If he has to pay a penny I would have a cow, and I don't even like the Star Wars movies. That would be absolutely disguisting.
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Darwin Award nominees. Definitely.
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OnceUGoMac said:
Except you can't.
There is an 'Other' choice where you can add whatever you like.
I guess there's one of those on every other countries census form.
If not it's a badly designed form...
Lacero said:
Not in the UK he wouldn't, I know 99% of our judges are a little out of touch with reality but I don't think even the most senile one would allow a case like that.
Veldek said:
i'd heard that rumour myself a few times from various sources.
and... oh god... recreating light sabre battles is is always dangerous.
i find it hard to believe that they were using 'fluorescent glass tubes' though... this is very worrying. definately a darwin contender. i'll keep my eyes and ears open for more.
There was indeed an internet campaign to get people to put 'Jedi' on the forms to make it an official religion, but it isn't going on the next form. The idea that if a certain number of people put it down the Government is forced to include it is an urban myth. There's a bit more info here.Veldek said:
If you're interested though in which cities are most popular amongst Jedi, here's the ranking by local authority area...
1 Leeds 7543
2 Bristol 6642
3 Brighton and Hove 6480
4 Birmingham 5478
5 Manchester 5476
Rumours that only two people put down their religion as 'Sith' are unconfirmed.
A little off-topic, but having studied law for 3 years I know at least county court judges are some of the sharpest, wittiest people you'll ever have the pleasure of meeting. If you ever get the chance to visit the public gallery, do so. The image of the doddering old fart is quite unfounded.bartelby said:
ok idiots R us there are stupid, if your going to film a light laber battle you do it like this.
buy loads of glow sticks, blue and red ones preferably (or make your own with some chemicals easily "aquired" from a school lab), buy a long hollow see through tube (jelly belly canes work best) and fill it up with the glow juice seal it up and pour int he reatant to make the thing glow, shake it up and battle away at night, then add appropriate sound effects in imovie or whatever editing software you want
petrol dose not work all you get is blue fire which tend to burn and spit and ****, also dont use stip lights the shatter easyly.
second thing:
how to make a laser gun type thing:
find bb sized lumps of sodium no not use anything more reactive than calcium it will explode, then find some large bubble wrap and inject hydrochloric acid into the bubbles and seal with sticky tape, get a bb gun preferably gas powered and strap a bubble filled with acid to the end of the gun, then load it with the bb sized alkali metal, fire and it'll look just like a star wars gun type thing.
thats how it's done.
oh god, i have actually done that but i wore a full suit of protection i have a full face mask, a soldering mask, a flack jacket, webbing and boots that would survive a nuclear blast.
remember dont try this unless our experienced with chemistry and know the appropriate safety precautions, like dont shoot burning sodium towards someone.
buy loads of glow sticks, blue and red ones preferably (or make your own with some chemicals easily "aquired" from a school lab), buy a long hollow see through tube (jelly belly canes work best) and fill it up with the glow juice seal it up and pour int he reatant to make the thing glow, shake it up and battle away at night, then add appropriate sound effects in imovie or whatever editing software you want
petrol dose not work all you get is blue fire which tend to burn and spit and ****, also dont use stip lights the shatter easyly.
second thing:
how to make a laser gun type thing:
find bb sized lumps of sodium no not use anything more reactive than calcium it will explode, then find some large bubble wrap and inject hydrochloric acid into the bubbles and seal with sticky tape, get a bb gun preferably gas powered and strap a bubble filled with acid to the end of the gun, then load it with the bb sized alkali metal, fire and it'll look just like a star wars gun type thing.
thats how it's done.
rowanhall said:almost as good as the supersoaker flamethrower (dont try this at home, haha)
aparantly... i also hear that wd40 is a good alternative... ahem...
oh god, i have actually done that but i wore a full suit of protection i have a full face mask, a soldering mask, a flack jacket, webbing and boots that would survive a nuclear blast.
remember dont try this unless our experienced with chemistry and know the appropriate safety precautions, like dont shoot burning sodium towards someone.
Hector said:
Hector, I'm a little alarmed that you know which kind of tube to buy - have you researched this personally!?!?!
When I was a kid, i had a cousin who used to do the stupidest things, often when i was around, but of course none of them were my idea-- Anyway, yeah, supersoaker and gasoline. It was actually kind of fun, until the gun caught fire, to the point where we couldn't extinguish it anymore. god kids are stupid.
I don't know. I think there's sort of a weird genius involved in doing something this utterly stupid. Where did they get the idea for this?
If I was trying to replicate my own light saber, I could come up with a lot of ideas, but in a hundred years of thinking about it, the solution they came up with would never once have even come close to entering my thoughts.
It's such an obviously stupid and dead-end idea that my brain would have already filtered it from the realm of possibilities. So the question to me is not "What were they thinking?" but rather "How were they able to think it?"
If I was trying to replicate my own light saber, I could come up with a lot of ideas, but in a hundred years of thinking about it, the solution they came up with would never once have even come close to entering my thoughts.
It's such an obviously stupid and dead-end idea that my brain would have already filtered it from the realm of possibilities. So the question to me is not "What were they thinking?" but rather "How were they able to think it?"
haha! seems commonscencical! was there not a bomb made in one of the freddy krueger films or something along those lines with a lightbulb filled with petrol in a socket of a standard lamp with a tripwire?Hector said:
haha, full-on N.B.C., P.L.C.E., kevlar, welders mask the heap! hope you didn't forget your kevlar tactical helmet!Hector said:
rowanhall said:
The longest yard.
Cut a hole (carefully) in an incandescent light bulb. Delicately poor in accelerant. Place back in light socket. Wait for the victim to turn it on,
MongoTheGeek said:
you'd have to seal it pretty good since you wouldn't want it dripping....and chances are some cleaning person would end up flipping the switch....then the whole building would go down in flames....
D
Mr. Anderson said:
In the movie it was a suspended bulb and the cut was near the base. Pull cord to activate