Terrible, shocking news

[Mike Fishcake]

OK, so we're sorted then.

As it was only an exam with a strange concept surprising to a lot of people, it doesn't matter.

Thank God it wasn't a Maths or English exam, huh? Then it would have been a tragedy.

[MadduckUK]

Thank God it wasn't a Maths or English exam, huh? Then it would have been a tragedy.

you forgot the sciences tbh, that also would have been bad

[mediaboy]

Nah... Government is basically making Science pointless and worthless. It's not fun or entertaining since they introduced health and safety. Admittedly no one now gets blown up by explosions, or permamently mutilated by experiments gone wrong, but it does have the side effect of not making anyone that interested in science.

Apart from a few (myself included) who had awesome teachers who were educated before health and safety and obviously missed out on a few courses where it was supposed to be taught to them..

I still remember the burn marks on the ceiling of my old science teacher's lab. He had been playing with fireballs (literally..) whilst we were working and decided to throw one at the ceiling to see what happened. It burnt it.

Then, whilst he was putting out that fire, his desk went up in flames.

It was a very memorable science lesson. I learnt that there were 9 planets in the solar system. Only that's not true any more is it?

[Powderhound]

Nah... Government is basically making Science pointless and worthless. It's not fun or entertaining since they introduced health and safety. Admittedly no one now gets blown up by explosions, or permamently mutilated by experiments gone wrong, but it does have the side effect of not making anyone that interested in science.

Apart from a few (myself included) who had awesome teachers who were educated before health and safety and obviously missed out on a few courses where it was supposed to be taught to them..

I still remember the burn marks on the ceiling of my old science teacher's lab. He had been playing with fireballs (literally..) whilst we were working and decided to throw one at the ceiling to see what happened. It burnt it.

Then, whilst he was putting out that fire, his desk went up in flames.

It was a very memorable science lesson. I learnt that there were 9 planets in the solar system. Only that's not true any more is it?

You didn't go to a certain rugby grammar school did you?

[MadduckUK]

You didn't go to a certain rugby grammar school did you?

that's rather specialised :/

[Powderhound]

that's rather specialised :/

Lol, I meant in Rugby, not for the sport (Although that is the main sport there for obvious reasons.).

[Mike Fishcake]

Nah... Government is basically making Science pointless and worthless. It's not fun or entertaining since they introduced health and safety. Admittedly no one now gets blown up by explosions, or permamently mutilated by experiments gone wrong, but it does have the side effect of not making anyone that interested in science.

Apart from a few (myself included) who had awesome teachers who were educated before health and safety and obviously missed out on a few courses where it was supposed to be taught to them..

I still remember the burn marks on the ceiling of my old science teacher's lab. He had been playing with fireballs (literally..) whilst we were working and decided to throw one at the ceiling to see what happened. It burnt it.

Then, whilst he was putting out that fire, his desk went up in flames.

It was a very memorable science lesson. I learnt that there were 9 planets in the solar system. Only that's not true any more is it?

My brother in law is a science teacher, and although I've not seen him in his lessons, I get the feeling he has a blatant disregard for H&S rules

[Brucelles]

No, mobile phones are not allowed to be anywhere on your person during an exam (It also includes 'all digital devices'... does that include calculators? ).

Does that include fingers?

[badass]

My brother in law is a science teacher, and although I've not seen him in his lessons, I get the feeling he has a blatant disregard for H&S rules

All good science teachers do. My chemistry teacher never seemed to mind that if any experiment made anything flammable, a fire always resulted on my desk
Then again, I did get an A* for it.
I love blowing stuff up
I can't do that much in IT though

[samcross]

I still remember the burn marks on the ceiling of my old science teacher's lab. He had been playing with fireballs (literally..) whilst we were working and decided to throw one at the ceiling to see what happened. It burnt it.

Only burns? My old (I think) chemistry teacher blew a hole in his ceiling...

[Powderhound]

My teacher has autographed the holes in his ceiling...

[Steve]

I've had a go at the paper:



What do I win?

[mediaboy]

Only burns? My old (I think) chemistry teacher blew a hole in his ceiling...

Only burns. He didn't play with the really dangerous stuff apart from around 5th November. Now our DEMO lab... that's an entirely different story. You don't learn science so much as when to duck.

Our theatre was damaged qutie severely by one of the fireworks things that they gave us. He was demonstrating why fireworks can relight no matter what you may think. Use of chemicals that react with air I think. He had this bottle that the prep team had knocked up. He kept on dipping into it with a pipet, but if the pipet wasn't there then the bottle lid was basically non-existant.

He forgot to put the pipet back into the bottle...

The resulting explosion sticks in my head as a very good reason to get someone else to play with fireworks whilst I watch. And run.


I do like chemistry and physics. Much better than biology Seriously.. when was the last time you got to blow something up in biology? Or throw heavy metal balls at your 'friends' to test out gravity?

[MadduckUK]

What do I win?

twice this if there is a sequel!