did this several times untill grandma came in and asked me what I was doing. A few minutes passed before we suddonly heard police sirens. Police cars surrounded the house, the yard and everything! Policemen were out of their cars surrounding our house, with guns in hand and it was the scene of our town! A policeman banged on our door and had a megaphone, saying "Come out with your hands up!". Me and grandma were freaking out, and when I saw all this I KNEW I did something wrong by prank calling the cops.
Then once when I was about 13 I prank called some people waaaay in the middle of the night, possibly around 1 to 2 am. I changed my voice so it would sound really deep and gravily. I did this to many, many people that night. The next morning the police came to the door saying there were reports of obscene phonecalls. My mom was so mad. I never did it again. That's my story.