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the evolution of the mobile phone at viddler

hehe we used to call those original phones 'bricks' - capable of killing people

Have to say though, just based on looks, phones don't seem to have changed much over the last 5-6 years...

The features they carry is a whole other story

true. we are now on the verge of science fiction.

I think according to the latest research here, there are more phones than people in Aust!

I don't have one, and there's a good reason...

i held out for a long time, until i was pregnant and wanted it for safety reasons (my husband traveled alot).

i just got a new phone yesterday, it's the fanciest one i've ever had.( i haven't had a lot of phones) it's not like this one is super fancy, but i think it's cool.

I've been through many mobiles....they all just give up on me after a while, mainly the battery, or the charger port breaks from usage.

The one I have now (Samsung D520) is the longest-lasting phone I've owned, still going strong at around 18 months now, maybe a bit longer.

And shhh, don't tell my (perfectly working) phone this, but I'm thinking of buying a new one. Purely for benefits feature-wise.

I do miss snake though LOL

hahahah snake.... people used to borrow my phone to play it!

I've had 3 in 10 years. I tend to use them until they die. The battery is usually the issue - stops holding charge.

My first was the best. It once flew out of a carpark and free fell 3 floors, and apart from a nick on the battery, it was fine! hhahahah

Oh, and I've only owned Nokias. I'm known to say I'll only ever buy Nokia, but I'm very seriously considering getting an iPhone

I've only had two mobiles (of my own) a Nokia and my current Motorola (which is 4 yrs old).

In the 1980's I used a mobile (for work purposes) that fitted in a leather case and had a strap to fit over your shoulder, and came with two 'lead acid' batteries, (one in use and one on charge).  Bloody thing weighed a ton.

I hate you all. I live 48km from the coast and right on the M1 (Bruce Highway) and cannot get any mobile signal...grrrrrrr

Owned one nokia...no more thankyou... I've been thinking of getting an iPhone too, although my partner did say that he'd get me one for my birthday - not until january though

I'm waiting for the next gen one to be released before I decide if I get one or not.

yeah me too I think. Its always tricky buying a 'first-model' of something, even to bring one out, though I must say Apple did quite well, just a few kinks to be ironed out

Yeah.

I've played with the current one, and I find it very very appealing. And I have been thinking of getting one of them new-fangled phones for a while now. If I manage to get someone to buy me one from the States, the price will  be right too

I view mobile phones as a necessary evil and therefore use the simplest one I can lay my hands on without it having a look nand feel of Fisher-Price.

Embrace it Arthur.... inanimate objects aren't evil

some inanimate objects are evil.

haha fisher-price!!

or a more simplified push-button:

or we even have the mobile-variety:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh gosh! I can distinctly remember playing with the phone in the first picture! The nose moves as you roll it!

So does Arthur's...allegedly

The phone has definitely changed. The most interesting concept that I have seen is the morph concept for Nokia. Nanotech goodness below:

that's pretty frickin' cool.

It's cool.... but a bit weird....

It's like all these companies are doing their best to make sure we're enmeshed into their products and thus hopelessly addicted

I like my Phone which is just a Phone.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Second thoughts.  I think I will have the fisher-price one...

Yeah, it makes a noise as you roll it along... goes well with the moving nose

I realise nobody has posted on here for a good x amount of months but i was going to get a new phone until i realised my current phone is still the worlds smallest vga camera phone

And just cos i posted to brag about its amazingness, dont hate me any less

What phone is that?

My phone (samsung SGH-D520) is the equivalent of an old nokia... not because its crap - its quite good actually- but because it has lasted me 2 years.. YES, 2 YEARS!! and still works fine! This thing is stylish AND seemingly indestructible, especially considering I used to go through a phone about every 6 months (if that sometimes)..

my sgh-e600c is also indestructable. Mine's lasted 4 years and i love it to pieces

dammit!! there's something about an indestructible phone being loved to pieces that requires commenting on....but i can't think of anything.

anyone care to help me out?

Some pesky Germans playing football with an e600

Mine's lasted 4 years and i love it to pieces

Whoa... your very own paradox!

:o another one? thats all i need xD

the nokia 5800 it going to be release today

the revolution of the touch screen it beging today 17:30 london time

http://events.nokia.com/landing/

Has anyone got an ericsson? Im thinking of getting one to have alongside my other phone

I just got myself a new Nokia!!

ooo now thats even better!

Yesh! Nokia beats ericsson everytime!

Well for my generation all i want is the loudest phone

Loudest in ringing tones, or loudest in looks?

Both the louder the better.

I want a phone with a WAY louder ringer... I never hear it in my bag, and considering I live in a busy city, I never hear it when I'm outdoors

I used to have the same problem.... until my phone stopped ringing...

I just got a new one, and I'm still at the stage where my brain hears the ringing, but doesn't connect it to my phone

My brain does that in the morning with my 3 alarms I set on my phone. The best way for my brain to register is to change around the order of the tones every now and again so I notice the difference and wake up.

Oh oh, I've been meaning to tell you morgan, i bought a new alarm clock!!

It's one of those old school ones, which are really loud.

Something like this:

I have one of those on my pc.. still doesn't work after a while

Once I get used to sounds, I just sleep right through them

Yeah, same problem I have

A friend of mine had a "disaster" alarm clock - where it had several different noises to wake you such as sirens, thunderstorms, crashing and banging (we thought it was an earthquake? or maybe a burglar), fire alarm, and wind (storm banging trees against houses and windows banging), and the sound of water gushing violently.

I could see how it was effective, it really was quite scary, but I thought "if I had one of those, I'd sleep through every possible disaster and die in my sleep"
 

Yeh, same reason why I don't give too much credence to smoke alarms... s'if that'd wake me up...

hrrrmph!

hehehee

Those traditional alarm clocks (the type you wind up, not on a computer) are a pain.  I can't get to sleep with the damn thing ticking and by the time it goes off I'm too sleepy to get up.

The ticking I find soothing.... depending on my mood

I can't sleep at all if there's a clock ticking anywhere within audible distance of me. I always end up lying there, listening to the clock tick, and not being able to ignore it and go to sleep. If it were a constant background noise like radio static then it wouldn't be so bad, but there's something about the punctuated silence you get with a regular tick... just gets inside my head and won't get out.

Yeah, I get those moods too...

It's worse when the ticking starts a song in my head... then sleep is certainly done for!

i guess i must be lucky then....i generally wake up before my alarm....i probably only hear it once or twice a month.

Man, you're weird...

I could never do that....

A friend of a friend had a timer on his pc which crashed all his programs after an hour...(his folks put it on, bless them)

Good for that big long assignment he was working on....

Wouldn't want him to do too much homework now, would we??

Ummm yeah.... good for parents wanting their kids to get of the comp... but how would it wake someone up?

Thursday morning I slept through all five of my alarms.

(although it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact I was completely trashed from celebrating the socceroos 4-0 win!)

*sigh* I hate it when I do that....

I'm not taking any blame:

1- The Television Contract:
They weren't showing it on free-to-air tv so I was forced to go somewhere with foxtel (namely the pub)

2- Tim Cahill:
Decided to make his comeback. I just had to watch to ensure he was fit and ready to play.

3- Free Alcohol 
I did not pay for one single drink all night (thanks to my flatmate, random rugby players, and the gay guys I met)

LOL!!

I mean, anyone in my position would have done the same...... Right? 

ummm.... yeeeahhh...

hehehehe

I recently got a new phone, and guess what?? It'll NEVER succeed in waking me up...

Why? It's got the nicest alarm tone! Nice as in 'Hi there! Sorry to bother you, but I really need to ring, but I don't really mean to. Oops'

WTF Nokia??

So now, whenever it is I buy a new phone, the alarm tone is one of the first things I need to check

Remember the old nokia's that had that 'ascending' message tone? That used to be my alarm sound.

*am now almost considering digging up my old phone just to use it*

ROFL!!

Guess what I've been using instead of the new phone??

umm... I'm thinking that even a microwave timer would be better?

Nuh-uh...

I been using my old phone!!

hahaha!!!

Great minds

It seems like every time I get a new phone, the alarm tones get less offensive...

What's with that?!

Me thinks it's a sinister plot to expose sleepy-heads to the world...

I think it's a good strategy to make people show up to work late and decrease productivity.

Eventually, they'll realise and make the start time in the day 10am

Yeh... when will they realise we don't need to be early birds no more... we have artificial lighting!

I could easily go to work at 10pm at night and do an "ordinary job" - namely something that isn't normally done at night (barwork, hotels, etc) Like work in an office or shopping centre etc.

I seriously don't understand why they don't retail 24/7

I think it because of the way the wage system is set up here

Hmm I guess.... it's just so annoying...

Tell me about it!

I don't go shopping because the only time I can make it is on thurs nights or the weekend... and only insane people would venture into those places at those times

Hmm... me has problems waking up, too. I got the most abnoxious alarm clock in the house that sounds like a self-destruct tone on steroids, and set it for around 6 am every morning. I wake up at 7:30 having realized that I slept soundly through 1 and a half hours of contant *beeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEp* *beeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEp* *beeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEp*

and everyone else in your house?

Well, the reason why I end up waking up is beacause they wake up before I do, and drag me out of bed... then bash my alarm clock a few times. Yay Italics!

If you lived in my house there'd be a lot more trouble than that I think 

What was that post?

It wouldn't let me edit, so I trashed it

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if i was in your house synth, i'd bash you a few time rather than your clock

I misread that last word the first time I read that... changed my view of the sentence somewhat.

lol...

I wonder if my neighbours can hear the alarm clock shenanigans at my place

I'm glad that my flatmate is a heavy sleeper too, otherwise she'd kill me!

I dont need an alarm clock. the longer I sleep in for, the faster i cycle to college that morning

I've been thinking about this.... wonder if there's an evolutionary side to it...

I mean, it would have been a survival thing for new humans to be light sleepers, but that's not the same for us is it?

In evolutionary terms, sleep is pretty much a way to keep our energy use down during the periods of the day we're not well adapted for.

The benefits of shutting down for a few hours each night outweigh the vulnerability inherent in being immobile and unconscious.

Yes, but heavy or light sleeping?

heavy sleeping better serves the purpose of sleeping, light sleeping makes you less vulnerable. Optimum will be a point in the middle, or a mix of both (like what we do)

The way I see it, the more energy exerted throughout the day, the more sleep a person needs to effectively recover. I think we are just working too hard, too much, and we are excessively time-poor. There's only so much you can do in a day...

(and I'm being serious about this, not just joking about being overworked)

We're also under a lot more mental stress than our caveman counterparts - for them life was fairly simple... not pleasant, but simple. Wake up, seek food, maybe get some social stuff in around that, sleep. Rinse and repeat.

Now we're putting that same ol' caveman brain to work on all kinds of things it was never designed for... it's got to be taking its toll somewhere

Exactly

So we should all get Geico insurance, is what you're saying?

I know... my brain is so messed up, it's making messy dreams, which leaves me in a state of confusion for a couple of hours after I wake up....

I need a hard reset or more RAM or something. Sheesh

Or just upgrade from that ancient 7200 rpm memory drive?

I'll just hit it a few times, as I do with computers and VCRs etc

Hmm... how do you program the VCRs time, again?

Easy

It's the microwave that is problematic for time

Hmm... our microwave is very easy to program very quickly, but VCRs are known for being impossible (litterally) to display anything other than 12:00

My VCR is easy. Takes me less than 30s.

The microwave I have, there is a sequence you need to hit the buttons in, in order to get to the set time bit... And I can never remember it.

So when the thing loses its time, I end up standing there and hitting all sequences of buttons till I finally get it

Well... we got rid of our VCR, which is great because in 40 years the PS1, VCR and other 'ancient' devices we've thrown away will be antiques. That leather hourglass from Florence? Worth 1 cent.

(It's a farce, too! I timed it at only 27 minutes! I want compensation for the last 33!!!)

I'll keep em... and start a museum soon.

Right now, I have an old mobile phone, some cameras, and a walkman in the collection

My old VCR was a bastard to set the time on, but my new one is a piece of cake.

Like Deezee, I find my microwave is a bugger to set..When there is a power outage I have to find the instruction book to reset it..

*looks at microwave*

All you have to do is press 'Time Set', type the time and press AM/PM.

Hehehehe

Mine doesn't have AM/PM.... 24hr clock!

I use 24 hours, too. Much easier. For some reason, however, half of my teachers don't think their digital clocks will work in 24 hours, some sort of Y2k8, or something...

I don't know how anyone can say that these modern microwaves are easy to program.  I'm a pretty good cook but I managed to ruin a meat pie and a sausage roll that I was looking forward to noshing in front of the telly with a nice beer just because our new microwave is so-called "intelligent".  What's with all these little drawings of fish, chickens, sunshine and snowflakes? it's impossible to tell whats going on and the usual method of stabbing random buttons produces equally random results.  It's as if someone has decided that we are too stupid to deal with two simple knobs anymore.  One you turn for the desired time, the other you turn for the desired power, what is so difficult about that for fucks sake!?  Oh no! says Mr-fucking-LG, that is soooo yesterday.  Now you have to decipher your way through microwave hieroglyphics and once you've managed to heat up a meat pie properly you can then join the British Museum in their Egyptian translation department...

I've just noticed the one in the kitchen of our office is near enough the same kind of thing only this one has more drawings on it.  There is a set of post-its stuck to the front with instructions of what buttons need to be pressed for the different types of food.  As most of the people in the office (who use it) are single, male developers the instructions are geared to frozen meals and no-one knows what to do for a meat pie!

And don't anyone be a smartarse and say "have you read the instructions?" There aren't any.  And that's because the manufacturer only puts in recipes for gourmet meals (which sound awful) and safety instructions, the little drawings are supposed to be self explanatory so they can save a couple of cents on extra pages in the instruction booklet.  And that is written in eight different languages!  including two lots of English instructions, one for the UK and one for Eire...  unbelievable!

My microwave doesn't even have a clock. It has two dials. One with the timer, and the other with the temperature setting.

Simple.

...and I bet it does a simple "PING" when it stops, not some god-awful high pitched beeping noise like an alien nestling wanting to be fed, which goes on until you've opened the door or smashed the damn thing with a rolling-pin...!

Yup 

wow...my parent had one like that....i didn't think they still existed...

i can set the clock on mine...but i don't know how to change the temp....so everything gets done on max.

Mr Dent - do what I do and bypass their 'for meat, for chicken' bs.

Just use the regular heating thing, first set it for a minute, then 1/2 a min, and another 1/2 min etc. (For a meatpie)

In all my years of using a microwave, I've never ever used them fancy-schmancy settings.... except for once, when I decided to use it to defront some chicken, and the chicken emerged broiled in plastic. Which, come to think of it, is probably why I don't use them settings

For a meat pie:

NEVER IN A MICROWAVE YOU TWIT!!!!!!

Why??

And they don't have ovens in offices?

Although, if you absolutely must...

First put on the oven (or grill, oven works better) to the highest setting.
Take your pie, microwave it on the highest setting for two and a half minutes.
Take your pie from the microwave, put it in the hot oven for 5 minutes.
Presto! Pie!

My office had an oven.....

Hmm... I won't mention that we had 6 dishwashers then...

GOOD GOSH!

Did you work at Google?!

2 kitchens....

3 fridges

8 filtered water taps (both chilled and boiling)

*puts fingers in ears*

LALALALAL I'm NOT LIS TEN NING!

LOL!!

We didn't have a slide....

Still....

I know... some of the stuff we had there was a bit over the top...

Microwaves were invented to heat up Cornish Pasties, Sausage Rolls and Steak&Kidney pies.  As far as I know, they don't have any other use...  Oh and another, those bags used for warming body parts and such stuff.

And making eggs explode

Oh oh, and heating my coffee to the perfect consistency

Ok, I'm done

I've remembered another, drying babies...

Oh, and drying clothes too

heating up damp napkins.

Hmmm, many more uses than I thought.  If only I knew how to work the bastard thing.

Heating butter so you can actually spread it

LOL!

Think I might start a how to use the microvave tutorial just for people like you Mr Dent

Ah well, off to work now.  Y'all have a nice day

You too!

(try not to fight with the microwave...)

And warming up socks!!

or evening...

seeya arthur!

caio

To heat up a frozen meat pie in a microwave.......

1. Place it upside down on a folded paper towel.
2. Microwave it on high for approx 3 mins (5 mins for 2 pies)
3. Remove from oven and place (right way up) on a cooling rack for a few mins.
4. Eat pie. (in my case after liberally dosing it with Worcestershire sauce)

The standing time on the rack allows the even distribution of heat and stops the bottom becoming soggy....

Ovens are of varying power, so these times are approx and work with a 650-700 W oven.

Are these the frozen pies they sell in the supermarkets you guys are talking about?

Yes, at least that's what I'm talking about.. (emergency food)..

Oh!

Never knew it required such an involved process....

Well, actually I think you are supposed to thaw them out and then heat them in a conventional oven, but when I used to arrive home at 1am starving, this was the solution that I developed..(maybe I should patent it)

I had no idea! I always thought they were ready to eat.

(I've never ever had one since it contains beouf)

HUH?........They're frozen solid, you'd break your teeth.

They're pre cooked, but you still have to thaw them and warm them up..

Well, I thought nuking em would be enough.... Using the oven is a bit more hardcore

Nuking them is enough, but it's how you nuke them that is the difference between something that tasts ok, or ends up hot on the outside and still cold inside, with soggy pastry..

But then, in an emergency you probably don't really care anyway.

LOL! Yeah

I was working for six-eight hours, then arriving home with only enough time to change my shirt and drive the 15 mins to my next job.......... Arriving home after midnight in those days meant that food was really only fuel, not something to be enjoyed.....

Yeah, I can understand that...

I have noticed that when I eat to enjoy, I eat healthier than when I eat only to refuel.

That's true with me as well!

That should be a t-shirt:

Nuke the Pastries!

No no, that'll make Morgan come after you with a cleaver...

Use the Oven!

My microwave problem is solved.  I bought an new one with two knobs and a ping. One knob controls the time and the other the power labelled as: Keep warm - Low - Defrost - Re-heat - and High.   Anyone want to buy a really nice hardly used Hitech Microwave that looks flashy but is good for nothing...?

I did think of suggesting that.... but you already had a microwave....

Funny... I've been thinking of buying one for the office

LOL - I told you nuke then oven....

and   you don't have a microwave at work??

*faints*

There's one in the 'boardroom' but I don't like going out there.

I'm afraid my food might be too strong-smelling

Master Dent started complaining last night about the lack of sophistication of the new microwave.  Reckons it's a step back to the dark ages and if the technology regression keeps going (in our house) it won't be long before we'll be moving out into a cave.  Now he wants the "old" one in his room.  Why the hell did someone have to hi-jack this thread from 'phones to microwaves?!

Why would he need a microwave in his room?!

And careful Mr Dent.... You might end with the title my Dad has... Mr 19th century

1- because he's young 2- because he's a man.

Give him some aluminium foil and teach him about the 'dark ages' I say!

Oh yeah... nuking aluminium is fun!

umm... not quite what I meant, but ok!!!

*wraps dek in foil and sticks her in the microwave*

hahahahah

Not quite what I meant....

party pooper...

i must have been brought up wrong, because i've never nuked aluminium.....

...though i'm now tempted to try it.....just so i know why you're not supposed to do it.....

Please please try it... just a small amount

Say a thumbsized bit... you won't regret it...

Of course, the real fun is when you put in bigger pieces

put in a cd

(I thought of telling him that... but let's start him small... you know, in case the microwave blows up and it's our fault...)

meh...

LOL!

I hope the little git (Master Dent that is) doesn't somehow get the idea of "Ooooh! I wonder what happens to a CD in a Microwave"

I'd bet he's already done it

I'm searching for that skit merrick and rosso did with the microwave on their show.. I can't find it anywhere...

If he had a microwave in his room it would be one more excuse not to come out of it.  If he isn't out mugging old ladies to fund his drugs (he must be on drugs there is no other explanation) he's hunkered down in his room.  Only see him when he raids the kitchen for food and wants money.

ROFL!!!

Oh dear.... too funny

Morgan - no idea which skit you're refering to. Sorry

hmm.. I have it on the DVD.. problem is that I can't find it!

its no good....i can't find any aluminium....

..not even thumb sized pieces...

Sheesh... Educating Sir M in proper microwave usage is tough

Nevermind, watch this

Use an empty Coke can.  Or for even more fun, a full one...

wow...it's like fireworks in your microwave...

Eggactly.... this is why one should microwave aluminium

It works better if you put the cd shiny side up

Or try it on max power...

I'm watching the related videos from that clip... some people microwave the strangest things!

iPod Nano..

hahaha yeah... I got lost in that too

there's one with a stack of cds, but they just melt... nothing spectacular

yeah.. what a waste of 3 minutes... I was expecting lightning!! or something

Exactly!

OMG!! I love the pencil!!

Oh? I skipped it... damn

embed it pls?

k

oh...that is great!

Fwaaah!

Thanks Morgan!

So that's the secret.... the object needs to be something that'll spark, and have bits that'll catch fire!

Sir M- go put an incandescent light bulb in there...

um....you first....

oooooooh

I already have... I'll see if I can find a vid

oooh... that's freaky!

Btw, I think it's time for me to reveal my special skill....

I can hard boil an egg in the microwave without it blowing up. mm hmm. Yes, I can

The thing you have to remember, is that pretty much nothing will break your microwave. It it blows up, or melts, your microwave still remains intact, there's just sme cleaning involved..

Really?

So all that sparking doesn't affect it?

Nope.

Morgan, I have a bad feeling you should have kept that fact to yourself.

*dek's mind starts racing with the possibilities*

Oh, I know what you mean... once we got started experimenting, it sort of became a test (read: race) to find something that could actually break it - and we never did!!

not to say a lot of things didn't break in there...

What kinds of things did you try?

Umm... I remember we put a mobile phone in there

And called it when we turned on the microwave, to see how it affected it

HAHAHAHAHAH

That's gold!

it didn't really do much, but kept dropping out.

We then called the phone, answered it, THEN put it in with an open line, to hear what it sounded like... that was .. weeeiiirddd

Next thing to do would be to answer it

hahahaha What did it sound like??

you know the sounds that you hear on the AM frequencies between all the static? ...that

Cooooool

yeah... we were a bit scared of listening to it.. because we didn't know what the hell it was doing to the phone that we were on!

LOL! Transmittable microwaves?

*has a thought*

I wonder what happens when you put phones in two seperate microwaves with an open line...

How would you know though? Put em on speaker?

A bit of technical information for you.  The magnetron (in a microwave) produces exacly the same frequency that Wireless Broadband and Bluetooth works on.  Approx 2.4GHz

What does that mean, if they have the same freq?

you'd have to work out some way of setting them both to voicemail maybe.. then you could listen back

Is it possible to make one of them 3-way calls on mobiles?

hmm maybe.. I suppose that would be the best way

i'll add a note though, it messes up your phone's battery.. We couldn't get the charge to stay for more than a day after we did that

oh, we also put batteries in the microwave. not smart.

Those would just kinda melt right?

Yes and no... depends on what type of battery. Imagine an aerosol can in a fire, thats what happens when you add radioactiveness to battery fluid

ewwww

yeah... stinks too

I think that night we were so high on fumes from burning plastic and the like.. hehe

I bet!!

hahahaha

I ruined a bra that night too..

Reminds me of melting batteries in Singapore. If you leave batteries in a device and it isn't used, it starts leaking and goes all goey and ewwwww

Nuked that too? LOL!

Erm.. yes....

hahahaha Did it catch fire?

It was one of those partially filled with water, and it had an underwire in it too. The metal heated up, and sparked, the water boiled, the material burned, there was sparks and lightning in the microwave from the water and metal and it was pretty bloody cool

Your own little ecosystem in there

LOL I know!! who knew bra's cool be so cool!

*thinks back - definitely had too much to drink that night*

mm hmmm.... who knew

hahaha

i think microwaves should come with health warnings....

....'DANGER!! Exposure to Morgans may cause damage to....EVERYTHING!!'

HAHAHAHA!!!!!

ROFL!!

is there anything you haven't tried but would like to?

A radiant heater!!

umm.. *thinks*

*wonders if morgan thinking can melt stuff too?*

How the hell did you make 105 posts in 7 hours???

The pencil. is. amazing. I'd be doing it right now if it didn't catch fire in the video. Although, the family is getting a new microwave soon, I may have some interesting youtube vids up soon.... .

All I can say about the lightbulb is... Holy ****! He found the famed Atlantian Power Crystal!... then it blew up.

Some of the fun things I've done (that actually worked better than expected):
- Made a flamethrower out of aerosol deodorant
- Lit bouncy balls (super balls) on fire

The aerosol flamethrower works amazingly well. You only have to light the stream of deodorant coming out, then you can take the lighter away and just have a portable flamethrower for about 15 minutes. This ended in part of my buddy's house/ yard catching on fire which ended in the subsequent release of my bodily fluids.

The superball one... wow! I've never seen people do it before, but all you have to do it cut them in half and hold a flame to it for about 15 seconds until the temperature rises enough and then VHOOOM a HUGE petroleum based fire tears out. I had a YouTube video of it up before, but I ended up deleting that account.

Addendum: One of my friends sprayed his thumb with aerosol deoderant and lit his thumb on fire... without any damage! He said it felt cool... (?)

Addendum of the Addendum: We have experienced times, however, when the flame from the flamethrower starts to climb into the aerosol can... which is very bad, and would probably involve a deafening/ paralysing explosion. So don't hold it the entire 15 minutes that it takes the can to run out... It starts becoming very dangerous near the end because of a larger amount of oxygen inside the can.

Take an aerosol can to the beach and flamethrower the sand.. it's pretty!!

it has been done by some of my friends and it is indeed most prettyfull.

Note to self - hide anything flammable when Synth visits...

I would have gone to Australia, but the plane flight... well, ya know.

*phew*

*stops packing*

Hehe.

I also sorta maybbbbbeeee made a promise to myself that if I got by from Madrid alive, I'd never fly again. Less than one week after leaving from the same terminal, A HUGE FUCKING CRASH KILLED EVERYONE ONBOARD AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT.

Omg....

*wets myself*

Okay okay... calm down...

You can always hitch a ride with a cargo ship

Me scared... those 757s look larger in movies... although we did take an airbus out of Mad.

Yeh.... I flew the 320 from Singapore to Thailand, and we hit some turbulent weather in the middle....

Not a good feeling

I got soooo scared, because, like I said before, it was the first time I had flown since I had memory of my life. None of the flights were too bad, but it scared the hell outta me when our first flight took off and the back of the plane dipped a few times. It didn't help that I had to watch The Day After Tomorrow for the first time just a few weeks earlier. I'm just glad that they weren't showing that on the international flight

(Side note- US domestic flights no longer have in-flight entertainment. They are also hot and stuffy. Avoid at all costs.)

(Side-side note- I was seated exactly like that guy from tDAT, holding onto the armrests for dear life.)

(3x sidenote- That is one great movie. I wish I would have seen it when it came out.) 

what is tDAT?

The Day After Tomorrow

Y'know.. I must've seen that movie at least half a dozen times, if not more, and I can't remember there being a plane in that movie. I know there is.. but I just can't picture it in my head at all.. 

Uhm...

[crazyunfairspoiler]the son is flying on a plane from LA to NYC. His friend tries to comfort him by telling him that the chanes of a plane going down because of turbulence is a very low statistic probablity, right before their plane almost goes down because of turbulence, and before they later learn on the news that 3 planes crashed because of turbulence. I can't remember if the president dies in an airplane or a helicopter at the end, but I think it was a helicopter.[/crazyunfairspoiler] 

Yeah I know the storyline, but I can't picture it...

Ohhhhhhhh

Even after reading the storyline, I can't remember if I've watched it or not

I know I've watched it, but I can't remember much beyond what was in the trailer and the bits South Park parodied in "Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow".