Is this weird??

[Patience]

Haha. I see, so it was a controlled detonation, then! I had visions of a crater being left where once your house had been!

 

[cornflakegirl]

When I was a student, one of my friends fell in the river because he was too busy thinking about quaternions...

I'll get my coat.

 

[Patience]

I totally had to Google that!

 

[cornflakegirl]

Did you learn anything? I didn't understand them at the time, never mind now

 

[Patience]

Er - not really - there were some pictures of graphs, some lines, lots of words I didn't understand... that was enough for me to understand that I wasn't going to understand it!

 

[cornflakegirl]

Sounds like most of my lectures

 

[Domski]

You two are far too clever for me. Blowing things up is much more my level.

 

[RoryA]

"Lectures" - I had to Google that.

 

[RoryA]

I used to be the Claims Manager for an insurance syndicate that wrote a lot of US liability business. You would be amazed at the lawsuits people will file. (if someone commits suicide and the estate sues the architects of the building in which he died, that's a stretch, in my opinion, but the icing on the cake was suing for "loss of enjoyment of life")

 

[Joe4]

My personal, safe'ish, favourites are making a light bulb glow by popping it in a glass of water and the glowing gherkins (pickle in the US I guess) which I seem to remember can be made more impressive by sticking a pencil lead in it.

We have gherkins here in the US. We love them! My daughter was asking for gherkins and capers at the age of 2 ("more crapers please!").