Posted June 12, 2015
high rated
** Giveaway concluded, winner announcement here **
Topic: Share a funny/entertaining story involving chemistry from your own life, could be a kitchen accident that happened to you or someone you personally know or anecdotes from chemistry class back in school.
For the giveaway part, I have one gift code for Sokobond (GOG version) which will be given to the most entertaining story.
Please state if you're in for the giveaway or just participating in the topic. No rules except that the prize is to be redeemed by the winner to their own account. The giveaway closes in about a week.
I very much recommend the game, it's got a very clean design, super simple controls and is perfect for playing in shorter sessions. Haven't played anything at all for more than two weeks and this was ideal for getting back into things. The game starts off easy and you can coast through the first 50-60 levels in about 2,5 hours. I'm expecting the game to become a lot more difficult in the later stages but I can already say it's definitely a puzzle game worth owning.
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I can't remember much from chemistry class myself but I sure remember the teachers. We had two chemistry teachers at my school, one of them was called "The Frog" because he had a small green car once, and the other guy didn't have a nickname because he was kinda intense and people didn't want to risk giving him nicknames. Let's call him Intense Guy.
Fortunately, I wasn't in Frog's class because he had a reputation for botching most of his experiments - in ways that made sitting in the front rows a veritable health risk. I only took his geography class which was less dangerous and where most of his mishaps involved him not getting the TV or overhead projector to work. Every single time, too.
One of his most infamous chemistry experiments involved a hydrogen balloon. I did not witness it but the tale was told from one generation of students to the next and is probably being retold to this day. The problem wasn't that the balloon exploded, that was to be expected anyway. The problem was that the balloon exploded right next to a slurry tank (that's liquid animal shit which farmer's use as fertilizer) and that tank was standing at the farm right next to school. So the walls of the school got covered in manure and one can safely say that the experiment turned out pretty shitty.
Slurry tanks are dangerous, every once in a while a farmer gets unconscious due to the fumes and falls into the tank, or into the slurry pit at ground level. In both cases you'll drown in animal poop and it's perhaps the shittiest way to die.
As for my actual chemistry teacher, Intense Guy, he was respected because when he got angry he would slam his fist onto the desk so hard that everything on the desk flew off. People didn't try to cheat in his class, and those who did experienced his epic fist slam on their desks when he caught them and they never tried a second time, regardless hof how desperate they were. He was a short guy but wiry and athletic, plus he had a mustache and a rather intense stare. Same as with Frog's class, no one wanted to sit in the front row but it wasn't for fear of botched experiments or for fear of his intense stare, it was due to his body odor which was super strong and you could smell him from far away. He was a passionate free-style skier so whenever there was fresh snow outside, he got excited and wanted to go skiing rather than be in school. He used to say "I see snow and it makes me nervous. Don't piss me off today!"
Despite the body odor, he was considered to be one of the cool teachers and generally well liked. We distilled high grade absinthe in his class once, and drank it right here and then. He was a good teacher indeed.
Anyway, let's hear your stories please, fire away!
Topic: Share a funny/entertaining story involving chemistry from your own life, could be a kitchen accident that happened to you or someone you personally know or anecdotes from chemistry class back in school.
For the giveaway part, I have one gift code for Sokobond (GOG version) which will be given to the most entertaining story.
Please state if you're in for the giveaway or just participating in the topic. No rules except that the prize is to be redeemed by the winner to their own account. The giveaway closes in about a week.
I very much recommend the game, it's got a very clean design, super simple controls and is perfect for playing in shorter sessions. Haven't played anything at all for more than two weeks and this was ideal for getting back into things. The game starts off easy and you can coast through the first 50-60 levels in about 2,5 hours. I'm expecting the game to become a lot more difficult in the later stages but I can already say it's definitely a puzzle game worth owning.
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I can't remember much from chemistry class myself but I sure remember the teachers. We had two chemistry teachers at my school, one of them was called "The Frog" because he had a small green car once, and the other guy didn't have a nickname because he was kinda intense and people didn't want to risk giving him nicknames. Let's call him Intense Guy.
Fortunately, I wasn't in Frog's class because he had a reputation for botching most of his experiments - in ways that made sitting in the front rows a veritable health risk. I only took his geography class which was less dangerous and where most of his mishaps involved him not getting the TV or overhead projector to work. Every single time, too.
One of his most infamous chemistry experiments involved a hydrogen balloon. I did not witness it but the tale was told from one generation of students to the next and is probably being retold to this day. The problem wasn't that the balloon exploded, that was to be expected anyway. The problem was that the balloon exploded right next to a slurry tank (that's liquid animal shit which farmer's use as fertilizer) and that tank was standing at the farm right next to school. So the walls of the school got covered in manure and one can safely say that the experiment turned out pretty shitty.
Slurry tanks are dangerous, every once in a while a farmer gets unconscious due to the fumes and falls into the tank, or into the slurry pit at ground level. In both cases you'll drown in animal poop and it's perhaps the shittiest way to die.
As for my actual chemistry teacher, Intense Guy, he was respected because when he got angry he would slam his fist onto the desk so hard that everything on the desk flew off. People didn't try to cheat in his class, and those who did experienced his epic fist slam on their desks when he caught them and they never tried a second time, regardless hof how desperate they were. He was a short guy but wiry and athletic, plus he had a mustache and a rather intense stare. Same as with Frog's class, no one wanted to sit in the front row but it wasn't for fear of botched experiments or for fear of his intense stare, it was due to his body odor which was super strong and you could smell him from far away. He was a passionate free-style skier so whenever there was fresh snow outside, he got excited and wanted to go skiing rather than be in school. He used to say "I see snow and it makes me nervous. Don't piss me off today!"
Despite the body odor, he was considered to be one of the cool teachers and generally well liked. We distilled high grade absinthe in his class once, and drank it right here and then. He was a good teacher indeed.
Anyway, let's hear your stories please, fire away!
Post edited June 19, 2015 by awalterj