Poll
Question:
The Zombies Are Coming. Are You Ready?
Option 1: Yes
votes: 4
Option 2: No
votes: 0
Option 3: Not sure
votes: 2
Option 4: Nonsense, this is all just mass hysteria
votes: 2
With data taken from cellphone localization apps showing fewer and fewer people are adhering to the social isolation recommendations in some Brazilian cities, and the looming threat of the number of brain-dead people increasing, those with some concern for the safety of their loved ones and themselves are taking safety precautions into their own hands.
The building complex I'm in has started barricading against the coming zombie invasion:
(https://i.imgur.com/DIMsLsw.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qeeIShk.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/zYCc7Fl.jpg)
I don't know how many zombies this structure can withstand, I insisted they dig a moat around the block with pointy things sticking out but so far nobody has listened. :( They said holy water and hands clasped together in prayer is cheaper than digging a moat, can you believe it? ::)
Even though this is a rather flimsy defence, I am ready. Are you?
Stay safe out there folks! #Zombiesarereal
I'll be safe. I studied anti-zombiefacation. Get yourself some of trump's speeches, play them loud, and continuously. The level of asshattery in a trump speech is immeasurable. What little brains the zombies have will become infected with infinite ineptitude.
You're welcome.
Quote from: No one on April 12, 2020, 10:34:16 PM
I'll be safe. I studied anti-zombiefacation. Get yourself some of trump's speeches, play them loud, and continuously. The level of asshattery in a trump speech is immeasurable. What little brains the zombies have will become infected with infinite ineptitude.
You're welcome.
I will add that to my list of suggestions to the building managers. :D
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 12, 2020, 09:10:44 PM
#Zombiesarereal
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Yes ma'am, I am. Sentries have been posted and, this is America, the ammo is well stocked...
Quote from: Magdalena on April 13, 2020, 01:09:27 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 12, 2020, 09:10:44 PM
#Zombiesarereal
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I don't get out much. What is this guy doing? I think that I recognize Will Smith at least?
Quote from: Dark Lightning on April 13, 2020, 04:28:20 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on April 13, 2020, 01:09:27 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 12, 2020, 09:10:44 PM
#Zombiesarereal
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PinkBoringAsianconstablebutterfly-size_restricted.gif)
I don't get out much. What is this guy doing? I think that I recognize Will Smith at least?
:snicker:
Yes, that's Will Smith.
I believe he's pretending to text or use a cellphone while doing a dumb face.
You know, people who will google stuff like #Zombiesarereal because the "link won't work" if you click on it.
"He's got a smartphone, but a dumbass" --sort of thing.
:grin:
youre not al one
i didnt know either but i waited for zomeone else to asl first
Quote from: jumbojak on April 13, 2020, 03:34:05 AM
Yes ma'am, I am. Sentries have been posted and, this is America, the ammo is well stocked...
That's good to hear, JJ. :grin: Keep your ammo safe and secret, I predict after the zombies have taken all the toilet paper on Earth they will be wanting to stock all the ammo next... :worried:
Quote from: billy rubin on April 13, 2020, 09:20:52 AM
youre not al one
i didnt know either but i waited for zomeone else to asl first
:lol: These are confusing times we live in. :P
Add a couple of flamethrowers, and you are in business! As The Ever-So-Wise Gray Tome says, "You can never have enough 'throwers." :smilenod:
Most people in my area seem to be content to just stay at home. They work at home, their kids go to school via video conference, they can have groceries and other necessities delivered to them by pretty much the only under-staffed people left in the country, besides yours truly... Yeah. My area is actually OK. That's not to say that it's like that everywhere around here - we have our share of people who either don't give a damn or suffer from poor risk assessment.
Quote from: Asmodean on April 13, 2020, 02:48:42 PM
Add a couple of flamethrowers, and you are in business! As The Ever-So-Wise Gray Tome says, "You can never have enough 'throwers." :smilenod:
Most people in my area seem to be content to just stay at home. They work at home, their kids go to school via video conference, they can have groceries and other necessities delivered to them by pretty much the only under-staffed people left in the country, besides yours truly... Yeah. My area is actually OK. That's not to say that it's like that everywhere around here - we have our share of people who either don't give a damn or suffer from poor risk assessment.
:notes: ...flamethrowers...
i made a napalm bomb once.
had a motorcycle roadrace fairing delivered to the house. it arrived in one piece in a huge box packed in styrofoam peanuts. i hate those things so i decided to burn the whole object befote they could ezcape.
took it out to the burn pile and poured a liter of gasoline over tbe styrofoam. then i realized i didnt habe any matchez, so i went back to the house.
by the time i returned the gasokine had dissolved into tbe peanutz rendering a certain amount of primitive napalm. tbe remainder had evaporated and filled tbe bix with a large amou t of gasoline vapour mixed with atmosphereic oxygen.
so me in all innocence stood there, struck a mat h, and tozsed it into the box.
there waz a thunderous exlosion and suddenly i was 8n the centr of a flaming hemizphere of jellied gasoline particlez, expanding outwards in perfect spherical symmitry and the n falli g straight down like incendiary bombs.
with me in the middle
anyway, i somehow escaed unzcathed and then ran arou d tbe fairy ring stomping the flami g styrofoam until i felt safe again.
it waz very beautiful, albeit a bit stupid. but tbats mostly the story of my lifel, i guess
Shame you didn't video it ;D
I'm baffed! (he exclaimed) Are there floks that really believe that zombies exist. Or is this a metaphor for someone/thing else.
Quote from: billy rubin on April 13, 2020, 06:39:11 PM
i made a napalm bomb once.
had a motorcycle roadrace fairing delivered to the house. it arrived in one piece in a huge box packed in styrofoam peanuts. i hate those things so i decided to burn the whole object befote they could ezcape.
took it out to the burn pile and poured a liter of gasoline over tbe styrofoam. then i realized i didnt habe any matchez, so i went back to the house.
by the time i returned the gasokine had dissolved into tbe peanutz rendering a certain amount of primitive napalm. tbe remainder had evaporated and filled tbe bix with a large amou t of gasoline vapour mixed with atmosphereic oxygen.
so me in all innocence stood there, struck a mat h, and tozsed it into the box.
there waz a thunderous exlosion and suddenly i was 8n the centr of a flaming hemizphere of jellied gasoline particlez, expanding outwards in perfect spherical symmitry and the n falli g straight down like incendiary bombs.
with me in the middle
anyway, i somehow escaed unzcathed and then ran arou d tbe fairy ring stomping the flami g styrofoam until i felt safe again.
it waz very beautiful, albeit a bit stupid. but tbats mostly the story of my lifel, i guess
When I was a teen, one of my friends' dad worked in a machine shop manufacturing components from magnesium. My friend would go in on weekends and do janitorial tasks for some spare cash. He would also bring home #80 paper shopping bags full of magnesium shavings. We used to set that stuff alight in strange places. One time, after the trash had been collected, we dragged the trash barrel (which in those days was a 55 gallon drum with little hard rubber wheels) into his back yard. We took a 1 pound coffee can and stuffed in a bunch of shavings and filled it 1/3 with water. I pulled a shaving up as a wick, set the can inside the trash barrel and lit it. Of course, once the fire hit the water, the magnesium exploded, sending flaming shavings into...the massive tree in their back yard. :haironfire: Now, the tree is on fire, but we couldn't put it out with water, because that would just accelerate the fire. We had to wait for the magnesium to stop burning first, then put it out. Good times! :rofl: Lucky to be alive, I am! :-[
Quote from: Old Seer on April 13, 2020, 10:04:19 PM
I'm baffed! (he exclaimed) Are there floks that really believe that zombies exist. Or is this a metaphor for someone/thing else.
I use the word to mean "the infected." Fan of the genre. It's a boring zompocalypse in real life though. More work and can't do social activities after.
Quote from: Old Seer on April 13, 2020, 10:04:19 PM
I'm baffed! (he exclaimed) Are there floks that really believe that zombies exist. Or is this a metaphor for someone/thing else.
Old Seer, you probably don't know yet not to take me too seriously. :grin: I don't believe zombies exist, nor do I know anyone who does. I won't say nobody believes that stuff though, because there are all kinds of nuts out there. ::)
Could be a metaphor for the infected, could be one for COVIDiots as well. ;)
Quote from: Dark Lightning on April 13, 2020, 10:15:19 PM
Quote from: billy rubin on April 13, 2020, 06:39:11 PM
i made a napalm bomb once.
had a motorcycle roadrace fairing delivered to the house. it arrived in one piece in a huge box packed in styrofoam peanuts. i hate those things so i decided to burn the whole object befote they could ezcape.
took it out to the burn pile and poured a liter of gasoline over tbe styrofoam. then i realized i didnt habe any matchez, so i went back to the house.
by the time i returned the gasokine had dissolved into tbe peanutz rendering a certain amount of primitive napalm. tbe remainder had evaporated and filled tbe bix with a large amou t of gasoline vapour mixed with atmosphereic oxygen.
so me in all innocence stood there, struck a mat h, and tozsed it into the box.
there waz a thunderous exlosion and suddenly i was 8n the centr of a flaming hemizphere of jellied gasoline particlez, expanding outwards in perfect spherical symmitry and the n falli g straight down like incendiary bombs.
with me in the middle
anyway, i somehow escaed unzcathed and then ran arou d tbe fairy ring stomping the flami g styrofoam until i felt safe again.
it waz very beautiful, albeit a bit stupid. but tbats mostly the story of my lifel, i guess
When I was a teen, one of my friends' dad worked in a machine shop manufacturing components from magnesium. My friend would go in on weekends and do janitorial tasks for some spare cash. He would also bring home #80 paper shopping bags full of magnesium shavings. We used to set that stuff alight in strange places. One time, after the trash had been collected, we dragged the trash barrel (which in those days was a 55 gallon drum with little hard rubber wheels) into his back yard. We took a 1 pound coffee can and stuffed in a bunch of shavings and filled it 1/3 with water. I pulled a shaving up as a wick, set the can inside the trash barrel and lit it. Of course, once the fire hit the water, the magnesium exploded, sending flaming shavings into...the massive tree in their back yard. :haironfire: Now, the tree is on fire, but we couldn't put it out with water, because that would just accelerate the fire. We had to wait for the magnesium to stop burning first, then put it out. Good times! :rofl: Lucky to be alive, I am! :-[
:watching:
:lol: Plus, there was flaming magnesium all over the back yard. Somehow we managed to escape getting burned, ourselves. :yes!:
Quote from: Dark Lightning on April 13, 2020, 10:15:19 PM
When I was a teen, one of my friends' dad worked in a machine shop manufacturing components from magnesium.
as soon as you said magnesium i knew what was coming.
they used to build dirigibls out of that stuff, and then fill em with hydrogen gas
what could go wrong?
Sounds like an adventure. ;D When I was a kid the closest I got to such 'experiments' was a chemistry set my father bought for me which my mother hid somewhere I would never think to look. ::)
Though I highly doubt a kid's chemistry set would have any flammable chemicals in it...
Nope...but another friend of mine and I managed to make a small batch of sulfuric acid the hard way, by burning a small amount of sulfur from his chemistry set and collecting the smoke, and then adding hydrogen peroxide. It made for a quite dilute mix, so we were driving the water off with his little alcohol burner when he splashed some on his hand. I don't know which was worse- the fact that the mixture was near-boiling or that the solution was strong enough. Boy, was his mom pissed! :lol: Our ultimate goal with that sulfuric acid was to make gun cotton (Nitroglycerin using cotton instead of glycerin, as it's a lot more stable). Of course, we'd have had to also make the other acid, but that kind of got sidelined. ::)
My brave friends, I regret to say that the zombies have breached the walls. This was found in one of the building's elevators this morning:
(https://i.imgur.com/mOw2D8u.jpg)
This can only mean the person to whom that thing belongs to became a full-fledged zombie while carrying that equipment in the elevator and limped out of the elevator with whatever was left of its mind bent on infecting other souls. Alas! What will become of me now? :faints:
If by some ill turn of fate I do not access HAF for a couple of days it could very well mean I have perished.
I didn't know Makita made a corded blower. You might be right about whoever left that. Makita tends to not be cheap.
A blower, you say... If it blew flames somehow... :smilenod:
Quick! Re-purpose it before the ax's get to you!
Also, the construction crews in my company routinely leave expensive stuff lying around. "What you don't own and have limited liability for," I suppose...
Quote from: jumbojak on April 15, 2020, 10:28:46 PM
I didn't know Makita made a corded blower. You might be right about whoever left that. Makita tends to not be cheap.
I'm afraid so. :(
Quote from: Asmodean on April 15, 2020, 10:32:17 PM
A blower, you say... If it blew flames somehow... :smilenod:
Quick! Re-purpose it before the ax's get to you!
:notsure: Hmm...methinks I need to be theatrical about stealing the blower. Perhaps feigning dementia is in order in case the non-zombiefied building managers see me through the cameras. :smilenod:
OR, or, or... OR! Or you could pretend to be one of them. Be all like "Raaaar! Braaains" while shambling with blower back to your place. :smilenod:
Quote from: Asmodean on April 15, 2020, 10:43:48 PM
OR, or, or... OR! Or you could pretend to be one of them. Be all like "Raaaar! Braaains" while shambling with blower back to your place. :smilenod:
:lol: Yeah, that would be feigning dementia!
...I wouldn't question the blower part if I saw that. Would you? Zs make for an effective camouflage.
Quote from: Asmodean on April 15, 2020, 11:10:02 PM
...I wouldn't question the blower part if I saw that. Would you? Zs make for an effective camouflage.
That is very true. ;D
Quote from: jumbojak on April 15, 2020, 10:28:46 PM
I didn't know Makita made a corded blower. You might be right about whoever left that. Makita tends to not be cheap.
All good stuff.
You pay for what you get - and you get that, for which you pay. Personally, the few power tools I use are Bosch. They aren't cheap and pretty good too. You can usually feel the quality in weight alone. A no-name pure-Chinesium power drill weighs almost nothing (with no battery) compared to my stuff.
Quote from: Asmodean on April 16, 2020, 08:22:04 AM
You pay for what you get - and you get that, for which you pay. Personally, the few power tools I use are Bosch. They aren't cheap and pretty good too. You can usually feel the quality in weight alone. A no-name pure-Chinesium power drill weighs almost nothing (with no battery) compared to my stuff.
I have a Bosch drill and a Bosch stainless steel fridge/freezer. Both are quite hefty.
Quote from: hermes2015 on April 16, 2020, 01:56:34 PM
stainless steel fridge/freezer.
Quote from: hermes2015 on April 16, 2020, 01:56:34 PM
hefty.
Now
that, I have to see weighed to believe! Why would a steel fridge be on the hefty side?! ;)
"Judge not a fridge by its heftiness but by its content".
- Unknown
;D
And hwat about the heftiness of its content? HMMmmmm? :thoughtful:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 16, 2020, 06:08:25 PM
"Judge not a fridge by its heftiness but by its content".
- Unknown
;D
Precisely. Also, never ask a fridge its age or heftiness.
No, never ask what's in the back of the fridge it's age...
...It might answer. :unsure:
...No, kill it with fire, like The Tome demands. Flamethrowers, my friends. Flame. Throwers. :smilenod:
contents win
(https://www.familyhandyman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/oldwinefridge.jpg)
Zombies may be bloodthirsty and wild but they're slow moving dumbasses. They score really low even on rudimentary intelligence tests. Just ask them a simple riddle and they'll spend days trying to figure it out. By the time they give up and start shambling again for your brain, you've already crossed the border into zombie-free Canada and are drinking a ginger ale.
Quote from: MadBomr101 on April 19, 2020, 09:15:01 AM
Zombies may be bloodthirsty and wild but they're slow moving dumbasses. They score really low even on rudimentary intelligence tests. Just ask them a simple riddle and they'll spend days trying to figure it out. By the time they give up and start shambling again for your brain, you've already crossed the border into zombie-free Canada and are drinking a ginger ale.
:lol: I think I'd have better luck slowing them down if I threw a bunch of Lego bricks on the floor in front of them instead of giving them a riddle to solve. :notsure:
...Lego minefields! I must add that to my defences... :notes:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 20, 2020, 02:44:26 PM:lol: I think I'd have better luck slowing them down if I threw a bunch of Lego bricks on the floor in front of them instead of giving them a riddle to solve. :notsure:
...Lego minefields! I must add that to my defences... :notes:
That would work but it would also mean you'd have to carry around awkward bundles of Legos in case you're set upon by zombies. My way, you just have to memorize one simple riddle and you're covered. No loads of Legos to hinder your survival.
I 've given this way too much thought. :(
Quote from: MadBomr101 on April 23, 2020, 08:05:16 PM
I 've given this way too much thought. :(
:therethere: You are not alone.
:grin:
Before I deal with the Zombie Invasion I must first go on a mosquito killing rampage. There must be hundreds here!
A couple of hours later:
I have littered the floor with mosquito corpses. There will be no buzzing tonight.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 05, 2020, 05:11:27 AM
I have littered the floor with mosquito corpses.
This pleases the Asmo. In fact, He shall approve with His official aquatic mammal stamp.
(https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2013/10/seal-of-approval-meme.jpg)
Quote from: Asmodean on May 05, 2020, 12:17:54 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 05, 2020, 05:11:27 AM
I have littered the floor with mosquito corpses.
This pleases the Asmo. In fact, He shall approve with His official aquatic mammal stamp.
(https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2013/10/seal-of-approval-meme.jpg)
:heyhey: I got a fluffy seal of approval! :grin:
Took a lot of swinging my electric racket Blue Vanquisher to fry those little corpses. Last thing they heard before meeting the hot electric grid were my battle cries, "Eeeeeeeeeeeeww!" and "groooooooooooooss!", just before they fell to the floor. With each death I took a whiff of the air around me as if to consume the scent of burnt souls making their way to Mosquito Hell.
The survivors shall tremble when they hear Blue Vanquisher clicking tonight and smell the smoke as the Mosquiteer kills their brethren.
Damn, that got dark pretty fast. :deadpan: But it's in the darkness that they come, wave after wave to suck the life essence out of me. :deadpan:
Ok, back to being my happy-go-lucky self again. :blush:
:lol: Gotta kill 'em all!
Quote from: Dark Lightning on May 05, 2020, 04:07:35 PM
:lol: Gotta kill 'em all!
*attempts evil cackle*
Yes. :devil:
No mercy for the needle-nosed blood-suckers. Well done. Having spent way too much time over the years hunting them by hand, that Blue Vanquisher sounds like an excellent idea. :smokin cool:
Quote from: Recusant on May 05, 2020, 04:45:39 PM
No mercy for the needle-nosed blood-suckers. Well done. Having spent way too much time over the years hunting them by hand, that Blue Vanquisher sounds like an excellent idea. :smokin cool:
It is the Way of the Mosquiteer. :smokin cool:
Zombie mosquitoes would be a problem!
Quote from: Tank on May 06, 2020, 07:32:29 AM
Zombie mosquitoes would be a problem!
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Nah. Them Zs are weak to fire, stakes and stakes on fire. Also, chainsaws. The Asmo, he would grab Him a pair of those, then set them on fire (obviously) then go on a mozzie-Z killing rampage.
Quote from: Asmodean on May 07, 2020, 05:55:17 PM
Nah. Them Zs are weak to fire, stakes and stakes on fire. Also, chainsaws. The Asmo, he would grab Him a pair of those, then set them on fire (obviously) then go on a mozzie-Z killing rampage.
:lol: What kind of B horror movies have you been watching? :P
Not watching! Oh, no! Planning. In the world of crappy remakes and even worse sequels, mine is going to be a masterpiece. A blockbuster. A legend.
...Of a B-variety, but do let us not rain on them delusions of grandeur. ;D
Quote from: Asmodean on May 07, 2020, 06:14:28 PM
Not watching! Oh, no! Planning. In the world of crappy remakes and even worse sequels, mine is going to be a masterpiece. A blockbuster. A legend.
...Of a B-variety, but do let us not rain on them delusions of grandeur. ;D
Heh! ;D
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 14, 2020, 12:16:02 AM
Sounds like an adventure. ;D When I was a kid the closest I got to such 'experiments' was a chemistry set my father bought for me which my mother hid somewhere I would never think to look. ::)
Though I highly doubt a kid's chemistry set would have any flammable chemicals in it...
I've had a few chemistry sets in my young life. One time my brother and I were thinking about coming up with a fireproof chemical. First we had to have samples to see how they burned without any chemicals. I opened the alcohol lamp and filled it up part way. Then I handed the bottle of alcohol to my brother who loosely put the cap on. Then the testing began.
We tested a few cloth materials and watched them burn. Then we tried a cotton ball. The cotton ball went "whoosh" and scared my brother who knocked over the bottle of alcohol. The loose cap came off and the alcohol poured down the table top and onto the carpet. The fire followed.
Now we were trying to put out the fire with water. My first thought, well my second was, "Our parents are going to kill us!". My first thought was, "We're going to burn the house down." I was worried more about the second thought than the first.
The biggest part of the fire was on the carpet and I guess the carpet was keeping the fire going. My brother got our spaghetti pot which was the biggest thing we had available that could contain water besides the bath tub. I didn't think of the bath tub at the time though not that it would have mattered.
He takes the pot full of water and tosses it onto the floor completely missing the fire. The second one did much better. I forget what I was doing, I think i was trying to beat the flame with a blanket but I really don't remember.
We finally got the fire out and began trying to soak the water up with blankets, towels, and anything else we thought would be absorbent. This included the vacuum cleaner. I didn't know then what I know now but i could have electrocuted myself. We did the best we could and saw the burned and melted spots.
With a pair of scissors we began cutting the spots out leaving bare patches. There was only one thing to do, nope that's not it. Give up? We moved the furniture around to cover the burned area. My parents were none the wiser until we were adults and my brother brought it up at the dinner table. He laughed about it, I was scared (I was married at the time so I guess I was about twenty-three) and my parents weren't laughing. They were kind of mad at us.
I'm sure there is a moral to this story but I can't think of one.
Heh, childhood shenanigans. I've possibly told the story here, maybe not. One of my friends got a chemistry set for some day. xmas, birthday, I don't remember. We set out to make sulfuric acid, with eventual manufacture of another acid to make gun cotton or nitroglycerin. We took sulfur powder (in that chemistry kit), set it on fire and captured the smoke (sulfur dioxide). We then poured hydrogen peroxide into the container that had the smoke condensate in it. We collected it all, poured it into a smaller container and commenced to heat it over the alcohol burner from the chemistry kit, to increase the concentration. My friend was swirling the mixture over the burner, and some spilled onto his hand. Whether it was a reasonably (?) strong acid at this point, or just because it was hot, I don't know. But he got burnt. His mother (an RN) took it all away from us and dumped it out. :-[
Arachnids are zombies too. I actually like them and almost never try to kill them. They do some good stuff like ridding my house of insects of a different sort. Very few spiders are aggressive. Treat them as strange little friends, or just ignore them.
Who knew that spiders can fly? Well not exactly fly but they can travel long distances in the air. Like looooong distances. Take a look at this Atlantic blurb. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/spiders-can-fly-hundreds-of-miles-using-electricity?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I also have lots and lots of little lizards who are welcome around my house and yard. I live in Florida where any claim that you do not have roaches in your house is a damned lie. My lizards keep my digs almost entirely free of those prehistoric bugs. Ecological stuff is cool.
C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug". :smilenod:
Quote from: Randy on May 13, 2020, 03:47:19 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 14, 2020, 12:16:02 AM
Sounds like an adventure. ;D When I was a kid the closest I got to such 'experiments' was a chemistry set my father bought for me which my mother hid somewhere I would never think to look. ::)
Though I highly doubt a kid's chemistry set would have any flammable chemicals in it...
I've had a few chemistry sets in my young life. One time my brother and I were thinking about coming up with a fireproof chemical. First we had to have samples to see how they burned without any chemicals. I opened the alcohol lamp and filled it up part way. Then I handed the bottle of alcohol to my brother who loosely put the cap on. Then the testing began.
We tested a few cloth materials and watched them burn. Then we tried a cotton ball. The cotton ball went "whoosh" and scared my brother who knocked over the bottle of alcohol. The loose cap came off and the alcohol poured down the table top and onto the carpet. The fire followed.
Now we were trying to put out the fire with water. My first thought, well my second was, "Our parents are going to kill us!". My first thought was, "We're going to burn the house down." I was worried more about the second thought than the first.
The biggest part of the fire was on the carpet and I guess the carpet was keeping the fire going. My brother got our spaghetti pot which was the biggest thing we had available that could contain water besides the bath tub. I didn't think of the bath tub at the time though not that it would have mattered.
He takes the pot full of water and tosses it onto the floor completely missing the fire. The second one did much better. I forget what I was doing, I think i was trying to beat the flame with a blanket but I really don't remember.
We finally got the fire out and began trying to soak the water up with blankets, towels, and anything else we thought would be absorbent. This included the vacuum cleaner. I didn't know then what I know now but i could have electrocuted myself. We did the best we could and saw the burned and melted spots.
With a pair of scissors we began cutting the spots out leaving bare patches. There was only one thing to do, nope that's not it. Give up? We moved the furniture around to cover the burned area. My parents were none the wiser until we were adults and my brother brought it up at the dinner table. He laughed about it, I was scared (I was married at the time so I guess I was about twenty-three) and my parents weren't laughing. They were kind of mad at us.
I'm sure there is a moral to this story but I can't think of one.
Heh ;D Seems like a couple of things I did that I never told my parents. :sidesmile: Some things are better left unsaid. :grin:
:notsure: Looking back, it's a good thing my mother didn't let me use the chemistry set. As an adult I am a disaster at mixing solutions in the lab and trying old cooking recipes I should have mastered by now.
Quote from: Icarus on May 13, 2020, 06:04:19 AM
Arachnids are zombies too. I actually like them and almost never try to kill them. They do some good stuff like ridding my house of insects of a different sort. Very few spiders are aggressive. Treat them as strange little friends, or just ignore them.
Who knew that spiders can fly? Well not exactly fly but they can travel long distances in the air. Like looooong distances. Take a look at this Atlantic blurb. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/spiders-can-fly-hundreds-of-miles-using-electricity?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I also have lots and lots of little lizards who are welcome around my house and yard. I live in Florida where any claim that you do not have roaches in your house is a damned lie. My lizards keep my digs almost entirely free of those prehistoric bugs. Ecological stuff is cool.
I also like spiders and little lizards. :) Lizards are
more welcome than spiders in my house, but I don't kill the 8-legged critters.
Quote from: Dark Lightning on May 13, 2020, 04:18:11 PM
C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug". :smilenod:
Hold on a sec...
:puke:
Carry on. :reading:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 13, 2020, 10:31:51 PM
Quote from: Dark Lightning on May 13, 2020, 04:18:11 PM
C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug". :smilenod:
Hold on a sec...
:puke:
Carry on. :reading:
:lol: Sick? Did you eat a palmetto bug?
Quote from: Dark Lightning on May 14, 2020, 12:45:37 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 13, 2020, 10:31:51 PM
Quote from: Dark Lightning on May 13, 2020, 04:18:11 PM
C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug". :smilenod:
Hold on a sec...
:puke:
Carry on. :reading:
:lol: Sick? Did you eat a palmetto bug?
:lol: Hold on while I put my cup down and clean my keyboard. Just a sec...
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QuoteHeh ;D Seems like a couple of things I did that I never told my parents. :sidesmile: Some things are better left unsaid. :grin:
:notsure: Looking back, it's a good thing my mother didn't let me use the chemistry set. As an adult I am a disaster at mixing solutions in the lab and trying old cooking recipes I should have mastered by now.
I'm glad I grew up to be a software engineer. I don't think anyone would allow me near a lab. As for old cooking recipes, I used to make mine up as I went along. I found that no matter how bad it got you could always add cheese on top and melt it. :lol:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 14, 2020, 12:53:31 AM
Quote from: Dark Lightning on May 14, 2020, 12:45:37 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 13, 2020, 10:31:51 PM
Quote from: Dark Lightning on May 13, 2020, 04:18:11 PM
C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug". :smilenod:
Hold on a sec...
:puke:
Carry on. :reading:
:lol: Sick? Did you eat a palmetto bug?
:lol: Hold on while I put my cup down and clean my keyboard. Just a sec...
*Ahem*
Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.
:lol:
You guys are great fun......but did anyone look at the link about flying spiders? If you are aracniphobic (sp) then you may ignore the link.
"Palmetto bug" is an euphemism for the huge cockroaches with whom Floridians conduct a war. We used to be able to get a chemical called Dursban which was highly effective against all sorts of entomolgical mini beasties. Too bad that it is toxic to humans and has been withdrawn from the market. In my case my small six inch lizards do the job pretty well. ............If this sounds like a reason not to move to Florida, You are correct. We natives are pleased to regale you with all kinds of discouraging bad shit like roaches, alligators, Pythons, giant monitor lizards who eat dogs and cats, mosquito swarms, extreme summer heat (which is not true) and traffic congestion which is unfortunately true. Natives used to display signs along the roadside which read: Yankee go home. Now we have signs that say: Yankee bring money.
Carry on with the zombie discourse.............
Quote from: Randy on May 14, 2020, 01:00:16 AM
QuoteHeh ;D Seems like a couple of things I did that I never told my parents. :sidesmile: Some things are better left unsaid. :grin:
:notsure: Looking back, it's a good thing my mother didn't let me use the chemistry set. As an adult I am a disaster at mixing solutions in the lab and trying old cooking recipes I should have mastered by now.
I'm glad I grew up to be a software engineer. I don't think anyone would allow me near a lab. As for old cooking recipes, I used to make mine up as I went along. I found that no matter how bad it got you could always add cheese on top and melt it. :lol:
Hi Randy.
It would be appreciated if you would leave the quote tags intact otherwise we lose track of who said what. Cheers :)
Quote from: Icarus on May 14, 2020, 06:26:28 AM
You guys are great fun......but did anyone look at the link about flying spiders? If you are aracniphobic (sp) then you may ignore the link.
"Palmetto bug" is an euphemism for the huge cockroaches with whom Floridians conduct a war. We used to be able to get a chemical called Dursban which was highly effective against all sorts of entomolgical mini beasties. Too bad that it is toxic to humans and has been withdrawn from the market. In my case my small six inch lizards do the job pretty well. ............If this sounds like a reason not to move to Florida, You are correct. We natives are pleased to regale you with all kinds of discouraging bad shit like roaches, alligators, Pythons, giant monitor lizards who eat dogs and cats, mosquito swarms, extreme summer heat (which is not true) and traffic congestion which is unfortunately true. Natives used to display signs along the roadside which read: Yankee go home. Now we have signs that say: Yankee bring money.
Carry on with the zombie discourse.............
jeez dursban was as bad as lorsban
tbat stuff was not user friendly
Quote from: billy rubin on May 14, 2020, 09:33:26 AM
Quote from: Icarus on May 14, 2020, 06:26:28 AM
You guys are great fun......but did anyone look at the link about flying spiders? If you are aracniphobic (sp) then you may ignore the link.
"Palmetto bug" is an euphemism for the huge cockroaches with whom Floridians conduct a war. We used to be able to get a chemical called Dursban which was highly effective against all sorts of entomolgical mini beasties. Too bad that it is toxic to humans and has been withdrawn from the market. In my case my small six inch lizards do the job pretty well. ............If this sounds like a reason not to move to Florida, You are correct. We natives are pleased to regale you with all kinds of discouraging bad shit like roaches, alligators, Pythons, giant monitor lizards who eat dogs and cats, mosquito swarms, extreme summer heat (which is not true) and traffic congestion which is unfortunately true. Natives used to display signs along the roadside which read: Yankee go home. Now we have signs that say: Yankee bring money.
Carry on with the zombie discourse.............
jeez dursban was as bad as lorsban
tbat stuff was not user friendly
When I was about 11, my dad sprayed a black widow spider with Black Flag from his flit gun. The spider kind of wiped the stuff off and walked away. Must have been a zombie. That's when it got the shoe. If I spot them around my home I spray them with paint. It's immediately lethal. Of course, they have to be in a position so that I don't have various colored paint spots on the walls.
Quote from: Tank on May 14, 2020, 07:40:24 AM
Quote from: Randy on May 14, 2020, 01:00:16 AM
QuoteHeh ;D Seems like a couple of things I did that I never told my parents. :sidesmile: Some things are better left unsaid. :grin:
:notsure: Looking back, it's a good thing my mother didn't let me use the chemistry set. As an adult I am a disaster at mixing solutions in the lab and trying old cooking recipes I should have mastered by now.
I'm glad I grew up to be a software engineer. I don't think anyone would allow me near a lab. As for old cooking recipes, I used to make mine up as I went along. I found that no matter how bad it got you could always add cheese on top and melt it. :lol:
Hi Randy.
It would be appreciated if you would leave the quote tags intact otherwise we lose track of who said what. Cheers :)
I'm sorry, Tank. Consider me slapped on the wrist. :redface:
Quote from: Icarus on May 13, 2020, 06:04:19 AM
Arachnids are zombies too. I actually like them and almost never try to kill them. They do some good stuff like ridding my house of insects of a different sort. Very few spiders are aggressive. Treat them as strange little friends, or just ignore them.
Who knew that spiders can fly? Well not exactly fly but they can travel long distances in the air. Like looooong distances. Take a look at this Atlantic blurb. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/spiders-can-fly-hundreds-of-miles-using-electricity?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I also have lots and lots of little lizards who are welcome around my house and yard. I live in Florida where any claim that you do not have roaches in your house is a damned lie. My lizards keep my digs almost entirely free of those prehistoric bugs. Ecological stuff is cool.
I saw the picture with a link on DuckDuckGo. I immediately tried to enter something into the search bar and get off that page. I have arachnophobia in a bad way.
When I see one of the little critters, on a picture, in my room, the word written down somewhere, or on an 8-bit pixel game from thirty years ago, my heart races, my adrenaline rushes, and the fight-or-flight syndrome kicks into overdrive. I've got it in a bad way.
When I was around seven or eight years old (give or take a year), I lived in Oklahoma. One day, my father came out with some lighter fluid and lighter, and went to this hole in the ground which was where a tarantula lived. He sprayed the lighter fluid into the hole and immediately this ugly black creature came out, nice and wet.
My father tried to get his lighter going while the tarantula started crawling towards him. Dad stepped back still trying to get the lighter going. Finally, he lit it and the thing became a walking bonfire! I was never so scared in my life as I was that day. I think that's where my fear comes from but I'm not sure. I was pretty young then.
That definitely sounds traumatizing. I sympathize with you as a young fellow who watched that performance, and I certainly sympathize with the spider.
Quote from: Randy on May 14, 2020, 06:54:23 PM
Quote from: Tank on May 14, 2020, 07:40:24 AM
Quote from: Randy on May 14, 2020, 01:00:16 AM
QuoteHeh ;D Seems like a couple of things I did that I never told my parents. :sidesmile: Some things are better left unsaid. :grin:
:notsure: Looking back, it's a good thing my mother didn't let me use the chemistry set. As an adult I am a disaster at mixing solutions in the lab and trying old cooking recipes I should have mastered by now.
I'm glad I grew up to be a software engineer. I don't think anyone would allow me near a lab. As for old cooking recipes, I used to make mine up as I went along. I found that no matter how bad it got you could always add cheese on top and melt it. :lol:
Hi Randy.
It would be appreciated if you would leave the quote tags intact otherwise we lose track of who said what. Cheers :)
I'm sorry, Tank. Consider me slapped on the wrist. :redface:
:snicker1:
i dunno
i love spiders. especially the little jumping ones with the little wizard faces.
but ive taken some nasty bitez too.